**A groundbreaking book that reveals the hidden architecture of our conversations and how even small improvements can have a profound impact on our relationships in work and lifeーfrom a celebrated ……続きを見る
The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collecti……続きを見る
著者：David Brooks
出版社： Random House Publishing Group
発売日： 2023年10月24日
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person and fostering deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our livesーfrom the author of Th……続きを見る
This book is a retelling of THE JESTS OF GEORGE PEELE, which is a collection of anecdotes and stories about the Elizabethan playwright George Peele. A Sample:
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Some Sample Anecdotes:
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• On March 26, 1904, during a strike by miners in Colorado, union organizer Mother Jones was arrested on the orders of governor James P. Peabody, put on a train, take……続きを見る
This is a retelling of Homer's ODYSSEY in novel form. After leaving Troy, Odyssey spent ten years wandering around the Mediterranean. When he finally returned home to the island of Ithaca, he discov……続きを見る
This is an easy-to-read retelling of Ben Jonson's comedy EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOR. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much easier to understand.
Do you know a languag……続きを見る
This is an easy-to-read retelling of Robert Greene's comedy FRIAR BACON AND FRIAR BUNGAY. Reading this version first will help you read and understand the classic play much better.
Do you know a lan……続きを見る
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS tells the story of their quest to find the Golden Fleece. They sail from Greece into the Black Sea. With the help of the sorceress Medea, they succeed in getting the Golden F……続きを見る
This is a retelling of George's Peele's DAVID AND BATHSHEBA, AND THE TRAGEDY OF ABSALOM In easy-to-read language. Many Elizabethan plays are based on mythology, but this is the only extant play base……続きを見る
This is an easy-to-read retelling of George Peele's history play EDWARD I. People who read this retelling first will find the original play much easier to read and understand.
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This book consists of many anecdotes and stories about science and religion. It is, I hope, interesting with some humor. For example: 1) When aerospace engineer Burt Rutan was growing up, he was obs……続きを見る
著者：Raymond Briggs
出版社： Random House Children's Books
発売日： 2015年08月25日
Raymond Briggs’s beloved Snowman returns in this new Step 1 Step into Reading early reader . . . accompanied by a snow puppy! When Billy wishes his snowman and snowdog to life, they take him on a jo……続きを見る
A Sample:
Fight bad policies with sarcasm. For example, male legislators have introduced bills to restrict women's reproductive freedom, so female legislators have introduced bills to restrict men's……続きを見る
著者：Raymond Briggs
出版社： Random House Children's Books
発売日： 2013年10月22日
A new Christmas classic based on Raymond Briggs's holiday favorite THE SNOWMAN.
In this picture book, a little boy builds a snow puppyーin hopes of getting a real one for Christmasーnext to his snow……続きを見る
'Everything is possible in Moscow at night.'
The Kremlin, Moscow, 1942. A top-secret meeting between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin: one, a wealthy aristocrat from a blue-blooded line of Englis……続きを見る
This is an easy-to-read retelling of Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker's THE ROARING GIRL: A Retelling. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much easier to understand. F……続きを見る
This latest book in Straightforward Guides Series, A Guide to Family Law, Revised Edition, is a clear and concise guide to all aspects of the law as it affects the family, with changes in the law up……続きを見る
This book contains easy-to read retellings of all John Lyly's eight plays: Campaspe, Endymion, Galatea, Love's Metamorphosis, Midas, Mother Bombie, Sappho and Phao, The Woman in the Moon. In these r……続きを見る
This is an easy-to-read retelling of the medieval morality play MANKIND, which was written circa 1470.
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Mercy continued:
"Don't distemper and sicken your brain with good ale nor with wine.
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"Element Of Life" is a twisted tale that best fits into the "Weird Fiction" category. Although it explores the very margins of desperation, depravity, and ugliness of human thinking and behavior, it……続きを見る
Living works of art tend to take joy in living. So how can we be a living work of art? Some ways include living a life of wit and intelligence, practicing an art, doing good deeds, paying attention ……続きを見る
This is a short, quick, and easy read.
Most of these anecdotes are probably just OK, but there should be at least one or two that you will want to tell your friends.
Retold in my own words to avoid ……続きを見る
著者：Ed Brisson
出版社： Marvel Entertainment
発売日： 2024年10月16日
Collects Predator: The Last Hunt #1-4. The latest brutal chapter of Marvel's thrilling take on the PREDATOR franchise! For years, Theta has been hunting Predators in her search for the one that kill……続きを見る
This book contains 250 anecdotes, including these:
• George Jessel was known as the Toastmaster of the United States because he spoke at so many dinners and gave so many elegies at funerals. He once……続きを見る
This is a short, quick, and easy read.
Anecdotes are retold in my own words to avoid plagiarism.
Most of these anecdotes are meant to be funny, but some are meant to be thought-provoking.
• In Bikin……続きを見る
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Daniel Pinkwater has written lots of books, including many books for kids. He says about himself (using the third person), "Daniel Pinkwater is crazy about writing, and has been trying to ……続きを見る
This is a short, quick, and easy read.
Some Sample Anecdotes:
• John Barrymore was noted as much for his dissipation as for his acting. While acting in Hamlet after a night of revelry, he began the ……続きを見る
This is a short, quick, and easy read.
Some Sample Anecdotes:
• While studying theater at UCLA, Carol Burnett took a course in acting, where she prepared to recite a speech in front of her class. Un……続きを見る
A Sample: 1) Some lawyers and judges in England tend not to think highly of music, or of composers, conductors, and musicians. Once, conductor Thomas Beecham was at a party where it was mentioned th……続きを見る
