【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＞＜em＞Terms of Surrender＜/em＞ is a story about when coming of age arrives late.＜/p＞ ＜p＞On Harlow Ausby’s fortieth birthday, she still feels as out of place in polished Charleston as the moon in a midday sky. From her strawberry-red hair to the matching birthmark that seems to swallow her left leg, Harlow’s uncommon looks have always made her feel less than worthy of the image-conscious Ausby name. As her often cruel and critical mother, Vivian, lies dying in a hospital bed, Harlow reexamines the choicesーor lack thereofーthat have brought her to a crossroads in her life. She is freshly divorced from a social climber she never loved, nursing a newly empty nest, and shocked to run into the love of her lifeーa man whose heart she broke twenty years earlierーand his wife, her former best friend.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What she doesn’t realize is that everything is about to change.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Over the course of one monumental day, a 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＞Since the tragic events of September 11, Central Asia has been drawn into the intense struggle of the international community against the forces of religious extremism and transnational crime. The great powers were able to put aside their geopolitical differences in order to crush al-Qaeda and the Taliban. With the marginalization of the Taliban and the eviction of al-Qaeda from Afghanistan, however, the tension between the great powers is notably increasing, as is the discomfort of Central Asian states who find themselves, their political development, and their oil reserves in the middle of a renewed Great Game.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Islam, Oil, and Geopolitics is a truly international volume, including chapters written by senior scholars, upcoming students in the field, prominent diplomats, and renowned academics from Russia, China, the United States, and the Central Asian republics. They collaborate to focus on three important iss...

【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＞In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius. In 1930 his ＜em＞Atlanta World＜/em＞ became a semiweekly, and the following year W. A. began to implement his vision for a massive newspaper chain based out of Atlanta: the Southern Newspaper Syndicate, later dubbed the Scott Newspaper Syndicate*.* In April 1931 the ＜em＞World＜/em＞ had become a triweekly, and its reach began drifting beyond the South.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With ＜em＞The Grapevine of the Black South＜/em＞, Thomas Aiello offers the first critical history of this influential newspaper syndicate, from its roots in the 1930s through its end in the 1950s. At its heyday, more than 240 papers were associated with the Syndicate, making it one of the biggest organs of the black press during the period leading up to the classic civil rights era (1955?68).＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the generation that followed, the Sy...