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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！】Catholicism at a Crossroads The Present and Future of America’s Largest Church【電子書籍】[ Maureen K. Day ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Offers a big picture analysis of American Catholicism＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Catholic Church is at a crossroads. In the United States alone there are many challenges facing the church that are both internal and external to the institution. With the rise of the growing Gen Z population and the diminishing of the pre-Vatican II generation, gone are the days of a patriarchal, “father knows best” religious obedience. Indeed, as issues of gender, race, reproductive rights, and non-nuclear families have risen in prominence, the Catholic Church has had to adapt to keep pace with the times.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The latest in a series of important sociological overviews drawing on nation-wide surveys administered every six years, ＜em＞Catholicism at a Crossroads＜/em＞ charts this new era of Catholic worship, belonging, and identity in America today. Augmenting the survey data for the first time with over fifty interviews with lay and ordained US Catholic leaders, the book illustrates how the church has adapted to Pope Francis’s modern papacy, the rise of religious non-affiliation, and various demographic changes including an increasing Hispanic population. Addressing how the church is responding to recent cultural challenges presented by political polarization, racial unrest, and threats to democracy, ＜em＞Catholicism at a Crossroads＜/em＞ offers an up-to-date, nuanced, and definitive portrait of American Catholicism in the twenty-first century while also providing discussions of how the findings may be relevant for the study of American religion more broadly.＜/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！】Daughter of the Moon Goddess A Novel【電子書籍】[ Sue Lynn Tan ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The acclaimed national and international bestseller＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Epic, romantic, and enthralling from start to finish.”ーStephanie Garber, #1 ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of the Caraval series＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“An all-consuming work of literary fantasy that is breathtaking both for its beauty and its suspense."ー＜em＞BookPage＜/em＞, starred review＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞A captivating and romantic debut epic fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang’e, in which a young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin’s magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Alone, powerless, and afraid, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets. Disguising her identity, she seizes an opportunity to learn alongside the emperor’s son, mastering archery and magic, even as passion flames between her and the prince.＜/p＞ ＜p＞To save her mother, Xingyin embarks on a perilous quest, confronting legendary creatures and vicious enemies. But when treachery looms and forbidden magic threatens the kingdom, she must challenge the ruthless Celestial Emperor for her dreamーstriking a dangerous bargain in which she is torn between losing all she loves or plunging the realm into chaos.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Daughter of the Moon Goddess＜/em＞ begins an enchanting duology which weaves ancient Chinese mythology into a sweeping adventure of immortals and magic, of loss and sacrificeーwhere love vies with honor, dreams are fraught with betrayal, and hope emerges triumphant.＜/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！】Sweet Charity An emotional and romantic quick read from Britain's best-loved saga author【電子書籍】[ Rosie Goodwin ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A Quick Reads story from the bestselling author of ＜em＞The Rag Princess＜/em＞.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Charity has always lived a charmed life beneath the open skies. Growing up as part of the Gypsy community, she has reveled in the freedom of swimming in the rivers, caring for the horses and embracing the ever-changing road. But on the cusp of her sixteenth birthday, that freedom begins to slip away. Her parents expect her to marry, and not for love, but for duty.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then fate brings Luca back into her life - a boy from the travelling circus she has known since childhood. Only now, with eyes opened by the first stirrings of passion, Charity sees Luca as more than a friend. In Luca's laughter and quiet strength, she finds the promise of a love so fierce it feels destined. But their bond is forbidden. Two different communities. Two worlds that cannot unite.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Refusing to surrender their hearts, Charity and Luca dare to dream of escape and come up with a plan: Charity will run away first and he will follow. But with one mistake and one cruel twist of fate their dreams are shattered. Now torn between her love for Luca and an overcoming sense of betrayal, Charity must fight for the life she longs for. Will destiny reunite the star-crossed lovers, or has she lost him forever?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Quick Reads are short books and great stories by bestselling authors. They're specifically written to engage emergent, reluctant and lapsed readers to help spread the joy of reading and the many benefits it brings.＜/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！】Unfadeable【電子書籍】[ Maurice Broaddus ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club Pick!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Kelly Yang, readers will love this heartfelt and genuine story about building community, finding family, and the power of Black girl magic.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bella “Unfadeable” Fades is determined to stay out of trouble. A wiser-than-her-years graffiti artist known for tagging walls and bridges in her Indianapolis neighborhood, the Land, Bella plans to spend her summer break laying low and steering clear of anyone who might tip off to social services that she’s living on her own.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But keeping a low profile is all but impossible when Bella discovers people in high places are trying to defund the Land. She has to find a way to fight back.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Getting involved will mean putting herself out thereーmaking connections with unlikely friends ＜em＞and＜/em＞ attracting potential enemies. But if Bella doesn’t put her trust in her neighbors and learn how to bring her community together, her homeーand her futureーwill never be the same.＜/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！】Case Closed #4: Danger on the Dig【電子書籍】[ Lauren Magaziner ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Pick-your-own path and puzzle-packed mystery collide in the fourth book in Lauren Magaziner’s hilarious and interactive middle grade series as Las Pistas Detective Agency gets its first international case at an archaeological dig in Greece.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞In this wildly entertaining and interactive adventure, YOU pick which suspects to interview, which questions to ask, and which clues to follow. You pick the pathーyou crack the case!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Carlos and Eliza may be going on separate paths, but their end goal is the sameーkeep the booby traps from taking their detective agency out! But with tricky puzzles and dozens of impossible choices, they need your help! Can you help Carlos and his friend find the lost treasure . . . and can you protect it from the culprit trying to steal it?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Can you help Carlos and his friends unravel the mystery before it’s too late? Or will it be case closed?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Middle grade readers will enjoy all four books in this favorite series: ＜em＞Mystery in the Mansion＜/em＞ (#1), ＜em＞Stolen from the Studio＜/em＞ (#2), ＜em＞Haunting at the Hotel＜/em＞ (#3), and ＜em＞Danger on the Dig＜/em＞ (#4)!＜/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！】Growing Up Pure White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture【電子書籍】[ Lauren D. Sawyer ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Takes seriously youths’ ownership of their sexual choices within purity culture＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Gaining mass popularity in the mid-1990s with the True Love Waits rally on the Washington Mall, purity culture began as an urge from evangelical conservatives for Christian adolescents to publicly commit to practicing abstinence until marriage. Throughout this decade and the next, millions of evangelical teenagers performed their commitment to sexual purity by signing pledges and wearing purity rings.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book examines the shaping of purity culture in the United States, looking specifically at the experiences of white youth. It shows that white girls and white queer youth were vulnerable to the purity movement, but that they were also complicit in its white supremacist oppressive structure. It makes the case that purity culture follows in the footsteps of other purity movements in the United States, and is very much tied to centuries of anti-Black racism and xenophobia in US social history, seeing white youth as in need of protection, usually from a racialized, sexualized other.＜/p＞ ＜p＞While other works have focused on the ways in which purity culture has victimized young people, Sawyer argues that their perceived status as victims lets them too easily off the hook. White youth have been afforded the privilege of participating in purity culture’s harmful behaviors without being called to account. Closely reading adolescents’ stories of growing up in purity culture, she uncovers youth as agents, participants, and beneficiaries of its white supremacist framing, even as they were still vulnerable to its harmful teachings.＜/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！】Jewish Sunday Schools Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America【電子書籍】[ Laura Yares ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞73rd National Jewish Book Awards Finalist＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Charts how changes to Jewish education in the nineteenth century served as a site for the wholescale reimagining of Judaism itself＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing from one school in Philadelphia established by Rebecca Gratz in 1838 to an entire system that educated vast numbers of Jewish youth across the country. These schools were modeled on Christian approaches to religious education and aimed to protect Jewish children from Protestant missionaries. But debates soon swirled around the so-called sorry state of “feminized” American Jewish supplemental learning, and the schools were taken over by men within one generation of their creation. It is commonly assumed that the critiques were accurate and that the early Jewish Sunday school was too feminized, saccharine, and dependent on Christian paradigms. Tracing the development of these schools from their inception through the first decade of the twentieth century, this book shows this was not the reality.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Jewish Sunday Schools＜/em＞ argues that the work of the women who shepherded Jewish education in the early Jewish Sunday school had ramifications far outside the classroom. Indeed, we cannot understand the nineteenth-century American Jewish experience, and how American Judaism sought to sustain itself in an overwhelmingly Protestant context, without looking closely at the development of these precursors to Hebrew School.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Jewish Sunday Schools＜/em＞ provides an in-depth portrait of a massively understudied movement that acted as a vital means by which American Jews explored and reconciled their religious and national identities.＜/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！】Goodbye Religion The Causes and Consequences of Secularization【電子書籍】[ Ryan T. Cragun ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Examines why so many are leaving religion, and what that means for American society＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞One of the largest changes in American culture over the last fifty years has been the increase in people exiting religion. ＜em＞Goodbye Religion＜/em＞ explores why there has been such an upswing among those who identify as nonreligious, and what the societal implications are of this move towards less religiosity.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Utilizing nationally representative data and more than a hundred in-depth interviews with people who leave their religion behind, Ryan T. Cragun and Jesse M. Smith examine the variety of social, psychological, and environmental conditions behind the exiting process, as well as what people do with the time they used to devote to religious observance. They show that for most people who leave, abandoning religion is not a crisis, and does not generally disrupt their health, charitable giving, or volunteering. Drawing on the data, Cragun and Smith argue that the fears among some that massive religious exit will result in a decline in family values or less civic engagement are unfounded, and that those who become nonreligious remain engaged in society and continue to strive to make the world a better place. At a time where more and more individuals are questioning the implications of our increasingly secular society, ＜em＞Goodbye Religion＜/em＞ offers an engaging and fascinating analysis into what religious exitingーand secularization broadlyーmeans for American society.＜/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！】Losing Sleep Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety【電子書籍】[ Laura Harrison ]

＜p＞＜strong＞New insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safety＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞New parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of “co-sleeping,” or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In ＜em＞Losing Sleep＜/em＞, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties of modern parenthood.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Exploring widespread rhetoric from doctors, public health experts, and the media, Harrison explains why our panic has reached an all-time high. She traces the way safe sleep standards in the United States have changed, and shows how parents, rather than broader systems of inequality that impact issues of housing and precarity, are increasingly being held responsible for infant health outcomes. Harrison shows that infant mortality rates differ widely by race and are linked to socioeconomic status. Yet, while racial disparities in infant mortality point to systemic and structural causes, the discourse around infant sleep safety often suggests that individual parents can protect their children from these tragic outcomes, if only they would make the right choices about safe sleep.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Harrison argues that our understanding of sleep-related infant death, and the crisis of infant mortality in general, has burdened parents, especially parents of color, in increasingly punitive ways. As the government takes a more visible role in criminalizing parents, including those whose children die in their sleep, this book provides much-needed insight into a new era of parenthood.＜/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 Italian Squad The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia【電子書籍】[ Paul Moses ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The unknown inside story of the NYPD’s Italian-born detectives who fought both powerful gangsters and the deeply ingrained prejudice against their own beloved immigrant community＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The story begins in Sicily, on Friday, March 12, 1909, at 8:45 p.m. Three gunshots thundered in the night, and then a fourth. Two men fled, and investigators soon discovered who they had killed: Giuseppe Petrosino, the legendary American detective whose exploits in New York were celebrated even in Italy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Italian Squad＜/em＞, by veteran New York City journalist and historian Paul Moses, explores the lives of the nationally celebrated detectives who followed in the slain Petrosino’s footsteps as leaders of the New York City investigative squad: Anthony Vachris, Charles Corrao, and Michael Fiaschetti. Drawing on new primary sources such as private diaries and city, state, and federal documents, this dramatic narrative history follows the Italian Squad across the first two decades of the twentieth century as its detectives battled increasingly powerful gangsters, political obstacles and deeply ingrained prejudice against their own beloved Italian immigrant community.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Vachris, Corrao, and Fiaschetti became, like Petrosino, famous for meting out tough justice to criminals who comprised the “Black Hand.” Beyond trying to prevent horrific crimesーnighttime bombings in crowded tenements, kidnappings that targeted children at play, gangland shootings that killed innocent bystandersーthe Italian Squad commanders hoped to persuade society of what they knew for themselves: that their fellow immigrant Italians, so often maligned, would make good American citizens.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this explosive story, Moses carefully strips away the mythology that has always enveloped the Italian Squad and offers instead a nuanced portrait of brave but flawed men who fought the good fight for their people and their city.＜/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！】Falling in Love with Nature The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism【電子書籍】[ Amanda J. Baugh ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Winner, 2025 Catholic Media Association Book Awards: Inclusion in the Church＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Explores the contours of Latinx Catholic environmentalism＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Home-based conservationist measures such as cultivating backyard gardens, avoiding consumerism, and limiting waste are widespread among Spanish-speaking Catholics across the United States. Yet these home-based conservationist practices are seldom recognized as “environmental” because they are enacted by working-class immigrant communities and do not conform to the expectations of mainstream environmentalism.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Falling in Love with Nature＜/em＞, Amanda J. Baugh tells the story of American environmentalism through a focus on Spanish-speaking Catholics, shedding light on environmental actors who have been hidden in plain sight. While dominant narratives about environmental activism include minorities, primarily in the realm of environmental racism and injustice, Baugh demonstrates that minority communities are not merely victims of environmental problems. They can be active agents who express love for nature based on inherited family traditions and close relationships with the land. Baugh shows that Spanish-speaking Catholics have values that have been overlooked in global discourses, grassroots movements, and the highest echelons of the US Catholic Church. By drawing attention to the environmental knowledge that is already abundant within Spanish-speaking Catholic communities, ＜em＞Falling in Love with Nature＜/em＞ challenges readers to rethink their assumptions about who can be an environmental leader and what counts as environmentalism.＜/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！】Vanishing Act【電子書籍】[ Laura Martin ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Fans of the Percy Jackson series and John David Anderson will love this sequel to the acclaimed novel ＜em＞Float＜/em＞, in which inconveniently invisible Hank must find a way to save Camp Outlier from a saboteurーand win the camp-wide challenge.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hank, Emerson, and their friends have returned to Camp Outlier for another summer of fun and shenanigans. Hank won’t let his RISK (Recurring Incident of the Strange Kind) factor of inconvenient invisibility stop him from having the best summer ever, even when it starts mysteriously turning people and objects around him invisible too. But between his invisibility and an internet celebrity joining their cabin, camp clown Hank is struggling to maintain his spotlight.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hank knows that if he can win the camp-wide challenge for his team, all eyes will be back on him (or, at least, on where everyone thinks the invisible kid is standing). But as the finish line approaches, it becomes clear that someone is trying to sabotage Camp Outlierーand Hank’s pursuit of camp-wide glory puts him in serious danger.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Laura Martin’s books are the perfect blend of humor and heart, starring deeply relatable characters and highlighting classic middle grade themes in engaging, creative ways.＜/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 Caretakers A Novel【電子書籍】[ Amanda Bestor-Siegal ]

＜p＞＜strong＞“Bestor-Siegal switches perspective among a group of characters with tenderness and intimacy. . . . The writing is smooth as honey. . . It's utterly absorbing.” ー ＜em＞NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Thrilling and deeply moving, gorgeously written and intricately plotted . . . bold and brilliant."＜/strong＞ ?＜strong＞ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Recommended by ＜em＞New York Times Book Review＜/em＞＜/strong＞ ?＜em＞＜strong＞USA Today＜/strong＞＜/em＞? ＜em＞＜strong＞Glamour＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ? ＜strong＞Business Insider＜/strong＞ ? ＜strong＞Popsugar ? CrimeReads ? The Millions＜/strong＞ ? ＜strong＞BookRiot ? and more!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Set in a wealthy Parisian suburb, an emotionally riveting debut told from the point of view of six women, and centered around a group of au pairs, one of whom is arrested after a sudden and suspicious tragedy strikes her host familyーa dramatic exploration of identity, class, and caregiving from a profoundly talented new writer.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family’s American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at faultーthe enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself, who has never seemed an active participant in the lives of her children.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The truth lies with six women: G?raldine, a heartbroken French teacher struggling to support her vulnerable young students; Lou, an incompetent au pair who was recently fired by the family next door; Charlotte, a chilly socialite and reluctant mother; Nathalie, an isolated French teenager desperate for her mother’s attention; Holly, a socially anxious au pair yearning to belong in her adopted country; and finally, Alena, the one accused of the crime, who has gone to great lengths to avoid emotional connection, and now finds herself caught in the turbulent power dynamics of her host family’s household.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Set during the weeks leading up to the event, ＜em＞The Caretakers＜/em＞ is a poignant and suspenseful drama featuring complicated women. It’s a sensitive exploration of the weight of secrets, the pressures of country, community, and familyーand miscommunications and misunderstandings that can have fatal consequences.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“A deep, enthralling pleasure, as wise as it is lovely. I read it voraciously, desperate to discover the fates of its unforgettable characters . . . Magnificent.”＜/strong＞ ? ＜strong＞ROBIN WASSERMAN＜/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！】Daughter in Exile A Novel【電子書籍】[ Bisi Adjapon ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The acclaimed author of ＜em＞The Teller of Secrets＜/em＞ returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana, disapproves of her choice, but nothing will stop Lola from boarding a plane for Armand and America.＜/p＞ ＜p＞That fateful flight is only the beginning of an extraordinary journey; she has traded her carefree existence in Senegal for the perilous position of an undocumented immigrant in 1990s America.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lola encounters adversity that would crush a less-determined woman. Her fate hangs on whether or not she’ll grow in courage to forge a different life from one she’d imagined, whether she’ll succeed in putting herself and family together again. ＜em＞Daughter in Exile＜/em＞ is a hope-filled story about mother love, resilience, and unyielding strength.＜/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！】Rebel My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom【電子書籍】[ Rahaf Mohammed ]

＜p＞‘Through her courageous resistance, she has, for a moment, drawn global attention to the ongoing struggle of Saudi women. The striking image of a young woman, wielding nothing but a cellphone, facing down the force of an oppressive government is an apt metaphor for this fraught moment in Saudi Arabia’s history.’＜br /＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞THE WASHINGTON POST＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞A gripping true story of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from Saudi Arabia captivated the world.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In early 2019, after more than a year of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed boarded a plane and finally escaped from Saudi Arabia. If caught, she was sure she would be killed, like other rebel women who had tried to flee her country’s oppressive regime.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But the eighteen-year-old only made it as far as Bangkok before her passport was taken away. It was a trick, and soon she found herself trapped, barricaded in a hotel room. As men pounded on her door, the teenager decided to reach out to the world on Twitter ? and the world answered. Her account gained forty-five thousand followers overnight and offered her a vital lifeline. This was Rahaf’s chance at a new life, the one she had dreamed of.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now Rahaf tells her remarkable story for the first time and reveals the dystopian reality of what life is like for women within Saudi Arabia. From the guardianship system, which places unmarried women under the full control of their male relatives, to the secretive online underground network of Saudi runaways plotting their escape, Rebel is a gripping memoir of resistance and bravery by a woman determined to tell the truth about life in the closed kingdom.＜/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！】Smile【電子書籍】[ Lauren Child ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Clarice Bean is back with all her trademark humour in this heartwarming story by former Children’s Laureate Lauren Child＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞At the moment I am daydreaming about inventing something exceptionordinarily good that could change the world for the better, because of all the things, it’s the better that’s needed.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞And if you are thinking I'm too small to make a difference then remember the plankton ? they are one of the tiniest creatures on the planet but without them where would we be? Probably living on Mars.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The utterly wonderful Clarice Bean is thinking about the endangered things: the big creatures, the little creatures, the plants and the trees. But it’s not just the planet that needs help ? there’s her whole family too . . .＜/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！】Voyage secret dans une jungle joyeuse - Les aventures de Tommy et de son vaisseau spatial magique【電子書籍】[ Thejendra Sreenivas ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Fais la connaissance du petit Tommy.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tommy poss?de un vaisseau spatial magique capable de l'emmener n'importe o? dans l'univers. C'?tait un cadeau d'anniversaire tr?s sp?cial offert par un gentil extraterrestre qui vit sur Mars.＜/p＞ ＜p＞? chaque p?riode de vacances, Tommy et ses amis partent en voyages secrets vers des endroits passionnants et myst?rieux. Ils parcourent de grandes distances, d?couvrent de nouveaux mondes, rencontrent des cr?atures ?tonnantes et vivent des aventures pleines de joie.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Chaque voyage est rempli d'imagination, de rires et de douces le?ons sur l'amiti?, la curiosit? et le courage. Les histoires sont ?crites dans un langage simple, id?al pour les jeunes lecteurs et agr?able ? lire ? voix haute pour les parents.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Que ce soit ? l'heure du coucher, pendant le moment du conte ou lors d'un temps de lecture calme, les aventures de Tommy invitent les enfants ? r?ver, explorer et aimer la lecture.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Es-tu pr?t ? accompagner Tommy dans son prochain voyage secret ?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Il suffit de tourner les pages et de laisser l'aventure commencer.＜/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！】Aurora A Novel【電子書籍】[ David Koepp ]

＜p＞＜strong＞“Fantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down." ? Stephen King＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞From the author of ＜em＞Cold Storage＜/em＞ comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of ＜em＞Under the Dome＜/em＞ or ＜em＞Project Hail Mary＜/em＞, in which a worldwide cataclysm plays out in the lives of one complicated Midwestern family.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then the lights go outーnot just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Across the country lives Aubrey’s estranged brother, Thom. A fantastically wealthy, neurotically over-prepared Silicon Valley CEO, he plans to ride out the crisis in a gilded desert bunker he built for maximum comfort and security.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But the complicated history between the siblings is far from over, and what feels like the end of the world is just the beginning of several long-overdue reckoningsーwhich not everyone will survive . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Aurora＜/em＞ is suspenseful storytellingーboth large scale and smallーat its finest.＜/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 Cold War Exodus How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews【電子書籍】[ Shaul Kelner ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Winner of＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞The 74th National Jewish Book Award:＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞American Jewish Studies＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞Celebrate 350 Award＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan?Bush years＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞What do these things have in common? Ingrid Bergman, Passover matzoh, Banana Republic?, the fitness craze, the Philadelphia Flyers, B-grade spy movies, and ten thousand Bar and Bat Mitzvah sermons? Nothing, except that social movement activists enlisted them all into the most effective human rights campaign of the Cold War.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The plight of Jews in the USSR was marked by systemic antisemitism, a problem largely ignored by Western policymakers trying to improve relations with the Soviets. In the face of governmental apathy, activists in the United States hatched a bold plan: unite Jewish Americans to demand that Washington exert pressure on Moscow for change.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞A Cold War Exodus＜/em＞ delves into the gripping narrative of how these men and women, through ingenuity and determination, devised mass mobilization tactics during a three-decade-long campaign to liberate Soviet Jewsーan endeavor that would ultimately lead to one of the most significant mass emigrations in Jewish history.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drawing from a wealth of archival sources including the travelogues of thousands of American tourists who smuggled aid to Russian Jews, Shaul Kelner offers a compelling tale of activism and its profound impact, revealing how a seemingly disparate array of elements could be woven together to forge a movement and achieve the seemingly impossible. It is a testament to the power of unity, creativity, and the unwavering dedication of those who believe in the cause of human rights.＜/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！】Fourbi【電子書籍】[ Christian Laborde ]

＜p＞Que trouve-t-on dans le Fourbi de Laborde ? un r?cit po?tique, des nouvelles, des po?mes, des notes, des sagaies, des vagabondages et des fantaisies syllabiques. Ce Fourbi est d'un po?te qui savoure l'ombre d'une route d?partementale, serre la pluie contre son c?ur, s'insurge contre le sort r?serv? aux b?tes et se souvient de Jacqueline Bisset au volant de son cabriolet Porsche 356 C dans Bullitt. ? l'heure o? prolif?re, ? la fa?on des algues vertes, la prose sans vert?bres ni saveur, Christian Laborde nous invite au pays des mots qui dansent et qui chantent.＜/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！】Love Me as I Am【電子書籍】[ Garcelle Beauvais ]

＜p＞＜strong＞“Dishy, warm, and entertaining.”ー＜em＞Kirkus Reviews＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞**＜em＞?＜em＞The beloved Black pop culture icon, entrepreneur, Hollywood actress and ＜em＞Real Housewives of Beverly Hills＜/em＞ star bares her life in this frank, funny, and fearless memoir about life, love and the pursuit of true happiness.＜/em＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Love Me As I Am＜/em＞ is Garcelle Beauvais’s smart, inspiring, and raw memoirーan entertaining and unforgettable emotional rollercoaster ride that moves from her early childhood years in Haiti to her adolescence in Boston; from her heady days as a young model in New Yorkーher first taste of real freedomーto Los Angeles and the many ups, downs, and then more ups, both personal and professional, she experienced in her three-decade acting career, including her massive fame as a star of ＜em＞The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Throughout her life, Beauvais has suffered from an emotional battle between her wild, rebellious nature and her desire to be a “good girl.” No matter how many cover stories she earned, “Most Beautiful” lists, or coveted roles in iconic series such as ＜em＞The Jamie Foxx Show＜/em＞ and ＜em＞NYPD Blue,＜/em＞ Beauvais could not cure herself of her “disease to please” or learn to put herself first. She also had to learn how to unapologetically put herself first. In ＜em＞Love Me As I Am,＜/em＞ she brings together the voices of both the good girl and the rebel to deliver an unflinching examination of her successes and ongoing challenges as a mother, wife, daughter, sibling, and friend.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Beauvais fearlessly talks about how she boldly embraced her sexuality in her 40s, and her determination to break free of the stereotypes that define and limit African American women in popular culture. Most importantly, she reveals how finally putting herself first led to better relationships with her three sons and even her ex-husband. Beauvais dishes tooーoffering juicy behind-the-scenes stories from movie sets, red carpet events, and ＜em＞The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Love Me As I Am＜/em＞ is an unflinching look at one woman’s extraordinary journey to create a new and more exciting lifeーand to become the woman she was meant to be.＜/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！】Natural Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair【電子書籍】[ Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Finalist, 2025 PROSE Awards: Media and Cultural Studies＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞How Black women celebrate their natural hair and uproot racialized beauty standards＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hair is not simply a biological feature; it’s a canvas for expression. Hair can be cut, colored, dyed, covered, gelled, waxed, plucked, lasered, dreadlocked, braided, and relaxed. Yet, its significance extends beyond mere aesthetics. Hair can carry profound moral, spiritual, and cultural connotations, serving as a reflection of one’s beliefs, heritage, and even political stance. In ＜em＞Natural＜/em＞, Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson delves into the complex world surrounding Black women’s hair, and offers a firsthand look into the kitchens, beauty shops, conventions, and blogs that make up the twenty-first century natural hair movement, the latest evolution in Black beauty politics.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Johnson shares her own hair story and amplifies the voices of women across the globe who, after years of chemically relaxing their hair, return to a “natural” style. Johnson describes how many women initially transition to natural hair out of curiosity or as a wellness practice but come to view their choice as political upon confronting personal insecurities and social stigma, both within and outside of the Black community. She also investigates “natural hair entrepreneurs,” who use their knowledge to create lucrative and socially transformative haircare ventures.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Distinct from a politics of respectability or Afrocentricity, Johnson’s argument is that today’s natural hair movement advances a politics of authenticity. She offers “going natural” as a practice of self-love and acceptance; a critique of exclusionary economic arrangements and an exploitative beauty industry; and an act of anti-racist political resistance.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Natural＜/em＞ powerfully illustrates how the natural hair movement is part of a larger social change among Black women to assert their own purchasing power, standards of beauty, and bodily autonomy.＜/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！】Regulating the Body Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law【電子書籍】

＜p＞＜strong＞How legal regulation of the body is practiced and justified＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Regulating the Body＜/em＞ examines the practice of legal regulation of the body and how it has been justified. The essays in this anthology trace the ideological, moral, and religious arguments for increasing the reach of regulation and authorizing punishment for infractions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bringing together leading scholars in the law and humanities, this volume examines the practices and discourses used to regulate the body, concentrating on scenarios where ethical and legal inconsistencies abound. The regulations examined herein range from the sale of gametes, parental rights over children’s genetic information, debates about masking, discourse regarding vaccines and abortion, anti-transgender legislation, and the control of inmates’ bodies on death row. These are situated within a cultural and political environment that values regulation and punishment over our long-standing constitutional protections. At a time where rhetoric around regulation of the body is becoming increasingly incendiary, ＜em＞Regulating the Body＜/em＞ reveals worsening legal hypocrisies and unmasks the threats to both personal autonomy and the claims of law itself.＜/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！】Barry Loser and the Curse of Terry Claus【電子書籍】[ Jim Smith ]

＜p＞Barry Loser and the Curse of Terry Claus is a hilarious Christmas ebook from the Roald Dahl Funny Prize award-winning Barry Loser series. Perfect for young fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Mr Gum and Tom Gates!＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Barry discovers that his mum and dad have failed to get him a superhero Future Ratboy costume (the keelest superhero in the WORLD) he is com-per-lee-ter-ly unimpressed to say the least. In fact, Barry has had enough of Christmas ? and he's not the only one. Terry Claus, Father Christmas's smelly and disgusting younger brother is out to ruin Christmas for everyone ? and he's taking Barry with him!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Don't miss the other books in the series: ＜strong＞I am not a Loser＜/strong＞, ＜strong＞I am still not a Loser＜/strong＞, ＜strong＞I am so over being a Loser＜/strong＞, ＜strong＞I am sort of a Loser＜/strong＞, ＜strong＞Barry Loser and the Holiday of Doom＜/strong＞ and ＜strong＞Barry Loser and the case of the crumpled carton＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jim Smith is the keelest kids’ book spellchecker in the whole wide world amen. He is also the bestselling and Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning author of the Barry Loser series and Future Ratboy which published in 2015. He graduated from art school with first class honours (the best you can get) and went on to create the branding for a sweet little chain of coffee shops. He also designs cards and gifts under the name Waldo Pancake. He lives in London.＜/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！】Racial Exhaustion How to Move Through Racism in the Wake of DEI【電子書籍】[ Ralina L. Joseph ]

＜p＞＜strong＞How to build stamina to confront racial exhaustion and communicate differently about race＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the wake of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, many Americansーregardless of raceーfind themselves exhausted by conversations about race and racism. People of color continue to bear the weight of systemic racism while also shouldering the burden of explaining and confronting daily microaggressions. White people, whether allies or skeptics, often feel defensive, fatigued, or uncertain about how to engage in discussions about race. Across the spectrum, the result is the same: exhaustion.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drawing from her experience running "Interrupting Privilege," a racial dialogue program, Ralina Joseph blends personal narrative, real-world dialogue, and critical race scholarship to explore how we communicate race todayーand how we can do better. Through practices of deep listening, embracing discomfort, and interrupting microaggressions, this book guides readers in transforming everyday interactions into opportunities for anti-racist change. ＜em＞Racial Exhaustion＜/em＞ challenges us to recognize and address the fatigue that racial discourse brings while offering practical strategies to foster more equitable and productive conversations.＜/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！】Je suis le ch?timent【電子書籍】[ Giancarlo de Cataldo ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Premier volume d’une trilogie brillante men?e par un procureur raffin? et amateur d’op?ra, entour? d’une ?quipe f?minine haute en couleur.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Le procureur Manrico est s?r qu’il n’est pas d’exp?rience humaine, crime compris, qui n’ait pas d?j? ?t? racont?e dans un op?ra lyrique. Il suffit de trouver lequel et de remettre le m?lodrame de la r?alit? au centre de la sc?ne.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cette premi?re enqu?te porte sur la mort d’un vieux chanteur populaire, jur? de la Star Academy romaine. On y rencontre une famille affreuse et rapace, un chauffeur silencieux et des jeunes filles na?ves. On se prom?ne ? travers Rome et le r?pertoire de l’op?ra d?tenteur de toutes les solutions aux passions humaines.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Un d?lice de virtuosit? et d’ironie. ＜strong＞De Cataldo＜/strong＞ s’amuse avec nous pour notre plus grand plaisir.＜/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！】Empire's Nursery Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century【電子書籍】[ Brian Rouleau ]

＜p＞＜strong＞How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empire＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞America’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children’s literature, authors instilled the idea of America’s power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in America’s indispensability to the international order.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Empires more generally require stories to justify their existence. Children’s literature seeded among young people a conviction that their country’s command of a continent (and later the world) was essential to global stability. This genre allowed ardent imperialists to obscure their aggressive agendas with a veneer of harmlessness or fun. The supposedly nonthreatening nature of the child and children’s literature thereby helped to disguise dominion’s unsavory nature.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The modern era has been called both the “American Century” and the “Century of the Child.” Brian Rouleau illustrates how those conceptualizations came together by depicting children in their influential role as the junior partners of US imperial enterprise.＜/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！】Family Legal Vulnerability How Immigration Policy Shapes the Lives of Latino College Students【電子書籍】[ Laura E. Enriquez ]

＜p＞＜strong＞How college students in mixed-status families are affected by immigration policies＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Focusing on Latinx students attending the University of California, ＜em＞Family Legal Vulnerability＜/em＞ exposes how their educational experiences and social mobility are shaped not only by their own immigration status, but also by their family members’ undocumented immigration status. The authors introduce the concept of "family legal vulnerability" as a novel framework that captures how undocumented and mixed-status immigrant families collectively experience deportability, economic insecurity, discrimination, social exclusion, and legal uncertainty.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The authors show how the adverse effects of family legal vulnerability are similar for both college students who are undocumented and U.S. citizens with undocumented parents. Cascading consequences emerge among immigration-impacted students as family legal vulnerability compromises their mental and emotional health, academic success, and political engagement.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The book also illustrates how students demonstrate agency as they negotiate family legal vulnerability, seeking out ways to bolster their individual and collective flourishing. Ultimately, this book calls on scholars, policy makers, and university administrators to account for family legal vulnerability when considering how immigration policies undermine students’ college experiences and to identify actionable practices to advance greater equity and inclusion.＜/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！】Fear Itself The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America【電子書籍】[ Christopher D. Bader ]

＜p＞＜strong＞An antidote to the culture of fear that dominates modern life＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞From moral panics about immigration and gun control to anxiety about terrorism and natural disasters, Americans live in a culture of fear. While fear is typically discussed in emotional or poetic termsーas the opposite of courage, or as an obstacle to be overcomeーit nevertheless has very real consequences in everyday life. Persistent fear negatively effects individuals’ decision-making abilities and causes anxiety, depression, and poor physical health. Further, fear harms communities and society by corroding social trust and civic engagement. Yet politicians often effectively leverage fears to garner votes and companies routinely market unnecessary products that promise protection from imagined or exaggerated harms.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drawing on five years of data from the Chapman Survey of American Fearsーwhich canvasses a random, national sample of adults about a broad range of fearsーFear Itself offers new insights into what people are afraid of and how fear affects their lives. The authors also draw on participant observation with Doomsday preppers and conspiracy theorists to provide fascinating narratives about subcultures of fear.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fear Itself is a novel, wide-ranging study of the social consequences of fear, ultimately suggesting that there is good reason to be afraid of fear itself.＜/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！】Fandom for Us, by Us The Pleasures and Practices of Black Audiences【電子書籍】[ Alfred L. Martin, Jr. ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The convergence of the politics of representation and Black fan cultures＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Boldly going where few fandom scholars have gone before, ＜em＞Fandom for Us, by Us＜/em＞ breaks from our focus on white fandom to center Black fandoms. Alfred L. Martin, Jr., engages these fandoms through what he calls the “four C’s”: class, clout, canon, and comfort.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Class is a key component of how Black fandom is contingent on distinctions between white, nationally recognized cultural productions and multicultural and/or regional cultural productions, as demonstrated by Misty Copeland’s ascension in American Ballet Theatre. Clout refers to Black fans’ realization of their own consumer spending power as an agent for industrial change, reducing the precarity of Blackness within historically white cultural apparatuses and facilitating the production of Black blockbusters like 2018’s ＜em＞Black Panther＜/em＞. Canon entails a communal fannish practice of sharing media objects, like the 1978 film ＜em＞The Wiz＜/em＞, which lead them to take on meanings outside of their original context. Comfort describes the nostalgic and sentimental affects associated with beloved fan objects such as the television show, ＜em＞Golden Girls＜/em＞, connected to notions of Black joy and signaling moments wherein Black people can just be themselves.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through 75 in-depth interviews with Black fans, ＜em＞Fandom for Us, by Us＜/em＞ argues not only for the importance of studying Black fandoms, but also demonstrates their complexities by both coupling and decoupling Black reception practices from the politics of representation. Martin highlights the nuanced ways Black fans interact with media representations, suggesting class, clout, canon, and comfort are universal to the study of all fandoms. Yet, for all the ways these fandoms are similar and reciprocal, Black fandoms are also their own set of practices, demanding their own study.＜/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。