Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. In this controversial and exciting listen, Pollan explores caffeine’s power as the most-used drug in the world - and the only one we give to children (in soda pop) as a treat.

迫りくる脅威を直視せよ!■キューバ危機以来の人類滅亡の危機――全面核戦争の可能性■米中激突の主戦場となる東アジア。覇権争いの「焦点」は日本■アメリカが頼りにならない日がやってくる

Understanding our humanity - the essence of who we are - is one of the deepest mysteries and biggest challenges in modern science. Why do we have bad moods? Why are we capable of having such strange dreams? How can metaphors in our language hold such sway on our actions? As we learn more about the mechanisms of human behavior through evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology, and other related fields, we're discovering just how intriguing the human species is.

Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku offers the first book-length tour of the most exciting (and perhaps most bizarre) work in modern physics.

「ひとり言」のメカニズムを脳科学の観点から解き明かし、能力を高める方法を紹介！▼「つぶやき」は最高のアウトプット！ 人生が変わる「ひとり言」の習慣

In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization and offers listeners a magisterial overview of humanity's energy eras.

For going on two decades, Scientific American’s “Ask the Experts” column has been answering reader questions on all fields of science. We’ve taken your questions from the basic to the esoteric and reached out to top scientists, professors, and researchers to find out why the sky is blue or whether we really only use 10 percent of our brains. Now, we’ve combed through our archives and have compiled some of the most interesting questions (and answers) into a series of books.

ニュートン力学から相対性理論、量子力学まで……「宇宙を支配する力」に迫る知的探求の旅！本書では、カルフォルニア大学バークレー校教授で理論物理学者の野村泰紀さんが、「ニュートン力学」や「相対性理論」といった古典物理学から、「量子力学」などの現代物理学に至るまでを概観しつつ、「重力はなぜ存在するのか？」

Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at ninety percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators.

Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day - and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of "Big History", the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.

One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.

気鋭の理論物理学者が白熱講義。最新のマルチバース宇宙論がわかる超入門編！別の宇宙には“もう一人の自分”が無数に存在するかもしれない！？

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

「あの、何かお飲みになりませんか。コーラとペプシコーラとどっちがいいですか?」・・作者が散らかしっ放しにしていた雑誌に足をとられて転倒し顔を強打・出血した細君をむかえにきた救急車の運転手さんに、作者が言ったせりふである。「救急車なんて呼んだこともなかった。そんなものがやってきたことが実に申訳ないように思われた。」ためだそうな。本書は、日本経済新聞に『私の履歴書』として連載されたものに加筆修正したものである。文学への目覚め、執筆開始、躁とウツ、父と母妻と娘、先輩や友人、歳晩に思うこと・・・大河ドラマの総集編を見るような趣のある一冊である。 「さしてこれと言った仕事もできなかったが、それ以上をべつに望むことは全くない。」作品数128作に及ぶ作家は人生をそう総括する。 この”厚み”に挑戦するのは、昭和一桁生まれの網野隆。 「わが人生、やはり幸せと言ってよかろう ・・」 「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

Conservationist Rachel Carson spent over six years documenting the effects on DDT, a synthetic organic compound used as an insecticide, on numerous communities. Her analysis revealed that such powerful, persistent chemical pesticides have been used without a full understanding of the extent of their potential harm to the whole biota, including the damage they've caused to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural animals, domestic pets, and even humans. An instant best seller that was read by President Kennedy during the summer of 1962, this classic remains one of the best introductions to the complicated and controversial subject.