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Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google over a decade ago as proven technology executives. At the time, the company was already well-known for doing things differently, reflecting the visionary - and frequently contrarian - principles of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. If Eric and Jonathan were going to succeed, they realized they would have to relearn everything they thought they knew about management and business.

Marilyn Monroe had the most famous face of the 20th century. A legendary actress, comedienne, and sex symbol, she has been one of Hollywood’s most talked-about performers ever since she first crossed the silver screen. Her fame persisted long after her tragic death—but as time has gone by, it has become almost impossible to separate the legend of the woman born as Norma Jeane from the truth. Now, at last, Marilyn’s real story can be told.

Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches. Narrator Lisette Lecat reads this remarkable memoir of a family clinging to a harsh landscape and the dying tenets of colonialism.

The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men". John Perkins wrote that economic hit men (EHM) "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder".

手紙を通じた一期一会。「見知らぬ誰かとの片道書簡」から生まれたささやかな希望と奇跡の物語を長野美郷アナウンサーが朗読。

熊本県南部の小さな町の海辺にある廃校。その小学校を利用したアートプロジェクトとして赤崎水曜日郵便局は開局しました。ここへ、自分の水曜日の物語を送ると、知らない誰かの水曜日が届きます。“刹那的な信頼関係”によって結ばれる、手紙を通じた一期一会。そんなちょっと不思議な“片道書簡”を四季ごとに編んだ書籍の中から、「夏」の出来事をお聞きください。

Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered. Prompted by his retirement from his full-time job in the NHS, and through his continuing work in Nepal and Ukraine, Henry has been forced to reflect more deeply about what 40 years spent handling the human brain has taught him.

New York Times bestseller 1! Più di due milioni di copie vendute! Lanciare un missile nello spazio? Costruire una macchina del futuro pratica, efficiente e pronta a conquistare il mondo con le sue linee eleganti? Non solo sognare ma camminare a grandi passi verso il lancio degli uomini su Marte? Inventare un'app e diventare un milionario prima di trent'anni? Sembra impossibile riuscire a fare tutto questo nel corso di una vita, vero? Non solo per un uomo ma anche per una squadra ben allenata di scienziati, imprenditori, costruttori e operai. Ma ce l'ha fatta.

"J'ai commencé ma vie comme je la finirai sans doute : au milieu des livres. Dans le bureau de mon grand-père, il y en avait partout ; défense était de les faire épousseter sauf une fois l'an, avant la rentrée d'octobre. Je ne savais pas encore lire que, déjà, je les révérais, ces pierres levées : droites ou penchées, serrées comme des briques sur les rayons de la bibliothèque ou noblement espacées en allées de menhirs, je sentais que la prospérité de notre famille en dépendait..."

J. D. Salinger diventò un mito non soltanto per il suo indubbio talento per la scrittura, ma anche per l'alone di mistero che avvolgeva la sua vita privata. Con soltanto quattro libri pubblicati mentre era in vita, si convertì in uno degli autori più amati del XX secolo. Il suo romanzo "Il giovane Holden", pubblicato nel 1951, diventò subito un best-seller e il libro di culto di un'intera generazione.

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds.

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

この本は、病魔と闘い続けた彼女の、発病から死を受け入れるまでの4年間にわたる心の叫びを抜粋しまとめたものです。日記のあとの注釈は私が当時を思い出してつけました。麻希子の日記をこのような形で出版するべきかどうか、ずいぶん迷い悩みましたが、麻希子が通っていた東京家政学院筑波大学(現筑波学院大学)の石田収教授の温かい励ましとご協力により、実現することとなりました。ご一読いただき、何かを感じとっていただければ幸いです。(神田麻希子の母・神田さき子) ※本商品は「神様、私をもっと生きさせて!」(こう書房刊 神田麻希子著ISBN:4-7696-0888-8 168頁1,260円(税込))をオーディオ化したものです。(C)M.Kanda 2006

【解説】 猫好きの人には身につまされる内田百けんの「ノラや」シリーズ。百鬼園と号する百けん先生のペットロスを描く。 自宅の庭で野良猫が産んだ子猫の一匹にご飯をやるうちに、すっかり百鬼園夫婦になついてしまった。野良猫だからノラと命名。気難しい百鬼園先生は、ノラの可愛さにはまってしまい、寿司屋の卵焼きなど好物を与え、温かい風呂槽の上にノラのために座布団を用意するほど溺愛する。ところが、ノラが二度目のさかりを迎えた３月末。出ていったまま帰らない。一晩待っても、１週間待っても１ヶ月たっても戻らない。百先生は、心配で可哀想でおろおろするばかり。時には号泣し、日々泣き暮らす。遂には、折込み広告やら新聞広告まで出したが、はかばかしい情報は得られない。「ノラや、お前はもう帰って来ないのか・・・」百鬼園先生の涙は止まらない。 【朗読】wis ※ 透明感と落ち着きのある声で親しまれている女性朗読家です。

眠る前にまったりと聴ける睡眠用ラジオ番組です。 「眠くなる声、落ち着く声」と言われるスイミーが、優しいBGMと共にゆるりとお届けしていきます。 隔週水曜 配信（※ポッドキャストは1週間遅れでの配信）。YouTubeにて最新回をいち早く配信中。

We are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker’s brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and confusing landscape.

Celebrated historian Winston Groom tells the intertwined and uniquely American tales of George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall - from the World War I battle that shaped them to their greatest achievement: leading the allies to victory in World War II.

In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.

In this classic tale of true-life adventure, David and Daniel Hays, a father and son, sail 17,000 miles from Connecticut to Cape Horn and back. Together they complete this odyssey and join a select group to successfully sail the Drake Passage in a small vessel. It is also the story of conquering inner struggles as well as great distances.

“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the odds. TWICE. Using an innovative 'dual narrative' structure you sometimes see in films, Big Beacon tells the story of how Partridge heroically rebuilt his TV career, rising like a phoenix from the desolate wasteland of local radio to climb to the summit of Mount Primetime and regain the nationwide prominence his talent merits.