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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！】A Taoist Requiem (Full Score) Music Scores, #2【電子書籍】[ David Petersen ]

＜p＞'A Taoist Requiem' is a moving meditation on life, death, and spirituality from an Eastern perspective. Scored for a diverse ensemble including piano, harp, woodwinds, brass, strings, and wordless choir/soloists, the Requiem journeys through a challenging psychic landscape familiar to us all. Section I (Yin) chronicles the caustic descent into grief. Part 1, "Emptiness," establishes a wrenching desolation through sparse instrumentation and a searing melody for the flute. In Part 2, "Futile Words," the bereaved find their voice, but the phrases circle back on themselves without resolution, and with an undercurrent of anger. Part 3, "Death Withered and Dry," evokes a dark inner world with stark contrasts in dynamics and melodic lines. But darkness has its limits, and that is reached in Part 4, "And Strong Rains Do Not Last the Day," where the ensemble surges into a storm of dissonant chords and accents before retreating into silence. Section II begins the healing process. In Part 5, "A Tree as Large as Your Embrace Grows from a Tiny Seedling," the possibility of hope is suggested by the simple melody as it enlists more and more instruments, like tree rings. In Part 6, "Becoming Sick of Sickness Throws Off Sickness," each instrument in the initial cacophony is systematically entrained and then dissipated, like restless thoughts yielding to quiet attention. Part 7, "Sometimes Gain Through Loss," marks the return of previous motifs but in a brighter key and with an expansive, almost playful acceptance, setting the stage for resolution. This occurs in Part 8, "The Way," which closes the work with a fresh perspective on the score for Part 1. As ethereal harmonies signal journey's end, we realize that in the crucible of grief, the problem of emptiness somehow becomes its own solution. And yet… the final note held by the lone flute is identical to how the requiem starts, inviting the performers to enter into the cycle again, as so often happens in coping with loss. With its unusual scoring, 'A Taoist Requiem' offers both challenges and catharsis, as the music draws us into a contemplation of mortality.＜/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！】Extended Play Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein【電子書籍】[ John Corbett ]

＜p＞In ＜em＞Extended Play＜/em＞, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Sweden, Siberia, and Saturn. With a special emphasis on African American and European improvisers, the book explores the famous and the little known, from John Cage and George Clinton to Anthony Braxton and Sun Ra. Employing approaches as diverse as the music he celebrates, Corbett illuminates the sound and theory of funk and rap, blues and jazz, contemporary classical, free improvisation, rock, and reggae.＜br /＞ Using cultural critique and textual theory, Corbett addresses a broad spectrum of issues, such as the status of recorded music in postmodern culture, the politics of self-censorship, experimentation, and alternativism in the music industry, and the use of metaphors of space and madness in the work of African American musicians. He follows these more theoretically oriented essays with a series of extensive profiles and in-depth interviews that offer contrasting and complementary perspectives on some of the world’s most creative musicians and their work. Included here are more than twenty original photographs as well as a meticulously annotated discography. The result is one of the most thoughtful, and most entertaining, investigations of contemporary music available today.＜/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！】Fiery Love【電子書籍】[ Daniel Suman ]

＜p＞Victoria and Samantha meet at a crowded party, locking eyes from across the room. The attraction is instant and electric, drawing them together like magnets. They leave the party in a rush, unable to keep their hands off each other, and make love with an intensity neither has ever experienced. Their first night together is a thrilling exploration of passion and desire, setting the tone for a whirlwind romance. As they learn more about each other, they discover a shared taste for adventure in the bedroom, indulging in wild, uninhibited sex that pushes boundaries and ignites their connection even further. Their love is fiery and consuming, and they revel in the discovery of each other's deepest desires.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Their relationship intensifies as they dive into a world of kink and experimentation, each encounter more daring and exciting than the last. Their love grows stronger, fueled by their shared openness and trust. They are inseparable, spending every moment they can together, wrapped up in each other both physically and emotionally. Even as they juggle their careers and personal lives, the fire between them never dims, and they continue to push the limits of their passion.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Years pass, and Victoria and Samantha's bond deepens into a profound and enduring love. Their sexual chemistry remains explosive, but they also find joy in quieter moments, sharing laughter and tenderness. They cherish the life they have built together, filled with love, adventure, and acceptance. Even as the initial frenzy of their relationship settles into a comfortable rhythm, they keep their passion alive with spontaneous and creative encounters. Friends envy their connection, amazed at how they maintain such intense chemistry over the years. Victoria and Samantha prove that their love is more than just a spark; it is a blazing inferno that shows no signs of burning out. They remain devoted to each other, committed to living a life of love and passion that defies expectations and continues to thrill them both.＜/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 Effect【電子書籍】[ Ms Lucy Prebble ]

＜p＞＜em＞I can tell the difference between who I am and a side effect.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Effect＜/em＞ is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. This funny, moving and perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine, alongside ideas of fate, loyalty and the inevitability of physical attraction.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Following on from the critical and commercial success of ＜em＞Enron＜/em＞, ＜em＞The Effect＜/em＞ offers a vibrant theatrical exploration into the human brain via the heart. It received its world premiere at the National Theatre's Cottesloe Theatre in November 2012, starring Billie Piper and Jonjo O'Neill.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is published here in the Modern Classics series alongside an introduction by Miriam Gillinson.＜/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！】Television Histories Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age【電子書籍】

＜p＞From Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E's Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imaginedーor ignoredーby producers, directors, or writers?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many other questions. The contributors examine the full spectrum of historical genres, but also institutions such as the History Channel and production histories of such series as ＜em＞The Jack Benny Show＜/em＞, which ran for fifteen years. The authors explore the tensions between popular history and professional history, and the tendency of some academics to declare the past "off limits" to nonscholars. Several of them point to the tendency for television histories to embed current concerns and priorities within the past, as in such popular shows as ＜em＞Quantum Leap＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman＜/em＞. The result is an insightful portrayal of the power television possesses to influence our culture.＜/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！】Smuggling Elephants through Airport Security【電子書籍】[ Brad Johnson ]

＜p＞Nothing is off-limits in this ultimately American text. ＜em＞Smuggling Elephants＜/em＞ through Airport Security attempts to position large academic ideas in shared public spaces, often discovering the absurdity and humor in making such connections. The poems herein take the dizzying influences affecting the post-postmodern American and make poetry of it all, skipping whimsically from the Pixies to Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” from the Confederate flag to unisex public toilets, from eggplant emojis to Vladimir Putin stealing Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl ring. While the volume gives the reader a specific sense of voice and character, it also allows for identification with the author’s collected observations, all the while providing a succinct feel for the twenty-first-century American zeitgeist.＜/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！】Roanoke Island's Boating Heritage【電子書籍】[ R. Wayne Gray ]

＜p＞Those fortunate enough to live on Roanoke Island have always depended on boats. In exploration-era sketches, Native American Algonquins were depicted in their dugout canoes. English settlers took the native concept a step further, developing kunners and, later, periaugers. Sloops and schooners made it possible to trade with far-off lands. Shad boats allowed fishermen to catch enough fresh product to ship to northern markets. Shrimp boats, crab boats, and trawlers brought about a new level of financial independence. Charter boats went past the limits of sound waters to the deep sea, carrying sport fishermen who were ready to pay for the chance to land a Gulf Stream trophy. Today's luxury yachts would boggle the minds of 20th-century backyard boatbuilders. Whether the need for a boat was transportation, subsistence fishing, making a living, or recreation, boatbuilding became a skill many residents picked up out of necessity. This skill matured into a trait that many believe runs deep in the genetic makeup of the local population.＜/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！】Complex Presents: Sneaker of the Year The Best Since '85【電子書籍】[ Joe La Puma ]

＜p＞＜strong＞In 1985, Nike released Michael Jordan’s first sneaker, the Air Jordan 1, and sneaker culture was born. With vibrant photographs and illustrations throughout, as well as input from some of the sneaker world’s most important voices, ＜em＞Complex Presents: Sneaker of the Year＜/em＞ is a must-have for hypebeasts and sneakerheads everywhere.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Foreword by Marc Eck?＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Contribution by Joe La Puma＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Sneaker of the Year＜/em＞ explores the past 35 years of sneaker culture with the expertise, authority, and passion that only Complex can offer.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now, thousands of people wait in line at Supreme, and companies throw millions of dollars at LeBron James to keep him in their marketing plans. The trend that saw steady growth for decades with the emergence of sports, hip-hop, and sportswear advertising has exploded into a phenomenon. And no one has watched that phenomenon more closely than Complex. Highlights include:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Converse Weapon (1986)＜/strong＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Vans Half Cab (1992)＜/strong＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Reebok Instapump Fury (1994)＜/strong＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Nike Zoom LeBron 3 (2005)＜/strong＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Supra Skytop (2007)＜/strong＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Balenciaga Arena (2013)＜/strong＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Nike React Element 87 (2018)＜/strong＞＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞Fashion designer Marc Ecko says in his foreword, “The players who attached their names to iconic sneakers became icons themselves, figures whose personalities could shape multinational companies from the boardroom down. Jordanーand Charles Barkley, and Allen Iverson, and dozens moreーrose to the level that had once been off limits to athletes. . . . What began with Jordan wearing a pair of sneakers culminated in a moment of economic and social justice. It’s a power shift we have never seen again in any industryーand something we may not witness again”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Whether you owned them back in the day or collect them now, this is a full-color trip down memory lane for sneakerheads.＜/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！】Killing the Moonlight Modernism in Venice【電子書籍】[ Jennifer Scappettone ]

＜p＞As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clich?s, provoking conflicting responses: some modern artists and intellectuals embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice's labyrinthine premodern form and temporality, whereas others aspire to modernize by "killing the moonlight" of Venice, in the Futurists' notorious phrase.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Spanning the history of literature, art, and architectureーfrom John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Cooverー＜em＞Killing the Moonlight＜/em＞ tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash. In Venetian incarnations of modernism, the anachronistic urban fabric and vestigial sentiment that both the nation-state of Italy and the historical avant-garde would cast off become incompletely assimilated parts of the new. ＜em＞Killing the Moonlight＜/em＞ brings Venice into the geography of modernity as a living city rather than a metaphor for death, and presents the archipelago as a crucible for those seeking to define and transgress the conceptual limits of modernism. In strategic detours from the capitals of modernity, the book redrafts the confines of modernist culture in both geographical and historical terms.＜/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！】Cinematic Guerrillas Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China【電子書籍】[ Jie Li ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Winner, 2025 Katherine Singer Kov?cs Book Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Winner, 2024 Moving Image Book Award, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Honorable Mention, 2025 Joseph Levenson Prize (post-1900), Association for Asian Studies＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞How might cinema make revolution and mobilize the masses? In socialist China, the film exhibition network expanded from fewer than six hundred movie theaters to more than a hundred thousand mobile film projectionist teams. Holding screenings in improvised open-air spaces in rural areas lacking electricity, these roving projectionists brought not only films but also power generators, loudspeakers, slideshows, posters, live performances, and mass ritual participation, amplifying the era’s utopian dreams and violent upheavals.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Cinematic Guerrillas＜/em＞ is a media history of Chinese film exhibition and reception that offers fresh insights into the powers and limits of propaganda. Drawing on a wealth of archives, memoirs, interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork, Jie Li examines the media networks and environments, discourses and practices, experiences and memories of film projectionists and their grassroots audiences from the 1940s to the 1980s. She considers the ideology and practice of “cinematic guerrillas”ーat once denoting onscreen militants, off-the-grid movie teams, and unruly moviegoersーbridging Maoist iconography, the experiences of projectionists, and popular participation and resistance. Li reconceptualizes socialist media practices as “revolutionary spirit mediumship” that aimed to turn audiences into congregations, contribute to the Mao cult, convert skeptics of revolutionary miracles, and exorcize class enemies.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Cinematic Guerrillas＜/em＞ considers cinema’s meanings for revolution and nation building; successive generations of projectionists; workers, peasants, and soldiers; women and ethnic minorities; and national leaders, local cadres, and cultural censors. By reading diverse, vivid, and often surprising accounts of moviegoing, Li excavates Chinese media theories that provide a critical new perspective on world cinema.＜/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！】Ojo en Celo / Eye in Heat Poems【電子書籍】[ Margarita Pintado Burgos ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Winner of the 2023 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Aflame with desire, the eye conjures, dreams, invents itself, sees what it wants. The eye sees what it is able to see.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Ojo en celo / Eye in Heat＜/em＞ brings into sharp relief the limits of our gaze. It shows us what it is to escape the mirror and move beyond mirages. Margarita Pintado Burgos invites us to ponder the impasse while showing us ways to see better, to break the habit of lying, and to confront images along with language.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With devastating clarity, Pintado Burgos’s poems, presented in both Spanish and English, give voice to the world within and beyond sight: the plants, the trees, the birds, the ocean waves, the fruit forgotten in the kitchen, the house’s furniture. Light takes on new dimensions to expose, manipulate, destroy, and nourish. Alejandra Quintana Arocho’s sensitive English translation renders the stark force of these poems without smoothing over the language of the original.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This collection is for anyone who has felt the weight of beauty that remains hidden. It is for those who have left behind a mother, a father, a country. It is for those who know that there is no way out of the poem, for those who have had to live off a house of words and need that house to be as real as possible. Pintado Burgos writes as a woman, exile, daughter, sister, lover, and artist empowered by the restorative potential of the creative phenomenon.＜/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！】Modern Bodies Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey【電子書籍】[ Julia L. Foulkes ]

＜p＞In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of “dance as an art of and from America.” Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Their innovations, however, went beyond aesthetics. While modern dancers devised new ways of moving bodies in accordance with many modernist principles, their artistry was indelibly shaped by their place in society. Modern dance was distinct from other artistic genres in terms of the people it attracted: white women (many of whom were Jewish), gay men, and African American men and women. Women held leading roles in the development of modern dance on stage and off; gay men recast the effeminacy often associated with dance into a hardened, heroic, American athleticism; and African Americans contributed elements of social, African, and Caribbean dance, even as their undervalued role defined the limits of modern dancers' communal visions. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a view of American democracy that was confrontational and participatory, authorial and populist.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Modern Bodies＜/em＞ exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous.＜/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 Shape of the Universe【電子書籍】[ Pat Edwards ]

＜p＞ Poetry isn't cheap. The creation process is time-consuming, costly, and often painful like all art. Poets create because they love the process and the product. My life is the raw material and nothing is off limits to use. ＜br /＞ ＜em＞The Shape of the Universe＜/em＞ is one woman’s perspective on life, love, and the physical universe.＜/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！】24 Unofficial Rules of Songwriting Write Soul Touching Songs【電子書籍】[ Clifford Goldmach ]

＜p＞＜strong＞NB: There are Video Tutorials supporting this eBook. Links to video tutorials are there inside this eBook!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞While there are technically no limits when it comes to song writing, here are 20 "unofficial" rules that songwriters employ to make songs more engaging and memorable. And it is not just commercial songwriters. These rules are used in many of the popular and GRAMMY-winning songs you hear today. In this course, Clifford Goldmach reveals tips from the professional songwriter's rule-book, starting with 10 rules about lyrics: staying conversational, using concrete details, and keeping your rhyme schemes the same in similar sections. He then discusses five rules for melodies, including why you should keep melodies simple, unique, and accessible, and how to make them more memorable with repetition. The last five rules tackle familiar song structures and tips for shortening sections of songs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Topics include:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Writing lyrics that are conversational and natural＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Making every line count＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Putting your song's hook at the end of a chorus＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Creating simple and unique melodies＜/p＞ ＜p＞? Keeping song intros short and longer verses at the beginning of a song＜/p＞ ＜p＞Song writing is a great skill and in fact, it can also make you money. If you are a singer, learning how to write your own songs can also be impressive and can also put you into an advantage over other singers. Keep in mind that there are a lot of people out there who knows how to sing well but it helps a lot that you don't only just sing but write your own songs as well.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Uniqueness and originality are important in writing songs. If you blend in to what is already in the market, you may eventually be forgotten. Among the song writing tips that might help you make your own songs is to make it stand out, make it original and make it something that people want to listen to. Know your target audience as well. This will help you find an easier market and fan base for your songs. Of course, not all songs can please all people but see to it that it can please a larger crowd.＜/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！】Harlequin Dare September 2019 Box Set【電子書籍】[ Jackie Ashenden ]

＜p＞Harlequin DARE brings you a collection of four new sexy contemporary romances for fun and fearless women. Available now!＜/p＞ ＜p＞This box set includes:＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞THE DEBT＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Billionaire’s Club＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞by Jackie Ashenden＜/p＞ ＜p＞I’m not a billionaire because I’m nice. Yet my fresh-faced chauffeur asks me to forgive a debt. I offer Ellie Little a proposal: be my pretend girlfriend to secure a deal and I’ll give her what she wants. Then Ellie tempts me to forget every rule…＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞FAKING IT＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Close Quarters＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞by Stefanie London＜/p＞ ＜p＞Owen Fletcher is an irritating manーand my hottest fantasy. As we work undercover as husband and wife on a case he messes with my professional focus. The solution? One night to explore our red-hot chemistry...which could combust at any moment…＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞CROSS MY HART＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Notorious Harts＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞by Clare Connelly＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jagger is a hard-bodied distractionーeverything I need to forget my troubles. Except he’s one of the Hartsーthose notorious billionaire brothersーand my newest client! Now Jagger Hart holds both my career and my body. What if he steals my heart too?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞FORBIDDEN SINS＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Sin City Brotherhood＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞by J.Margot Critch＜/p＞ ＜p＞After a sex-filled night with a stranger Gabe Foster wakes up alone…with a wedding ring on his finger. Then he discovers his new “wife” is his boss’s daughterーEllie. She’s definitely off-limits now, but that only makes her harder to resist...＜/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！】Act Like You Know III Verdict / Variorums【電子書籍】[ Official 1SP ]

＜p＞＜strong＞No Safety Blanket for Nonsense!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The ＜em＞Act Like You Know＜/em＞ series is a dynamic collection of masterpieces - poems powered with strength, inspiration, and hope; powerful words that have delighted and inspired generations of readers. Each part, written from a professional, passionate, deep perspective, is set to help you discover meaning in the inexplicable parts of your life and give you the purpose to see innovative ways of thinking about the happenings around your existence.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Act Like You Know: Pretrial + Poems＜/em＞, focuses on the deep inspiration of poetry and restoration of the expectations of all women who have lost faith in the existence of good men. ＜em＞Act Like You Know II: Extradition x Epigraphs＜/em＞ portrays a defiant encapsulation of injustice, purpose, community, family, hope, love, and faith without any reservation or fear. But unlike the sensual and feminist, ＜em＞Act Like You Know: Pretrial + Poems＜/em＞ and the political and Afrocentric, ＜em＞Act Like You Know II: Extradition x Epigraphs, Act Like You Know III: Verdict / Variorums＜/em＞ is a collection of poetry with a combination of both and a more spiritual theme.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This volume expresses the true limits of our freedom, the boundaries of Divine Grace, and liberation by revelation and elevation. In these deeply soul-searching words, you’ll discover that your freedom should never be a cover-up for evil and God’s grace is no safety blanket... for nonsense!＜/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 Black Van【電子書籍】[ Kevan Collett ]

＜p＞The sun rises on a crisp cold desert morning on the central outback Australian mining city of Broken Hill. Lisa Freeman sits in a drug haze on the outskirts of the city, she pulls up the worn collar of her jacket against the cold watching detached, as the sun picks its way through the white gums and flicks the quartz rocks on and off as it climbs its way up the waste heaps on its way to another scorching day... she waits for a ride out of the city; a ride that will change her life forever. Lisa's newfound peace and calm is suddenly shattered when Simon Baxter the mysterious driver of the large black van that plucked her out of her misery suddenly disappears from the moving vehicle, after crossing the Darling River at Wilcannia blocking the major artery between east and west. It soon becomes clear the driver is still very much in control and seemingly behind a series of events that provoke international news. Lisa finds herself the centre of this media attention when it appears she has been miraculously cured of her addiction and is the only person that actually knows the stranger. She finds protection and love from a most unlikely source in Molly, a psychic and Aboriginal elder and Greg Hammond a senior police constable. Dubbed the "Truth Van" where miracle cures happen, politicians avoid the topic at all cost for fear of being forced to tell the truth. Despite all his efforts, the Australian Prime Minster becomes trapped in the Van and on his release, attempts to reveal secrets that will topple governments across the world. There are no limits to what men will do to stay in power.＜/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！】Staging Technology Medium, Machinery, and Modern Drama【電子書籍】[ Craig N. Owens ]

＜p＞Through an examination of a range of performance works ranging from Jean Cocteau's ballet ＜em＞The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party＜/em＞ (1921) to Julie Taymor's monumental production of ＜em＞Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark＜/em＞ (2010) and Mexican playwright Isaac Gomez's ＜em＞La Ruta＜/em＞(2018), ＜em＞Staging Technology＜/em＞ asks what becomes visible when we encounter plays, operas, and musicals that are themselves about fraught human/machine interfaces. What can theatrical production tell us about the way technology functions as an element of ideology and power in narrative drama? About the limits of the human?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Staging Technology＜/em＞ bridges the divide between the technical practices of theatre production and critical, theoretical approaches to interpreting drama to examine the way dramatic theatre's technologies are shaped by larger historical, ideological, and economic forces. At the same time, it examines how those technologies themselves have influenced 20th and 21st-century playwrights', composers', and librettists' choice of subject matter for staged representation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Examining performance works from the modernist and post-modern European and American canon of drama, opera, and performance art including works by Eug?ne Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Heiner M?ller, Sophie Treadwell, Harold Pinter, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, Arthur Miller, Robert Pinsky, John Adams and Alice Goodman, ＜em＞Staging Technology＜/em＞ transforms how we think about the interrelationship between theatre practice, performance, narrative drama, and text. In it Craig N. Owens synthesizes approaches to interpretation and practice from disparate realms, offering insights into over-arching ways of making meaning that are illustrated through focused and innovative readings of individual works for the dramatic stage. ＜em＞Staging Technology＜/em＞ provides a new and transformative paradigm for thinking about dramatic literature, the practices of representational theatre production, and the historical and social contexts they inhabit.＜/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！】Where Are We Tomorrow?【電子書籍】[ Tavi Taylor Black ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Winner of the 2022 Nancy Pearl Award for Literary Fiction＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Tavi Black brings the reader right onto the bus with an all-access pass to the strange life that is touring. This is a riveting read and beautiful depiction of the ups and downs on the road of life."＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞-Norah Jones, Grammy Award-winning Singer/Songwriter＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"An often intriguing and emotional look at lives on and off the road."＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞-Kirkus＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Four women working backstage on a rock tour each come to terms with being a woman in a male-dominated industry. When Alex Evans, a thirty-six-year-old touring electrician, is implicated in an accident involving the female pop star she works for, she and three other women on tour rent a house together in Tuscany. While the tour regroups, confessions are made, secrets are spilled: the guitar tech conceals a forbidden love, the production assistant's ambition knows no limits, and the personal assistant battles mental issues.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through arguments and accidents, combating drug use and religion, the women help each other look back on the choices they've made, eventually buoying each other, offering up strength to face tough decisions ahead.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Where Are We Tomorrow?＜/strong＞＜/em＞ was a finalist in the 2021 Indie Book Awards, the NIEA Awards, the NYC Big Book Award＜/p＞ ＜p＞"After many tours with Tavi as our tour-manager and experiencing firsthand her humor, her thoughtfulness, her grounded-ness and her observant nature I had no doubt that she would be able to take me into the world behind the scenes of a tour in a way not many people could. If you ever wondered (just like I used to) what really happens behind those dark windows of a tour bus, or during sound-check in an empty theatre or in green rooms-all those dark and confusing alleyways and elevators away from the stage, Tavi will take you there." ＜strong＞-Deva Premal, Singer and Grammy Award Nominee (Deva, Best New Age Album, 2018)＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Every so often, you find a book-against all odds-that changes the way you think. A book that you know you might not have found. Where Are We Tomorrow? is just such a book. Tavi Black has written a story about women who are ambitious, who are talented and who are free to their artistry. The main character works backstage in show business: in the dark behind the backdrop, using tools, wearing boots that protect the feet. When I was very young and still startled by the wonders of reading, I found a book that changed my understanding about how women daily contribute to saving society. Valerie Miner's novel about nurses in WWII, a novel that changed me, that I have never forgotten. Books can change your mind about life, about what work you might do, about what kinds of other 'you's might be out there, working in the world. Where Are We Tomorrow? will change some readers, especially girls and young women who need the critical reminder that not all women wear heels."＜strong＞-A.J. Verdelle, Author, ＜em＞The Good Negress＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Miss Chloe＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Where Are We Tomorrow is the kind of book you sink so deeply into it makes real life seem somehow inauthentic. A gripping, earnest and layered novel about the long and arduous search for a sense of identity-of home-it follows unconventional mid-thirties rock concert electrician Alex Evans as she struggles to overcome her past, family secrets, and the uncertainty of the future. The writing is as musical as the rock concert settings, gorgeous and sublime, but more impressive still is Tavi Black's extraordinary ability to page after page illuminate the truth at the heart of being human: that more often than not, good and bad, right and wrong, are blurred among shades of grey."＜strong＞-Philip Elliot, Editor, ＜em＞Into the Void＜/em＞ Magazine, Author, ＜em＞Nobody Move＜/em＞＜/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！】Mysterieau of San Francisco【電子書籍】[ Mike Bozart ]

＜p＞[from the inside virtual flap]＜/p＞ ＜p＞The 27-year-old author arrives in San Francisco, California in March of 1992, seeking fame and fortune as a wall (visual) artist. He settles in at a small Tenderloin studio apartment on lower Hyde Street and elects to go about car-less, transporting himself by foot, bicycle, bus, train and ferry.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After yet another unsuccessful day of shopping his portfolio, slides and several actual paintings to a downtown art gallery, he takes an intra-city journey by rail to the ever-foggy Outer Sunset district. At a nondescript hole-in-the-wall saloon, he stops in for an end-of-day drink.＜/p＞ ＜p＞To his surprise, there is actually some free entertainment in store. A Vietnamese American donning a purple skull mask, wearing an oversize lavender velvet suit, going under the moniker of Mysterieau of San Francisco, soon takes the small stage to perform in front of a minuscule audience.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mysterieau’s act is a mixture of bad magic, non-comedy, trivial pursuits, odd performance art, lame illusions, rambling commentary, motivational speaking, sexual innuendo, and disjunctive storytelling. His style is ?ber-rhetorical, yet highly conversational. The author can hardly believe some of the things he says and does, and is soon mesmerized by his curious word choices and impromptu on-stage antics.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Afterwards, the author befriends the vague-as-fog Suong, Mysterieau’s younger sister, who later gives him a shaft-shaking in a strange place. Then Mysterieau and the author trek across Golden Gate Park at night, playing a round of 100 questions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞On Fulton Street in the Outer Richmond, they meet Mysterieau’s Japanese girlfriend and confidant, the surreal maven Kasumi, at a soon-to-close restaurant. They shoot some racy, artsy videos.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A fabulous summer of art, love, and intriguing existence awaits in that fabled city of creative renown. But, when you enter off-limits places, unknown hazards may silently seep into your life’s equation.＜/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！】This changes things【電子書籍】[ Claire Askew ]

＜p＞This changes things is Claire Askew’s first full collection, coming after years of work in Scotland’s flourishing poetry and spoken word scene. Her poems focus on the lives and experiences of women - particularly the socially or economically marginalised - at pains both to empathise and to recognise the limits of this empathy. They embody a need to acknowledge and challenge the poet’s privileged position as documenter and outsider, a responsibility to the poem’s political message and to that message’s human subject. This changes things draws much of its strength from this exploration of inbetweenness. Claire Askew’s purposeful deployment of objects, lighting effects and liminal spaces implicates her reader in the poem’s argument, holds up a mirror and asks us to pay attention. The book’s romantic relationships, depictions of frustrated travel or social mobility, are bound up in its awareness of the systems of power that permit no true state of innocence. Even the final poem, ‘Hydra’ - with its celebration of the body and its senses - cannot ultimately allow us off the hook. This changes things unsettles the homely and recognisable. In its compromised, imperfect characters and narratives, it proposes a radical way of translating neoliberal Britain.＜/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！】Unseen Midcentury Desert Modern【電子書籍】[ Daniel Chavkin ]

＜p＞In 2008, Daniel Chavkin began photographing some of the more discreet and off-the-beaten-path midcentury modern homes and buildings in the Palm Springs area. These included secret gems created by such famous modernist architects as William Cody and John Porter Clark, as well as others by relatively lesser-known designers. The result is this rich photographic collection of largely unseen examples of desert modern architecture. Many of the buildings shown herein are not easily accessible by, or in some cases completely off-limits to, the general public, so the photographs in this book may be the only opportunity for midcentury aficionados to ever see some of these buildings.＜/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。