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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。

From her unique childhood to her all-consuming fascination with Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall Trilogy, Hilary Mantel had a celebrated career as a novelist. Alongside this, she long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of Hilary's writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. 'Ink is a generative fluid,' she explains. 'If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all.' A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades.

Picking up where Things I Don't Want to Know left off, this short, exhilarating memoir shows a writer in radical flux, facing separation and bereavement and emerging renewed from the ashes of a former life. Faced with the restrictions of conventional living, she dismantles her life, expands it and puts it back together in a new shape. Writing as brilliantly as ever about mothers and daughters, about social pressures and the female experience, Deborah Levy confronts a world not designed to accommodate difficult women and ultimately remakes herself in her own image.

Embodiment is not an easy business. From violence to illness, sexuality to racism, the fact of a body can be impossibly hard to inhabit. Olivia Laing draws on her own background in protest and alternative medicine to investigate the reasons why. Laing’s exploration of the complexities of bodily life takes in some of the most significant and beguiling figures of the past century, among them the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, the painters Francis Bacon and Agnes Martin and the singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone.

The best of the Minimalists! This book by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus collects the most relevant essays - some short, some long - from their popular website, TheMinimalists.com. This collection has been edited and organized to create an experience that's considerably different from reading individual selections online. From simple living, decluttering, and finances to passion, health, and relationships, Essential is for anyone who desires a more intentional life.

King George V predicted that his son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne. In December 1936 he was proved right, and the world’s press revealed the king was abandoning his throne to marry Wallis Simpson. A life spent in the shadow of his charismatic elder brother left the new king, George VI, magnificently unprepared for the demands of ruling the kingdom and empire. Drawing on personal accounts from the royal archives, Deborah Cadbury uncovers the very private conflict.

Oliver Sacks’ compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own minds. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people - those struck by affliction, by unusual talent and even, in one case, by lightning - to show not only that music occupies more areas of our brain than language does but also that it can torment, calm, organise and heal.

What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds of concrete and metal of the CBD of Melbourne? A place where train tunnels become nesting sites, carpark stairwells spots to refuel on methamphetamine and hide from predators; where agility leads you across nightclub rooftops, yielding cash in tight spaces with a quick reflex. For a rest, why not ride on the back of a train as it speeds through the night? The dangers of a decades-long exploration of risk in the streets of his city is exhilarating.

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.

The following books are included: "An Edge in My Voice" and "Sleepless Nights in Procrustean Bed".

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 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.

In this extraordinary audiobook, Dr. Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder. Here are people who can no longer recognise everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities, and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human.