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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！】The Superstitions of Divorce【電子書籍】[ G. K. Chesterton ]

＜p＞Excerpt: "It is futile to talk of reform with reference to form. To take a case from my own taste and fancy, there is nothing I feel to be so beautiful and wonderful as a window. All casements are magic casements, whether they open on the foam or the front-garden; they lie close to the ultimate mystery and paradox of limitation and liberty. But if I followed my instinct towards an infinite number of windows, it would end in having no walls. It would also (it may be added incidentally) end in having no windows either; for a window makes a picture by making a picture-frame. But there is a simpler way of stating my more simple and fatal error. It is that I have wanted a window, without considering whether I wanted a house. Now many appeals are being made to us to-day on behalf of that light and liberty that might well be symbolised by windows; especially as so many of them concern the enlightenment and liberation of the house, in the sense of the home. Many quite disinterested people urge many quite reasonable considerations in the case of divorce, as a type of domestic liberation; but in the journalistic and general discussion of the matter there is far too much of the mind that works backwards and at random, in the manner of all windows and no walls."＜/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。

洋書 Mass Market Paperback, Psych: A Fatal Frame of Mind

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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！】Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes The Correspondence【電子書籍】

＜p＞I am a disciple of Patrick Geddes, and I am an abject admirer of everything he has said and done. The tantalising nearness of everything we most want; were it not for some fatal, stubborn grain in both of us, Geddes and I, linked together, intellectual and emotional, might still conquer the world. For lack of this, he will be imperfectly articulate and I, perhaps, will have nothing to say. These two comments by Lewis Mumford, written at either end of his largely epistolary relationship with Patrick Geddes, frame an astonishing correspondence between two of our century's greatest thinkers on Western civilisation. Mumford was the versatile New York cultural critic, famous for his writings on architecture, the city and technology. His master, Geddes, was the Scots biologist, sociologist and planner, the professor of things in general. The letters reveal much about the intellectual culture of the first half of the Twentieth Century as they chart an extraordinary Anglo-American relationship between very different men; this friendship, initially of master and disciple, even father/son, was based on a shared intellectual quest, and inspired the work of both. All that exists of those letters, and much previously unpublished material besides, has been meticulously collected and edited by Frank G. Novak Jnr..＜/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！】Safe in My Arms【電子書籍】[ Sara Shepard ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The latest novel from Sara Shepard, author of ＜em＞Reputation＜/em＞ and the #1 ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling Pretty Little Liars series. When the principal of an elite California preschool is attacked, three momsーwho feel like outsiders among the school's manicured and ultra-wealthy communityーmust work together to uncover what she's hiding, figure out who's trying to frame them, and make sure their own secrets stay hidden.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Andrea, Lauren, and Ronnie all see themselves as good, loving moms who are trying their best, but they each arrive at the Silver Swans preschool Welcome Breakfast with something to hide. Andrea is running away from a past on the East Coast, which she cannot afford for the other parents to discover. Lauren is recovering from a postpartum condition her husband has warned her not to disclose. And Ronnie is hiding herself and her daughter from the one man who could at any moment appear in their lives and ruin everything she holds dear. They already feel like impostors among the school's community of polished parents. But then notes appear in their children’s backpacks after the first day at school. Notes that indicate that someone knows their deepest, darkest secrets and needs them gone. Does someone not want them in the community? Or is it something more menacing**ー**does someone know ＜em＞everything＜/em＞?＜/p＞ ＜p＞When the principal of the school is the victim of an almost-fatal attack, it quickly becomes clear that the Silver Swans community is not as flawless as the brochures and website would have you believe. The three moms must band together to uncover the school's many secrets before the other suspicious parents and town police close in and use their outsider status to blame them . . . and before they lose what they have worked so hard 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！】Tenet【電子書籍】[ Davis Shyaka Musirikare ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Ten strangers. One deadly game. One rule you must not break.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Finch wakes up on a cold marble floor in a windowless art gallery known as the Silentium. He isn't alone. Surrounded by nine terrified strangers, he listens as a disembodied voice delivers a chilling ultimatum: ＜em＞Welcome to the collection.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Here, your deepest psychological compulsion has become a fatal lawーyour ＜strong＞Tenet＜/strong＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For one player, the rule is "Do not touch fabric." For another, "Do not stop moving." For Finch, a man obsessed with order, the world must be perfectly symmetrical. If he interacts with chaos, the penalty is instant death.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The goal is simple: Navigate a shifting labyrinth of traps, mechanical puzzles, and psychological torture to reach the exit. But there is a catch. The Gallery isn't just a prison; it is a machine fueled by elimination. To survive, you don't just have to follow your own ruleーyou have to figure out everyone else's. And then use it against them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As the traps become more sadistic and the survivors turn on one another, Finch forms a dangerous alliance with Mara, a ruthless lawyer who possesses a terrifying ability to watch everything without blinking. Together, they must decode the Curator's design and break the machine before it breaks them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In a place where a crooked picture frame, a drop of blood, or a moment of hesitation means execution, only the most disciplined will survive.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞One Rule. One Winner. Welcome to the Gallery.＜/strong＞＜/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 Obsidian Files 7: The Art Curator and the Master Forger The Obisdian Files, #7【電子書籍】[ Pamela Beach ]

＜p＞A 500-year-old masterpiece. A secret worth killing for. And a forger who is the only man who can see the truth.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Art curator Camila Reyes lives a quiet life surrounded by the ghosts of history. Her world is one of order, beauty, and provenance. But when a priceless Renaissance painting with a forged history is acquired by her museum, she discovers an anomaly that should be impossible: a cryptic message hidden in plain sight, a secret cipher embedded in the ancient frame.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Her discovery throws her into the crosshairs of a ruthless assassin, and a near-fatal "accident" proves that her quiet world was a beautiful lie. Her only lifeline is a voice on a burner phone belonging to a man named Brooksーa cynical, brilliant, and dangerously skilled master forger who operates in the art world's darkest shadows.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Forced into a reluctant alliance, the meticulous curator and the master criminal must work together to steal the painting back from under the museum's nose. Their mission becomes a high-stakes treasure hunt, a race from a San Francisco museum to a forgotten chapel in Florence, following a 500-year-old map left by the Medicis. On the run from an unstoppable killer, they are a volatile mix of suspicion and undeniable attraction, two experts from opposite worlds who must learn to trust each other to survive.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when they finally uncover the location of a mythical prize, they realize they haven't been the hunters at all. They've been the hounds, unwittingly leading the enemy to the one secret that could give her ultimate power.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The seventh installment of The Obsidian Files is a breathtaking, globe-trotting adventure where history is a weapon, art is a map, and the only thing more dangerous than the truth is falling for the one man who is a master of the lie.＜/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 Hundred and One Nights【電子書籍】[ Bruce Fudge ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Fantastic tales of magic and wonder＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Edited and translated into English for the first time, ＜em＞A Hundred and One Nights＜/em＞ is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like its more famous sibling, the ＜em＞Thousand and One Nights＜/em＞, this collection opens with the frame story of Shahrazad, the gifted vizier’s daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. ＜em＞A Hundred and One Nights＜/em＞ features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. In them, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Although these tales draw on motifs and story elements that circulated across cultures, ＜em＞A Hundred and One Nights＜/em＞ is distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition. It is also likely much older than ＜em＞Thousand and One Nights＜/em＞, drawing on Indian and Chinese antecedents. This careful edition and vibrant translation of ＜em＞A Hundred and One Nights＜/em＞ promises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantastical realms of magic and wonder.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A bilingual Arabic-English edition.＜/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 Hundred and One Nights【電子書籍】

＜p＞＜strong＞Fantastic tales of magic and wonder＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Translated into English for the very first time, ＜em＞A Hundred and One Nights＜/em＞ is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like the celebrated ＜em＞Thousand and One Nights＜/em＞, this collection opens with the frame story of Scheherazade, the vizier’s gifted daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. ＜em＞A Hundred and One Nights＜/em＞ features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. Here, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasure, disappearing brides, cannibal demon-women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate.＜br /＞ Distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition, these tales draw on motifs and story elements that circulated across cultures, including Indian and Chinese antecedents, and features a frame story possibly older than its more famous sibling. This vibrant translation of ＜em＞A Hundred and One Nights＜/em＞ promises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantastical realms of magic and wonder.＜/p＞ ＜p＞An English-only edition.＜/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！】JUMP The Knights of Death Valley【電子書籍】[ Peter H. Rollinger ]

＜p＞The dystopian story takes place in the near future, mainly set among the stunning scenery of the beautiful Lauterbrunnen Valley in Switzerland with its vertical rock faces, numerous waterfalls, and frame of snow-capped mountains like the Eiger, M?nch, and Jungfrau.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rampant inequality driven by state-controlled ministries of wealth has divided society into a small, decadent, wealthy elite and a large, deprived rabble struggling for everyday existence. Governmental surveillance is growing, and so is social unrest with an increasingly violent response from the authorities.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Roger Thiel, a young banker from Zurich’s highest financial echelons, is forced out of his affluent society life by his best friend Luca, himself a former finance high-flier. Luca has left the world of finance for good to live in the Lauterbrunnen Valley in the heart of the Swiss Alps, and he convinces Roger to join him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Coming from a wealthy, influential family, Roger is initially skeptical about Luca’s radical, libertarian views. The more Roger stays in the Lauterbrunnen Valley, aka “Death Valley” because of the many fatal accidents by base jumpers, the more he questions the current state of things, his own views about the world order, his work, and his relationship with his dominant father. The independent ecosystem of the Lauterbrunnen Valley, called the Baser community, fascinates and shocks Roger in equal measure as it represents a rebellious countermodel to the authoritarian, control-based leadership in the rest of the world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Torn between his decadent, bourgeois lifestyle and the rebellious, raw spirit in the Lauterbrunnen valley, Roger falls in love with a committed radical representative of the Baser community, who further tests his loyalty to the ruling establishment.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The mood in both the Lauterbrunnen Valley and the rest of the country becomes increasingly radicalized with rising tensions, and Roger must decide which side he is on.＜/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！】Fatal Odds A Novel【電子書籍】[ John F. Dobbyn ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The fastest rising criminal activity on earthーthe illicit trade in exotic and endangered species of wild animals＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Danger escalates as Michael Knight and Lex Devlin enter into the defense of a Puerto Rican jockey charged with felony murder as a result of a fixed race at Boston's Suffolk Downs.＜br /＞ As their investigation exposes the jockey's role, they become embroiled in a conflict between two Puerto Rican crime gangs. One of these gangs is aligned for the first time with Boston's Italian Mafia in tapping into almost limitless profits from the illicit trade of exotic and endangered species of wild animals captured in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil and smuggled through the shoreline of the Florida Keys.＜br /＞ Working to free their client and to prevent the brutal abuse of these vulnerable animals, Michael and Lex find themselves squarely in the crossfire of rival organized crime gangs from the barrio of Jamaica Plain, Boston, to the gang-dominated streets of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Perfect for fans of James Rollins＜/strong＞＜br /＞ While all of the novels in the Knight and Devlin Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:＜br /＞ ＜em＞Neon Dragon＜br /＞ Frame-Up＜br /＞ Black Diamond＜br /＞ Deadly Diamonds＜br /＞ Fatal Odds＜br /＞ High Stakes＜/em＞＜/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！】Scare Tactics: Video Games and the Real-Life Horror Stories That Influenced Them【電子書籍】[ Nathaniel Hohl ]

＜p＞For fans of the horror video game genre, certain names are as hallowed as holy scripture. Castlevania, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, these and other properties both big and small have been giving gamers goosebumps for decades. Bringing any successful horror game property to life requires no small amount of originality and creativity, but in a surprising number of cases it also requires a liberal application of cold hard truth.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Scare Tactics, author Nathaniel Hohl takes readers on a journey through the annals of horror game history, focusing on eleven specific horror game properties. In every case, the game or series being discussed has some connection to a real-life element or event. Whether it's the perpetually burning Pennsylvania town that helped shape the Silent Hill movie adaptation, the scrappy indie title that harkens back to the Salem Witch Trials, or the doomed video game project that would have cast Jack the Ripper as an unsung hero, real-life history has seeped into the horror game genre's bones like a specter of icy death.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through a combination of historical research and narrative recounting, Scare Tactics paints a vivid picture of how these horror properties came to be, and the role real-life history took in bringing them to life. Horror fans, historians, and video game enthusiasts alike will enjoy reading about the subtle yet tangible connections that make these iconic horror works unique and allow them to be equal parts fascinating and terrifying.＜/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！】Minor Incident【電子書籍】[ Elaine Todd Koren ]

＜p＞The eighty-eight year old author chose this period of time in her life to write a memoir that necessitated her going back sixty-eight years to an event in 1944, a happening that burned a hole in her consciousness. In doing so, a fantastic host of memories were uncovered, memories long forgotten. The author had a nearly fatal accident where she broke her back among other injuries, in Woodstock, NY during July of 1944 at the very height of the horrific battles of World War II.＜/p＞ ＜p＞There was a significant lack of doctors, nurses and medical equipment, all of which were sent by the hospitals to aid the soldiers at the front. To be a patient in a hospital, during that time, was akin to falling into hell. And hell it was! Whatever the pain was, it had caused her to behave in ways not typical of her, and in retrospect she at times grew ashamed or incredulous at her own actions. She learned the full extent of what one suffered in a full body cast when urine seeped into it renting one’s skin, and what caused her to verge on wrapping a cord around her neck in exasperation of nurses not responding to her buzzer.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Anchored by an early forceful chapter describing her lying unbelievably perched on four mattresses with her head hanging down at a sharp angle so the blood was rushing dangerously into it; this was to take the place of the Bradford Frame, a device which had been sent to the hospitals for serious injuries of the spinal column. There is the humor of The Taming of the Shrew with the veritable witch who occupied her hospital room. This book plays against the odds of a dangerous edema; a dreaded spinal fusion; which the author fights and then accepts, and the general ignorance of a medically and psychologically deficient environment of 1944. There is the shock value of lying for months surrounded by the plaster world of the cast. The author sees a marvelous humor in all this frightening tragedy concocting a desperate hopeless romance with a Dr. MacNeil, who believes the twenty year old to be sixteen. She also envisions mind dancing, a marvelous device to escape from the hell! There is a fascinating interaction between the progress of World War II and its battles and the progress of her illness.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Read this absorbing memoir of the coming of age of a 20-year-old college student whose world suddenly changes in the summer of 1944. The work has pathos and humor and has an optimistic note. In reading it you will find it jolting and difficult to forget. In fact the author has never forgotten it for sixty-eight years.＜/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！】Touhy vs. Capone The Chicago Outfits Biggest Frame Job【電子書籍】[ Don Herion ]

＜p＞＜strong＞In this true crime history, a Chicago cop uncovers the epic gangland saga that led to a former bootlegger's assassination in 1959.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞When beat cop Don Herion and his partner responded to shots fired on December 16, 1959, they didn't know that they had heard the final, fatal salvo in one of the most contorted conflicts in the history of organized crime. Back in the 1930s, bootlegger and Irish mob boss Roger Touhy went to war with Al Capone and his Chicago Outfit. Then he was framed for a fake kidnapping. After twenty-six years in prison, Touhy was finally released. Less than a month later, he was murdered in an ambush.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Touhy's epic story of crime and punishment involves nearly all the notorious men of his day: Frank Nitti, John "Jake the Barber" Factor, Mayor Cermak, Melvin Purvis, J. Edgar Hoover, Baby Face Nelson, Dan "Tubbo" Gilbert, FDR and JFK. As Touhy's life was ending on his sister's front porch, Herion's quest to unravel the tangle of events that led to his assassination had just begun.＜/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！】TARNISHED BRASS CURTAIN A Novel of Vietnam【電子書籍】[ Richard S. Rose ]

＜p＞TARNISHED BRASS CURTAIN: A NOVEL OF VIETNAM SYNOPSIS “”Tarnished Brass Curtain: is a frame story, taking place during a single week in October, 1968, with flashback chapters from one week to six months. It opens in a Navy Public Affairs Office on the west coast. The admiral’s son, a helicopter pilot, has apparently gone underground rather than return to his unit in the Mekong Delta. The frame deals with how the command handles the PR crisis. The flashbacks show combat, discussions of conscience and loyalty, and how the lieutenant reached his decision. Two men are shown in transition: Fred Hetherington, the young lieutenant, who grows throughout the story, matures and goes from uncertainty to conviction; and Dan Levin, the older senior chief journalist in charge of the enlisted staff of the PAO, who goes from certainty to denial. The younger man is a product of generations of military tradition, son and grandson of flag officers. The older man, a career navyman, is an outsider in this military world; he is ambitious, Jewish, has intellectual pretensions and an almost fatal love for words and their meanings, without a full understanding of their consequences. The story begins in the Public Affairs office of the commander of the Pt. Cambiar, Calfifornia Navy Base. A call comes in from the local newspaper concerning a rumor that the commander’s son, a navy combat helicoptaer pilot, has gone underground, rather than return to his base in the Mekong Delta after being home on leave for his mother’s funeral. The command chief of staff not only wants to suppress the rumor, but actually fabricates a message implying that the pilot is on extended leave. The decision is also made not to inform the admiral, who is still mourning the loss of his wife. The PAO staff leadershipーthe acting public affairs officer and the leading chief petty officer -- is divided on the suppression of the truth. The pilot begins to discover that his action was not as uncomplicated as he thought. He finds himself unwilling to be used as a propaganda tool by the anti-war group with which he has sought sanctuary. He ultimately prepares a brief statement of justification to the press, which is expanded and amended by the group’s leader to advance anti-war, anti-government opinions. Flashback show earlier conversations with the chief and the pilot’s first combat mission. In the present, the chief, Dan Levin, is concerned about his conversations with Lt. Hetherington, and is worried that he may be the cause of Lt. Hetherington’s action, become involved in the furor, and lose his up-coming promotion. He attempts to hide from himself his involvement, although his wife is sure of the reason he seems disturbed. Dan is a perpetual student, now deeply involved in the intellectual exercise of dissent, from Antigone to Martin Luther King. After Fred’s doctored statement is read to the press, all hell breaks loose at Navy headquarters, and a high-powered public affairs officer is called in from Washington. A news conference is set up for the Admiral, who is still unaware of the coverup. He finds out during the conference. Meanwhile, Fred has left his sanctuary and gone to Dan’s house. Dan reluctantly admits him. Dan’s wife, Natalie, cuts through all the strings and forces resolution by calling the admiral and inviting him over. Resolution comes with Fred gaining understanding from his father and turning himself in. Dan’s promotion is safe, but despite his intellect, he is still vaguely and deliberately unaware of the subtleties what has happened.＜/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！】Not My Time【電子書籍】[ Gary Pacelli ]

＜p＞A hardened Detective discovers his faith through three almost fatal accidents and one murder attempt on his life. As he fights his way back from being a quadriplegic, he finds the meaning of life in the process.＜/p＞ ＜p＞NOT MY TIME tells the story of the amazing life of the author Gary Pacelli and the incredible adventures he experienced. The book highlights Gary's near-death experiences along with the attempted murder on his life and the hard lessons that he learned from them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The story begins with the author's terrifying Skydive accident that left him with a broken neck and paralyzed from the neck down 5,000 feet in the air with five minutes to live and make peace with his death.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The story then weaves through the horrifyingly intense attempt on his life when he was undercover as a Detective working for the Drug Enforcement Administration and his wildly entertaining law enforcement stories while Gary was trying to beat the odds and overcome being a quadriplegic as he struggled to return to everyday life and ultimately return to his passion, Skydiving.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is a classic hero story, fighting against the odds, falling, getting up, fighting on, and learning the meaning of life along the way. This true story delivers. The reader experiences all their emotions as Gary tells the story as if you were sitting around a campfire while listening to him talk. You will feel as if you were there with Gary at times.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A Champion is someone who gets up when they can't." --- Jack Dempsey＜/p＞ ＜p＞The book cover photo is an actual frame from my GoPro accident video.＜/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！】Pathologies of Love Medicine and the Woman Question in Early Modern France【電子書籍】[ Judy Kem ]

＜p＞＜em＞Pathologies of Love＜/em＞ examines the role of medicine in the debate on women, known as the ＜em＞querelle des femmes＜/em＞, in early modern France. Questions concerning women’s physical makeup and its psychological and moral consequences played an integral role in the querelle. This debate on the status of women and their role in society began in the fifteenth century and continued through the sixteenth and, as many critics would say, well beyond. In querelle works early modern medicine, women’s sexual difference, literary reception, and gendered language often merge. Literary authors perpetuated medical ideas such as the notion of allegedly fatal lovesickness, and physicians published works that included disquisitions on the moral nature of women.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Pathologies of Love＜/em＞, Judy Kem looks at the writings of Christine de Pizan, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre, examining the role of received medical ideas in the querelle des femmes. She reconstructs how these authors interpreted the traditional courtly understanding of women’s pity or mercy on a dying lover, their understanding of contemporary debates about women’s supposed sexual insatiability and its biological effects on men’s lives and fertility, and how erotomania or erotic melancholy was understood as a fatal illness. While the two women who frame this study defended women and based much of what they wrote on personal experience, the three men appealed to male authority and tradition in their writings.＜/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 Empty Tomb【電子書籍】[ B. W. Randolph ]

＜p＞This little book consists of a paper and a sermon. The paper was read (in substance) at a meeting of the S. T. C. in Cambridge, in November, 1905, and again at a meeting of clergy in the Chapter House of Worcester Cathedral, in February of this current year. The sermon was preached at Lincoln Cathedral on Low Sunday, 1903.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The subject of our Lord’s Resurrection has been brought prominently forward in recent years by writers who seem to think that if once Christianity can be purged of its miraculous elements, the Church will enter upon a new stage of greater vigour and renewed life. It is, therefore, a duty for those who feel that this is a fatal delusion to speak out plainly.＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the present moment it is the fashion to attempt to drive a wedge between the teaching of St. Paul on the subject of our Lord’s Resurrection and that of the Evangelists. It is to this attempt that attention is largely directed in the paper which follows. It is historically certain that the Christian Church sprang from and was founded on a belief in the literal Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This belief was not a gradual growth in any sense. It dates from the very morrow of the alleged occurrence. It “sprang suddenly into existence, and it swept irresistibly over the whole body of disciples. Of the force and universality of the belief there can be no doubt.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was the necessary qualification for an Apostle that he should be a “witness of the Resurrection;” every sermon or address of St. Peter and St. Paul culminates in the doctrine of the Resurrection. It is altogether impossible to imagine that the Christian Church could have risen into being and could have spread throughout the world if the Faith in the Resurrection of our Lord had been eliminated.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is, then, an historical fact that Christianity was started on the site of an empty tomb, and that “the truth of the Resurrection is something more than that Jesus appeared in vision to this or that disciple.” The early Christians believedーas indeed Christians throughout the ages have believedーthat Jesus Christ conquered death by rising from the tomb with His Body, glorified indeed and transfiguredーoperating under new conditionsーbut the same Body which was born of Mary and was nailed to the Cross.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What, then, is it which we are asked to substitute for this faith?＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is enough, we are told, to believe that the disciples were assured of our Lord’s continued life; that though His Body may have mouldered in the tomb, yet He Himself, His Personality, was really alive, and of this the disciples were convinced by the apparitions which they saw or thought they saw of Him after death.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now, at the outset, it is natural to remark that this is not what the Evangelists tell us; they make it who quite plain that His bodily frame was really present to those saw Him; that they saw the sacred wounds in the hands and side, and that they had found the tomb empty, and St. Paul makes it clear that this also was his belief when he says that “He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His spirit that dwelleth in you.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞There is nothing in the early records to lead us to suppose that if our Lord’s Resurrection had not been a real Resurrectionーa physical Resurrection as it is now calledーthat any of the Apostles would have placed any reliance on it, still less that they would have staked everything on proclaiming its truth, or would have given their lives for their Master.＜/p＞ ＜p＞We are indeed reminded that it is more important to believe that Jesus lives than that Jesus rose, and that if we have Jesus with us in our lives we need not trouble about the literal truth of the Resurrection story.＜/p＞ ＜p＞B. W. R.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Theological College,＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ely,＜/p＞ ＜p＞Feast of St. Gregory the Great, 1906.＜/p＞ ＜p＞CrossReach Publications＜/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！】FATALITY IN F【電子書籍】[ Alexia Gordon ]

＜p＞Fresh from solving her third mystery, Gethsemane Brown’s ready to relax and enjoy her summer. Her plans include nothing more dangerous than performing in the opening ceremony of the annual rose and garden show and cheering on Frankie Grennan, who has entered his hybrid rose into the competition.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when a mysterious stalker starts leaving Frankie floral bouquets as coded messages, Gethsemane fears a copycat may be planning to recreate the still-unsolved murders of the infamous Flower Shop Killer. Then Frankie’s main competitor in the rose showーand the reason his marriage failedーturns up dead in Frankie’s rose garden. Frankie takes first prize in the category of prime suspect.＜/p＞ ＜p＞So much for a relaxing summer.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As bodies start dropping like rose petals, Gethsemane must judge the other suspects and find the real killer. Or rose bushes won’t be the only things dead-headed in Dunmullach.＜/p＞ ＜p＞- - - - - - - - - - - - -＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞FATALITY IN F by Alexia Gordon | A Henery Press Mystery. If you like one, you’ll probably like them all.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Full of snappy dialogue, this paranormal cozy is pure, sparkling fun.” ? Publishers Weekly＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Engaging protagonist Gethsemane Brown conducts orchestras with bravura and murder inquiries with bravery, while contending with the help (and hindrance) of a resident ghost and the Irish Garda?. Alexia Gordon hits all the right notes in Fatality in F, fourth entry in her award-winning series, which finds Gethsemane on the scent of a garden show killer who’s trying to frame her friend for murder.” ーVickie Fee, Author of Til Death Do Us Party＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Author Bio:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞A writer since childhood, Alexia Gordon won her first writing prize in the 6th grade. She continued writing through college but put literary endeavors on hold to finish medical school and Family Medicine residency training. She established her medical career then returned to writing fiction. Raised in the southeast, schooled in the northeast, she relocated to the west where she completed Southern Methodist University’s Writer’s Path program. She admits Texas brisket is as good as Carolina pulled pork. She practices medicine in North Chicago, IL. She enjoys the symphony, art collecting, embroidery, and ghost stories.＜/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 Last Cowboy: A Life of Tom Landry A Life of Tom Landry【電子書籍】[ Mark Ribowsky ]

＜p＞An action-packed biography of a man, his team, and the league he helped createーin the tradition of Maraniss’s ＜em＞When Pride Still Mattered＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tom Landry, ＜em＞the＜/em＞ coach during professional football's most fabled era, transformed the gridiron from a no-holds-barred battlefield to the technical chess match it is today. With his trademark fedora and stoic facade, "God’s Coach" was a man of faith and few words, for twenty-nine years guiding "America's Team" from laughingstock to well-oiled machine, with an unprecedented twenty consecutive winning seasons and two Super Bowl titles. Now, more than a decade after Landry's death, acclaimed sports biographer Mark Ribowsky finally takes a fresh look at this much-misunderstood legend, giving us a distinctly American biography that tells us as much about our country's fascination with football as it does about Landry himself.＜/p＞ ＜p＞While his coaching years are set against the backdrop of a nation roiling with racial and political turmoilーand the anything-goes partying constantly threatening the all-American mystiqueー＜em＞The Last Cowboy＜/em＞ begins amid the dusty roads of Mission, Texas, where Tom Landry’s childhood played out like a homespun American fable. It then takes us to the war-torn skies over western Europe, where the straight-A student and high school football star piloted a B-17 through thirty harrowing, at times near-fatal, missions. And finally back to a booming Texas, where he continued his faithful march toward gridiron immortality.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In between, however, we learn that Landry was an infinitely more complex figure than his legions of fans and critics could have ever imagined. Indeed, for all his restrained emotions and old-world courtliness, he was a man of great reach and curiosity: an art and wine connoisseur, a world traveler, a collector of first-edition old-West literature. Drawing from dozens of exclusive interviews, Ribowsky reveals that Landry was anything but "cold," and it was actually his depth as a human that positioned him to become an avatar of change, first as the civil rights movement spilled onto the field and, later, as the game of football transformed into something unrecognizable to those who had come before him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But Landry's virtues notwithstanding, he was hardly perfect and nor were his players. From the unending quarterback controversies between Roger Staubach and Craig Morton to the locker room battles with Duane Thomas and Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson to the heartbreaking loses suffered at the hands of Landry’s only true rival, Vince Lombardi, ＜em＞The Last Cowboy＜/em＞ becomes a fascinating portrait of a fiercely Christian man desperately trying to stay the course in a city whose flamboyance mirrored that of the team he built.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The result is a definitive biography that will frame its subject within a larger American panorama while also reintroducing us to a legend whose impact on the NFL, and the sport itself, is nothing short of immeasurable.＜/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！】Scare Tactics: Video Games and the Real-Life Horror Stories That Influenced Them【電子書籍】[ Nathaniel Hohl ]

＜p＞For fans of the horror video game genre, certain names are as hallowed as holy scripture. Castlevania, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame, these and other properties both big and small have been giving gamers goosebumps for decades. Bringing any successful horror game property to life requires no small amount of originality and creativity, but in a surprising number of cases it also requires a liberal application of cold hard truth.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Scare Tactics, author Nathaniel Hohl takes readers on a journey through the annals of horror game history, focusing on eleven specific horror game properties. In every case, the game or series being discussed has some connection to a real-life element or event. Whether it's the perpetually burning Pennsylvania town that helped shape the Silent Hill movie adaptation, the scrappy indie title that harkens back to the Salem Witch Trials, or the doomed video game project that would have cast Jack the Ripper as an unsung hero, real-life history has seeped into the horror game genre's bones like a specter of icy death.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through a combination of historical research and narrative recounting, Scare Tactics paints a vivid picture of how these horror properties came to be, and the role real-life history took in bringing them to life. Horror fans, historians, and video game enthusiasts alike will enjoy reading about the subtle yet tangible connections that make these iconic horror works unique and allow them to be equal parts fascinating and terrifying.＜/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！】Crimson Duet【電子書籍】[ Patricia Rosemoor ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Someone killed Santa...twice!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞In Crimson Holiday...＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Passed out after the Westbrook Department Store Christmas party, window designer Shelby Corbin wakens only to trip over Santa, the store's co-owner and Shelby's boss. Terrified that she will be blamed for the murder, she panics. CEO Rand McNabb sees a dark-haired woman wearing a crimson dress fleeing the scene and thinks he knows her identity. His romantic attentions both thrill her and frighten Shelby. Is the sexy CEO really helping her search for the truth about that fatal night, or does Rand have a deadlier motive for courting her?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞In Crimson Nightmare...＜/strong＞＜br /＞ After the last Westbrook Department Store Christmas party, Pippa McNabb's cheating husband was murdered wearing a Santa suit. A new year, a new Christmas party, a new dead Santa ? this time, after having a bad reaction to an appetizer Pippa gives him, he lurches from the store out onto the street only to be run down by eight tiny reindeer. Pippa is suspect, but so is naturalist Sky Thornton, who was driving the sleigh. Sky seems intent on helping Pippa, but he seems to know too much about her. Is he really trying to clear her name, or is he trying to frame her for the murder?＜/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！】Framed in Fire A Lane Winslow Mystery【電子書籍】[ Iona Whishaw ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Nominated for a 2023 Lefty Award＜br /＞ An April 2022 Loan Stars Top 10＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞A shallow grave, a missing person, and near-fatal arson keep Lane, Darling, and the Nelson police on high alert in the latest mystery in this＜/em＞ Globe and Mail ＜em＞bestselling series.＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞It’s early spring 1948 and Lane arrives in New Denver to find that her friend, Peter Barisoff, is not at home. Instead, in a nearby meadow, she encounters Tom, an Indigenous man in search of his ancestral lands. Lane is intrigued. Unfortunately, once Peter returns home, the day takes a gloomy turn when the trio uncovers human remains next to Peter’s garden, and Lane must tell her husband, Inspector Darling, that she’s inadvertently stumbled into his professional domainーagain.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Back in Nelson, the Vitalis, Lane and Darling’s favourite restaurateurs, are victims of arson. Constable Terrell’s investigation suggests prejudice as a motive, and the case quickly escalates, as the Vitalis receive increasingly threatening notes of warning. Meanwhile, Sergeant Ames works a robbery while alienating Tina Van Eyck in his personal time, and a swirling rumour sets the entire station on edge and prompts an RCMP investigation into Darling’s integrity.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Amid the local bustle series readers have come to love, ＜em＞Framed in Fire＜/em＞ is bound up in difficult questions of community and belonging, and the knowledge that trusted neighbours can sometimes be as sinister as a stranger in the dark.＜/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！】Daybreak in Turkey【電子書籍】[ James Levi Barton ]

＜p＞One of the obstacles which lie in the path of the European when he wants to arrive at the true opinion of the Oriental is that the European, especially if he be an official, is almost always in a hurry. If, he thinks, the Oriental has anything to say to me, why does he not say it and go away? I am quite prepared to listen most attentively, but my time is valuable and I have a quantity of other business to do; I must, therefore, really ask him to come to the point at once. This frame of mind is quite fatal if one wishes to arrive at the truth. In order to attain this object, the Oriental must be allowed to tell his story and put forward his ideas in his own way; and his own way is generally a lengthy, circuitous, and very involved way. But if any one has the patience to listen, he will sometimes be amply rewarded for his pains. I once asked a high Moslem authority how he reconciled the fact that an apostate could now no longer be executed with the alleged immutability of the Sacred Law. The casuistry of his reply would have done honor to a Spanish Inquisitor. The Kadi, he said, does not recognise any change in the Law. He would, in the case of an apostate, pronounce sentence of death according to the Law, but it was for the secular authorities to carry out the sentence. If they failed in their duty, the sin of disobeying the Law would lie on their heads. Cases of apostasy are very rare, but during my tenure of office in Egypt, I had to interfere once or twice to protect from maltreatment Moslems who had been converted to Christianity by the American missionaries. The reasons why Islam as a social system has been a complete failure are manifold. First and foremost, Islam keeps women in a position of marked inferiority. In the second place, Islam, speaking not so much through the Koran as through the traditions which cluster round the Koran, crystallises religion and law into one inseparable and immutable whole, with the result that all elasticity is taken away from the social system. If to this day an Egyptian goes to law over a question of testamentary succession, his case is decided according to the antique principles which were laid down as applicable to the primitive society of the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century.＜/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！】Black Diamond A Novel【電子書籍】[ John F. Dobbyn ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Caught between the Boston Irish mob and the mob from the old sodーNot a good place to be＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Michael Knight and Lex Devlin agree to defend a jockey accused of murdering a fellow jockey during a race at Boston's Suffolk Downs. Michael's expertise in the machinations of the horse racing game is expected to serve them well. But a personal attachment to the murdered jockey thrusts Michael and Lex into the midst of a conflict between Boston's Irish mafia and remnants of the terrorist branch of the Irish Republican Army. Now they are in the crosshairs of both, and the brutality of these combatants knows no bounds.＜br /＞ As Michael and Lex uncover layer after layer of deceptions involved in the seamier side of horse racing, they become more dangerous to the gangs. In action that shuttles between Ireland and Boston, the lives of the two lawyers as well as those close to them are in the gravest danger and the criminals show no mercy in their quest to put an end to this threat. As their investigation hurtles forward, it could end a wonderful law partnership due to the absence of living partners.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Perfect for fans of Lisa Scottoline and Alafair Burke＜/strong＞＜br /＞ While all of the novels in the Knight and Devlin Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:＜br /＞ ＜em＞Neon Dragon＜br /＞ Frame-Up＜br /＞ Black Diamond＜br /＞ Deadly Diamonds＜br /＞ Fatal Odds＜br /＞ High Stakes＜/em＞＜/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 Decisive Mind【電子書籍】[ Rikard Halpert ]

＜p＞＜strong＞You're facing a high-stakes decision. The data is incomplete, the pressure is immense, and every choice feels like a gamble.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is the reality of leadership. But for many, it's a cognitive minefield where hidden biases, analysis paralysis, and the fear of being wrong lead to costly mistakes or fatal indecision. The solution isn't more dataーit's a better framework.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Decisive Mind＜/em＞ is a proven, battle-tested system for making smarter, faster, and more strategic decisions when it matters most. This is not just a collection of tips; it is a step-by-step guide to rewiring your thinking, moving beyond reactive problem-solving to become a proactive architect of the future.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Inside this leader's guide to clarity, you will learn to:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Frame Problems Correctly:＜/strong＞ Stop solving symptoms and learn to identify the core issue that truly needs to be addressed.＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Escape the Trap of False Choices:＜/strong＞ Systematically generate a wider, more creative set of options that move beyond the obvious.＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Anticipate the Future:＜/strong＞ Use powerful tools like the "Pre-Mortem Analysis" to identify and mitigate risks before they happen.＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Act with Conviction:＜/strong＞ Master the art of committing to a choice and aligning your team for flawless execution.＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞This is the manual for any leader who needs to make the right call under pressure.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Stop second-guessing your choices. Start engineering them.＜/strong＞＜/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 Sisters' Fight: A Poetic Anthology of Awareness【電子書籍】[ Deidra D. S. Green ]

＜p＞The Sisters’ Fight: A Poetic Anthology of Awareness＜/p＞ ＜p＞Written by:＜br /＞ Danica N. Worthy＜br /＞ Deidra D.S. Green＜br /＞ Jamila E. Gomez＜br /＞ Tammie T. Bell-Davis＜/p＞ ＜p＞Synopsis＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Sisters’ Fight; A Poetic Anthology was written by four women that came together through their love of writing and creativity to bring added awareness to the ongoing battle of fighting Cancer and Bullying. This book of poetry and short stories represents the love and struggles each writer has faced in one form or another in dealing with the effects of what cancer can do to a family member or friend who battles this increasing disease. Through their writings, you will understand and sympathize with their personal struggle to cope with being strong and supportive in dealing with this disease that completely changes lives. Not only does cancer affect the body it also changes the frame of mind; giving you a whole new perspective on life. Though we have advanced treatments to better the chances of survival of cancer there is still no cure. The Sisters’ Fight wants to bring more awareness to this cause by donating 15% of proceeds to cancer research in hopes of a cure.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Another cause The Sisters’ Fight addresses in this anthology is bullying. With increasing technology bullying is finding a whole new outlet through internet and social media. Words of hate sent through cyberspace and torturing the victim on such a huge medium is at an all time high. Children and adults, embarrassed and humiliated, often turn to drastic, sometimes fatal measures to no longer suffer from the pain of bullying. Words and actions hurt. Awareness through teaching is needed to help us understand why bullying is wrong and how the effects of such can cause pain to the undeserving recipient. It’s often found that the bully has in some way been hurt themselves and releases their own pain on someone they consider an easy target. The effects of bullying needs to be addressed from the side of the victim as well as that of the bully. The Sisters’ Fight will donate 15% of proceeds to bring more awareness where it’s needed most.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A total of 30% of the proceeds from The Sisters’ Fight: A Poetic Anthology of Awareness will be donated to respective Cancer and Bullying Charities.＜/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！】American Life: A Narrative of Two Years' City and Country Residence in the United States【電子書籍】[ Mrs. John Felton ]

＜p＞The day on which we sailed was clear and serene, and we gently drifted with the tide down Belfast Lough into the Channel. Assured that I should not be able to see land on the following morning, I kept my eyes fixed upon the hills in the distance till darkness rendered them no longer visible. I never undertake a voyage or a journey without experiencing a vague feeling of melancholyーthere is something so strangely depressing in the preliminaries of departure; the packing of boxesーthe arrangement of books, clothes, and papers. Indeed the whole valedictory ceremony is throughout a series of preparations, every way calculated to excite sensations of sadness. I seldom visit a place, even for a few weeks, without meeting with some agreeable associates, whose company I feel loath to relinquish. But these ephemeral disquietudes form but a shadowy representation of the emotions that agitated my frame, when I was leaving the shores of Europe, with the prospect of a long, and perhaps, a final separation. These unpleasant sensations, however, were greatly alleviated, by considering that the presence of those whom I hold dearer than all other earthly treasures, was with me in the vessel; I mean my husband and my children. The next morning, we found ourselves going at a rapid rate under the influence of a gale, far too brisk for personal comfort. Our vessel was rather small, but she was, what is termed by sailors “a good sea-boat;” and for that reason alone, on account of her pitching and rolling, was very unpleasant for passengers. The whole of the company in the cabin were distressingly affected with nausea, and so long as the gale lasted, we were quite in a passive and suffering condition. This distressing concomitant of a long voyage affects individuals variously, according to their ages, constitutions, and previous habits of life. My personal sufferings which were very severe, were augmented by the care of an infant of six months. I had a servant on board, but she required as much attention from the steward as myself: and I now discovered to my great inconvenience, what I had frequently heard others affirm,ーthat very few female servants, whatever be their representations, are capable of performing their duties during the first week of a voyage. The next day the gale increased to something like a storm, and for safety, I was recommended to retire to my birth. While lying there, helpless and almost in an inanimate state, a box which had escaped my notice containing a compass, fell from a small shelf just above my head, and struck me a violent blow with its sharp corner, upon my temples. From the weight of the box, it was supposed that, had my head reclined only one-fourth of an inch in another direction, the consequences must have been fatal: my infant also had a narrow escape, having been removed from my side only a few minutes before. I suffered much however, as it was; but I ought eternally to acknowledge, with lively feelings of gratitude, this merciful interposition of an over-ruling Providence in my favour. During the continuance of this storm or gale, all the passengers on board without a single exception were laid asideーthe assistance of a female could not be obtained either for love or for money. There we lay, helpless in our berths, and I think, I never partook of food for upwards of two days; nor was my case in this respect, by any means singular. I have performed long voyages both before and since, and have always been similarly affected. I would earnestly recommend families going abroad, who are anxious to secure the advantage of a surgeon, to require a personal interview with the individual who is to act in that capacity; particularly if they sail from a foreign port.＜/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 World of Scary Video Games A Study in Videoludic Horror【電子書籍】[ Professor Bernard Perron ]

＜p＞As for film and literature, the horror genre has been very popular in the video game. ＜em＞The World of Scary Video Games＜/em＞ provides a comprehensive overview of the videoludic horror, dealing with the games labelled as “survival horror” as well as the mainstream and independent works associated with the genre. It examines the ways in which video games have elicited horror, terror and fear since ＜em＞Haunted House＜/em＞ (1981). Bernard Perron combines an historical account with a theoretical approach in order to offer a broad history of the genre, outline its formal singularities and explore its principal issues. It studies the most important games and game series, from *Haunted House (*1981) to ＜em＞Alone in the Dark＜/em＞ (1992- ), ＜em＞Resident Evil＜/em＞ (1996-present), ＜em＞Silent Hill＜/em＞ (1999-present), ＜em＞Fatal Frame＜/em＞ (2001-present), ＜em＞Dead Space＜/em＞ (2008-2013), ＜em＞Amnesia: the Dark Descent＜/em＞ (2010), and ＜em＞The Evil Within＜/em＞ (2014). Accessibly written, ＜em＞The World of Scary Video Games＜/em＞ helps the reader to trace the history of an important genre of the video 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！】Neon Dragon A Knight and Devlin Thriller【電子書籍】[ John F. Dobbyn ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Amid the flash and din of Boston's Chinese New Year's celebration, a man is murdered＜/strong＞＜br /＞ In Boston's Chinatown, an elderly man is shot while watching the Chinese New Year's parade from his window. Anthony Bradley, the son of an African American judge, is standing across the street at the time, and is immediately arrested for the crime.＜br /＞ Michael Knight, a young lawyer who's going places, is surprised when Judge Bradley asks him to defend his son in such a high-profile and politically delicate case. Luckily, Knight finds powerful support from Lex Devlin, a senior partner at his firm. Once the foremost criminal defense attorney in Boston, Devlin has mysteriously withdrawn from defense work in recent years.＜br /＞ As Knight and Devlin investigate and prepare their client's defense, Knight is forced to confront the murky allegations that eclipsed his mentor's career and to enter into the shadow of gangland Chinatown.＜br /＞ From the halls of Harvard to the streets of Chinatown, Knight doggedly pursues an investigation that involves drugs, prostitution, human trafficking, and a corruption scandal that could bring down the most powerful people in Boston.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Perfect for fans of Dennis Lehane and Alafair Burke＜/strong＞＜br /＞ While all of the novels in the Knight and Devlin Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:＜br /＞ ＜em＞Neon Dragon＜br /＞ Frame-Up＜br /＞ Black Diamond＜br /＞ Deadly Diamonds＜br /＞ Fatal Odds＜br /＞ High Stakes＜/em＞＜/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！】Rohith Vemula Dossier My Birth is My Fatal Accident【電子書籍】[ Amitabh Kumar ]

＜p＞Rohith Vemula Dossier: My Birth is My Fatal Accident examines caste discrimination in India through Rohith Vemula's 2016 suicide at the University of Hyderabad. This meticulously researched work exposes casteism in academia, government, and society, crushing Dalits, Adivasis, and OBCs. Rohith's note, "My birth is my fatal accident," shared 50,000 times, sparked protests. Radhika Vemula's advocacy, including the 2019 PIL, and 'Velivada's 2025 commemoration (500 attendees) highlight resistance. The book documents 115 IIT suicides (2022-2024), 80% of Dalit students facing bias, and NCRB's 2024 data on frequent Dalit women's rapes (29.2% SC/ST Act conviction rate). Tracing caste from Vedic origins to modern exclusion, it critiques weak reforms, with only 5% SC/ST IIT faculty. Global parallels (e.g., Burakumin) and diaspora cases (e.g., Cisco lawsuit) frame caste as a human rights issue. Proposing robust laws, sensitisation, and cultural shifts, it amplifies ASA and NCDHR voices, urging a casteless society where potential defines 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。