著者:Alphonse Daudet
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2016年03月22日
A “startling [and] splendid” book (The New York Times Book Review) from one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century on his years of enduring severe illnessーa classic in the literary annal……続きを見る
The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplantーone the donor and one the recipientー……続きを見る
著者:Gary A. Olson
出版社: Southern Illinois University Press
発売日: 2016年03月21日
One of the twentieth century’s most original and influential literary theorists, Stanley Fish is also known as a fascinatingly atypical, polarizing public intellectual; a loud, cigar-smoking contrar……続きを見る
Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat ……続きを見る
Beginning in 1925, when at twenty-three she embarked on her first field work in Samoa, Mead sent family and friends these letters from the field “to make a little more real for them” the exotic worl……続きを見る
A major new exploration of the economics of animal exploitation and a practical roadmap for how we can use the marketplace to promote the welfare of all living creatures, from the renowned animal-ri……続きを見る
Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The F……続きを見る
著者:Mason Inman
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2016年04月01日
The first comprehensive biography of Marion King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil."
In 1956, geologist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert delivered a speech that has shaped world energy de……続きを見る
From waking dream to reality is a book about living with mental illness. It tells about the way in and out of psychosis, and how Petter Nilsen got well from his disease. It includes a psychologist, ……続きを見る
著者:G. Edward White
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
By any measure, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., led a full and remarkable life. He was tall and exceptionally attractive, especially as he aged, with piercing eyes, a shock of white hair, and prominent ……続きを見る
Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both profess……続きを見る
著者:G. Edward White
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
This is a major biography of one of America's most influential and respected Supreme Court justices by a leading law scholar. In the late 1970s, Earl Warren's papers were opened and G. Edward White,……続きを見る
The mathematical genius Alan Turing, now well known for his crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, was the first to conceive of the fundamental principle of the modern computer-the idea o……続きを見る
Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and accomplishments of such g……続きを見る
Par une belle matinée de l’année 125…, une petite troupe de chevaliers s’avançait, en silence, vers la ville de Rousselave dans la Flandre occidentale… Le soleil montait à l’horizon, éclairant la ca……続きを見る
著者:Briony Penn
出版社: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
発売日: 2015年10月15日
The Real Thing is the first official biography of Ian McTaggart Cowan (1910–2010), the “father of Canadian ecology.” Authorized by his family and with the research support and participation of the U……続きを見る
出版社: University of South Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年05月15日
Southern writers, historians, and artists celebrate the life and career of a beloved mentor, friend, and colleague
Edited by southern historians Orville Vernon Burton and Eldred E. Prince, Jr., Beco……続きを見る
Et tout avait commencé en voulant accomplir une bonne action…
« Aujourd’hui tout ceci m’apparaît loin et présent en même temps. Il me reste les douleurs, les problèmes d’évacuation, que je gère asse……続きを見る
A Buddhist nun shares her profound journey of healing, plus step-by-step directions for embracing and transforming suffering through mindfulness, meditation, and other techniques
Before she became a……続きを見る
著者:David Bodanis
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2016年09月29日
Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet……続きを見る
Why is Stephen Girard, a figure from late Colonial America, important today? As a teenager, he left home in Bordeaux, France with meager funds and went to sea as a merchant marine, following his fam……続きを見る
著者:David M. Armstrong
出版社: University Press of Colorado
発売日: 2007年10月30日
Revised, updated, and with more than 80 new color photographs, Rocky Mountain Mammals, Third Edition is a nontechnical guide to the mammals of the Southern Rocky Mountains and their foothills, with ……続きを見る
He called the first atomic bomb “technically sweet,” yet as he watched its brilliant light explode over the New Mexico desert in 1945 in advance of the black horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he al……続きを見る
The story of a brutal shark attack that cost a woman her arm and much of her leg, and her death-defying recovery.
One of the most dreadful experiences humans fear is a shark attack. This horrifying ……続きを見る
Lustprinzip und Libido, Über-Ich, Unbewusstes und Schuldgefühle – die Bedeutung Sigmund Freuds für unsere Sprache und unseren Alltag ist unbestritten. Aber was genau fangen wir im 21. Jahrhundert an……続きを見る
This study, first published in 1945, gives a precise description of the unfolding of a great poet’s craftsmanship and suggests alignments of the technical progression with the changes of the mind.
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Spotlighting a woman who was strongly dedicated to improving the lives of the disadvantaged, this biography celebrates the accomplishments of Pat Giles. Her entrance into Parliament as a Labor polit……続きを見る
What are cats? How do cats hunt? Do wild cats like catnip? Do cats dream? Cats in Question, a new book in Smithsonian's highly successful “In Question” series, offers authoritative and engaging answ……続きを見る
著者:Julia Hollander
出版社: Bastei Entertainment
発売日: 2016年05月17日
Frisch verheiratet, eine kleine Tochter, das Haus auf dem Lande und schwanger mit dem zweiten Kind - Julias Leben scheint perfekt.
Doch als das Baby auf die Welt kommt, ist alles anders als beim let……続きを見る