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J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.

Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo. It is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literature, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.

In 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu about life in the Swat Valley as the Taliban gained control, at times banning girls from attending school. When her identity was discovered, Malala began to appear in both Pakistani and international media, advocating the freedom to pursue education for all. In October 2012, gunmen boarded Malala's school bus and shot her in the face, a bullet passing through her head and into her shoulder. Remarkably, Malala survived the shooting. At a very young age, Malala Yousafzai has become a worldwide symbol of courage and hope.

この本は、病魔と闘い続けた彼女の、発病から死を受け入れるまでの4年間にわたる心の叫びを抜粋しまとめたものです。日記のあとの注釈は私が当時を思い出してつけました。麻希子の日記をこのような形で出版するべきかどうか、ずいぶん迷い悩みましたが、麻希子が通っていた東京家政学院筑波大学(現筑波学院大学)の石田収教授の温かい励ましとご協力により、実現することとなりました。ご一読いただき、何かを感じとっていただければ幸いです。(神田麻希子の母・神田さき子) ※本商品は「神様、私をもっと生きさせて!」(こう書房刊 神田麻希子著ISBN:4-7696-0888-8 168頁1,260円(税込))をオーディオ化したものです。(C)M.Kanda 2006

From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show listeners how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist, executive, or simply someone looking for ways to maximize your potential, the same lessons apply.

Do you love Japan? Can't get enough true crime? Well, look no further! Two genki preschool teachers from rural Japan tell the country's most infamous true crime stories!

For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.

四半世紀をこえサザエさんちの「マスオさん」の声であった著者の思い出、四方山話。素のその声は「マスオさん」に似ているよな、違っているような･･･　贅沢な朗読本です。

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined.

In Downtown, Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island's southern tip to 42nd Street, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people.

Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book might have been a revelatory treatise on plant life. Lab Girl is that, but it is also so much more. Because in it, Jahren also shares with us her inspiring life story, in prose that takes your breath away.

Experience a bold take on this classic autobiography as it’s performed by Oscar-nominated Laurence Fishburne. In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream and the inherent racism in a society that denies its non-White citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.

In 1943, Austrian adventurer Heinrich Harrer escaped from a British internment camp in India and traveled through the rugged Himalayas seeking refuge from the war. He ended up in the Forbidden City of Lhasa in Tibet, with no money or permission to be in the country. His intelligence and his European ways intrigued the curious young Dalai Lama, and Harrer became his tutor and trusted confidant.

Who were the three men the American and Soviet superpowers exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie in the first prisoner exchange of the nuclear age? Bridge of Spies vividly traces their paths to that electrifying moment on February 10, 1962, when their fates helped to define the conflicts and lethal undercurrents of the most dangerous years of the cold war.

It all started with a single photo, a bold statement on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, her face bare, her beautiful, curly hair blowing in the wind. Her crime: simply removing her veil, or hijab, which is compulsory for women in Iran. This is the photo that sparked a social-media liberation movement, 'My Stealthy Freedom'. Across Iran, women started posting pictures of their uncovered hair on Masih's page in open defiance of the strict religious beliefs of their country (and often their families) while sharing their personal stories about this powerful mode of expression.

直木賞作家・立原正秋の半生を支えた夫人が、昔をふりかえって綴った一冊。うらやましい「素食」がいろどる日々の食卓と、鎌倉の四季。献身的な妻と、妻がここまでの情をそそぐにたる夫･･･　主婦業の偉大なる教科書といえよう。

オンライン囲碁対局場を開発・運営する政光が囲碁のことやNFTのこと、そして合わせて囲碁NFTのことを話したり話さなかったりするラジオです。

恋愛は幻であり、永遠の恋などは嘘の骨頂だとわかっていても、「それをするな」といい得ない性質のものである。それをしなければ人生自体がなくなるようなものなのだから。つまりは、人間は死ぬ、どうせ死ぬものなら早く死んでしまえ、ということが成り立たないのと同じだ。しかし何度、恋をしたところで、そのつまらなさが分かるほかに人は偉くなるということもなさそうだ。むしろその愚劣さによって常に裏切られるばかりであろう。そのくせ、恋なしに人生は成りたたぬ。ああ、孤独。 孤独は、人のふるさとだ。恋愛は、人生の花であります。いかに退屈であろうとも、この外に花はない。 いつの時代も男と女の関係は変わらないものなのかもしれません。多くの名言を生み出した坂口安吾の「恋愛論」。オーディオブックでお楽しみください。

The wildly funny, occasionally heart-breaking internationally best-selling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride. When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all.