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苦学して東大教授となった後も、質素倹約に努め、独自の「本多式四分の一貯金方」などで巨万の富を築いた「蓄財の神様」。努力こそが人生のすべてであり、努力こそ、人生でもっとも貴重な体験だと言う本多静六が、悔いなく生きるための問いに答える。・「成功するための計画」を、どのように立てるか?・計画を実現するために、最も重要なことは?・お金持ちになるための「史上最高のノウハウ」とは?・どこにでもいる凡人を「天才に変えてしまう」勉強法とは?江戸末期から昭和、激動の時代を力強く歩んで体得した哲学は、きっとあなたの人生を豊かにする手掛かりになるだろう。目次-第1章 成功と失敗/第2章 人生哲学/第3章 職業道楽/第4章 仕事の流儀・勉強のしかた/第5章 お金とのつきあい方/第6章 自己鍛錬・人とのつきあい方/第7章 人生計画/第8章 健康・長寿

本音をすべて書きました10年以上中学校教諭を勤めた私が、教師の裏側を明かします。「先生に相談しても迷惑じゃない？」

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。

In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to become the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands. There, sporting long hair, and warming up to "Jesus Christ Superstar", the Ironmen would play a dramatic game that would change their lives forever.

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have in this life-changing classic. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." —Randy...

From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity. A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India.

More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local...

Celebrate the release of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood starring Tom Hanks with an inside look at Mister Rogers' spiritual legacy. For more than 30 years, Fred Rogers was the kindly neighbor of children worldwide. Why were kids drawn to him? Mining personal interviews and correspondence...

Catastrophic injuries. Immediate and total blindness. An innocent young life shattered at the hands of a drunk driver. This is an unforgettable account of turning tragedy into triumph. With heart wrenching honesty, humor and insight, Marcus Engel guides us on a path to self-discovery. This coming-of-age story will cause you to view obstacles as opportunities and discover that choices, not circumstances, determine ultimate happiness.

“The rare book that has the potential to make you smarter—and everyone around you wiser.” —Adam Grant Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the timeless secrets of...

A Story of Discovery, Insight, and Acceptance When James English first hears about Quaker meetings inside Rhode Island’s prison system in 1994, he is not looking for a ministry. He is searching for something harder to name. Drawn by the Quaker belief in the inner light—the idea that goodness...

自分の好きなように生きれば、未来は選べる、変えられる！古希を迎えて、ますます意気軒昂。高校をゼロから創った元ミュージシャンの、パワフル半生記。

As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and...

Rosalind Franklin The Unsung Hero of DNA Discovery is an illuminating and deeply human portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant yet underappreciated scientists. Far beyond the familiar narrative of a single photograph, this audiobook explores the full sweep of Franklin’s remarkable career, revealing a woman whose intellectual discipline, technical mastery, and unwavering pursuit of truth reshaped modern science.

Phillip Done fixes staplers that won’t staple, zippers that won’t zip, and pokes pins in the caps of glue bottles that will not pour. He has sung “Happy Birthday” 657 times. A witness to the joys of discovery, Done inspires listeners with the everyday adventures and milestones of his 32...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by unveiling his candid correspondence with people across the globe who have sought him out in search of answers. In this hand-picked collection of 100 letters, Tyson draws upon cosmic perspectives to address a vast array of questions about science, faith, philosophy, life, and of course, Pluto.

Previously published as Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything Is Possible “In my years of experience as a writer and as a college professor, I have never seen anything like this: the love for language, the passion for discussion, clarity of...

This book is about the personal odyssey of becoming a dancer, teacher, and educator. With a few biographical elements, it represents a lifelong reflection of transformations from the innate gift to the fulfillment as an artist with the focus on self-education. As an artist, I take on a cosmopolitan approach to art by dissolving stigmas, national identities, borders, and walls from my experiences of the Soviet Union in the Cold War Era, through Canadian immigration, Danish society, and finally the American emergence, all through the eyes of a ballet teacher and artist.

From James B. Stewart, the New York Times bestselling co-author of Unscripted and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a deeply reported investigation into Harvard University, what happened when the Trump administration declared war on it, and the epic battle between the old guard and new money for...

Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. This acclaimed biography of Saint Francis examines the life of a pure artist, a man "whose whole life was a poem." Here is the Saint Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals...