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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】 Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age - Dennis Duncan (W. W. Norton & Company) 【紙書籍】 9781324050513

タイトル: Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age著者: Dennis Duncan出版社: W. W. Norton & Company出版日: 2023年04月25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。Most of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne. Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past.Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Duncan uncovers how it has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists' living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, poets, librarians and--of course--indexers along the way. Revealing its vast role in our evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart--and we have been for eight hundred years.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg - Richard J Sommers (Doubleday) 【紙書籍】 038515626X

タイトル: Richmond Redeemed: The Siege at Petersburg著者: Richard J Sommers出版社: Doubleday出版日: 1981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】 Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan - Gerald Schwab (Praeger) 【紙書籍】 0275935760

タイトル: Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan著者: Gerald Schwab出版社: Praeger出版日: 1990年11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。On November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year old Polish-German Jew, walked into the German Embassy in Paris and shot Third Secretary, Ernst vom Rath, who died shortly after. Vom Rath's death triggered the destruction and mahem which became known as Kristallnacht, or The Night of Broken Glass, resulting in the death of hundreds, the razing of 265 synagogues and 200 houses, the demolition of 7,500 business establishments, and the incarceration of 30,000 Jews in concentration camps. Herschel Grynszpan was immediately arrested. France's foremost criminal lawyer took over his defense. On June 8, 1940, two days before the French Government evacuated Paris, the youth was indicted for murder. A month later he was in Nazi hands, being interrogated by the Gestapo in anticipation of a major show trial. Little has been known in the past about this extraordinary young man. Using German documents never before revealed, including a startling coded testament, Gerald Schwab examines his background and the events culminating in the shooting. The book describes, in considerable detail, Grynszpan's experiences in French and German hands and his trial which was to become Nazi Germany's justification of the Holocaust. It also challenges some commonly held ideas about the cause of the shooting and its aftermath. The Day the Holocaust Began describes the life of a mixed-up, emotionally immature youngster who developed into one of the most amazing and unlikely heroes of modern history, demonstrating the power of the human spirit against overwhelming odds. Anyone interested in modern European history, the Nazi Government, the persecution of the European Jews, as well as students of the Holocaust and its many ramifications, will find The Day the Holocaust Began invaluable reading.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Jo - Christopher Benfey (Penguin Press) 【紙書籍】 9781594201608

タイトル: Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Jo著者: Christopher Benfey出版社: Penguin Press出版日: 2008年05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 country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life At the close of the Civil War, the lives of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade intersected in an intricate map of friendship, family, and romance that marked a milestone in the development of American art and literature. Using the image of a flitting hummingbird as a metaphor for the gossamer strands that connect these larger-than-life personalities, Christopher Benfey re-creates the summer of 1882, the summer when Mabel Louise Todd-the protege to the painter Heade-confesses her love for Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, and the players suddenly find themselves caught in the crossfire between the Calvinist world of decorum, restraint, and judgment and a new, unconventional world in which nature prevails and freedom is all."

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin Speaker (Doubleday) 【紙書籍】 9780385477925

タイトル: Thinking in Pictures著者: Temple Grandin Speaker出版社: Doubleday出版日: 1995年10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】 Tao Te Ching - James Legge (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) 【紙書籍】 9781984055767

タイトル: Tao Te Ching著者: James Legge出版社: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform出版日: 2018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。The wisest books ever written and one of the greatest gifts ever given to humankind. The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text traditionally credited to the 6th-century BC sage Laozi, also known as Lao Tzu or Laozi.The text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text as having been written-or at least compiled-later than the earliest portions of the Zhuangzi.The Tao Te Ching, along with the Zhuangzi, is a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism. It also strongly influenced other schools of Chinese philosophy and religion, including Legalism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, which was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts when it was originally introduced to China. Many artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and gardeners, have used the Tao Te Ching as a source of inspiration. Its influence has spread widely outside East Asia and it is among the most translated works in world literature. About the AuthorLao Tzu also rendered as Laozi commonly translated as "Old Master") and Lao-Tze, was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism, and a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions.A semi-legendary figure, Lao Tzu was usually portrayed as a 6th-century BC contemporary of Confucius, but some modern historians consider him to have lived during the Warring States period of the 4th century BC. A central figure in Chinese culture, Laozi is claimed by both the emperors of the Tang dynasty and modern people of the Li surname as a founder of their lineage. Laozi's work has been embraced by both various anti-authoritarian movements and Chinese Legalism.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Lincoln Highway Around Chicago - Cynthia L Ogorek (Arcadia Publishing) 【紙書籍】 9780738551975

タイトル: Lincoln Highway Around Chicago著者: Cynthia L Ogorek出版社: Arcadia Publishing出版日: 2008年03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。Once known as the "Main Street of America," the Lincoln Highway through western Indiana and eastern Illinois became the first urban bypass on the first hard-surfaced transcontinental highway in the nation. This stretch of the highway is also home to the famous Ideal Section, which set the national standard for road construction in 1923. Through some 200 vintage photographs, this armchair tour of the highway from Schererville, Indiana, to Geneva, Illinois, visits sites that early-day tourists saw and documents the people who made the highway what it was in 1913 and the people who worked to preserve its spirit and history at the close of the century. The Lincoln Highway around Chicago defines and describes the role of the Lincoln Highway in the Chicago area from a gravel track to a miracle mile that has served local residents as well as cross-country travelers for nearly 100 years.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1857-1880: Francis Steegmuller, Sel., Ed., and Tr. - Gustave Flaubert (Belknap Press) 【紙書籍】 0674526414

タイトル: Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1857-1880: Francis Steegmuller, Sel., Ed., and Tr.著者: Gustave Flaubert出版社: Belknap Press出版日: 1984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。An acknowledged master of translation, Francis Steegmuller has given us by far the most generous and varied selection of Flaubert's letters in English. He presents these with an engrossing narrative that places them in the context of the writer's life and times. Throughout this exposition in Flaubert's own words of his views on life, literature, and the passions, readers of his novels will be powerfully reminded of the fertility of his genius, and delighted by his poetic enthusiasm. Flaubert's letters are documents of life and art; lovers of literature and of the literary adventure can rejoice in this edition.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence - A J Langguth (Simon & Schuster) 【紙書籍】 9781416532781

タイトル: Union 1812: The Americans Who Fought the Second War of Independence著者: A J Langguth出版社: Simon & Schuster出版日: 2007年11月13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。By the author of the acclaimed Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution, a gripping narrative that tells the story of the second and final war of independence that secured the nation's independence from Europe and established its claim to the entire continent. The War of 1812 has been ignored or misunderstood. Union 1812 thrillingly illustrates why it must take its place as one of the defining moments in American history.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers - Joseph P Lash (W. W. Norton & Company) 【紙書籍】 9780393349757

タイトル: Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers著者: Joseph P Lash出版社: W. W. Norton & Company出版日: 2014年09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。In his extraordinary biography of the major political couple of the twentieth century, Joseph P. Lash reconstructs from Eleanor Roosevelt's personal papers her early life and four-decade marriage to the four-time president who brought America back from the Great Depression and helped to win World War II. The result is an intimate look at the vibrant private and public worlds of two incomparable people.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49 - Nella Last (IPS - Profile Books) 【紙書籍】 9781846680007

タイトル: Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49著者: Nella Last出版社: IPS - Profile Books出版日: 2009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。In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family tried to adapt to civilian life. Writing each day for the "Mass Observation" project, Nella, a middle-aged housewife from the bombed town of Barrow, shows what people really felt during this time. This was the period in which she turned 50, saw her children leave home, and reviewed her life and her marriage - which she eventually compares to slavery. Her growing confidence as a result of her war work makes this a moving (though often comic) testimony, which, covering sex, death and fear of invasion, provides a new, unglamorised, female perspective on the war years.'Next to being a mother, I'd have loved to write books.' Oct 8, 1939

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome, 31 BC-AD 476 (Us) - Michael Grant (Charles Scribner's Sons) 【紙書籍】 0684183889

タイトル: Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome, 31 BC-AD 476 (Us)著者: Michael Grant出版社: Charles Scribner's Sons出版日: 1985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, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse (American) - H R Trevor-Roper (Alfred A. Knopf) 【紙書籍】 0394411048

タイトル: Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse (American)著者: H R Trevor-Roper出版社: Alfred A. Knopf出版日: 1977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】 At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life - Fenton Johnson (W. W. Norton & Company) 【紙書籍】 9780393541441

タイトル: At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life著者: Fenton Johnson出版社: W. W. Norton & Company出版日: 2021年01月26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。Fenton Johnson's lyrical prose and searching sensibility explore what it means to choose solitude and to celebrate the notion that solitude is a legitimate and dignified calling. He delves into the lives and works of nearly a dozen iconic solitaries he considers his kindred spirits, from Thoreau at Walden Pond and Emily Dickenson in Amherst, to the fiercely self-protective Zora Neale Hurston. The bright wakes these figures have left behind illuminate Fenton Johnson's journey from his childhood in rural Kentucky to his solitary travels in America, France, and India. Woven into his musings about better-known solitaries are stories of friends and family he has lost and found along the way."

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America - Ira Katznelson (W. W. Norton & Company) 【紙書籍】 9780393328516

タイトル: When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America著者: Ira Katznelson出版社: W. W. Norton & Company出版日: 2006年08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。In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal era of the 1930s and 1940s were created in a deeply discriminatory manner. Through mechanisms designed by Southern Democrats that specifically excluded maids and farm workers, the gap between blacks and whites actually widened despite postwar prosperity. In the words of noted historian Eric Foner, "Katznelson's incisive book should change the terms of debate about affirmative action, and about the last seventy years of American history."

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Farthest North: The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer - Fridtjof Nansen (Skyhorse) 【紙書籍】 9781602392373

タイトル: Farthest North: The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer著者: Fridtjof Nansen出版社: Skyhorse出版日: 2008年06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。"If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No. 1 cover boy."--The Chicago Sun-Times In September of 1893, Norwegian zoologist Fridtjof Nansen and crew manned the schooner Fram, intending to drift, frozen in the Arctic pack-ice, to the North Pole. When it became clear that they would miss the pole, Nansen and companion Hjalmar Johansen struck off by themselves. Racing the shrinking pack-ice, they attempted, by dog-sled, to go "farthest north." They survived a winter in a moss hut eating walruses and polar bears, and the public assumed they were dead. In the spring of 1896, after three years of trekking, and having made it to within four degrees of the pole, they returned to safety. Nansen's narrative stands with the best writing on polar exploration. 20 b/w photographs. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis - Patrick Kingsley (Liveright) 【紙書籍】 9781631492556

タイトル: New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis著者: Patrick Kingsley出版社: Liveright出版日: 2017年01月10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。On the day of his son's fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe--at least for the time being--in Egypt, where they had only just settled after fleeing their war-torn Damascus home three years prior. Traversing these unforgiving waters and the treacherous terrain that would follow was worth the slim chance of securing a safe home for his children in Sweden. If he failed, at least he would fail alone.Hashem's story is tragically common, as desperate victims continue to embark on deadly journeys in search of freedom. Tracking the harrowing experiences of these brave refugees, The New Odyssey finally illuminates the shadowy networks that have facilitated the largest forced exodus since the end of World War II.The Guardian's first-ever migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley has traveled through seventeen countries to put an indelible face on this overwhelming disaster. Embedding himself alongside the refugees, Kingsley reenacts their flight with hundreds of people across the choppy Mediterranean in the hopes of better understanding who helps or hinders their path to salvation. From the starving migrants who push through sandstorms with children strapped to their backs to the exploitive criminals who prey on them, from the smugglers who dangerously stretch the limits of their cargo space to the volunteers who uproot their own lives to hand out water bottles--what emerges is a kaleidoscope of humanity in the wake of tragedy. By simultaneously tracing the narrative of Hashem, who endured the trek not once but twice, Kingsley memorably creates a compassionate, visceral portrait of the mass migration in both its epic scope and its heartbreaking specificity.Exposing the realities of this modern-day odyssey as well as the moral shortcomings evident in our own indifference, the result is a crucial call to arms and an unprecedented exploration of a world we too often choose not to know.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else - Chrystia Freeland (Penguin Publishing Group) 【紙書籍】 9780143124061

タイトル: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else著者: Chrystia Freeland出版社: Penguin Publishing Group出版日: 2013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。A Financial Times Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent--Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at breakneck speed. Most of these new fortunes are not inherited, amassed instead by perceptive businesspeople who see themselves as deserving victors in a cutthroat international competition. With empathy and intelligence, Plutocrats reveals the consequences of concentrating the world's wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Propelled by fascinating original interviews with the plutocrats themselves, Plutocrats is a tour de force of social and economic history, the definitive examination of inequality in our time.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? - David Fromkin (Knopf) 【紙書籍】 9780375411564

タイトル: Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?著者: David Fromkin出版社: Knopf出版日: 2004年03月23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。From the author of the best-selling "A Peace to End All Peace" ("extraordinarily ambitious, provocative, and vividly written"-"Washington Post Book World"), a dramatic reassessment of the causes of the Great War. The early summer of 1914 was the most glorious Europeans could remember. But, behind the scenes, the most destructive war the world had yet known was moving inexorably into being, a war that would continue to resonate into the twenty-first century. The question of how it began has long vexed historians. Many have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded that it was nobody's fault. But David Fromkin-whose account is based on the latest scholarship-provides a different answer. He makes plain that hostilities were commenced deliberately. In a gripping narrative that has eerie parallels to events in our own time, Fromkin shows that not one but two wars were waged, and that the first served as pretext for the second. Shedding light on such current issues as preemptive war and terrorism, he provides detailed descriptions of the negotiations and incisive portraits of the diplomats, generals, and rulers-the Kaiser of Germany, the Czar of Russia, the Prime Minister of England, among other key players. And he reveals how and why diplomacy was doomed to fail.""

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia - Terry L Jones (Louisiana State Univ Pr) 【紙書籍】 9780807113141

タイトル: Lee's Tigers: The Louisiana Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia著者: Terry L Jones出版社: Louisiana State Univ Pr出版日: 1987年06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】 Rebel Private: Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier - William A Fletcher (Plume) 【紙書籍】 9780452011571

タイトル: Rebel Private: Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier著者: William A Fletcher出版社: Plume出版日: 1997年03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 stunning document is the work of a common foot soldier blessed with extraordinary perception and articulateness, who happened to have fought in many of the war's most dramatic engagements, such as the Second Battle of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, and Chickamauga. Coming from a family whose loyalty to Southern nationhood transcended its disdain for slavery and the rationales for the war itself, Fletcher joined the famed Texas Brigade under General Stonewall Jackson. He was wounded several times and escaped from a moving Union Army prison train before he, and his compatriots in gray, surrendered to the victorious forces of the North. After retiring from the lumber business in East Texas in 1902, William A. Fletcher decided to record his remembrances as a veteran of the War of Secession, and soon after he privately published this fascinating account of his exploits. But a fire destroyed all but a few copies before they could be distributed. One copy of Rebel Private: Front and Rear did make it to the Library of Congress, though, and it was soon discovered by Civil War historians. Today, William A. Fletcher's colorful memoir has become the voice of the Civil War frontline grunt speaking to the modern reader with the intensity of personal experience and a vividness of detail that gives it a riveting "you-are-there" quality.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Raymond Chandler Speaking - Raymond Chandler (Houghton Mifflin Co (P)) 【紙書籍】 039525017X

タイトル: Raymond Chandler Speaking著者: Raymond Chandler出版社: Houghton Mifflin Co (P)出版日: 1977年02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】 On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade - Alan D Gaff (Indiana University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780253212948

タイトル: On Many a Bloody Field: Four Years in the Iron Brigade著者: Alan D Gaff出版社: Indiana University Press出版日: 1999年02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 excellent unit history of a renowned regiment . . . " --The Civil War News" . . . American history on a human scale . . . " --Kirkus Reviews"The author gives some of the best descriptions of the daily life of a Civil War soldier that can be found anywhere." --Library Journal"On Many a Bloody Field is a masterpiece of Civil War scholarship and painstaking historical research." --The Bookwatch". . . meticulously researched, day-by-day history of Company B, 19th Indiana Infantry Regiment. . . . [T]he real essence of this book is its detailed attention to the common soldiers. . . . [A]s a representative of its genre, it probably is without many peers." --Journal of Southern HistoryOn Many a Bloody Field follows one of the Civil War's most famous combat organizations--Company B, 19th Indiana Volunteers of the Iron Brigade, in a vivid account of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Alan Gaff follows the men from recruitment through mustering out, from the tedium of camp to the excitement of battle. A close-up view of the experience of war, told from the soldiers' perspective, often in the words of the men themselves.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures - Gabor S Boritt (Oxford University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780195078916

タイトル: Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures著者: Gabor S Boritt出版社: Oxford University Press出版日: 1992年10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】 Pickett's Charge: Eyewitness Accounts - Richard Rollins (UNKNO) 【紙書籍】 9780963899316

タイトル: Pickett's Charge: Eyewitness Accounts著者: Richard Rollins出版社: UNKNO出版日: 1999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 first new book in almost 40 years on the Civil War's most legendary encounter, including many previously unpublished accounts. This is the full story, told through the eyes of everyone from generals to privates.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Hunting the Bismarck - C S Forester (Academy Chicago Pub) 【紙書籍】 9780583103886

タイトル: Hunting the Bismarck著者: C S Forester出版社: Academy Chicago Pub出版日: 1983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。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity - Steve Silberman (Avery) 【紙書籍】 9780399185618

タイトル: Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity著者: Steve Silberman出版社: Avery出版日: 2016年08月23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 New York Times-bestselling book upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. "Beautifully told, humanizing, important."--The New York Times Book Review "Breathtaking."--The Boston Globe "Epic and often shocking."--Chicago Tribune WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NONFICTION AND THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more--and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. Wired reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years. Going back to the earliest days of autism research, Silberman offers a gripping narrative of Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger, the research pioneers who defined the scope of autism in profoundly different ways; he then goes on to explore the game-changing concept of neurodiversity. NeuroTribes considers the idea that neurological differences such as autism, dyslexia, and ADHD are not errors of nature or products of the toxic modern world, but the result of natural variations in the human genome. This groundbreaking book will reshape our understanding of the history, meaning, function, and implications of neurodiversity in our world.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Heaven's Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal - Jack Kelly (St. Martin's Press) 【紙書籍】 9781137280091

タイトル: Heaven's Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal著者: Jack Kelly出版社: St. Martin's Press出版日: 2016年07月05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 page-turning narrative, Heaven's Ditch offers an excitingly fresh look at a heady, foundational moment in American history. The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The Erie Canal made New York the financial capital of America and brought the modern world crashing into the frontier. Men and women saw God face to face, gained and lost fortunes, and reveled in a period of intense spiritual creativity. Heaven's Ditch by Jack Kelly illuminates the spiritual and political upheavals along this psychic highway from its opening in 1825 through 1844. Wage slave Sam Patch became America's first celebrity daredevil. William Miller envisioned the apocalypse. Farm boy Joseph Smith gave birth to Mormonism, a new and distinctly American religion. Along the way, the reader encounters America's very first crime of the century, a treasure hunt, searing acts of violence, a visionary cross-dresser, and a panoply of fanatics, mystics, and hoaxers.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History - Margalit Fox (Random House Trade Paperbacks) 【紙書籍】 9781984853851

タイトル: Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History著者: Margalit Fox出版社: Random House Trade Paperbacks出版日: 2022年06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。NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R) AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR - "Fox unspools Jones and Hill's delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg machine."--The New York Times Book Review Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around, and one day an Ottoman official approaches Jones with a query: Could Jones contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Jones, a trained lawyer, and Hill, a brilliant magician, use the Ouija board--and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception--to build a trap for their captors that will ultimately lead them to freedom. A gripping nonfiction thriller, The Confidence Men is the story of one of the only known con games played for a good cause--and of a profound but unlikely friendship. Had it not been for "the Great War," Jones, the Oxford-educated son of a British lord, and Hill, a mechanic on an Australian sheep ranch, would never have met. But in pain, loneliness, hunger, and isolation, they formed a powerful emotional and intellectual alliance that saved both of their lives. Margalit Fox brings her "nose for interesting facts, the ability to construct a taut narrative arc, and a Dickens-level gift for concisely conveying personality" (Kathryn Schulz, New York) to this tale of psychological strategy that is rife with cunning, danger, and moments of high farce that rival anything in Catch-22.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love - Brad Gooch (Harper) 【紙書籍】 9780061999147

タイトル: Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love著者: Brad Gooch出版社: Harper出版日: 2017年01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。"Extraordinary. . . Brad Gooch's fine, searching biography. . . will fascinate his subject's many admirers. We will never fully know Rumi, but thanks to Mr. Gooch, we know him better." --Wall Street JournalThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Smash Cut, Flannery, and City Poet delivers the first popular biography of Rumi, the thirteenth-century Persian poet revered by contemporary Western readers.Ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born over eight centuries ago, are beloved by millions of readers in America as well as around the world. He has been compared to Shakespeare for his outpouring of creativity and to Saint Francis of Assisi for his spiritual wisdom. Yet his life has long remained the stuff of legend rather than intimate knowledge.In this breakthrough biography, Brad Gooch brilliantly brings to life the man and puts a face to the name Rumi, vividly coloring in his time and place--a world as rife with conflict as our own. The map of Rumi's life stretched over 2,500 miles. Gooch traces this epic journey from Central Asia, where Rumi was born in 1207, traveling with his family, displaced by Mongol terror, to settle in Konya, Turkey. Pivotal was the disruptive appearance of Shams of Tabriz, who taught him to whirl and transformed him from a respectable Muslim preacher into a poet and mystic. Their vital connection as teacher and pupil, friend and beloved, is one of the world's greatest spiritual love stories. When Shams disappeared, Rumi coped with the pain of separation by composing joyous poems of reunion, both human and divine.Ambitious, bold, and beautifully written, Rumi's Secret reveals the unfolding of Rumi's devotion to a "religion of love," remarkable in his own time and made even more relevant for the twenty-first century by this compelling account.