人気シリーズ「キクタン」の改訂２版が登場！

People who do amazing things in the world - developing a new cancer drug, creating award-winning ads, helping their communities - may seem to have all sorts of advantages. But they don’t have any more hours than the rest of us. Instead, they may be allocating their hours in interesting ways that the rest of us can learn from. In this workshop, time management expert Laura Vanderkam explains about how broadening our perspective on time will help us be more intentional with the hours we have, and shares the simple, practical steps your team can take to start making time work for them.

The first part of the Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova, a special film tie-in version. The film, starring Heath Ledger as Casanova with Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller, will be released in UK February 2006.

Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a series of daring adventures. Priceless jewels disappear from a hotel suite, a monstrous hound is spotted on the moors and a woman is murdered in a locked room. Can our brilliant hero solve these mysteries and more before disaster strikes? This thrilling collection brings 16 adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous detective to life, adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf.

得点アップに結び付く単語だけを覚えて、スコアを100点伸ばそう!■パート別に分類された630単語と出題傾向に沿った630例文を収録!/630の重要語句は、TOEICのパート別と同様に1~7のUnitに分かれて構成されています。更に、各Unitは共通のテーマを持った15語からなる6つのSetに分かれています。学習に取り組むときの「切りのよさ」を設けて、学習計画を立てやすいようにしました。また、各単語には、TOEICの問題スタイルに合わせた例文を付けました。学習した単語は、繰り返しほかの例文に何度も登場するので、自然に記憶の定着が図れます。■音声を4カ国の英語で収録!/米英加豪の4カ国のネイティブスピーカーによる読み上げ音声を録音。ひとつの単語につき【単語⇒訳⇒単語⇒例文】の順に収録しているので、手ぶらでのスキマ学習にも最適です。※本商品にテキスト情報は含まれておりません。◇対象レベル◇TOEIC(R)テスト450点~◇目標レベル◇TOEIC550点~

Although many of us prioritize our physical health through exercise and healthy eating, we often forget to spend time boosting our mind, mood, and mental health. It is so important that we focus on mental self-care and reducing daily stress since mental toughness and resilience will get us through difficult times and help us achieve success in every area of our lives. Using the incredible power of our minds, we can persist and grow in response to life's challenges.

英会話の問いを聞いた後に、会話に関する問いが、日本語で出題される問題です。問いで聞かれたポイントを意識しながら、英会話を聞きましょう。中・上級編です。

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.

Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. Her children's stories are loved all around the world. Born into an upper-middle-class household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Enjoy a collection of her stories, recorded in high quality audio.

潜在記憶能力がグンと高まる！

ヨーロッパで広く使われている英語教授法『サジェストペディア』
を応用して作られた画期的音声教材。リラックスした状態で
マスターしたい部分を、繰り返し聞くだけ。リピートの必要はありません。
α波を引き出すBGMの使用で効果 は倍増！

※本商品は英語の単語集になります。

※本商品は「英検1級に必ず出る英単語922と英熟語597」(こう書房刊 宮野智靖著
ISBN:4-7696-0573-0 264頁 1,325円(税込))をオーディオ化したものです。

本オーディオブックを全部走りながらお聴きいただいたら、約 16 km、960 kcal 消費できます。

Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg Heffley, who finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, author and illustrator Jeff Kinney introduces us to an unlikely hero. As Greg says in his diary: Just don't expect me to be all "Dear Diary" this and "Dear Diary" that. Luckily for us, what Greg Heffley says he won’t do and what he actually does are two very different things.

■人気書籍、「キクタンTOEFL(R)テスト【イディオム編】」の例文+チャンツ音声です!書籍に付属の「チャンツ」音声と、チャンツに収録されている全400表現を使った「例文」読み上げ音声(英語のみ)が収録されています。 ■1日わずか16表現、25日間の学習でハイスコアを獲得するために必要な400イディオムを効率的に学習できます。英語圏で多用される慣用句、ことわざ、口語表現を多数収録。※例文に対応する日本語音声は収録されておりません。※本商品にテキスト情報は含まれておりません。◇対象レベル◇全レベル

In this simple, fast-paced audiobook, you will be learning what it takes to create the life you want. 30 Days is for people who are struggling, wanting to change their lives, but they feel powerless and think change comes from the outside. They also keep doing the same things over and over expecting a different result, which Albert Einstein considered to be the purest form of insanity.

Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic Otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its prophesied destruction. As the Shield Hero, the weakest of the heroes, all is not as it seems. Naofumi is soon alone, penniless, and betrayed. With no one to turn to, and nowhere to run, he is left with only his shield. Now, Naofumi must rise to become the legendary Shield Hero and save the world!

Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania for New York City. Usually grounded and mild mannered, Amy finally lets her hair down in the city that never sleeps. She discovers a life filled with culture, sophistication, and - with a little encouragement from her friends - a few blind dates.

■人気書籍、アルク「キクタン英検1級」の例文+チャンツ音声 本コンテンツには、書籍に付属の「チャンツ」音声と、チャンツに収録されている全1,120単語を使った「例文」音声が収録されています。 ■英検1級合格に役立つだけでなく、実用語彙も身に付く!見出し語の選定にあたっては、2004年リニューアル以降の英検1級の過去問を徹底的に分析。そこでリストアップされた約7,400の単語と熟語を、出る順に1,120まで絞り込みました。この絞り込みの際には、実際に使われた話し言葉や書き言葉を集めたデータベース=「コーパス」を参考にして、広くメディアや日常生活で使われる語彙も拾っています。ゆえにこの本が取り上げた単語や熟語は、英検1級合格に必要なだけでなく実用的でもあります。 ■チャンツを聞けば、1日2~6分で16語が押さえられる!これらを身に付けるために、音楽のリズムに乗って単語や熟語が学習できる「チャンツ音声」+単語の使用例も身につく「例文音声」を活用してください。 ※本商品にテキスト情報は含まれておりません。 ◆対象レベル◆・英語上級(C)ALC PRESS, INC.

Like it or not, global warming is a hot topic, and it will affect the younger generation the most. So why not turn to the teacher kids like the most, Ms. Frizzle! Only the Friz can boil all the hoopla down to the scientific facts in a fun and informative way. Kids already love the Magic School Bus, and the love to do what's right by the planet. At last, a way to teach the curriculum and make an impact!

■日常生活、ビジネス、観光、歴史、文化など、バラエティーに富み、独特のユーモア感覚にあふれた45本のトピックを収録。プロのイギリス人ナレーターによる美しい発音で、ラジオドラマのように聴きやすい会話や、イギリス情報満載のモノローグをお楽しみください。 ■トピックは、アルクが編集した「標準語彙水準12000」(Standard Vocabulary List、SVL 12000)のレベル1~3(初級レベル)の英単語を中心に構成されています。難しすぎる単語がないので、イギリス英語になじみのない方でも、気楽にリスニングに取り組んでいただくことができます。 ■リスニング力がアップするだけでなく、会話力もアップし、イギリスに関する知識も増えること請け合いです。 ※「標準語彙水準12000」:アルクが長年蓄積してきた膨大な英文データから「日本人英語学習者にとっての有用性」「ネイティブスピーカーの使用頻度」を基準に選び出した、12000語の重要英単語リスト。 ※本商品は書籍に付属のCD音声と同内容です。また、テキスト情報は含まれておりません。 ◇対象レベル◇初級以上~

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

"When the thinking mind never stops speaking," teaches Eckhart Tolle, "we can come to believe that this egoic self is who we are." But we are not our thoughts. And beneath them lies our true self: a vast consciousness reachable through simple awareness.