Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation. David Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we use unconsciously, even in the most routine exchanges of everyday conversation.

How do some people bounce back with vigor from daily setbacks, professional crises, or even intense personal trauma? This collection of articles from HBR includes "How Resilience Works", by Diane Coutu; "Resilience for the Rest of Us", by Daniel Goleman; "How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience", by David Kopans; "Find the Coaching in Criticism", by Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone; and much more.

In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns about correctness, Horobin considers whether such changes are improvements or evidence of slipping standards.

A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one.

日本の古典芸能の一つ「能」　世阿弥が一子相伝の書として書いた能の真髄を原文のまま読み上げました。その心得は現代にも通じることが多く、ビジネスマンへの指南書として様々な本が出版されています。能の歴史から心得までがまとまった作品です。 　「秘すれば花なり。秘せずば花なるべからず」——見せ方の重要性 　「稽古は強かれ、情識はなかれと也」——我執の怖さ 　「上手は下手の手本、下手は上手の手本」——侮りへの警告 ーーこの文の香りに、言葉のえらびかたに、世阿弥のひととなりも感じていただければと願います。