Moto - Biography & Memoir 1

In the spring of 1943, a package arrived at a Washington DC address that appeared in no telephone directory. Inside, wrapped in brown paper and tied with string, was a piece of silk embroidery: a cl……続きを見る

Incarceration to Inspiration: Ikigai Legacy of an American Jap Girl In 1925, three-year-old Tome, one of nine children, is abandoned by her birth parents. Raised by a foster family who instill in he……続きを見る

A genre-defying artist who had acquired the status of a musical giant by the time of his death in 2023, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s long career spanned electronic, hip-hop, modern classical and pop music, in……続きを見る

A Filha do Samurai oferece um retrato elegante de um mundo que quase desaparecera quando Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto deu início à sua escrita. Nesta memória cativante, Sugimoto narra a sua infância na gel……続きを見る

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A bestseller in Japan, a remarkable reflection on making art, living life, and accepting death, from the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, the world-renowned musical genius and godfather of electronic mus……続きを見る

**A newly discovered firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath from one of the survivorsーbringing unprecedented immediacy to our understanding of this world-changing event. “A st……続きを見る

*****Now an International Bestseller!*** A Publisher's Weekly Pick of 2024! "Distinctively Japanese musings on meaning and connection."ーObserver** I'm starting a service... available for any situat……続きを見る

In this raw and unapologetic guide, powerhouse entrepreneur and seven-time Hall of Famer Jamine Moton pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to build a business-and yourself. You: Entreprene……続きを見る

The Silence Beneath the Blast When you hear the phrase Manhattan Project, you usually think bomb. We think of mushroom clouds, desert tests and that fateful moment when J. Robert Oppenheimer recited……続きを見る

The Accidental Icon There’s a kind of myth we like to believe about success: the master plan. The teenager who maps out her life in a spiral notebook, the college student with a five-year strategy, ……続きを見る

It was 1943, and a man sat nervously in the belly of a British military plane, flying over Nazi-occupied Europe. The stakes then were higher than they had ever been. His coat concealed no weapon or ……続きを見る

At its most superficial level, Harry Houdini was what we think of as a magician. A performer who wriggled out of handcuffs, leapt from water tanks, and dared audiences to lock him in anything and ev……続きを見る

In 1919, a young boy in Baltimore stole a car. Or rather, he commandeered one. The newspapers were filled with stories like theseーof boys gone astray, of the creeping rot of modernity and urban lif……続きを見る

On the night of July 27, 2004, into an audience filled with delegates to the Democratic National Convention, walked an Illinois state senator with a funny name ー Barack Hussein Obama ー who gave th……続きを見る

For her thirteenth birthday in 1942, a girl was given a red-and-white checkered diary. It was just a normal thing ー the kind of thing that is not special in terms of design or price. You could have……続きを見る

In 2005, an American polling firm asked a simple question to a sample of citizens: “Do you believe Jesus actually lived?” Over 90 percent said yes. Not surprising, perhaps, in a country where Christ……続きを見る

Alfred Nobel is a paradox of a figure. To the majority, his name evokes the Nobel Prizesーthe golden medals handed out annually to the most brilliant scientists, peacekeepers and literary minds of t……続きを見る

In the spring of 1945, a man stood in a New Mexico desert and watched the sky burst into flame. He had assisted in designing the momentーall the factoring, the trials, the sleepless nights of theore……続きを見る

In the summer of 2018, a man in Ohioーlet’s call him Jakeーwalked into a hardware store to buy a set of steel screws for a home renovation project. What Jake didn’t know, as he frowned at the sudden……続きを見る

In a lost world where the rain forests of America washed into seas of calm and glaciers pressed upon the earth like hands, where mammoths trundled across crystalline plains, another human thrived. N……続きを見る

In the early hours of a plague-ridden morning in 1665, a young scholar fled the city. The university had closed. The streets of Cambridge were quiet. Death had a way of silencing ambition, yet in th……続きを見る

There’s a sketch in one of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooksーjust a few faint lines drawn with iron gall ink on fragile paper. It doesn’t look like much. A few circles, some cross-hatching, and the cur……続きを見る

It was in 2013 when a hushed wave hit the Vatican. A new Pope had been elected, but there was something remarkable about him. He wasn’t Italian, or European even. He was not the son of the polished ……続きを見る

It is easy, from the safety of hindsight, to flatten history into caricature. Herbert Hoover, to most Americans, is little more than a punchlineーa president whose name became synonymous with breadl……続きを見る

One spring day in 1932, a red Lockheed Vega took off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, rising into the mist and fog that blankets the Atlantic. At the controls was a slim woman in a leather jacket, ……続きを見る

There’s something oddly subversive about Roald Dahl. He is, after all, one of the most beloved children’s authors of the twentieth century, the architect of fantastical worlds where oversized peache……続きを見る

In the thirteenth century, when the world was stitched together by the thinnest of threadsーby camel trails, merchant ships, and the whispers of travelers around campfiresーone man crossed almost al……続きを見る

One spring day in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., stood at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and described a dream. It was an address that would define not only a man but an era. And yet, like many i……続きを見る

Theodor Seuss Geisel was never supposed to be a household name. If you had encountered him in the early 1920s, a Dartmouth graduate who liked to doodle and had an idiosyncratic sense of humor, you c……続きを見る