Legend has it that Abraham Lincoln scrawled the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope as he traveled to the battlefield to dedicate a cemetery. But the legend belies Lincoln’s struggle to ca……続きを見る
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who……続きを見る
著者:Benjamin Rutter
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Debates over the 'end of art' have tended to obscure Hegel's work on the arts themselves. Benjamin Rutter opens this study with a defence of art's indispensability to Hegel's conception of modernity……続きを見る
The man who calls himself Matt Sturtz only connects with other human beings at Christmas. He takes a job as a mall Santa, and marvels that no one checks his résumé, or his identification for that ma……続きを見る
It is hard to imagine a more Orwellian presidency than George W. Bush's, according to Joseph Russomanno, who demonstrates how a form of Newspeak became thoroughly entrenched in the historical record……続きを見る
著者:Laura B. Russell
出版社: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
発売日: 2011年08月23日
For the estimated three million Americans suffering from Celiac disease, wheat allergies, and severe gluten sensitivities, Asian food is usually off-limits because its signature ingredientsーnoodles……続きを見る
Bridge Builders (1893) by the British writer Rudyard Kipling is an Indian story about the building of the Kashi Bridge. The story mainly displays Kiplings mastery of the technical details and knowle……続きを見る
With the impetus of industrialization and the eruption of global economies, the growing disparity between poor and wealthy nations has impelled political scientists to ask why some nations are cause……続きを見る
著者:Bruce Watson
出版社: New Word City, Inc.
発売日: 2012年07月25日
Modern Americans are accustomed to the insanity defense, but what if a madman shot the president? During the Victorian Era? In this brief gripping account, award-winning author Bruce Watson recounts……続きを見る
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so simil……続きを見る
Randle Manton has brought the Earth back from the brink of nuclear disaster, painstakingly rebuilding a nearly destroyed civilization, even reaching out to space. But now he's told that the clouds c……続きを見る
A skillfully woven story that makes the experience of a personal relationship with Jesus understandable for the young people to whom it is addressed, "My Best Mate" is told from the point of view of……続きを見る
著者:Beth C. Rubin
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年05月23日
Can social studies classrooms be effective "makers" of citizens if much of what occurs in these classrooms does little to prepare young people to participate in the civic and political life of our d……続きを見る
This debut cookbook from James Beard Rising Star Chef Gabriel Rucker features a serious yet playful collection of 150 recipes from his phenomenally popular Portland restaurant.
In the five years sin……続きを見る
著者:Gertrud Emde
出版社: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
発売日: 2009年10月02日
Gottes himmlische Helfer - Die andere Wirklichkeit entdecken
Unsere Welt ist durchdrungen von den Wundern der unsichtbaren Schöpfung. Geistige Wesen warten darauf, den Menschen zu helfen. Die weit b……続きを見る
A group of special interest to mammalogists, taxonomists, and systemicists, ungulates have proven difficult to classify. This comprehensive review of the taxonomic relationships of artiodactyls and ……続きを見る
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
The Introduction.
Article 1. OF the great merits of Vitruvius, and the Excellencies of his Works
Art. 2. Of the method of ……続きを見る
Did you ever wonder?
Why the arts are essential besides the giving of pleasure?
What makes an artist function?
What do the arts all have in common?
Do the arts really help our health, education and ……続きを見る
著者:Antonio Pagliarulo
出版社: Random House Children's Books
発売日: 2008年09月09日
IT’S SUMMER IN the city for Madison, Park, and Lexington Hamilton. Only, these triplet heiresses have more on their plate than hot-tubbing and the Hamptons. The Royal Crown Society of America is one……続きを見る
著者:Hari Kunzru
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年03月06日
In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men.
ーHonoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830
Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell ……続きを見る
His knees trembled and he felt weak. The trek through the burning sands had been long, and longer still the climb up the mountain. His damp robe clung tightly to his hot body. The breeze that inhabi……続きを見る
A quick guide to using Microsoft OneNote on tablets, online, or on your desktop
OneNote is the note-taking-and-sharing application that's part of Microsoft Office. It lets you create notes by hand, ……続きを見る
著者:Ian Buruma
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2010年02月01日
For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increa……続きを見る
著者:Gunnar Trumbull
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2012年10月31日
Consumers feel powerless in the face of big industry, and the dominant view of economic regulators agrees with them. Trumbull argues that this represents a misreading of the historical record and th……続きを見る
All That is Seen and Unseen takes you on a journey through the heartwrenching experience of losing a child in the first trimester. This loss is typically brushed aside due to society's opinion that ……続きを見る
An emergency: a bleeding teenage girl in ripped clothes on a gurney in a hospital corridor, her mother hastily brought in by the investigating police officer. An emergency, a girl, a family, and a c……続きを見る
Many books on sustainability have been written in the last decade, most of them dealing with agricultural systems, communities, and general business practices. In contrast, Handbook of Sustainabilit……続きを見る
This is a short funny story about a little girl Sona and her grandmother - who scare away the two thieves using a toy monster. This story helps children to learn about the following concepts of ligh……続きを見る
A boy is thrown into the middle of history’s biggest war. Kid Soldier has been nominated for the 2015 Rocky Mountain Book Award Fatherless and penniless, fifteen-year-old Richard Fuller wants a bi……続きを見る
At Yalta, in Russia, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet in February 1945. World War 2 is nearing its bloody conclusion with Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender.
Stali……続きを見る