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The late, legendary performer and activist’s candid reflections on American race relations and social movements, based on previously unpublished conversations with the award-winning historian Harry Belafonte was more than a bestselling folk singer and Hollywood’s first Black matinée idol...

A Fight for a Cup of Chai is a short, accessible nonfiction audiobook about labor, migration, and resilience—told through lived experience. Set in Nepal, the story follows a young factory worker navigating poverty, work, and identity while revealing the human cost behind global supply chains. What begins as a personal journey opens into larger questions of dignity, sacrifice, and belonging.

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

なぜ日本兵１万人が消えたままなのか？滑走路下にいるのか、それとも……民間人の上陸が原則禁止された硫黄島に４度上陸し、日米の機密文書も徹底調査。

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先を読むのに長たけ、商才に恵まれ、決断力、行動力もあり、
腰が軽くてスピード感も持つ。涙もろくて、情に厚い。
一方せっかちで、癇癪持ち。凶暴さも抱え持っている。
もっとも強く印象に残ったのは、明るさと暗さの極端さ。

『源氏物語』がなければ道長の栄華もなかった！　無官で貧しい学者の娘が、なぜ世界最高峰の文学作品を執筆できたのか？後宮で、道長が紫式部に期待したこととは？

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ヒトラー、織田信長、ゾルゲ、マリー・アントワネット、ポル・ポト・・・ 多大な犠牲の上に彼らが残した〝黒い足跡〟とは？

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教科書に載っているあの人たちには誰にも言えない過去があった

Brought to you by Penguin. Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to...

In a world obsessed with finding the perfect mentor, we often overlook the most enduring guides of all, the ones who can't meet us for coffee, but whose lessons echo across generations. New York Times bestselling author Andy Andrews shows how the completed lives of those hold the keys to clarity...

Brasilien ist mehr als eine Fußballnation – Brasilien ist ein Gefühl. Kaum ein anderes Land hat den Weltfußball so nachhaltig geprägt wie die Seleção. Fünf Weltmeistertitel, unzählige Weltstars und ein Spielstil, der Generationen von Fußballfans begeistert hat, machten Brasilien zum...

In Vienna, 1919, a gaunt, silver-haired man knocks on his sister's door. She refuses to open it. As far as the family knows, Chaim Zeidler died years ago on a battlefield in Galicia—they sat shiva, they mourned him, they let him go. So when he calls his own name through the wood, she screams that he's a dibbuk: a ghost come back to haunt the living. He isn't. He survived.

Officers' Mess is a story of resilience, betrayal, courage and faith. It is an inimitable recounting of the author's experiences as a young girl during a turbulent chapter of Sri Lankan (Ceylon) history. Set against the backdrop of the attempted coup d'état in 1962, it delves into the social and political events that shaped the lives of her unforgettable family. When she was 10 years old, her father and uncle, both majors in the Ceylon Army, were imprisoned and tried for conspiring to overthrow the nationalist government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first female prime minister.

Daphne du Maurier explores the troubled life of Branwell Brontë, delving into his artistic ambitions, self-destructive habits, and the psychological and familial pressures that led to his downfall. "Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency which gives such...

Envied by Lord Byron, admired by Jane Austen, read avidly by the British royalty: this is the story of ‘The Great Maria’. Maria Edgeworth, known to her contemporaries as 'the Great Maria', was one of the most important authors of the Regency era. Her work was the envy of Lord Byron, Humphry...

Argentinien und die Fußball WM 2026 – Die Geschichte der argentinischen Nationalmannschaft Kaum ein Land lebt den Fußball mit einer vergleichbaren Leidenschaft wie Argentinien. Dieses Hörbuch erzählt die bewegende Geschichte der Albiceleste – von den ersten britischen Einflüssen im...

『忘れられた日本人』で知られる民俗学者・宮本常一とは何者だったのか。その民俗学の底流にある「思想」とは？

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ナチスが実現させようとしていた世界とは？

For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who finally unified and brought lasting peace to the nation. He established a new central government which enabled his descendants to rule Japan for the next 260 years—a period in which Japanese culture as we know it today flourished.