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Biography ～From historical greats to contemporary artists～ Title Author/Editor Publisher Note Title Code 書名 著者名 出版社 備考 タイトルコード President 大統領、総裁 John Adams David McCullough Simon & Schuster 1000800540955 All the best, George Bush George Bush Scribner 1000011010329 My life Bill Clinton Hutchinson 1000410100337 The Kennedy half-century Larry J.sabato Bloomsbury 1000801021969 Team of rivals Doris Kearnes Goodwin Penguin Books 1000801701588 Dreams from my father Barack Obama Three Rivers Press 1000800204312 An American life Ronald Reagan Simon & Schuster 1000800819701 The audacity of hope Barack Obama Vintage Books 1000801238445 The American journey of Barack Obama from Sullivan Robert LIFE Books 1000801640588 boyhood to the White House Leaders リーダー Martin Luther King, Jr. Marshall Frady Penguin Books 1000800353447 A call to conscience The landmark speeches of Clayborne Carson Grand Central Publishing 1000800353612 Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr Mao Jung Chang Alfred A. Knopf 1000510114817 The snowball Alice Schroeder Bloomsbury 1000801353445 Churchill Roy Jenkins Farrar Straus and Giroux 1000801268005 南アフリカ共和国第8代大統領ネルソン・ Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster マンデラが大統領時代に書き始めた回想 1000800710530 Malcolm X Manning Marable Viking adult 録を、その後 作家であるマンデラ・ラン 1000800738191 ガが未完成のドラフトを使って完成させ Dare not linger Nelson Mandela Pan Macmillan た作品です。 1000801691686 Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster 1000801644653 1 / 5 Scientists 科学者 「沈黙の春」で地球の悲鳴を伝えた海洋生 Dr. Noguchi’s Journey Kita Atsushi Kodansha International 物学者・作家レイチェル・カーソン、その 1000510036121 生涯や思想を10年に亘り200人以上に取材 Tabibito Hideki Yukawa World Scientific 1000800763399 して初めて浮彫りになる真実の姿を描いた Rachel Carson Linda Lear Mariner Books 感動の評伝作品です。 1000801691715 Einstein Walter Isaacson Simon & Schuster 1000800153653 「ブラックホールの蒸発理論」や、宇宙創 What do you care what other people think? Richard P.Feynman W. W. Norton 生の理論「無境界説」を提唱したイギリス 1000800528184 My brief history Stephen Hawking Bantam Books の理論物理学者スティーヴン・ウィリア 1000801691769 ム・ホーキングが2014年に書いた最新作 Alan Turning Andrew Hodges Vintage Books 1000801691771 の自叙伝です。 Movie 映画化された伝記 The king's speech Mark Logue Sterling Publishing 1000800931380 Lawrence in Arabia Scott Anderson Doubleday 1000801008400 Angela’s ashes Frank McCourt Touchstone 1000610073818 Beautiful mind Sylvia Nasar Simon & Schuster 1000410047322 The motorcycle diaries Che Guevara Ernesto Harper Perennial 1000610056525 Catch me if you can Frank W. Abagnale Broadway Books 1000800135877 The Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman St. Martin’s Press 1000310016809 Schindler’s list Thomas Keneally Simon & Schuster 1000610093311 Literature 文学 An only child and my father’s son Frank O’Connor Penguin Books 「ムーミン一家」の生みの親トーベ・ヤンソンの生 1000610093289 Beatrix Potter Linda J. Lear St. Martin’s Press 誕百周年の記念展のキュレーターである著者が、ヤ 1000800127332 ンソンのアトリエに遺されていたたくさんの手紙や Tove Janson Tuula Karjalainen 関係者への取材をもとにして、この作家の生涯を描 1000801691772 The history of England Jane Austen The British Library いたものです。 1000800971520 J M Barrie and the lost boys Andrew Birkin Yale University Press 1000800389249 An Autobiography Agatha Christie HarperCollins Publishers 1000800825219 2 / 5 The Grand Tour Agatha Christie HarperCollins Publishers 1000800825240 Charles Dickens Claire Tomalin The Penguin Press 1000800740158 My twentieth century evening and other small ノーベル賞作家、カズオ・イシグロが Kazuo Ishiguro Alfred A. Knopf 1000801691687 breakthrough 受賞講演を収めたこの本で、自らの軌 跡を率直に語っています。創作の秘密 On writing Stephen King Scribner 1000801183587 を明かした自伝としても興味深いし、 The world is what it is Patrick French Vintage Books その作品世界に親しむきっかけを得る 1000800467672 Jonathan Swift Damrosch Leopold Yale University Press のにも、格好の一冊です。 1000801152745 Pioneer girl Laura Ingalls Wilder South Dakota Historical Society Press 1000801215665 Saint-Exupery：A Biography Stacy Schiff Henry Holt and Company 1000801701607 Non Fiction ノンフィクション I am Malala Malala Yousafzai Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1000801021965 A long way gone Ishmael Beah Farrar Straus and Giroux 1000800065193 The pursuit of happyness Gardner Chris P. HarperCollins Publishers 1000800046333 The boy on the wooden box Leon Leyson Simon & Schuster 1000801701582 Between the world and me Ta-Nehisi Coates Spiegel & Grau 全米図書賞ﾉﾝﾌｨｸｼｮﾝ部門(2015) 1000801319786 Etched in sand Regina Calcaterra William Morrow 1000801691774 The kitchen counter cooking school Kathleen Flinn Penguin Books 1000801691827 The privilege of youth Dave Pelzer Dutton 1000610010853 Educated Tara Westover Hutchinson 1000801691839 Artists アーティスト Schulz and peanuts David Michaelis HarperCollins Publishers 1000800145994 Can't buy me love Jonathan Gould Three Rivers Press 1000800359250 Shout! Philip Norman Simon & Schuster 1000800135012 Jim Morrison Stephen Davis Gotham books 1000801387687 Moonwalk Michael Jackson Harmony Books 1000800427258 3 / 5 Paul Simon Robert Hilburn Simon & Schuster 1000801701610 Just kids Patti Smith HarperCollins Publishers 全米図書賞ﾉﾝﾌｨｸｼｮﾝ部門(2010) 1000800598672 Broken music Sting The Dial Press 1000410000363 Charlie Chaplin Peter Ackroyd Nan A. Talese 1000801272146 Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano Casio Abe Kaya Press 1000800417418 The cinema of Takeshi Kitano Wallflower Press 1000801271685 Kurosawa Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto Duke university press 1000800763439 Walt Disney Neal Gabler Vintage Books 1000801304509 Walt Disney Marc Eliot Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1000801304510 Hayao Miyazaki Jeff Lenburg Chelsea House Publishers 1000800763541 Alfred Hitchcock Peter Ackroyd Chatto & Windus 1000801272147 Sports スポーツ Ichiro Suzuki Judith Levin Chelsea House Publishers 1000800763619 Artist of life Bruce Lee Tuttle Publishing 1000110003191 The Muhammad Ali reader Gerald Early Rob Weisbach Books 1000800388996 Winners 受賞者 The Pope and Mussolini David I. Kertzer Random House ﾋﾟｭﾘｯﾂｧｰ賞伝記部門(2015) 1000801241266 Romantic outlaws Sharlotte Gordon Random House 全米批評家協会賞伝記部門(2015) 1000801395165 The memory palace Mira Bartok Free Press 全米批評家協会賞自伝部門(2010) 1000800869633 The most famous man in America Debby Applegate Doubleday ﾋﾟｭﾘｯﾂｧｰ賞伝記部門(2007) 1000800243632 The Black count Tom Reiss Vintage Books ﾋﾟｭﾘｯﾂｧｰ賞伝記部門(2013) 1000800999900 Barbarian days William Finnegan The Penguin Press ﾋﾟｭﾘｯﾂｧｰ賞伝記部門(2016) 1000801405047 Lab girl Hope Jahren Fleet 全米批評家協会賞自伝部門(2016) 1000801557197 Shirley Jackson Ruth Franklin Liveright 全米批評家協会賞伝記部門(2016) 1000801557199 4 / 5 American Lion Jon Meacham Random House ﾋﾟｭﾘｯﾂｧｰ賞伝記部門(2009) 1000800446983 NEGROLAND Margo Jefferson Pantheon 全米批評家協会賞自伝部門(2015) 1000801395145 George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis Penguin Books ﾋﾟｭﾘｯﾂｧｰ賞戯伝記部門(2012) 1000800869645 The return Hisham Matar Viking ﾋﾟｭﾘｯﾂｧｰ賞伝記部門(2017) 1000801562788 The first tycoon T.J. Stiles Vintage Books ﾋﾟｭﾘｯﾂｧｰ賞伝記部門(2010) 1000800557597 Washington Ron Chernow Penguin Books ﾋﾟｭﾘｯﾂｧｰ賞伝記部門(2011) 1000800715955 Margaret Fuller Marshall Megan Mariner Books ﾋﾟｭﾘｯﾂｧｰ賞伝記部門(2014) 1000801152738 Nine continents Guo Xiaolu Grove Press 全米批評家協会賞自伝部門(2017) 1000801664136 5 / 5.
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