【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Beethoven was the eldest of three children, but not the firstborn. His arrival brought unbridled joy to his parents, but his parents were not married because they were thought to be marrying beneath themselves. His father, a musician, had established himself as the most senior and respected musician in Bonn. #2 The Beethoven family had a liking for alcohol, and it is tempting to suggest that there was a generous supply of wine on the table. However, the family was highly respected thanks to the accomplishments of Ludwig senior. #3 The marriage between Ludwig van Beethoven and Maria Magdalena Keverich was a small and one-sided affair, attended reluctantly by Ludwig senior, whose tears at his own memories might have hardened his heart still further. #4 The marriage between Johann and Maria Magdalena van Beethoven was not long, as Ma...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 There are only weak correlations between how others see us and how we believe we are seen. And while we don’t always realize it, we are very likely operating under two very flawed assumptions: first, that other people see us objectively as we are, and second, that other people see us as we see ourselves. #2 You are difficult to read, and you don’t do enough to make yourself knowable. Your emotions are not as obvious as you think, and your face is not as expressive as you think it is. #3 To be more judgeable, you must make information about yourself available to others, and it should provide evidence of the particular qualities you are trying to convey. People who are more judgeable are psychologically better adjusted, and they are happier. #4 The second reason those core assumptions - that you are seen objectively and that you s...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was appointed CEO of Xerox in 2009. I had worked at the company for 29 years at that point, and I had a strong track record. I was well educated. I hadn’t been plucked from a circus sideshow. I had earned the position. #2 I returned to my old office, which was next to the office Anne had used as CEO. I had a private bathroom and shower, and the company plane saved me hours of travel time. #3 I had a security person, Ivan Rivera, who had provided security for Anne. He drove me to and from meetings in New York, flew with me domestically in the company plane, and arranged for security when I traveled overseas. I was always safe walking home alone after functions in New York. #4 The economic crisis that started in 2007 and continued into 2010 is nothing compared to the financial catastrophe caused by the pandemic of 2020. The earli...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The post-World War II Kilgore Committee of the United States Senate heard detailed evidence from government officials that American financial assistance had helped build the German cartel system, and the German Wehrmacht. #2 The American business press was aware of the Nazi threat and the nature of German war preparations, and they warned their readers about them. They were also aware of the financial burden imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, and they used it for their own benefit. #3 The reparations Germany was required to pay after World War I were fixed at 132 billion gold marks. In 1924, the Allies appointed a committee of bankers to develop a reparations plan. The resulting Dawes Plan was largely a J. P. Morgan production. #4 The Young Plan was a successor to the Dawes Plan, and it was designed by Morgan agent Ow...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was on a writing journey that took me along a winding road filled with potholes and detours, a hairpin turn or two, and some magnificent scenery. It was a road that would have come to a dead end 20 years earlier if fate hadn’t stepped in. #2 I was asked to speak at my friend’s funeral service and make the family laugh. I couldn’t believe Ann was making such an unreasonable request, but I knew I had to do it. I wrote my very best humor, and at the service, I stood between Ann’s open casket and her family. There was laughter. #3 I had to speak at the funeral of a friend’s husband, who had been unfaithful and verbally abusive to his wife. I spoke of Bill the friend, who had visited me in the hospital through the years to show his concern. #4 The truth is, I had come a long way from that timid woman who would rather clean an ov...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 North Korea is a country that has fallen out of the developed world. The country is covered in darkness, which is something that teenagers love. #2 In the late 1990s, North Koreans would meet in the dark to escape the prying eyes of the authorities. The girl would lead her boyfriend to a hot-spring resort outside of town, where the grounds were poorly maintained but the trees were still beautiful. #3 When I met Mi-ran, she was a 31-year old woman living in South Korea. She had defected six years earlier. I wanted to know what life was like for defectors in North Korea, so I interviewed her. #4 In 2004, Mi-ran was a kindergarten teacher in a mining town in North Korea. She was working toward a graduate degree in education. She had a dream about her boyfriend, a South Korean civilian military employee, who had married her the previo...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was able to keep my health insurance in 2019, which came with the added bonus of being able to continue driving bigots crazy with accusations of being a transgender delegate. #2 The first person to ask me to consider running for office was James Parrish, who led the LGBTQ rights organization Equality Virginia in Richmond. I had never been involved with activism before, but I felt like I could help out legislators who hadn’t seen me in person since I changed my name and gender marker. #3 I was a journalist at the Montgomery County Sentinel, a newspaper in Maryland, and I was burning out. I was stagnating, and my enthusiasm was dipping. I loved this career, but it wasn’t panning out. #4 I had become intent on plotting how to get the Prince William County School Board to revise their nondiscrimination policy to include sexual ori...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I want to thank you for reading the story of my life so far. I am honored and blessed to have a platform to share my words and truths. I have kept quiet for most of my adult life out of respect for my family and to protect their privacy.＜/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。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Greece was the pivotal challenge of a chancellorship forged in crisis. Faced with economic and financial turmoil stemming from Greece, which threatened the euro, Merkel was forced to adapt and balance external demands for greater action with domestic political constraints on doing so. #2 When she became chancellor, Merkel took over a Germany that was struggling to adapt to the challenges of globalization. She brought the rigor of scientific analysis she’d learned in the physics laboratories of East Berlin and Leipzig to problem-solving of an economic and financial nature. #3 As the euro crisis ravaged Greece, Merkel was heavily criticized for her lack of support, but she stood by the country and saved the euro on her terms. She became Europe’sde-facto leader, but with resentment of her newly assertive Germany growing, it was far...

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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The path of creation is different from the romantic notion of how creative work emerges out of an upwelling of passion. We unconsciously and instinctively make work that fits the preexisting formats. We work backward, creating work that fits the available venues. #2 The room at CBGB, where some of the music I wrote was first heard, was remarkably good for sound absorption and uneven acoustic reflections. Because of the lack of reverberation, one could be fairly certain that details of one’s music would be heard. #3 The New York club was initially meant to be a bluegrass and country venue like Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville. The audience behavior was similar in both places, and the music was identical. #4 The music and dance styles of these cultures are metaphors for the social and sexual mores of the societies they emerge ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The three girls drove to the castle, which was better known as Mistletoe Falls. It was a place of ruins, with a stone altar and an inscription about death. The place felt ominous to the girls. #2 The girls took Shanda back to the car and continued their interrogation. They took her to a dark dungeon near Laurie's house, where they threatened to bury her bones. #3 On the way to the gas station, Toni had a strange encounter with two guys in a blue convertible. They struck up a conversation, and Toni joked about them taking her home with them. She asked them if they were headed toward Madison. They said they weren't. #4 The girls stopped at Laurie’s house. Laurie went into the kitchen and got some Pepsi, then brought it up to her bedroom for everyone to drink. She had on a long dark-colored trench coat similar to Melinda’s.＜/p＞画...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Theology is the study of God, and it is a complex, highly rational discipline that only exists in Christianity. The East lacks theologians because those who might otherwise take up such an intellectual pursuit reject its first premise: the existence of a conscious, all-powerful God. #2 The Bible does not condemn astrology, and the story of the Wise Men following the star might seem to suggest that it is valid. However, in the fifth century, Saint Augustine reasoned that astrology is false because to believe that one’s fate is predestined in the stars stands in opposition to God’s gift of free will. #3 The primacy of reason was established in the Christian world through the teachings of Augustine, who argued that faith was dependent on reason. Other churchmen opposed the primacy given to reason, and argued that faith was best ser...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I met Shane when I was in the tenth grade. We ended up on the same football team, and became friends. I learned that he was not at all pompous, but rather an adrenaline junkie who had no fear. #2 Shane's company always had fun nights. Even when they were getting chased by the cops or being reckless, it was always a blast. I remember one time when they took the McMahon's maid's car out for a joy ride, and Shane wanted to top Rodney and Willie who had climbed onto the roof of the car while it was driving at 80 miles per hour. #3 One night, we drunkenly drove through Port Chester and ended up getting pulled over by a cop. We were all arrested, but because Shane was a McMahon, we were all saved and didn't have to join the prison football team. #4 The McMahons were one of the closest families I’ve ever met. Vince was a great dad, and ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Nazis were not simple nationalists, and their nationalist propaganda was directed toward their fellow-travelers and not their convinced members. The Nazis had a genuine and never revoiced contempt for the narrowness of nationalism, the provincialism of the nation-state, and they repeated time and again that their movement was more important than any state. #2 The decline of the nation-state and the growth of antisemitism can be explained by the fact that the masses hate aristocrats who are about to lose their power more than they have ever hated them before, because their rapid loss of real power is not accompanied by any significant decline in their fortunes. #3 The Jews were an entirely powerless group caught up in the general and insoluble conflicts of the time. They could be blamed for them and eventually be made to appear...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had never had a massage, and the thought of some stranger touching my body was not an appealing one to me. I was mortified. I had to go. It was his mother’s gift to me. I was grateful to receive it, but I was also embarrassed. #2 I had experienced change, and it had been miraculous. I had quit smoking pot, doing drugs, and drinking alcohol, and I had given up eating sugar. But I had not delivered on my promise to lose weight, and that made me feel like a failure as a woman. #3 We often fail to change because we are so consumed with our past failures. We have been conditioned to believe that continuing to live in our weaknesses is not our destiny. But it is not too late. It is not too hard. You are not too much. God’s mercies are new every morning. #4 We need to understand that shame and discipline are not agents of change. The...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞De naissance noble, Edmond d’Hoffschmidt de Resteigne (1777-1861) fut d’abord officier dans l’arm?e de Napol?on, puis, en vrai disciple de Rousseau, il se retira, pr?s de Han-sur-Lesse, dans un ermitage non religieux, mais philosophique. Devenu plus tard, ? la mort de son p?re, ch?telain de Resteigne, il se soucia du bien de tous, assuma la charge de bourgmestre et entretint une r?putation d’homme original, aussi fac?tieux que bon. Solitaire, il m?prisa le monde, mais non l’amiti? ; il refusa le mariage, mais prit le plus grand soin de sa fille naturelle. Misanthrope, il fut capable de beaux gestes philanthropiques. Son histoire est donc celle d’un homme paradoxal et jaloux de son ind?pendance, que des exp?riences ou des ?preuves conduisirent ? vivre en marge de son monde.＜/p＞ ＜p＞N? dans les Pays-Bas autrichiens, au temps de l’imp?ratrice Marie-Th?r?se, Edmond mourut, citoyen belge, sous le r?gne de L?opold Ier....

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had a mother and son relationship with Keith, my mother’s boyfriend. He would come over to our house and terrorize us, and I would have to hide in the bathroom to escape his violence. #2 The simple but powerful message is this: if you grew up with domestic violence, you no longer have to live with the effects today. As Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, says, we are capable of change. #3 The impact of domestic violence can be long-lasting, even if it happened rarely or not at all during childhood. It can still be extremely painful and frightening for a child to witness, and they will absorb those feelings and associate them with their own worthlessness. #4 The effects of domestic violence go far beyond the victims. It impacts the lives of children in a significant way, by changing ...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Negative capability is the ability to be in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, and without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. It is crucial to the creative process and equally important in contemplative practices like meditation. #2 The GAP exercise is a preparation step to finding the felt sense. It involves focusing your attention on your base, your seat, where your body is supported by whatever you are sitting on. Then, bring your attention to the head region, and experience the quality of presence. Finally, extend your grounded aware presence to include the environment around you. #3 We are going to explore the felt sense, which is a vague, subtle, and unclear experience that is found by bringing a particular quality of attention to a particular zone of bodily experience. Grounded aware presence and friendly attendin...

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】＜p＞Please note: This is a companion version &not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I had wanted to write a book for boys that would be a complement to one I’d written for girls, Queen Bees and Wannabes. I wasn’t sure if I could deliver the level of insight that boys and parents needed and deserved. #2 I have a reputation for working with girls. I have taught in schools for almost twenty years, and I started by founding a nonprofit organization thattaught kids from fifth to twelfth grade a social justice and ethical leadership course called Owning Up. #3 With the popularity of Queen Bees and Mean Girls, I began to be called upon to speak on girls’ issues. While the attention on girls was needed, the message was sometimes watered down or used as a way to demonize girls. #4 I was surprised at how many boys volunteered to help me write a book for boys. They told me why they did it, and many shared their deepest f...