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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Parables from the Back Side Volume 2 Bible Stories With A Twist【電子書籍】[ J. Ellsworth Kalas ]

＜p＞This study is an addition to the author’s popular “Back Side” books.＜br /＞ J. Ellsworth Kalas presents new insight into twelve of Jesus’ parables by entering them through a unique starting point, a creative retelling, a new “lens,” or the eyes of a minor or unsympathetic character.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Chapter titles:＜/p＞ ＜ol＞ ＜li＞The Value of the House--Matthew 7:24-27＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Man Who Talked with His Soul--Luke 12:13-21＜/li＞ ＜li＞What Chance Does an Average Sinner Have?--Luke 7:36-48＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Importance of Downward Mobility--Luke 14:7-11＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Danger of Being Good and Empty--Matthew 12:43-45＜/li＞ ＜li＞Risky business--Matthew 13:45-46＜/li＞ ＜li＞Miracles Can Be Overrated--Luke 16:19-31＜/li＞ ＜li＞Second Chance for a Poor Manager--Luke 16:1-13＜/li＞ ＜li＞A Laugh and a Prayer--Luke 11:5-13, 18:1-8＜/li＞ ＜li＞It Happens While We Sleep--Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Importance of Being Dressed for the Party--Matthew 22:1-14＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Genius of Effective Waiting--Luke 12:32-40＜/li＞ ＜/ol＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Archie & Friends #135【電子書籍】[ Fernando Ruiz ]

＜p＞Things are getting spooky in Riverdale again, just in time for another Halloween adventure. As Archie and his friends get ready for the big party, they experience a shocking change - literally! This year, the costume shop has a magical effect on Archie, Betty, Veronica, Chuck and Moose... and even makes Reggie more monstrous than usual! Can boy genius Dilton work up his usual wizardry and get the gang out of this blood-curdling conundrum, or will we have to change the title of this comic to "Archie & FIENDS"?!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Citizen of the World The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Volume One: 1919-1968【電子書籍】[ John English ]

＜p＞One of the most important, exciting biographies of our time: the definitive, major two-volume biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeauーwritten with unprecedented, complete access to Trudeau’s enormous cache of private letters and papers.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bestselling biographer John English gets behind the public record and existing glancing portraits of Trudeau to reveal the real man and the multiple influences that shaped his life, providing the full context lacking in all previous biographies to-date.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As prime minister between 1968 and 1984, Trudeau, the brilliant, controversial figure, intrigued Canadians and attracted international attention as no other Canadian leader has ever done. Volume One takes us from his birth in 1919 to his election as leader in 1968.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Born into a wealthy family in Montreal, Trudeau excelled at the best schools, graduating as a lawyer with conservative, nationalist and traditional Catholic views. But always conscious of his French-English heritage, desperate to know the outside world, and an adventurer to boot, he embarked on a pilgrimage of discoveryーfirst to Harvard and the Sorbonne, then to the London School of Economics and, finally, on a trip through Europe, the Middle East, India and China. He was a changed man when he returnedーsocialist in his politics, sympathetic to labour, a friend to activists and writers in radical causes. Suddenly and surprisingly, he went to Ottawa for two mostly unhappy years as a public servant in the Privy Council Office. He frequently shocked his colleagues when, on the brink of a Quebec election, for example, he departed for New York or Europe on an extended tour. Yet in the 1950s and 60s, he wrote the most important articles outlining his political philosophy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And there were the remarkable relationships with friends, women and especially his mother (whom he lived with until he was middle-aged). He wrote to them always, exchanging ideas with the men, intimacies with the women, especially in these early years, and lively descriptions of his life. He even recorded his in-depth psychoanalysis in Paris. This personal side of Trudeau has never been revealed beforeーand it sheds light on the politician and statesman he became.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Volume One ends with his entry into politics, his appointment as Minister of Justice, his meeting Margaret and his election as leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Canada. There, his genius and charisma, his ambition and intellectual prowess, his ruthlessness and emotional character and his deliberate shaping of himself for leadership played out on the national stage and, when Lester B. Pearson announced his retirement as prime minister in 1968, there was but one obvious man for the job: Pierre Trudeau.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞In 1938 Trudeau began a diary, which he continued for over two years. It is detailed, frank, and extraordinarily revealing. It is the only diary in Trudeau’ s papers, apart from less personal travel diaries and an agenda for 1937 that contains some commentary. His diary expresses Trudeau’s own need to chronicle the moments of late adolescence as he tried to find his identity. It begins on New Year’s Day 1938 with the intriguing advice: “If you want to know my thoughts, read between the lines!”＜/em＞＜br /＞ ーfrom ＜em＞Citizen of the World＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Bismarck: A Life A Life【電子書籍】[ Jonathan Steinberg ]

＜p＞This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. Otto von Bismarck 'made' Germany but never 'ruled' it. For twenty eight years he acted as a prime minister without a party. He made speeches, brilliant in content but hesitant in delivery, and rarely addressed a public meeting. He planned three wars and after a certain stage in his career always wore military uniform to which he had no claim. The 'Iron Chancellor', the image of Prussian militarism, suffered from hypochondria and hysteria. Contemporaries called him a 'dictator' and several observers credited him with 'demonic' powers'. They were not wrong. The sheer power of his remarkable 'sovereign sel' awed even his enemies. William I observed that it was hard to be emperor under a man like Bismarck. He towered physically and intellectually over his contemporaries. His spoken and written prose sparkled with wit, insight, grand visions and petty malice. He united Germany and transformed Europe like Napoleon before and Hitler after him but with neither their control of the state nor command of great armies. He was and remained a royal servant. This new biography explores the greatness and limits of a huge and ultimately destructive self. It uses the diaries and letters of his contemporaries to explore the most remarkable figure of the nineteenth century, a man who never said a dull thing or wrote a slack sentence. A political genius who combined creative and destructive traits, generosity and pettiness, tolerance and ferocious enmity, courtesy and rudeness - in short, not only the most important nineteenth-century statesman but by far the most entertaining.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】This Side of Paradise【電子書籍】[ F. Scott Fitzgerald ]

＜p＞First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century. In this remarkable achievement, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unparalleled wit and keen social insight in his portrayal of college life through the struggles and doubts of Amory Blaine, a self-proclaimed genius with a love of knowledge and a penchant for the romantic. As Amory journeys into adulthood and leaves the aristocratic egotism of his youth behind, he becomes painfully aware of his lost innocence and the new sense of responsibility and regret that has taken its place.＜br /＞ Clever and wonderfully written, This Side of Paradise is a fascinating novel about the changes of the Jazz Age and their effects on the individual. It is a complex portrait of a versatile mind in a restless generation that reveals rich ideas crucial to an understanding of the 1920s and timeless truths about the human need for--and fear of--change.＜br /＞ "A very enlivening book indeed, a book really brilliant and glamorous, making as agreeable reading as could be asked . . . There are clever things, keen and searching things, amusingly young and mistaken things, beautiful things and pretty things . . . and truly inspired and elevated things, an astonishing abundance of each, in THIS SIDE OF PARADISE. You could call it the youthful Byronism that is normal in a man of the author's type, working out through a well-furnished intellect of unusual critical force."＜br /＞ --The Evening Post, 1920＜br /＞ "An astonishing and refreshing book . . . Mr. Fitzgerald has recorded with a good deal of felicity and a disarming frankness the adventures and developments of a curious and fortunate American youth. . . . [It is] delightful and encouraging to find a novel which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a reflection of American undergraduate life. At last the revelation has come. We have the constant young American occupation--the 'petting party'--frankly and humorously in our literature."＜br /＞ --The New Republic, 1920＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】David Hockney The Biography, 1937-1975【電子書籍】[ christopher simon sykes ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to David Hockney’s extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colorful and intimate portrait of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Born in 1937, David Hockney grew up in a northern English town during the days of postwar austerity. By the time he was ten years old he knew he wanted to be an artist, and after leaving school he went on to study at Bradford Art College and later at the Royal College of Art in London. Bursting onto the scene at the Young Contemporaries exhibition, Hockney was quickly heralded as the golden boy of postwar British art and a leading proponent of pop art. It was during the swinging 60s in London that he befriended many of the seminal cultural figures of the generation and throughout these years Hockney's career grew. Always absorbed in his work, he drew, painted and etched for long hours each day, but it was a scholarship that led him to California, where he painted his iconic series of swimming pools. Since then, the most prestigious galleries across the world have devoted countless shows to his extraordinary work.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the seventies he expanded his range of projects, including set and costume design for operas and experiments with photography, lithography, and even photocopying. Most recently he has been at the forefront the art world's digital revolution, producing incredible sketches on his iPhone and iPad, and it is this progressive thinking which has highlighted his genius, vigor and versatility as an artist approaching his 75th birthday.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this, the first volume of Hockney’s biography, detailing his life and work from 1937 - 1975, Sykes explores the fascinating world of the beloved and controversial artist whose career has spanned and epitomized the art movements of the last five decades.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"The timing couldn't be better for this enjoyable and well-sourced book, which ー like Hockney's own work ー is both conversational and perceptive." ー＜em＞Los Angeles Times＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"To read Christopher Simon Sykes' ＜em＞David Hockney＜/em＞ is to marvel at the artistic gifts of the eccentric Yorkshireman who rose from a sometimes pinched childhood to hobnob with poet Stephen Spender and novelist Christopher Isherwood, to party with Mick Jagger and Manolo Blahnik." ー＜em＞The Plain Dealer＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Prodigiously entertaining." ー＜em＞Financial Times＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“A chatty, knowledgeable, insider's biography, full of anecdotes.” ー＜em＞The Guardian＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Sexist Jokes: Be The Funny One in A Crowd【電子書籍】[ Stephen Williams ]

＜p＞Laugh your head off with these jokes!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Your friends will burst out in laughter when they will hear these jokes!＜br /＞ Have you always wanted to be the 'funny one' in your group ?＜br /＞ Laughter is good. It is good for you psychologically and physically. Laughter is one way to achieve a better life. With the economical crisis and the political instability all over the world, people need laughter now more than ever. Be the one who brings a smile on your friends' faces!＜br /＞ This book will unleash an explosion of laughter with just one shake. If not, it will at least make you giggle. Share the joy with your friends and they will be eternally grateful for it. Be the one who brings the good mood and the party!＜br /＞ 'HAHAH, I can't stop laughing. The one with the cake is genius!'- C. Bailey＜br /＞ With this book, you can't be sad. Say goodbye to depression and sadness. Stress, money issues and the relationship problems will al just fade away. Shake it and start the fun! Win any woman's heart with your funny jokes.＜br /＞ Adult jokes are among the funniest jokes. And we all know it: nothing says more 'I'm intelligent' than irony and sarcasm. And this is exactly what stands at the base of good jokes. American comedies may be funny, but this is more than having fun: it is acknowledging we're all flawed and that's exactly what makes us special.＜br /＞ Depression is a disease hard to control. Symptoms such as loosing the wish to live, the feeling of uselessness and deep sadness are among the most common depression symptoms. And with the crazy world out there, sometimes it is hard to find reasons to smile. But you can do it, you can overcome your problems to come out to the surface as a winner. Start with a good round of laughter and progress to changing your life. Build yourself the life you wish for. Attract all the good things in the Universe by leaving behind all anger and reasons to be upset.＜br /＞ These short funny jokes are the key to your social success. People like those who make them laugh and that's a golden rule. Have you ever seen a grumpy person surrounded by a lot of people? We're pretty sure you didn't. And socializing with other people is a need you have to fulfill. Be a social butterfly and people will come to you as if you were a magician. Be the magician of laughter with one shake.＜br /＞ A set of short funny jokes can make wonders with your social skills. Improve your ability to interact in society and break the ice with some sexy jokes. People will just want more and more of them. These social skills are sometimes more important than an Ivy League diploma. You know why? Because they are life skills and what life teaches us is pure gold. Good communication with the people you interact with (be it business or leisure time) is essential to achieving success. Leave behind social phobia and people will just love you for having made them laugh. Because laughter is priceless in a world that seems to have gone mad.＜br /＞ Download today and let the party, the laughing and the pretty women come to you!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Messy【電子書籍】[ Jessica Morgan ]

Now that Brooke Berlin's caught a taste of fame and her movie star father's attention, she wants to launch a blog that will position her as the ultimate Hollywood insider. But between schoolwork, party-planning committee meetings, and spa treatments, she hardly has the time to write it herself .＜br＞＜br＞Enter Max McCormack, an aspiring author with a terrible after-school job pushing faux meat on the macrobiotic masses of La-La Land. Max reluctantly agrees to play Brooke's ghost-blogger for an impressive salary, and the site takes off, but how long can their lie last? In person, Brooke can't live up to the intellectual wit of openbrooke.com, and Max soon begins to resent hiding her genius behind a bandage-dress-wearing blonde. Can the girls work together to stay on top, or will the truth come out and ruin everything they've built?画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】...Until Proven Innocent: Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #5【電子書籍】[ Gene Grossman ]

＜p＞This book won the Dan Poynter 2011 First-place GOLD Global eBook Award in the Fiction/Mystery category.＜/p＞ ＜p＞An L.A.P.D. detective named Tony is attorney Peter Sharp's dock neighbor, and aside from being a racist cop on suspension while several incidents of alleged police brutality he's been accused of are being investigated, he seems like pretty nice guy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Like other boat owners on the dock, Peter avoids eye contact with Tony... whose only friend in the marina appears to be Peter's 12-year old legal ward Suzi, an adorable Chinese computer genius.＜/p＞ ＜p＞She spends time on Tony's boat and enjoys his version of baby-sitting, which entails teaching her the fine art of re-loading the shells for his huge 50-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, a $1,400 piece of hand-held artillery that's the most powerful production handgun in the world and would undoubtedly make even Dirty Harry think twice about going up against it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Suzi isn't allowed to handle this 15-inch long monster that weighs almost 7 pounds loaded, but she is rapidly becoming a ballistic expert in the re-loading field and when Tony is arrested for suspicion of first-degree murder merely because he was found standing over the body of a Black man who Tony was seen arguing with, Suzi convinces Peter to become the defense lawyer.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When the bullet that killed the victim is determined to have been fired by Tony's gun, the case takes another turn for the worse, and if you're at all interested in law, murder, police procedure and/or ballistics, you'll enjoy reading this book and seeing if you can beat Suzi in a race to find out if Tony is innocent - and if he's not - who the real guilty party is.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Stories【電子書籍】[ Katherine Mansfield ]

＜p＞Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters are passionate men and women swaddled in English reserve -- and sometimes briefly breaking through. And her genius is to pinpoint those unacknowledged and almost imperceptible moments in which those people's relationships -- with one another and themselves -- change forever. This collection includes such masterpieces as "Prelude," "At the Bay" "Bliss," "The Man Without a Temperament" and "The Garden Party" and has a new introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Higher A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City【電子書籍】[ Neal Bascomb ]

＜p＞The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spirit and strength of a newly powerful America.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1924, in the vibrant heart of Manhattan, a fierce rivalry was born. Two architects, William Van Alen and Craig Severance (former friends and successful partners, but now bitter adversaries), set out to imprint their individual marks on the greatest canvas in the world--the rapidly evolving skyline of New York City. Each man desired to build the city’s tallest building, or ‘skyscraper.’ Each would stop at nothing to outdo his rival.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Van Alen was a creative genius who envisioned a bold, contemporary building that would move beyond the tired architecture of the previous century. By a stroke of good fortune he found a larger-than-life patron in automobile magnate Walter Chrysler, and they set out to build the legendary Chrysler building. Severance, by comparison, was a brilliant businessman, and he tapped his circle of downtown, old-money investors to begin construction on the Manhattan Company Building at 40 Wall Street.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From ground-breaking to bricklaying, Van Alen and Severance fought a cunning duel of wills. Each man was forced to revamp his architectural design in an attempt to push higher, to overcome his rival in mid-construction, as the structures rose, floor by floor, in record time. Yet just as the battle was underway, a third party entered the arena and announced plans to build an even larger building. This project would be overseen by one of Chrysler’s principal rivals--a representative of the General Motors group--and the building ultimately became known as The Empire State Building.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Infused with narrative thrills and perfectly rendered historical and engineering detail, ＜em＞Higher＜/em＞ brings to life a sensational episode in American history. Author Neal Bascomb interweaves characters such as Al Smith and Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, leading up to an astonishing climax that illustrates one of the most ingenious (and secret) architectural achievements of all time.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Bismarck: A Life A Life【電子書籍】[ Jonathan Steinberg ]

＜p＞This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. Otto von Bismarck 'made' Germany but never 'ruled' it. For twenty eight years he acted as a prime minister without a party. He made speeches, brilliant in content but hesitant in delivery, and rarely addressed a public meeting. He planned three wars and after a certain stage in his career always wore military uniform to which he had no claim. The 'Iron Chancellor', the image of Prussian militarism, suffered from hypochondria and hysteria. Contemporaries called him a 'dictator' and several observers credited him with 'demonic' powers'. They were not wrong. The sheer power of his remarkable 'sovereign sel' awed even his enemies. William I observed that it was hard to be emperor under a man like Bismarck. He towered physically and intellectually over his contemporaries. His spoken and written prose sparkled with wit, insight, grand visions and petty malice. He united Germany and transformed Europe like Napoleon before and Hitler after him but with neither their control of the state nor command of great armies. He was and remained a royal servant. This new biography explores the greatness and limits of a huge and ultimately destructive self. It uses the diaries and letters of his contemporaries to explore the most remarkable figure of the nineteenth century, a man who never said a dull thing or wrote a slack sentence. A political genius who combined creative and destructive traits, generosity and pettiness, tolerance and ferocious enmity, courtesy and rudeness - in short, not only the most important nineteenth-century statesman but by far the most entertaining.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Arkansas Connection【電子書籍】[ David Evans ]

＜p＞ ＜strong＞The Arkansas Connection＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞ Frank Munro, manager of the New York Mets, leads a turbulent life trying to win with a team of mostly dysfunctional underachievers. Soon after the Mets lose the final game of the season in spectacular fashion, Frank hears of his mother’s death back in Catsville, Arkansas, and must return there for her funeral. His attempt to give her remains a grand send-off results in mayhem, and out of pity his mother’s old friend Alice invites him to a “tea party.” There he provides a play-by-play of the Mets’ latest game to Alice and her three friends, a difficult task considering the “tea” is actually moonshine. Frank manages to survive the evening slightly worse for the wear, and returns to New York to find the team's owner has decided to give him one more chance.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ＜br /＞ Meanwhile, Bobby Sherward, the player (who happens to have a medical license) responsible for the Mets’ latest defeat, recovers from his ball-inflicted concussion and decides that his future is in medicine, not baseball. He takes a position at a veteran’s hospital in Arkansas. Upon arrival, he is amazed to discover he has chosen a hospital within spitting distance of Frank’s hometown. And that’s not the only unsettling coincidence Bobby must contend with, for it soon becomes apparent that Broken Arrow Memorial is the medical equivalent of the Mets. Run by a dictatorial and psychotic medical director, Ulysses Grant, the hospital is the home of indifferent or incompetent doctors, electro-convulsed patients, and assorted weird experiments.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ＜br /＞ Bobby soon has enough, but before he leaves town he encounters a remarkable young sandlot baseball player, Jonathon Brown. Besides being a phenom on the field, Jonathon is also a mathematical genius who runs a highly successful investment group. Bobby manages to convince Jonathon to try out for the Mets, and his incredible skills both on the field and in finance bring him and the team fame and prosperity. They also raise the ire of the brokerage firm losing their professional athelete customers to this new financial advisor. As a result, the head broker makes plans to “eliminate” the new competition. Will Jonathon survive his trip up to the Big Leagues, and complete the Arkansas Connection?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Magnificent Bastards【電子書籍】[ Rich Hall ]

＜p＞Comic genius Rich Hall introduces a series of magnificent bastards and lost souls in this hilarious collection of tall tales.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Meet the man who vacuums bewildered prairie dogs out of their burrows; a frustrated werewolf who roams the streets of Soho getting mistaken for Brian Blessed; a smug carbon-neutral eco-couple; a teenage girl who invites 45,000 MySpace friends to a house party; the author of a business book entitled Highly Successful Secrets to Standing on a Corner Holding Up a Golf Sale Sign and a man whose attempts to teach softball to a group of indolent British advertising executives sparks an international crisis.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Pen of Fire John Moncure Daniel【電子書籍】[ Peter Bridges ]

＜p＞During his short and stormy life, John Moncure Daniel served as U.S. diplomat, journalist, Confederate officer, and conscience of the Confederacy. Strongly pro-slavery, fiercely loyal to the Confederacy, and an outspoken opponent of Jefferson Davis, Daniel made many enemies and fought as many as nine duels. Douglas Southall Freeman called him a strange blend of genius and misanthropy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞John Daniel became a leading Richmond editor and a force in the Democratic party by his early twenties. President Franklin Pierce rewarded Daniel for his support in the 1852 campaign by making him American envoy to the kingdom of Sardinia at Turin. There Daniel weathered serious scandals but won high praise for his reporting on Italy’s unification. Daniel returned to Richmond after South Carolina seceded from the Union in December 1860.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Resuming editorship of the Examiner, he pushed successfully for the secession of Virginia (leaving the paper twice to serve as a Confederate officer) and attacked Jefferson Davis as timid, incompetent, and corrupt. Wounded in 1864 in a duel with the Treasurer of the Confederacy, Daniel died in Richmond in March 1865, at age 39, just days before Union troops took the city.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This fascinating first biography of Daniel incorporates much new research, including correspondence between foreign ministers in Turin and their envoys in Washington and a series of private letters between John Daniel and his great uncle Peter Vivian Daniel of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Secretary of War John Floyd, and others. Pen of Fire fills a gap in general American historiography, in published works dealing with nineteenth-century American diplomacy, and in studies of the Civil War.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Real Estate Recession Riches - Top 10 Real Estate Investing Tips That Don't Suck!【電子書籍】[ Cory Boatright ]

＜p＞Allow me to share my story with you.＜/p＞ ＜p＞My name is Cory Boatright. I am 35 years old and since my early twenties I have started, run, or been directly involved with almost 40 different companies.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I have sold everything from Ginsu knives on eBay, Kirby vacuum cleaners door-to-door, all the way to 50,000 high-end electronics Online.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Out of the forty-something companies only TWO of them ever proved to be worthwhile endeavors. The other thirty-eight I decided to call "business therapy".＜/p＞ ＜p＞Interestingly enough, both of the successful companies harnessed the power of the Internet to make their profits. After bringing in almost 4 million dollars in sales from my first start-up. I sold it and directed my passion to the world of real estate investing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Why real estate?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Well, most of my affluent customers in my first business owned real estate so I knew there was something to be learned in that industry. I was a complete novice to it And...oh...by the way before I forget...did I mention that I didn't even graduate from high school? Apparently my drive to succeed coupled with my persistence to not fail clouded my judgment of the value of a formal education. So instead, I settled for a G.E.D.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I'm not looking for any pity-party. I just mentioned this to demonstrate that if a highschool dropout can make it, the doors are open for just about anyone else to do it too.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now fast forward a bit into my real estate experiences. I started out being a "bird dog" which means I was out finding good deals on properties and getting paid a finders fee for it. That fee was usually 500 ? 1,500. After I learned how much money the investor was making selling the houses I was bringing him, I quickly learned how to assign, wholesale and flip distressed properties.＜/p＞ ＜p＞That brought in checks anywhere from 3,000 ? 10,000. Not bad, but I had a hunch those properties were worth a lot more after they were fixed up.＜/p＞ ＜p＞So I decided to put together a "skeleton" rehab crew and thought I would make 15,000 ? 30,000 per deal, but I was sadly mistaken.＜/p＞ ＜p＞My rehab attempts ended up being more of a mirage instead of a real profit center. My 30,000 paydays actually came out to be more around 17,500 after considering all the contractor frustrations, material costs, labor, marketing, selling and other holding costs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Needless to say I had more fun assigning contracts.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It wasn't until around 2004 that I stumbled my way through a short sale and I made over 30,000 on that deal!＜/p＞ ＜p＞That was the most money that I had ever made on one single real estate transaction.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I couldn't believe the lender would accept less than what was owed for a payoff.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I was immediately hooked and quickly learned everything possible about the short sale process. The more I learned about Short Sales, the more I was asked by other investors to partner on deals.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I quickly became known as the local "go-to" guy for doing short sales. Other investors continually asked me how they too could learn to do what I was doing. So after being asked by numerous fellow investors to teach and coach them on the subject, I decided to "dive in head first" and write my first information product/home study course.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What I discovered in real estate investing was something I never expected. Not only was the short sale niche secretive, but the entire industry. And the "real truth" was shared only amongst a small, tight knit group of investors, but not anymore.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I've cornered the "top dogs" in their niche of real estate investing and forced them to talk. When you finish reading "Real Estate Recession Riches" you are going to be smarter and wiser newbie or advanced real estate investor. Period.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Remember... be a servant,＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cory Boatright＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cory Boatright is a flat out genius. Listen to him and take notes.＜br /＞ - Tim Mai Co-author of the NYT Best Seller "The One Minute Millionaire"＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Incredible Canadian A Candid Portrait of Mackenzie King【電子書籍】[ Bruce Hutchison ]

From Canada's greatest political journalist comes the astonishing story of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. As the original edition described this award-winning book: "He appeared to the public a drab little man, round of face and body, who spoke in banalities. Behind this fa?ade lay the skill of a political genius and a mind sharp enough to confound all his contemporaries. Radical, reformer, scholar, philosopher, historian, spiritualist, Mackenzie King was the Incredible Canadian. He grasped the reins of a leaderless party, brought it to power and then clung to the Prime Minister's office longer than any man in the history of the British Commonwealth. Few people have understood the convolutions of Mackenzie King's mind, his complexity, his contradictions, his idealism and devotion to Canada as does Bruce Hutchison. The Incredible Canadian has all the elements of thrilling fiction. It refutes for all time the notion that Canadian history is dull or includes no colourful figures. This is more than a biography of Mackenzie King. Rather it is the engrossing story of the times which created the man and how the man shaped the times to suit his purposes."画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Harvest of Reason【電子書籍】[ Rhea Harmsen ]

＜p＞Red sweatshirts, tailgate parties, Badger mania, beautiful lake Mendota, State Street, and lots of beer. Some people experienced the University of Wisconsin-Madison this way. Not African American Ph.D. student Maddie Hawkins; her experience is colored by a marathon of deadlines, endless lab hours, competition, neglect, and walking through ill-lit parking lots in the dead of night. Maddie enters the male-dominated field of Plant Breeding to find new genes for disease resistance and to vindicate a daring research hypothesis. She thinks graduate school is a level playing field. She thinks she has what it takes. She is na?ve. The political world of academia is a minefield of sexism, racism and egoism.＜/p＞ ＜p＞During her three year hurdle-race to get her Ph.D. the disturbing presence of blue-eyed graduate student John Pitts provides the adrenaline. Like an irksome burr, he is everything she disapproves of: a cocky genius, an individualist and a total party animal. On the other hand Craig Berry, the president of the Black Student Caucus, is a fine, righteous brother. The characters in their world are the professors, both the feudal and the enlightened; the grad students, messed up and die-hard, and “the system,” entrenched yet evolving.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The heart leads where reason would forbid. This face-off of race, class and even religion threatens a bitter harvest. But “when the fire of love is ablaze” it burns “to ashes The Harvest of Reason.”＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Right Path From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics--and Can Again【電子書籍】[ Joe Scarborough ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Joe Scarboroughーformer Republican congressman and the always insightful host of MSNBC’s ＜em＞Morning Joe＜/em＞ーtakes a nuanced and surprising look at the unexpected rise and self-inflicted fall of the Republican Party. Dominant in national politics for forty years under the influence of the conservative but pragmatic leadership of Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, the GOP, Scarborough argues, is in a self-inflicted eclipse. The only way forward? Recover the principled realism of the giants who led the party to greatness.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the aftermath of Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 landslide, the Republican Party appeared to be on the verge of permanent irrelevance. LBJ’s Great Society was institutionalizing sweeping liberal reforms, and the United States had a thriving, prosperous economy. Yet in an instant everything changed, and the next four decades would witness an unprecedented era of Republican ascendancy. What happened?＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞The Right Path,＜/em＞ Joe Scarborough looks back in time to discern how Republicans once dominated American public life. From Eisenhower’s refusal to let “the perfect be the enemy of the good” to Reagan’s charismatic but resolutely practical genius, Scarborough shows how principled pragmatism, combined with a commitment to core conservative values, led to victory after victory.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now, however, political incalcitrance is threatening to turn a once-mighty party into a permanent minority.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Opening with the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965ーthe high-water moment for liberalismーand ending with the national disillusionment that set in after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, ＜em＞The Right Path＜/em＞ effortlessly blends American political history with astute analysis and pithy, no-holds-barred commentary. Both a bracing call to arms and a commonsense history, ＜em＞The Right Path＜/em＞ provides an illuminating look at conservatism and its discontentsーand why the GOP must regain its former tone and tradition if it hopes to survive.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for ＜em＞The Right Path＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“This concise history of modern Republican politics might just leave you optimistic about the chances that conservatives can govern again. . . . In the world of commentary, we tend to obsess over the quotidian ebbs and flowsーassuming that every little bump in the road is a disaster. . . . But there’s something about reading the history that allows one to take a longer view and put things in context. And that’s precisely what this book does very well.”＜strong＞ー＜em＞The Daily Caller＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“＜em＞The Right Path＜/em＞ is the right book at the right time to spark a much-needed conversation about the future of the Republican Party.”＜strong＞ーDoris Kearns Goodwin＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“If you’re interested in the Republican future, you need to read ＜em＞The Right Path＜/em＞. I don’t agree with all of it, but Joe Scarborough has written a book that’s both thought-provoking and fun.”＜strong＞ーWilliam Kristol＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Joe Scarborough’s lively, provocative, and instructive history of the modern Republican Party will stir up the GOPーwhich is exactly what he has in mind. As the Grand Old Party searches for a path to victory, Joe offers some important lessons to be learned.”＜strong＞ーTom Brokaw＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Joe Scarborough’s incisive, original, provocative, and well-argued book, deploying American political history both distant and recent, deserves to be widely read, carefully considered, and energetically debated.”＜strong＞ーMichael Beschloss＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。