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Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage. Almost single-handedly responsible for transforming Singapore into a Western-style economic success, he offers a unique perspective on the geopolitics of East and West. American presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama have welcomed him to the White House.

Shirley MacLaine has found a perfect love in the furry bundle of irresistible canine charms that is Terry. With her winning terrier ways and an endless wellspring of love with no strings attached, Terry has succeeded in doing what no one before her ever has: slowing Shirley's peripatetic travels, shifting the actress/author's global axis to hearth and home.

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.

On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell op-ed in the New York Times titled Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs. The column immediately went viral, became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter, and drew passionate responses from former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch, and New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs era - the Golden Age of Apple. Ken Kocienda offers an inside look at Apple’s creative process. For 15 years, he was on the ground floor of the company as a specialist, directly responsible for experimenting with novel user interface concepts and writing powerful, easy-to-use software for products including the iPhone, the iPad, and the Safari web browser.

老若男女、出身も様々な9人の読み手が「うちなぁぐち」の人気コラムを朗読　－　語感、味わい、共通語とのずれ、言葉と言葉の間にある揺れやフィーリングを、生活に馴染みあることばで生き生きと表現しました。ときおり、昭和時代の懐かしいひびきも聴こえてくるかもしれません。うちなぁぐちを勉強中のみなさんも、普段触れることのないみなさんも、どうぞ、ことばの響きやリズム、“沖縄的感覚”をお楽しみください。では、グスーヨー（皆さん） クリカウーティ（ここら当りで） グブリーサビラ（失礼致します）。 本商品は『うちなぁぐちフィーリング』(沖縄タイムス社刊 儀間 進著 ISBN:978-4-87127-0109-9 1,480 円(税込)) / 『続うちなぁぐちフィーリング』(沖縄タイムス社刊 儀間 進著 ISBN:978-4-87127-110-2 1,480 円(税込)) / 『うちなぁぐちフィーリング パート4』(沖縄タイムス社刊 儀間 進著 ISBN:978-4-87127-172-1 1,575円(税込)) を音声化したものです。

福島県南相馬市に暮らす上野敬幸氏は、家族４人を津波で失う。福島第一原発事故後も避難を拒み、自力で行方不明者の捜索を続ける上野氏と出会った著者が、７年にわたる取材をもとに遺族の深い胸の内の変化を綴る。

The dramatic real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution. Benny must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. Annuo, forced to flee with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the US in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America.

Once one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories, for the past five years, Facebook has been under constant fire, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users' data, allowing the spread of fake news and the amplification of dangerous, polarising hate speech. Critics framed the narrative as the irreconcilable conflict between the platform's lofty mission to advance society by bringing people together while also profiting off of them. But the truth is far more complex. 

ラブストーリーの古典『源氏物語』。15人の女の生き様を、今を生きる女の心に通わせて語ります。　

「源氏物語」の語り部として、多くの人々の心を掴んだ村山リウさん。現代の意識と感覚をもってわかりやすい語り口で「源氏物語」を解説し、現代に通ずる女の生き方を考えてこられました。聞くだけで、長大な「源氏物語」への理解を深められます。第4巻で「葵の巻(後編)」と題して、葵の上の死から紫の上との出会いなどについて語られています。※この講演は、1978年から1987年にかけて、よみうり文化センター千里中央における「千里文芸サロン」で行われたものです。※講演中に今日からすると不適切と思われる表現がありますが、時代背景を考慮し、そのままにしております。ご了承のほどお願い申し上げます。

Die tief reichende Freundschaft, in welcher die zwei bekanntesten Dichterfürsten aus deutschsprachigen Landen miteinander verbunden waren, begann laut einigen Quellen alles andere als günstig, da beim ersten Treffen der beiden Goethe Schiller weder erkannte noch diesem irgendwelche Beachtung schenkte. Das änderte sich mit der Zeit, nachdem sich Goethe näher über Schillers Werk informierte und beide in regen Gedankenaustausch traten, besonders in vorliegender Briefwechsel-Reihe.

『悪妻論』 時代の異端児であり無頼派を代表する作家・坂口安吾が、良妻はもらうな!悪妻をもらえ!と自身のこだわりを交えた夫婦論を面白可笑しく綴る。他にも安吾は、遊ぶことの好きな女は、魅力があるに決まっている。だから自分は悪妻をもらいたいと言いながらも、悪妻と言っても知性のない悪妻はだめだと言い放つ。では、果たして日本の男性は良妻と悪妻をどちらをもらえば幸せになれるのか!?

源氏物語の語り部、村上リウが語る源氏物語第18巻「玉鬘(後編)・初音の巻」


「源氏物語」の語り部として、多くの人々の心を掴んだ村山リウさん。現代の意識と感覚をもってわかりやすい語り口で「源氏物語」を解説し、現代に通ずる女の生き方を考えてこられました。聞くだけで、長大な「源氏物語」への理解を深められます。第18巻では「玉鬘(後編)・初音の巻」と題して、玉鬘を引き取る経緯について語られています。※この講演は、1978年から1987年にかけて、よみうり文化センター千里中央における「千里文芸サロン」で行われたものです。※講演中に今日からすると不適切と思われる表現がありますが、時代背景を考慮し、そのままにしております。ご了承のほどお願い申し上げます。

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race.

In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for certain opportunistic, expatriate Americans. Addicted to the volatile energy of Tokyo's freewheeling underworld, they formed ever-shifting but ever-profitable alliances with warring Japanese and Korean gangsters. At the center of this world was Nick Zappetti, an ex-marine from New York City who arrived in Tokyo in 1945 and whose restaurant soon became the rage throughout the city and the chief watering hole for celebrities, diplomats, sports figures, and mobsters.

One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance tells the iconic story of a father and son's motorcycle trip across America in the 1960s.

Language of War is about what happens when your world changes overnight. When you wake up to the sound of helicopters and the smell of gunpowder. When your home is hit by shells or broken into by gunmen, and you spend another night in a basement-turned-bomb shelter. When, even though you’ve never held a weapon before, you realise the only choice is to fight back. It is about things one can never forget, or forgive.

Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to talk about her book The Tattooist of Auschwitz is Australian writer Heather Morris. Whilst working as a social work administrator, Heather Morris studied and wrote screenplays. After meeting an elderly man called Lale Sokolov, Heather used his story as inspiration for a screenplay, which has now been published as a novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Heather Morris talks to us about her book, the man who inspired it and what we can expect from her next. 

A frank, smart, and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Small Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs' poignant story of a childhood spent between two imperfect but extraordinary homes. Scrappy, wise, and funny, young Lisa is an unforgettable guide through her parents' fascinating and disparate worlds. Part portrait of a complex family, part love letter to California in the '70s and '80s, Small Fry is an enthralling audiobook by an insightful new literary voice.