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「お客を追い込む仕事」サラ金社員が経験した、貸し手と借り手のお金の修羅場
――貸した私が悪いのか？1990年代の半ば、30歳のときに足を踏み入れ、50歳で退職するまでの20年を私はこの業界ですごし、お金にまつわる悲喜こもごもを目撃した。私が在籍した期間は、消費者金融業界が栄華を極めてから、2010年の法改正施行を経て、没落していく年月でもあった。

「来春のサクラが咲くのを見ることはできないと思いますよ」医師からそう告げられたのは、２０２３年11月8日のことだった。余命４カ月の通告だった。私はにわかには信じられなかった。何しろ、なんの自覚症状もない。朝から晩までフル稼働で仕事をして、食事もモリモリ食べていた。突然の余命宣告から、治療法の選択、がんとお金、死生観…満身の闘病ドキュメント

ニュースと現場と、ときどきネコと――「報道ステーション」に来てからの怒濤の日々。その裏で自らの“仕事”と向き合い、書きためてきた思いの詰まったコラム集。真っ直ぐな言葉が胸に響く全71篇を収録。

For nearly twenty-five years, Peggy Noonan's beloved Wall Street Journal column has reminded us of what is great—and good—about America. Who better to turn to for guidance in this age of political crisis and division? In A Certain Idea of America, Noonan presents a vision of what America has been, is, and can be. Whether writing about the American founders, Ulysses S. Grant, or her Aunt Jane Jane, Noonan winsomely demonstrates that the old-fashioned principles that made us the land of the free are those that we still need today.

A collection of essays, Friendship’s Garland focuses on intertwining of subjects among friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" is a seminal essay that explores the importance of individualism and personal integrity. Emerson challenges listeners to avoid conformity and follow their own instincts and ideas. This work has inspired countless listeners to trust in their inner voice and embrace a life of self-determination. Essential for anyone interested in philosophy, personal growth, and the foundations of American transcendentalism.

On Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, in a pool of blood, he was horrified to realise he had lost the use of his limbs. He could no longer walk, write or wash himself. He could do nothing without the help of others, and required constant care in a hospital. So began an odyssey of a year through the medical systems of Rome and Italy, with the hope of somehow being able to return home, to his house in London.

In Viaggio a Ixtlan, il capitolo finale della trilogia dedicata agli insegnamenti di don Juan Matus, Castaneda prosegue il proprio percorso tra i misteri dell’antica cultura sciamanica. Un racconto illuminante, che ci permette di ripercorrere l’ultimo apprendistato dell’autore: il viaggio destinato a portarlo a percepire finalmente l’universo quale è, senza il filtro delle convenzioni. È giunto il momento di accostare, e fare proprio, un concetto fondamentale, che sta alla base del cammino verso una comprensione profonda dell’esistenza: la differenza tra il "guardare" quotidiano e il "vedere" del saggio.

In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to the page to ask: How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed? It was not long before this essay, “Sick Woman Theory”, became a seminal work on disability, because in reframing illness as not just a biological experience but a social one, Hedva argues that under capitalism—a system that limits our worth to the productivity of our bodies—we must reach for the revolutionary act of caring for ourselves and others.

Roadworks and train station overhauls are confusing this author who has driven into oncoming traffic, avoided a kangaroo crossing a new roadwork barrier, got lost and couldn't find her train station carpark and who believes her amygdala must be growing as she negotiates new roundabouts, traffic lights, new road hazards and witches' hats. Follow her journey.....

Эжен Сю, родился 26 января 1804 года в Париже, в семье хирурга, его отец был врачом Наполеона, в период возвращения власти Бурбонов служил королевским лекарем. После окончания колледжа Эжен поступил в университет, на медицинский факультет. Отец владел миллионами, поэтому молодому парню не нужно было работать. Однако, когда капитан судна предложил ему должность корабельного врача на военном судне, он согласился. С 1825 по 1827 годы Эжен побывал на Антильских островах, на Гваделупе и Мартинике, был свидетелем боёв французской армии против испанцев. В свободное время он начал описывать то, что видел вокруг себя.

Im vorliegenden Text steht das Kostümbild des Theaters im Mittelpunkt. Eine trockene Materie – mitnichten! Der anonyme Theaterkritiker verdeutlicht in unwiderstehlicher sprachlicher Manier anhand der berühmtesten Bühnenwerke Shakespeares, warum die Garderobe von Schauspielerinnen und Schauspielern ein sehr wichtiges Element bei großen Aufführungen abbildet.

Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman's, and compiled two acclaimed anthologies that deal with income inequality as it is experienced.

The End of the Golden Gate is a penetrating journey that illuminates both what makes San Francisco so magnetizing and how it has changed vastly over time. With essays chronicling the impact of the tech-industry invasion and the evolution, gentrification, and radical cost of living that has transformed San Francisco's most beloved neighborhoods, these prescient essayists capture the lasting imprint of the 1960s counterculture movement, as well as the fight to preserve the art, music, and other creative movements that make this forever the city of love.

Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning.

東京新聞で連載中の人気子育てエッセイが、書き下ろしを加えて待望の書籍化。ひとり娘・なまこちゃん（愛称）の幼稚園卒園までを見守った6年間。

The critic and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn was born into an evangelical family, attended the famed Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for a time before she had a crisis of belief, and still lives in the Midwest, aka "Flyover Country". She writes of her "existential dizziness, a sense that the rest of the world is moving while you remain still", and that rich sense of ambivalence and internal division inform the 15 superbly thoughtful and ironic essays in this collection.  

"La femme a toujours été, sinon l'esclave de l'homme, du moins sa vassale ; les deux sexes ne se sont jamais partagé le monde à égalité ; et aujourd'hui encore, bien que sa condition soit en train d'évoluer, la femme est lourdement handicapée."

In this timely anthology, Glory Edim, founder of the online community Well-Read Black Girl, brings together original essays by some of America's best black women writers to shine a light on how important it is that we all - regardless of gender, race, religion, or ability - have the opportunity to find ourselves in literature. 

In 1860, a sloop drifted into New York Harbor. Not a soul on board - just blood from cabin to deck. Looted coins led to Bowery thug Albert Hicks, the ax slayer who turned his shipmates into chum. His crimes were absolutely fiendish. His execution was pure ballyhoo. It drew nearly ten thousand bloodthirsty sightseers to the city - including the enterprising showman P. T. Barnum. Refreshments were served as the most notorious and unrepentant mass murderer of the era made history as one of America’s first celebrity killers.