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「自分が買わない商品を売る仕事」かんぽ営業マンが教える今から数年前、私は東海地方にある郵便局に勤務し、かんぽ生命の苛烈なノルマに追われながら仕事に勤しんだ。数十件におよぶ契約を獲得し、東海支社管内での「ルーキー賞」なる賞を受けた。 口説きの手口さらに在籍中、当時のかんぽ営業のあり方をいくつかのメディアに告発した。

受けいれがたい別れがやってきても、人生は続く。喪失を抱えて生きるすべての人へ——。 大切な存在を喪ったとき、人はどのように生きていけばいいのか。『猫と生きる。』『イオビエ』の著者・猫沢エミと、『妻が余命宣告されたとき、僕は保護犬を飼うことにした』の著者・小林孝延が、パリと東京を結び、喪失と再生について言葉を交わす往復書簡。

Die Bühnenstücke des Heinrich von Kleist gehören nach wie vor zum festen Repertoire aller großen Theaterhäuser weltweit. Im direkten Schriftverkehr...

This is a new audiobook of Thoreau's masterpiece, expertly read by Daniel Adam Day. Listen for more....

German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured for nearly a century. Rilke’s personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living urge an aspiring poet to look inward, while also offering sage wisdom....

Published in their entirety, Sylvia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who was to produce in the last seven months of her life some of the most extraordinary poems of the 20th century. Faithfully transcribed from the 23 journals and journal fragments owned by Smith...

Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....

Die Bühnenstücke des Heinrich von Kleist gehören nach wie vor zum festen Repertoire aller großen Theaterhäuser weltweit. Im direkten Schriftverkehr...

Walden records the doctrines of transcendentalism that Thoreau lived, supported, and for which he became famous. He focuses on the concept of self-knowledge and encourages all people to find some way to learn more about themselves and the world around them....

Viscount Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), known as ‘The Hero’ during his own lifetime was both an inspiring commander and an innovative tactician, becoming a rear admiral after defeating the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape St Vincent....

In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her crônicas―short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces―are the delicious canapés. “The things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about...

In this inspiring series of letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki offers grandfatherly advice mixed with stories from his own remarkable life and explores what makes life meaningful. He challenges his grandchildren - and us - to do everything at full tilt....

A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life....

The 38 letters written by Rockefeller to his son imparting his perspectives, ideology, and wisdom to his son...

'কবি জয়া মিত্র সত্তরের দশকে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের বিভিন্ন জেলে বন্দি হয়ে সাড়ে চার বছর কাটিয়েছেন। কিন্তু বর্তমান...

Durante el mes de junio de 1816, en el llamado Año sin Verano, en una casa a orillas del lago Lehman conocida como Villa Diodati se juntarán autores de renombre como son Lord Byron, Percy Bhysse Shelley, el joven doctor Polidori, la amante de Shelley, Mary y la hermana de ésta y en ella...

"18 janvier 1895 : Un bon mot vaut mieux qu'un mauvais livre." Le Journal intime de Jules Renard s'étend de 1887 à sa mort en 1910. Plus...

‘An extraordinary treasure trove’ Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains. On the 8th of June, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine were seen through a...

"Moglie mia, ti dico che sto bene e sono vivo, e vedo morire e morire ogni giorno." Tra il 1914 e il 1918 un’unica trincea divide e unisce l’Europa e il...

The Life and Letters of John Muir, Volume Two is the second volume of John Muir's letters, written by a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and advocate for wilderness preservation in the United States....