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Beneath the shimmering waves of the Arabian Sea lies a ruin older than history itself, concealing an ancient prophecy that threatens to turn the world to ash…INDIA. At the largest human gathering in the world, black rain pours down upon 50 million pilgrims, and the Ganges runs red with blood, heralding an ancient doomsday prophecy from the depths of the Arabian Sea. When archaeologist Georgia Lee is called to decipher its cryptic verses, she’s thrust into a heart-pounding race against time to find the key to humanity’s final hope.

Grand Expectations, the 10th volume of the peerless Oxford History of the United States, weaves the major political, cultural, and economic events of the period into a superb portrait of America from 1945 through Watergate.

走ることについて語りつつ、小説家としてのありよう、創作の秘密、そして「彼自身」を初めて説き明かした画期的なメモワール。

The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the towering figures in modern Chinese literature. He saw his great, almost unmanageable task as an attempt to write China into the new era - to provide an ancient country, devastated by civil war and foreign predators, with the intellectual equipment to renew itself. This selection of pieces shows Liang's extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission which drove him on, attempting to galvanize and refresh an entire nation.

ピンポイントで誰の何の作品を聴いたら良いかわからない、でも日本文学に興味がある、そういう声にお応えし、著名な作家・有名な作品を選びました。

Stuck in a dead-end bar job in central Tokyo and barely making ends meet, Naomi Kihara's life turns upside down when her American father, whom she hasn't seen since she was a toddler, dies. Having been brought up to believe he abandoned her, it's a shock to learn she is his heir. But there's a catch: Naomi must go live in his hometown for one year. Felix, Nebraska couldn't be any more different from Tokyo, Japan.

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最初の長編小説『吾輩は猫である』から絶筆『明暗』まで
珠玉の14作品を発表順に収録

Kahlil Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. Sand and Foam is a book of aphorisms, poems, and parables by the author of The Prophet - a philosopher at his window commenting on the scene passing below. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In modern Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.

Who were the Druids? Were they priests or astronomers? Scientists or sorcerers? What is the ancient and terrifying secret from the Mahabharata that links the megalithic sites of Britain to the Druids, Julius Caesar and a mysterious queen who lived 4,000 years ago? These are the riddles that Vijay Singh and the task force must answer if they are to save the world from a fate worse than death. But time is running out....

A dive into one of China's great poets by the first great populariser of Chinese literature, Arthur Waley.

Le retour de l'auteur japonais le plus lu en France. Parution le 2 janvier 2025 Evènement!!! Le grand retour du maître Murakami pour un roman éblouissant, dans la lignée de ses grandes œuvres – Kafka sur le rivage ou 1Q84 – et sept ans après son dernier roman – Le Meurtre du commandeur. Tu dis: La Cité est entourée de hauts murs et il est très difficile d'y pénétrer. Mais encore plus difficile d'en sortir. Comment pourrais-je y entrer, alors? Il suffit que tu le désires.

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, activist, and visual artist. Deeply thoughtful and spiritual, Gibran was also considered a philosopher although he rejected the title. Gibran is celebrated as a literary hero in Lebanon. He is widely considered the single most important influence on Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of the twentieth century. Contents: Sand and Foam, The Prophet, The Madman, His Parables And Poems.

Kurz bevor sie von den Soldaten des Jin-Reiches getötet werden, schließen die beiden Kung-Fu-Kämpfer Guo Xiaotian und Yang Tiexin einen Pakt: Auf immer sollen ihre beiden noch ungeborenen Kinder einander in Treue verbunden sein. Während der Weg des Schicksals Yangs schwangere Frau an den Hof des Jin-Prinzen führt, verschlägt es Guos Frau in die weiten Steppen der Mongolei. Dort bringt sie ihren Sohn Guo Jing zur Welt, und die beiden finden Unterschlupf beim Clan des aufstrebenden Mongolenfürsten Dschingis Khan.

Living each day fully and serenely is the ideal we aspire to, without really believing in it. Reaching our goals can seem impossible, and even pursuing them feels challenging. The personal development advice and methods we have tried repeatedly haven’t proven convincing, to the point where leading a harmonious, meaningful, and fulfilled life may feel like an unreachable utopia.

In The Rozabal Line, a thriller swirling between continents and centuries, Ashwin Sanghi traces a pattern that curls backward to the violent birth of religion itself.

Whilst Europe endured the Dark Ages in the 6th & 7th Centuries, devotees of Shiva and Vishnu in Southern India were creating the Bhakti Movement. Some of these exponents, as in our volume, were bestowed with the title of saint but some had the additional title of sant, swami or goswami. Broadly speaking, Bhakti poetry, as in Hinduism itself, is divided into ‘Nirguna’, the idea that the divine is formless as exampled by Kabir and ‘Saguna’, which interprets the divine as having physical form as captured by Mirabai.

国立浪速大学第一外科助教授・財前五郎は食道噴門癌の治療を得意とし、その道の若き権威として高い知名度を誇る。＜br＞財前のもとには全国から著名な有力者など成功者たちが患者として集まり、その実績と確かな手術の腕前から、次期教授に就任するものと考えていた。

From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes an audiobook like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is an audiobook about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.

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Haiku Milieu: Photos and Haiku for You, Everywhere You Are is an audiobook of photographs and haiku that uncovers the joy, humor, and extraordinary delight that await our discovery within the everyday. Bienemann's haikus are 17-syllable mediations on love, loss, longing, and life. Together, they elevate the ordinary, inspiring listeners on a journey of well-being, healing, and wholeness through connection to the simple beauty in all that surrounds us.