1日5分、週5日。通勤などのちょっとした時間を使った1ヶ月の集中レッスンで1つのスキルのマスターを目指すシリーズ、『シリコンバレー的ビジネス英会話・朝の5分レッスン、The “5/20” series』。 シリーズ第1弾、「アメリカ人と同じ土俵に立つ交渉術」の全4週の中から、4週目を抜粋しました。 第4週目は、合意達成の為の環境作りを、アメリカ人ビジネスマンがどのように感じているかを学びましょう。成功のカギは公平な立場で交渉にあたるということです。人の上には人ではなく法律が来る。こう考えるアメリカ人ならではの発想です。 交渉合意後にはどんなプロセスが待っているのでしょうか?契約書を確認する際はどうでしょうか?信頼関係を築くにはどのようなことが大切なのでしょうか?交渉テーブルでお互いの意見や気持ちが一致していなければ良い交渉は出来ません。このような心の現れをネイティブがどう表現しているか学んでいきましょう。...

All children love this traditional rhyme, and singing along will help to develop number skills. Popular rhymes make this book a must for every child.

Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: It’s close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and, ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig - watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods - turns out to be inconvenient. Her next gives way to the supernatural: announcing advertisements for shops that mysteriously disappear. As she moves from job to job, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all but something altogether more meaningful.

America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.