MINEA 電子書籍 and [FICTION & LITERATURE]
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 Achilles beside Gilgamesh Mortality and Wisdom in Early Epic Poetry【電子書籍】[ Michael Clarke ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞It is widely recognised that the epics of Homer are closely related to the earlier mythology and literature of the Ancient Near East, above all the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. But how should this influence our response to the meaning and message of either poem? This book responds to this question through an experiment in intertextual reading. It begins by exploring Gilgamesh as a work of literature in its own right, and uses this interpretation as the springboard for a new reading of the Homeric epic, emphasising the movement within the poem - beginning from a world of heroic action and external violence, but shifting inwards to the thoughts and feelings of Achilles as he responds to the certainty that his own death will follow that of his best friend. The book will be of interest both to specialists and to those coming to ancient literature for the first time.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 6,835円 |
 Jasmine and Stars Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran【電子書籍】[ Fatemeh Keshavarz ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy. Her fresh perspective on present-day Iran provides a rare insight into this rich culture alive with artistic expression but virtually unknown to most Americans.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Keshavarz introduces readers to two modern Iranian women writers whose strong and articulate voices belie the stereotypical perception of Iranian women as voiceless victims in a country of villains. She follows with a lively critique of the recent best-seller ＜em＞Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books＜/em＞, which epitomizes what Keshavarz calls the “New Orientalist narrative,” a view marred by stereotype and prejudice more often tied to current geopolitical conflicts than to an understanding of Iran.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Blending in firsthand glimpses of her own life ー from childhood memories in 1960s Shiraz to her present life as a professor in America ー Keshavarz paints a portrait of Iran depicting both cultural depth and intellectual complexity. With a scholar’s expertise and a poet’s hand, she helps amplify the powerful voices of contemporary Iranians and leads readers toward a deeper understanding of the country’s past and present.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,054円 |
 How to Cook Husbands A Culinary Satire on Marriage, Gender Roles, and Feminism in Early 20th Century America【電子書籍】[ Elizabeth Strong Worthington ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞In "How to Cook Husbands," Elizabeth Strong Worthington crafts a delightful and humorous culinary guide that juxtaposes the art of cooking with the complexities of marriage. Written in the late 19th century, the book employs a playful, ironic tone that reflects the societal norms and gender roles of its time. Worthington skillfully intertwines recipes with matrimonial advice, offering a critique of domesticity while simultaneously celebrating the culinary arts. The book'??s unique blend of humor and practicality situates it within the burgeoning genre of domestic literature that began to flourish during this era, providing readers with both entertainment and enlightenment. Elizabeth Strong Worthington emerged from a background steeped in literary and culinary tradition, drawing inspiration from her own experiences as a wife and a hostess in upper-class society. Her keen observations of domestic life informed her writing, blending anecdotal narratives with biting satire. Worthington's intention to empower women, encouraging them to embrace their roles in the kitchen while simultaneously questioning societal expectations, showcases her progressive mindset for the time. Readers seeking both inspiration and amusement will find "How to Cook Husbands" an invaluable addition to their collection. Worthington's witty prose and insightful social commentary render this book not just a guide to culinary mastery but also a thoughtful reflection on the dynamics of romantic relationships. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of food, love, and societal expectations.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 150円 |
 New Essays on History and Form in Early Modern English Literature【電子書籍】 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞This volume convenes eight noted scholars with varied positions at the interface of formal and historical literary criticism. The editors’ introductionーa far-reaching account of how both methods have intersected in studies of early modern English texts since the 1990sーis the first such survey in more than 15 years, making it invaluable to scholars entering this area. Three essays address foundational questions about genre, fictionality, and formlessness; five feature close readings of texts or passages ranging from the more canonical (Shakespeare, Herbert, Milton) to the less so (an official record of the 1604 Hampton Court Conference). For scholars and students alike, the book thus models a variety of ways both to conceptualize and to analyze the value of literature at the formal?historical interface. Encompassing drama, lyric, satirical and polemical prose, and metrical as well as rhetorical and logical forms, the collection closes with an afterword by theorist Caroline Levine.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 9,188円 |
 Bad Humor Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England【電子書籍】[ Kimberly Anne Coles ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In ＜em＞Bad Humor＜/em＞, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between Protestants and Catholics, guaranteed the noble quality of English blood, and justified English colonial domination.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Coles delineates the process whereby religious error, first resident in the body, becomes marked on the skin. Early modern medical theory bound together psyche and soma in mutual influence. By the end of the sixteenth century, there is a general acceptance that the soul's condition, as a consequence of religious belief or its absence, could be manifest in the humoral disposition of the physical body. The history that this book unfolds describes developments in natural philosophy in the early part of the sixteenth century that force a subsequent reconsideration of the interactions of body and soul and that bring medical theory and theological discourse into close, even inextricable, contact. With particular consideration to how these ideas are reflected in texts by Elizabeth Cary, John Donne, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Mary Wroth, and others, Coles reveals how science and religion meet nascent capitalism and colonial endeavor to create a taxonomy of Christians in Black and White.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 6,211円 |
 The Squirrel-Cage Exploring Modern Urban Life and Feminism in Early 20th Century America【電子書籍】[ Dorothy Canfield Fisher ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞In "The Squirrel-Cage," Dorothy Canfield Fisher presents a poignant exploration of the complexities of marriage and societal roles through the lens of early 20th-century American life. The narrative employs a rich, immersive prose style that deftly captures the emotional turmoil of its characters while skillfully intertwining psychological depth with social commentary. Set against a backdrop of burgeoning feminist ideals and the constraints of traditional domesticity, the novel challenges the reader to reconsider the sacrifices and compromises inherent in personal relationships, while also addressing broader themes of self-identity and fulfillment. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, an acclaimed author and advocate for progressive education and women's rights, draws from her lived experiences and intellectual pursuits to craft this poignant narrative. Her insight into the human condition was informed by her own struggles with societal expectations, as well as her involvement in early feminist movements. As a prominent figure in the literary community, Fisher was known for her ability to fuse storytelling with calls for social reform, thereby reflecting the zeitgeist of her era. Readers seeking a nuanced and introspective examination of love, autonomy, and the human spirit will find "The Squirrel-Cage" to be a profound addition to their literary repertoire. Fisher'??s masterful storytelling encourages reflection on the sacrifices made in the name of love and the enduring quest for self-liberation.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 460円 |
 Jasmine and Jake Rock the Boat【電子書籍】[ Sonya Lalli ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞An impulsive decision to join an Alaskan cruise getaway brings the chance for an onboard romance in this new enemies-to-lovers romance from the author of ＜em＞A Holly Jolly Diwali.＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jasmine Randhawa likes everyone to think she has it allーgreat job, perfect Seattle apartment, and a handsome boyfriend. But she’s not as confident or successful as she seems, and her relationship is at a breaking point.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Jasmine finds herself single and tagging along on her parents’ vacation, she’s not sure her life can get any farther off course. It's a nightmare for someone who's been so fiercely independent to find herself on a cruise full of family friends who’ve judged her since childhood. Things only get worse once the ship leaves the harbor and she realizes that this is a ＜em＞seniors’＜/em＞ cruise, and the only other person under fifty on the entire boat is her childhood acquaintance, cocky and successful Jake Dhillon.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jasmine and Jake clash right away, with Jasmine smarting over how their South Asian community puts him on a pedestal as the perfect Indian son, whereas her reputation as a troublemaker precedes her. Except they can’t avoid each other forever during the ten-day cruise, and they soon recognize a surprising number of similarities, especially in how many secrets they’re keeping hidden from their families. Their restlessness seems to disappear whenever they’re together, but is this relationship strong enough to last on land?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 939円 |
 An Amiable Charlatan Deception and Charm in Early 20th Century Intrigue【電子書籍】[ E. Phillips Oppenheim ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞In "An Amiable Charlatan," E. Phillips Oppenheim crafts a captivating narrative set against the opulence of early 20th-century Europe. Through the lens of crime and romance, the novel explores themes of deception and identity, finely woven into a plot that captivates the reader with its intricate twists. Oppenheim's distinctive style, characterized by sharp wit and insightful social commentary, reflects the burgeoning modernist movement, while his enthralling prose invites readers to immerse themselves fully in a richly textured world where appearances are often misleading and morality is fluid. Oppenheim, often heralded as the '??Prince of Storytellers,'?? built his career on his fascination with intrigue and the complexities of human nature. His extensive travels and interactions with various societal strata, as well as his prior successes in popular literature, influenced his portrayal of a charlatan navigating the nuances of high society. This novel encapsulates Oppenheim's belief in the duality of man'??both admirable and flawed'??an idea that resonates with his diverse readership. "An Amiable Charlatan" is a must-read for enthusiasts of early 20th-century fiction and those interested in a masterclass of character-driven storytelling. Oppenheim invites readers to ponder the nature of authenticity in a world rife with charlatans, challenging them to question their own perceptions of truth and deception. Dive into this delightful tale that expertly intertwines suspense and charm.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 150円 |
 This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances【電子書籍】[ Eric LaRocca ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram Stoker Award (R)-nominated and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of ＜em＞Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke＜/em＞.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Four devastating tales from a master of modern horror...＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞This Skin Was Once Mine＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞When her father dies under mysterious circumstances, Jillian Finch finds herself grieving the man she idolized while struggling to feel comfortable in the childhood home she was sent away from nearly twenty years ago by her venomous mother. Then Jillian discovers a dark secret in her family's past--a secret that will threaten to undo everything she has ever known to be true about her beloved father and, more importantly, herself. It's only natural to hurt the things we love the most...＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Seedling＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞A young man's father calls him early in the morning to say that his mother has passed away. He arrives home to find his mother's body still in the house. Struggling to process what has happened he notices a small black wound appear on his wrist-the inside of the wound as black as onyx and as seemingly limitless as the cosmos. He is even more unsettled when he discovers his father is cursed with the same affliction. The young man becomes obsessed with his father's new wounds, exploring the boundless insides and tethering himself to the black threads that curl from inside his poor father...＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Prickle＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Two old men revive a cruel game with devastating consequences...＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞All the Parts of You That Won't Easily Burn＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Enoch Leadbetter goes to buy a knife for his husband to use at a forthcoming dinner party. He encounters a strange shopkeeper who draws him into an intoxicating new obsession and sets him on a path towards mutilation and destruction...＜/p＞ ＜p＞Content warning found inside book.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,280円 |
 This Life of Mine A true story of a life filled with wealth, defeat, greatness, excitement, false promises, the mob, tragedy, love, and truths.【電子書籍】[ Steven M. Wallach ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞This Life of Mine leaves no stone unturned. Every story will be told. From the beginning to the end, This Life of Mine will share fascinating details of the author's life, including his best of times, sadness, excitement, false promises, tragedy, love, and truths. The author has a true writer's gift. When you read This Life of Mine, you will feel as if Steve is sitting next to you, speaking in his own words. This book is the words of only the author. There were no ghostwriters at any time. That is what makes this book so unique. The author has also had the spiritual ability to speak directly with the deceased, and his sensational open-mindedness to express every visit in full detail is something that he has kept to himself for over sixty-nine years.＜/p＞ ＜p＞So sit back. Get settled in with your favorite glass of wine. Oh, maybe a few tissues, too. Thank you.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ideas created by one's imagination.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,368円 |
 Choices My Life’s Choice Points Mine and Those of Others During My First Eighty-Seven Years【電子書籍】[ William R. Johnston P.E. ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞Mr. Johnston has written an interesting unconventional chronological summary of his life from birth through age 87. He intricately blends his professional and personal life throughout the book as he points out how the many CHOICES made by himself and by others have impacted his life. He reminisces about his family life, education experiences, personal relationships and work obligations. He shows how the experience of growing up on an Oregon farm provided him with life lasting teachings. Mr. Johnston describes his marriages, his children, their children and related joyous plus not so joyous experiences. He describes his various job assignments, his consulting practice, and how his work related to his personal life. Mr. Johnston’s overseas consulting exposed him to numerous foreign cultures. Those consulting experiences influenced his desire to travel and see even more of the world which he outlines in his chronology.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 547円 |
 Mirror Mine A Fascinating Tread of Magic and Reality【電子書籍】[ Nikitha Agarwal ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞Mirror Mine is a collection of inspiring stories entangled with beautiful poems which drive you from life to love, from family to friends and from challenges to fantasies. This book is a combination of every small to big feeling and emotion that is felt by a person.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mirror Mine connects you to your original self and takes you into a world of peace and happiness. It makes you see beyond that’s visible; it makes you fly and cry, makes you feel lost, high and spiritual and, most importantly, makes you fall in love with your own self. It will make you feel alive!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 130円 |
 The Nanny Years: A Yours, Mine and Howls Prequel【電子書籍】[ Kinsey Holley ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞Cade MacDougall is determined to raise his daughter Rebecca. The Alpha of the Rocky Mountain Pack lives on a horse ranch in Colorado with his pack, including his best friend and second-in-command, Michael Wargman, and his childhood guardian, a four-hundred-year old brownie named Sindri. Cade knows he and Sindri can care for Becca, but the child's maternal grandmother doesn't think so. And courts sometimes deny single werewolf fathers custody of their daughters.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cade needs a female nanny if he wants to keep his baby mama-in-law from challenging him for custody.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Finding a nanny is easy. It's keeping one that proves to be difficult...＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 129円 |
 He Is Mine and I Have No Other【電子書籍】[ Rebecca O'Connor ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞**'**＜strong＞My heart broke a little bit for Lani and Leon. ＜em＞He Is Mine and I Have No Other＜/em＞ vividly calls up the atmosphere of small-town life. Eerie, tender and wonderful'＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞Sophie Mackintosh, author of ＜em＞The Water Cure＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1990s small-town Ireland, fifteen-year-old Lani Devine falls in love with Leon Brady, whose mother is buried in the cemetery next to Lani’s house. Quiet and strange, Leon is haunted by a brutal family tragedy that has left scars much more than skin-deep. As Lani falls deeper and deeper in love with him, old wounds begin to reopen and start to change the shape of their lives forever.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,121円 |
 What Remains: Breast Cancer, Mastectomy and Getting on with Life【電子書籍】[ Beth R. Minear ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞During the Derecho weather event of June 2012, I was blind-sided with the diagnosis of breast cancer. I had faithfully gotten mammograms every year and had no family history on either side, so the shock of the diagnosis shook my equilibrium. As an attorney by profession and Type-A from birth, controlling what little I could control and at least managing what I couldnt control got me through. I am also the mother of a child with special needs. My son has Aspergers and, although brilliant, will always need me to help him navigate the neuro-typical world. I must outlive him. My choices reflect that acute realization. Although only diagnosed in the right breast, and with options other than mastectomy for that one, I elected for a double-mastectomy. When my hair started falling out from chemotherapy, I went to the salon and had it all shaved off. When I found out that my cancer was estrogen-fed, I had an elective oophorectomy. Removing my ovaries both helps prevent recurrence and ensures that I wont get ovarian cancer. What remains after a life changing diagnosis and the grueling path to Survival is a new normal that can be both heart-breaking on a daily basis and sweeter than the life you had before. The book is my unvarnished truth of the ugly and the blessings of receiving such a diagnosis - often indelicate in detail and irreverently funny. Through this experience, I learned that you can actually feel prayer. Its the most profound feeling I have ever experienced. Not miring the readers in gloom and doom, What Remains is intended to give hope, peace and courage to everyone, regardless of circumstances. The famous quote from Confucius rings true . . . We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one. Im living my second life and finding joy and laughter in the most generic experiences. Even almost three years later, I wake up every morning with breast cancer as my first thought. I give thanks to God for each day that no one is promised . . . then get up and get on with my life.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 774円 |
 Echoes of Haunted Hearts and the Hand of Fate【電子書籍】[ Jasmine Austin ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜em＞Echoes of Haunted Hearts and the Hand of Fate＜/em＞ is a collection of three stories. The stories included are a paranormal horror story, an escapism horror story, and a story of fatalism and longing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The paranormal horror, "She Waits at the End of the Path" follows Sam, a desperate and grieving husband, as he attempts a ritual urban legend in a forest. Sam finds he is not alone and the ritual is not as simple as it seems.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In "The Curse of a Dream Chaser," Ami seeks to escape life through her dreams, but what if her dreams were her biggest predators?＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Their Eyes Saw the Past in Kurleigh" details the disruption in Liz's final vacation as she discovers fate has a funny way of pulling people together. Follow Liz as she discovers the truth about her father.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 500円 |
 Bill's School and Mine A Collection of Essays on Education【電子書籍】[ William S. Franklin ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞In "Bill's School and Mine," William S. Franklin presents a poignant exploration of the educational landscape through the lens of personal narrative and reflective memoir. The book deftly intertwines the author's experiences with those of his students, offering a dual perspective on the trials and tribulations of contemporary schooling. Franklin employs a rich literary style, blending vivid imagery and candid anecdotes with sharp social commentary, effectively situating his work within the broader discourse on education reform and community dynamics. This narrative captures the emotional resonance of teaching, revealing the intricacies of student-teacher relationships in a rapidly changing world. William S. Franklin, a seasoned educator and advocate for transformative pedagogy, brings a unique voice to this narrative, shaped by years of hands-on experience in diverse classrooms. His background includes extensive involvement in educational policy discussions, which has profoundly influenced his views on the impact of systemic challenges faced by both educators and learners. This deep commitment to understanding and improving the educational experience imbues his writing with authenticity and urgency, illuminating the often-overlooked realities of schooling. "Bill's School and Mine" is an essential read for educators, policymakers, and anyone invested in the future of education. Franklin's reflective insights invite readers to consider their own educational experiences, challenging them to envision a more equitable and compassionate schooling system. This book not only informs but also inspires, fostering a critical dialogue about the very nature of learning and teaching.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 150円 |
 The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production Signifying Colonial Trauma【電子書籍】[ Babli Sinha ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜em＞The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production: Signifying Colonial Trauma＜/em＞ analyses the various modes of representation used by Anglophone authors and artists in response to the Bengal Famine of 1943.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Official imperial narratives blamed the famine on natural disaster, war, exploitation by merchants, and incompetent local officials rather than members of the imperial government and have remained dominant in the global public imaginary until recent years. The authors and artists referenced in this study appealed to elite Bengali, South Asian, and international audiences to resist imperial narratives that minimized or erased suffering and instead encouraged relief efforts, promoted nationalist movements, maintained collective memory, innovated ethical forms of representation, and prompted systemic change. They were part of an established tradition of English in the subcontinent as the language of empire and cosmopolitanism but are not accessible, widely taught, or well-known. The direct encounter with suffering was and remains insufficient for prompting systemic change or even engagement, and yet, the recognition of trauma is crucial for personal and collective well-being. The cultural production of famine writers and artists sought to integrate the suffering and agency of the destitute into narratives of Bengali and South Asian identity and of the Second World War.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is crucial to the Humanities to recognize this body of work as a cultural counter-discourse to the biopower of empire and to engage these texts as relevant to theories of trauma. The book will be of interest to researchers in the field of South Asian history, the history of the Bengal famine, South Asian Anglophone literature, twentieth century art history, and trauma theory.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 8,704円 |
 Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain【電子書籍】[ Blessin Adams ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞‘Grimly fascinating … engrossing’ ＜em＞Daily Mail＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞In early modern England, murder truly was most foul.＜/strong＞ Trials were gossipy events packed to the rafters with noisome spectators. Executions were public proceedings which promised not only gore, but desperate confessions and the grandest, most righteous human drama. Bookshops saw grisly stories of crime and death sell like hot cakes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This history unfolds the true stories of murder, criminal investigation, early forensic techniques, high court trials and so much more.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In thrilling narrative, we follow a fugitive killer through the streets of London, citizen detectives clamouring to help officials close the net. We untangle the mystery of a suspected staged suicide through the newly emerging science of forensic pathology. We see a mother trying to clear her dead daughter’s name while other women faced the accusations ? sometimes true and sometimes not ? of murdering their own children.＜/p＞ ＜p＞These stories are pieced together from original research using coroner’s inquests, court records, parish archives, letters, diaries and the cheap street pamphlets that proliferated to satisfy a voracious public.＜/p＞ ＜p＞These intensely personal stories portray the lives of real people as they confronted the extraordinary crises of murder, infanticide, miscarriage and suicide. Many historical laws and attitudes concerning death and murder may strike us as exceptionally cruel, and yet many still remind us that some things never change: we are still fascinated by narratives of murder and true crime, murder trials today continue to be grand public spectacles, female killers are frequently cast as aberrant objects of public hatred and sexual desire, and suicide remains a sin within many religious organisations and was a crime in England until the 1960s.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Great and Horrible News!＜/em＞ explores the strange history of death and murder in early modern England, yet the stories within may appear shockingly familiar.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,745円 |
 When Ireland Fell Silent A Story of a Family's Struggle Against Famine and Eviction【電子書籍】[ Harolyn Enis ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞WHEN IRELAND FELL SILENT takes the reader back to 1845-1849 to County Mayo in a gripping, suspenseful story that reveals the true causes of the Great Irish Famine as told through the eyes of a fictional family named Reilly. Eighteen-year-old Liam Reilly has no idea that his world is about to be shattered. He cherishes County Mayo with its beauty and close family even though life is hard. As tenants, all the Reilly’s crops go to the English landlord as rent while they eat mainly potatoes. Few Irish realize that the English are planning a great change and want to get rid of farmers to create pasture. Unaware, Liam still hopes for rights and a better life, especially when he meets the beautiful Colleen at a wedding in nearby Ballinglass. Terror strikes her village when her landlord razes it to the ground to create pasture. Her family is forced to the dreaded workhouse, and thinking he sees her at a high window, Liam prays she will survive. Liam’s brother Niall accompanies friends from Ballinglass to England to earn passage to America. When he announces he too is emigrating, the devastated family prepares for his “American wake,” knowing this goodbye is forever. Six months pass without a word, and the family worries. A partial blight occurs the year before and Liam frets as the family shares dwindling supplies with beggars. Turf cutting, harvest, and roof thatching distract Liam until one dawn in August, he hears the door open and Mother’s scream. Horrified, he rushes out to plants consumed by fungus. All Ireland’s potatoes are ruined and starvation spreads. People gather to write petitions, begging for assistance, but high government officials in London refuse to interfere and send more soldiers to guard convoys taking out food to port. Liam and his father risk arrest and organize thousands in a peaceful march to ask their landlord for mercy. Trapped in a desperate struggle, the family pulls together with great courage. When Liam kills a large swan at Christmas, they celebrate with extended family. But the government confiscates their meager goods as tax and pushes the family to the edge. Liam and his brother Sean face constant danger from soldiers as they scavenge for food and take enormous risks for the sake of the family. Intense conflict and suspense propel the story forward until at the end, Liam must overcome great obstacles if he is to save his mother and sisters. At 10 Downing Street, 1849, government leaders argue about policy while Ireland falls silent.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,610円 |
 Jasmine and Fire A Bittersweet Year in Beirut【電子書籍】[ Salma Abdelnour ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since thenーeven as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New York CityーSalma has had a hunch that Beirut was still her home. She kept dreaming of moving backーand finally decided to do it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But could she resume her life in Beirut, so many years after her family moved away? Could she, or anyone for that matter, ever really go home again?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Jasmine and Fire＜/em＞ is Salma’s poignant and humorous journey of trying to resettle in Beirut and fumbling through the new realities of life in one of the world’s most complex, legendary, ever-vibrant, ever-troubled cities. What’s more, in a year of roiling changes around the Middle East and the rise of the Arab Spring, Salma found herself in the midst of the turmoil.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As she comes to grips with all the changes in her lifeーa love left behind in New York and new relationships blossoming in BeirutーSalma takes comfort in some of Lebanon’s enduring traditions, particularly its extraordinary food culture. Through the sights, sounds, and flavors of a city full of beauty, tragedy, despair, and hope, Salma slowly begins to reconnect with the place she’s longed for her entire life.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,880円 |
 Stick It! My Life of Sex, Drums, and Rock 'n' Roll【電子書籍】[ Carmine Appice ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞Carmine Appice has enjoyed a jaw-dropping rock-and-roll lifeーand now he is telling his scarcely believable story. Appice ran with teenage gangs in Brooklyn before becoming a global rock star in the Summer of Love, managed by the Mob. He hung with Hendrix, unwittingly paid for an unknown Led Zeppelin to support him on tour, taught John Bonham to play drums (and helped Fred Astaire too), and took part in Zeppelin's infamous deflowering of a groupie with a mud shark. After enrolling in Rod Stewart's infamous Sex Police, he hung out with Kojak, accidentally shared a house with Prince, was blood brothers with Ozzy Osbourne and was fired by Sharon. He formed an all-blond hair-metal band, jammed with John McEnroe and Steven Seagal, got married five times, slept with 4,500 groupiesーand, along the way, became a rock legend by single-handedly reinventing hard rock and heavy metal drumming. His memoir, ＜em＞Stick It!,＜/em＞ is one of the most extraordinary and outrageous rock-and-roll books of the early twenty-first century.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 580円 |
 Every Life Is a Story and This Is Mine A Memoir and Recollections【電子書籍】[ Dennis E. Ekardt ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞As I grew up Ive said many times that I really wish I had talked to my grandparents and learned about their lives. I dont want my grandchildren to say the same thing. So I dedicate these words to Lindsay, Eddie, Meghann and Nicole. And someday theyll each be able to say, Heck yeah, I knew Ecky.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,144円 |
 Hindi Hindu Histories Caste, Ayurveda, Travel, and Communism in Early-Twentieth-Century India【電子書籍】[ Charu Gupta ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞Explores how four public intellectuals in North India imagined freedom and Hindi-Hindu nationhood through their writings on caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞What did everyday Hinduism in India look like a hundred years ago? Were its practices more varied and less politically curtailed than now? ＜em＞Hindi Hindu Histories＜/em＞ provides illuminating historical accounts of Hindu life through individual actors, autobiographical narratives, and genres in the Hindi print-public culture of early twentieth-century North India. It focuses on four fascinating figures: a successful woman doctor in the Indigenous medical regime, a globe-trotting Hindu ascetic who opposed Gandhi, an anticaste campaigner who spoke for sexual equality, and a Hindu communist who envisioned an egalitarian utopia in the world of labor. These public intellectuals harbored vernacular dreams of freedom and Hindi-Hindu nationhood through their vantage points of caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism. Opening up a vast and under-explored Hindi archive, this book presents a dynamic spectacle of a plural Hindi-Hindu universe of facets that coexisted, challenged each other, and comprised an idea of Hinduness far more inclusive than anything conceivable in the present moment.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 5,064円 |
 Bad Humor Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England【電子書籍】[ Kimberly Anne Coles ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In ＜em＞Bad Humor＜/em＞, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute difference between Protestants and Catholics, guaranteed the noble quality of English blood, and justified English colonial domination.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Coles delineates the process whereby religious error, first resident in the body, becomes marked on the skin. Early modern medical theory bound together psyche and soma in mutual influence. By the end of the sixteenth century, there is a general acceptance that the soul's condition, as a consequence of religious belief or its absence, could be manifest in the humoral disposition of the physical body. The history that this book unfolds describes developments in natural philosophy in the early part of the sixteenth century that force a subsequent reconsideration of the interactions of body and soul and that bring medical theory and theological discourse into close, even inextricable, contact. With particular consideration to how these ideas are reflected in texts by Elizabeth Cary, John Donne, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, Mary Wroth, and others, Coles reveals how science and religion meet nascent capitalism and colonial endeavor to create a taxonomy of Christians in Black and White.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 6,598円 |
 Enemy, be mine and love me - Sammelband【電子書籍】[ Samira Wood ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞2 Geschichten voller Drama und verbotener Gef?hle jetzt in einem Band Enemy, be Mine - Verh?ngsvolle Gef?hle Keyla ist die j?ngste Tochter eines Mafiabosses, doch als der sie verheiraten will, ergreift sie die Flucht und l?uft ausgerechnet Antonio in die Arme, dem Sohn des gr??ten Feindes ihres Vaters. Er will sie f?r sich, ohne zu ahnen, wer sie ist und dass er sie t?ten soll. Zwei Menschen, die nicht nur gegen die Regeln ihrer V?ter k?mpfen, sondern um ihr Leben, treffen sich durch Zufall und kommen nicht mehr voneinander los. Antonio und Keyla wollen nicht wie Romeo und Julia enden. Sie wollen leben und ihren eigenen Weg gehen, doch um das zu schaffen, m?ssen sie k?mpfen. Richtig und Falsch. Gut und B?se. Die Grenzen verwischen. Eine verbotene Liebe im Mafia Milieu. Enemy, Love me: Verbotene Gef?hle Emma ist traumatisiert und nur die Suche nach ihrer Tochter hilft ihr, sich nicht selbst aufzugeben. Enzo ist ein eiskalter Mafiosi, doch er war nicht immer so. Die D?monen der Vergangenheit haben ihn dazu gemacht. Kann ausgerechnet er ihr helfen, wieder ins Leben zu finden? Und wird er sie wieder gehen lassen?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Samira Wood ist das "dunkle" Pseudonym der Liebesromanautorin Alina Jipp. Alina Jipp wurde 1981 geboren und lebt mit ihren Kindern, Katzen und Kaninchen in einem kleinen Ort im Harz. Sie hat schon immer viel gelesen und Geschichten im Kopf gehabt aber erst mit ?ber 30 angefangen zu schreiben und kann seitdem nicht mehr aufh?ren.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 976円 |
 Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture【電子書籍】[ L. Noble ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture , which explores the connections between early modern literary representations of the eaten body and the medical consumption of corpses.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 14,585円 |
 My Beloved is Mine and I Am His【電子書籍】[ Witte Piet ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞This book continues the lives of David Scarborough and Jonathan Singleton and covers David's three years as a PhD student, doing research in Pharmacology. He is offered the chance to have singing lessons with a high-powered Italian music tutor, Marcello Fabioni. In the course of the story, Jon spearheads a fund-raising campaign to build a Men's Fitness Centre in Camford. Their house at Ixton finally gets finished, but without commissioning the swimming pool. David begins a part-time professional singing career, involving entry into several international singing competitions. They go off on a language course in Italy, they spend a number of sex-laden weekends in various places, they make their annual visits to their parents. David has a couple of sexual adventures with a man and a woman. The new college chaplain becomes a personal friend of Jon's and there is a happy blessing service of Jon and David's relationship. An unexpected happening leads at the end of the book to parenthood for the two men. There is much mention of music, literature and graphic descriptions of gay sex.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 107円 |
 Misanthropoetics Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England【電子書籍】[ Robert Darcy ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜em＞Misanthropoetics＜/em＞ explores efforts by Renaissance writers to represent social flight and withdrawal as a fictional escape from the incongruous demands of culture. Through the invented term of its title, this book investigates the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston to exemplify the seemingly unresolvable paradoxes of social life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Shakespeare’s England a burgeoning urban population and the codification of social controls drove a new imaginary of revolt and flight in the figure of the literary misanthrope. This figure of disillusionment became an experiment in protesting absurd social demands, pitting friendship and family against prudent economies, testimonies of durable love against erosions of historical time, and stable categories of gender against the breakdown and promiscuity of language.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Misanthropoetics＜/em＞ chronicles the period’s own excoriating critique of the illusion of resolution fostered within a social world beleaguered by myriad pressures and demands. This study interrogates form as a means not toward order but toward the impasse of irresolution, to detecting and declaring the social function of life as inherently incongruous. Robert Darcy applies questions of phenomenology and psychoanalysis, deconstruction and chaos theory to observe how the great deployers of literary form lost confidence that it could adhere to clear and stable rules of engagement, even as they tried desperately to shape and preserve it.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 8,384円 |
 My Dream One and the Lost Souls Kingdom【電子書籍】[ Chasmine Armstrong ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞Once there started a journey, where the family’s mother went off to a long vacation for school, and they only had their dad, Robert, who was left to take care of them. As days went by, everything changed for this family. Hazel’s brother started having visions, her adoptive sister, Luna, saw visions of the past, and Hazel disappeared somewhere.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hazel ended up being captured by her uncle, Grim. Robert went around on the phone app searching for Hazel everywhere. Finally, he finds Hazel in an abandoned place. Robert takes his car to go find where Hazel is.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As the story continues, Robert, Hazel, Luna, and everyone finds that the world is in danger because of Grim and Robert’s crazy uncle, Lord Skull.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 644円 |