オバマ大統領就任演説を同時通訳者特製メニューで完全マスター。全世界の注目を集めた「オバマ大統領就任演説」を味わいながら、英語の力を伸ばすことができます。特別に編集された音声を用いて、シャドーイングやリピーティングなどのトレーニングで、英語の「音」の壁を崩し、同じく音声を利用して、かたまりごとに頭から意味をとらえる練習をしましょう。30シーンに小分けされたメニューで無理なく練習することにより、就任演説を自然に覚えながら英語を聞く力・話す力を高めていくことができます。 ※本商品の音声は、書籍『オバマの英語 徹底トレーニングブック』に付属のCDと同内容です。

The unapologetic intensity with which Emily Brontë wrote this story ensures that it will forever be considered one of the greatest works of English literature. A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights transcends your average romance and, with its Gothic undertones, takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge.

Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.

Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down.

Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

明治初期、日本に初めての鉄道が開業してから２０２２年で１５０年。全国に張り巡らされた路線網は国の近代化と経済発展を長らく支えてきた。だが、盤石だった都市部の通勤輸送や新幹線はコロナ禍で低迷。少子高齢

One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike ( Gone Girl). In her bright and energetic performance of this British classic, she expertly captures Austen’s signature wit and tone. Her attention to detail, her literary background, and her performance in the 2005 feature film version of the novel provide the perfect foundation from which to convey the story of Elizabeth Bennet, her four sisters, and the inimitable Mr. Darcy.

E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

Cheveux blonds comme les blés, écharpe au vent... le petit prince est connu de tous. Les aventures de cet enfant pur et innocent tombé du ciel sont emplies d’amour, de poésie et de vérité. Voilà un message qui nous incite à poser un regard neuf sur notre humanité et notre condition humaine. C’est une invitation à revenir à l’essentiel, à célébrer la vie dans son expression la plus noble, en toute simplicité, avec les yeux du cœur.

Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick.

Decades of research on achievement suggests people at the top of their game tend to reach their goals because of what they do - not because of who they are. In this short, provocative, and useful HBR Single, motivational psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson translates the psychological secrets of these winning human beings for your use.

A disturbing tale of a young man's uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery, The Picture of Dorian Gray was considered proof of both Wilde's genius and his perversion. Oscar Wilde's scandalous best seller of 1891 was one of the most damning pieces of evidence used against him in the trial that brought about his downfall.

Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of mercenaries in the French countryside, where he reconnects with his old friend, Ian Murray. Both are nursing wounds, both have good reason to stay out of Scotland, and both are still virgins despite several opportunities to remedy that deplorable situation with ladies of easy virtue.

Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a tale of love and marriage told with irony and insight. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and seperated years before. Their reunion, after the passage or irrecoverable years of their youth, forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting-edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action and serious chills.

We have more choices than we realize. In fact, according to positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar, our entire life is made of choices, large and small. It is what we choose moment by moment and day by day - to do, to feel, to experience - that determines how happy and fulfilled we are. Every moment, then, is an opportunity to make a choice that will bring us greater happiness. Ben- Shahar presents 100 such opportunities, some simple, such as whether to frown or smile; others complex....

リズムに合わせて単語を覚える「キクタン」シリーズのイタリア語版です。 イタリア語入門者が初めて学ぶ504語を収録、1日8語×9週間学ぶことにより、無理なく楽しく単語力をパワーアップすることができます。 イタリア語と日本語がリズムに乗って交互に流れてくるため（♪「una canzone」→「歌」→「la canzone」→「le canzoni」）、何度も聞くうちに耳が自然なリズムやアクセントを覚え込んでしまうのです。また、発音だけではなくその意味もセットで記憶される仕組みになっています。しかも、イタリア語の名詞の特徴の一つである、ちょっと厄介な冠詞（男性・女性）もセットにしているので、自然に覚えることができます。 イタリア語を習い始めたばかりの人でも、自分のことを紹介したり、質問をしたり、無理なくイタリア語でコミュニケーションを図る上で役に立つ単語が集められています。イタリア語の語彙力アップを狙う人や、イタリア語圏に旅行や留学を計画している人にもお勧めの学習ツールです。 ●対象レベル：入門から ※本商品の音声は、書籍『キクタン イタリア語 【入門編】』に付属のCDと同内容です。

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.

夏。鎌倉の浜辺で、書生の「私」は「先生」に出会った……「彼岸過迄」「行人」に続く漱石後期三部作の最後を飾る長編。上・中・下の三部構成で、明治後期から大正期にかけての典型的知識階級、もしくは、漱石いうところの高等遊民の精神の葛藤を描いていく。日本近代小説がただストーリーを描くだけでなく、奥深い心理描写へと踏みこんでいくための礎となった作品ともいえる。二部では「私」と家族との葛藤、三部では「先生」からの手紙文という形式を使い、小説という形式での人の生死に対する漱石の深い考察が示される。近代文学の金字塔ともいうべき作品で、この作品を避けて現代の文学を語ることはできない。 【朗読者について】 「夢十夜」で深みのある朗読世界を聴かせてくれた女優の岩崎さとこが、難しい長編作品に取りくみました。とにかく、集中力をとぎらせることなく、最後までじっくりと読みきった力には、驚くべきものがあります。 【アイ文庫について】 プロによる高品質な文芸朗読作品を制作しているアイ文庫。プロデューサーを務める小説家・音楽家の水城雄のもと、朗読を音声による芸術表現として捉え、演劇的な要素が特徴の朗読で魅せるアーティスト集団・NPO法人現代朗読協会とともに、意欲作の創造に取り組んでいます。(C)アイ文庫 「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

When the call came it seemed like the answer to my prayers. My career as a voice actor had been over for months and me and my little girl Scarlet were living back at my mum’s place. I felt like a failure professionally—and with Scarlet having problems at school, as a parent as well. So, when I was asked to narrate a new book by disappeared novelist Philippa Roberts I jumped at the chance, even if it meant leaving Scarlet with my ex, Hugo, for a few weeks. Hugo, with his perfect new home and his perfect new girlfriend Saskia. But this isn’t a dream come true. It’s a nightmare.

What can we still learn from C.S. Lewis? Find out in these 12 insightful lectures that cover the author's spiritual autobiography, novels, and his scholarly writings that reflect on pain and grief, love and friendship, prophecy and miracles, and education and mythology.