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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Walking Tour of Elmira, New York【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＞The land-grant program offered to veterans of the Revolutionary War spurred development of the north bank of the Chemung River in the 1780s. Most of the soldiers sold their interests to land speculators but some packed up and came to carve a homestead out of the wilderness. The hamlet was called Newtown in its formative days at the intersection of Newtown Creek and the Chemung River. The adoption of the name Elmira in 1828 is smothered in the historical muck but local tradition hands down the colorful tale that a rambunctious child's mother spent so much time calling her name that the townsfolk grew to accept their village as "Elmira."＜/p＞ ＜p＞The town was kick-started into the national economy with the opening of the Chemung Canal in 1832 that connected the Chemung River here with the rich timberlands surrounding Seneca Lake and thus the new Erie Canal and New York City by water. In the canal building craze that was gripping New York at the time a feeder canal made connections with Corning to the west. In 1836 Chemung County was organized with Elmira the county seat. By 1849, the New York and Erie Railroad was completed to Elmira and was soon crossed by the New York Central in the town. The canvas was now complete for the emergence of Elmira as a transportation center. The New York & Erie Railroad tagged Elmira as the "Queen City of the Southern Tier."＜/p＞ ＜p＞On Christmas Eve, 1866, a fire destroyed most of the buildings in the downtown area. In retrospect it served mainly to wipe the platter clean before Elmira's most prosperous period. Between 1870 and 1890 the population doubled. Its superior transportation facilities made Elmira a manufacturing center. There were metal foundries and woolen mills and lumber mills and processing plants for the surrounding dairy region. Other products that poured from Elmira factories included glass bottles, office equipment, tools and wood pipe.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was also during this period that Elmira welcomed its most distinguished guest, Mark Twain, who married local girl Olivia Louis Landon in 1870. The couple moved to Hartford, Connecticut but returned to the Landon family's Quarry Farm each summer where Twain authored many of his most famous works, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in a small writer's cottage set up on the property. The Samuel Clemens family would be buried in Woodlawn Cemetery and his grave is adorned by a monument 12 feet high or "mark twain," the expression from which his adopted pen name derived.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The city's population reached 47,000 in 1930 and essentially stopped growing after that. In June 1972 flood waters from Hurricane Agnes filled buildings along the Chemung River with as much as six feet of water, wiping out most of the downtown area. Many of the buildings that survived the subsequent urban renewal program are civic buildings and it is a fine collection reflecting Elmira's one-time status as the the most important city in New York's Southern Tier. But before we visit them our walking tour will begin at the oldest commercial building in the city, one that was standing back when that mischievous Elmira was still alive...＜/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！】Circle Round Raising Children in Goddess Traditions【電子書籍】[ Starhawk ]

＜p＞In our rushed, stressed society, it's sometimes difficult to spend meaningful time as a family. Now Starhawk, Diane Baker, and Anne Hill offer new ways to foster a sense of togetherness through celebrations that honor the sacredness of life and our Mother Earth.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Goddess tradition embraces the wheel of life, the never-ending cycle of birth, growth, love, fulfillment, and death. Each turn of the wheel is presented here, in eight holidays spanning the changing seasons, in rites of passage for life transitions, and in the elements of fire, air, water, earth, and spirit. ＜strong＞Circle Round＜/strong＞ is rich with songs, rituals, craft and cooking projects, and read-aloud stories, as well as suggestions for how you can create your own unique family traditions. Here are just some of the ways to make each event in the cycle of life more special:＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mark Summer Solstice by making sweet-smelling herb pillows for good dreams＜br /＞ Send a teenager off to college with the Leaving Behind and Carrying With rituals＜br /＞ Comfort an injured child with the Tree of Life meditation＜br /＞ Commemorate a loved one by planting or donating a tree＜/p＞ ＜p＞As a one-of-a-kind resource for people of many faiths and beliefs, ＜strong＞Circle Round＜/strong＞ will be a beloved companion in your home for years to come.＜/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！】Mr. President How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive【電子書籍】[ Ray Raphael ]

＜p＞The little-known story of the dramatic political maneuverings and personalities behind the creation of the office of the president, with ramifications that continue to this day.＜/p＞ ＜p＞On June 1, 1787, when the Federal Convention first talked of establishing a new executive branch, James Wilson moved that “the Executive consist of a single person.” To us this might sound obvious, but not so at the time. Americans had just won their independence from an autocratic monarch, and they feared that a single leader might commandeer power or oppress citizens. Should the framers even flirt with one-man rule? For the first and only time that summer, there was silence. Not one of the loquacious delegates dared speak up.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Eventually Benjamin Franklin rose, then others. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Mason joined the debate, and for three months their deliberations continued. By early September the framers had made up their minds. A chief executive, the “president,” would be appointed by Congress to serve for seven years. He could not be reelected, and his powers were tightly constrained. He could neither negotiate treaties nor appoint Supreme Court justices and ambassadors. The Senate would do all that.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Suddenly, less than two weeks before the convention adjourned, all this changed. How? And who made it happen? Enter Gouverneur Morris, the flamboyant, peg-legged hero of this saga, who pushed through his agenda with amazing political savvy and not a little bluster and deceit. For the first time, by focusing closely on the give-and-take of the convention’s dynamics, Ray Raphael reveals how politics and personalities cobbled together a lasting, but flawed, institution.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Charting the presidency as it evolved during the administrations of Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, Raphael shows how, given the Constitution’s broad outlines, the president’s powers could easily be augmented but rarely diminished. Today we see the resultーan office that has become more sweeping, more powerful, and more inherently partisan than the framers ever intended. And the issues of 1787ーwhether the Electoral College, the president’s war powers, or the extent of executive authorityーcontinue to stir our political debates.＜/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！】Asphalt Gods An Oral History of the Rucker Tournament【電子書籍】[ Vincent M. Mallozzi ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The real basketball deal?the inside story of Harlem’s legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who have made it world famous.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Earl “The Goat” Manigault. Herman “Helicopter” Knowings. Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond. Richard “Pee Wee” Kirkland. These and dozens of other colorfully nicknamed men are the “Asphalt Gods,” whose astounding exploits in the Rucker Tournament, often against multimillionaire NBA superstars, have made them playground divinity. First established in the 1950s by Holcombe Rucker, a New York City Parks Department employee, the tournament has grown to become a Harlem institution, an annual summer event of major proportions. On that fabled patch of concrete, unknown players have been lighting it up for decades as they express basketball as a freestyle art among their peers and against such pro immortals as Julius Erving and Wilt Chamberlain. X’s and O’s are exchanged for oohs and aahs in one of the great examples of street theater to be found in urban America.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Asphalt Gods＜/em＞ is a streetwise, supremely entertaining oral history of a tournament that has influenced everything from NBA playing style to hip-hop culture. Now, legends transmitted by word of mouth find a home and the achievements of basketball’s greatest unknowns a permanent place in the game’s record.＜/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！】Invisible Eden A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod【電子書籍】[ Maria Flook ]

＜p＞A literary investigation by "one of the most powerful American writers at work today" [Annie Proulx] of a story that riveted the nation: how an accomplished, world-traveled fashion writer who had retreated to a simpler life as a single mother on Cape Cod became the victim of a brutal, still-unsolved murder.＜/p＞ ＜p＞On the surface, Christa Worthington’s life had the appearance of privilege and comfort. She was the granddaughter of prominent New Yorkers. Her sparkling journalism earned the fashion world’s respect. But she had turned her back on a glamorous career and begun living in the remote Cape Cod town where she had summered as a child. When she was found murdered in Truro, Massachusetts, just after New Year’s Day in 2002, her toddler daughterclinging to her side, her violent death brought to the surface the many unspoken mysteries of her life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Invisible Eden＜/em＞ is the deeply felt story of a career woman's attempt to start over and reinvent her life away from the fashion circles of New York and Paris only to have an out-of-wedlock child with a local fisherman, forge a life as a single mother, and meet a violent end. Brilliantly portraying Christa’s hunger for belonging and her struggle for survival as a first-time mother, Flook searingly evokes her search for a safe haven, her many tumultuous relationships, and the evidence linking family, strangers, lovers, suspects, and innocents to the tragedy that both shocked a seaside town on Cape Cod and horrified the nation. Flook intricately maps Christa's charged life before her death and follows the first year of the murder investigation with the help of the district attorney who is in an election battle even as he searches for the killer. At the same time, ＜em＞Invisible Eden＜/em＞ captures the Cape's haunted landscape, class stratifications, and never-ending battles between its weathy summer residents and its hardscrabble working families who together form a backdrop for a powerful chronicle of love and murder. An edgy and compelling portrait of a woman's tragic journey, ＜em＞Invisible Eden＜/em＞ is a mesmerizing true story.＜/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！】There's a Revolution Outside, My Love Letters from a Crisis【電子書籍】

＜p＞**This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers todayーEdwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylorーto give voice to the unthinkable grief and hopeful possibilities born in an era of revolution and change.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“A maelstrom of grief, anger, fear and confusion, with glimmers of gratitude and hope: a comprehensive emotional document of a moment.”ー＜em＞New York Times Book Review＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now is an extraordinary time. Across the country, people are losing their loved ones, their livelihoods, their homes, and even their own lives to COVID-19. Despite the pandemic, countless protests erupted this summer over the recurring loss of Black lives. Reverberations of shock and outrage remain with us all. ＜em＞There's a Revolution Outside, My Love＜/em＞ captures and articulates all of these roiling sentiments unleashed by a profound national reckoning.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drawing its title from a powerful letter to her son by Kirsten West Savali, the book fans out from there, offering a rich and intimate view of the change we underwent. Composed of searing letters, essays, poems, reflections, and screeds, ＜em＞There's a Revolution Outside, My Love＜/em＞ highlights the work of some of our most powerful and insightful writers who hail from across a range of backgrounds and from almost all fifty states. Among them, these writers have brought home four Pulitzers, two National Book Awards, a fistful of Whitings, and numerous citations in best American poetry, short story, and essay compilations. They are noisy with beauty, and their pieces ring louder and clearer than ever before.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Galvanizing and lyrical, this is a deeply profound anthology of writing filled with pain and beauty, warmth and intimacy. A remarkable feat of empathy, ＜em＞There's a Revolution Outside, My Love＜/em＞ offers solace in a time of swirling protest, change, and violenceーreminding us of the human scale of the upheaval, and providing hope for a kinder future.＜/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！】One Summer America, 1927【電子書籍】[ Bill Bryson ]

＜p＞**A ＜em＞Chicago Tribune＜/em＞ Noteworthy Book＜br /＞ A GoodReads Reader's Choice＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞One Summer＜/em＞ Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life.**＜/p＞ ＜p＞The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by plane nonstop, and when he landed in Le Bourget airfield near Paris, he ignited an explosion of worldwide rapture and instantly became the most famous person on the planet. Meanwhile, the titanically talented Babe Ruth was beginning his assault on the home run record, which would culminate on September 30 with his sixtieth blast, one of the most resonant and durable records in sports history. In between those dates a Queens housewife named Ruth Snyder and her corset-salesman lover garroted her husband, leading to a murder trial that became a huge tabloid sensation. Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly sat atop a flagpole in Newark, New Jersey, for twelve daysーa new record. The American South was clobbered by unprecedented rain and by flooding of the Mississippi basin, a great human disaster, the relief efforts for which were guided by the uncannily able and insufferably pompous Herbert Hoover. Calvin Coolidge interrupted an already leisurely presidency for an even more relaxing three-month vacation in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The gangster Al Capone tightened his grip on the illegal booze business through a gaudy and murderous reign of terror and municipal corruption. The first true “talking picture,” Al Jolson’s ＜em＞The Jazz Singer＜/em＞, was filmed and forever changed the motion picture industry. The four most powerful central bankers on earth met in secret session on a Long Island estate and made a fateful decision that virtually guaranteed a future crash and depression.＜br /＞ All this and much, much more transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humor. In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and ＜em＞One Summer＜/em＞ transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.＜/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！】Harmonizing Yin and Yang【電子書籍】[ Eva Wong ]

＜p＞To age with the sun and moon and be renewed by spring and summer, to conserve the seeds of growth in autumn and winter and to be nourished by the eternal breath of the Taoーthese are the goals of the Taoist alchemists, the masters of the arts of health, longevity, and immortality.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book is a translation of a concise Taoist alchemical manual known as the ＜em＞Dragon-Tiger Classic,＜/em＞ along with its two most important commentaries. The classic, written in ancient times by an unknown author and published during the fifteenth century BCE, is regarded by contemporary Taoist practitioners as the most complete guide to spiritual transformation. It covers the three forms of Taoist practice:＜/p＞ ＜p＞? External alchemy, concerned with the ingestion of minerals, herbs, and other substances to attain health, longevity, and immortality＜br /＞ ? Sexual alchemy, in which the practitioner uses the energy of a sexual partner to cultivate his or her own energy＜br /＞ ? Internal alchemy, the practice of meditation, calisthenics, and yogic postures to cultivate mind and body＜/p＞ ＜p＞An extensive introduction by the translator and the inclusion of two commentaries by traditional Chinese authors aid the reader in understanding this concise, symbolic text.＜/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 President and the Assassin McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century【電子書籍】[ Scott Miller ]

＜p＞A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin’s bullet shattered the nation’s confidence. The shocking murder of President William McKinley threw into stark relief the emerging new world order of what would come to be known as the American Century. ＜em＞The President and the Assassin＜/em＞ is the story of the momentous years leading up to that event, and of the very different paths that brought together two of the most compelling figures of the era: President William McKinley and Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist who murdered him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The two men seemed to live in eerily parallel Americas. McKinley was to his contemporaries an enigma, a president whose conflicted feelings about imperialism reflected the country’s own. Under its popular Republican commander-in-chief, the United States was undergoing an uneasy transition from a simple agrarian society to an industrial powerhouse spreading its influence overseas by force of arms. Czolgosz was on the losing end of the economic changes taking placeーa first-generation Polish immigrant and factory worker sickened by a government that seemed focused solely on making the rich richer. With a deft narrative hand, journalist Scott Miller chronicles how these two men, each pursuing what he considered the right and honorable path, collided in violence at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Along the way, readers meet a veritable who’s who of turn-of-the-century America: John Hay, McKinley’s visionary secretary of state, whose diplomatic efforts paved the way for a half century of Western exploitation of China; Emma Goldman, the radical anarchist whose incendiary rhetoric inspired Czolgosz to dare the unthinkable; and Theodore Roosevelt, the vainglorious vice president whose 1898 charge up San Juan Hill in Cuba is but one of many thrilling military adventures recounted here.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rich with relevance to our own era, ＜em＞The President and the Assassin＜/em＞ holds a mirror up to a fascinating period of upheaval when the titans of industry grew fat, speculators sought fortune abroad, and desperate souls turned to terrorism in a vain attempt to thwart the juggernaut of change.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for ＜em＞The President and the Assassin＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“[A] panoramic tour de force . . . Miller has a good eye, trained by years of journalism, for telling details and enriching anecdotes.”ーThe Washington Independent Review of Books＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Even without the intrinsic draw of the 1901 presidential assassination that shapes its pages, Scott Miller’s ＜em＞The President and the Assassin＜/em＞ [is] absorbing reading. . . . What makes the book compelling is [that] so many circumstances and events of the earlier time have parallels in our own.”ー＜em＞The Oregonian＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“A marvelous work of history, wonderfully written.”ーFareed Zakaria, author of ＜em＞The Post-American World＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“A real triumph.”ー＜em＞BookPage＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Fast-moving and richly detailed.”ー＜em＞The Buffalo News＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“[A] compelling read.”ー＜em＞The Boston Globe＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞One of ＜em＞Newsweek＜/em＞’s 10 Must-Read Summer Books＜/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！】Summer of Freedom How 1945 Changed the World【電子書籍】[ Oliver Hilmes ]

＜p＞＜strong＞This colorful post?World War II history brings to life a crucial yet understudied period, through the eyes of both major figures and ordinary people.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was a summer like no one had ever experienced: in the four months from May to September 1945, the old world collapsed, and a new one opened up. The heinous Third Reich was over, ushering in an era of freedom, but also fresh conflicts.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With a gripping historical panorama, Oliver Hilmes offers insight into this unprecedented summer, from the perspectives of the victors and the vanquished, victims and perpetrators, celebrities and unknowns. The “Big Three”ーHarry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalinーdetermine the course of history at the Potsdam Conference. German housewife Else Tietze fears for her son’s safety. US soldier Klaus Mann tracks down Nazi criminals. And in Berlin Billy Wilder plans a comedy about life in the ruins. Caf?s and restaurants reopen their doors, and Red Army soldier Vasily Petrowitsch is begged for bread by German children.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through a series of scenes that lead from Berlin to Tokyo, from Munich to Paris, from Bayreuth to Moscow, Hilmes captures the unique atmosphere of this time of extremes: the great happiness and hope of the liberated; the misery, grief, and fear of the defeated; and the uncertainty that comes with freedom.＜/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！】Guru Yoga According to the Preliminary Practice of Longchen Nyingtik【電子書籍】[ Dilgo Khyentse ]

＜p＞Why is the practice ＜em＞guru yoga＜/em＞ (union with the nature of the guru) so important? Because with the help of the outer teacher, the inner teacher (the true nature of our own mind) is discovered. This particular guru yoga is called "The Wish-fulfilling Jewel," and it is the outer practice of the guru from the Longchen Nyingtik revelation of Rigdzin Jigme Lingpa. It was during a summer retreat in France in 1984 that Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche gave teachings on this text.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is a new commentary and not a re-edit of teachings in the book ＜em＞The Wish-fulfilling Jewel＜/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 Killing Fields of East New York The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood【電子書籍】[ Stacy Horn ]

＜p＞**An NPR 2025 "Books We Love"＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields.**＜/p＞ ＜p＞On a warm summer evening in 1991, seventeen-year-old Julia Parker was murdered in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. An area known for an exorbitant level of violence and crime, East New York had come to be known as the Killing Fields. In the six months after Julia Parker’s death, 62 more people were murdered in the same area. In the early 1990s, murder rates in the neighborhood climbed to the highest in NYPD history. East New York was dying.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But how did this once thriving, diverse, family neighborhood fall into such ruin? The answer can be found two decades earlier. In response to redlining and discriminatory housing practices, the Johnson administration passed the Housing and Urban Development Act in 1968. The Federal Housing Authority aimed to use this piece of legislation to help low-income families of color finally achieve homeownership. But they could never have predicted how banks, lenders, realtors, and corrupt FHA officials themselves would use the newly passed law to make victims of the very people they were supposed to help, and the devastation they would leave in their wake.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A compulsively readable hybrid of true crime and investigative journalism, ＜em＞The Killing Fields of East New York＜/em＞ reveals how white-collar crime reduced a prospering neighborhood to abandoned buildings and empty lots. Following the dual threads of the hunt for the network of criminals behind the first subprime mortgage scandal and the ensuing downfall of East New York, Stacy Horn weaves a compelling narrative of government failure, a desperate community, and ultimately the largest series of mortgage fraud prosecutions in American history. ＜em＞The Killing Fields of East New York＜/em＞ deftly demonstrates how different types of crime are profoundly entangled, and how the crimes committed in nice suits and corner offices are just as destructive as those committed on the street.＜/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 Alien and Sedition Acts【電子書籍】

＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author and civil rights lawyer Qian Julie Wang introduces the highly controversial Alien and Sedition Acts, which have been used to justify the curtailing of basic freedoms from the Revolutionary Era through the present day.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the summer of 1798, backed by President John Adams, the United States Congress passed a series of laws that would come to be known as the Alien and Sedition Acts, testing the limits of a Constitution barely a decade old. Passed in anticipation of an impending war with France, the three alien lawsーthe Naturalization Act, the Alien Friends Act, and the Alien Enemies Actーextended the waiting period for naturalization from five years to fourteen and authorized the detention and expulsion of noncitizens, while the Sedition Act placed a federal ban on the publication of any antigovernment writings.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Objections were passionate and swift. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, penned by Vice President Thomas Jefferson, warned that the “friendless alien has been selected as the safest subject of a first experiment; but the citizen will soon follow.” Yet while three out of the four laws were soon repealed or allowed to expire, the Alien Enemies Act is still in effect today. Though it has been invoked sparingly, it was the basis for Japanese American internment during World War IIーand for President Donald Trump’s deportation of Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador during the first one hundred days of his second term.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The questions raised by the Alien and Sedition Acts at the end of the eighteenth centuryーabout immigration, the rights of the people in a time of war, the power of the government to define matters of national security, freedom of speech, freedom of the pressーare still very much matters for concern and debate today. In her introduction to these founding documents, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author and civil rights litigator Qian Julie Wang offers a vital perspective on the origins and long legal history of these ideas in the United States.＜/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】 Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown - Michael Patrick F Smith (Viking) 【紙書籍】 9781984881519

タイトル: Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown著者: Michael Patrick F Smith出版社: Viking出版日: 2021年02月16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。"A book that should be read . . . Smith brings an alchemic talent to describing physical labor." --The New York Times Book Review "Beautiful, funny, and harrowing." - Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic "Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been." --Kirkus Reviews A vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far away as Jamaica, Africa and the Philippines. They ate together, drank together, argued like crows and searched for jobs they couldn't get back home. Smith's goal was to find the hardest work he could do--to find out if he could do it. He hired on in the oil patch where he toiled fourteen hour shifts from summer's 100 degree dog days to deep into winter's bracing whiteouts, all the while wrestling with the demons of a turbulent past, his broken relationships with women, and the haunted memories of a family riven by violence. The Good Hand is a saga of fear, danger, exhaustion, suffering, loneliness, and grit that explores the struggles of America's marginalized boomtown workers--the rough-hewn, castoff, seemingly disposable men who do an indispensable job that few would exalt: oil field hands who, in the age of climate change, put the gas in our tanks and the food in our homes. Smith, who had pursued theater and played guitar in New York, observes this world with a critical eye; yet he comes to love his coworkers, forming close bonds with Huck, a goofy giant of a young man whose lead foot and quick fists get him into trouble with the law, and The Wildebeest, a foul-mouthed, dip-spitting truck driver who torments him but also trains him up, and helps Smith make a hand. The Good Hand is ultimately a book about transformation--a classic American story of one man's attempt to burn himself clean through hard work, to reconcile himself to himself, to find community, and to become whole.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade - Walter Kirn (Liveright) 【紙書籍】 9780871404510

タイトル: Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade著者: Walter Kirn出版社: Liveright出版日: 2014年03月10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 the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn--then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage--set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a fifteen-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor, child kidnapper, and brutal murderer. Kirn's one-of-a-kind story of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. As Kirn uncovers the truth about his friend, a psychopath masquerading as a gentleman, he also confronts hard truths about himself. Why, as a writer of fiction, was he susceptible to the deception of a sinister fantasist whose crimes, Kirn learns, were based on books and movies? What are the hidden psychological links between the artist and the con man? To answer these and other questions, Kirn attends his old friend's murder trial and uses it as an occasion to reflect on both their tangled personal relationship and the surprising literary sources of Rockefeller's evil. This investigation of the past climaxes in a tense jailhouse reunion with a man whom Kirn realizes he barely knew--a predatory, sophisticated genius whose life, in some respects, parallels his own and who may have intended to take another victim during his years as a fugitive from justice: Kirn himself.Combining confessional memoir, true crime reporting, and cultural speculation, Blood Will Out is a Dreiser-esque tale of self-invention, upward mobility, and intellectual arrogance. It exposes the layers of longing and corruption, ambition and self-delusion beneath the Great American con.

【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！】Romania and the Holocaust Events ? Contexts ? Aftermath【電子書籍】[ Diana Dumitru ]

＜p＞From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city of Iai killed, the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia by Romanian armed forces and local people, large-scale deportations of Jews to the camps and ghettos of Transnistria, and massacres in and around Odessa. Overall, more than 300,000 Jews of Romanian and Soviet or Ukrainian origin were murdered in Romanian- controlled territories during the Second World War. In this volume, a number of renowned experts shed light on the events, the contexts, and the aftermath of this under-researched and lesser-known dimension of the Holocaust. 75 years on, this book gives much-needed impetus to research on the Holocaust in Romania and Romanian-controlled territories.＜/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 Blood in Winter England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642【電子書籍】[ Jonathan Healey ]

＜p＞**A riveting account of the five heated months in which King Charles I attempted to arrest five dissident Members of Parliament by bringing an armed force to the House of Commonsーa shocking act of political terrorism that pushed England toward civil war and planted the seeds of the American Revolution＜/p＞ ＜p＞Named a Book of the Year by ＜em＞The Times＜/em＞, ＜em＞The Telegraph＜/em＞, and ＜em＞History Today＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Netflix should make this enjoyable English civil war history into an epic drama. . . . You could hardly find a more engrossing or exciting story.” ーDominic Sandbrook, ＜em＞The Times＜/em＞ (London)＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“A lucid, fast-paced and exhilarating account. . . . The ＜em＞House of Cards＜/em＞-ish drama remains gripping to the last.” ーJohn Adamson, ＜em＞Literary Review＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1641, England exits a plague-ridden and politically unstable summer having reached a semblance of peace: the English and Scottish armies have disbanded, legislation has passed to ensure Parliament will continue to sit, and the people are tentatively optimistic. But King Charles I is not satisfied with peaceーhe wants revenge.＜/p＞ ＜p＞So begins England’s winter of discontent. As revolutionary sects of London begin to generate new ideas about democracy, as radical new religious groups seek power, and as Ireland explodes into revolt, Charles hatches a plan to restore his absolute rule. On January 4, 1642, he marches on Westminster, seeking to arrest and impeach five Members of Parliamentーand so sets in motion a series of events that will lead to bloodshed and war, changing a nation forever.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Blood in Winter＜/em＞ tells the story of an English people’s great political awakening. Jonathan Healey utilizes meticulous archival research to re-create the claustrophobic atmosphere of the day, with rowdy protestors in the streets and London blanketed in coal smoke. Taut and thrilling, Healey’s newest social history shows us what really happened in those fraught winter months that led to civil war. From the radical enclaves of London public houses to a king forced from his capital by the people, it is a rich tapestry of a society in profound distress.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Black Arms to Hold You Up A History of Black Resistance【電子書籍】[ Ben Passmore ]

＜p＞**A ＜em＞NEW YORK TIMES＜/em＞ BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR ? A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ? From the Ignatz and Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore comes a whirlwind graphic history of Black life, taken by force＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Virtuosic . . . refreshing . . . Every element seems packed with meaning."ー＜em＞The New York Times＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Passmore raises the scale from the personal to the historical . . . with his characteristic acerbic wit and impetuous visual style."ーNPR**＜/p＞ ＜p＞It’s the summer of 2020, and downtown Philly is up in flames. “You’re not out in the streets with everyone else?” Ronnie asks his ambivalent son, Ben, shambling in with arms full of used books: the works of Malcom X, Robert F. Williams, Assata and Sanyika Shakur, among others. “Black liberation is your fight, too.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞So begins ＜em＞Black Arms to Hold You Up,＜/em＞ a boisterous, darkly funny, and sobering march through Black militant history by political cartoonist Ben Passmore. From Robert Charles’s shootout with the police in 1900, to the Black Power movement in the 1960s, to the Los Angeles and George Floyd uprisings of the 1990s and 2020, readers will tumble through more than a century of armed resistance against the racist state alongside Benーand meet firsthand the mothers and fathers of the movement, whose stories were as tragic as they were heroic.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What, after so many decades lost to state violence, is there left to fight for? Deeply researched, vibrantly drawn, and bracingly introspective, ＜em＞Black Arms to Hold You Up＜/em＞ dares to find the answer.＜/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！】Summer of Our Discontent The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse【電子書籍】[ Thomas Chatterton Williams ]

＜p＞**An incisive, culturally observant analysis of the evolving mores, manners and taboos of social justice (“anti-racist”) orthodoxy, which has profoundly influenced how we think about diversity and freedom of expression, often with complex or paradoxical consequences.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"Summer of our Discontent＜/em＞ [is] a gift: a way of understanding what happened to us that preserves the humanity of all parties and points the way forward toward renewal.” ーJonathan Haidt, #1 ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞The Anxious Generation＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this provocative book, Thomas Chatterton Williams, one of the most revered and reviled social commentators of our time, paints a clear and detailed picture of the ideas and events that have paved the way for the dramatic paradigm shift in social justice that has taken place over the past few years. Taking aim at the ideology of critical race theory, the rise of an oppressive social media, the fall from Obama to Trump, and the twinned crises of COVID-19 and the murder of George Floyd, Williams documents the extent to which this transition has altered media, artistic creativity, education, employment, policing, and, most profoundly, the ambient language and culture we use to make sense of our lives.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Williams also decries how liberalismーthe very foundation of an open and vibrant societyーis in existential crisis, under assault from both the right and the left, especially in our predominantly networked, Internet-driven monoculture.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sure to be highly controversial, ＜em＞Summer of Our Discontent＜/em＞ is a compelling look at our place in a radically changing world.＜/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 Ultimate Evil The Search for the Sons of Sam【電子書籍】[ Maury Terry ]

＜p＞**THE TRUE CRIME CULT CLASSIC: Follow journalist Maury Terry’s decades-long investigation into the terrifying truth behind the murders of serial killer Son of Sam.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Inspired the Netflix docuseries ＜em＞The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness＜/em＞!**＜/p＞ ＜p＞On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the Son of Sam murders that had terrorized New York City for over a year. Berkowitz confessed to shooting sixteen people and killing six with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver, and the case was officially closed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Journalist Maury Terry was suspicious of Berkowitz’s confession. Spurred by conflicting witness descriptions of the killer and clues overlooked in the investigation, Terry was convinced Berkowitz didn’t act alone. Meticulously gathering evidence for a decade, he released his findings in the first edition of ＜em＞The Ultimate Evil.＜/em＞ Based upon the evidence he had uncovered, Terry theorized that the Son of Sam attacks were masterminded by a Yonkers-based cult that was responsible for other ritual murders across the country.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After Terry’s death in 2015, documentary filmmaker Josh Zeman (＜em＞Cropsey＜/em＞, ＜em＞The Killing Season＜/em＞, ＜em＞Murder Mountain＜/em＞) was given access to Terry’s files, which form the basis of his docuseries with Netflix and a companion podcast. Taken together with ＜em＞The Ultimate Evil＜/em＞, which includes a new introduction by Zeman, these works reveal the stunning intersections of power, wealth, privilege, and evil in Americaーfrom the Summer of Sam until today.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia【電子書籍】[ Harri Luukkanen ]

＜p＞＜em＞The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia＜/em＞ is a history and description of bark and skin boat traditions of the native peoples of Scandinavia and northern Russia. The history of northern peoples and cultures is inextricably linked to the technology of water transport. This is particularly true in northern Eurasia, where lakes and rivers can connect when overland summer travel is restricted by thick forests or bogs. For thousands of years, native peoples used a variety of bark and skin boats for fishing, hunting, trading, making war, and migrating.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Eurasian peoples, responding to their geography, climate, and environment, learned to construct--and perfect--small watercraft made from dug-out logs or the bark of birch, aspen, larch, and other trees, each variety crafted for its special use and environment. The text describes the design, construction, and uses of skin and bark boats for thirty-five traditional cultures ranging from northern Scandinavia to the Russian Far East, from the Bering Strait to northern China, and from South Siberia to the Arctic Ocean. Regional chapters use evidence from archaeology, historical illustrations and maps, and extensive documentation from ethnography and historical literature to reveal how differences in cultural traditions, historical relationships, climate, and geography have influenced the development and spread of watercraft before the introduction of modern planked boats.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This definitive volume is richly illustrated with historical photographs and drawings, first-person explorer accounts from the 16th-19th centuries, and information on traditional bark and skin preparation, wood-bending, and other construction techniques. ＜em＞The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia＜/em＞ presents a first-ever overview of northern Eurasian boating traditions and serves as the companion to Charles Adney's and Howard Chapelle's classic, ＜em＞The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America＜/em＞ (1964).＜/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！】Vivid Awareness The Mind Instructions of Khenpo Gangshar【電子書籍】[ Khenchen Thrangu ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Powerful guidance on how to work with strong emotions in overwhelming circumstances through Buddhist meditationーfrom a renowned Tibetan Buddhist master＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the summer of 1957, the revered Buddhist teacher and scholar Khenpo Gangshar foresaw the difficulties that would soon fall upon Tibet and began teaching in a startling new way that enabled all those who heard him to use the coming difficulties as the path of Dharma practice. The teaching consisted of the essential points of mahamudra and dzogchen, both view and practice, presented in a way that made them easy for anyone to use, even in the most difficult of circumstances.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche was one of the grateful recipients of these teachings, which he regards as among the most important he has ever been given. He transmits them here, for the benefit of all of us who strive to practice in challenging times. They include contemplations on the ephemeral nature of both joy and suffering, meditations for resting the mind, and guidance for cultivating equanimity in any situation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“These instructions are exceptionally concise and easy to follow . . . They could save your life tooーgiving you the tools to stabilize the mind even in the most terrifying and challenging of circumstances.” ー＜strong＞Pema Ch?dr?n, author of ＜em＞Taking the Leap＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate Vol. 1 1764-1772 (LOA #265)【電子書籍】[ Various ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood presents the first volume in a stunning collection of British and American pamphlets from the political debate that divided an empireーand created a nation＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1764, in the wake of its triumph in the Seven Years War, Great Britain possessed the largest and most powerful empire the world had seen since the fall of Rome and its North American colonists were justly proud of their vital place within this global colossus. Just twelve short years later the empire was in tatters, and the thirteen colonies proclaimed themselves the free and independent United States of America. In between, there occurred an extraordinary contest of words between American and Britons, and among Americans themselves, which addressed all of the most fundamental issues of politics: the nature of power, liberty, representation, rights and constitutions, and sovereignty. This debate was carried on largely in pamphlets and from the more than a thousand published on both sides of the Atlantic during the period.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Here, Gordon S. Wood has selected thirty-nine of the most interesting and important pamphlets to reveal as never before how this momentous revolution unfolded. This first of two volumes traces the debate from its first crisisーParliament's passage of the Stamp Act, which in the summer of 1765 triggered riots in American ports from Charleston, South Carolina, to Portsmouth, New Hampshireーto its crucial turning point in 1772, when the Boston Town Meeting produces a pamphlet that announces their defiance to the world and changes everything. Here in its entirety is John Dickinson's justly famous ＜em＞Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania＜/em＞, considered the most significant political tract in America prior to Thomas Paine's ＜em＞Common Sense.＜/em＞ Here too is the dramatic transcript of Benjamin Franklin's testimony before Parliament as it debated repeal of the Stamp Act, among other fascinating works. The volume includes an introduction, headnotes, a chronology of events, biographical notes about the writers, and detailed explanatory notes, all prepared by our leading expert on the American Revolution. As a special feature, each pamphlet is preceded by a typographic reproduction of its original title page.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞LIBRARY OF AMERICA＜/strong＞ is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.＜/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！】Terrestrial【電子書籍】[ Cristina Rivera Garza ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A fiercely-poetic, tenderly-observed work of nonfiction that renders an intrepid portrait of young womens' travels on the fringes of Mexico and the United States, by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of ＜em＞Liliana’s Invincible Summer＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞We come from far away and, all of a sudden, we no longer know where we are going.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this new collection of genre-defying stories by Cristina Rivera Garza, a woman tours her old lover's hometown after being abandoned by her, years earlier. Two girls ride a train in search of a lake that neither have confirmed exists. A group of workers build a temporary home, only to see it destroyed by the state.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With little baggage and much bravado, the characters in ＜em＞Terrestrial＜/em＞ hitchhike, migrate, take trains, wander or, at times, fly, to survive the mandates of patriarchy and capitalism. On dusty roads or by a lake turned suddenly ominous, they remain in close contact with the earth's surface, sensing its wild promise and menacing enclosures, its degradation and enduring beauty.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As she did in her Pulitzer Prize winning memoir ＜em＞Liliana’s Invincible Summer＜/em＞, Rivera Garza forges new forms, experimenting with structure and time as she tails the young travelers with shimmering and honest prose. Combining journalism, novelistic writing, and themes of female freedom, gore capitalism, and class struggle, ＜em＞Terrestrial＜/em＞ is a meditation about travel and distance, and our ties to the earth we tread on.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Howard Zinn on History【電子書籍】[ Howard Zinn ]

＜p＞Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter writings organized by subject. The themes he chose reflected his lifelong concerns: war, history, law, class, means and ends, and race. Throughout his life Zinn had returned again and again to these subjects, continually probing and questioning yet rarely reversing his convictions or the vision that informed them. The result was The Zinn Reader. Five years later, starting with Howard Zinn on History, updated editions of sections of that mammoth tome were published in inexpensive stand-alone editions. This second edition of Howard Zinn on History brings together twenty-seven short writings on activism, electoral politics, the Holocaust, Marxism, the Iraq War, and the role of the historian, as well as portraits of Eugene Debs, John Reed, and Jack London, effectively showing how Zinn’s approach to history evolved over nearly half a century, and at the same time sharing his fundamental thinking that social movementsーpeople getting together for peace and social justiceーcan change the course of history. That core belief never changed. Chosen by Zinn himself as the shorter writings on history he believed to have enduring valueーoriginally appearing in newspapers like the Boston Globe or the New York Times; in magazines like Z, the New Left, the Progressive, or the Nation; or in his book Failure to Quitーthese essays appear here as examples of the kind of passionate engagement he believed all historians, and indeed all citizens of whatever profession, need to have, standing in sharp contrast to the notion of "objective" or "neutral" history espoused by some. "It is time that we scholars begin to earn our keep in this world," he writes in "The Uses of Scholarship." And in "Freedom Schools," about his experiences teaching in Mississippi during the remarkable "Freedom Summer" of 1964, he adds: "Education can, and should, be dangerous."＜/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！】Retribution【電子書籍】[ Max Hastings ]

＜p＞By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan's defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained unclear. The ensuing dramaーthat ended in Japan's utter devastationーwas acted out across the vast theater of Asia in massive clashes between army, air, and naval forces.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In recounting these extraordinary events, Max Hastings draws incisive portraits of MacArthur, Mao, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and other key figures of the war in the East. But he is equally adept in his portrayals of the ordinary soldiers and sailors caught in the bloodiest of campaigns.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With its piercing and convincing analysis, ＜strong＞Retribution＜/strong＞ is a brilliant telling of an epic conflict from a master military historian at the height of his powers.＜/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！】Revolutionary Summer The Birth of American Independence【電子書籍】[ Joseph J. Ellis ]

＜p＞＜strong＞NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Accessible and electric.... [Ellis] crisply covers the decisive and improbable events of 1776.... [A] dramatic slice of history.” ー＜em＞USA Today＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to crush the rebellion in the cradle. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In a brilliant and seamless narrative, Ellis meticulously examines the most influential figures in this propitious moment, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Britain’s Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe. He weaves together the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other.＜/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 Best Kind of American A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East【電子書籍】[ Kim Ghattas ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A work of true crime following one American family’s search for the truth after a 1984 murder in war-torn Beirut, where the Iranian revolution collided with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, setting off the geopolitical conflagration that burns to this day, from acclaimed and bestselling author Kim Ghattas.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, was assassinated by a pair of gunmen outside his office. His murder, in the wake of the bombing of the U.S. Marines’ barracks, Palestinian guerrilla warfare, and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, was just one more shocking headline in a city ravaged by chaos. There was no investigation. Four decades later, the question of who killed Malcom and why still haunts Kerr’s family, including his son Steve, a now world-famous basketball player and NBA coach.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞The Best Kind of American＜/em＞, Kim Ghattas embarks on a quest to solve Kerr’s assassination, weaving together the family’s story with Lebanon’s warlords and peacemakers, Hezbollah hostage-takers and Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and American presidents from Reagan to Trump. Part nonfiction thriller, part illuminating exploration of the moment the conflict between the U.S. and Iran turned violent, this is a gripping story of survival and resilience, set at the intersection of geopolitics, hubris, and impunity.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As Ghattas unravels the murder mystery, she makes the case for 1980s Beirut as the point of origin for the policies and people who continue to drive events in the Middle East today, from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leading up to the Iran-Israel-U.S. war of summer 2025.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With the nuance, clarity, and storytelling that made ＜em＞Black Wave＜/em＞ an era-defining work on the Middle East, Ghattas delivers a riveting, deeply human sagaーa must-read for understanding why this conflict continues to shape today’s world.＜/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 Xanadu【電子書籍】[ William Dalrymple ]

＜p＞William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan.＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the age of twenty-two, Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kubla Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. As he and his companions travel across the width of Asiaーcrossing through Acre, Aleppo, Tabriz, Tashkurgan, and other mysterious and sometimes hellish placesーthey encounter dusty, forgotten roads, unexpected hospitality, and difficult challenges. Stylish, witty, and knowledgeable about everything from the dreaded order of Assassins to the hidden origins of the Three Magi, this is travel writing at its best.＜/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 Quantum and the Lotus A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet【電子書籍】[ Matthieu Ricard ]

＜p＞Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prizeーwinning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Eventually he left his life in science to study with Tibetan teachers, and he is now a Buddhist monk and translator for the Dalai Lama, living in the Shechen monastery near Kathmandu in Nepal. Trinh Thuan was born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam but became intrigued by the explosion of discoveries in astronomy during the 1960s. He made his way to the prestigious California Institute of Technology to study with some of the biggest names in the field and is now an acclaimed astrophysicist and specialist on how the galaxies formed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Thuan met at an academic conference in the summer of 1997, they began discussing the many remarkable connections between the teachings of Buddhism and the findings of recent science. That conversation grew into an astonishing correspondence exploring a series of fascinating questions. Did the universe have a beginning? Or is our universe one in a series of infinite universes with no end and no beginning? Is the concept of a beginning of time fundamentally flawed? Might our perception of time in fact be an illusion, a phenomenon created in our brains that has no ultimate reality? Is the stunning fine-tuning of the universe, which has produced just the right conditions for life to evolve, a sign that a “principle of creation” is at work in our world? If such a principle of creation undergirds the workings of the universe, what does that tell us about whether or not there is a divine Creator? How does the radical interpretation of reality offered by quantum physics conform to and yet differ from the Buddhist conception of reality? What is consciousness and how did it evolve? Can consciousness exist apart from a brain generating it?＜/p＞ ＜p＞The stimulating journey of discovery the authors traveled in their discussions is re-created beautifully in ＜strong＞The Quantum and the Lotus＜/strong＞, written in the style of a lively dialogue between friends. Both the fundamental teachings of Buddhism and the discoveries of contemporary science are introduced with great clarity, and the reader will be profoundly impressed by the many correspondences between the two streams of thought and revelation. Through the course of their dialogue, the authors reach a remarkable meeting of minds, ultimately offering a vital new understanding of the many ways in which science and Buddhism confirm and complement each other and of the ways in which, as Matthieu Ricard writes, “knowledge of our spirits and knowledge of the world are mutually enlightening and empowering.”＜/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。