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仕事、成功、世の中、自分、死の圧倒的現実を、静かに説き明かす対談！「やりたいことっていうのは仕事じゃねえよ」「死んでんのかな、ほんとに」―養老孟司

Including pieces from The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, this collection is Bowden at his best. The titular article, "The Three Battles of Wanat", tells the story of one of the bloodiest days in the war in Afghanistan and the extraordinary years-long fallout it generated within the United States military. In "The Killing Machines", Bowden examines the strategic, legal, and moral issues surrounding armed drones.

『美ST』連載が待望の書籍化！　“効かせ甲斐のあるお年頃”を迎えて改めて考える、美の楽しみ方と向き合い方とは。「どうせ生きるなら、好きな自分で生きていきたい」「誰に遠慮する人生じゃなし、自分のための

Acclaimed author Lauren Slater ruminates on what it means to be family. Lauren Slater's rocky childhood left her cold to the idea of ever creating a family of her own, but a husband, two dogs, two children, and three houses later, she came around to the challenges, trials, and unexpected rewards of playing house. In these autobiographical pieces, Slater presents snapshots of domestic life, populating them with the gritty details and jarring realities of sharing home, life, and body in the curious institution called "family."

¿Qué implicaciones tiene ser madre, parir y dar de mamar? Las mujeres nos enfrentamos a una doble presión, ser mamás, como dicta el mantra patriarcal, y triunfar o sobrevivir como podamos en el mercado de trabajo: un ejercicio casi imposible de malabarismos cotidianos. A lo largo de la historia, la maternidad ha sido utilizada como instrumento de control y supeditación de las mujeres. Pero, una vez conquistado el derecho a no ser madres, tenemos pendiente reapropiarnos de la experiencia materna.

Cunning Plans collects several of NYT best-selling author Warren Ellis' lectures on the nature of the haunted future and the secrets of deep history, given in recent years at events in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin.

上巻は、朝日新聞、神戸新聞、日経新聞などに連載されたエッセイを収録。デビュー10周年記念の初エッセイ集、遂に文庫化！

Lambda Award and American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award-winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality. In Skin, she approaches these topics through 23 impassioned essays that explore her identity - from her childhood in a poor family in South Carolina to her adult life as a lesbian in the suburbs of New York - and her sexuality.

たおやかでまっすぐな言葉と、ありのままの本音で紡いだ、 等身大の上白石萌音があふれる初のエッセイ集『いろいろ』。上白石萌音さんご本人の朗読によってついにオーディオブック化。

「現場は、自分の家だと思って掃除するんですよ」「使う人のことを思って、できることは、すべてやる」「心に余裕がないと、いい仕事ができません」……。世界一清潔な空港に選ばれた羽田空港を支える清掃職人、新津春子氏、魂の言葉。

For over 60 years, since his award-winning debut, The Room on the Roof, was published, Ruskin Bond has charmed and entertained us with characters ranging from the animal world to humans to ghostly spirits, and his magic touch has often presented to us a world unhurried, tucked away in hills and valleys. What does it mean to be an octogenarian loved by the young and old alike? To be synonymous with the smell of pinewood and rambling mountain paths? In short, what is it that makes him Bond?

角栄はなぜ葬られたのか？　新証言と膨大な資料を駆使した人気作家渾身の超弩級ノンフィクション！

Winner of Child magazine's Book of the Year award for her hilarious and candid book on single motherhood, The Lunch-Box Chronicles, Marion Winik returns to the topic of parenting in these nine essays. Beginning with the story of her second wedding and her move to rural Pennsylvania, she covers everything from blending families and having a child in one's 40s to dealing with the legal problems of teenage boys to the evolution of the values of a family over generations.

Il fondatore di Eataly torna sui grandi temi che gli stanno a cuore: in primis quelli della biodiversità e dell'eccellenza italiana nel campo agroalimentare. Lo fa con parole che richiamano la forma delle operette morali, racconti in cui personaggi spesso appartenenti a epoche diverse - da Noè a Fabio Brescacin di NaturaSì, da Plinio il Vecchio a Tonino Guerra, da Hemingway ad Alice, "acciuga filosofa" - dialogano sulla scoperta del fuoco, ripercorrono la storia dell'agricoltura, raccontano la storia del vino, della birra, dell'olio e quella della pesca.

Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for 28 years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob. Bob is Paul's Book of Books, a journal that records every book she's ever read.

A Sardinian wedding feast, the search for the perfect seaside pasta with wild fennel, meeting a risotto master: Laura Fraser journeys from the SpaghettiOs of her American childhood to savor the best of Italian cuisine and the culture that cooked it up. Using the same dreamy, delicious type of prose that made An Italian Affair a best-selling memoir, these essays will delight listeners who loved that book and all who love Italian food and culture.

From the time she is nine years old and discovers a “Private Way” full of the wonderful and creepy creatures of the wild - spiders, deer, moles, chipmunks, and foxes - Lauren Slater finds in animals a refuge from the troubled life of her suburban home. As she matures, her bond with animals - raccoons, horses, swans, cats, and primarily, dogs - strengthens and grows more complex and compelling. They offer relief from the pain of her mother’s mental illness.

La dignidad ha sido el concepto filosófico más transformador y revolucionario del siglo XX. Inspira debates (sobre bioética, tecnología o robótica) y aparece en toda clase de contextos morales y jurídicos. Ha dado origen a importantes causas sociales y, ya en nuestro siglo, ha inspirado el movimiento de los indignados, sin que extrañamente éstos sintieran la necesidad de precisar antes, siquiera en esbozo, qué es aquello cuya ausencia encendía su airada protesta.

Gino Strada, chirurgo di guerra e fondatore di Emergency, l'associazione umanitaria italiana per la cura e la riabilitazione delle vittime di guerra e delle mine antiuomo, racconta in questo libro la storia del viaggio in Afghanistan iniziato il 9 settembre 2001, due giorni prima dell'attentato terroristico di New York. L'autore firma questo diario di viaggio che è al tempo stesso una testimonianza della guerra che ha portato alla disfatta dei talebani, la conquista della capitale da parte dell'Alleanza del nord e la "liberazione" di Kabul.

Anne Waldman takes the opportunity with this 20th-anniversary expanded edition to add 20 poems to this collection that brings into focus her lifelong engagement with “chant” as central to contemporary performative poetry.