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This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

In the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2020, the luxury cruise liner Ruby Princess docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, the gateway to Australia. Hours later, 2700 passengers disembarked. Yet in the middle of a pandemic sweeping the planet, there were no health checks. Over the next few days, the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An intimate and no-holds-barred memoir by Canada's top defence lawyer, Nothing But the Truth weaves Marie Henein's personal story with her strongly held views on society's most pressing issues, legal and otherwise. With Nothing But the Truth, Marie Henein, arguably the most...

会社のために働くな。「絶対に売れない、儲からない」と言われた、時代に逆らう最後のスポーツカーを、命がけで造り上げた男がいる。

In My Life as a Quant, Emanuel Derman relives his exciting journey as one of the first high-energy particle physicists to migrate to Wall Street. Derman details his adventures in this field - analyzing the incompatible personas of traders and quants, and discussing the dissimilar nature of knowledge in physics and finance. Throughout this tale, he also reflects on the appropriate way to apply the refined methods of physics to the hurly-burly world of markets.

Includes a new introduction written and read by Irvine Welsh When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously...

タイカレーの普及に執念を燃やす食品メーカー社長、活け締め名人とのタッグで極上の鯛寿司を生み出す寿司職人、ミニスカのユニフォームで一世を風靡した理容店女性オーナー……。

「燃えない街をつくりたい」――原宿、六本木、お台場。あの街の舞台裏に、この男あり。ラフォーレ原宿、アークヒルズ、六本木ヒルズ、ビーナスフォート――

これは現代の「ヘレン・ケラー物語」だ!4代続けて東大卒という超名門の家柄に生まれたのに、ADHDにASD傾向、学習障がいという3重苦で、幼稚園すら二時間で中退させられた著者。

The protagonist of Just Do It is Phil Knight, a reclusive billionaire who started a two-man operation importing Japanese running shoes and built it into a $4 billion company. Irreverent, unpredictable, and leery of the sports establishment, Knight created the most muscular jock culture in business, a place where employees routinely took two hours at lunch to work out and then strategized late into the night in their holy war against competitors Reebok and Adidas.

カカクコム、食べログ、クックパッドを成長に導いた“最強の投資家・経営者”穐田誉輝はいかに誕生したか。ベールに包まれた半生をたどる。

世界から批判を浴びた「ダイヤモンド・プリンセス号事件」。その驚愕の真実が、今はじめて明らかに。神戸大・岩田健太郎教授の「告発動画」は事実とは異なっていた。

When planning for the future we often ask, “What will the economy be doing this time next year?” Or, “What will be different ten years from now?” But forecasting is hard. The important events that will shape the future are inherently unpredictable. Instead, we should be asking a...

2012 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family...

ゲイツ財団、世界銀行、WHO…。名だたる世界機関の中枢で、人々の命を守るために闘ってきた日本人がいる。これは、東京大学の祝辞で話題を呼んだ男・馬渕俊介の、生々しくも真摯な「挑戦の軌跡」である。

学問を挫折した男はコミュニケーションをどのように磨いて世界一のお金持ちになったのか？部下を鼓舞、経営陣を説得、オンラインミーティング、大人数のプレゼンなど

As Carl Sagan did for astronomy and Brian Green did for cosmology, Walter Lewin takes listeners on a marvelous journey in For the Love of Physics, opening our eyes as never before to the amazing beauty and power with which physics can reveal the hidden workings of the world all around us. "I introduce people to their own world," writes Lewin, "the world they live in and are familiar with but don't approach like a physicist - yet."