Mr. Putter is tired of living all alone, with no one to share his morning English muffins or his afternoon tea. He has many wonderful stories to tell, but no one to tell them to. What Mr. Putter needs is some good company. But good company is hard to find. This first adventure in award-winning author Cynthia Rylant's popular series introduces readers to a pair of friends who are just perfect for each other.

Start speaking English in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Ultimate Getting Started with English Box Set, a completely new way to learn English with ease! Ultimate Getting Started with English Box Set will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your American friends.

An idiom is a group of words with a special meaning of its own that is not clear from the meanings of the individual words. Idioms such as "think out of the box" and "a long shot" are used extensively in English in e-mail, newspapers, and conversations. When you don't understand idioms, you can feel left out of a conversation or miss the point of a story. This audiobook focuses on 100 frequently used idioms.

When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. It wasn’t until years later that she was diagnosed with autism, a brain disorder that makes communication difficult. Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Her career has revolutionized the livestock industry - each year, half the cattle in the United States are handled in cruelty-free facilities she designed. She is also a passionate advocate for autism, using her experience to prove that people with this disorder can have “normal” lives.

Julia Child was born hungry, but she was not born a chef. In fact, Julia didn’t discover her passion for cooking until she had a life-changing luncheon in France and became determined to share her newfound love of food with everyone. In Paris, Julia devoured recipe books, shopped in outdoor markets, consumed all kinds of foods, and whipped through culinary school. Through perseverance and grit, Julia became a chef who shared her passion with the world, making cooking fun, and turning every meal into an event. Alex Prud'homme showcases Julia's life and celebrates her enduring legacy.

Discover everything there is to know about flight from Ada Twist, Scientist - from information about creatures that fly to the history of aircrafts to modern technology that allows us to soar through the air faster than ever! Based on the best-selling series and the new Netflix show, this nonfiction series is perfect for the youngest scientists of tomorrow!

A wealthy widowed merchant lives in a mansion with his three daughters. All are equal in beauty, but the youngest, Beauty, is kind and pure of heart; while the two elders, in contrast, are wicked, selfish, vain and secretly taunt and treat Beauty more like a servant than a sister. The merchant eventually loses all of his wealth in a tempest at sea.

In his earlier best sellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final audiobook in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis through selective change - a coping mechanism more commonly associated with personal trauma.

VOA発信のニュースで2019年の重要な出来事を振り返り、リスニング力を徹底強化！話題の単語が繰り返し自然に耳に入るから、語彙学習にも最適。

Grammar! For many of us, the word triggers memories of finger-wagging schoolteachers, and of wrestling with the ambiguous and complicated rules of using formal language. But what is grammar? In fact, it's the integral basis of how we speak and write. As such, a refined awareness of grammar opens a world of possibilities for both your pleasure in the English language and your skill in using it, in both speech and the written word.

月刊誌『ENGLISH JOURNAL』人気連載の書籍化。

Beauty is kind and loving, even though her two sisters tease her and her merchant father is too poor to buy her presents. All she wants is a rose: so when her father sees a beautiful rose bush in the grounds of the Beast s castle, he plucks a flower for her. The Beast is angry, and demands something precious in return.... A magical retelling of the classic fairy tale, read by Tamsin Greig.

四字熟語、故事成語、ことわざ、オノマトペなど日本語独特の言い回しを「慣用表現」として取り上げ、英語の表現を紹介しています。ビジネス頻出の言い回しから若者言葉まで多彩な表現をカバー。「言いたいことが通じ

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.

Sigmund Freud delivers five lectures about the “historical survey of the origin and further development of this new method and cure.” He called this method psychoanalysis. In 1909, when he was 53, he was invited by Clark University and delivered these lectures—the first ones he delivered in the United States. In 1910 they were published in the Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis.

Beatrix Potter's amazing universe of animals dressed in human clothing has taught and entertained children for over a century. This volume brings together 21 of Potter's tales and verses in one audiobook. Hear Peter Rabbit outwit old Mr. McGregor, and Squirrel Nutkin come within a tail's length of being an owl's dinner. Listen as a family of mice save the kind tailor of Gloucester, and as Peter and Benjamin Bunny battle a barn cat. Learn how one fierce rabbit is set on the road to honesty.

A classic fable from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, read by Johnny Morris. Have you ever wondered how and why the animals came to be as they are? In these magical tales, drawn from stories he heard as a child in India as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world, Rudyard Kipling gives some wonderfully imaginative explanations.

Data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today.

Fearless optimist Anna sets off on an epic journey—teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven—to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls, and a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom.

「スペシャルイングリッシュ」だから、本格ニュースがやさしく聞ける! 使用語彙1500語、通常の3分の2のスピードなので、はじめてのリスニング素材に最適です！ 本書の教材は、米国の国営ラジオ放送 Voice of America(VOA)が放送する、「スペシャルイングリッシュ」。これは、使用単語を約1500語に限定し、通常の3分の2のスピードで読まれている、非英語圏のリスナー向けの放送です。スピードは抑えていても、一つひとつのフレーズはひとまとまりに読まれるため、英語の自然なリズムが崩れません。そのため、「英語のリスニングは苦手」「ニュースなんて難しそう……」と感じている人も抵抗なく、プロのアナウンサーによる音声に耳を慣らしていくことができます。 本コンテンツには、ニュース40本分の音声が収録収録されています。ニュース1本につき、1分弱の長さです。トピックは、スポーツや米国の生活、国際情勢などバラエティ豊か。まずは気になる話題から聞いてみましょう。ニュース英語に親しむための第一歩として、またリスニングの基礎固めのために、ぜひご活用ください! ※本商品の音声は、書籍『はじめて聞くニュース英語 入門編 (VOAスペシャルイングリッシュシリーズ)』に付属のCDと同内容です。

The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand. It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology - the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information.

O. Henry wrote many stories, but this, the story of two "ultimate gifts", is his most famous.

There is nothing a great bed time story can’t fix! Whether your little one is having a bad day, or is having trouble winding down from a day filled with high-energy activities, listening with them to their favorite story seems to magically calm them down. So, why not make bed time even more exciting with the Children Story Group’s new audiobook, The Most Beloved Bed Time Stories for Kids - a wonderful collection of the most notable den time stories in the world!

このシリーズでは、出張でアメリカに来られる方や将来アメリカ駐在を予定されている方に必要なスキルを実際にあった状況例を紹介しながらレッスンを進めていきます。出張シリーズでは、出発から帰国まで必要と思われる項目を用意しました。危機管理に始まり、アメリカで好まれるコミュニケーションの基本、機内でサービスを受ける場面から現地事務所のアメリカ人同僚とのやり取りやアメリカ国内の出張の準備を紹介していきます。仕事の話からプライベートの会話例までありますのでアメリカ人の同僚と話をする際にぜひ参考にして下さい。また帰国後に得意先や現地事務所に出す「お礼のメール」の書き方なども勉強していきます。English Vitaminが提供する英会話習得は、常に文化と一体です。アメリカでの実生活では２０％くらいの言語処理能力と、残り８０％は相手国の文化の理解、つまりアメリカ文化に合わせた適応能力が必要となります。彼らの習慣、信念、価値観、思考回路を学び、それを理解し、楽しく実りのある出張を行なって下さい。

チャンツ（ノリのいいリズムに合わせて単語が読まれます！）を聞く→同じ単語が登場する長文を読む--この繰り返しで、単語がしっかり記憶に定着していきます。中堅私大～超難関大学受験を突破できる語彙力を身に付けましょう！