In these Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded for television by the BBC, Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. He maintains at the outset that the importance of a physical law is not "how clever we are to have foundit out but…how clever nature is to pay attention to it" and steers his discussions toward a final exposition of the elegance and simplicity of all scientific laws.

Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the 20th century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and best-selling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear and novel expositions of science at the limits.

世論調査では日本国民の8割が死刑制度に賛成だ。だが死刑の詳細は法務省によって徹底的に伏せられ、国民は実態を知らずに是非を判断させられている。暴れて嫌がる囚人をどうやって刑場に連れて行くの

With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife of a Princeton dean to remark, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" But the many scientific and personal achievements of this Nobel Prize-winning physicist are no laughing matter. Here, woven with his scintillating views on modern science, Feynman relates the defining moments of his accomplished life.

In Quantum Physics: What Everyone Needs to Know, quantum physicist Michael G. Raymer distills the basic principles of such an abstract field, and addresses the many ways quantum physics is a key factor in today's science and beyond. The book tackles questions as broad as the meaning of quantum entanglement and as specific and timely as why governments worldwide are spending billions of dollars developing quantum technology research. Raymer's list of topics is diverse, and showcases the sheer range of questions and ideas in which quantum physics is involved.

"It doesn't take an Einstein to understand modern physics," says Professor Wolfson at the outset of these 24 lectures on what may be the most important subjects in the universe: relativity and quantum physics. Both have reputations for complexity. But the basic ideas behind them are, in fact, simple and comprehensible by anyone. These dynamic and illuminating lectures begin with a brief overview of theories of physical reality starting with Aristotle and culminating in Newtonian or "classical" physics.

アメリカ独立宣言の起草委員の一人であり、実業家・科学者としても成功した「アメリカ建国の父」、ベンジャミン・フランクリンの自伝から、良い習慣を身につけた立派な人物となるための13項目の教訓を抜粋してご紹介します。

彼は、常に正しい行いをし、良い習慣を身につけた人物となるためにどうすればよいかを、「節制」「沈黙」などの13項目に分けてまとめ、自叙伝に記しました。
フランクリンは13項目を書きとめた手帳を持ち歩き、日々その習慣を身につけるよう、努力を続けていった結果、より幸福な生活をすることができたと述べています。
その簡潔で分かりやすい教えは、200年以上にわたって世界中で読み継がれてきました。
現代の私たちも、彼の教えを参考にすれば、人生がもっと豊かになることでしょう。

「冷凍庫に入れる」はput　it　in　the　freezerなのに「電子レンジに入れる」だとput　it　in　my　microwave　ovenとなる。

★★世界史の流れを3つの視点から読み解く★★

教養として、あるいは確かなビジョンを持つための武器として「世界史」を知っていることは大変重要だが、いざ世界史を学ぼうとすると大量の歴史知識が登場する。どうすればよいのかと悩む読者のための一冊