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古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Egyptian Journal - William Golding (Faber and Faber) 【紙書籍】 9780571135936

タイトル: Egyptian Journal著者: William Golding出版社: Faber and Faber出版日: 1985年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Enneagram: A Journey of Self-Discovery - Maria Beesing (Dimension Books) 【紙書籍】 0871932148

タイトル: Enneagram: A Journey of Self-Discovery著者: Maria Beesing出版社: Dimension Books出版日: 1984年09月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women - Sherry Ruth Anderson (Random House Publishing Group) 【紙書籍】 9780553352665

タイトル: Feminine Face of God: The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women著者: Sherry Ruth Anderson出版社: Random House Publishing Group出版日: 1992年07月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。"An honest, compelling, surprising, and vastly reassuring book about the spiritual life of women . . . This landmark book is spiritual precisely because it is authentic."--Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind With a foreword by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. For many contemporary women, the old patriarchal models of religion are no longer relevant, forming a need to look beyond the male-oriented past to a wider, more fulfilling spiritual horizon. In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Sherry Anderson and Patricia Hopkins show how many women have redefined traditional beliefs and rediscovered their own unique spiritual heritage--The Feminine Face of God. Anderson and Hopkins guide you through the sacred garden of: - Childhood--seedbed of life's sacred passage- Leaving home--finding your own inner authority- Relationships--new perspectives on intimacy- Spiritual practice--the importance of guidance and discipline- Sexuality--a wild card constantly cracking open the heart- And much more As women enter their sacred garden and learn the art of inner listening, they acquire the tools for living, loving, and praying authentically. In The Feminine Face of God there are seeds for growth: for creating and sustaining intimacy and love in a new way; for a new understanding of sexuality; for a new vision of family, a family of choice in a community of love.

古本, ヴィンテージブック, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Education - Immanuel Kant (University of Michigan Press) 【紙書籍】 0472060457

タイトル: Education著者: Immanuel Kant出版社: University of Michigan Press出版日: 1960年10月28日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Education presents Immanuel Kant's profound reflections on the theory and practice of education. He argues that education is an essential process that distinguishes humans from animals, emphasizing that humans require nurturing, discipline, teaching, and culture to develop their innate potential. The book delves into physical education, intellectual cultivation, moral culture, and practical instruction, suggesting that education is not just about imparting knowledge or skill but also about shaping ethical and capable individuals. Kant underscores that true education involves both discipline and freedom, preparing individuals not only to conform to present societal norms but to strive for a higher moral and intellectual state. By combining philosophical insights with practical observations, Kant establishes that education should be a harmonized effort of both private and public sectors, aiming at the holistic development of human faculties toward the perfection of mankind.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals - Thomas Moore (Avery) 【紙書籍】 9781592401338

タイトル: Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals著者: Thomas Moore出版社: Avery出版日: 2005年07月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Every human life is made up of the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the vital and the deadening. How you think about this rhythm of moods makes all the difference. Our lives are filled with emotional tunnels: the loss of a loved one or end of a relationship, aging and illness, career disappointments or just an ongoing sense of dissatisfaction with life. Society tends to view these "dark nights" in clinical terms as obstacles to be overcome as quickly as possible. But Moore shows how honoring these periods of fragility as periods of incubation and positive opportunities to delve the soul's deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life's meaning. Dark Nights of the Soul presents these metaphoric dark nights not as the enemy, but as times of transition, occasions to restore yourself, and transforming rites of passage, revealing an uplifting and inspiring new outlook on such topics as: - The healing power of melancholy- The sexual dark night and the mysteries of matrimony- Finding solace during illness and in aging- Anxiety, anger, and temporary Insanities- Linking creativity, spirituality, and emotional struggles- Finding meaning and beauty in the darkness

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are - Frans de Waal (Penguin Publishing Group) 【紙書籍】 9781594481963

タイトル: Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are著者: Frans de Waal出版社: Penguin Publishing Group出版日: 2006年08月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Visit the author's Web site at www.ourinnerape.comIt's no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form to our irrepressible curiosity. We have a common ancestor, scientists tell us, so it's natural that we act alike. But not all of these parallels are so appealing: the chimpanzee, for example, can be as vicious and manipulative as any human.Yet there's more to our shared primate heritage than just our violent streak. In Our Inner Ape, Frans de Waal, one of the world's great primatologists and a renowned expert on social behavior in apes, presents the provocative idea that our noblest qualities--generosity, kindness, altruism--are as much a part of our nature as are our baser instincts. After all, we share them with another primate: the lesser-known bonobo. As genetically similar to man as the chimpanzee, the bonobo has a temperament and a lifestyle vastly different from those of its genetic cousin. Where chimps are aggressive, territorial, and hierarchical, bonobos are gentle, loving, and erotic (sex for bonobos is as much about pleasure and social bonding as it is about reproduction).While the parallels between chimp brutality and human brutality are easy to see, de Waal suggests that the conciliatory bonobo is just as legitimate a model to study when we explore our primate heritage. He even connects humanity's desire for fairness and its morality with primate behavior, offering a view of society that contrasts markedly with the caricature people have of Darwinian evolution. It's plain that our finest qualities run deeper in our DNA than experts have previously thought.Frans de Waal has spent the last two decades studying our closest primate relations, and his observations of each species in Our Inner Ape encompass the spectrum of human behavior. This is an audacious book, an engrossing discourse that proposes thought-provoking and sometimes shocking connections among chimps, bonobos, and those most paradoxical of apes, human beings.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Adequately Considered: An American Perspective on Louis Janssens' Personalist Morals - DL Christie (Peeters Publishers) 【紙書籍】 9068312111

タイトル: Adequately Considered: An American Perspective on Louis Janssens' Personalist Morals著者: DL Christie出版社: Peeters Publishers出版日: 1990年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Louis Janssens is Professor Emeritus of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of Leuven, Louvain (Belgium). He is known for the development of the personalistic approach to moral judgment, which permeated the documents of Vatican Council II. He made a vital contribution to the understanding of sexuality and marriage within the Christian-Catholic context. "Adaquately considered" is a major study of Janssens' moral methodolgy. Dolores L. Christie is a member of the Department of Religious Studies at Baldwin-Wallace College, Cleveland, Ohio (U.S.A.). She completed her doctoral studies at Duquesne University, where her study of Louis Janssens' contribution to the renewal of Roman Catholic Moral Theology began in earnest.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds - Jim Sterba (Crown) 【紙書籍】 9780307341976

タイトル: Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds著者: Jim Sterba出版社: Crown出版日: 2013年11月12日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。For four hundred years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife in an escalating rampage, but in the twentieth century an incredible turnaround took place. Conservationists created wildlife sanctuaries, restored habitats, and imposed regulations on hunters and trappers. Over decades, they nursed many wild populations back to health. Then, after World War II, something happened that conservationists hadn't foreseen: sprawl. People moved into suburbs, and then kept moving outward. All the while, well-meaning efforts to protect animals allowed wild populations to burgeon out of control, causing damage costing billions, degrading ecosystems, and touching off disputes that polarized communities. The result is a mix of people and wildlife that should be an animal-lover's dream, but often turns into a sprawl-dweller's nightmare. Deeply researched, eloquently written, and perceptively humorous, Nature Wars expresses the need for organic reconnection with our natural ecosystem by offering a provocative look at how Americans created an inadvertent mess.

古本, ノンフィクション, ヴィンテージブック, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Persian Wars, Volume IV: Books 8-9 - Herodotus (Harvard University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780674991347

タイトル: Persian Wars, Volume IV: Books 8-9著者: Herodotus出版社: Harvard University Press出版日: 1925年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The "Father of History." Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and the mainland of Greece. He lived, it seems, for some time in Athens, and in 443 went with other colonists to the new city Thurii (in South Italy), where he died about 430. He was "the prose correlative of the bard, a narrator of the deeds of real men, and a describer of foreign places" (Murray). Herodotus' famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians has an epic dignity which enhances his delightful style. It includes the rise of the Persian power and an account of the Persian empire; a description and history of Egypt; and a long digression on the geography and customs of Scythia. Even in the later books on the attacks of the Persians against Greece there are digressions. All is most entertaining and produces a grand unity. After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus gives us a not uncritical estimate of the best that he could find. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Herodotus is in four volumes.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Bones Are Forever (15) (A Temperance Brennan Novel) - Kathy Reichs (Pocket Books) 【紙書籍】 9781439102442

タイトル: Bones Are Forever (15) (A Temperance Brennan Novel)著者: Kathy Reichs出版社: Pocket Books出版日: 2013年08月20日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs, a producer of the Fox hit show Bones, is back with her fifteenth "pulse-pounding" (Publishers Weekly) novel featuring North America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan--a story of infanticide and murder set in the high stakes, high danger world of diamond mining. A woman calling herself Amy Roberts checks into a Montreal hospital complaining of uncontrolled bleeding. Doctors see evidence of a recent birth, but before they can act, Roberts disappears. Dispatched to the address she gave at the hospital, police discover bloody towels outside in a Dumpster. Fearing the worst, they call Temperance Brennan to investigate. In a run-down apartment Tempe makes a ghastly discovery: the decomposing bodies of three infants. According to the landlord, a woman named Alma Rogers lives there. Then a man shows up looking for Alva Rodriguez. Are Amy Roberts, Alma Rogers, and Alva Rodriguez the same person? Did she kill her own babies? And where is she now? Heading up the investigation is Tempe's old flame, homicide detective Andrew Ryan. His counterpart from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is sergeant Ollie Hasty, who happens to have a little history with Tempe himself, which she regrets. This unlikely trio follows the woman's trail, first to Edmonton and then to Yellowknife, a remote diamond-mining city deep in the Northwest Territories. What they find in Yellowknife is more sinister than they ever could have imagined. Crackling with sexual tension, whip-smart dialogue, and the startling plot twists Reichs delivers so well, Bones Are Forever is the fifteenth thrilling novel in Reichs's "cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series" (The New York Times Book Review). With the FOX series Bones in its eighth season and her popularity at its broadest ever, Kathy Reichs has reached new heights in suspenseful storytelling.

古本, ヴィンテージブック, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analysis and Ethical Applications - Paul Tillich (Oxford University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780195002225

タイトル: Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analysis and Ethical Applications著者: Paul Tillich出版社: Oxford University Press出版日: 1960年12月31日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This book presents Paul Tillich at his very best--brief, clear, stimulating, provocative. Speaking with understanding and force, he makes a basic analysis of love, power, and justice, all concepts fundamental in the mutual relations of people, of social groups, and of humankind to God. His concern is to penetrate to the essential, or ontological foundation of the meaning of each of these words and thus save them from the vague talk, idealism, cynicism, and sentimentality with which they are usually treated. The basic unity of love, power, and justice is affirmed and described in terms that are fresh and compelling.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 The Massage Book - Anne Kent Downing, George; Rush (Ramdom House) 【紙書籍】 0394482417

タイトル: The Massage Book著者: Anne Kent Downing, George; Rush出版社: Ramdom House出版日: 1972年05月16日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Photographs of the Southwest (Revised) - Ansel Adams (Little Brown & Co) 【紙書籍】 0821215744

タイトル: Photographs of the Southwest (Revised)著者: Ansel Adams出版社: Little Brown & Co出版日: 1984年11月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Vogue(r) Knitting Very Easy Knits: The Best of Very Easy Very Vogue - Trisha Malcolm (Sixth&Spring Books) 【紙書籍】 9781573890298

タイトル: Vogue(r) Knitting Very Easy Knits: The Best of Very Easy Very Vogue著者: Trisha Malcolm出版社: Sixth&Spring Books出版日: 2001年06月30日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This collection...many from well-known designers like Norah Gaughan, Christian de Falbe, and Lily Chin, will appeal to the beginning as well as to the experienced knitter who would like to start a fall sweater that is actually finished in time for the season...Recommended.-Library Journal.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Fontaine Fox's TOONERVILLE TROLLEY - Fontaine Fox; Herb Galewitz; Don Winslow (Weathervane Books) 【紙書籍】 0517165430

タイトル: Fontaine Fox's TOONERVILLE TROLLEY著者: Fontaine Fox; Herb Galewitz; Don Winslow出版社: Weathervane Books出版日: 1972年05月16日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell - Linda Szekely Pero (Norman Rockwell Museum) 【紙書籍】 9780961527327

タイトル: American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell著者: Linda Szekely Pero出版社: Norman Rockwell Museum出版日: 2008年04月08日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 The Grand Spring Hunt: For America's Wild Turkey Gobbler - Bart Conger, Ben; Jacob (New Win Pub) 【紙書籍】 0832903949

タイトル: The Grand Spring Hunt: For America's Wild Turkey Gobbler著者: Bart Conger, Ben; Jacob出版社: New Win Pub出版日: 1985年05月17日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ヴィンテージブック, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Complete Book of Furniture Repair and Refinishing: Easy to Follow Guide with Step-By-Step Methods - Ralph Parsons KINNEY (Scribners) 【紙書籍】 0684124378

タイトル: Complete Book of Furniture Repair and Refinishing: Easy to Follow Guide with Step-By-Step Methods著者: Ralph Parsons KINNEY出版社: Scribners出版日: 1950年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Encyclopedia of American Indian Costume - Josephine Paterek (W. W. Norton & Company) 【紙書籍】 0393313824

タイトル: Encyclopedia of American Indian Costume著者: Josephine Paterek出版社: W. W. Norton & Company出版日: 1996年03月17日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Slipping away from us in these times of the homogenization of culture are the traditions of older societies, some of them dating from 9000 B.C., who understood and were in tune with the changing vistas of the North American continent. Practical, yet with an eye for beauty, these peoples clothed themselves in a vast array of styles that will be forgotten unless preserved. The Encyclopedia of American Indian Costume offers complete descriptions and cultural contexts of the dress and ornamentation of the many nations that have shared this continent. The book is divided into ten cultural regions, with each chapter giving an overview of the regional clothing. Tribal information includes men's and women's basic dress, footwear, outerwear, hair styles, headgear, accessories, jewelry, armor, special costumes, garment decoration, face and body embellishment, and transitional dress after European contact. This beautifully designed book contains more than 150 photographs and illustrations. Voted an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Love Above All and Other Drawings - George Grosz (Allison & Busby) 【紙書籍】 0850316243

タイトル: Love Above All and Other Drawings著者: George Grosz出版社: Allison & Busby出版日: 1985年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Secret of Everlasting Life: The First Translation of the Ancient Chinese Text on Immortality - Richard Bertschinger (Element Books Ltd) 【紙書籍】 1852305681

タイトル: Secret of Everlasting Life: The First Translation of the Ancient Chinese Text on Immortality著者: Richard Bertschinger出版社: Element Books Ltd出版日: 1994年12月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This a translation from the Chinese 2nd century Can Dong Qi, the earliest text on transformation, with original Chinese commentaries. The author's own commentary explains the intricacies of the text's allegorical symbolism for the Western reader while the text itself and the original commentaries are full of practical information and advice about the human transformation process.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Freddy and Fredericka - Mark Helprin (Penguin Press) 【紙書籍】 9781594200540

タイトル: Freddy and Fredericka著者: Mark Helprin出版社: Penguin Press出版日: 2005年07月07日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。"Freddy and Fredericka" will ascend the English throne only if they reacquire the American colonies and become noble spirits in an ignoble age. Helprin's latest work, an extraordinarily funny allegory of a most peculiar British royal family, is immensely mocking of contemporary monarchy and yet deeply sympathetic to the individuals caught in its lonely absurdities. Freddy is the Prince of Wales, Fredericka his troublesome wife. An overeducated, bumbling anachronism, Freddy commits one glorious gaffe after another, for which he is massacred daily in the British press. Golden-haired Fredericka, frivolous and empty headed, is particularly fond of wearing spectacular clothing with revealing necklines. Because of the epic public relations disasters caused by these wayward heirs to the throne, they are sent, in a little-known ancient tradition, on a quest to colonize a strange and barbarous land: America. In a tour (de force) of the United States, they are parachuted into the gleaming hell of industrial New Jersey and make their way across the country--riding freight trains, washing dishes, stealing art, gliding down the Mississippi, impersonating dentists, fighting forest fires, and becoming ineluctably enmeshed in the madness of a presidential campaign. Amid the collisions of their royal assumptions with their life on the road, they rise to their full potential, gain the dignity and humility required of great monarchs and good people, and learn to love each other. There is nothing quite like it. Helprin is a lyrical writer whose graceful prose is studded with profound truths and insights. Devoted readers know him for his deeply sad stories that are yet uplifting in their conviction of the goodness and resilience of the human spirit. In what seems like a radical departure of form (as if de Tocqueville had been rewritten by Mark Twain with a deep bow to Harpo Marx), this brilliantly refashioned fairy tale is a magnificently funny farce. But behind the laughter Helprin speaks of leaps of faith and second chances, courage and the primacy of love. He leaves us with the final impression that someone has shouted successfully past the cynicism of our postmodern age in behalf of honor, beauty, nobility, and dreams that come true.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Conversations with a Masked Man: My Father, the Cia, and Me - John Hadden (Arcade) 【紙書籍】 9781628725919

タイトル: Conversations with a Masked Man: My Father, the Cia, and Me著者: John Hadden出版社: Arcade出版日: 2016年02月09日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。For forty years John Hadden and his father of the same name fought at the dinner table over politics, art, and various issues concerning America. One was haunted by what he had witnessed during his long CIA career, from Berlin to Tel Aviv; the other retreated to the Vermont woods to direct Shakespeare until finally he confronted his father at the table one last time with a tape recorder. Conversations with a Masked Man is a series of conversations Hadden had with his father about the older man's thirty-year career as a CIA officer and how American policy affected the family and the world. Father and son talk about John senior's early life as a kid in Manhattan, his training at West Point, the stench of bodies in Dresden after the war, Berlin and Vienna in the late forties and fifties at the height of the Cold War, the follies of the Cuban missile crisis, how he disobeyed orders to bomb Cairo while he was station chief in Israel during the Six-Day War, and treacherous office politics in Washington. The story unfolds in dialogue alternating with the writer's own memories and reflections. What emerges is hilarious, unexpectedly candid, and deeply personal. Combining the candid descriptions of the world of the CIA with intimate conversations between a father and son, this book is written for the political junkie, the psychologist, the art lover, or anybody who wonders who the hell their father really is.

古本, ヴィンテージブック, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Early American Wooden Ware & Other Kitchen Utensils - Mary Earle Gould (Charles Tuttle & Company) 【紙書籍】 0804801533

タイトル: Early American Wooden Ware & Other Kitchen Utensils著者: Mary Earle Gould出版社: Charles Tuttle & Company出版日: 1962年12月31日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Patrick: The Pilgrim Apostle of Ireland - Maire B de Paor (William Morrow) 【紙書籍】 9780060009021

タイトル: Patrick: The Pilgrim Apostle of Ireland著者: Maire B de Paor出版社: William Morrow出版日: 2002年01月22日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。". . . whoever is pleased to look at or receive this writing, which Patrick, a sinner, untaught, to be sure, has composed in Ireland . . . this is my Confession before I die." Who was St Patrick? In the modern era his name still carries the aura of legend -- yet the truths of his life remain unknown to most readers. Now, in this new work of biographical reconstruction, Máire B. de Paor brings us as close as possible to the man behind the myth. Through a combination of painstaking research and a close reading of Patrick's two surviving works -- the Confessio and the Epistola, their texts included in full in this edition -- de Paor reveals a man at once poet and pilgrim, artist and apostle.The story of St Patrick, known to many as the patron saint of Ireland, is as complex and mythic as the Irish culture he took as his own. Kidnapped at the age of fifteen, Patrick was smuggled to Ireland in a time of Christian upheaval in Europe. On the rocky coasts of his new home, Patrick adopted the life of a shepherd and the words of his Gaelic companions. At night, however, the Irish hills darkened to reveal the pagan gods and monsters so foreign to Patrick's Christian sensibilities. Patrick prayed for release for six years, only to return to evangelize his pagan captors.Until recently, the modern consensus was that Patrick was a barely literate rustic struggling with a sense of inadequacy in a language he could not master. In her exhaustively researched biography, Máire B. de Paor uncovers the true Patrick as revealed through his two major literary works. Started as a defense against his accusers, Patrick's writings evolved into something more powerful -- a manifestation of the spirit that had gripped him. Set against a backdrop of the Catholic fervor of the fifth century, Patrick's words also reflect a fascinating time in religious history. As a religious figure, and as a captured slave, Patrick was the living embodiment of the conflict between the civilized Roman Catholics and the "dangerous heathen enemies of the Empire." A scholar of exceptional depth and insight, de Paor examines Patrick's written legacy with refreshing vigor and passion and discovers an artist of astonishing literary skill and a man of great spiritual depth.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Duchess of Bloomsbury Street - Helene Hanff (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) 【紙書籍】 0397009763

タイトル: Duchess of Bloomsbury Street著者: Helene Hanff出版社: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins出版日: 1973年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 In the Realm of a Dying Empero - Norma Field (Pantheon) 【紙書籍】 9780679405047

タイトル: In the Realm of a Dying Empero著者: Norma Field出版社: Pantheon出版日: 1991年09月24日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Nights at the Alexandra - William Trevor (Modern Library) 【紙書籍】 9780375504716

タイトル: Nights at the Alexandra著者: William Trevor出版社: Modern Library出版日: 2001年08月21日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In a small Irish town during World War II, fifteen-year-old Harry's attachment to the Messingers, an emigrant couple, deepens despite his parent's disapproval.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Songs of Ecstasy: Tantric and Devotional Songs from Colonial Bengal - Hugh Urban (Oxford University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780195139013

タイトル: Songs of Ecstasy: Tantric and Devotional Songs from Colonial Bengal著者: Hugh Urban出版社: Oxford University Press出版日: 2001年11月22日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This book offers the first English translation of a body of highly esoteric, mystical poetry and songs associated with the Khartabhajas, a Bengali sect devoted to Tantrism. The period from the late 18th to the early 19th century, during which these lyrics were written, was an era of change, experimentation, and transition from the older medieval styles to the new literary forms of "modern" Bengal. The highly original songs presented here are an important part of this transitional period, reflecting the search for new literary forms and experimentation in new poetic styles.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art and Writing about It a Game - Roger Kahn (Hyperion) 【紙書籍】 9780786883165

タイトル: Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art and Writing about It a Game著者: Roger Kahn出版社: Hyperion出版日: 1998年04月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。A compelling, literate story of a baseball era, told through one man's experience.