新型コロナウイルスのパンデミックに始まり、「敗北宣言」無き異例の大統領選で幕を閉じた2020年。激動の一年の重要な出来事をVOA（米国国営放送）発信のニュースで振り返ります。

He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.

Author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the diverse data landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications.

Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a deep disaffection with their lives, but together they represent the social struggles and griefs of post-War Japan. Intent on revenge against a society that values corporate behemoths more than human life, the five conspirators decide to carry out a heist: kidnap the CEO of Japan’s largest beer conglomerate and extract blood money from the company’s corrupt financiers.

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them—a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the listener a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.

VOA発信のニュースで2019年の重要な出来事を振り返り、リスニング力を徹底強化！話題の単語が繰り返し自然に耳に入るから、語彙学習にも最適。

Yayoi, a nineteen-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger day by day and, as if led by it, she decides to move in with her mysterious aunt, Yukino.

There are many events and festivals throughout Japan all over the year. It is introducing its charm and history.

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

The Japanese people have always seen themselves as a nation uniquely apart. Their exquisite art forms and elegant culture, military prowess and technological precision, have long been the envy of friend and foe alike. Today, even as Japan adapts to a rapidly changing world, its traditional culture and consensus-based philosophy have proved remarkably resilient. Culture Smart! Japan will broaden your perception and understanding of this complex, rich, and dynamic society.

In simple and straightforward language, Bhante Gunaratana shares the Buddha's teachings on mindfulness and how we can use these principles to improve our daily lives, deepen our mindfulness, and move closer to our spiritual goals. Based on the classic Satipatthana Sutta, one of the most succinct yet rich explanations of meditation, Bhante's presentation is nonetheless thoroughly modern.

Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in - neither in her family, nor in school - but when at the age of 18 she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are crystal clear (many are laid out line-by-line in the store's manual), Keiko does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and mode of speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a "normal" person excellently, more or less.

This is an audio summary or Mindset, a book that discusses the differences between people with a fixed mindset versus those with a growth mindset. This book demonstrates how we can achieve our goals by changing our mindset.

野中宗助とその妻・御米は、崖の下の家にひっそりと暮らす睦まじい夫婦。宗助は京都の大学を出て、今は東京で役所勤めをしているが、弟の小六に馬鹿にされるほど出世欲もなく、弟の学資となるはずだった亡父の遺産を親戚に食い尽くされても強く抗議することもなく、波風の立たない日常をそっと守るように暮らしているのも、過去に犯した事件の影にいまだ怯えているためでもあった。懇意にしていた大家の坂井宅で、その影が現れるかもしれない事態が出来(しゅったい)したとき、宗助は救いを求めて鎌倉へ向かうが、そこに救いはなかった。――「三四郎」「それから」に続く漱石前期三部作の最後を飾る長編。執筆中に胃潰瘍が悪化し、連載終了後に入院することとなった。【朗読者について】 漱石前期三部作に挑戦中の渡部龍朗。ドラマチックな展開をみせた「それから」からさらに深化し、事件らしい事件のない難しい長編作品を、淡々とじっくりと聞かせます。【アイ文庫について】プロによる高品質な文芸朗読作品を制作しているアイ文庫。プロデューサーを務める小説家・音楽家の水城雄のもと、朗読を音声による芸術表現として捉え、演劇的な要素が特徴の朗読で魅せるアーティスト集団・NPO法人現代朗読協会とともに、意欲作の創造に取り組んでいます。☆ことのは出版オーディオブックの情報はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて