人気の 政治学・社会科学オーディオブック

戦後日本で起きた怪事件の背後に何が存在したのか。米国・GHQの恐るべき謀略に肉薄した昭和史に残る名作の続編。戦後の混乱を生々しく伝え、今日の日本を考える貴重な資料である。

In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories of great geographers and geopolitical thinkers of the near and distant past to look back at critical pivots in history and then to look forward at the evolving global scene. Kaplan traces the history...

２０２４年は、国際政治の転換点！政治・政策にかかわる人はもちろん、リスクとチャンスを見極めたい投資家や海外ビジネスに携わる人にも有益な情報が満載！

What is human consciousness, and how is it possible? This question fascinates thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. From Bacteria to Bach and Back is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising...

Though uncompromising, polemical and argumentative, Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) made a lasting impact on 19th-century culture as a multi-talented man of letters. And though his lengthy history of the French Revolution proved his major scholarly legacy, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in...

Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species....

First published in 1955, They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of 10 Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had...

Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier's urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics - the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently...

Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the 20th-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady...

Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and 20th-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the 20th century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna...

In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank....

Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber's "fresh...fascinating...thought-provoking...and exceedingly timely" (Financial Times) history of debt. Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money...

「人よく菜根を咬みえば、則ち百事なすべし」。菜根は堅くて筋が多い、これをかみしめてこそものの真の味わいがわかる。

もう二度と日本にこんな兄弟が現れることはないだろう。狂乱のバブルに踊り、栄光と挫折の物語を生きた2人は、時代が求めた最後のアンチヒーローだった!

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to...

Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the...

Anyone new to philosophy soon encounters new ideas that challenge their hidden biases and cherished beliefs, or are at odds with common sense and tradition. Yet, these philosophical ideas are backed by strong arguments, arguments so strong that it’s difficult to identify what is wrong with...

何もしなくても「手数料」を得られるシステムを構築した国家が覇権を握る。出アフリカから現代までの「プラットフォーム」経済全史。

2040年には150兆円規模とも言われる宇宙ビジネスの最前線とは？無人探査機SLIMの月面へのピンポイント着陸、カイロスロケット初号機の打ち上げ、九州のQPS研究所の小型SAR衛星打ち上げをはじめ、国内外で宇宙開発競争が熱気を帯びています。

占領後のわが国で、“日本版CIA”をつくろうとした政治家がいた。その名は緒方竹虎。保守自由主義の立場から、戦前・戦時中に朝日新聞社の幹部、情報局総裁を務め、戦後は吉田茂内閣のもとでアメリカと