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古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Art of War for Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, and Exercises - James Scott Bell (Writer's Digest Books) 【紙書籍】 9781582975900

タイトル: Art of War for Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, and Exercises著者: James Scott Bell出版社: Writer's Digest Books出版日: 2009年12月09日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Strategies and Tactics for the Master Novelist Successfully starting and finishing a publishable novel is often like fighting a series of battles. You not only have to work hard to shape memorable characters, develop gripping plots, and craft dazzling dialogue, but you also have to fight against self-doubts and fears. And then there's the challenge of learning to navigate the ever-changing publishing industry. That's why best-selling novelist James Scott Bell, author of the Write Great Fiction staples Plot & Structure and Revision & Self-Editing, came up with the ultimate novel-writing battle plan: The Art of War for Writers. You'll find tactics and strategies for idea generation and development, character building, plotting, drafting, querying and submitting, dealing with rejection, coping with unrealistic expectations, and much more. With timeless, innovative, and concise writing reflections and techniques, The Art of War for Writers is your roadmap to victory.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald - Therese Anne Fowler (St. Martin's Griffin) 【紙書籍】 9781250028662

タイトル: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald著者: Therese Anne Fowler出版社: St. Martin's Griffin出版日: 2014年03月04日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。THE INSPIRATION FOR THE TELEVISION DRAMA Z: THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler's New York Times bestseller Z brings us Zelda's irresistible story as she herself might have told it. I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we're ruined, Look closer...and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed. When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the "ungettable" Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn't wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. Her father is deeply unimpressed. But after Scott sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, to Scribner's, Zelda optimistically boards a train north, to marry him in the vestry of St. Patrick's Cathedral and take the rest as it comes. What comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined attention and success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time. Everyone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel--and his witty, perhaps even more scandalous wife. Zelda bobs her hair, adopts daring new fashions, and revels in this wild new world. Each place they go becomes a playground: New York City, Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French Riviera--where they join the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed Lost Generation that includes Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein. Everything seems new and possible. Troubles, at first, seem to fade like morning mist. But not even Jay Gatsby's parties go on forever. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous--sometimes infamous--husband? How can she forge her own identity while fighting her demons and Scott's, too?

新しい本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書Wilderness - Aysegül Savas (Transit Books) 【紙書籍】 9798893389098

タイトル: Wilderness著者: Aysegül Savas出版社: Transit Books出版日: 2024年10月15日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。A deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşegül Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to surround the mother. "In Turkish, we speak of extracting the forty days, like a sort of exorcism. My grandmothers assure me that it will all get better after forty days are out." A friend lends a book that suggests forty days of rest and fortifying broths and avoiding wind and cold. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, forty days are seen as a period of trial and transformation. They are often journeys into the wilderness and "its vast and unruly territories." When the baby arrives, Savaş charts her own path into the wilderness of new motherhood--a space of contradiction, of chaos and care, mothering and being mothered. "What is the trial of the postpartum crossing?" writes Savaş. "Where will mother and child emerge once they have left the wild?"

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Housegirl - Michael Donkor (Picador) 【紙書籍】 9781250305176

タイトル: Housegirl著者: Michael Donkor出版社: Picador出版日: 2018年08月28日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize - Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize - Nominated for the Edinburgh First Book Award - One of The Observer's "New Faces of Fiction" - One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated Books of the Year" - One of The Guardian's "Best Summer Books" (Selected by Kayo Chingonyi and Joe Dunthorne) - One of Library Journal's "Most Anticipated Fall Debuts" - One of The Observer's Best Books of the Year - An NPR "Staff Pick" and One of the NPR Book Concierge's "Best Books of the Year" A Go On Girl! Book Club Selection "Immensely readable...A refreshing story about coming of age in spite of conflicting ideas of what 'growing up' means."--Buzzfeed (The Best Books of Fall) A moving and unexpectedly funny exploration of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness, Michael Donkor's debut novel follows three adolescent girls grappling with a shared experience: the joys and sorrows of growing up. Belinda knows how to follow the rules. As a housegirl, she has learned the right way to polish water glasses, to wash and fold a hundred handkerchiefs, and to keep a tight lid on memories of the village she left behind when she came to Kumasi. Mary is still learning the rules. Eleven-years-old and irrepressible, the young housegirl-in-training is the little sister Belinda never had. Amma has had enough of the rules. A straight-A student at her exclusive London school, she has always been the pride of her Ghanaian parents--until now. Watching their once-confident teenager grow sullen and wayward, they decide that sensible Belinda is the shining example Amma needs. So Belinda must leave Mary behind as she is summoned from Ghana to London, where she tries to impose order on her unsettling new world. As summer turns to autumn, Belinda and Amma are surprised to discover common ground. But when the cracks in their defenses open up, the secrets they have both been holding tightly threaten to seep out.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead - David Shields (Vintage) 【紙書籍】 9780307387967

タイトル: Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead著者: David Shields出版社: Vintage出版日: 2009年02月10日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers, a book that expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality. "Shields is a sharp-eyed, self-deprecating, at times hilarious writer."--The Wall Street JournalMesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being. The Thing About Life provokes us to contemplate the brevity and radiance of our own sojourn on earth and challenges us to rearrange our thinking in crucial and unexpected ways.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Toward a Zero Energy Home: A Complete Guide to Energy Self-Sufficiency at Home - Scott Gibson (Taunton Press) 【紙書籍】 9781600851438

タイトル: Toward a Zero Energy Home: A Complete Guide to Energy Self-Sufficiency at Home著者: Scott Gibson出版社: Taunton Press出版日: 2010年04月27日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。A Zero Energy Home (ZEH) - a home that produces as much energy as it consumes - is an idea whose time has come! Authors David Johnston and Scott Gibson (Green from the Ground Up) explore the design and construction of self-sufficient houses from start to finish. They make the case for a ZEH; cite climate and geographic challenges; describe exactly how to go about building an energy-efficient home; and feature ten houses that were built for zero energy living. With unequaled knowledge and a passion for the subject, the authors walk readers through the process of building and living in a truly green home.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Regional City - Peter Calthorpe (Island Press) 【紙書籍】 9781559637848

タイトル: Regional City著者: Peter Calthorpe出版社: Island Press出版日: 2001年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Most Americans today do not live in discrete cities and towns, but rather in an aggregation of cities and suburbs that forms one basic economic, multi-cultural, environmental and civic entity. These "regional cities" have the potential to significantly improve the quality of our lives--to provide interconnected and diverse economic centers, transportation choices, and a variety of human-scale communities. In The Regional City, two of the most innovative thinkers in the field of land use planning and design offer a detailed look at this new metropolitan form and explain how regional-scale planning and design can help direct growth wisely and reverse current trends in land use. The authors: discuss the nature and underpinnings of this new metropolitan form present their view of the policies and physical design principles required for metropolitan areas to transform themselves into regional cities document the combination of physical design and social and economic policies that are being used across the country consider the main factors that are shaping metropolitan regions today, including the maturation of sprawling suburbs and the renewal of urban neighborhoods Featuring full-color graphics and in-depth case studies, The Regional City offers a thorough examination of the concept of regional planning along with examples of successful initiatives from around the country. It will be must reading for planners, architects, landscape architects, local officials, real estate developers, community development professionals, and for students in architecture, urban planning, and policy.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Glorious Appearing - Tim LaHaye (Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.) 【紙書籍】 9780842332378

タイトル: Glorious Appearing著者: Tim LaHaye出版社: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.出版日: 2004年10月22日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment at the height of the battle between the forces of evil gathered at Armageddon and the remaining Christian believers at Petra and Jerusalem. Nothing seems to be able to stop the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia. But God is in control. Street date: Tuesday, November 16, 2004.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World - Justine Willis Toms; Carol Lee Flinders (MJF Books; Fine Communications) 【紙書籍】 9781606710234

タイトル: Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World著者: Justine Willis Toms; Carol Lee Flinders出版社: MJF Books; Fine Communications出版日: 2008年01月01日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

新しい本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (Penguin Books) 【紙書籍】 9780140447934

タイトル: War and Peace著者: Leo Tolstoy出版社: Penguin Books出版日: 2009年02月24日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。Antony's Brigg's acclaimed translation of Tolstoy's great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace--presented here in the first new English translation in forty years--is often considered the greatest novel ever written. At its center are Pierre Bezukhov, searching for meaning in his life; cynical Prince Andrei, ennobled by wartime suffering; and Natasha Rostov, whose impulsiveness threatens to destroy her happiness. As Tolstoy follows the changing fortunes of his characters, he crafts a view of humanity that is both epic and intimate and that continues to define fiction at its most resplendent. This edition includes an introduction, note on the translation, cast of characters, maps, notes on the major battles depicted, and chapter summaries. Praise for Antony Brigg's translation of War and Peace "The best translation so far of Tolstoy's masterpiece into English." -Robert A. Maguire, professor emeritus of Russian studies, Columbia University "In Tolstoy's work part of the translator's difficulty lies in conveying not only the simplicity but the subtlety of the book's scale and effect. . . . Briggs has rendered both with a particular exactness and a vigorous precision not to be found, I think, in any previous translation." -John Bayley, author of Elegy for Iris For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization - John Robb (Trade Paper Press) 【紙書籍】 9780470261958

タイトル: Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization著者: John Robb出版社: Trade Paper Press出版日: 2008年04月01日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。"For my money, John Robb, a former Air Force officer and tech guru, is the futurists' futurist." -SlateThe counterterrorism expert John Robb reveals how the same technology that has enabled globalization also allows terrorists and criminals to join forces against larger adversaries with relative ease and to carry out small, inexpensive actions--like sabotaging an oil pipeline--that generate a huge return. He shows how combating the shutdown of the world's oil, high-tech, and financial markets could cost us the thing we've come to value the most--worldwide economic and cultural integration--and what we must do now to safeguard against this new method of warfare.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 This Lamentable City - Polina Barskova (Tupelo Press) 【紙書籍】 9781932195835

タイトル: This Lamentable City著者: Polina Barskova出版社: Tupelo Press出版日: 2010年03月01日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Polina Barskova's poems are a zesty paradoxical concoction: bawdy and erudite, elegant and raw, subtle and brazen. As Ilya Kaminsky attests in his introduction to This Lamentable City, "Barskova is an elegiac poet who brings to her American readers a language formally inventive, worldly and humorous. One of her strengths is her ability to bring together strikingly erotic, sensual images... with a deep sense of history and culture.... In Russian, Barskova is a master of meter, rhyme, and alliteration, and... (w)hat comes across in English is the tonality of the poems, the clarity of her vocal play and images, her intricacy of address." Though her prize-winning books of poetry in Russian have earned an international reputation, and individual poems have appeared in prestigious journals and anthologies -- for instance, in Contemporary Russian Poetry (Dalkey Archive, 2008) and An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets (Iowa, 2005) -- this is the first book of Barskova's poems to be published in translation, in a handsome dual-language edition.

新しい本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書This Motherless Land - Nikki May (Mariner Books) 【紙書籍】 9780063084292

タイトル: This Motherless Land著者: Nikki May出版社: Mariner Books出版日: 2024年10月29日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY"A vibrant coming-of-age story." -- Charmaine Wilkerson"I was completely immersed." -- Nita ProseFrom the acclaimed author of Wahala, a stunning reimagining of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: Split between England and Nigeria, two extraordinary cousins are set on vastly different paths as they come to terms with their shared family history--a masterful exploration of race, identity, and love. Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor father, and even her annoying little brother (most of the time). But when tragedy strikes, she's sent to England, a place she knows only from her mother's stories. To her dismay, she finds the much-lauded estate dilapidated, the food tasteless, the weather grey. Worse still, her mother's family are cold and distant. With one exception: her cousin Liv.Free-spirited Liv has always wanted to break free of her joyless family. She becomes fiercely protective of her little cousin, and her warmth and kindness give Funke a place to heal. The two girls grow into adulthood the closest of friends.But the choices their mothers made haunt Funke and Liv and when a second tragedy occurs their friendship is torn apart. Against the long shadow of their shared family history, each woman will struggle to chart a path forward, separated by country, misunderstanding, and ambition.Moving between Somerset and Lagos over the course of two decades, This Motherless Land is a sweeping examination of identity, culture, race, and love that asks how we find belonging and whether a family's generational wrongs can be righted.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Summon the Keeper - Tanya Huff (DAW) 【紙書籍】 9780886777845

タイトル: Summon the Keeper著者: Tanya Huff出版社: DAW出版日: 1998年05月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Being one of the Earth's protectors is never easy, but when Claire the Keeper and Austin the cat find themselves in charge of the Elysian Fields Guesthouse Bed and Breakfast, all Hell breaks loose in the form of a gateway residing in the basement! Do not miss the latest from one of the top writers in the fantasy genre! Compares to best-selling fantasy authors Mercedes lackey and Charles deLint Tanya Huff's DAW books were chosen by the New York Public Library system as part of their Books for Teens program!

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Aardvarks to Zebras: A Menagerie of Facts, Fiction, and Fantasy about the Wonderful World of Animals - Melissa S Tulin (Citadel Pr) 【紙書籍】 9780806515489

タイトル: Aardvarks to Zebras: A Menagerie of Facts, Fiction, and Fantasy about the Wonderful World of Animals著者: Melissa S Tulin出版社: Citadel Pr出版日: 1994年11月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 American Colonial Portraits, 1700-1776 - Ellen Gross Miles (Smithsonian) 【紙書籍】 0874746957

タイトル: American Colonial Portraits, 1700-1776著者: Ellen Gross Miles出版社: Smithsonian出版日: 1987年11月17日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Author of Destiny: Also Known as the Ochoa Case - Lee Williams (Livingston Press) 【紙書籍】 9780942979985

タイトル: Author of Destiny: Also Known as the Ochoa Case著者: Lee Williams出版社: Livingston Press出版日: 2002年10月31日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Considering its serious thesis-that history is as effervescent as any fiction-Lee Williams' novel offers a bitingly funny snippet of Cuban American life in Miami. Just scan the novel's cast of characters: Lean, a post Cold War spy working for a newspaper; Viviana, a Russo-Cuban waiflet looking to spring her Russian general dad from prison; her brother Boris, a bouncer at the Yalta Agreement, a strip joint; Dell, an academic rougue who specializes in ghostwritting anything from a term paper to a dissertation; Zorn, a sculptor hopelessly in love with the Guapa, a young woman he met years before in Spain; and Rool, a . . . well, you'll just need to decide who Rool and Number One might be on your own. Oh, and the grand Cubano General Ochoa himself-he's dead . . . isn't he? . . .

新しい本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War - Chad L Williams (Picador) 【紙書籍】 9781250321916

タイトル: Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War著者: Chad L Williams出版社: Picador出版日: 2024年04月02日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I--and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers. When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to "close ranks" and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Seeking both intellectual clarity and personal atonement, for more than two decades Du Bois attempted to write the definitive history of Black participation in World War I. His book, however, would never be finished. In The Wounded World, Chad L. Williams tells the dramatic story of Du Bois's failed efforts to complete what would have been one of his most significant works. The surprising account of this unpublished book lends new insight into Du Bois's struggles to reckon with both the history and the troubling memory of the war, along with the broader meanings of race and democracy for Black people in the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, most notably Du Bois's unpublished manuscript and research materials, Williams tells a sweeping story of hope, betrayal, disillusionment, and transformation, setting into motion a fresh understanding of the life and mind of arguably the most important scholar-activist in African American history. In uncovering what happened to Du Bois's largely forgotten book, Williams offers a captivating reminder of the importance of World War I, why it mattered to Du Bois, and why it continues to matter today.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of 20th Century Design and Designers - Guy Julier (THAMES HUDSON) 【紙書籍】 9780500202692

タイトル: Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of 20th Century Design and Designers著者: Guy Julier出版社: THAMES HUDSON出版日: 1993年10月01日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This comprehensive guide embraces all modern design's numerous manifestations: graphics, products, interiors, furniture, industrial and architectural designs. Guy Julier examines not only the work of important designers world-wide, but also the many dramatic changes that have influenced design and its uses in the 20th century. He explores the relationship between design and political and ideological concepts, such as feminism and green design, as well as the effect that technological advances has on design. 211 illus.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages - Melanie Holcomb (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 【紙書籍】 9780300148947

タイトル: Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages著者: Melanie Holcomb出版社: Metropolitan Museum of Art出版日: 2009年07月01日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In the Middle Ages, artists explored and tested the medium of drawing, producing whimsical sketches, illustrated treatises, and finished drawings of extraordinary refinement. This fascinating volume is the first to examine and celebrate the achievements of medieval draftsmen in depth. It reproduces rarely seen leaves from more than fifty manuscripts dating from the 9th to the early 14th century. In the accompanying texts, Melanie Holcomb and other experts in the field consider the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings, casting light on their critical role in the intellectual life of the Middle Ages.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education - Jeffrey R Brown (University of Chicago Press) 【紙書籍】 9780226201832

タイトル: How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education著者: Jeffrey R Brown出版社: University of Chicago Press出版日: 2015年01月08日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities, which faced shrinking endowments, declining charitable contributions, and reductions in government support. Universities responded to these stresses in different ways. This volume presents new evidence on the nature of these responses, and on how the incentives and constraints facing different institutions affected their behavior. The studies in this volume explore how various practices at institutions of higher education, such as the drawdown of endowment resources, the awarding of financial aid, and spending on research, responded to the financial crisis. The studies examine universities as economic organizations that operate in a complex institutional and financial environment. The authors examine the role of endowments in university finances and the interaction of spending policies, asset allocation strategies, and investment opportunities. They demonstrate that universities' behavior can be modeled using economic principles.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Zugunruhe: The Inner Migration to Profound Environmental Change - McLennan Jason F (Ecotone Publishing) 【紙書籍】 9780974903323

タイトル: Zugunruhe: The Inner Migration to Profound Environmental Change著者: McLennan Jason F出版社: Ecotone Publishing出版日: 2010年11月05日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Just prior to periods of great migration, certain species display agitation and restlessness - a phenomenon referred to by scientists as 'zugunruhe'. McLennan identifies a similar pattern emerging among people yearning for a sustainable future. This book is intended as a catalyst for anyone interested in exploring a deeper, more meaningful connection to the environmental movement. Zugunruhe is a work of creative genius that draws us into an engaging journey of self-discovery, brings the biggest and most frightening issues of our time up close, and invites our engagement, notes David Korten, It will leave you envisioning human possibilities you never previously imagined. Profound, personal and practical, McLennan's narrative reminds us that individual efforts ripple outward and can lead to revolutionary change for the betterment of people and planet.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories - Daniel Halpern (Penguin Books) 【紙書籍】 9780140296389

タイトル: Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories著者: Daniel Halpern出版社: Penguin Books出版日: 2000年11月01日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。An anthology featuring contemporary masters of the short story around the globe, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Amis, and more Following the immense success of The Art of the Tale, Daniel Halpern has assembled the next generation of short-story writers--those born after 1937--to create a companion volume, The Art of the Story. Attesting to the depth, range, and continued popularity of short fiction, this collection includes seventy-eight contributors from thirty-five countries. The Art of the Story combines the best of the established masters as well as the fresh, new voices of writers whose work has seldom been translated into English.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Nothing to Be Frightened of - Julian Barnes (Knopf) 【紙書籍】 9780307269638

タイトル: Nothing to Be Frightened of著者: Julian Barnes出版社: Knopf出版日: 2008年09月10日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Two years after the best-selling Arthur & George, Julian Barnes gives us an essay on mortality that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array of exemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions he now poses about the most basic fact of life: its inevitable extinction. If the fear of death is the most rational thing in the world, how does one contend with it? An atheist at twenty, an agnostic at sixty, Barnes looks into the various arguments for and against and with God, and at the bloodline whose archivist, following his parents' death, he has become--another realm of mystery, wherein a drawer of mementos and his own memories (not to mention those of his philosopher brother) often fail to connect. There are other ancestors, too: the writers--most of them dead, and quite a few of them French--who are his daily companions, supplemented by composers and theologians and scientists whose similar explorations are woven into this account with an exhilarating breadth of intellect and felicity of spirit. Deadly serious, masterfully playful, and surprisingly hilarious, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a riveting display of how this supremely gifted writer goes about his business and a highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the final diagnosis.

新しい本, 英語で予約する, 洋書Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) - Elizabeth Green (W. W. Norton & Company) 【紙書籍】 9780393351088

タイトル: Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)著者: Elizabeth Green出版社: W. W. Norton & Company出版日: 2015年07月13日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。Launched with a hugely popular New York Times Magazine cover story, Building a Better Teacher sparked a national conversation about teacher quality and established Elizabeth Green as a leading voice in education. Green's fascinating and accessible narrative dispels the common myth of the "natural-born teacher" and introduces maverick educators exploring the science behind their art. Her dramatic account reveals that great teaching is not magic, but a skill--a skill that can be taught. Now with a new afterword that offers a guide on how to identify--and support--great teachers, this provocative and hopeful book "should be part of every new teacher's education" (Washington Post).

新しい本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書This World Is Not My Home: A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright - W Lawrence Hogue (University of Massachusetts Press) 【紙書籍】 9781625347077

タイトル: This World Is Not My Home: A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright著者: W Lawrence Hogue出版社: University of Massachusetts Press出版日: 2023年07月28日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。 In the 1960s, Charles Wright's (1932-2008) star was on the rise. After dropping out of high school and serving in the Korean War, the young Black writer landed in New York, where he was mentored by Norman Mailer, signed a book deal with a leading publisher, and was celebrated by the likes of Langston Hughes and James Baldwin. Over the decades to follow, Wright would lead a peripatetic and at times precarious life, moving between Tangier, Veracruz, Paris, and New York, penning a regular column for the Village Voice, living off the goodwill of his friends, and battling addiction and, later, mental health issues. As W. Lawrence Hogue shows, Wright's innovative fiction stands apart, offering a different vision of outcast Black Americans in the postwar era and using satire to bring agency and humanity to working-class characters. This critical biography--the first devoted to Wright's significant but largely forgotten story--brings new attention to the writer's impressive body of work, in the context of a wild, but troubled, life.

新しい本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書Let Me Be Frank with You: A Frank Bascombe Book - Richard Ford (Ecco) 【紙書籍】 9780061692079

タイトル: Let Me Be Frank with You: A Frank Bascombe Book著者: Richard Ford出版社: Ecco出版日: 2015年10月13日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The Lay of the Land.In his trio of world-acclaimed novels portraying the life of an entire American generation, Richard Ford has imagined one of the most indelible and widely discussed characters in modern literature, Frank Bascombe. Through Bascombe--protean, funny, profane, wise, often inappropriate--we've witnessed the aspirations, sorrows, longings, achievements and failings of an American life in the twilight of the twentieth century.Now, in Let Me Be Frank with You, Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe (and Ford) attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America we live in at this moment. Ford is here again working with the maturity and brilliance of a writer at the absolute height of his powers.

新しい本, 英語で予約する, 洋書Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander (Oxford University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780195024029

タイトル: Timeless Way of Building著者: Christopher Alexander出版社: Oxford University Press出版日: 1979年08月23日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at. Now, at last, here is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Film Genre Reader II (Revised) - Barry Keith Grant (University of Texas Press) 【紙書籍】 9780292727786

タイトル: Film Genre Reader II (Revised)著者: Barry Keith Grant出版社: University of Texas Press出版日: 1995年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。For almost a decade, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film. Now Barry Grant has revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This second edition contains eight new essays for a total of twenty-nine essays by some of film's most distinguished critics and scholars, including John G. Cawelti, Thomas Elsaesser, Paul Schrader, Thomas Schatz, Robin Wood, Steve Neale, and Linda Williams. The anthology covers the full range of theoretical issues and critical approaches to film genre. The first section concentrates on genre theory, covering such topics as generic definition, genre and ideology, genre and sexuality, and the generic experience. The second section analyzes a wide variety of particular genres, including westerns, science fiction, film noir, melodrama, romantic comedy, musicals, horror, gangster, disaster, war, and epic films. The extensive bibliography has also been updated and expanded.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Engrafted Word (Owl Books) - Karl Kirchwey (Holt Paperbacks) 【紙書籍】 9780805056075

タイトル: Engrafted Word (Owl Books)著者: Karl Kirchwey出版社: Holt Paperbacks出版日: 1998年04月15日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The graftings of flesh upon flesh, of history upon time and memory, of the New World upon the Old, of language upon literature and silence, of faith upon doubt: these are the graftings that form this third book of poems by Karl Kirchwey. Whether he is writing of the intimate moment, as in "Sonogram" (in which the poet first sees his son-to-be), or the painfully personal, as in "Barium" (in which he recounts a brush with mortality). Kirchwey reaches effortlessly across time to link us to our past, to the larger universe that is humankind.