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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！】Time & Circumstance【電子書籍】[ Theresa Milstein ]

＜p＞＜em＞“The trunk of this family is lost to history / Photo fragments remain as shadows”＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞With subtle wit, and poignant imagery, the unrelenting passage of time connects the vignettes in Theresa Milstein’s ＜em＞Time and Circumstance＜/em＞. This reflective collection of real and imagined poetry and prose, speculates on an erratic childhood, the uncertainty of adolescence, and the reality of parenthood, through flashbacks of love lost and found.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞“This everyday, why again, sometimes / ignored tune has measured time in notes, / seconds, minutes, days, years, and so it goes. / It’s a measure of the man he will become.”＜/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！】Tales from the Tribe A missions-focused devotional from the jungle to your home【電子書籍】[ Aaron Luse ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Tales from the Tribe＜/strong＞＜/em＞ is a missions-focused devotional book that will inspire, challenge, and educate you through incredible true stories that come to life from the jungle to your home. Get ready to see, feel, and even taste what it’s like to be a missionary living in a tribal village with stories like:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞’Twas the Night Before Christmas, and I Was Barefoot＜/li＞ ＜li＞Scaring Away the Spirits＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Trapped Parrot＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Lost Baby＜/li＞ ＜li＞How a Chicken Saved Christmas＜/li＞ ＜li＞Screams from a Stingray＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Tales from the Tribe＜/em＞ is not merely a fascinating collection of strange customs, exotic animals, and humorous situations. It is a journey of learning more about the life of tribal missionaries. Each part of the book explains the process of establishing thriving churches among the least reached people groups of the world:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Part 1: Going Worldwide＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Making a Move and Adjusting to a New Life＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Part 2: Groundwork＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Preparing Foundations through Literacy and Translation＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Part 3: Gospel Witness＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Telling the Salvation Message through Teaching and Living＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Part 4: Growing Wisely＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Training to Follow Christ Through Discipleship and the Church＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Part 5: Giving Way＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Passing the Baton to Maturing Believers and Watching Them Lead＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞The five sections of this book take you through the process of missions, from learning a tribal language and culture to seeing a thriving church established. Within those sections, for every chapter, in addition to fun village facts and tidbits of science, you will find:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞＜em＞From the Tribe＜/em＞ ? a real-life story that took place while we lived in the village＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜em＞To Your Home＜/em＞ ? a lesson that can be learned from the story＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜em＞In the Word＜/em＞ ? a passage of Scripture to read with three questions for further study＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜em＞On Your Journey＜/em＞ ? a thought to take with you as go out on your own journey＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞This book is unique in that it can be read straight through from beginning to end, in random order, or as a 35-day devotional study. It is a great tool for individual devotions and has been designed to work especially well in a small group study format.＜/p＞ ＜p＞These daily devotions take a close look at the lessons, insights, and challenges found in God's Word and their relevance for each of us today. You will be encouraged to make a difference on your side of the world and maybe on the other side 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！】Eat the Flowers Poems for the youth inside us.【電子書籍】[ Robert E. Simpson ]

＜p＞These poems began fifty-one years ago when the author began to capture his feelings and life’s events. About thirty years ago he stopped writing and put them aside to pursue his career as an attorney.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Originally everything was handwritten ? often on scraps of paper stuffed into envelopes, book jackets, photo albums or some other convenient storage hole. Every so often, the browning paper and fading ink were revisited. Surprisingly, the scraps managed to survive despite the passage of time. Occasionally, a new poem was added to the collection or an old poem was revised. Bob thought it was inconceivable that anyone else would have the slightest interest in his feelings; so, each time, back into storage the poetry went. With each return to their cubbyholes the poems managed to survive no matter how many times they were dragged around the world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Time became a concern as friends and family made their final eternal trips. With each funeral, each flower spray and each sympathy card, mortality became a reality and the need to organize and type the handwritten scraps became a priority. When Bob became ill and his injuries caught up with him and the surgeries multiplied, his mind returned to his words. It was time to see if anyone else could relate to the chronicling of so many feelings, events, disappointments, remembrances, loves and lost opportunities.＜/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！】Last Hope of Eden【電子書籍】[ T. C. Stinson ]

＜p＞Last Hope of Eden follows twin teenagers who can summon a Mighty Angel who helps them in dire times of need. Zak and Sarah learn about "their" angel through near tragedies when they're five and ten years old. They serve in the mission field with their parents in Africa, endure bullies at school, grow in their faith through adolescence, attend high school in Edinburg, Scotland and visit their Uncle Joe, Aunt Mary and cousins Airo, Run, Shy and Ruby annually on the island of Eden in the North Sea. When they're sixteen they're asked to go on a mission to rescue their cousins who've been taken from King's Forest by shadow-demons and forced into a vortex that took them to the Remnant Forest, a forest within a forest. Uncle Joe and Aunt Mary are visited by a saint who tells them the whereabouts of all the children who were taken. They'd heard legends from the local townspeople about mystical King's Forest and the missing Rings of Eden, but didn't believe them until most of the children of Eden were taken. The Twins learn about the Crossing, the Remnant Forest, the Rings of Eden and the Tree of Life and its existence on the island of Eden. They also learn about Solomon the bird of wisdom, bushes of fire, secret caverns with ancient scrolls in them, a hidden sanctuary, horned white lions, Simeon and his most powerful prayer, valley tribesmen, King David, the first war on Eden three-thousand years earlier and much more. They're told that Sargon was defeated in the first war and that he's back for revenge and is seeking the missing Rings of Eden and the Tree of Life. To rescue their cousins and save the Remnant Forest the Twins must endure attacks and deception from a mysterious man in a red hat and black overalls, from shadow-demons, Sinisters, saber-wolves, Sargon and Cyrus the sons of the leader of the dark world, a bully named Victor, demon warriors and many others. Fortunately, they're helped along the way by St. Harley, a magi, brothers Sam and Dan who lead the Remnant Forest armies, Elijah the curator of the Tent of Meeting, Joshua the Minianite, angels, the forests themselves and others. Zak and Sarah follow St. Harley through the Crossing that has shadow-demons tracing through it who are on a mission of their own to stop the Twins from entering the Remnant Forest. St. Harley leads them through the Crossing to the Passage of the Realms the entrance to the Remnant Forest. The duo are caught in a whirlpool, trapped in a natural living bridge, and Sarah's almost lost to the dark world while in the Crossing. St. Harley and Joshua know much of the history of Eden and they teach Zak and Sarah about the first war on Eden and how King David wore the Rings of Eden in battle, and they made him invincible. They learn the Remnant Forest was created by the hand of God at a pivotal moment in Eden's history when the Tree of Life was set on fire by Sargon's demon warriors. The duo takes a leap of faith into the Passage and land in the Remnant Forest where they're greeted by a half-man who leads them to the City of Levi where they meet Elijah the curator of the Tent of Meeting and learn more about Eden while looking into the Window of History. They're given a test of faith, they swim through underwater caverns, trek through forest trails that open and close for them, battle demon warriors and find the three-story heart that keeps the Remnant Forest alive. Sargon and Cyrus have a weapon never seen before in the earthly realm. Scepters of Destruction that create lightening and produce fiery tornadoes that wreak havoc on the battlefields. Sargon and his army must climb a mountain to get to the City of Levi and use the Window of History to find the Rings of Eden. Tribesmen fight off the attack of demon warriors as they climb up the mountain and the Twins join the fight with their Mighty Angel and cousins in a final battle armed with spears, swords, arrows, hope and prayer as they try to win the war between good and evil.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Where Did They Put The Guillotine?-Marie Antoinette's Last Ride-A Walking Tour of Revolutionary Paris Volume Two【電子書籍】[ Stew Ross ]

＜p＞Walk with us in the footsteps of the revolutionaries, nobles, royalty, and citizens of the French Revolution. In Volume Two, the Revolution has begun its dark descent culminating in the period called The Terror. Your first walk will take you along the exact route Marie Antoinette's cart took to the guillotine. Her one hour ride passed by Robespierre's apartment, the pharmacy where her alleged lover, Axel von Fersen, purchased the invisible ink to write her love letters, and Caf? de la R?gence where Jacques-Louis David sketched the queen sitting in the cart. Stop by the shop where Charlotte Corday purchased the knife she used to assassinate Jean-Paul Marat. Along the way, you will learn how to identify pre- and post-revolution buildings.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the next walk, The Crucible of the Revolution, you will visit the oldest coffee house in Paris. It was the principal meeting place on the Left Bank for Revolutionaries: both French and American. Nearby were the residences of George-Jacques Danton, Jean-Paul Marat, and Camille Desmoulins.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Walk Three (Bookends of Sorrow) takes you to the Passage of the Queen of Hungary where a young girl talked too much and lost her head. The original bathtub that Marat died in is part of an exhibit at the Mus?e Gr?vin.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Finally, you will visit the site of the cemetery where the Place de la R?volution guillotine victims remains were thrown. One of the highlights of Walk Four is the Paris Catacombs. A subterranean ossuary, more than six million skeletons (i.e., bones) have been assembled and stacked throughout its various chambers. Don't miss this one.＜/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！】Beyond Constraint Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition【電子書籍】[ Shona N. Jackson ]

＜p＞In ＜em＞Beyond Constraint＜/em＞, Shona N. Jackson offers a new approach to labour and its analysis by demonstrating the fundamental relation between black and Indigenous People’s sovereign, free, and coerced labour in the Americas. Through the writings of Cedric Robinson, Walter Rodney, C. L. R. James, and Sylvia Wynter, Jackson confronts the elision of Indigenous People’s labour in the black radical tradition. She argues that this elision is an effect of the structural relation of antiblackness to anti-indigeneity through which native and black bodies are arranged on either side of a split between unproductive labour and productive work necessary for capital accumulation ＜em＞and＜/em＞ for how we read capital in political economic critique. This division between labour and work forces the radical tradition to sustain the break between black and Indigenous peoples as part of its critical strategies of liberation. To address this impasse, Jackson reads the tradition against the grain for openings to indigeneity and a method for recovering lost labours.＜/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 Stroll In The ... Garden A Love Story【電子書籍】[ Claudio Raspollini ]

＜p＞This collection of poems was born from a project, that of writing significant moments of our lives as men, aroused by the reading of passages, significant for me of the Bible.＜br /＞ Beginning with the passage from Genesis that speaks of the lost Paradise, Eden.＜br /＞ From that place from which we all come and to which we all tend.＜br /＞ If we strip ourselves of our desires, of the desire to be the center of the universe, the god to whom we sacrifice everything starting from health, love, children, money, then we will discover within us the desire to return to Jesus, the desire to be loved simply for what we are.＜br /＞ If we let the child who cries out in the depths of the soul speak, then in that darkness we will discover His light, His love.＜br /＞ We will finally see who we are and His outstretched hand ready to lead us with Him forever.＜br /＞ This collection of poems is made up of three moments of my life's journey and a moment of contemplation.＜/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！】Ok Now What? A Caregiver's Guide to What Matters【電子書籍】[ Sue Collins ]

＜p＞What matters most when someone close to you has been diagnosed as terminal? Time and quality of life for both of you. Coping with both the practical and emotional questions of this challenging passage. Every death is individual -- as is the walk toward that death both for the one leaving and the ones they leave behind. What truly matters between human beings while taking care of the business of living at the end of life is what this book is about.It offers: ?Practical tips for coping with the physical changes that will impact both the person and the caregiver emotionally, physically, financially and spiritually. ?Advice on paperwork to make things a little easier for the caregiver and for those they leave behind. ?The stories of others; we are not alone ?Tips for friends, neighbors, colleagues or any other part of the relationships we all share in life. There is no perfect way to walk through this time in life. But there are good ways to do it. Focusing on what matters while taking care of the practical business of living and dying can make this walk slightly less scary and more rewarding for everyone. How to use this book: Browse the chapter headings; skip around in the TIPS for ways to approach or solve specific problems. Search the Sources at the end of the chapters for additional information. Read the stories of others' experiences. For the co-worker, the friend and the neighbor, this book offers advice and helpful hints on what to say or do as well as what not to say or do. For the loved one, spouse, and relative it's a practical guide to what you might expect at each stage and offers realistic and reasonable coping strategies. It includes examples born of the experience of a range of people -- professionals in the field as well as no-professionals like yourself -- of what you might experience on this difficult journey.Yet, as we've said, each death is individual just as are the relationships, personalities and personal dynamics involved in each death. Despite the individuality of experience, there are also issues and threads that are universal in human life. This book can act as a practical guide, an encouraging friend, and support, and offers hope for the best possible experience as you help to walk someone home. Across America, 43.5 million people, (nearly one in five adults) care for a loved one 50 or older according to AARP.The Writers:Sue Collins has been a nurse for 38 years and a hospice nurse for 28 years. She has the extensive experience of the professional caregiver and has seen virtually everything at the end of life. As much as anything this book arises out of the OMG!I-can't-believe-they-said-that/did-that moments as well as the anger, frustration, grace and poignancy she has witnessed during the last days of patients for whom she has cared.Nancy Taylor Robson, author of three other books, lost her father to bone cancer, which took approximately three years from diagnosis to departure, and her mother-in-law to a long decline and a series of strokes. She has sat by deathbeds and seen more than one friend through the last months, weeks, days and hours of life and knows that as painful a journey as this is, there can be gifts and blessings along the way. She knows, (at least intellectually), that none of us is getting out of here alive.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Every death is individual.What truly matters between human beings at this time? It offers: tips for coping with the physical challenges; advice on paperwork and practicalities; stories; humor. Browse the chapter headings. Skip around in TIPS. Search the Sources lists. Read the stories.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book is a guide, an encouraging friend and support, and offers hope for the best possible experience as you help to walk someone 'home.'＜/p＞ ＜p＞Across America, 43.5 million people, Nearly one in five adults cares for a loved one 50 or older according to AARP.＜/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！】Shelter from the Storm Resting in the Promises of God【電子書籍】[ Andrew Maloney ]

＜p＞The storms of life threaten all of us at one time or another, leaving us feeling lost, alone and without any hope. We all face adversities in the name of relationships, physical and mental health, the pain of loss, work stress, finances and persecution. Our relationship with Jesus Christ does not always exclude us from all the unpleasant circumstances life sometimes throws our way. But the Bible makes it clear that when we turn our lives over to God and pursue Him wholeheartedly, He will never leave us nor forsake us (Deuteronomy 31:6), no matter what our temporary situation looks like in the natural. The truth is, we are never alone, and there is a Friend who sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24), granting to us out of His great mercy an inexhaustible supply of power and love to weather any life-storm we face. Through it all, He ensures we are more than conquerors. (Romans 8:37)＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is the second of two volumes in a year-long daily devotional that highlights nearly a hundred of the most comforting and powerful verses on how God is our Shelter from the storm. Streamlined commentary unveils the truth of each passage and offers practical application to incorporate in one’s daily life. This devotional outlines the source material for your unwavering faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and offers biblical proof that we will be carried through the storm and rise above!＜/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 Kick in the Belly Women, Slavery and Resistance【電子書籍】[ Stella Dadzie ]

＜p＞The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle for liberation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the lives of women who played a vital role in developing a culture of slave resistance across the Caribbean.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dadzie follows a savage trail from Elmina Castle in Ghana and the horrors of the Middle Passage, as slaves were transported across the Atlantic, to the sugar plantations of Jamaica and beyond. She reveals women who were central to slave rebellions and liberation. There are African queens, such as Amina, who led a 20,000-strong army. There is Mary Prince, sold at twelve years old, never to see her sisters or mother again. Asante Nanny the Maroon, the legendary obeah sorceress, who guided the rebel forces in the Blue Mountains during the First Maroon War.＜br /＞ Whether responding to the horrendous conditions of plantation life, the sadistic vagaries of their captors or the 'peculiar burdens of their sex', their collective sanity relied on a highly subversive adaptation of the values and cultures they smuggled from their lost homes. By sustaining or adapting remembered cultural practices, they ensured that the lives of chattel slaves retained both meaning and purpose. ＜em＞A Kick in the Belly＜/em＞ makes clear that subtle acts of insubordination and conscious acts of rebellion came to undermine the very fabric of West Indian slavery.＜/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！】Dead Reckoning Transatlantic Passages on Europe and America【電子書籍】[ Andrei Guruianu ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A poet and essayist attempt to find their bearings in a civilization lost at sea.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dead reckoning is the nautical term for calculating a ship's position using the distance and direction traveled rather than instruments or astronomical observation. For those still recovering from the atrocities of the twentieth century, however, the term has an even grimmer meaning: toting up the butcher's bill of war and genocide.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As its title suggests, ＜em＞Dead Reckoning＜/em＞ is an attempt to find our bearings in a civilization lost at sea. Conducted in the shadow of the centennial of the First World War, this dialogue between Romanian American poet Andrei Guruianu and Italian American essayist Anthony Di Renzo asks whether Western culture will successfully navigate the difficult waters of the new millennium or shipwreck itself on the mistakes of the past two centuries. Using historical and contemporary examples, they explore such topics as the limitations of memory, the transience of existence, the futility of history, and the difficulties of making art and meaning in the twenty-first century.＜/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 Plague of Lust, Vol. I (of 2) Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity【電子書籍】[ Julius Rosenbaum ]

＜p＞The Plague of Lust, Vol. I (of 2)＜br /＞ Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity＜br /＞ Author: Julius Rosenbaum＜/p＞ ＜p＞Excerpt from The Plague of Lust, Vol. 1 of 2: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical AntiquityTO Historical Students and Medical Specialists alike it is Of the highest value and interest and in many respects an indispensable addition to their Library. The Object the Writer proposed to himself was a History of Venereal Disease, to trace its existence, symptoms, and incidence, from the earliest notices of its occurrence recorded in Literature onwards. This ambitious program he has only partially carried out in the present Work, which forms Part I. Of the projected Treatise as a whole, and deals with the Disease under its various forms and successive manifestations throughout Antiquity.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Table of Contents＜br /＞ Transcriber’s Notes＜br /＞ THE PLAGUE OF LUST,＜br /＞ TRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD.＜br /＞ AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE FIRST (GERMAN) EDITION.＜br /＞ CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.＜br /＞ INTRODUCTION.＜br /＞ Conception and Contents of the History of a Disease in general.＜br /＞ Possibility of the History of a Disease in General and of Venereal Disease in Particular.＜br /＞ Abstract of Opinions advanced at various Periods on the question of the Antiquity and First Rise of the Venereal Disease.＜br /＞ General Scheme of Treatment.＜br /＞ AUTHORITIES.＜br /＞ FIRST SECTION.＜br /＞ Influences that promoted the generation of Disease consequent upon the Use or Misuse of the Genital Organs.＜br /＞ § 1.＜br /＞ The Cult of Venus11.＜br /＞ § 2.＜br /＞ § 3.＜br /＞ § 4.＜br /＞ § 5.＜br /＞ The Lingam and Phallic Worship.＜br /＞ § 6.＜br /＞ § 7.＜br /＞ Plague of Baal-Peor.＜br /＞ § 8.＜br /＞ § 9.＜br /＞ Brothels and Courtesans111.＜br /＞ § 10.＜br /＞ § 11.＜br /＞ Paederastia.＜br /＞ § 12.＜br /＞ Diseases consequent on Paederastia.＜br /＞ § 13.＜br /＞ Νο?σο? Θ?λεια (Feminine Disease)293.＜br /＞ § 14.＜br /＞ § 15.＜br /＞ § 16.＜br /＞ § 17.＜br /＞ § 18.＜br /＞ § 19.＜br /＞ § 20.＜br /＞ BIBLIOGRAPHY. AUTHORITIES AND HISTORIANS.＜br /＞ BIBLIOGRAPHY. Authorities.＜br /＞ BIBLIOGRAPHY. Historians.＜br /＞ INDEX OF GREEK AND LATIN WORDS EXPLAINED IN THE TEXT, AND OF THE SUBJECTS DISCUSSED IN BOTH VOLUMES＜br /＞ INDEX OF AUTHORS EXPLAINED OR EMENDED.＜br /＞ INDEX OF GREEK WORDS EXPLAINED.＜br /＞ INDEX OF LATIN WORDS EXPLAINED.＜br /＞ INDEX OF SUBJECTS.＜br /＞ FOOTNOTES:＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is now six years ago, during my residence in Berlin, and with a view to a historical Survey of miliary fevers, that I began a closer and more systematic study of the Epidemics of the XVth. and XVIth. Centuries. In the course of these inquiries, my attention was inevitably directed to the subject of Venereal disease, which exerted so powerful an influence at that epoch both on the physical and the moral life of nations. Accustomed as I was to regard History as being something more than a mere quasi-mechanical aggregation of facts, the observation was soon borne in upon me that only through a painstaking examination of the contemporary conditions of epidemic disease could the Venereal Disease of the period be really understood. Consequently, I felt I must isolate this terrible scourge of humanity from the general survey,ーso general as to be well-nigh all-embracing,ーand consider it as a ph?nomenon apart.＜br /＞ Once started on these lines, I occupied myself especially with the subject, and arrived at the surprising result, that the Venereal Disease of the XVth. Century owed its terrible characteristics solely and entirely to the contemporary exanthematic-typho?dal Genius Epidemicus, which made itself known in the South of Europe by petechial fevers and by the Sudor Anglicus (English Sweating-fever) in the North. I concluded further that the disease was not epidemic at all, merely liable to arise under the epidemic influence; and must consequently have been already extant before the arrival of the said Genius Epidemics.＜br /＞ Time and circumstances compelled me to remain satisfied provisionally with this general conclusion, and only after I had fixed my abode permanently at Halle, could I resume my earlier investigations. Yet again these were interrupted, partly by my work on the Diseases of the Skin for the Dictionary of Surgery edited by Prof. Blasius, partly by my Habilitation (formal entry on the Staff) at the University of that place, to which I had been repeatedly invited after the unexpected death of the late Dr. Baumgarten-Crusius. Eventually, I was enabled to devote the greater part of my leisure hours to this subject, one which in the meantime was never quite lost sight of. I began to sift and arrange the material I found accumulated, but in a short time I convinced myself that in its treatment I had to strike out a different road from that followed hitherto if I ever intended on my own account to reach important results; and I felt it would be impossible to complete the whole Survey in a single moderate-sized volume. Consequently, I proceeded to limit myself to the inquiry whether or no Venereal disease had been extant in Ancient times, and it is this investigation that I now publish as a first Part of the History of Venereal disease.＜br /＞ The general plan I have followed in my treatment of the subject is sufficiently explained in the Introduction; while a perusal of the text will show in what relation my investigations stand towards those of my predecessors, and at the same time to what extent these have been made use of, or indeed could be made use of, in my work. Owing to the very nature of the subject the Survey as a whole was bound to assume a critical character, dealing as it does not solely with the history of the Disease, but also with the examination of an extensive array of views and opinions already formulated. The conduct of this examination I leave the reader to judge of; but I believe I can confidently assert it was always the matter, never the man, that I subjected to critical treatment. Accordingly, I laid little stress on brilliant results, and made no effort to conceal lack of facts by dazzling hypotheses; instead, I made it my supreme object to come at the truth as near as possible and preferred to confess my ignorance, if the help and authorities I had at my disposal failed me, rather than advance propositions the baselessness of which a sober criticism is only too soon in a position to demonstrate.＜br /＞ “I imposed this law on myselfーto believe no man’s mere assertion; to depend on original authorities; to look at every passage with my own eyes, and read it in connexion with its context; to pick out the plain fact observed from the Chaos of hypotheses, and to accept as exact only what I could deduce from the authorities myself and see to be the evident purport of the observation,ーabsolutely unconcerned how each arbitrary theory might be affected or the sacrosanct authority of such or such a Scholar stand or fall. Why should we deem great men infallible? why find it impossible to honor them and yet dissent from them in your opinion?ーI felt I owed to my reader corresponding impartiality in the statement of the facts and arguments based upon them. If I was determined to take nothing on trust but to examine and see for myself, I could not reasonably demand faith from the reader and refuse to communicate to him the proofs and original documents I had drawn upon. It was no case of mere quotation from books,ーI was bound to lay open the original evidence for his inspection.” These words of Hensler’s I took as my guiding-principle, and if I have deviated from their standard in the Third Section, this only happened because the greater part of the passages there quoted have been repeatedly handled by my predecessors, and I feared to increase the bulk and consequently the cost of the Book to the prejudice of the reader.＜br /＞ I am well aware that the method I have adopted hardly corresponds with the taste of the present day; and if the public choose to find in my work nothing but an idle display of quotations, I cannot fail to be mortified. Nevertheless, I prefer to encounter, if needs be, the reproach of pedantry rather than that of superficiality. With the difficulties, I met with in connection with particular investigations I need not trouble the reader at greater length, as they are sufficiently familiar to everyone engaged in similar researches. I may be allowed to point out what a task was presented by the co-ordination of so considerable a number of scattered data. These I had, in the almost total absence of earlier works on the same subject, to collect mostly by my own reading from very widely separated Authors; and anything like the symmetry of arrangement was made still more difficult when, as occurred more than once, the discovery of a single passage forced me to entirely re-write a substantial part of my manuscript, often within a short time of its going to Press. For the same reason, the indulgent reader must excuse it, if here and there a later observation involves the supplementing and in some degree correcting of a previous statement,ーa thing that would have been done much more frequently had I not dreaded treating my material in too rambling a fashion. It would be quite easy now to subjoin in the form of appendices a multitude of additional proofs, of course only corroborating views already laid down,ーproofs I owed to further reading of the Ancient authors. However absolute completeness is impossible of attainment for the individual; and I can only hope the humble request I hereby express,ーa request addressed especially to professional students of Antiquity,ーthat others may favor me with contributions and remarks relevant to my subject, maybe not entirely without result. So later on perhaps the material accumulated may be utilized more efficiently if the interest manifested by the learned in my undertaking is of such a nature as to demand a re-mode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！】An Iceberg in Paradise A Passage through Alzheimer's【電子書籍】[ Nancy Avery Dafoe ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Offers a healing and insightful examination of the issues involved in Alzheimer's for family and caregivers.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this evocative memoir, Nancy Avery Dafoe shares the heart-wrenching experience of caring for her ailing mother as she struggled, and ultimately lost her battle, with Alzheimer's disease. Weaving poetry throughout, Dafoe tells her family's story in the hope of helping those who are navigating the murky waters of Alzheimer's. She presents different approaches and practical advice for dealing with the difficult life transition that occurs when parents become ill. At its center, ＜em＞An Iceberg in Paradise＜/em＞ is not only a tribute to love in the face of loss but also an exploration of memory, our human connections, and holding on until there is nothing left to hold.＜/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！】Heart of Darkness【電子書籍】[ Joseph Conrad ]

＜p＞Aboard the Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors how he became captain of a river steamboat for an ivory trading company. As a child, Marlow had been fascinated by "the blank spaces" on maps, particularly by the biggest, which by the time he had grown up was no longer blank but turned into "a place of darkness". Yet there remained a big river, "resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country and its tail lost in the depths of the land". The image of this river on the map fascinated Marlow "as a snake would a bird". Feeling as though "instead of going to the centre of a continent I were about to set off for the centre of the earth", Marlow takes passage on a French steamer bound for the African coast and then into the interior. After more than thirty days the ship anchors off the seat of government near the mouth of the big river. Marlow, with 200 mi (320 km) to go yet, takes passage on a little sea-going steamer captained by a Swede. He departs some 30 mi (50 km) up the river where his company's station is. Work on the railway is going on, involving removal of rocks with explosives. Marlow enters a narrow ravine to stroll in the shade under the trees, and finds himself in "the gloomy circle of some Inferno": the place is full of diseased Africans who worked on the railroad and now lie sick and gaunt, awaiting death. Marlow witnesses the scene "horror-struck".＜/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！】Painful Passage, Joyful Journey A Memoir, the Story of God and Me【電子書籍】[ Susan A. Cooper ]

＜p＞Painful Passage, Joyful Journey is the narrative of my personal experiences as viewed through multiple lens: the six-year-old child so violently wretched from a loving family by the murder/suicide of her parents, the little girl who lost her big brother as they were physically and emotionally separated for life, the decade of abuse in the house of a relative, the wounded adult confronting the past in order to have a future, the healed survivor reexamining six-plus decades of lies and betrayals, and in the midst of it all, the constant presence of a loving 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！】God's Perfect Timing【電子書籍】[ Dr. Melvin Woodard ]

＜p＞We are creatures of time. It affects every moment of our lives. Yet when we study the Bible, our focus tends to be on principles and personalities rather than on how the events of redemptive history were perfectly timed by God. Since my own study of the Bible's timeline opened my eyes to some of God's biggest truths, my goal is to introduce as many people as possible to the rich experience of studying Scripture with a focus on God's timing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Second Peter 3:8 states, "But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day" (NKJV). How accurate a statement it is isn't the question at the moment. What's important is this passage suggests that a day of time is much different for God than it is for us. The Creator's day is not equal to the creature's day. It is hard for me to comprehend how a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day, but that is how it appears to God.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Almighty stands outside of time. He created time and operates within it when He chooses. God can move in and out of time as He desires. Wayne Grudem rightfully states, "It is evident throughout Scripture that God acts within time and acts differently at different points in time." (1)＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Bible records what God has done in the past and what He plans to do in the future to bring us to salvation. If we study Scripture well, we will discover a number of important things about how God operates. From the very beginning of human history, man has needed a Savior (see Genesis 3:15). Jesus Christ came the first time nearly 2,000 years ago, and we are waiting for Him to return to finish what He started.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The worldwide church needs to be awake when Jesus Christ returns. Believers dare not be like the disciples who fell asleep in the garden of Gethsemane, failing to pray and keep watch with Jesus (Matthew 26:36-46). If we are spiritually asleep when Jesus returns, we will miss one of the greatest moments in the history of the world. We must keep our lamps trimmed and burning.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It's crucial for us to pay attention to the Bible's timeline. The purpose of this book is to give you (the reader) important keys to help you better understand God's plan and His character, through studying the time frame of Scripture. It begins by putting a date on I Kings 6:1 and then methodically walking through the Word of God. The book of Revelation instructs us that an end to the time of grace and salvation will come, and that time is approaching quickly. We must use the precious time we have to reach the lost-those who have yet to receive Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as their personal Savior. He is the true Savior of the world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through my countless hours of study into God's timing I have become a different person. I fully know and trust that God will act when He is ready according to His timetable. He has taught me to be patient and endure difficult circumstances with a sense of hope and expectancy. I hope this book will do the same for you. May God open your eyes to the wonders of His perfect timing as you read 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！】The Royal Princess and the Three Magical Gifts【電子書籍】[ Ronnie Smith ]

＜p＞![Image 1][]A very inquisitive young princess is about to explore the world outside her royal castle located on the highest mountain in the kingdom. This is a story of her coming of age in a time of magic and adventure. In her rite of passage into womanhood her parents, the king and queen, give her three magical gifts to take with her as she sets off to explore the kingdom she will one day rule as queen. She is directed by her father not to return until she has found one unknown, secret gift. She is told that only she will recognize this one vital gift which she will need to rule justly and lovingly over the people.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Thieves, bandits, lost children, and wise elders encounter the princess, who, traveling in disguise engages in adventures of the heart, mind, and body. She returns to the royal mountain with quite an array of experiences and victories.＜/p＞ ＜p＞[Image 1]:＜/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！】Palimpsests of Dream Dweller Between the Waters【電子書籍】[ Anna Drago Jones ]

＜p＞The Palimpsests of Dream is a mosaic story made up of eleven short stories, each describing one dream.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Eleven dreams, written in different sections of space and time, intertwine to tell us the legend of a lost manuscript that holds the ancient secret of creation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞She, that does not exist, carried the world of words through a dream. She stored her poems somewhere in the desert. The only signposts to the book that represents the beginning and end of everything are the moon, stars, and cross. The map leading to the words-built temple is inscribed in the ancient arcane of tarot cards.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From one card to another, the passage leads through a dream.＜/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 Wreck of HMS Speedy The Tragedy That Shook Upper Canada【電子書籍】[ Dan Buchanan ]

＜p＞The sinking of HMS ＜em＞Speedy＜/em＞ in 1804 off Presqu’ile Point was more than a tragic loss of the twenty souls on boardーit had shocking and far-reaching repercussions for the young colony of Upper Canada.＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the centre of it all is Ogetonicut, a Mississauga First Nations man charged with murdering John Sharp, a white trader. As Ogetonicut’s trial drew near, it was moved east to Newcastle for fear of angering the indigenous community that was gathering at York. With the shipping season coming to a close, the HMS ＜em＞Speedy＜/em＞ set sail with the accused and the legal elite of the young colony on board. But on the night of October 8, the ＜em＞Speedy＜/em＞ was lost in a violent storm; there were no survivors and the ship could not be found.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The mystery surrounding the ill-fated vessel has continued for more than two centuries, despite the efforts of commercial diver Ed Burtt, who began a search for the ＜em＞Speedy＜/em＞ in the early 1990s. Were the remains he located at the bottom of Lake Ontario from the lost ship? Were valuable copies of the ＜em＞Statutes of Upper Canada＜/em＞ on board? What evidence lay in the untouched artifacts Burtt found?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Based on unparalleled access to archival documents and to all Ed Burtt’s unpublished research and records, this is a meticulously researched look at a fascinating episode in Canadian historyーthe story of the ship and those who sailed her, the modern-day search for the wreck, a First Nations protagonist and perspective, the legal personalities and colonial government of the timeーand a unique social history of early Canada.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“A maritime mystery drives this powerful narrative; but the greatest strength of ＜em＞The Wreck of HMS Speedy＜/em＞ may be its evocation of a time, a place, and a cultural clash spawned by misunderstanding. Buchanan has done his research and it shows. This one’s a keeper.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞ーKen McGoogan is the author of fifteen books, including ＜em＞Flight of the Highlanders＜/em＞, ＜em＞Dead Reckoning＜/em＞, ＜em＞50 Canadians Who Changed the World＜/em＞, ＜em＞How the Scots Invented Canada＜/em＞, ＜em＞Fatal Passage＜/em＞ and more.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“＜em＞HMS Speedy: The Tragic Voyage That Shook Upper Canada＜/em＞ is a terrific pageーturnerーa vivid recreation of a story that rocked 1804 Upper Canada. More than a story of a shipwreck, Dan Buchanan captures the swirl of events from a murder to an arrest, and the political decision that led to twenty people drowning on Lake Ontario.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞ーDavid Raymont, Past President, York Pioneer and Historical Society, Toronto＜/p＞ ＜p＞“HMS ＜em＞Speedy＜/em＞ had one stop along the way on its last journey of the season, to discharge passengers destined to attend a murder trial, including an accused prisoner chained in its hold. But the ＜em＞Speedy＜/em＞ never reached its destination; the trial didn’t take place; and it was almost two hundred years before a dedicated local diver sighted what he believed to be the wreck of the vessel in shallow water off Presqu’ile Provincial Park near the small community of Brighton. How did this marine tragedy change history? And is the discovered wreck really the remains of the HMS ＜em＞Speedy＜/em＞? You need to read this book to find out.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞ーPeter Lockyer, Owner/operator of History Lives Here, Picton, Prince Edward County＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Dan’s knack for pinning all relevant information to the personal lives of the characters that he is researching lends a human warmth to the book, and his meticulous research lends authenticity to his theories. In short, Dan presents local history as your stories, the way your favourite aunt or uncle would recount a fascinating family legend that you enjoyed hearing over and over.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞ーPhil Spencer was a member of the H.M.S. Speedy Foundation and lives on the north shore of Presqu’ile Bay directly north of the Speedy site.＜/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！】Aqua Haze【電子書籍】[ Harry L. Barok ]

＜p＞Ginger Holt, a gorgeous writer, discovers a handsome stranger, washed up on a St. Thomas beach! After reviving him, she calls the police, but he vanishes! Our handsome one returns, but he's lost his memory! Nicknamed Rob Wilson, by Ginger, the duo uses the internet and their guile to track down Rob's identity. They also search for Rob's attackers, as he has a gash on his forehead! Clues are revealed in Drake's Passage and the Virgin Islands. In Miami, the two discover Rob's true identity! Rob and his buddies than remodel a boat, and seek revenge upon his enemies!＜/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！】To Seek and to Save Daily Reflections on the Road to the Cross【電子書籍】[ Sinclair B. Ferguson ]

＜p＞Journey with Jesus on the road to Jerusalem with these reflections for Lent by Sinclair Ferguson. As you walk through the second half of Luke’s Gospel, you'll meet the people Jesus encountered on the way to the crossーand prepare your heart to appreciate his death and resurrection afresh.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Each day you'll be invited to:＜br /＞ ? Read a passage of Luke's Gospel and a short meditation by Sinclair Ferguson＜br /＞ ? Reflect on a thought-provoking question＜br /＞ ? Respond in prayer and praise as you journal＜/p＞ ＜p＞Pithy yet profound, these devotions will hold up a mirror to your own heart and, more importantly, give you a window into the heart of the Lord Jesusーthe one who came to seek and to save the lost at Easter.＜/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 Goddess: A Demon【電子書籍】[ Richard Marsh ]

＜p＞I was sure that I had seen Edwin Lawrence juggle with the pack. As I lay there wide awake in bed it all came back to me. I wondered how I could have been such an unspeakable idiot. We had dined together at the Trocadero; then we had gone on to the Empire. The big music hall was packed with people, the heat was insufferable.＜br /＞ “Let’s get out of this,” suggested Lawrence, almost as soon as we were in. “This crush, in this atmosphere, is not to be borne.” I agreed with him. We left. “Come into my place for an hour,” he said.＜br /＞ We both lived in Imperial Mansions, on the same floor. His number was 64, mine was 79. You went out of his door, along the passage, round the corner to the rightーthe second door on the right was mine. I went in with him.＜br /＞ “What do you say to a little gamble?” he asked. “It will be better than nothing.”＜br /＞ I agreed. We had a little gambleーat first for trivial stakes. I am an abstemious man. I had already drunk more than I was accustomed to. At his invitation I drank still more. We increased the stakes. I really do not know from whom the suggestion came, I know that I did not object. I had lost all my ready money. I kept on losing. He was dotting down, on a piece of paper, the extent of my indebtedness. Presently, when he announced the sum total, I was amazed to learn that it was very much more than I imaginedーactually nearly a thousand pounds. On the instant I was wide awake.＜/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！】Tales from Shakespeare Classic Illustrated【電子書籍】[ Charles Lamb ]

＜p＞The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, for which purpose his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent are has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In those tales which have been taken from the Tragedies, the young readers will perceive, when they come to see the source from which these stories are derived, that Shakespeare's own words, with little alteration, recur very frequently in the narrative as well as in the dialogue; but in those made from the Comedies the writers found themselves scarcely ever able to turn his words into the narrative form: therefore it is feared that, in them, dialogue has been made use of too frequently for young people not accustomed to the dramatic form of writing. But this fault, if it be a fault, has been caused by an earnest wish to give as much of Shakespeare's own words as possible: and if the 'He said,' and 'She said,' the question and the reply, should sometimes seem tedious to their young ears, they must pardon it, because it was the only way in which could be given to them a few hints and little foretastes of the great pleasure which awaits them in their elder years, when they come to the rich treasures from which these small and valueless coins are extracted; pretending to no other merit than as faint and imperfect stamps of Shakespeare's matchless image. Faint and imperfect images they must be called, because the beauty of his language is too frequently destroyed by the necessity of changing many of his excellent words into words far less expressive of his true sense, to make it read something like prose; and even in some few places, where his blank verse is given unaltered, as hoping from its simple plainness to cheat the young reader into the belief that they are reading prose, yet still his language being transplanted from its own natural soil and wild poetic garden, it must want much of its native beauty.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It has been wished to make these Tales easy reading for very young children. To the utmost of their ability the writers have constantly kept this in mind; but the subjects of most of them made this a very difficult task. It was no easy matter to give the histories of men and women in terms familiar to the apprehension of a very young mind. For young ladies too, it has been the intention chiefly to write; because boys being generally permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls are, they frequently have the best scenes of Shakespeare by heart, before their sisters are permitted to look into this manly book; and, therefore, instead of recommending these Tales to the perusal of young gentlemen who can read them so much better in the originals, their kind assistance is rather requested in explaining to their sisters such parts as are hardest for them to understand: and when they have helped them to get over the difficulties, then perhaps they will read to them (carefully selecting what is proper for a young sister's ear) some passage which has pleased them in one of these stories, in the very words of the scene from which it is taken; and it is hoped they will find that the beautiful extracts, the select passages, they may choose to give their sisters in this way will be much better relished and understood from their having some notion of the general story from one of these imperfect abridgments; which if they be fortunately so done as to prove delightful to any of the young readers, it is hoped that no worse effect will result than to make them wish themselves a little older, that they may be allowed to read the Plays at full length (such a wish will be neither peevish nor irrational). When time and leave of judicious friends shall put them into their hands, they will discover in such of them as are here abridged (not to mention almost as many more, which are left untouched) many surprising events and turns of fortune, which for their infinite variety could not be contained in this little book, besides a world of sprightly and cheerful characters, both men and women, the humour of which it was feared would be lost if it were attempted to reduce the length of them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What these Tales shall have been to the young readers, that and much more it is the writers' wish that the true Plays of Shakespeare may prove to them in older years enrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a withdrawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a lesson of all sweet and honourable thoughts and actions, to teach courtesy, benignity, generosity, humanity: for of examples, teaching these virtues, his pages are full.＜/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！】Dark Days【電子書籍】[ D.W. Saur ]

＜p＞"A chosen one can come not only during dark times, but also on the brink of them." The dark times about to grace Sori are marked by a mysterious, ghost-like figure who begins to upset the balance the land has come to enjoy, manipulating members of the Galenvarg and Veirlintu sects into rebellion against the Duine. But hope for peace is not lost; the goddess Nantosuelta has selected her chosen one, a Leigheasan named Maya.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Maya is independent, curious, a skilled hunter, and a master smith, and unique among her kind in her connection to the land. But, sensing that she has an unrevealed purpose, she has yet to undertake her clan's rite of passage, and isolates herself from her peers. With Nantosuelta's blessing, Maya begins her quest to find her powers, prevent war, and establish herself as leader among the Leigheasan. But can she rally the clans in time to confront the dark days ahead?＜/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！】What Lives Beneath【電子書籍】[ Annie Reed ]

＜p＞＜em＞Leave the path at your peril. Especially when the path marks the only safe passage through an underground city buried deep beneath the surface of the modern world.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Karen enjoys her work as a guide for the City Beneath the City tourーexcept for the occasional problem tourist, like the two twelve-year-old boys who ditched Karen’s group to go exploring on their own.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The first city known as Moretown Bay disappeared beneath the mud over a hundred years ago. Thanks to a few well-placed spells, a handful of those old buildings give modern tourists a glimpse into the city’s past.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But danger lies beyond the safety of the tour. Unstable buildings. Shifting mud. Passageways that come and go seemingly by magic.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Finding two lost boys turns into a desperate fight for survival against the things that live deep under the old, buried city in this exciting story from the ＜em＞Mazes and Labyrinths＜/em＞ issue of ＜em＞The Uncollected Anthology＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“One of the best writers I’ve come across in years.” Kristine Kathryn Rusch, award-winning author and editor＜/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 Hidden Kingdom【電子書籍】[ Woo-Seoc Hann ]

＜p＞Angkor Wat is a historic site located in the north-central part of Cambodia. Angkor Wat itself refers to a temple, with numerous small temples scattered around it, such as Ta Prohm and Preah Khan, centered on the large ancient city of Angkor Thom and the central Bayon.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This civilizations built in 12C are abandoned for the unusual climate change and completely forgotten for several hundreds until French naturalist Henri Mouhot visited this ruins in 1860 and published a travel note in 1863. It was recognized for the discovery of "The Lost City of Angkor".＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Angkor civilizations attract travellers and especially photographers with their mysterious and unique scenes of old temple ruins and giant trees covering them. It is nominated as UNESCO World Heritage in 1992.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Although the Angkor temple is huge and the center of the Angkor civilization, Ta Prohm and Preah Khan, where temples and trees are entangled, are much more attractive to photographers. Especially, these sites are mysterious and even scary early in the morning and late in thee afternoon with any travellers.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is also worthwhile to look for sculptures hidden in every corner of the temple. Some of them are buried in the ground in half, and some are broken into pieces, to see the passage of time vividly, revealing the passage of time vividly.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Angkor Wat Temple is famous for its sunrise photo points. If you could find an appropriate shooting location, you can compose the sun hanging the main spire of the temple.＜/p＞ ＜p＞To the contrary, Phnom Bakheng is famous for its sunset point. It is also fun to sit on the tower and watch the sunset.＜/p＞ ＜p＞There is a place called Phnom Kuen, quite far from the main Angkor ruins, and after you get there you have to walk up to the valley on the mountainside. There are various sculptures submerged in the water. You don't have to go to this site on purpose, but if you can afford it, it is a good idea to visit there, because there is a beautiful site called Benteay Srey.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I visited Angkor 3 times in 2007, 2009, and 2011 and took about 8,000 photos during 3 visits. In this photobook, about 500 photos are selected and categorized by major places.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Finally I have to mention that I mainly relied on Wikipedia for the descriptions concerning Angkor archaeological sites in composing this photograph book, and I owe all contributors for this detailed descriptions on Angkor Wat. I thankfully quoted and rephrased their precious explanations on each of archaeological sites of Angkor civilizations.＜/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！】Time Moving West【電子書籍】[ Lonnie Coleman ]

＜p＞“We measure time from Greenwich, and Greenwich is in England. England is east, so time moves west because the sun moves west, and we measure time by the suns movement.” With the insight of a real writer Lonnie Coleman has utilized his Navy experience to show how the insufferably slow passage of time feeds hates, warms friendships, and makes every mood a major crisis in human relationships.＜br /＞ Every officer and member aboard a ship is an individual within whom a private life smolders like a fire; only the outward calmness of the men and the simple, everyday needs of the ship keep this elemental force in check. But, as soon as the strain of danger or the boredom of inactivity disturbs the accepted equation, the smoldering fire breaks out into a momentary flame of human passion.＜br /＞ In the weird light of that flame human figures become distorted. The calm detachment of the Captain intended to protect the men under him at any cost assumes the specter of weakness and inefficiency. The self-realized inadequacies of the Executive Officer drive him into sadistic outbursts that endanger his own sanity. A young Lieutenant commits suicide. Then, just as suddenly, the flame is under control, passions subside and the immediacy of the ship's needs takes precedence above everything else.＜br /＞ This immediacy is a burden to the men and inwardly they revolt against it. When the ship docks in New York they try to escape it, only to discover that they have lost the capacity to function as individuals and have become a part of a living organism that is the ship.＜br /＞ Lonnie Coleman is a dramatic, creative storyteller who writes with great beauty and his ＜em＞Time Moving West＜/em＞ is a fine sea story, a fine character story and a fine piece of writing which should live for a long time.＜/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！】DIVINE WISDOM Messages of Love, Hope and Healing from the Masters【電子書籍】[ Lisa Williams ]

＜p＞Lisa Williams is an internationally renowned psychic medium who has been channeling messages from the Masters for many years and has been guided to now share them with you.＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Life continually presents us with the need for answers, which is why people seek out psychics and mediums. But often this desire for guidance is immediate and getting through the day can be overwhelming, especially when experiencing loss and where healing is needed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sitting alone with our thoughts can send us into a spiral of despair, particularly if we don’t know where or how to find peace. In our search for hope we then overthink. We do our best to connect to Spirit but our intuition falters and we can become lost.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is where Divine Wisdom can assist. After first re-centering the body by simply counting your breaths, I suggest you then open this book to a page that you are guided to and read the passage. Allow it to sink in, and then read it again. It is here, in the Masters’ messages, that you will find the answers you need.＜/p＞ ＜p＞You may wish to read a passage for daily inspiration or read Divine Wisdom in its entirety.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Trust in yourself and allow the knowledge of the Divine Wisdom to penetrate your soul.’＜/p＞ ＜p＞~ Lisa Williams＜/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！】Eclipse of Dreams The Undocumented-Led Struggle for Freedom【電子書籍】[ Marco Saavedra ]

＜ul＞ ＜li＞Refugees, asylum seekers, family separation, migrant detention. As the current US administration ratchets up a racist and dehumanizing immigration policy, it often seems that pretty much anything would be a better. The authors of this book have a somewhat longer memory than our mainstream media. They were, for the most part, DREAMers who fought for the passage of the DREAM Act under the Obama administration, and lost. That experience taught them hard lessons and allows them to see some of what is being missed in current immigration debates. The DREAM Act, like similar legislation proposed today, was simply a dressed up form of family separation. It sought to divide “good,” college-bound immigrants from family and community members designated less deserving of assimilation. This is a crucially important argument, one easily missed in the Democratic rush to score political points against Trumpism with policies that are often just more of the same disguised with liberal rhetoric.＜/li＞ ＜li＞As the 2020 election approaches, immigration debates will be front and center. This book offers a unique perspective that questions the assumptions underpinning both Republican and Democratic “solutions.”＜/li＞ ＜li＞Written by undocumented youth, it conveys the lived experiences of “illegality” and communicate how young people and their families navigate in diverse ways the contradictions of being undocumented.＜/li＞ ＜li＞Questions the pervasive legislative narrative that offers rights nto certain immigrants (DREAMers, etc), as long as they are willing to sell parents, siblings, and friends up the proverbial river. Instead, the authors provide a critique of such "American Dreams" as incompatible with justice and human dignity.＜/li＞ ＜li＞Marco Saavedra’s story of being intentionally arrested by Border Patrol in order to covertly enter an immigrant detention center in Broward county Florida, is the subject of the film ＜em＞The Infiltrators＜/em＞, directed by Christina Ibarra and Alex Rivera, which won this year’s Sundance NEXT section Audience Award, among others. The directors have offered our book’s authors the opportunity to share space with their ongoing premieres and openings across the country.＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞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 Tale of Two Cities ( Illustrated )【電子書籍】[ Charles Dickens ]

＜p＞Summary:＜/p＞ ＜p＞A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.＜br /＞ Dickens’ best-known work of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities is regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time. In 2003, the novel was ranked 63rd on the BBC’s The Big Read poll. The novel has been adapted for film, television, radio, and the stage, and has continued to have an influence on popular culture. Screenwriter Jonathan Nolan’s screenplay for The Dark Knight Rises (2012) was inspired by the novel, with Nolan calling the depiction of Paris “one of the most harrowing portraits of a relatable, recognisable civilisation that completely folded to pieces”.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Book the First: Recalled to Life＜br /＞ Dickens' famous opening sentence introduces the universal approach of the book, the French Revolution, and the drama depicted within:＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other wayーin short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1775, a man flags down the nightly mail-coach on its route from London to Dover. The man is Jerry Cruncher, an employee of Tellson's Bank in London; he carries a message for Jarvis Lorry, a passenger and one of the bank's managers. Lorry sends Jerry back to deliver a cryptic response to the bank: "Recalled to Life." The message refers to Alexandre Manette, a French physician who has been released from the Bastille after an 18-year imprisonment. Once Lorry arrives in Dover, he meets Dr. Manette's daughter Lucie and her governess, Miss Pross. Lucie has believed her father to be dead, and faints at the news that he is alive; Lorry takes her to France to reunite with her father.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the Paris neighbourhood of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Dr. Manette has been given lodgings by his former servant Ernest Defarge and his wife Therese, owners of a wine shop. Lorry and Lucie find him in a small garret, where he spends much of his time making shoes ? a skill he learned in prison ? which he uses to distract himself from his thoughts and which has become an obsession for him. He does not recognise Lucie at first but does eventually see the resemblance to her mother through her blue eyes and long golden hair, a strand of which he found on his sleeve when he was imprisoned. Lorry and Lucie take him back to England.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Book the Second: The Golden Thread＜br /＞ "The Golden Thread" redirects here. For the legal judgement, see Golden thread (law).＜br /＞ In 1780, French ?migr? Charles Darnay is on trial for treason against the British Crown. The key witnesses against him are two British spies, John Barsad and Roger Cly, who claim that Darnay gave information about British troops in North America to the French. Under cross-examination by Mr. Stryver, the barrister defending Darnay, Barsad claims that he would recognise Darnay anywhere. Stryver points out his colleague, Sydney Carton, who bears a strong resemblance to Darnay, and Barsad admits that the two men look nearly identical. With Barsad's eyewitness testimony now discredited, Darnay is acquitted.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Paris, the hated and abusive Marquis St. Evr?monde orders his carriage driven recklessly fast through the crowded streets, hitting and killing the child of Gaspard in Saint Antoine. The Marquis throws a coin to Gaspard to compensate him for his loss. Defarge, having observed the incident, comes forth to comfort the distraught father, saying the child would be worse off alive. This piece of wisdom pleases the Marquis, who throws a coin to Defarge also. As the Marquis departs, a coin is flung back into his carriage.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Arriving at his country ch?teau, the Marquis meets his nephew and heir, Darnay. Out of disgust with his aristocratic family, the nephew has shed his real surname (St. Evr?monde) and anglicised his mother's maiden name, D'Aulnais, to Darnay. The following passage records the Marquis' principles of aristocratic superiority:＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend," observed the Marquis, "will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof," looking up to it, "shuts out the sky."＜/p＞ ＜p＞That night, Gaspard, who followed the Marquis to his ch?teau by riding on the underside of the carriage, stabs and kills him in his sleep. Gaspard leaves a note on the knife saying, "Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from JACQUES." After nearly a year on the run, he is caught and hanged above the village well.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In London, Darnay asks for Dr. Manette's permission to wed Lucie, but Carton confesses his love to Lucie as well. Knowing she will not love him in return, Carton promises to "embrace any sacrifice for you and for those dear to you". Stryver considers proposing marriage to Lucie, but Lorry talks him out of the idea.＜/p＞ ＜p＞On the morning of the marriage, Darnay reveals his real name and family lineage to Dr. Manette, a detail he had been asked to withhold until that day. In consequence, Dr. Manette reverts to his obsessive shoemaking after the couple leave for their honeymoon. He returns to sanity before their return, and the whole incident is kept secret from Lucie. Lorry and Miss Pross destroy the shoemaking bench and tools, which Dr. Manette had brought with him from Paris.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As time passes in England, Lucie and Charles begin to raise a family, a son (who dies in childhood) and a daughter, little Lucie. Lorry finds a second home and a sort of family with the Darnays. Stryver marries a rich widow with three children and becomes even more insufferable as his ambitions begin to be realised. Carton, even though he seldom visits, is accepted as a close friend of the family and becomes a special favourite of little Lucie.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In July 1789, the Defarges help to lead the storming of the Bastille, a symbol of royal tyranny. Defarge enters Dr. Manette's former cell, "One Hundred and Five, North Tower," and searches it thoroughly. Throughout the countryside, local officials and other representatives of the aristocracy are dragged from their homes to be killed, and the St. Evr?monde ch?teau is burned to the ground.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1792, Lorry decides to travel to Paris to collect important documents from the Tellson's branch in that city and place them in safekeeping against the chaos of the French Revolution. Darnay intercepts a letter written by Gabelle, one of his uncle's servants who has been imprisoned by the revolutionaries, pleading for the Marquis to help secure his release. Without telling his family or revealing his position as the new Marquis, Darnay sets out for Paris.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Book the Third: The Track of a Storm＜/p＞ ＜p＞"The Sea Still Rises", an illustration for Book 2, Chapter 22 by "Phiz"＜br /＞ Shortly after Darnay arrives in Paris, he is denounced for being an emigrated aristocrat from France and jailed in La Force Prison. Dr. Manette, Lucie, little Lucie, Jerry, and Miss Pross travel to Paris and meet Lorry to try to free Darnay. A year and three months pass, and Darnay is finally tried.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dr Manette, viewed as a hero for his imprisonment in the Bastille, testifies on Darnay's behalf at his trial. Darnay is released, only to be arrested again later that day. A new trial begins the following day, under new charges brought by the Defarges and a third individual who is soon revealed as Dr Manette. He had written an account of his imprisonment at the hands of Darnay's father and hidden it in his cell; Defarge found it while searching the cell during the storming of the Bastille.＜/p＞ ＜p＞While running errands with Jerry, Miss Pross is amazed to see her long-lost brother Solomon, but he does not want to be recognised in public. Carton suddenly steps forward from the shadows and identifies Solomon as Barsad, one of the spies who tried to frame Darnay for treason at his trial in 1780. Jerry remembers that he has seen Solomon with Cly, the other key witness at the trial, and that Cly had faked his death to escape England. By threatening to denounce Solomon to the revolutionary tribunal as a Briton, Carton blackmails him into helping with a plan.＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the tribunal, Defarge identifies Darnay as the nephew of the dead Marquis St. Evr?monde and reads Dr Manette's letter. Defarge had learned Darnay's lineage from Solomon during the latter's visit to the wine shop several years earlier. The letter describes Dr Manette's imprisonment at the hands of Darnay's father and uncle for trying to report their crimes against a peasant family. Darnay's uncle had become infatuated with a girl, whom he had kidnapped and raped; despite Dr. Manette's attempt to save her, she died. The uncle killed her husband by working him to death, and her father died from a heart attack upon being informed of what had happened. Before he died defending the family honour, the brother of the raped peasant had hidden the last member of the family, his younger sister. The Evr?monde brothers imprisoned Dr. Manette after he refused their offer of a bribe to keep quiet. He concludes his letter by condemning the Evr?mondes, "them and their descendants, to the last of their race." Dr. Manette is horrified, but he is not allowed to retract hi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。