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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！】Upheaval Turning Points for Nations in Crisis【電子書籍】[ Jared Diamond ]

＜p＞**A fascinating new theory about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller ＜em＞Guns, Germs, and Steel＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Riveting and illuminating." ーYuval Noah Harari**＜/p＞ ＜p＞In his international bestsellers ＜em＞Guns, Germs and Steel＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Collapse＜/em＞, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changesーa coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavalsーranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. Because Diamond has lived and spoken the language in five of these six countries, he can present gut-wrenching histories experienced firsthand. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and learning from models of other nations. Looking to the future, Diamond examines whether the United States, Japan, and the whole world are successfully coping with the grave crises they currently face. Can we learn from lessons of the past?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Adding a psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology, and anthropology that mark all of Diamond's books, ＜em＞Upheaval＜/em＞ reveals factors influencing how both whole nations and individual people can respond to big challenges. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal yet.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞A Bill Gates Summer Reading pick＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

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

＜p＞Do you feel happier on a sunny day? Are you afraid of thunderstorms? Are you dreaming of a White Christmas?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Psychology of Weather＜/em＞ explores our relationship with the weather, and how it can affect our mood, behaviour, and lifestyle. The book sheds light on our preoccupation with this natural phenomenon, providing insights into how the weather on the day we were born can directly affect our intelligence and personality, and explore such surprising findings that suicide rates peak in the spring and summer.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When the weather affects everything from our buying behaviour, to the jobs we do, ＜em＞The Psychology of Weather＜/em＞ shows us that understanding and appreciating the weather can improve our well-being and contribute to human survival.＜/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 Walking Tour of Branford, Connecticut【電子書籍】[ Doug Gelbert ]

＜p＞There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. This walking tour of Branford, Connecticut is ready to explore when you are. Each walking tour describes historical, architectural landmarks, cultural sites and ecclesiastic touchstones and provides step-by-step directions. Every tour also includes a quick primer on identifying architectural styles seen on American streets.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When first settlers of the New Haven Colony purchased land from the Mattabesech Indians in 1638 it included the territory of Totoket, later called Branford, supposedly for Brentford in the English county of Middlesex. The colony thrived due to productive cropland and its location on the Branford River, which provided the only deep harbor between New Haven and New London. Ships trading lumber, livestock, brooms, and produce for molasses and rum from the West Indies.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Farming was the mainstay of Branford life for over 200 years. The railroad arrived in 1852, bringing small businesses like Branford Lockworks, Malleable Iron Fittings Company, and the Atlantic Wire Company, but the next real injection of financial vitality came from the vacation trade. Twenty summer hotels made Branford a popular resort area including the Indian Point House in Stony Creek, the Montowese House in Indian Neck, and the Sheldon House in Pine Orchard.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Our walking tour will concentrate on the Green, a triangular open space that is one of Connecticut's most attractive and the heart of the community since 1699. But we'll start a block away, in front of a marble building from 1896 that never fails to turn heads in Branford. Consider the lead by a reporter from the Boston Herald for his piece on Branford, "In a very plain village in Connecticut by the sea, nine miles east of New Haven; in a lonesome little town called Branford, which has a malleable iron factory, a lock shop, a quarry and miles of farm patches that produce annually 50,000 quarts of strawberries for the Boston market, there is a public library that cost nearly $600,000!"...＜/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 Walking Tour of Swampscott, Massachusetts【電子書籍】[ Doug Gelbert ]

＜p＞There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Each walking tour describes historical and architectural landmarks and provides pictures to help out when those pesky street addresses are missing. Every tour also includes a quick primer on identifying architectural styles seen on American streets.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For the first two centuries after settlement in the 1620s there wasn't much to distinguish one fishing village from the next as they spread out along the North Shore from Boston. By the 1800s individual identities began to emerge and in the community of Swampscott, then part of the town of Lynn, large hotels and resorts began to appear alongside the fishing and lobstering docks. In 1852 a group of 97 Swampscott petitioners asserted to the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that: "1. They are situated somewhat remote from the central portion of Lynn; and 2. That their business is different from that of the principal part of Lynn; and 3. That their convenience and interests would be promoted by a separate government, especially after the citizens of Lynn opted to switch from a town to a city form of government." The leaders of Lynn took $5,450 for the land it was losing and waved bye-bye.＜/p＞ ＜p＞By the late 1800s more and more of the summer visitors began to plan a permanent move to the Swampscott seashore and with the coming of the Eastern Railroad it became easier to commute to Boston and Salem where the new American professional class could find jobs. The migration did not go unnoticed by some of Swampscott's wealthier residents.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After financier Enoch Redington Mudge died in 1881 his heirs looked to develop his 130-acre seaside estate in the heart of Swampscott into residential homesites. Their vision went beyond clearing some trees and pounding stakes in the ground. Instead they went to Brookline and hired the "Father of Landscape Architecture," Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted's resume included New York City's Central Park, Boston's "Emerald Necklace" park system and dozens of other influential projects.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Olmsted brought his philosophy of gently curving lines in harmony with nature to planning the 191 house lots for the new planned community. It was not intended as an enclave solely for the rich but included lots of varying sizes to attract a wide range of homeowners. In 1888 the serpentine streets began to be laid out among the rocky hillsides and verdant valleys. By 1917 the subdivision was largely complete with a rich diversity of houses that spanned the end of the ornamental Victorian Age and carried into the cleaner, unadorned styles of the Craftsman and Arts and Craft builders.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For this residential walking tour we will encounter a neighborhood that 100 years later looks as if it might have existed in Frederick Law Olmsted's famous sketchbooks...＜/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。

新しい本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書Barbarian Days - William Finnegan (Penguin Books) 【紙書籍】 9780143109396

タイトル: Barbarian Days著者: William Finnegan出版社: Penguin Books出版日: 2016年04月26日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List "Without a doubt, the finest surf book I've ever read . . . " --The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses--off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly--he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui--is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan's travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.

【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！】International Legal Responsibility for the Sabra- Shatila Massacre【電子書籍】[ Franklin P. Lamb ]

＜p＞This book documents in great specificity, and to date unchallenged detail, the hour by hour unfolding events of the September 15-18, 1982 massacre at Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon. The author took a leave of absence from his work as Assistance Counsel to the US House Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC to investigate this massive crime against humanity.＜br /＞ Lamb, who would later give testimony before the Israeli Kahan Commission in Jerusalem which found officials including Israeli Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon indirectly culpable, and censored others who were involved in facilitating the massacre, spent months documenting exactly what happened in Shatila camp during the three days of slaughter. This volume stands as an indictment of those in Lebanon and Israel who planned and carried out the massacre of approximately 3000 civilians.＜br /＞ The author Memorializes American journalist Janet Lee Stevens, with whom he fell in love during that fateful summer of 1982 and his Letter to Janet reveals a love story between two Americans who sought justice for Palestine and for all who are deprived of their basic human rights. And the tragedy of what happened to Janet Lee Stevens and their son, Clyde Chester Lamb III on another fateful date, April 18, 1983 when the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon was car bombed.＜/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！】Truth and Love: Finding the Soul of the Sixties【電子書籍】[ Carol Blackman ]

＜p＞In 1967, tour buses drove through the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to see the Hippies. San Francisco of the late 1960s became legendary as the epicenter for lifestyle experimentationーincluding plenty of sex, a new selection of drugs, and some mighty fine rock ’n’ roll.＜br /＞ San Francisco native and journalist Carol Blackman was there, and in Truth and Love she tells the “betcha didn’t know” stories of this exciting era in San Francisco’s history, including memories from sixty first-person interviews.＜br /＞ While investigating the mysterious death of a pivotal figure in SF State’s student strikeーa man who changed her lifeーCarol peels back the layers of myth to reveal the real stories of Hippies, Black Panthers, and San Franciscans who blurred the lines between the traditional and avant-garde. These folks were responsible for many ideas that were considered radical then but are now accepted as mainstream.＜br /＞ The legend of the Summer of Love looms large, but it is the real people of the city that have had a lasting impact, with ideas that could only have been fostered by San Francisco in the late 1960s.＜/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 Federalist Papers【電子書籍】[ Alexander Hamilton ]

＜p＞＜strong＞#1 ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author Jon Meacham presents the brilliant and stirring essays in defense of the Constitutionーwritten by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madisonーthat made the American republic.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In September 1787, after a long summer of intense deliberation and compromise, the Federal Convention released a proposed Constitution of the United Statesーand immediately ignited a firestorm. Public debate was passionate and fierce. Supporters, the Federalists, believed the Constitution would save the floundering former colonies from the confusion and anarchy of the current, weak government. Detractors held that adopting the Constitution would mean nothing less than the end of American liberty.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Federalistsーamong them George Washington and Benjamin Franklinーknew that the stakes could not be higher: the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, and America’s very existence as an independent nation, depended on the protection of the Constitution. And so on Saturday, October 27, 1787, Alexander Hamilton came to its defense, publishing the first column of what would come to be known as ＜em＞The Federalist Papers＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Written by Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from October 1787 to August 1788ーa span of 294 days that ranks among the most consequential periods in politicsー＜em＞The Federalist Papers＜/em＞ are part history, part political science, and part theology. Introduced here by bestselling American historian and biographer Jon Meacham, they offer unparalleled insight into the workings of the democratic process and the values underpinning the American projectーthen as now.＜/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！】Homestand Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America【電子書籍】[ Will Bardenwerper ]

＜p＞**A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what’s right and wrong with modern Americaーwritten by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark in Batavia, New York.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Bardenwerper finds hope in the people and community around a former minor league baseball team.”＜em＞ーWashington Post＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Will reveal more about the prospects for America than 100 news stories about politics, and will be a lot more fun.”ーJames Fallows, bestselling co-author of ＜em＞Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞What happens when a minor league teamーthe heart and soul of a Rust Belt town in western New Yorkーis shut down by the billionaires who run Major League Baseball?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Batavia, New Yorkーbetween Rochester and Buffaloーhosted its first professional baseball game in 1897. Despite decades of deindustrialization and evaporating middle-class jobs, the Batavia Muckdogs endured. When Major League Baseball cravenly shut them down in 2020ーalong with forty-one other minor league teamsーthe town fought back, reviving the Muckdogs as a summer league team comprised of college players. As MLB considers further cuts and private equity buys up what remains, the mom-and-pop operations once prevalent in baseball are endangered. But for now, the sights and sounds of local baseball live on in Bataviaーcheap draft beer and hot dogs, starry-eyed kids seeking autographs, and breathtaking summer sunsets.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With a vibrant, unforgettable cast of charactersーfrom a librarian and her best friend whose relationship deepens with every “crepuscular hour” they spend together in the bleachers, to the former hockey brawler-turned team owner who greets regulars while working the concession stand, to the iconoclastic writer with a contagious love for his struggling hometownーBardenwerper’s ＜em＞Homestand＜/em＞ exposes the beating heart of small town America, friends and neighbors coming together as the crack of the bat echoes in the summer twilight.＜/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！】Let Go To Listen Cape Cod Ruminations【電子書籍】[ L. Ray Sears III ]

＜p＞A series of ruminations about the author's experiences on Cape Cod as a summer kid and now family historian. This compilation seeks to encourage others to get involved in writing their recollections.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dennis, Massachusetts, Sep 2019. Ray Sears has just released his compilation of Cape Cod Ruminations titled Let Go To Listen. The book compiles years of memories about visits to Cape Cod as a summer kid combined with other life stories about the Army, sailing, studying family history, and traveling around the world.＜br /＞ Sponsored by the Cape Cod Genealogical Society, the publication committee chairs, David Martin and Carolyn Weiss write ? “This compilation of reflections and essays by Ray is a signal contribution to genealogy in an important way. Ray as Editor of the Society publications since 2001 has been an untiring influence on the production of our publications. This book is an illumination of Cape Cod’s past not only during his own lifetime but also indirectly the past before his time through the stories heard and events recorded in his family history.”＜br /＞ The memories include titles like Bounceberries, Dog Tags and Draft Cards, Shipwrecked, Barnstable to Boston, Cape Cod Airport and many others.＜br /＞ This compilation of stories seeks to encourage others to get involved in writing their recollections. The book can be ordered at www.lulu.com/spotlight/CapeCodRuminations＜br /＞ The Sears Family Association has been striving since 1976 to record the history of the many thousands of Descendants of Richard Sears of Yarmouth (now East Dennis), Plymouth Colony, circa 1639.＜br /＞ ###＜br /＞ If you would like more information about this book, please call Ray Sears (405) 487-0854＜/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 HOPI HI-SUT-SI-NOM (The Ancient Ones)【電子書籍】[ Raine Taylor ]

＜p＞The Hopi HI-SUT-SI-NOM＜br /＞ (The Ancient Ones)＜/p＞ ＜p＞For the first time in the history of the Hopi people a Hopi Kikmongwi is sharing his NAVOTI with an outsider and now with this book, with the world. He risked criticism from his people, but he says it is now time to share this knowledge with the rest of the world. His major concern is that this knowledge will be lost to the younger generations of the Hopi people.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hopi Stanley Bahnimptewa, Sr. Kikmongwi of Old Oraibi, Arizona told me the kind of book he wanted to be written.＜br /＞ This book is his story, his legends, his thoughts and wishes for his people and their future.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Hopi people are the only tribe in American that has never fought the United States Army and has never signed a peace treaty with the United States government. In this, they are unique in the annuals of American history. They are known as the "Peaceful People", but they will be the first to tell you that they are warriors, and have fought many battles with other Indian tribes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞They have lived on the three mesas and the land surrounding them for thousands of years, until the nineteen thirties, when the government declared that the reservation would be allotted according to the population of the tribes of the Hopi and Navajos. At that time most of the land the Hopi had used for centuries became Navajo land.＜br /＞ In the summer of 1989, I visited with the Kikmongwi (chief) of the village of Old Oraibi on the Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona. The village of Old Oraibi has been continuously inhabited for over 2,000 years and is the oldest existing city in the United States. I was there to ask his permission to write a book on the Hopi people and his village. At that time I had in mind a totally different kind of book, he said he would think on this and let me know. Shortly after my return to my home in Kentucky, I was contacted by the Kikmongwi's spokesman. The chief wanted to know when I would be returning to do the book. This was his way of letting me know that he had given me his permission.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In February of 1990, I moved to Flagstaff, Arizona in order to be close to the reservation and the work I would be doing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cody, Wyoming＜br /＞ Raine A. Taylor＜br /＞ December 10, 1999＜/p＞ ＜p＞Someday I hoped someone would help me do this, then I would share with such a person my Navoti, then Raine Taylor agreed to cooperate with me on this book, and with the help of my spokesman, Caleb Johnson, to translate the Hopi language into English. This has been done. What I am saying are my own words, my own thoughts, not anyone else's. Thus, this is my responsibility, for I had dreamed how someone would help me so I could share with people as to how the Hopi are. I did not wish to keep this knowledge to myself, but I wanted to share it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The words which make up this book are mine only. I accept full responsibility for them and will not give that responsibility to anyone else.＜/p＞ ＜p＞However, much of what is in this book was passed down to me from my father, Tawaquaptewa, the former Kikmongwi of Oraibi. He would tell me his Navoti in story form. He has persuaded me that I am to share all these things, so I have talked about everything.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The only other thing that I will say is that I am extremely grateful this has now been accomplished.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Qua Qai"＜br /＞ (Thank you)＜br /＞ Stanley Bahnimptewa, Sr.＜br /＞ Kikmongwi＜br /＞ Old Oraibi, Arizona＜br /＞ March, 1993＜/p＞ ＜p＞ADDENDUM 2012＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sometimes books are written ahead of their times and I feel this is one of those books, in 1993 publishers thought it was a great book but not the right time for the public or the Hopi tribe to accept it. I hope now that nearly 20 years have past and you as a potential reader will accept the book as it is written, in the old chief's own words and how he wanted the story of his people told.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Thank you, Raine Taylor＜/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。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-64 - Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster) 【紙書籍】 9780684808192

タイトル: Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-64著者: Taylor Branch出版社: Simon & Schuster出版日: 1998年02月02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。In "Pillar of Fire", the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, "Parting the Waters", won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. In this masterly continuation of the narrative, Branch recounts the climactic struggles as they commanded the national and international stage. "Pillar of Fire" covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963 to 1965-- Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJ's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Vietnam, Selma. And it provides a frank, revealing portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.-- haunted by blackmail, factionalism, and hatred while he tried to hold the nonviolent movement together as a dramatic force in history. Allies, rivals, and opponents addressed racial issues that went deeper than fair treatment at bus stops or lunch counters. Participants on all sides stretched themselves and their country to the breaking point over the meaning of simple words: dignity, equal votes, equal souls. Branch's gallery of historic characters also includes: Malcolm X, who challenged King's vision of nonviolent integration and lived under threat of death from the Nation of Islam. Lyndon Johnson, who believed racial conflict was destroying his political base in the South and threatening his dream to end poverty. J. Edgar Hoover, under whose direction the FBI, with Attorney General Robert Kennedy's approval, spied on King with wiretaps and bugs, and yet solved the most heinous racial crimes of the era. Diane Nash, the passionate leader behind sit-ins and Freedom Rides, whose determination shaped the Selma voting rights movement. Abraham Heschel, the Hasidic theologian who bonded with King in devotion to the Hebrew prophets. Robert Moses, the Mississippi SNCC leader who finally came undone over the human suffering caused by his Freedom Summer. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who commanded a powerful voice for the unlettered. "Pillar of Fire" takes readers inside the dramas that shook every American institution, from the local pulpit to the Presidency. We disappear with courageous young people into Mississippi's feudal Parchman Penitentiary. We absorb the shock of a single Presidential election in 1964 that revolutionized the structure of partisan politics. We follow Northern rabbis summoned by King, and Mary Peabody, mother of the governor of Massachusetts, into the segregated jails of St. Augustine, Florida. We witness the Shakespearean conflicts between Lyndon Johnson and King and Hoover and Robert Kennedy. Branch brings to bear fifteen years of research-- archival investigation; nearly two thousand interviews: new primary sources, from FBI wiretaps to White House telephone recordings-- in a seminal work of history. "Pillar of Fire" captures the intensity of the legendary King years, when the movement broke down walls between races, regions, sexes, and religions, and between America and the larger world. Its struggle to rescue and redeem, its victories and defeats, its failings and sacrifices gave rise to opposing tides that still dominate the national debate about justice and democratic government. The story of this movement is an incandescent chapter in America's distinctive quest for freedom.

【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！】Did They Read It? A Teacher's Guide for Any Novel【電子書籍】[ KL Litnotes ]

＜p＞Did They Read It? includes three guides for novel studies of any book. There are two guides to be used by the students while reading the book which can count as test scores. The third guide is a test that can be used after reading any novel and is a good evaluation tool for the student and teacher. Can be used for summer reading, novel study, or independent reading. Great tool for teachers!＜/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！】San Sebastian 1813【電子書籍】[ Oliver Hayes ]

＜p＞By the summer of 1813 the Peninsular War had reached a crisis. The Port of San Sebastian had to be captured, and captured fast if Wellington's British armies were to avoid a humiliating retreat due to lack of supplies. But in San Sebastian was the wily French commander Louis Rey. The scene was set for a classic siege campaign.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The British, Portuguese and Spanish armies of Lord Wellington had defeated the French in Spain and were poised to invade France itself. But the supply situation was critical. All of Wellington's supplies had to come from Britain to Lisbon and were then carried over bad roads, mountain ranges and dusty plains for hundreds of miles to reach the fighting front.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What Wellington needed was a port with good harbour facilities close to the battle front. There was only one available, but it was held by a French force under the command of General Louis Rey who was desperately repairing and reinforcing the defences.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The siege began on 7 July 1813 and at first Wellington hoped it would be over quickly. But when the first assault failed it become clear that a long siege was inevitable.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Written by a military author of great experience, this book explains the way battles were fought two centuries ago and explains the course of the action in an accessible but authoritative style.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This lavishly illustrated ebook is a must for anyone interested in the Peninsular War. It includes not only an account of the action itself, but studies of the commanders, the armies, the weapons and the tactics as well.＜/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！】Look Up, Philadelphia! A Walking Tour of Germantown【電子書籍】[ Doug Gelbert ]

＜p＞There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Each walking tour describes historical and architectural landmarks and provides pictures to help out when those pesky street addresses are missing. Every tour also includes a quick primer on identifying architectural styles seen on American streets.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Germantown was founded in 1683 by a group of Netherlanders fleeing religious persecution. Francis Daniel Pastorius, rose to leadership, contacted William Penn, obtained land, and directly stimulated migration. Pastorius arrived on August 20 of that year, the other settlers reached Philadelphia on October 6. Germantown remained predominantly Dutch until 1709, when large numbers. of Germans began to settle there. Those immigrants overwhelmed the settlement and gave it a decidedly Germanic character for most of the 18th century.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The town grew rapidly. William Rittenhouse founded America's first paper mill on the Wissahickon Creek in 1690 and it was followed by textile mills and tanning yards. By 1758 some 350 houses stood in town, most of them occupied by Germans. The community was important enough to attract the attention of British General Sir William Howe who, after embarrassing the Americans at the Battle of Brandywine in the American Revolution in 1777, took a circuitous westerly route to occupy Germantown before marching on Philadelphia. General George Washington staged a bold counterattack on the British along today's Germantown Avenue and, although denied a great victory, infused his battered troops with critical confidence.＜/p＞ ＜p＞George Washington would return to Germantown after the war, this time as President of the United States. In 1793, when Philadelphia was the nation's capital, a Yellow Fever epidemic drove the government away from the foul air of the city and set up shop in Germantown. President Washington would come back the following summer to escape the heat of the city and establishing America's first "summer White House."＜/p＞ ＜p＞Germantown remained independent until 1854 when it was absorbed by the city of Philadelphia. Five years later the street car ran from downtown up Germantown Avenue to the 6700 block, providing an immediate and lasting effect upon the commercial nature of "Main Street." Despite the influx of shops and services, Germantown Avenue retained much of its mixed usage of churches, residences and schools. In 1965 the Colonial Germantown Historic District was designated a National Historic Landmark and many of its historical sites have been well preserved.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Our walking tour will take place entirely on Germantown Avenue that started as an Indian path and was enlarged into a road into the interior of young Pennsylvania. The thoroughfare boasts an unbroken 300+-year heritage of residential and commercial use. We will begin in Market Square that was the center of the British line during the Battle of Germantown...＜/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！】Our Lady of Pontmain【電子書籍】[ Penny Lord ]

＜p＞Pontmain is a small village on the borderline between the Normandy and Brittany sections of France. It is very small, situated between Fougeres and Mont St. Michel, which is on the Normandy Coast. The first time we visited Our Lady of Hope, in the summer, offshore breezes from the English Channel provided refreshing cool air to the area, as a relief from the summer heat. But when we returned in the winter, the soft, cool breezes had turned to cold, howling winds, bringing icy weather to the entire area, and through our insulated jackets. The local inhabitants choose to stay indoors by the fireplace, during these times, to protect themselves from being chilled to the bone by the gusty winds.＜br /＞ The winter of 1871 was such a time. January was an especially brutal time for man and beast. Those who could avoid it, did not venture out into the weather. But unfortunately, not everybody could stay at home.＜br /＞ France was still going through its period of chastisement. Those in high places in the government had not heeded the pleadings of Our Lady at the Rue du Bac in Paris, or La Salette, or more recently to the little shepherdess, Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes. They were engaged in a war with the infamous Bismarck, and his mighty Prussian troops. The French had been so involved in killing their own, and attacking helpless nuns and priests, they didn’t know how to handle a real enemy. Prussia was able to march through France with ease. Paris had been captured, and enemy troops were working their way through Le Mans towards the coast. Bismarck had known all the strengths and weaknesses of his adversaries. He anticipated their every move, and countered with a shrewder one. There was only one force he had not counted on. How could he? This one enemy was beyond his comprehension. He had no way of knowing her power; he didn’t know her. He was taking on the Mother of God.＜/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！】Pride Of The Worm【電子書籍】[ Norm Sawyer ]

＜p＞I like reading the book of Proverbs. The verses in this book are so pragmatic and applicable to everyday life. The proverbs speak plainly of right and wrong choices, wise or foolish behaviours and the consequences or rewards that come to us.＜br /＞ In July 2013 I started a blog called Sir Norm’s Proverbial Comment as a summer project. I took the timeless principles from proverbs and started applying them to what I saw going on around me day by day. I recorded some of the thoughts and ideas that were coming through conversations, bible studies, and life memories.＜br /＞ The summer project turned into a weekly blog posted in three languages. The blog has me a weekly outlet to express my thoughts, concerns and the blessings of walking with the Lord in this day and age.＜br /＞ I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to putting this book together.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Norm Sawyer＜/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！】Spring Summer Autumn Winter【電子書籍】[ Sheila Kennedy ]

＜p＞Spring Summer Autum Winter, Nature poetry for all seasons.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Spring Summer Autumn Winter is a collection of beautiful nature poetry which has been gifted to＜br /＞ me over a number of years. As in inveterate scribbler, I am seldom without a pen in my hand, or a＜br /＞ thought of something to write in my mind and nature offers so many opportunities to write about.＜br /＞ My poetry which ranges from the humorous to the spiritual and many genres in between has been a＜br /＞ source of pleasure to me for much of my life. I hope that you will enjoy these poems which speak of＜br /＞ nature and its magnificence, and which are shared with you here.＜br /＞ Why do I say ‘Gifted’ ? these poems and many more come to me from a higher source and I＜br /＞ acknowledge with love the Source of the Healing Sounds from whence they come.＜br /＞ In compiling Spring Summer Autumn Winter I have been blessed with some amazing natural sights＜br /＞ which have led to this collection of poems here today as we explore the seasons of the Australian＜br /＞ spring summer autumn and winter and the wonders of nature.＜/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！】Come to the Table【電子書籍】[ Diem Burden ]

＜p＞＜strong＞*Silver Medal Winner, ICBA*＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞What was it that made a lifelong, uncompromising atheist - who absolutely hated anything to do with any religion - walk into a freezing cold river in northern Spain and get baptised?＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is the unbelievable and remarkable true story of one man's stubborn resistance against seemingly inexplicable events that occured over a three-month period in the summer of 2021.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A modern day 'Road to Damascus' type of event, which is fully documented and supported with comprehensive photos, text messages, journal entries and other witness testimonies.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This award-winning book will leave you in tears for so many reasons.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞"You danced until my heart woke up..." - Maverick City Music＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The United States of Cryptids A Tour of American Myths and Monsters【電子書籍】[ J. W. Ocker ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states. From the infamous Jersey Devil to the obscure Snallygaster, travel writer and chronicler of the strange J. W. Ocker uncovers the bizarre stories of these creatures and investigates the ways in which communities embrace and celebrate their local cryptids. Readers will learn about:＜/p＞ ＜p＞? ＜strong＞Batsquatch of Washington＜/strong＞, a winged bigfoot that is said to have emerged from the eruption of Mount Saint Helens＜br /＞ ? ＜strong＞Nain Rouge of Michigan＜/strong＞, a fierce red goblin that has been spotted before every major city disaster in Detroit＜br /＞ ? ＜strong＞Flatwoods Monster of West Virginia＜/strong＞, a robotic extraterrestrial that crash-landed in rural Appalachia＜br /＞ ? ＜strong＞Lizard Man of South Carolina＜/strong＞, a reptilian mutant that attacked a teenager in the summer of 1988＜br /＞ ? ＜strong＞Glocester Ghoul of Rhode Island＜/strong＞, a fire-breathing dragon that guards a hoard of pirate treasure＜br /＞ ? And many more!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Whether you believe in bigfoot or not, this fully illustrated compendium is a fun, frightening, fascinating tour through American folklore and history, exploring the stories we tell about monsters and what those stories say about us.＜/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。

新しい本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書Look at My Life - Eileen Agar (Thames & Hudson) 【紙書籍】 9780500026809

タイトル: Look at My Life著者: Eileen Agar出版社: Thames & Hudson出版日: 2024年05月07日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。Whether dancing on the rooftops in Paris, sharing ideas with Pablo Picasso, or gathering starfish on the beaches of Cornwall, Eileen Agar transformed the everyday into the extraordinary. Her legacy as a pioneering figure in the surrealist movement is firmly established, and her work continues to captivate audiences with its otherworldly beauty and imaginative power.Agar's life was no less extraordinary than her art. In A Look at My Life, she traces her life from her birth in Argentina to the late 1980s. She gives an intimate account of very different worlds: grand house parties in Buenos Aires and Belgravia as a young girl give way to la vie boheme in London and Paris and a peripatetic existence with her lifelong partner, Hungarian writer Joseph Bard. She enjoyed enriching friendships with contemporaries Paul Nash, Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, Gertrude Hermes, and Henry Moore, while a summer spent in the South of France with Picasso, Lee Miller, and Man Ray had a lasting impact. Agar introduces them and many others into the narrative of her artistic development; above all, it is Agar's own unwavering resilience, infectious energy, and drive that permeates this compelling memoir.Bringing her work to life in all its vibrancy and variety, this updated autobiography is populated with Agar's personal selection of photographs of family, friends, and lovers alongside over fifty color illustrations of collages, paintings, and assemblages spanning her life's work.

【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！】Retreat How the Counterculture Invented Wellness【電子書籍】[ Matthew Ingram ]

＜p＞＜strong＞What have the hippies ever done for us? Matthew Ingram explores the relationship between the summer of love and wellness, medicine, and health.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The counterculture of the Sixties and the Seventies is remembered chiefly for music, fashion, art, feminism, computing, black power, cultural revolt and the New Left. But an until-now unexplored, yet no less important aspect -- both in its core identity and in terms of its ongoing significance and impact -- is its relationship with health.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this popular and illuminating cultural history of the relationship between health and the counterculture, Matthew Ingram connects the dots between the beats, yoga, meditation, psychedelics, psychoanalysis, Eastern philosophy, sex, and veganism, showing how the hippies still have a lot to teach us about our wellbeing.＜/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 Magical Year Seasonal Celebrations to Honour Nature's Ever-Turning Wheel【電子書籍】[ Danu Forest ]

＜p＞The Celtic seasonal wheel is based on eight festivals ? Winter Solstice, Imbolc, Spring Equinox, Beltane, Summer Solstice, Lughnasadh, Autumn Equinox and Samhain. Together, these lead usthrough the cycle of the year, aligning our awareness with the seasonal pattern of the earth beneath our feet.In this book on the solstices, equinoxes and other festivals within the sacred cycle, Danu Forest reveals the secrets of each festival in turn and skilfully revives ancient traditions, encouraging us to reconnect with nature, and ourselves, with a host of practical ideas and rituals. Decorate your home with beautiful seasonal crafts and altars to manifest sacred space. Make gifts to give to friends, cast spells for creativity, fertility and blessing, and use the abundance of nature in recipes that can be enjoyed as part of your seasonal celebrations or for self-healing and empowerment. Meditate on the changing heavens throughout the year with Celtic star lore. Deepen your experience of the turning seasons, from the rest and renewal of winter through the revels of spring and summer to the soul or spirit nights of autumn with magical guided visualizations. This cycle of conscious celebration helps us, year on year, to align with nature’s rhythms with greater wonder and insight.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Based on sound extensive research, as well as many years of practical experience through both personal practice and teaching, the book will act as a guide for weaving a new, more soulful way of living into readers’ everyday existence.＜/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！】Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine【電子書籍】[ Alan Lightman ]

＜p＞＜strong＞From the bestselling author of ＜em＞Einstein's Dreams＜/em＞ー“an elegant and moving paean to our spiritual quest for meaning in an age of science" (＜em＞The New York Times Book Review). ?＜/em＞ The basis for the public television series ＜em＞SEARCHING＜/em＞ with Alan Lightman.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a scientific view of the world. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a small boat at sea, Lightman was overcome by the overwhelming sensation that he was merging with something larger than himselfーan eternal unity, something absolute and immaterial.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The result is an inspired, lyrical meditation from the acclaimed author of ＜em＞Einstein's Dreams＜/em＞ that explores these seemingly contradictory impulses. Lightman draws on sources ranging from Saint Augustine's conception of absolute truth to Einstein's theory of relativity, and gives us a profound inquiry into the human desire for truth and meaning, and a journey along the different paths of religion and science that become part of that quest. This small but provocative book explores the tension between our yearning for certainty and permanence versus the modern scientific view that all things in the physical world are uncertain and impermanent.＜/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！】Flights From My Terrace【電子書籍】[ Santosh Bakaya ]

＜p＞This book is a collection of 58 essays most of which are based on observations from my terrace.Some have been written quashed in ramshackle buses while commuting from and to my work place. still others have been written from the snug confines of a car, watching lives pass by with their extraordinary hues, some of them are embellished with reminiscences of my childhood days in the warm cocoon of family life, surrounded by affectionate parents, siblings and cats, dogs and birds, many of whom were restored to life by my father,＜br /＞ Some of the essays are about the sunny moon, a boy with a crutch, a canine sponge, a human sponge who loved cricket, the spy who came in from the rain and chance encounters which changed into lifelong friendships. Many of the incidents and episodes that I witnessed made me realise that life is what happens when we are making other plans. Through all this, I realised that it is the cascading abundance of love and love alone which can sublimate the seeming cacophonies of life into a sublime euphony.＜br /＞ A couple of essays are about my beloved Kashmir where I spent many summer vacations with my cousins and also winter vacations making joyous snowmen. This was all before my homeland turned into a gory conflict zone. In short, I can say that these writings made me understand the real meaning of life and enriched me no end. I hope the lives of the readers are also similarly enriched.＜/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 Wylie-Hoffert Murders【電子書籍】[ Robert Grey Reynolds Jr ]

＜p＞The Wylie-Hoffert Murders in the late summer of 1963 was a vicious bloodletting that remained unsolved until the spring of 1964. At that time two men were arrested, and one of them was eventually set free for the crime of murdering Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert. The young women were living in what was already a posh neighborhood on New York's Upper East Side. The young African-American, who was the first person arrested for the murders, benefited from the Miranda ruling. He was mentioned specifically by the United States Supreme Court when it issued the historic ruling that affected attorney client privileges. He had admitted on one occasion to wandering into the career women's third floor Manhattan flat, and savagely killing both Wylie and Hoffert. The Negro had been picked up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. He was also charged with the attempted rape of a young Brooklyn nurse. Whoever murdered the young women their lives were snuffed out a very young age. Both of them were in their early 20's. Janice Wylie was the niece of bestselling author Philip Wylie. Emily Hoffert was an aspiring teacher, the daughter of a Minneapolis dentist.＜/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！】Concluding【電子書籍】[ Henry Green ]

＜p＞Old Mr Rock, a widower, lives in a cottage with his granddaughter Elizabeth; his household includes Daisy the pig, Ted the goose and Alice the cat, but an additional member threatens in the person of Sebastian Birt, the schoolteacher whom Elizabeth wants to marry. Birt teaches in the state institution for girls run by two authoritarian spinsters, the inseparable Misses Edge and Baker.＜/p＞ ＜p＞One sunny summer's morning, the morning of the Founders' Day Ball, as Mr Rock goes up to the school to fetch his pig-swill for Daisy, it is discovered that two of the girls have gone missing in the night. As he pursues the unfolding events of this crowded day and eavesdrops on the conversations up at the school and down at the cottage, Henry Green subtly teases out all the hidden ambitions and lusts, the suspicions and jealousies that are rife just beneath the placid surface of the institution. With an unmatched ear for dialogue and an absolute mastery in the depiction of character, he imbues this apparently routine school day with a powerful charge of drama and superb comic effect.＜/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 Walking Tour of Ocean Grove, New Jersey【電子書籍】[ Doug Gelbert ]

＜p＞There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. This walking tour of Ocean Grove, New Jersey is ready to explore when you are. Each walking tour describes historical, architectural landmarks, cultural sites and ecclesiastic touchstones and provides step-by-step directions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Every tour also includes a quick primer on identifying architectural styles seen on American streets.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Religious camp meetings, often led by Methodists, can find their roots in America as far back as 1799 but the movement really exploded after the Civil War. In the 1860s East Coast beaches were not vacation havens but generally regarded as bug-infested wastelands. At the time only four residents were living between Long Pond and Goose Pond, now known as Wesley Lake and Fletcher Lake respectively. Only a single sand road penetrated the dense forest, scarcely wide enough for a horse and buggy to squeeze through. So when the Reverend William B. Osborn of Farmingdale went scouring the Jersey shore for a place for a new camp meeting in 1869 he found abundant cheap land here (his 11-acre deed would cost $50) - and precious few mosquitoes. One other thing he was looking for was pine trees in which to build the camp for the annual prayer meeting.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With easy access from Philadelphia and New York City via the New York and Long Branch Railroad, the Ocean Grove camp meeting proved an immediate hit. The 1874 meeting attracted 40,000 people. Records indicate that in 1877 alone, 710,000 tickets were sold for the Ocean Grove-Asbury Park train station. In a generation the town went from a population of four to a fully developed community that was known as the "Queen of the Victorian Methodist Camp Meetings."＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Camp Meeting Association owns all the land in town and leases it to homeowners and businesses for 99-year renewable terms. Until 1981, when it was folded into Neptune Township, the Association also wrote the rules of Ocean Grove. Among its requirements were strict blue laws prohibiting business and banning all driving on the streets on Sundays. This certainly put a crimp on the summer exodus from the cities that was inundating the shore in the age of the automobile. The town crept sleepily along without much change from its founding a century before. The result is that Ocean Grove now boasts the greatest number of Victorian structures in New Jersey.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Our walking tour will begin where the founders prayed in February 1869, although hopefully not in knee-high snow as covered the ground when Reverend Osborn first visited...＜/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 Constitutional Convention A Narrative History from the Notes of James Madison【電子書籍】[ James Madison ]

＜p＞In 1787, the American union was in disarray. The incompatible demands of the separate states threatened its existence; some states were even in danger of turning into the kind of tyranny they had so recently deposed. A truly national government was needed, one that could raise money, regulate commerce, and defend the states against foreign threats?without becoming as overbearing as England. So thirty-six-year-old James Madison believed. That summer, the Virginian was instrumental in organizing the Constitutional Convention, in which one of the world’s greatest documents would be debated, created, and signed. Inspired by a sense of history in the making, he kept the most extensive notes of any attendee.Now two esteemed scholars have made these minutes accessible to everyone. Presented with modern punctuation and spelling, judicious cuts, and helpful notes?plus fascinating background information on every delegate and an overview of the tumultuous times?here is the great drama of how the Constitution came to be, from the opening statements to the final votes. This Modern Library Paperback Classic also includes an Introduction and appendices from the authors.＜/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！】Why We Can't Wait【電子書籍】[ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in ＜em＞Why We Can’t Wait,＜/em＞ which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, ＜em＞Why We Can’t Wait＜/em＞ recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963ーduring which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation ProclamationーAsia and Africa were “moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: “For years now, I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’”＜/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。