Essential for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. The World War II-era study by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict paints an illuminating contrast between the people of Japan and those of the United States. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a revealing look at how and why our societies differ, making it the perfect introduction to Japanese history and customs.

日本最古の物語が誘うロマンあふれる古代世界古典文学の主要作品をセレクトし、現代語訳と原文とで構成した「日本の古典をよむ」（全20冊）シリーズの1冊です。

Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick.

Diplomatic History explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of negotiations. From the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and its aftermath, Versailles, and the personal summitry behind the night Stalin and Churchill Divided Europe, to George W. Bush and the Iraq War, and diplomacy in the age of globalization, the management of power relationships has had an immense impact on our recent history.

日本が近代化に向けて大きな一歩を踏み出した明治時代は、実はとても厳しい社会でした。社会が大きく変化する中、人々は必死に働き、頑張りました。

This very short introduction offers listeners a superb overview of the teachings of the Buddha, as well as a succinct guide to the integration of Buddhism into daily life.

A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period, A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-Cold War period and collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s. Recent findings shed additional light on the origins of Japanese civilization and the birth of Japanese culture.

E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.

当代一、ヤバい社会学者が、幼少期から結婚するまでの知られざる私生活を語り尽くした。宮台真司は、どうやって〝生きる術〟を獲得してきたのか。宮台学入門者からマニアまで、必読の一冊。「面白いことを言おうとしたりといった意識はまるでない。このひと、どんな話題にも真正面から立ち向かっていってしまうたちなのだ。

In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns about correctness, Horobin considers whether such changes are improvements or evidence of slipping standards.

How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully "objective"? What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this very short introduction, Samir Okasha explores the main themes and theories of contemporary philosophy of science and investigates fascinating, challenging questions such as these.

In the fifth edition of his best-selling Very Short Introduction work, Manfred B. Steger considers the major dimensions of globalization: economic, political, cultural, ideological, and ecological. He looks at its causes and effects, and engages with the hotly contested question of whether globalization is, ultimately, a good or a bad thing.

宦官にされて笑いものにされながらも悲劇の歴史家司馬遷は、現れては消えていった無数の人々の思い、怨み、願いを後世に伝えるために『史記』を残しました。その史記を陳舜臣がわかりやすく語り直した作品です。 殷から、周・秦・漢までの中国史が語られます。司馬遷と、陳舜臣、そして、小説よりも奇な逸話にみちた現実、そのエキスをお楽しみください。 朗読は「宮廷女官チャングムの誓い」などでゲスト出演の実績がある津々見沙月さんがオーディオブック初出演です。またジャケットデザインはフランス人画家マリボンヌ・ナジェル・岡本様にお願いしました。「ことのは出版オーディオブック新着情報はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.