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Japanese Literature
- A Very Short Introduction
- 著者: Alan Tansman
- ナレーター: Derek Shoales
- 再生時間: 3 時間 56 分
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While intensely attentive to its own tradition, Japanese literature has also embraced the outside world, particularly the influence of China. Beyond this, Japan boasts a powerful literary culture, made up of cultivated reading publics, both aristocratic and bourgeois, literary salons, specialized presses, authoritative judges of talent who cultivated and celebrated particular writers and styles, and a canon consisting of classics. This Very Short Introduction traces the rich history of Japanese literature from its beginnings over a millennium ago to the present day.
著者: Alan Tansman
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- 著者: Richard P. Feynman
- ナレーター: Raymond Todd
- 再生時間: 11 時間 31 分
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With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife of a Princeton dean to remark, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" But the many scientific and personal achievements of this Nobel Prize-winning physicist are no laughing matter. Here, woven with his scintillating views on modern science, Feynman relates the defining moments of his accomplished life.
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Highly entertaining
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2023/10/06
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A Brief History of Indonesia
- Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
- 著者: Tim Hannigan
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 9 時間 35 分
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Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth-largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand years and more.
著者: Tim Hannigan
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The Story of Human Language
- 著者: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- ナレーター: John McWhorter
- 再生時間: 18 時間 15 分
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Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.
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言語接触や英語の語源、変化を学べる書
- 投稿者: 伊藤さとみHome 日付: 2021/12/09
著者: John McWhorter, 、その他
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A History of Japan
- Revised Edition
- 著者: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
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A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period, A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-Cold War period and collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s. Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture.
著者: R. H. P. Mason, 、その他
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Evidence of the Affair
- 著者: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- ナレーター: Julia Whelan, George Newbern, James Daniels, 、その他
- 再生時間: 1 時間 19 分
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The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.
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Unexpected turn out of the love story
- 投稿者: Daibon 日付: 2024/06/03
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Japanese Literature
- A Very Short Introduction
- 著者: Alan Tansman
- ナレーター: Derek Shoales
- 再生時間: 3 時間 56 分
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While intensely attentive to its own tradition, Japanese literature has also embraced the outside world, particularly the influence of China. Beyond this, Japan boasts a powerful literary culture, made up of cultivated reading publics, both aristocratic and bourgeois, literary salons, specialized presses, authoritative judges of talent who cultivated and celebrated particular writers and styles, and a canon consisting of classics. This Very Short Introduction traces the rich history of Japanese literature from its beginnings over a millennium ago to the present day.
著者: Alan Tansman
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- 著者: Richard P. Feynman
- ナレーター: Raymond Todd
- 再生時間: 11 時間 31 分
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With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife of a Princeton dean to remark, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" But the many scientific and personal achievements of this Nobel Prize-winning physicist are no laughing matter. Here, woven with his scintillating views on modern science, Feynman relates the defining moments of his accomplished life.
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Highly entertaining
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2023/10/06
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A Brief History of Indonesia
- Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
- 著者: Tim Hannigan
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 9 時間 35 分
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Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth-largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand years and more.
著者: Tim Hannigan
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The Story of Human Language
- 著者: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- ナレーター: John McWhorter
- 再生時間: 18 時間 15 分
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Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.
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言語接触や英語の語源、変化を学べる書
- 投稿者: 伊藤さとみHome 日付: 2021/12/09
著者: John McWhorter, 、その他
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A History of Japan
- Revised Edition
- 著者: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 13 時間 7 分
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A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period, A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-Cold War period and collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s. Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture.
著者: R. H. P. Mason, 、その他
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Evidence of the Affair
- 著者: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- ナレーター: Julia Whelan, George Newbern, James Daniels, 、その他
- 再生時間: 1 時間 19 分
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The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.
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Unexpected turn out of the love story
- 投稿者: Daibon 日付: 2024/06/03
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The Foundations of Western Civilization
- 著者: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Great Courses
- ナレーター: Thomas F. X. Noble
- 再生時間: 24 時間 51 分
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What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.
著者: Thomas F. X. Noble, 、その他
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The Thief
- 著者: Fuminori Nakamura, Satoko Izumo - translator
- ナレーター: Charlie Thurston
- 再生時間: 4 時間 1 分
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The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly that sometimes he doesn't even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him; nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections.... But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life and offers him a job he can't refuse.
著者: Fuminori Nakamura, 、その他
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The Japanese Mind
- Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
- 著者: Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
- ナレーター: Eric Jason Martin
- 再生時間: 8 時間 48 分
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Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick.
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Enlightening
- 投稿者: Amazon Customer 日付: 2023/12/14
著者: Roger J. Davies, 、その他
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A Daughter of the Samurai
- 著者: Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
- ナレーター: Siho Ellsmore
- 再生時間: 11 時間 33 分
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In the late 19th century, after Japan was restored to imperial rule, the samurais were no longer the seat of power. The families who were impacted by this shift lost wealth and power. Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto was the daughter of one such samurai, and had begun her life on a track to become a Buddhist priestess. But as the family lost their position in society, her path changed, and she was eventually sent to the United States to be in an arranged marriage to an American man. A Daughter of the Samurai is her personal memoir.
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自助論~新訳完全版~第一章
- 著者: サミュエル・スマイルズ, 関岡 孝平
- ナレーター: 佐々木 健
- 再生時間: 1 時間 30 分
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本書の主旨は、みなさんが正しい目的に向かって力いっぱい努力すること―、苦労や苦しみ、屈辱から逃れることも、他者からの支援や保護に頼りきることもなく、自分自身で活路を切り開けるように導くことだ。自分自身を助けることは、突き詰めて考えれば、周囲の人を助けることにつながる。本書で取り上げたさまざまな実例――文学者や科学者、芸術家、発明家、教育家、慈善家、宣教師、殉教者たちの生き様―を見れば、それが分かるはずである。第1章 運命を切り開く自助の精神――NATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL ●自分の運命は自らの行動で切り開く●いつの時代も努力が歴史を作るなど
著者: サミュエル・スマイルズ, 、その他
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Sweet Bean Paste
- 著者: Durian Sukegawa, Alison Watts - translator
- ナレーター: Cindy Kay
- 再生時間: 5 時間 4 分
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Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape.
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予想と違った
- 投稿者: KH 日付: 2024/05/25
著者: Durian Sukegawa, 、その他
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The Perfect Son
- 著者: Freida McFadden
- ナレーター: Suzie Althens, Daniel Thomas May
- 再生時間: 7 時間 58 分
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Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst - murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth - Liam may have done the unthinkable.
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Good simple thriller
- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2023/12/26
著者: Freida McFadden
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Schoolgirl
- 著者: Osamu Dazai, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- ナレーター: Traci Kato Kiriyama
- 再生時間: 1 時間 42 分
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Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them—a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the listener a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.
著者: Osamu Dazai, 、その他
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Brave New World
- 著者: Aldous Huxley
- ナレーター: Michael York
- 再生時間: 8 時間
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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.
著者: Aldous Huxley
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What Is Life?
- With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
- 著者: Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose - foreword
- ナレーター: Bob Souer
- 再生時間: 6 時間 8 分
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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the 20th century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA. It appears here together with "Mind and Matter", his essay investigating a relationship which has eluded and puzzled philosophers since the earliest times.
著者: Erwin Schrödinger, 、その他
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
- 著者: Eric Jorgenson, Tim Ferriss
- ナレーター: Vikas Adam
- 再生時間: 4 時間 53 分
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Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last 10 years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections. This isn’t a how-to book, or a step-by-step gimmick. Instead, through Naval’s own words, you will learn how to walk your own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life.
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excellent
- 投稿者: Brack 日付: 2024/03/12
著者: Eric Jorgenson, 、その他
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Sex at Dawn
- How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
- 著者: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
- ナレーター: Allyson Johnson, Jonathan Davis, Christopher Ryan (Preface)
- 再生時間: 10 時間 57 分
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Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing....
著者: Christopher Ryan, 、その他
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Upheaval
- Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Henry Strozier
- 再生時間: 18 時間 44 分
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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.
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歴史のジェネラリスト
- 投稿者: 出張勝也 日付: 2019/12/10
著者: Jared Diamond
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My Evil Mother
- A Short Story
- 著者: Margaret Atwood
- ナレーター: Hillary Huber
- 再生時間: 57 分
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Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed.
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mother-daughter moments
- 投稿者: 小野可奈子 日付: 2023/04/18
著者: Margaret Atwood
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Signal Moon
- A Short Story
- 著者: Kate Quinn
- ナレーター: Saskia Maarleveld, Andrew Gibson
- 再生時間: 1 時間 22 分
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Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. It’s her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption. One night, she picks up a transmission that isn’t code at all—it’s a cry for help.
著者: Kate Quinn
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Think and Grow Rich (1937 Edition)
- The Original 1937 Unedited Edition
- 著者: Napoleon Hill
- ナレーター: Fred Stella
- 再生時間: 10 時間 52 分
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The original 1937 manuscript was written and edited with the assistance of Napoleon’s wife. In later years, the existing document was again edited by Dr. Hill. For example, the Foundation owns a 1958 edition that Hill edited personally. This did not lessen the book’s value in Hill’s judgment. Hill made the editing remarks in his own handwriting and the resulting 1960 edited edition has sold over 100 million copies making it the most read self-help book of all time.
著者: Napoleon Hill
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At the End of the Matinee
- 著者: Keiichiro Hirano, Juliet Winters Carpenter - translator
- ナレーター: Brian Nishii
- 再生時間: 10 時間 51 分
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Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on journalist Yoko Komine. Their bond forms instantly. Upon their first meeting, after Makino’s concert in Tokyo, they begin a conversation that will go on for years, with long spells of silence broken by powerful moments of connection. She’s drawn by Makino’s tender music and his sensitivity, and he is intrigued by Yoko’s refinement and intellect. But neither knows enough about love to see it blooming nor has the confidence to make the first move.
著者: Keiichiro Hirano, 、その他
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Japan - Culture Smart!
- The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- 著者: Paul Norbury
- ナレーター: Charles Armstrong
- 再生時間: 3 時間 12 分
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The Japanese people have always seen themselves as a nation uniquely apart. Their exquisite art forms and elegant culture, military prowess and technological precision, have long been the envy of friend and foe alike. Today, even as Japan adapts to a rapidly changing world, its traditional culture and consensus-based philosophy have proved remarkably resilient. Culture Smart! Japan will broaden your perception and understanding of this complex, rich, and dynamic society.
著者: Paul Norbury
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The Rise of Modern Japan
- 著者: Mark J. Ravina, The Great Courses
- ナレーター: Mark J. Ravina
- 再生時間: 5 時間 51 分
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Noted Japan expert Professor Mark J. Ravina of the University of Texas at Austin covers the politics, economics, and culture of the island nation since World War II - a conflict that saw the end of Japan’s dream of regional conquest, which Professor Ravina calls Empire 1.0. The country’s postwar leaders radically changed course, renouncing a strong military to pursue Empire 2.0 - Japan as an economic colossus.
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A good material
- 投稿者: 堀井碩史 日付: 2023/10/04
著者: Mark J. Ravina, 、その他
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I Moved Your Cheese
- For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze
- 著者: Deepak Malhotra
- ナレーター: Robert Fass
- 再生時間: 1 時間 17 分
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For all its good intentions, Who Moved My Cheese? basically reduces us to mice in a maze sniffing after cheese. Harvard Business School professor Deepak Malhorta uses a fable involving a different set of mice in a maze—mice who question everything—to help readers see how they underestimate their ability change the rules, overcome the constraints they face, and control their own destiny.
著者: Deepak Malhotra
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Japan Made Easy
- 著者: Sandeep Goyal
- ナレーター: Anuj Datta
- 再生時間: 6 時間 42 分
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For the average Indian, Japan is the land of the bullet train, zippy cars, and geishas, and also hard to understand. However, what appears to be opaque and insular to the world outside turns out to be a society that is friendly, intimate and closely knit when you get to know it better.
著者: Sandeep Goyal
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The Long Game
- How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
- 著者: Dorie Clark
- ナレーター: Dorie Clark
- 再生時間: 5 時間 23 分
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It's no secret that we're pushed to the limit. Today's professionals feel rushed, overwhelmed, and perennially behind. How can we break out of the cycle and create the kind of interesting, meaningful lives that we all seek? Just as CEOs who optimize for quarterly profits often fail to make the strategic investments necessary for long-term growth, the same is true in our own personal and professional lives.
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some useful stuff
- 投稿者: Brian 日付: 2023/08/10
著者: Dorie Clark
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Introducing Japanese culture -Popular food and Izakaya menu-
- 日本の文化を英語で紹介 〜人気グルメと居酒屋メニュー〜
- 著者: 講談社
- ナレーター: Magnus Sullivan, Jamie Reed
- 再生時間: 52 分
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Introducing popular Japanese dishes such as "YAKI-TORI"(means 'grilled chicken') and "SUSHI", as well as "IZAKAYA" menus.
著者: 講談社
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世界史&宗教のツボ(週刊東洋経済eビジネス新書No.338)
- 著者: 週刊東洋経済編集部
- ナレーター: 海老塚 久蔵
- 再生時間: 2 時間 50 分
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世界への想像力を高めるために最適なのが歴史だ。国家、政治、経済、社会、文化のありようをたどることで現在と過去の連続性を理解できる。異なる文化、異なる民族の歴史を知ることで世界はより身近になる
著者: 週刊東洋経済編集部
あらすじ・解説
To us humans, the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female can't be fertilized (for example, because she is already pregnant, post-menopausal, or between fertile cycles). A human female doesn't know her precise time of fertility and certainly doesn't advertise it to human males by the striking color changes, smells, and sounds used by other female mammals.
Why do we differ so radically in these and other important aspects of our sexuality from our closest ancestor, the apes? Why does the human female, virtually alone among mammals go through menopause? Why does the human male stand out as one of the few mammals to stay (often or usually) with the female he impregnates, to help raise the children that he sired? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large?
There is no one better qualified than Jared Diamond - renowned expert in the fields of physiology and evolutionary biology and award-winning author - to explain the evolutionary forces that operated on our ancestors to make us sexually different. With wit and a wealth of fascinating examples, he explains how our sexuality has been as crucial as our large brains and upright posture in our rise to human status.