What is life? What is my place in it? What choices do these questions obligate me to make? More than a half-century after it burst upon the intellectual scene - with roots that extend to the mid-19th century - Existentialism's quest to answer these most fundamental questions of individual responsibility, morality, and personal freedom, life has continued to exert a profound attraction.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

500年の時を超え、読み継がれてきた不朽の名著

賢人マキャベリによる、君主としてのあるべき姿、思考、方法論。 建前や倫理観を廃し、理想論ではなく本音と実績をベースにした実践的手法の26章。

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第1章 君主の治める国にはどんな種類があり、またそれらはいかにして獲得されるか？
第2章 世襲制の君主国について
第3章 混成型の君主国について
第4章 アレクサンドロス大王が征服したダレイオスの王国ではなぜ大王の死後もその後継者に対して反乱が起きなかったのか？
第5章 併合するまで市民が独自の法体制のもとで統治していた都市や国をどう治めるべきか？
第6章 自らの武力と力量とによって獲得した新たな君主国について
第7章 他国の武力ないしは幸運の力によって獲得した新たな君主国について
第8章 悪辣な手段によって君主の座を手に入れた者について
第9章 市民型君主国について
第10章 君主国の国力を測るよい方法
第11章 教会が支配する君主国について
第12章 軍隊の種類と傭兵について
第13章...

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.

Composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the most famous and influential work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The work is a philosophical novel in which the character of Zarathustra, a religious prophet-like figure, delivers a series of lessons and sermons in a Biblical style that articulate the central ideas of Nietzsche's mature thought.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

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」

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s evolving politics. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America.

"Atomic Habits" by James Clear is a transformative self-help book that delves into the science of habit formation and offers practical strategies for creating lasting change. Clear explores how small, incremental changes, or "atomic habits," can lead to significant improvements in one's life.

生産様式から交換様式への移行を告げた『世界史の構造』から一〇年余，交換様式から生まれる「力」を軸に柄谷行人の全思想体系の核心を示す

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.

First published in 1912, Daddy-Long-Legs is an epistolary novel that follows orphan Jerusha "Judy" Abbott through her college years through a series of letters written to her anonymous benefactor, whom she nicknames "Daddy-Long-Legs." As Judy learns to navigate the complex world of studies, social life, and romance, her letters convey her growth and address the increasingly complex questions that preoccupy her.

As intriguing today as when it was first published, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a fascinating exploration into the nature of human knowledge. Using billiard balls, candles, and other colorful examples, Hume conveys the core of his empiricism - that true knowledge can be gained only through sensory experience.

Celebrated promoter of the "Four P's of Marketing", Philip Kotler, explains how marketers can use technology to address customers' needs and make a difference in the world. In a new age when marketers are struggling with the digital transformation of business and the changing behavior of customers, this book provides marketers with a way to integrate technological and business model evolution with the dramatic shifts in consumer behavior that have happened in the last decade.

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.

市販の加工食品の大半に使われている食品添加物。体に害を与える添加物は国が規制しているはずだが、実際には企業側の利益を優先させる傾向にある。機能性表示食品の[紅麹コレステヘルプ]では腎臓障害が多発し、死者まで出た。

Two years before he died, St. Thomas Aquinas, probably the greatest teacher the Church has ever known, was asked by his assistant Brother Reginald to write a simple summary of the faith of the Catholic Church for those who lacked the time or the stamina to tackle his massive Summa Theologica. In response, the great saint quickly set down in language that non-scholars can understand his peerless insights into the major topics of theology: the Trinity, Divine Providence, the Incarnation of Christ, the Last Judgment, and much more.

Taught by award-winning Professor Patrick Grim of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, The Philosopher’s Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room arms you against the perils of bad thinking and supplies you with an arsenal of strategies to help you be more creative, logical, inventive, realistic, and rational in all aspects of your daily life.

Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics, first published in 1677, constitutes a major systematic critique of the traditional and religious foundations of philosophical thought. In it, Spinoza follows a logical step-by-step format consisting of definitions, axioms, propositions, proofs, and corollaries to create a comprehensive inquiry into the truth about God, nature, and humans' place within the universe. From these broad metaphysical themes, Spinoza derives what he considered to be the highest principles of religion and society and lays out an ethical system in which reason is the supreme value.

In The Republic, Socrates is asked the question: "What is justice?" And in order to answer it, he draws a long and detailed analogy between the individual and the city. Plato’s work forms the foundation of Western philosophy and covers a wide range of topics including political theory and ethics, with extended digressions into artistic and literary criticism, the theory and practice of education as well as epistemology and metaphysics.