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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Blame This on the Boogie【電子書籍】[ Rina Ayuyang ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The true story of how Hollywood musicals got one person through school, depression, and the challenges of parenthood＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Inspired by the visual richness and cinematic structure of the Hollywood musical, ＜em＞Blame This on the Boogie＜/em＞ chronicles the adventures of a Filipino American girl born in the decade of disco who escapes life's hardships and mundanity through the genre's feel-good song-and-dance numbers. Rina Ayuyang explores how the glowing charm of the silver screen can transform reality, shaping a person's approach to childhood, relationships, sports, reality TV, and eventually politics, parenthood, and mortality.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ayuyang's comics are as vibrant as the movies that she loves. Her deeply personal, moving stories unveil the magic of the world around us--rendering the ordinary extraordinary through a jazzed-up song-and-dance routine. Ayuyang showcases the way her love of musicals became a form of therapeutic distraction to circumnavigate a childhood of dealing with cultural differences, her struggles with postpartum depression, and an adulthood overshadowed by an increasingly frightening and depressing political climate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Blame This on the Boogie＜/em＞ is Ayuyang's ode to the melody of the world, and shows how tuning out of life and into the magic of Hollywood can actually help an outsider find her place in it.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Life Accidentally【電子書籍】[ Katy Fata ]

＜p＞＜strong＞An ＜em＞Accidental＜/em＞ Love Triangle＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Briana, emotionally and sexually frustrated, struggles to cope with the many disappointments and family issues in her close-knit Canadian-Italian life. She’s a little unlucky at love and although she has given up on finding a romantic love, she craves to be “physically loved,” properly, at least once in her life before she dies! She soon finds herself tangled up in a love triangle with her mother’s surgeon, the handsome Dr. Alex Ferrante, and Rocco, the dark and powerful gangster with a heart of gold.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Alex is a smooth operator who knows how to work it. He doesn’t have an issue loving the many women that are readily available to him, but he doesn’t want to commit to just one woman. That would be risking too much, and Alex can’t allow himself to fail at anything.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Very shady circumstances bring Briana and Rocco together. Rocco is dark alright, and he doesn’t like to play any games. What you see is pretty much what you get with him. ＜em＞And boy do you really want to see more with this guy!＜/em＞ Every pore of his body oozes with sex appeal.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Briana is torn between what her heart feels for the emotionally unavailable love of her life, and what her body craves from the strong and powerful gangster with a heart. Who can blame her for wantonly falling into strong arms for some much needed emotional and sexual gratification?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】3 Sides to a Story【電子書籍】[ Debra Dillon ]

＜p＞Meet Krystal and April, two strong, Louisianan sisters who learned how to deal with the neglect of their drug addicted mother, Debra. While Krystal and April place the blame on their mother for abandoning them, Debra has her own reasons for her self-destruction. Leaving her daughters with their grandmother to figure life out on their own, Debra proceeds to chase a temporary escape from her past. After years of suppressing their emotions and how it has directly affected the dynamic of their relationships and family, the women are ready to address the elephant in the room. There are three sides to their story, and then there is the truth. Who will be to blame? Travel back to their childhood as they each give their account of the story from their own point of view.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Fair Pay How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses【電子書籍】[ David Buckmaster ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Management & Workplace Culture＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞An expert takes on the crisis of income inequality, addressing the problems with our current compensation model, demystifying pay practices, and providing practical information employees can use when negotiating their salaries and discussing how we can close the gender and racial pay gap.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞American workers are suffering economically and fewer are earning a living wage. The situation is only worsening. We do not have a common language to talk about pay, how it works at most companies, or a cohesive set of practical solutions for making pay more fair. Most blame the greed of America’s executive class, the ineptitude of government, or a general lack of personal motivation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But the negative effects of income inequality are a problem that can be solved. We don’t have to choose between effective government policy and the free market, between the working class and the job creators, or between socialism and capitalism, David Buckmaster, the Director of Global Compensation for Nike, argues. We do not have to give up on fixing what people are paid. Ideas like Universal Basic Income will not be enough to avoid the severe cultural disruption coming our way.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Buckmaster examines income inequality through the design and distribution of income itself. He explains why businesses are producing no meaningful wage growth, regardless of the unemployment rate and despite sitting on record piles of cash and the lowest tax rates[0] in a generation . He pulls back the curtain on how corporations make decisions about wages and provides practical solutionsーas well as the corporate languageーworkers need to get the best results when talking about money with a boss.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The way pay works now will not overcome our most persistent pay challenges, including low and stagnant wages, unequal pay by race and gender, and executive pay levels untethered from the realities of the average worker. The compensation system is working as designed, but that system is broken.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Fair Pay＜/em＞ opens the corporate black box of pay decisions to show why businesses pay what they pay and how to make them pay more.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】How To Make Your Relationship Work Best Romance and Relationship Tips【電子書籍】[ Linda Sg. James ]

＜p＞Read, Have fun, Relax, and Improve your Relationships!＜br /＞ Do you want to know what your partner think or why he/she act in a particular way? Do you want to know how to get the man/woman you desire or to keep your partner you so much love?＜br /＞ At some point in life, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. But are you prepared to meet the obligations inherent in a relationship just as you expects same from your partner? In fact you have to be there always most especially when it is most important.＜br /＞ The only sure way to enjoy your relationship or marriage is to look inward always instead of playing the blame game when anything go wrong in your relationship.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Hated Man With No One to Blame but Me【電子書籍】[ Don Wilmoth ]

＜p＞A Hated Man: With No One to Blame but Me＜/p＞ ＜p＞By: Don Wilmoth＜/p＞ ＜p＞Marriages, families and even friendships are under attack and the damage, both direct and collateral, is shocking. The enemy is infidelity. Hey guys, we know it’s wrong, hurtful and costly and yet we keep doing it. What is wrong with us? I did it and I’d give anything to undo it! With a heavy dose of self-deprecating honesty, A Hated Man attempts to strip away the appealing fa?ade of CHEATING to reveal its tragic, deplorable and even unexpected outcomes. Whether secular minded, spiritual or undecided every husband and future husband will benefit from reading A Hated Man.＜/p＞ ＜p＞About the Author＜/p＞ ＜p＞The author is retired after thirty years in corporate management and over forty years serving in a variety of roles in a variety of Churches. Some of these as a volunteer and others as a paid staff member. In all cases his focus was on teaching for which he is very passionate. He’s just a regular guy who has gone through all the same ups and downs of life that others have. He is certain that many readers will relate to his specific experiences. He is even more certain that all readers can benefit from the principles presented in this book, the ones that he followed and the ones he did not. He is by admission a flawed follower of Jesus Christ. He believes the Bible but does not promote a religion. He loves his family and he wrote this book for men who love theirs.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Optimise Natural Conception -Kerry's 90 Day Pre-Conception Action Plan Learn how to Reduce the Potential Miscarriage Risks!【電子書籍】[ Kerry Goodliffe ]

＜p＞Learn how to Increase your Odd's of a Healthy Natural Pregnancy and Potentially Reduce the Risks of Miscarriage!. By Optimising your Natural Fertility! with Kerry's 90 day Pre-Conception Plan. Follow the 'Fertility Detox Plan' designed to help you rebalance Hormones to aid Natural Conception. A Fertility Nutrition and Lifestyle Plan that has been devised from Science based evidence and also from Nature. You will uncover Misconception's about Infertility and Miscarriage and about what the 'Modern Miscarriage' is. And how by reducing your exposure to Hormone altering Chemicals in our everyday lives that have been shown to impact Fertility. 'It really is a travesty in this day and age the main reason people don't talk openly about Miscarriage and Infertility. There is still a misplaced stigma of blame and shame associated with these two life changing events. However my goal is to help end this stigma and assist couples to move forward with confidence learning the Truths from Nature and armoured with a Scientifically research backed Pre-Conception Plan to give them the courage to try to Conceive again. Since I actually understand what you need, as I was there where you are. I was a 1% statistic myself struggling with Unexplained Infertility! And Miscarriages. I share my against all odd's story of how my Plan changed my Fertility. What I found enormously helpful and helped me stop blaming myself and my body was to learn all of the Facts. What I discovered in the Science of Conception, why Miscarriages can happen and the core functions involved in Fertility and Scientifically what needs to go right in this complex process in order to have a Healthy Successful Pregnancy and Healthy Baby. I share with you a Nutrition and Lifestyle Plan designed to put yourself in the best possible position to aid Hormone Balance. We establish where you are with this and what Tests to have and help you may need. We delve deeper into why Egg and Sperm Health is so important and how to Optimise them at any age. We look at more generalised Health to rule out any underlying Health issues that often people are not aware could actually be affecting their Endocrine and Reproductive system. And then apply all of this in the strategy steps of a Pre-Conception Plan designed for you to follow!. I even have a Stress Reduction and Mindset support section while you are TTC. Lets go on this journey together. I Believe in you, now is your time to Conceive!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】New Happy Getting Happiness Right in a World That's Got It Wrong【電子書籍】[ Stephanie Harrison ]

＜p＞**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ? A Next Big Idea Club Must Read ? As seen in Oprah, FastCompany, LA Times, Forbes, BigThink, CNBC & more＜/p＞ ＜p＞A life-changing guide to finding true happiness from author Stephanie Harrison, whose revolutionary new approach to well-being has changed the lives of millions around the world.**＜/p＞ ＜p＞You feel unworthy, anxious, lonely, lost, insecure, or empty. You wonder, “Isn’t there more to life than this?” and “When will I finally be happy?” And you blame yourself.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But it’s not your fault you feel this way. You have been affected by Old Happy: society’s warped definition of happiness. It has made you believe that, in order to be happy, you need to perfect yourself, work harder and harder, and do everything alone.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Old Happy is making youーand all of usーmiserable. It’s time to free yourself and experience the true, lasting joy that you deserve.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞New Happy＜/em＞, happiness expert Stephanie Harrison deftly and compassionately challenges our conventional wisdom, drawing upon hundreds of scientific studies to definitively prove that we are pursuing happiness in all the wrong ways.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Harrison illuminates the path out of Old Happy, showing you the surprisingly simple steps that will bring you joy, purpose, and loveーand how these choices ripple out to change the world for the better, too.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Based on ten years of research, and brought to life with beautiful artwork that explains the book’s key concepts, ＜em＞New Happy＜/em＞ will teach you how to:＜/p＞ ＜p＞- Accept and love yourself, exactly as you are＜br /＞ - Break free of the pressure to follow a specific path in life＜br /＞ - Experience more love, connection and belonging＜br /＞ - Discover your extraordinary gifts, talents, and strengths＜br /＞ - Tap into your powerful internal motivation and do what matters most to you＜br /＞ - Overcome loneliness and find your unique place in the world＜br /＞ - Make the world a better place, starting right where you are＜/p＞ ＜p＞This isn’t just a book. It’s a transformative journey that will help you understand yourself and how to live your best life. With practical, step-by-step guidance based on the latest science, New Happy’s revolutionary approach to happiness is what youーand our worldーhave been waiting for.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Rescue by Peace and Love【電子書籍】[ Susan Koch Sheppard ]

＜p＞In this book, A Rescue by Peace and Love, the well-teamed characters of Peace and Love experience injury and have feelings of blame and helplessness, but their quick actions take them to new understandings of forgiveness and healing. A Rescue by Peace and Love is the second book in the "wink and think" series of the Peace and Love characters. Each book holds a secret wink between the characters that indicates a shared thought or conversation that the third parties around Peace and Love are not aware are happening between them. During times of difficult experiences in the lives of children, they, too, are also trying to understand what has happened or is happening in and around their lives. Even though this book was written many years ago, the message is so relevant today with all that is happening in the world. Please, let Peace and Love help you love your children to peace.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Bishop's Cross A Journey to the Truth【電子書籍】[ Wendy Susan Hoke ]

＜p＞Author Wendy Hoke describes this book as "an insightful look into the family dynamics of shame, secrets, and silence.' It is all of that and more. This is an honest account of her efforts to deal with trauma within her family. During that journey, she discovers generations of women who accepted blame that was not theirs and responsibility for protecting the family. Through her interactions with other people, with nature and spirit animals, she searches for some peace and acceptance. The result is an inspriational story, Drawing from the fabric of her family history, Wendy Hoke weaves a rich tapestry, showing clearly why she remained silent until she was in her mid-50s. Instead of shocking readers with graphic descriptions of child sexual abuse, she focuses on the family dynamics that demand silence and secrecy.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Enough Blame to Go Around The Labor Pains of New York City's Public Employee Unions【電子書籍】[ Richard Steier ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Veteran labor journalist Richard Steier explores the tensions between New York City's public employee unions, their critics, and city and state politicians.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Since 1980 Richard Steier has had a unique vantage point to observe the gains, losses, and struggles of municipal labor unions in New York City. He has covered those unions and city government as a reporter and labor columnist for the ＜em＞New York Post＜/em＞ and, since 1998, as editor and featured columnist of the ＜em＞Chief-Leader＜/em＞, a century-old independent newspaper that covers city and state government in greater detail than today's mainstream news organizations. Drawing from his column with the ＜em＞Chief-Leader＜/em＞, "Razzle Dazzle," ＜em＞Enough Blame to Go Around＜/em＞ describes in vivid terms how the changed economy has drastically altered the city's labor landscape, and why it has been difficult for municipal unions to adapt. There can be no doubt, he writes, that public employee unions have contributed to the problems that confront them today, including corruption and failed leadership. But at the same time and for all their flaws, he believes unions represent the best chance for ordinary people to receive fair economic treatment.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Bringing Human Rights Back Embracing Human Rights as a Mechanism for Addressing Gaps in United States Law【電子書籍】[ Corinne Tagliarina ]

＜p＞Bringing Human Rights Back: Embracing Human Rights as a Mechanism for Addressing Gaps in United States Law examines well-documented policy failures in the United States and makes an argument for how a human rights approach to these issues can lead to meaningful change. Specifically, the authors articulate a human rights approach to online harassment of women, child poverty, and access to safe drinking water. These issue areas all involve human rights concerns and gross shortcomings within current law, policy, and practice in the United States. The authors analyze recent events, such as Gamergate, contention over social programs such as TANF and CHIP, and the water crises in Flint and Detroit to demonstrate the ways in which current laws do not fully respect, protect, and fulfill human rights. A human rights approach decenters assigning blame or liability, and instead emphasizes human dignity, redress, and remedy for the rights violations. Daniel Tagliarina and Corinne Tagliarina not only highlight the need for change in these areas, but outline a practical way forward rooted in human rights scholarship and practice.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】From Bankrupt to Millionaire in Four Years with manifestation, gut feeling and inspired action【電子書籍】[ Mette H? ]

＜p＞Are you ready to heal your relationship with money?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Embark on a transformative journey with Mette's groundbreaking book! Release the burdens of guilt and blame for not meeting societal or familial standards, and allow Mette to empower you with hope and essential tools to heal the past, revel in the present, and shape the dream future you've always longed for.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mette's personal narrative, from the edge of bankruptcy to the triumphant millionaire she is today, serves as a powerful testament to the impact of small steps. This book isn't just a read; it's a companion that will walk you through your own growth journey and help you rediscover and heal your inner child.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Learn to break free from the relentless pursuit of goals and discover the magic of dedicated action and trust in the universe. Mette will not only nurture your instincts and instill in you a backbone of courage but will also guide you in healing your inner child, empowering you to make decisions that align with your authentic self.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Unlock the secrets to attracting your desires by delving into the laws of attraction, purpose, compensation, and the profound healing of your inner child. Let Mette be your guide on this holistic journey of personal growth and transformation. Seize this opportunity for a brighter, more fulfilling life - your path to healing and manifesting your dreams starts here!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Satan How God's Executioner Became the Enemy【電子書籍】[ Ryan E. Stokes ]

＜p＞Many people today think of Satan as a little red demon with a pointy tail and a pitchforkーbut this vision of the devil developed over many centuries and would be foreign to the writers of the Old Testament, where this figure makes his first appearances. The earliest texts that mention the Satanーit is always “the Satan” in the Old Testamentーportray him as an agent of Yahweh, serving as an executioner of evildoers. But over the course of time, the Satan came to be regarded more as God’s enemy than God’s agent and was blamed for a host of problems.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Biblical scholar Ryan E. Stokes explains the development of the Satan tradition in the Hebrew scriptures and the writings of early Judaism, describing the interpretive and creative processes that transformed an agent of Yahweh into the archenemy of good. He explores how the idea of a heavenly Satan figure factored into the problem of evil and received the blame for all that is wrong in the world.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Colorfull Competitive Strategies to Attract and Retain Top Talent of Color【電子書籍】[ Sharon Smith-Akinsanya ]

＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞Colorfull＜/em＞ provides a roadmap for creating a company culture that is truly inclusive, welcoming, and equitable. With actionable strategies supported by first-hand interviews with Fortune 500 CEOs and CHROs, ＜em＞Colorfull＜/em＞ unlocks the secrets for creating workplaces that consistently attract, develop, and retain professionals of color.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rich in substance, candor, and reassurance, ＜em＞Colorfull＜/em＞ cuts to the heart of why so many organizations struggle to make meaningful progress with DEI initiatives. Without blame or recrimination, the author articulates the unspoken fears that prevent most leaders from seeing the results they wantーand needーin order to remain competitive in an evolving market.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Colorfull＜/em＞ shows leaders how to step outside comfort zones, lead DEI from the top down, and create corporate cultures that will truly attract and retain top talent of color. Any hiring manager, CEO, or DEI manager will benefit from the insights throughout, empowering them to bring truly transformative change to their organizations.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This one-of-a-kind read is packed with real world scenarios, true stories from those who’ve tried, failed, tried again, and are still on the journey by using the leadership strategies presented here. ＜em＞Colorfull＜/em＞ pulls back the curtain in a non-threatening, engaging way that makes success with DEI both accessible and attainable.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Comfort of Monsters A Novel【電子書籍】[ Willa C Richards ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"A riveting page-turner that begs to be read quickly, compulsively. But page by page, this electrifying debut by Willa Richards weaves an increasingly complicated and dark tale of guilt, fury, and the danger of building stories on that shakiest of foundations, memory." ーElizabeth Wetmore, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞Valentine＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Set in Milwaukee during the “Dahmer summer” of 1991, a remarkable debut novel for fans of Mary Gaitskill and Gillian Flynn about two sistersーone who disappears, and one who is left to pick up the pieces in the aftermath.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the summer of 1991, a teenage girl named Dee McBride vanished in the city of Milwaukee. Nearly thirty years later, her sister, Peg, is still haunted by her sister's disappearance. Their mother, on her deathbed, is desperate to find out what happened to Dee so the family hires a psychic to help find Dee’s body and bring them some semblance of peace.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The appearance of the psychic plunges Peg back to the past, to those final carefree months when she last saw Deeーthe summer the ＜em＞Journal Sentinel＜/em＞ called “the deadliest . . . in the history of Milwaukee.” Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s heinous crimes dominated the headlines and overwhelmed local law enforcement. The disappearance of one girl was easily overlooked.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Peg’s hazy recollections are far from easy for her to interpret, assess, or even keep clear in her mind. And now digging deep into her memory raises doubts and difficultーeven terrifyingーquestions. Was there anything Peg could have done to prevent Dee’s disappearance? Who was really to blame for the family's loss? How often are our memories altered by the very act of voicing them? And what does it mean to bear witness in a world where even our own stories are inherently suspect?＜/p＞ ＜p＞A heartbreaking page-turner, Willa C. Richards’s novel is the story of a broken family looking for answers in the face of the unknown, and asks us to reconsider the power and truth of memory.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】I'm Not Wearing Any Trousers: And Other Working from Home Truths【電子書籍】[ Abbie Headon ]

＜p＞＜strong＞**THE PERFECT GIFT FOR OUR TROUSERLESS TIMES**＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Office workers of the world, unite! (remotely.) You have nothing to lose but your trousers.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Working from home has liberated many of us from the annoyances of office life. We no longer need to queue for the photocopier, we don’t have to endure long commutes and ? best of all ? we don’t have to wear any trousers.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But it’s not all sunshine and trouser-free happiness at home. We have to stay awake during endless virtual meetings, our after-work pint in the pub has become an online company quiz night and if the milk runs out there’s no one to blame but … well, you know who.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞I’m Not Wearing Any Trousers＜/em＞ is here to cheer your WFH days, with tips on how to recreate the fun of a sweaty train commute, how to cope with children/animals photobombing your presentation to the board and how to maximise productivity (for al least five minutes, anyways).＜/p＞ ＜p＞So roll up your sleeves, take off your trousers and zoom through these pages!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Satan How God's Executioner Became the Enemy【電子書籍】[ Ryan E. Stokes ]

＜p＞Many people today think of Satan as a little red demon with a pointy tail and a pitchforkーbut this vision of the devil developed over many centuries and would be foreign to the writers of the Old Testament, where this figure makes his first appearances. The earliest texts that mention the Satanーit is always “the Satan” in the Old Testamentーportray him as an agent of Yahweh, serving as an executioner of evildoers. But over the course of time, the Satan came to be regarded more as God’s enemy than God’s agent and was blamed for a host of problems.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Biblical scholar Ryan E. Stokes explains the development of the Satan tradition in the Hebrew scriptures and the writings of early Judaism, describing the interpretive and creative processes that transformed an agent of Yahweh into the archenemy of good. He explores how the idea of a heavenly Satan figure factored into the problem of evil and received the blame for all that is wrong in the world.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Two Dollar Radio Guide to Naming Your Baby【電子書籍】[ Travis Hoewischer ]

＜p＞"I couldn't wait to see what this irreverent baby naming book had between it's covers. It's funny and witty, and I love the interludes with name lists." ーSarah Danforth, Towne Book Center and Wine Bar, Collegeville, PA＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Unless your child is an '80s villain, we can all agree that Brad, Todd, and Brandi with an "i" are all atrocious ideas. With all the swagger of the Palmyra Pumpkin Princess, the ＜em＞Two Dollar Radio Guide to Naming Your Baby＜/em＞ will help you name your child by calling attention to those names you should probably definitely avoid: Kyle (Just because there was one in your first grade class, and two in your wedding, doesn’t mean there needs to be another one in your family photo), Kiefer (Grand Marshall of "Truck or Treat"), Paige (She’s never really going to ＜em＞get it＜/em＞, but you’re not gonna stop trying). While we can't promise your child will be a success, we can provide you with the tools necessary to ensure your child will not be an epic failure.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Your friends are in the hospital, awaiting the arrival of their first child. You and your friends are eager to see a new member of your extended family enter the world. Then, you see the Instagram post: “Hey everyone, mom and son are doing fine. Happy and healthy! We want to introduce you to… ＜strong＞KEITH＜/strong＞."＜/p＞ ＜p＞p＞What do you say? I mean, you’re meant to say congratulations, but do they know? Keith is clearly step-dad’s name, and there have been no recorded Baby Keiths on record since the last time gas was 5 dollars a gallon. Is it ironic? Maybe it’s ironic. Like DadCore, but… a baby.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With the ＜em＞Two Dollar Radio Guide to Naming Your Baby＜/em＞, you’ll find plenty of useful information to help you avoid blame when your full-grown ＜strong＞Karen＜/strong＞ asks you why everyone asks her if she wants to ask to see a manager. Your Karen is into horses, we know, but that’s why you should have gone with ＜strong＞Millie＜/strong＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Inside, you’ll find musings on all the worst monikers ー even yours ー which means you now have a new gift idea for your family members. Who needs 23andMe when, rather than finding out if you’re 2.7 percent Welsh, you can get to the bottom of why your cousin Dale Henry is an 8-year-old girl with an overbite, and not a grizzled country and western singer.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For Example:＜br /＞ ＜strong＞* Fiona＜/strong＞: Ahh, yes, you like Disney. Who doesn’t? But there are no actual princesses, and many Fionas grow up to become penpals with murderers and marry them in prison. You’re playing with fire.＜br /＞ * ＜strong＞Dylan＜/strong＞: Can you still love your child if they grow up to send dick pics through LinkedIn?＜br /＞ * ＜strong＞Hailey＜/strong＞: It’s hard to hear anyone say, “I’m not racist, but…” Especially when it’s a 14-year-old. Who wronged her? It was you.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this ever-changing world, it’s hard to know how life is going to turn out for your new- or soon-to-be-born. You can’t keep them from getting their heart broken. And you won’t be able to shield every force of evil from them over the course of their whole life. You will, however, be able to avoid naming them Harley. You will need our help.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】In the Waiting Drawing Near to God in Seasons of Wanting【電子書籍】[ Jazmin N. Frank ]

＜p＞Waiting is something we either try to avoid or try to end as soon as possible. We have a hard time sitting in the tension of wanting, but not yet having. There are so many emotions, doubts, and questions in the waiting, and we're not quite sure what to do with them. Often the waiting becomes a point of tension in our faith and our relationship with God. We blame Him for the waiting and wonder why He hasn't come through yet. Waiting is isolating, and it challenges our belief in God's goodness and faithfulness. But what if we that hard tension of waiting could become a catalyst for knowing God better? What if deeper intimacy with God could be birthed in the middle of our waiting seasons? We're all waiting for something-change, healing, freedom, connection, community, deliverance. We get to decide how we handle that waiting. Do we try to push through it or end it to get what we want? Or do we choose to enter into it honestly and vulnerably with God? Do we focus on getting that thing we're waiting for, or do we seek to be near to God and know Him better, no matter the outcome of our desire?In the Waiting is a 40 day journey through Scripture as we come alongside others who waited. Through their stories, we'll learn how to wait well, what not to do while we wait, and most importantly, how to draw near to God in seasons of wanting.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights【電子書籍】[ Erwin Chemerinsky ]

＜p＞＜strong＞An unprecedented work of civil rights and legal history, ＜em＞Presumed Guilty＜/em＞ reveals how the Supreme Court has enabled racist policing and sanctioned law enforcement excesses through its decisions over the last half-century.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Police are nine times more likely to kill African-American men than they are other Americansーin fact, nearly one in every thousand will die at the hands, or under the knee, of an officer. As eminent constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky powerfully argues, this is no accident, but the horrific result of an elaborate body of doctrines that allow the police and, crucially, the courts to presume that suspectsーespecially people of colorーare guilty before being charged.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Today in the United States, much attention is focused on the enormous problems of police violence and racism in law enforcement. Too often, though, that attention fails to place the blame where it most belongs, on the courts, and specifically, on the Supreme Court. A “smoking gun” of civil rights research, ＜em＞Presumed Guilty＜/em＞ presents a groundbreaking, decades-long history of judicial failure in America, revealing how the Supreme Court has enabled racist practices, including profiling and intimidation, and legitimated gross law enforcement excesses that disproportionately affect people of color.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For the greater part of its existence, Chemerinsky shows, deference to and empowerment of the police have been the modi operandi of the Supreme Court. From its conception in the late eighteenth century until the Warren Court in 1953, the Supreme Court rarely ruled against the police, and then only when police conduct was truly shocking. Animating seminal cases and justices from the Court’s history, Chemerinskyーwho has himself litigated cases dealing with police misconduct for decadesーshows how the Court has time and again refused to impose constitutional checks on police, all the while deliberately gutting remedies Americans might use to challenge police misconduct.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Finally, in an unprecedented series of landmark rulings in the mid-1950s and 1960s, the pro-defendant Warren Court imposed significant constitutional limits on policing. Yet as Chemerinsky demonstrates, the Warren Court was but a brief historical aberration, a fleeting liberal era that ultimately concluded with Nixon’s presidency and the ascendance of conservative and “originalist” justices, whose rulingsーin Terry v. Ohio (1968), City of Los Angeles v. Lyons (1983), and Whren v. United States (1996), among other casesーhave sanctioned stop-and-frisks, limited suits to reform police departments, and even abetted the use of lethal chokeholds.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Written with a lawyer’s knowledge and experience, ＜em＞Presumed Guilty＜/em＞ definitively proves that an approach to policing that continues to exalt “Dirty Harry” can be transformed only by a robust court system committed to civil rights. In the tradition of Richard Rothstein’s ＜em＞The Color of Law＜/em＞, ＜em＞Presumed Guilty＜/em＞ is a necessary intervention into the roiling national debates over racial inequality and reform, creating a history where none was beforeーand promising to transform our understanding of the systems that enable police brutality.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Jordan's Deliverance【電子書籍】[ Allen Steadham ]

＜p＞The Onchei are back.＜br /＞ And trouble looms...＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Onchei want to learn what happened to their brethren on Algoran from the only survivor, Zeetra. Yet they learn instead she has broken the Onchei’s highest law: never intermarry or have children with another race. For this, she now faces execution.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jordan SnowFire fears the Onchei will blame the Mokta and seek retribution soon. Only an ancient heirloom, which contains the ultimate Onchei knowledge, can save the Mokta...except it's on Earth, a world she hasn't seen in decades.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jordan sends her son, Arrow, and her friend's daughter, Maska, to rescue Zeetra while she travels back to Earth to seek the Onchei artifact. What tie is there between a thousand-year-old object and Jordan's ancestors? Could this explain why she and her mother were originally abducted and brought to Algoran?＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the skies of Algoran, a final confrontation looms between the Onchei and the Mokta. And on Earth, Jordan finds more than she could have possibly imagined...＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Eclipse of the Demos The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism【電子書籍】[ Kyong-Min Son ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Winner: Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞As populism presaging authoritarianism surges worldwide and political rights and civil liberties erode, pundits, politicians, and political scientists agree: democracy is in crisis. But where many blame the rise of neoliberalism, Kyong-Min Son suggests that a longer historical perspective is in order. His book, ＜em＞The Eclipse of the Demos＜/em＞, traces the crisis of democracy back to a fateful transformation of democratic theory during the Cold War, when the idea of the demosーa public body configured for the common goodーgave way to a view of democracy as an instrument used by individuals to serve their private interests.＜/p＞ ＜p＞While the postwar pressures of totalitarianism and communism did not directly cause this transformation, Son contends that they did activate instrumental democracy’s three constitutive motifs: fear of the masses, faith in rational systemic management, and an ambivalence about the relationship between capitalism and democracy. Forged of these elements drawn from disparate intellectual traditions, instrumental democracy displaced a citizenry disposed to judge competing public claims according to the principles of the common good and political equality. In the instrumental model, citizens are seen as consumers whose political claims are equivalentーsimply because each is willing to pay the same price: a vote. It is this transactional view of democracy, Son argues, that led to the unchallenged dominance of finance capital and growing social divisions that have fueled the rise of neoliberalism.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Eclipse of the Demos＜/em＞ envisions an answer to our present predicament: a democracy that rests on a demos engaging in collective inquiry and judgment rather than on a group of individuals concerned exclusively with their private welfare. By providing a clearer understanding of democracy before neoliberalism, this book begins the hard work of realizing that vision.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Victim Cult How the grievance culture hurts everyone and wrecks civilizations【電子書籍】[ Mark Milke ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The Victim Cult was a top 100 Amazon bestseller when released in Canada. Author Mark Milke Ph.D. warns of how relentless victim thinking craters individuals, groups, and entire nations. He shows how reflexive victim narratives and misguided identity politics are destroying what's best about Americaーand what you can do about it.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞No one disputes that some people are victimsーof others, accidents, and life. But we also all know someone who seems stuck. They make life worse because of an intense focus on the past. On a personal level, the chronic victim-thinker can be toxic. But what happens when victim narratives dominate entire societies?＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Victim Cult tackles this too-easy reflex to take offense and blame others, from college campuses to the heights of political power. It also infects citizens who see each other as victims or privileged but never as diverse individuals with choices.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Victim cults are not new. Some have deep roots and end in disaster.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Many 19th-century Germans thought they were victims of the French, English, liberalism, and Jews. Adolf Hitler later exploited that victim narrative to turn the land of Bach and Beethoven into the nation known for Dachau.＜br /＞ Yasser Arafat viewed Palestinians and himself only as victims. When offered a peace deal with Israel, he cratered it, preferring blame and terror over peace.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Moving beyond victimhood: Examples from Asian Americans＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this wide-ranging look at why societies fail or succeed, The Victim Cult explains how victim cults arise: Relentless blame of others, faulty moral reasoning, and misguided identity politics.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Victim Cult also details positive lessons from those who were harmed yet succeeded: early Asian Americans who fought prejudice and sought integration, education and entrepreneurship. Their choices built a better America with opportunities for all.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Mark Milke wears his scholarship lightly. His crisp, polished prose belies the exhaustive research that permits him to speak out so boldly and broadly on what is a sensitive, often culturally weaponized subject.” - Barbara Kay, ＜em＞National Post＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mark Milke. Ph.D., is a public policy analyst, author, and columnist with six books and dozens of studies published internationally in the last two decades. The research director for a think tank, Mark is a Canadian who almost ended up an Americanーhis great-great grandfather was from Wisconsin and fought on the side of the Union in the U.S. Civil War. He is also president of the local Winston Churchill Society. Mark Milke’s website is www.markmilke.com.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Hong Kong's 2019-2020 Social Unrest: The Trigger, History And Lessons【電子書籍】[ Bernard Yeung ]

＜p＞This book provides an anatomy of Hong Kong's 2019-2020 social unrest, which has significantly damaged its economy and image. A coalition of Opposition to the Communist Party of China (CPC) emerged in Hong Kong after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident. The Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution which took effect in 1997, defined 'one country, two systems' in Hong Kong but inadvertently installed an 'opposition politics' system that the city was unfamiliar with. Fresh out of a colonial system, Hong Kong did not have the socio-ecological system to hold politicians accountable for their policies. For more than two decades, the tug of war between the Opposition and all other politicians has been delivering inconsistent public policies raising the costs of living and income disparity while hollowing out job opportunities. As a result, the younger generations have been immensely hurt. Meanwhile, the Opposition Camp has been promoting the blame narrative that the CPC is chipping away at Hong Kong's democracy and freedom. While the narrative's empirical evidence is weak and its linkage to Hong Kong's economic grievances is absent, the Opposition Camp has fallen captive to the narrative in the sense that its legitimacy is now tied to the narrative.For more than twenty years, rallies built on the blame narrative have profoundly influenced the development of people who grew up after 1997. Furthermore, the year-long unrest has socialised many more to adopt the narrative. The younger generations have been hurt by inconsistent public policies, and on top of that, the blame narrative has robbed them of any coherent social identity; and finally, the unrest has further dimmed their future. Hong Kong is now facing the problem of how to reincorporate a significant portion among its younger generations into mainstream society. This book offers in-depth analyses of the journey, identifies government and societal failures, and suggests long- and short-term policy directions.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Sorrows of Work【電子書籍】[ The School of Life ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A fresh approach to our careers, offering hopeful solutions to a myriad of professional challenges.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Work can be a source of creativity, excitement, and purpose. Yet many of us find ourselves confused, discouraged, and exhausted by our jobs. We are often tempted to blame ourselves, and to feel privately ashamed by our jobs. However, as this book lucidly explains, there are many reasons why our jobs demoralize us, including the evolution of modern work, the role of technology, and the mechanics of the economy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Sorrows of Work＜/em＞ offers an invigorating and optimistic perspective on our working lives - and presents the skills and tools we need to overcome any professional challenge.＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞AN INVIGORATING GUIDE＜/strong＞ to the professional challenges we all face.＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞ILLUSTRATED＜/strong＞ with full color images throughout.＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞FRESH CAREER PERSPECTIVES＜/strong＞ from The School of Life＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞BUILD THE SKILLS＜/strong＞ you need to thrive in your career.＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Waking Up Marriage Finding Truth In Your Partnership【電子書籍】[ Bill O'Herron ]

＜p＞Your relationship with your partner really started when you were in 4th grade, since all the uncomfortable, emotional reactions in you today were formed unconsciously in childhood. You are married to these old reaction patterns, but your adult self is afraid to embrace them. So you blame your spouse, boss, friends, parents, kids, and everything else for your discontent.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is why relationships fail! I call it Half-Syndrome. You need to return to this inner kingdom of experiences, the other half of self. This is where the work on marriage is. Run, don't walk, into the fire of your old feelings. There is where all the answers to the test are.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Well-written and interesting...an oddly sweet and moving book that I can highly recommend." -Steven C. Hayes, Foundation Professor, Univ of Nevada, author of 38 books including A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A uniquely insightful book explaining how our past can have a profound impact on our marriage...the lessons, scientific insights, and learnings will help take yourself and your marriage to greater heights."＜/p＞ ＜p＞-Bento Leal, author of 4 Essential Keys to Effective Communication in Love, Life, Work-Anywhere!＜/p＞ ＜p＞"An enlightening, uplifting and fresh look at the forces at play during marriage...if your marriage is in trouble, it's time to read this fascinating book."＜/p＞ ＜p＞-Brian Nox, best-selling author of F*CK Him!: Nice Girls Always Finish Single and Red Flags: How to know he's playing games with you＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Waking Up Marriage paints the way to understanding our old souls, and offers a clear path to honesty and redemption. I found myself understood at a deep level once I began to follow its practices."＜/p＞ ＜p＞-Ron Seybold, author of the memoir Stealing Home: A Father, a Son, and the Road to the Perfect Game＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Runaway College Costs How College Governing Boards Fail to Protect Their Students【電子書籍】[ James V. Koch ]

＜p＞＜strong＞What role have governing boards played in tuition and fee escalation at four-year public colleges and universities?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the United States, college costs, especially tuition and fees, have increased much more rapidly than either the overall Consumer Price Index or median household income. This cost inflation has effectively closed the doors of higher education to many qualified students and contributed to a staggering $1.5 trillion in student debt. Additionally, the number of college enrollments in the United States actually declined for eight straight years between 2011 and 2019, as college student bodies became increasingly stratified on the basis of family incomes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Virtually every public college cost increase, however, requires a positive vote from each university's governing boardーand the record shows that these votes are nearly always unanimous. In ＜em＞Runaway College Costs＜/em＞, James V. Koch and Richard J. Cebula argue that many trustees have forgotten that they should act as fiduciaries who represent the best interests of students, parents, and taxpayers. Instead, Koch and Cebula explain, too often many trustees prize size and more prestigious rankings over access and affordability. These misplaced priorities make them vote in favor of ever more plush facilities, expensive intercollegiate athletic programs, administrative bloat, and outdated models of instruction and research.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Koch and Cebula supply groundbreaking empirical evidence on the impact of governing board membership, size, and operations on tuition and fees. They show, for example, that the existence of a powerful statewide governing board exercises significant downward pressure on tuition and fees and that state funding cuts cannot explain more than one-half of the cost increases at the typical four-year public institution. The authors propose an action agenda for governing boards, including changing the incentives placed in front of campus presidents and senior administrators. Finally, they conclude that, although public university governing boards deserve blame for accelerating college cost inflation, they also are ideally situated to improve the situation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Runaway College Costs＜/em＞ ends hopefully, suggesting that governing boards and their member trustees actually have the greatest potential to improve the situation. Providing the first rigorous empirical evidence of the impact that various modes of governance have had not only on tuition and fees but also on a half-dozen measures of institutional performance, this book will be of serious interest to governors, legislators, public university board members and their staffs, those interested in supporting the traditional goals of public higher education, and of course students and their parents, as well as taxpayers.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Aristocracy of Talent How Meritocracy Made the Modern World【電子書籍】[ Adrian Wooldridge ]

＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞THE TIMES＜/em＞ BOOK OF THE YEAR＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞*Shortlisted for the＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism and hereditary castes'＜/strong＞ Steven Pinker＜/p＞ ＜p＞Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of history this was a revolutionary thought, but by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy forged by the politicians and officials who introduced the revolutionary principle of open competition, the psychologists who devised methods for measuring natural mental abilities and the educationalists who built ladders of educational opportunity. He looks outside western cultures and shows what transformative effects it has had everywhere it has been adopted, especially once women were brought into the meritocractic system.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wooldridge also shows how meritocracy has now become corrupted and argues that the recent stalling of social mobility is the result of failure to complete the meritocratic revolution. Rather than abandoning meritocracy, he says, we should call for its renewal.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Life Volume. 2【電子書籍】[ T Felder ]

＜p＞We go around and around in circles trying to figure out our purpose. Often holding back the truth that lay seeded in our center. There's this fear that festers from our inner traumas. They leave us helpless. Faith comes from having the foresight to know that tresures are hidden in plain sight. Blinded by the vices we attract through our reflections. We become slaves to systems we did not create. Blame is then placed on the architect. Why then do we allow someone else's dreams to become our realities? When in all actuality, a life worth living is done so through one's own design. Manifestation does not work vicariously. Open up your eyes and live your life for what it's worth.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。