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Jose Antonia Burciaga, Mimi Reisel Gladstein, Daniel Chacon
José Antonio Burciagaの仕事を集成した選集で、絵画、エッセイ、ユーモアを通してチカーノ文化の声を伝える。
サンドロ・ヴェロネージ, 黒井 博美, 大谷 敏子
見知らぬ男との偶然の出会いから、主人公の家族と過去にひそむ秘密が崩れ始める小説。父親、結婚、記憶という安定したはずの土台が、ひとつの告白で揺らいでいく。
サミュエル R.ディレイニー, 岡部 宏之
新奇な言語「Babel-17」をめぐる暗号解読と陰謀を描くSF。言語が思考や行動に与える影響を探り、主人公が言語解読を通してアイデンティティや国家的な策略に直面する。
Leonard Susskind
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did, and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe. Most scientists didn't recognize the import of Hawking's claims, but Leonard Susskind and Gerard t'Hooft realized the threat, and responded with a counterattack that changed the course of physics. The Black Hole War is the thrilling story of their united effort to reconcile Hawking's revolutionary theories of black holes with their own sense of reality -- effort that would eventually result in Hawking admitting he was wrong, paying up, and Susskind and t'Hooft realizing that our world is a hologram projected from the outer boundaries of space. A brilliant book about modern physics, quantum mechanics, the fate of stars and the deep mysteries of black holes, Leonard Susskind's account of the Black Hole War is mind-bending and exhilarating reading.
Anita Notaro
現代の人間関係や自己再生をテーマにした人気小説。ユーモアと温かさを伴う筆致で人物の困難と希望を描き、幅広い読者層に支持された作品。
G. M. Malliet
性格や雰囲気に重点を置き、葛藤、記憶、発見を通じて主題をたどる本。
Zoë Ferraris
Zoë Ferraris’s electrifying debut of taut psychological suspense offers an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of men and women there. When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing, along with a truck and her favorite camel, her prominent family calls on Nayir al-Sharqi, a desert guide, to lead a search party. Ten days later, just as Nayir is about to give up in frustration, her body is discovered by anonymous desert travelers. But when the coroner’s office determines that Nouf died not of dehydration but from drowning, and her family seems suspiciously uninterested in getting at the truth, Nayir takes it upon himself to find out what really happened to her. This mission will push gentle, hulking, pious Nayir, a Palestinian orphan raised by his bachelor uncle, to delve into the secret life of a rich, protected teenage girl—in one of the most rigidly gender-segregated of Middle Eastern societies. Initially horrified at the idea of a woman bold enough to bare her face and to work in public, Nayir soon realizes that if he wants to gain access to the hidden world of women, he will have to join forces with Katya Hijazi, a lab worker at the coroner’s office. Their partnership challenges Nayir, bringing him face to face with his desire for female companionship and the limitations imposed by his beliefs. It also ultimately leads them both to surprising revelations. Fast-paced and utterly transporting, Finding Nouf offers an intimate glimpse inside a closed society and a riveting literary mystery.
Karin Kallmaker
CJは秘密を抱えたまま気を張って生きており、Karitaとの出会いをきっかけに、友人や根拠のある居場所、そして本当の名前を知る相手への渇望が目を覚ます。やがて二人は、今夜だけで終わらせたい気持ちと、もっと深く結ばれたい気持ちのあいだで揺れていく。
Mabel L Robinson, Lynd Ward
""Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz"" is a biography written by Mabel L. Robinson that tells the story of Louis Agassiz, a renowned Swiss-American naturalist and geologist who lived in the 19th century. The book follows Agassiz's life from his early years in Switzerland, where he developed a fascination for natural history, to his move to the United States, where he became a professor at Harvard University and a leading figure in the scientific community.The book explores Agassiz's many achievements, including his groundbreaking work in the field of glaciology, his contributions to the study of fossils and marine biology, and his efforts to promote scientific education and research. It also delves into his personal life, including his marriage to fellow scientist Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and his relationships with other notable figures of his time, such as Charles Darwin.Throughout the book, Robinson provides a vivid and engaging portrait of Agassiz, drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including letters, diaries, and scientific papers. She also offers insights into the broader cultural and intellectual context in which Agassiz lived and worked, shedding light on the scientific and social issues of the day.Overall, ""Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz"" is a comprehensive and compelling biography that offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and work of one of the most important scientific figures of the 19th century.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
George Eaton Simpson, J. Milton Yinger
人種・文化的少数派に対する偏見と差別を、社会構造の各領域にまたがる問題として整理した学術的な研究書。経済、政治、宗教、教育といった制度を横断して、偏見がどのように生まれ、持続するかを分析する。
Raja Shehadeh
Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel. In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides, luxuriant valleys carved by sacred springs, carpets of wild iris and hyacinth and ancient monasteries built more than a thousand years ago. Shehadeh's love for this magical place saturates his renderings of its history and topography. But latterly, as seemingly endless concrete is poured to build settlements and their surrounding walls, he finds the old trails are now impassable and the countryside he once traversed freely has become contested ground. He is harassed by Israeli border patrols, watches in terror as a young hiking companion picks up an unexploded missile and even, on one occasion when accompanied by his wife, comes under prolonged gunfire. Amid the many and varied tragedies of the Middle East, the loss of a simple pleasure such as the ability to roam the countryside at will may seem a minor matter. But in Palestinian Walks, Raja Shehadeh's elegy for his lost footpaths becomes a heartbreaking metaphor for the deprivations of an entire people estranged from their land.
Robert Creeley, Penelope Creeley
Robert Creeley の 1975 年から 2005 年までの詩を集めた大部の選集。晩年の断片的で精密な声を通して、長い詩業の全体像が見えてくる。