The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

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Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that's been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. Instead of buying the myths these companies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions.

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms. 

Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.

Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.

A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please," asks the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper... And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers.

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.

In this must-listen book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and businesspeople - both seasoned and new - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit". Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success.

フランツ・カフカの未完の長編作品。

ある城に雇われた主人公、測量士K。
雇われたはずなのに、雪道やら役所の複雑な組織に阻まれ城の門は開く様子はない。 城に行くことを待つ間、寒村に滞在するがその村にある奇妙な習慣になじむことがでない。 小さな世界で従うべき慣習は「法律」であり、城に入れないとは疎外された人間・・・
1920年台の作品ですが今を生きるわたしたちにも通底する要素や カフカの鋭くも奇妙で味わい深い作品を朗読でお楽しみください。 

 最高の真理を求めた男たちの熱き闘い！　ソクラテス・デカルト・ニーチェ・サルトル……さらなる高みを目指し、知を闘わせてきた31人の哲学者たちの論が激突。まさに「史上最強」の哲学入門書！ 

学校英語で刷り込まれる「翻訳英語」の呪縛から解き放たれない限り、米国に留学しようと永遠に英語は習得できない。「英語の頭をつくる」指導のプロフェッショナルが教える、「英語を訳さず理解する方法」のすべて！

【オーディオブック限定著者コメント付き】 著者　草薙龍瞬本人が朗読する、オーディオブック限定特典メッセージ付き。 悩みは「消す」ことができる。そしてそれには「方法」がある――ブッダの「超合理的で、超シンプル」な教えを日常生活に活かすには？　注目の“独立派”出家僧が原始仏教からひもとく“役に立つ仏教”。

 持ちモノを自分に必要な最小限にする「ミニマリスト」という生き方。 ぼくはモノを減らすことで何もかもが変わり、なぜか毎日「幸せ」を感じられるまでになってしまった。 

 〈ハリー・ポッター〉シリーズを読むには欠かせない副読本が、新装版になりました。J.K.ローリングによるニュート・スキャマンダーの前書きと、6種類の魔法動物が新たに加えられました。