This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work, and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition, Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes.

考える力・創造する力が育つ AIとも仲良くできる　数学は、君が幸せに生きていくための、魔法の言葉だ!数学ぎらいなんてもったいない!

数学者として将来活躍する少年少女を見抜くことはできるか．答えが一つの数学の試験採点は容易か．どのようなコースをたどって数学者になるのか．数学者のピークはいつごろで，どのくらいの年齢までアクティブに研究できるのか．

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several of the ultimate questions of science. What is the nature of the tension between science and religious faith? Why does uncertainty play such a crucial role in the scientific imagination? Is this really a scientific age?

High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book, Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.

Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunity and risk. After four decades spent ascending to the top of the investment management profession, he is today sought out by the world's leading value investors, and his client memos brim with insightful commentary and a time-tested, fundamental philosophy. The Most Important Thing explains the keys to successful investment and the pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career.

For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. In Transformer, biochemist Nick Lane reveals a scientific renaissance that is hiding in plain sight-how the same simple chemistry gives rise to life and causes our demise.

How do some people bounce back with vigor from daily setbacks, professional crises, or even intense personal trauma? This collection of articles from HBR includes "How Resilience Works", by Diane Coutu; "Resilience for the Rest of Us", by Daniel Goleman; "How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience", by David Kopans; "Find the Coaching in Criticism", by Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone; and much more.

一九三三年、私は「天皇」と同じ日に生まれた――東京オリンピックの前年、出稼ぎのため上野駅に降り立った男の壮絶な生涯を通じ描かれる、日本の光と闇……居場所を失くしたすべての人へ贈る物語。

The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental differences are philosophical, and listeners of this book will emerge with a clearer understanding of paradoxical-sounding concepts such as infinity, curved space, and imaginary numbers. The first few chapters are about general aspects of mathematical thought.

■戦争はなぜ、地球上からなくならないのか？ 20世紀は戦争の世紀でした。 全世界を巻き込んだ2度にわたる世界大戦をはじめ 中東戦争、朝鮮戦争、ベトナム戦争、米ソ冷戦……。 東西冷戦終結後は 内戦が世界各地で勃発するようになり 戦争はますます複雑化、多様化します。 テロが急増し、テロに対する報復として アフガン侵攻、イラク戦争、チェチェン紛争などが起きました。 いったいなぜ、戦争やテロが この世からなくならないのでしょうか？ その答えはいたってシンプル。 いつの時代にも 戦争を起こしたい奴らがいるからです。 では、なぜ彼らは戦争を起こしたいのか？ ・・・その答えがこの本には書かれています。 ■「戦争とは何か？」をほとんどの日本人は知らない 人殺しは犯罪ですが 戦争は国家に権利として与えられています。 だから世界では戦争、紛争の火種が絶えません。 お互いに殺したり、殺されたりを繰り返しているのです。 もちろん戦争は誰だってイヤです。 私もあなたも誰もが平和を望むでしょう。 しかし、戦争を起こす権利は国家が持つ外交権の一部として 国際法で認められているのです。 一方、日本は憲法9条で戦争放棄をした唯一の国です。 日本は国連加盟国の中で唯一、 戦争を起こす権利を持っ

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 cognitive biases that are creating the way you see your life. Some of these pieces have never been seen; others have been read by millions of people around the world. Regardless, each will leave you thinking: This idea changed my life.

The spectacular culinary creations of modern cuisine are the stuff of countless articles and social media feeds. But to a scientist they are also perfect pedagogical explorations into the basic scientific principles of cooking. In Science and Cooking, Harvard professors Michael Brenner, Pia Sörensen, and David Weitz bring the classroom to your kitchen to teach the physics and chemistry underlying every recipe.

思想界では近年一段と脚光を浴びる一方で、一般には時代遅れのイメージが付きまとうアリストテレス。