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A Universityのテーマは「複雑な世界で、より善く生きる」タイパ・コスパと言った、いかに効率よく生きるかを競うことばかりに注目が集まる時代。これまでの幸せや成功の価値観で生きていくにはあまりにも不確定で困難な時代に「要領よく生きる」だけではない別の選択肢を考えたい。

A heartfelt, one-of-a-kind memoir chronicling the hilarious, absurd, and thought-provoking experiences of an American pursuing comedy in China, learning first-hand how humor does and doesn’t translate—and whether laughter transcends borders. I marched onstage in a long robe beside my Shifu...

Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of essays from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza. In early 2024, writer and activist susan abulhawa managed to enter Gaza twice through the Rafah crossing. There, at the...

The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as “an engrossing masterpiece.” In this final magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, David Levering Lewis stunningly recreates the second half of W.E.B. Du Bois’s charged and...

Told in fast-moving vignettes, Chronicles of a Miami REELtor is part memoir, part social commentary, and part love letter to a city where nothing is ever what it seems. From whisper-network off-market deals to Russian money parked in penthouses, from Brazilian crypto cowboys to buyers who “need to sell ahora,” Max captures the madness with razor-sharp humor and unsettling honesty.

This true, inspiring story follows a young girl forced to flee her home in Wonsan, North Korea, embarking on a dangerous journey of nearly 350 miles toward the DMZ border in search of freedom. Through years of hardship, fear, and relentless struggle, she survives unimaginable circumstances—driven not only by the desire to free herself, but to secure a better future for the generations to come.

In 2020, at the age of 100, Tetsuyo Ishii was interviewed by her local paper in Hiroshima. Her positive outlook, wholesome lifestyle and connection to her community instantly captured the hearts of people. In this charming book, Granny Tetsuyo shares the optimistic principles by which she lives her life, and the simple daily rituals that sustain her.

Brought to you by Penguin. Corruption, sleaze and violence were woven into the fabric of twentieth-century Sicilian life, as the Mafia rose to dominance; this is the story of one man who stood in opposition. In 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italy’s history took place in Sicily. The...

كتابًا شيقًا يقدم للعديد من المؤرخين المسلمين ومساهماتهم القيمة في علم التاريخ. الكتاب يعرض تراثنا العربي الإسلامي العميق والمتنوع ويضم كنوزًا فكرية ثرية، ويُمكن وصفه بأنه عمل قيم يهدف إلى التعريف بالمؤرخين المسلمين وأعمالهم الهامة.

عملٌ دسمٌ يتناول سيرة وحياة مجموعة من المفكرين الإسلاميين الذين تركوا بصمة واضحة في الفكر الإسلامي المعاصر. يهدف الكتاب إلى تسليط الضوء على إسهامات هؤلاء العلماء والمفكرين في تطوير الفكر الإسلامي وتجديده، وتقديم رؤى جديدة حول القضايا المعاصرة من منظور إسلامي.

大学卒業と同時にＮＰＯに就職しウガンダに駐在した筆者は、深刻な飢えに苦しむ住民たちの命の危機に直面。絶望的な状況を前に、住民たちがこの荒野で農業を営めば、胃袋を満たすことができるのではないかと思い立つ。

A Universityのテーマは「複雑な世界で、より善く生きる」タイパ・コスパと言った、いかに効率よく生きるかを競うことばかりに注目が集まる時代。

The samurai are dead. That’s not a morbid or melancholic statement - just a fact. Every samurai who ever lived has long since passed, and only the memory of their way of life remains. By the mid 1800s, the old ways were fading. For centuries, Japanese society had followed a Confucian hierarchy that placed the samurai at the top.

Martin Frank lebt schon sein ganzes Leben lang auf dem Bauernhof seiner Familie, zusammen mit Hühnern, Ziegen, Katzen und Kühen – doch in diesem Jahr ist damit Schluss, der Vater wird den Hof aufgeben, und die letzte Kuh verlässt den Stall. Er zieht auf den Biohof seines Lebensgefährten, eines Landtierarztes – und ein ganz neues Kapitel beginnt.

The book Daughter of an Assassin: Turning Pain into Power is a compelling memoir by Rhoda Banks. It chronicles her tumultuous childhood, shaped by a traumatic environment marked by violence, poverty, and fractured family dynamics. The story begins with the dramatic and life-altering event of witnessing a murder at the age of five, setting the tone for the struggles and resilience that define her journey.

Trauterose: Growing Up in Postwar Munich is the compelling first-person account of Elisabeth Haggblade, who was orphaned at birth at the height of World War II and spent the first eleven years of her life under the care of a former S.S. officer and his family. Like many she knew and met during her formative years, Elisabeth was marked both physically and psychologically by the traumatic events of the war and its aftermath, where negotiating daily life during the most tenuous time in Germany's history often felt like a balancing act. Yet through it all, faith and the help of others prevailed.

Debra Dank had long been desperate to visit the National Archives, to paint a fuller picture of her family, to add flesh to the name-bones and the few precious stories she possessed. What she discovered would shatter everything she thought she knew about her family and her past. She had been aware of her father's five siblings, some of whom had died before she could come to know them, but there were always whispers and gaps and silences.

The true story and odyssey of a man who wanted to attain his freedom at all costs. It takes him through a perilous voyage at sea, during which he would rather face the possibility of death than remain enslaved by a totalitarian regime. In the course of this book, his liberty will be challenged and will cost the teller of this passionate story, Ramon Garcia, to have to recuperate not only his independence but also something much more important, his spiritual freedom, conquered minute by minute behind the bars of several prisons.

A Universityのテーマは「複雑な世界で、より善く生きる」タイパ・コスパと言った、いかに効率よく生きるかを競うことばかりに注目が集まる時代。

The Day We Forgot to Smile is a powerful collection of true-to-life stories capturing the quiet battles, hidden heartbreaks, and small triumphs that shape a family growing up in 1970s Bushwick. Through vivid scenes of brotherhood, survival, faith, and the search for joy in hard places, Anthony Owens takes listeners back to a childhood lived between danger and hope.