Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

At a time of frightening volatility, what is the average investor to do? The answer: Turn to Burton G. Malkiel's advice in his reassuring, authoritative, gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing. Long established as the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio or 401(k), A Random Walk Down Wall Street now features new material on "tax-loss harvesting", the crown jewel of tax management; the current bitcoin bubble; and automated investment advisers; as well as a brand-new chapter on factor investing and risk parity.

He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.

In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known - and controversial - writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new because it combines elements of many existing types of writing, yet in the end, fits into none of them. The road Mishima took to salvation is a highly personal one. Yet here, ultimately, one detects the unmistakable tones of a self transcending the particular and attaining to a poetic vision of the universal.

Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at the height of his career when he first lays eyes on journalist Yoko Komine. Their bond forms instantly. Upon their first meeting, after Makino’s concert in Tokyo, they begin a conversation that will go on for years, with long spells of silence broken by powerful moments of connection. She’s drawn by Makino’s tender music and his sensitivity, and he is intrigued by Yoko’s refinement and intellect. But neither knows enough about love to see it blooming nor has the confidence to make the first move.

Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man - her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger.

野間文芸新人賞受賞作。1通の手紙から羊をめぐる冒険が始まった 消印は1978年5月――北海道発。あなたのことは今でも好きよ、という言葉を残して妻が出て行った。その後広告コピーの仕事を通して、耳専門のモデルをしている21歳の女性が新しいガール・フレンドとなった。

Yayoi, a nineteen-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino.

Little Women is the story of a wife and her four daughters living in genteel poverty in the environs of Boston while the father is away as a chaplain in the Union Army during the Civil War.

「アメリカ大統領の英語　ケネディ」 「アメリカ大統領の英語」シリーズは、歴代米国大統領の就任演説を貴重な音源から掘り起こし、"生の声"で収録した音声コンテンツです。 本コンテンツは、ケネディ大統領の就任演説を収録しています。 完璧に練り上げられた原稿と、説得力あふれる語り口は、英文スピーチのテクニックを学ぶうえで最適といえるものです。身体にしみこませるまで聞きこみ、自分のものにしてください。 ※当時の音源を使用しておりますので、音声が聞き取りづらい箇所がございます。ご了承ください。

賃金や1人当たり国内総生産（GDP）で見て、日本は先進国の最低レベルとなった。この状況に対して、賃金を上げ、成長するためには成長戦略や構造改革をすればよい、という議論が多い。

This Audiobook will take you through the basics of French with Basic Bootcamp, All About, and Pronunciation lessons. The five Basic Bootcamp lessons each center on a practical, real-life conversation. In the fifteen All About lessons, you’ll learn all about French and France. Our native teachers and language experts will explain everything you need to know to get started in French. The five Pronunciation lessons take you step-by-step through the most basic skill in any language: how to pronounce words and sentences like a native speaker.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them - for a price.

「無頼派」「新戯作派」の破滅型作家を代表する昭和初期の小説家、太宰治による代表作のひとつ。

初出は「文化」［1939（昭和14）年］。

東京での生活に傷ついた「私」が井伏氏の待つ富士山麓へと行くという物語。「私」はあまりにも俗な富士に辟易しながらも、そこでの人々との交流を通して少しづつ心を開いていく。井伏鱒二の勧めで御坂峠の天下茶屋に行ったことや石原美知子と見合いをしたことなど、太宰が1938年に実体験した出来事が素材となった作品。

大正期に活躍した「新思潮派」の作家、芥川竜之介の代表的な小説。初出は「大阪毎日新聞」および「東京日日新聞」［1918（大正7）年］。短編集「傀儡師」［新潮社、1919（大正8）年］に収録。