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古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason - Russell Shorto (Doubleday) 【紙書籍】 9780385517539

タイトル: Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason著者: Russell Shorto出版社: Doubleday出版日: 2008年10月14日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In 1666, sixteen years after his death, the bones of Rene Descartes were dug up in the middle of the night and transported from Sweden to France under the watchful eye of the French Ambassador. This was only the beginning of the journey for Descartes' bones, which, over the next 350 years, were fought over, stolen, sold, revered as relics, studied by scientists, used in seances, and passed surreptitiously from hand to hand. But why would anyone care so much about the remains of one long-dead philosopher? The answer lies in Descartes' famous phrase cogito, ergo sum: I think, therefore I am. At the root of this statement are skepticism and the world-shattering notion that one could look to facts that could be proved for truth rather than relying on the Church's teachings and tradition. In the years that followed, this powerful idea and Descartes' physical remains became intertwined with many of the major forces that define the modern era, influencing everything from the religious wars of the seventeenth century and the rise of democracy to today's greatest conflicts, such as the struggle between Islamic fascism and the Western world.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape - Jaclyn Friedman (Seal Press) 【紙書籍】 9781580052573

タイトル: Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape著者: Jaclyn Friedman出版社: Seal Press出版日: 2008年12月02日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Freidman and Full Frontal Feminism and He's A Stud, She's A Slut author Jessica Valenti, the way we view rape in our culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. Feminist, political, and activist writers alike will present their ideas for a paradigm shift from the "No Means No" model--an approach that while necessary for where we were in 1974, needs an overhaul today. Yes Means Yes will bring to the table a dazzling variety of perspectives and experiences focused on the theory that educating all people to value female sexuality and pleasure leads to viewing women differently, and ending rape. Yes Means Yes aims to have radical and far-reaching effects: from teaching men to treat women as collaborators and not conquests, encouraging men and women that women can enjoy sex instead of being shamed for it, and ultimately, that our children can inherit a world where rape is rare and swiftly punished. With commentary on public sex education, pornography, mass media, Yes Means Yes is a powerful and revolutionary anthology.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience - David Williams, Juan; Halberstam (Sterling) 【紙書籍】 9781402714153

タイトル: My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience著者: David Williams, Juan; Halberstam出版社: Sterling出版日: 2004年05月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。"More than 30 people tell personal stories about the nonviolent struggle for civil rights, then and now, not only the leaders but also ordinary citizens who bear witness to "transforming moments" when they suddenly found the courage to try to change things. David Dinkins, New York City's first black mayor, served with the U.S. Marines in World War II; at home, he had to use the back of the bus. A white woman remembers herself as a child after the Birmingham murders ("My worst fear was that my father might be a member of the Klan"). David Halberstam provides an excellent overview; Williams' brief, clear notes introduce each eyewitness account; and the combination of analysis and intimacy with powerful documentary photos makes for gripping narrative. Best of all are the connections with contemporary struggles for equality, including those of immigrants, the poor, and the disabled. Marion Wright Edelman's final impassioned essay speaks for the millions of all races who continue to be "left behind in our land of plenty."--"Booklist"

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Good Black: A True Story of Race in America - Paul M Barrett (Plume) 【紙書籍】 9780452278592

タイトル: Good Black: A True Story of Race in America著者: Paul M Barrett出版社: Plume出版日: 2000年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Larry Mungin spent his life preparing to succeed in the white world. He looked away from racial inequality and hostility, believing he'd make it if he worked hard and played by the rules. He rose from a Queens housing project to Harvard Law School, and went on to practice law at major corporate firms. But just at the point when he thought he'd make it, when he should have been considered for partnership, he sued his employer for racial discrimination. The firm claimed it went out of its way to help Larry because of his race, while Larry thought he'd been treated unfairly. Was Larry a victim of racial discrimination, or just another victim of the typical dog-eat-dog corporate law culture? A thought-provoking courtroom drama with the fast pace of a commercial novel, The Good Black asks readers to rethink their ideas about race and is a fascinating look at the inner workings of the legal profession.

【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！】Christianity at a Crossroads A Look at Modern American Christianity Through the Eyes of the Seven Churches of Revelation【電子書籍】[ Mike Beckett ]

＜p＞Christianity at a Crossroads: A Look at Modern American Christianity Through the Eyes of the Seven Churches of Revelation. This book will take an in-depth look at the history, culture, and society of the ancient Asia Minor churches in Revelation and compare their cultural challenges to the challenges we currently face in the American church today. This book will challenge you to reflect on your walk with Christ, while encouraging you to grow deeper in your journey as a disciple of Christ. This is a great study for anyone wanting to go deeper in their faith. Whether a Sunday school, small group, or regular Bible study group, Christianity at a Crossroads: A Look at Modern American Christianity Through the Eyes of the Seven Churches of Revelation will encourage you to live out your faith in a post-Christian, polyGod, antiGod, secular culture, like the first-century church, while clearly defining those who remain faithful to the ancient faith.＜/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！】Cross of Caravaca【電子書籍】[ anonymous ]

＜p＞"La Cruz de Caravaca" is a fascinating tale that dives into the mysterious world of religion, history and mythology. This anonymously written work transports readers to the enigmatic city of Caravaca de la Cruz, famous for its sacred relic: the Cross of Caravaca. The book explores the origins and history of this cross, considered by many to be a powerful symbol of protection and miracles. Through a captivating narrative, the author unravels the historical events and legends surrounding this unique cross, revealing its impact on faith and culture. The plot also delves into the lives of those who have sought the cross over the centuries, exploring the stories of devotees, adventurers and scholars who have been drawn to its mysterious power. "The Cross of Caravaca" is a fascinating exploration that combines historical scholarship with spiritual intrigue, offering readers an in-depth look at an object that has captured the imagination of generations and remains an object of veneration today. Dive into this work to discover the secrets behind the Caravaca Cross and its lasting impact on culture and spirituality.＜/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！】Looking Back in Crime What Happened on This Date in Criminal Justice History?【電子書籍】[ James O. Windell ]

＜p＞Just as people are captivated by murder mysteries, detective stories, and legal shows, they are also compulsively interested in the history of criminal justice. ＜strong＞Looking Back in Crime: What Happened on This Day in Criminal Justice History?＜/strong＞ features a treasure trove of important dates and significant events in criminal justice history.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Offering hundreds of facts with particular relevance to criminal justice, this unique textbook is written in a manner that is accessible to students and anyone else interested in the history of criminal justice. It presents at least one significant event for every day of the year; in some instances, there are several facts presented for the same date.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Among the comprehensive listing of events there are famous and not-so-famous crimes; the development of law enforcement; criminal trials; passages of criminal laws; Supreme Court decisions; important dates related to prisons, punishment, and corrections; forensic milestones and cultural events that intersect with crime and criminal justice.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Offering a unique breadth of coverage, the book adopts an interesting and engaging style to inspire enthusiasm in the classroom. It is suitable for use as a supplemental text in criminal justice history courses or as a main text in special issues courses.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With this book, students will learn about hundreds of events that usually cannot be covered in depth in any typical criminal justice class. The book provides students with a better sense of history in terms of crime, law enforcement, and the justice system as well as an understanding of specific events and circumstances in the history and development of today’s criminal justice system.＜/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！】Listening to the Philosophers Notes on Notes【電子書籍】[ Raffaella Cribiore ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Listening to the Philosophers＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞offers the first comprehensive look into how philosophy was taught in antiquity through a stimulating study of lectures by ancient philosophers that were recorded by their students.＜/strong＞ Raffaella Cribiore shows how the study of notesーwhether Philodemus of Gadara's notes of Zeno's lectures in the first century BCE, or Arrian recording the Discourses of Epictetus in the second century CE, or the students of Didymus the Blind in the fourth century and Olympiodorus in the sixth centuryーcan enable us to understand the methods and practices of what was an orally conducted education. By considering the pedagogical and mnemonic role of notetaking in ancient education, Listening to the Philosophers demonstrates how in antiquity the written and the spoken worlds were intimately intertwined.＜/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！】Burying Mussolini Ordinary Life in the Shadows of Fascism【電子書籍】[ Paolo Heywood ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Burying Mussolini＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞addresses the global resurgence in authoritarian and nationalist populism and its connection with valorizations of ordinary life.＜/strong＞ Predappio is the birthplace and burial site of Benito Mussolini and Italy's premier neo-fascist tourist site with hundreds of thousands of fascist sympathizers descending on the town annually. But, Paolo Heywood asks, what of the people who actually live there? What does 'ordinary life' look like in the shadow of Mussolini's grave?＜/p＞ ＜p＞As politicians, commentators, and social scientists seek to understand what lies behind new forms of political authoritarianism, and whether and how they resemble movements once thought consigned to the past, ＜em＞Burying Mussolini＜/em＞ narrates how people in Predappio cope with the dark heritage of their home by carefully crafting a sense of 'ordinariness' that is itself inflected by ghosts of their fascist past.＜/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 High Priestess and 77 Tarot Combinations Tarot Card Combinations, #2【電子書籍】[ Zondra dos Anjos ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Welcome to＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞The High Priestess and Her 77 Combinations＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this book, I share the many ways this powerful card can guide your life ー in ＜strong＞love, health, career, spirituality, finances, and general insights＜/strong＞. My goal is to help you unlock the wisdom of the High Priestess and understand her messages with clarity and depth.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The High Priestess represents ＜strong＞mystery and intuition＜/strong＞. When she appears, she asks you to look beyond appearances and trust your inner voice. Each of her 77 combinations reveals something unique ー from deep spiritual connections with ＜em＞The Lovers＜/em＞ to moments of inner reflection with ＜em＞The Tower＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Here, I explore how these energies show up in real life. Whether you're seeking guidance in relationships or clarity about money, the High Priestess offers light and understanding.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book is for everyone drawn to the sacred mystery of the Tarot. May the High Priestess guide you toward wisdom, peace, and self-discovery.＜/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！】Quirky Letters: Faith, Healing, and Honest Words for the Journey【電子書籍】[ Faith Raine ]

＜p＞＜em＞What if healing didn't have to look perfect?＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Quirky Letters: Faith, Healing, and Honest Words for the Journey＜/em＞, author ＜strong＞Faith Raine＜/strong＞ invites readers into a tender collection of letters and reflections written straight from the heart. Across 132 pages, she explores what it means to find faith again after loss, to laugh in the middle of uncertainty, and to see beauty in the becoming.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Blending faith, humor, and honesty, ＜em＞Quirky Letters＜/em＞ offers a safe space for readers who are tired of pretending that everything is fine. These letters are filled with encouragement, grace, and gentle reminders that God is still present in every chapter of your story, even the messy ones.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Each piece feels like sitting down with a trusted friend who reminds you that growth, even when quiet, is still progress. Whether you are navigating heartbreak, rediscovering your purpose, or learning to believe again, these pages will meet you where you are and help you breathe a little easier.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For readers who enjoy the uplifting voices of ＜strong＞Sarah Jakes Roberts＜/strong＞, ＜strong＞Morgan Harper Nichols＜/strong＞, or ＜strong＞Lysa TerKeurst＜/strong＞, ＜em＞Quirky Letters＜/em＞ delivers a similar mix of soulful reflection and practical faith. It's not about perfection, it's about finding peace in the process and hope in the small steps forward.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Quirky Letters: Faith, Healing, and Honest Words for the Journey＜/em＞ is more than a book, it's a companion for anyone walking through change, seeking renewal, or longing to reconnect with the quiet strength of their own faith.＜/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！】Unlearning Womanhood: Reflections on How We Were Taught to Be Women.【電子書籍】[ Benita Ofori ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Unlearning Womanhood: Reflections on How We Were Taught to Be Women＜/strong＞ is both a personal journey and a social mirror ー a look into how generations of women were shaped to serve, please, and endure before they were ever taught to simply ＜em＞be＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Growing up in a culture where a girl's worth was measured by her ability to cook, clean, and accommodate, Benita Ofori learned early that womanhood came with rules ー unspoken but binding. Through honest recollections and cultural observations, she revisits those moments: the kitchen lessons that felt like identity lessons, the films that glorified servitude, and the advice from elders that equated obedience with virtue. Each reflection uncovers how society taught girls to be good before it taught them to be whole.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But ＜em＞Unlearning Womanhood＜/em＞ is not written in anger ー it is written in awakening. With grace and clarity, Benita explores what it means to challenge inherited beliefs, to question love defined by labor, and to reclaim selfhood beyond domestic expectations. The book moves between memory and insight, offering a deeply relatable perspective on how women are molded ー and how they can gently reshape themselves in freedom.＜/p＞ ＜p＞More than a critique, it is a call: for men and women alike to unlearn the patterns that limit us. It's about teaching our daughters and sons that partnership is not servitude, and that dignity does not live in sacrifice alone.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Thought-provoking and heartfelt, ＜em＞Unlearning Womanhood＜/em＞ speaks to anyone raised to shrink themselves for acceptance. It reminds us that true womanhood ー and true humanity ー begins where fear and performance end.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Peace Adzo Medie, and Bell Hooks＜/strong＞, this book offers a powerful reflection on gender, culture, and the courage to unlearn.＜/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！】Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs Outsiders inside Armenian Los Angeles【電子書籍】[ Daniel Fittante ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞presents the story of the Armenians of Glendale, California.＜/strong＞ Coming from Argentina, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, and many other countries, this group is internally fragmented and often has limited experience with the American political system. Nonetheless, Glendale's Armenians have rapidly mobilized and remade an American suburban space in their own likeness.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In telling their story, Daniel Fittante expands our understanding of US political history. From the late nineteenth-century onward, Irish, Italian, Jewish, and several other immigrant populations in large American cities began changing the country's political reality. The author shows how Glendale's Armeniansーas well as many other immigrantsーare now changing the country's political reality within its dynamic, multiethnic suburbs. The processes look different in various suburban contexts, but the underlying narrative holds: immigrant populations converge on suburban areas and ambitious political actors develop careers by driving coethnics' political incorporation.＜/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！】Stacked Decks Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality【電子書籍】[ Robin Bartram ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A startling look at the power and perspectives of city building inspectors as they navigate unequal housing landscapes.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Though we rarely see them at work, building inspectors have the power to significantly shape our lives through their discretionary decisions. The building inspectors of Chicago are at the heart of sociologist Robin Bartram's analysis of how individuals impactーor attempt to impactーhousing inequality. In ＜em＞Stacked Decks＜/em＞, she reveals surprising patterns in the judgment calls inspectors make when deciding whom to cite for building code violations. These predominantly white, male inspectors largely recognize that they work within an unequal housing landscape that systematically disadvantages poor people and people of color through redlining, property taxes, and city spending that favor wealthy neighborhoods. ＜em＞Stacked Decks＜/em＞ illustrates the uphill battle inspectors face when trying to change a housing system that works against those with the fewest resources.＜/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！】Rethinking the End of Empire Nationalism, State Formation, and Great Power Politics【電子書籍】[ Lynn M. Tesser ]

＜p＞The return of great power politics at a time of surging nationalism invites a fresh look at why the world order centers on the nation-state. Why did a nation-state order emerge when nationalist activism was usually an elitist pursuit in the age of empire? Ordinary inhabitants and even most indigenous elites tended to possess religious, ethnic, or status-based identities rather than national identities. Why then did the desires of a typically small number result in wave after wave of new states? The answer has customarily centered on the actions of "nationalists" against weakening empires during a time of proliferating beliefs that "peoples" should control their own destiny. This book upends conventional wisdom by demonstrating that nationalism often existed more in the perceptions of external observers than of local activists and insurgents. Lynn M. Tesser adds nuance to scholarship that assumes most, if not all, pre-independence unrest was nationalist and separatist, and sheds light on why the various demands for change eventually coalesced around independence in some cases but not others.＜/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 Future Is Feminist Women and Social Change in Interwar Algeria【電子書籍】[ Sara Rahnama ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Winner of the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize of the French Colonial Historical Society＜br /＞ Cowinner of the Nikki Keddie Book Award of the Middle East Studies Association of North America＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞The Future Is Feminist＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞by Sara Rahnama offers a closer look at a pivotal moment in Algerian history when Algerians looked to feminism as a path out of the stifling realities of French colonial rule.＜/strong＞ Algerian people focused outward to developments in the Middle East, looking critically at their own society and with new eyes to Islamic tradition. In doing so, they reordered the world on their own termsーpushing back against French colonial claims about Islam's inherent misogyny.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rahnama describes how Algerians took inspiration from Middle Eastern developments in women's rights. Empowered by the Muslim reform movement sweeping the region, they read Islamic knowledge with new eyes, even calling Muhammad "the first Arab feminist." They compared the blossoming women's rights movements across the Middle East and this history of Islam's feminist potential to the stifled position of Algerian women, who suffered from limited access to education and respectable work. Local dynamics also shaped these discussions, including the recent entry of thousands of Algerian women into the workforce as domestic workers in European settler homes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞While Algerian people disagreed about whether Algeria's future should be colonial or independent, they agreed that women's advancement would offer a path forward for Muslim society toward a more prosperous future. Through its use of Arabic-language sources alongside French ones, The Future Is Feminist moves beyond Algeria's colonial relationship to France to illuminate its relationship to the Middle East.＜/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！】Stoneman Murders True Crime Serial Killers【電子書籍】[ Johann Bachmann ]

＜p＞In the late 1980s, Calcutta pulsed with life ー crowded streets, endless noise, and a darkness that crept through the cracks of a city divided by wealth and despair. Amid its chaos, a phantom killer emerged. Homeless men and women were found bludgeoned to death with heavy stones, their skulls crushed in the shadows of the Maidan. The press called him ＜em＞The Stoneman＜/em＞. The city called him a curse. The police never caught him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞The Stoneman Murders: True Crime Serial Killers＜/em＞, Johann Bachmann peels back the layers of one of India's most haunting unsolved cases. Through meticulous research and haunting storytelling, Bachmann explores not only the brutality of the murders but the soul of a city that turned away from its most vulnerable. From the relentless pursuit of Detective Prasun Mukherjee to the courage of survivors like Ramu and the silent trauma of witnesses like Anil Das, every page exposes the intersection of crime, poverty, and indifference.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is more than a true crime story ー it's a portrait of urban decay, human resilience, and a mystery that still echoes through Calcutta's streets. Blending investigative detail with literary intensity, ＜em＞The Stoneman Murders＜/em＞ challenges readers to confront the uncomfortable truth: that sometimes the most terrifying monsters are born not of evil alone, but of neglect.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For readers of ＜em＞In Cold Blood＜/em＞, ＜em＞Mindhunter＜/em＞, and ＜em＞The Delhi Crimes＜/em＞, this book offers a chilling look at the thin line between civilization and chaos ー and the shadows that linger long after the stones have fallen.＜/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 MORTAL SIN OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH【電子書籍】[ Robert Colacurcio ]

＜p＞This book is about the prison the Catholic Church disguises as pasture for its sheep. If a sheep is unaware of being “flocked up,” or being aware, chooses to stay with the herd, that’s understandable. What’s hard to understand is the how, why’s and wherefore’s of the Catholic Church confining the faithful like sheep in a pen of orthodoxy. Hard to understand and condone until one sees clearly that the faithful were made to think of themselves and addressed like sheep in sheep’s clothing when their souls true nature has the immediate splendor of royalty. The mortal sin of the Catholic Church amounts to an egregious cheat and a con. The Church convinced the faithful of the con that by nature they are convicts deserving their earthly imprisonment. The revelation that their soul is the potential to be one with All That Is could have freed them from the illusory prison of separation from their Divine Source. They were cheated out of that knowledge. It did not find favor with the Church authorities to teach it because that would have undermined their position of absolute power and control. My intent in writing this book is not just to call out the cheat and con perpetrated by the Catholic Church, but to show the faithful a clear look at their sheep pen. Knowing the pen for what it is, they have the option to escape.＜/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 Priest Is Not His Own【電子書籍】[ Fulton Sheen ]

＜p＞The beloved Archbishop Sheen, whose cause for canonization is open in Rome, presents a profound and deeply spiritual look at the meaning of the priesthood and relationship of the priest with Christ as an "alter Christus".＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sheen delves deeply into what he considers the main character of the priesthood, and one not often discussed, that of being, like Christ, a "holy victim". To be like Christ, Sheen emphasizes that the priest must imitate Christ in His example of sacrifice, offering himself as a victim to make His Incarnation continually present in the world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Unlike anyone else, Our Lord came on earth, not to live, but to die. Death for our redemption was the goal of His sojourn here, the gold that he was seeking. He was, therefore, not primarily a teacher, but a Savior. Was not Christ the Priest a Victim? He never offered anything except Himself. So we have a mutilated concept of our priesthood, if we envisage it apart from making ourselves victims in the prolongation of His Incarnation."＜br /＞ ＜strong＞ーBishop Fulton Sheen＜/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！】Bolshevik Sexual Forensics Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and Courtroom, 1917?1939【電子書籍】[ Dan Healey ]

＜p＞＜strong＞In an effort to modernize criminal and civil investigations, early Bolsheviks gave forensic doctorsーmost of whom had been trained under the tsarist regimeーnew authority over issues of sexuality.＜/strong＞ Revolutionaries believed that forensic medicine could provide scientific and objective solutions to sexual disorder in the new society. ＜em＞Bolshevik Sexual Forensics＜/em＞ explores the institutional history of Russian and Soviet forensic medicine and examines the effects of its authority when confronting sexual disorder. Healey compares sex crime investigations from Petrograd and Sverdlovsk in the 1920s to the numerous publications by forensic doctors and psychiatrists of the prerevolutionary and early Soviet periods to illustrate the role that these specialists played. In addition, Healey presents a fascinating look at how doctors diagnosed and treated hermaphroditism, showing how Soviet physicians revolutionized the standard scientific view in these cases by taking into account individual desire.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This study sheds light on unexplored radical and reactionary forces that shaped the Bolshevik "sexual revolution" as lawmakers defined new ways of seeing sexual crime and disorder. Forensic doctors struggled to interpret the replacement of the age of consent with a standard of "sexual maturity," a designation that made female sexuality a collective "resource," not part of an individual's personality. "Innocence," "experience," and virginity played a major role in the expertise doctors furnished in rape and abuse trials. Psychiatrists recoiled from the language of sexual psychology in their investigations of sex criminals. Yet in the clinic, Soviet physicians probed the desires of the two-sexed citizen, whose psychology served as the basis for a distinctly modern approach to the "erasure" of the hermaphrodite.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Healey concludes that the vision of men and women as equals after a "sexual revolution" was undermined from the outset of the Soviet experiment. Law and medicine failed to protect women and girls from violence, and Soviet medicine's physiological and biological model of sexual citizenship erased the vision of sexual self-expression, especially for women. This groundbreaking study will appeal to Soviet historians and those interested in gender studies, sexuality, medicine, and forensics.＜/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 Future We Need Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century【電子書籍】[ Erica Smiley ]

＜p＞＜strong＞In＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞The Future We Need＜/strong＞＜/em＞**, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern peopleーnot only changing their wages and working conditions, but being able to govern over more aspects of their lives.**＜/p＞ ＜p＞Weaving together stories of real working people, Smiley and Gupta position the struggle to build collective bargaining power as a central element in the effort to build a healthy democracy and explore both existing levers of power and new ones we must build for workers to have the ability to negotiate in today and tomorrow's contexts. ＜em＞The Future We Need＜/em＞ illustrates the necessity of centralizing the fight against white supremacy and gender discrimination, while offering paths forward to harness the power of collective bargaining in every area for a new era.＜/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！】Travel Tales: Russia & The USSR True Travel Tales【電子書籍】[ Michael Brein ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Travel Tales: Russia & The USSR＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Is a collection of travel stories of one of the travel world's most, shall we say, ＜em＞duplicitous＜/em＞ destinations ー a bit mysterious, somewhat alluring, yet still demanding a modicum of caution. Russia, formerly the Soviet Union, aka the USSR, is a place you can never quite get comfortable with. Oh, for sure, things improved much when the Soviet Union as such collapsed and morphed into what is now a more modern-day Russia, or more formerly "The Russian Federation." Russia, for sure, abounds with history and untold artistic treasures and has modernized considerably bringing itself into the more modern-day 21st century. Maybe not quite among the world's most eagerly sought out destinations on Earth to visit, like, say, the Mediterranean, the pyramids of Egypt, the shopping and culinary meccas of Western Europe, or the wilds of Africa, Russia remains, however, in the minds of armchair travelers and adventurers alike looking to travel one day to Russia, say, to St. Petersburg or Moscow, or perhaps, even take a river journey between these two cities, or take a train trip on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. Russia, though lacking in the relatively innocuous and more mellow travel like, say, to Europe, certainly now has suddenly become one of the more challenging countries to visit. Given the current world political arena, travel to Russia from the West for the foreseeable future will virtually cease to nil. Shall we say that this book on travel to Russia during the Cold War, through its return to the world stage, and now to its presence in the world as a pariah nation ー now in the negative news media on a daily basis ー is certainly not recommended as a destination for the unknown foreseeable future. This book, then, is more attuned to the armchair adventurer and those travelers who are now more curious than anything else and now more than ever before ー about what travel to Russia ＜em＞has been like＜/em＞ in the recent past, and now that Russia is largely off the plate for travel at least for the foreseeable future. Now is the time to sit back and contemplate more about what travel to Russia ＜em＞was＜/em＞ like in the recent past, now that it is not likely to return any time soon as a goal for future travel adventures. So, given our ＜em＞True Travel Tales＜/em＞ destinations sub-series, what was travel to the old USSR and Russia like, at least at the beginning of the more modern-day twenty-first century and slightly beyond? It is one of our purposes of the ＜em＞True Travel Tales＜/em＞ series to provide a cross-section of travel life in the world's most popular and alluring places, that along with the good comes sometimes a portion of the bad as well. In the ＜em＞True Travel Tales＜/em＞ series, we aim to pull no punches. You'll see some of the good and best sides of Russia as it reached the more modern era, and in so doing, you'll also sample some of the more discomforting or disquieting darker aspects as well that sadly were also part of the cycle of travel life in such a diverse and exotic region as the USSR and our token look of travel to Russia in its greater glory in the more modern day.＜/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！】Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850【電子書籍】[ Robert MacMicking ]

＜p＞In "Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines," Robert MacMicking offers a rich and evocative portrayal of his experiences in the Philippines during the late 19th century. This work transcends mere travelogue, delving into the cultural intricacies and societal norms of Manila. MacMicking's narrative is infused with vivid descriptions and personal anecdotes, capturing the complexities of colonial life and the vivid landscapes that characterized his surroundings. The literary style blends poetic prose with insightful commentary, reflective of the growing European interest in the East during the colonial era. Robert MacMicking, a ship's officer turned writer, draws from his extensive travels and encounters with diverse cultures. His keen observations are informed by both personal experiences and the historical context of his time, marked by the decline of Spanish domination in the region. This background undoubtedly influenced his nuanced perspective on colonialism and its impact on the local populace, making him a significant voice in travel literature. This book is highly recommended for readers interested in colonial history, travel narratives, and the cultural dynamics of the Philippines. MacMicking's insights not only offer an intimate look at a bygone era but also provoke reflection on the enduring legacies of colonialism in contemporary 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！】Anarchy and the Art of Listening The Politics and Pragmatics of Reception in Papua New Guinea【電子書籍】[ James Slotta ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Anarchy and the Art＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞of Listening is an ethnography of politics as it is practiced on the other side of the spoken word, in the act of listening.＜/strong＞ James Slotta explores how people in the Yopno Valley of Papua New Guinea cultivate their listening to exercise power, shape their futures, and sustain their communities in the face of ambitious leaders and powerful outside institutions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As in many parts of the global south, missionaries, NGO workers, educators, mining companies, politicians, development experts, and others have sought to transform life in and around the Yopno Valley. But as this book makes clear, people there have not been a passive and pliable audience for these efforts. They have brought their skills as "anarchic listeners" to these encounters, advancing political agendas of their own.＜/p＞ ＜p＞To understand political life in the Yopno Valley, we need to look not only at political speech but at the practices that lie on the other side of the word in the act of listening. This, Slotta suggests, is also true well beyond the bounds of the Yopno Valley.＜/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！】Engaging the Evil Empire Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War【電子書籍】[ Simon Miles ]

＜p＞＜strong＞In a narrative-redefining approach,＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞Engaging the Evil Empire＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War.＜/strong＞ Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, Simon Miles shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined that open diplomacy was the best means of furthering their own, primarily competitive, goals. Miles narrates the history of these dramatic years, as President Ronald Reagan consistently applied a disciplined carrot-and-stick approach, reaching out to Moscow while at the same time excoriating the Soviet system and building up US military capabilities.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The received wisdom in diplomatic circles is that the beginning of the end of the Cold War came from changing policy preferences and that President Reagan in particular opted for a more conciliatory and less bellicose diplomatic approach. In reality, Miles clearly demonstrates, Reagan and ranking officials in the National Security Council had determined that the United States enjoyed a strategic margin of error that permitted it to engage Moscow overtly.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As US grand strategy developed, so did that of the Soviet Union. ＜em＞Engaging the Evil Empire＜/em＞ covers five critical years of Cold War history when Soviet leaders tried to reduce tensions between the two nations in order to gain economic breathing room and, to ensure domestic political stability, prioritize expenditures on butter over those on guns. Miles's bold narrative shifts the focus of Cold War historians away from exclusive attention on Washington by focusing on the years of back-channel communiqu?s and internal strategy debates in Moscow as well as Prague and East Berlin.＜/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！】Making Moros Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines' Muslim South【電子書籍】[ Michael C. Hawkins ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Making Moros＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞offers a unique look at the colonization of Muslim subjects during the early years of American rule in the southern Philippines.＜/strong＞ Hawkins argues that the ethnological discovery, organization, and subsequent colonial engineering of Moros was highly contingent on developing notions of time, history, and evolution, which ultimately superseded simplistic notions about race. He also argues that this process was highly collaborative, with Moros participating, informing, guiding, and even investing in their configuration as modern subjects.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drawing on a wealth of archival sources from both the United States and the Philippines, Making Moros presents a series of compelling episodes and gripping evidence to demonstrate its thesis. Readers will find themselves with an uncommon understanding of the Philippines' Muslim South beyond its usual tangential place as a mere subset of American empire.＜/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 Racial Contract【電子書籍】[ Charles W. Mills ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞The Racial Contract＜/strong＞＜/em＞ puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. ＜em＞＜strong＞The Racial Contract＜/strong＞＜/em＞ argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞As this 25th anniversary editionーfeaturing a foreword by Tommy Shelbie and a new preface by the authorーmakes clear, the still-urgent ＜em＞The Racial Contract＜/em＞ continues to inspire, provoke, and influence thinking about the intersection of the racist underpinnings of political philosophy.＜/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！】Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars【電子書籍】

＜p＞＜strong＞In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Raising armies is more than counting people, putting them in uniform, and assigning them to formations. It demands efficient measures for recruitment, registration, and assignment. It requires processes for transforming common people into soldiers and then producing officers, staffs, and commanders to lead them. It necessitates balancing the needs of the armed services with industry and agriculture. And, often overlooked but illuminated incisively here, raising armies relies on medical services for mending wounded soldiers and programs and pensions to look after them when demobilized.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars＜/em＞ is a transnational look at how the empire did not always get these things right. But through trial, error, analysis, and introspection, it levied the large armies needed to prosecute both wars.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Contributors Paul R. Bartrop, Charles Booth, Jean Bou, Daniel Byers, Kent Fedorowich, Jonathan Fennell, Meghan Fitzpatrick, Richard S. Grayson, Ian McGibbon, Jessica Meyer, Emma Newlands, Kaushik Roy, Roger Sarty, Gary Sheffield, Ian van der Waag＜/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！】Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty【電子書籍】[ Abhijit Naskar ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"The biggest enemies of the state are those politicians who look to win a war, instead of organizing the peace, and the citizens who allow them do so."＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞When the world of peace politics was in desperate need of light, Mother Nature gave us Abhijit Naskar. Now that light of peace Naskar points us in the direction of global peace, health and harmony, beyond the petty and primitive disputes of sovereignty.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】In the Looking Glass Mirrors & Identity in Early America【電子書籍】[ Rebecca K. Shrum ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"[An] utterly fascinating reading of the multiple uses and meanings of mirrors among European Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans." ー ＜em＞Journal of Social History＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜br /＞ What did it mean, Rebecca K. Shrum asks, for peopleーlong-accustomed to associating reflective surfaces with ritual and magicーto became as familiar with how they looked as they were with the appearance of other people? Fragmentary histories tantalize us with how early Americansーpeople of Native, European, and African descentーinteracted with mirrors.＜br /＞ Shrum argues that mirrors became objects through which white men asserted their claims to modernity, emphasizing mirrors as fulcrums of truth that enabled them to know and master themselves and their world. In claiming that mirrors revealed and substantiated their own enlightenment and rationality, white men sought to differentiate how they used mirrors from not only white women but also from Native Americans and African Americans, who had long claimed ownership of and the right to determine the meaning of mirrors for themselves. Mirrors thus played an important role in the construction of early American racial and gender hierarchies.＜br /＞ Drawing from archival research, as well as archaeological studies, probate inventories, trade records, and visual sources, Shrum also assesses extant mirrors in museum collections through a material culture lens. Focusing on how mirrors were acquired in America and by whom, as well as the profound influence mirrors had, both individually and collectively, on the groups that embraced them, ＜em＞In the Looking Glass＜/em＞ is a piece of innovative textual and visual scholarship.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞"A superb reflection of the many meanings held by an object usually taken for granted. Highly recommended." ー ＜em＞Choice＜/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。