The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century. But both history and China's current trajectory suggest that this rivalry will reach its moment of maximum danger in the 2020s. The Chinese challenge will most likely prove more manageable than many pessimists currently believe—but during the 2020s, the pace of Sino-American conflict will accelerate, and the prospect of war will be frighteningly real.

In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.

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

What differentiates the highly successful market practitioners - the Market Wizards - from ordinary traders? What traits do they share? What lessons can the average trader learn from those who achieved superior returns for decades while still maintaining strict risk control? In The Little Book of Market Wizards, Jack Schwager seeks to distill what he considers the essential lessons he learned in conducting nearly four dozen interviews with some of the world's best traders.

マーケットの魔術師たちから愛読されつづける投資のバイブルがついに翻訳。
勝敗の分け目は“自制心”にある!

「ヒストリーの語源は、ストーリーと同じである」。時代、地域ごとに語り部が入れ替わり、古今東西の歴史をひもといていく。

The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused. They have dictated how we build, eat, communicate, wage war, create art, travel, and worship. Some, such as stone, iron, and bronze, lend their names to the ages. Others, such as gold, silver, and diamond, contributed to the rise and fall of great empires.

明治生まれの日本を代表する哲学者、倫理学者の旅行記。

和辻哲郎が20代の時に友人と奈良を旅し見聞した古美術、古建築について熱くそしてみずみずしい感性でつづられている作品です。 発売当時大ヒット作となった本書は、いまも色あせることなく美の世界へと私たちをいざないます。

奈良を旅する前に予習として聴きいておきたい作品です。

Russell Kirk has ingeniously combined into a living whole the private Burke and the public Burke. He gives us a fresh assessment of Burke, a statesman enjoying even greater influence today than in his own time. He lucidly unfolds Burke's philosophy, showing how it revealed itself in concrete historical situations in the 18th century and how Burke, through his philosophy, "speaks to our age".

世界がウクライナ戦争で大きく揺らぎ始めている。再び戦争の時代に戻りそうな端境期にある今だからこそ、歴史から多くを学ぶべきだと主張する著者は、これまで軍指導者や兵士など延べ四千人に取材し…

戦後最高の総理大臣と言えば、古くは吉田茂と相場が決まっていました。今だと田中角栄でしょうか。いいえ、池田勇人こそ、現代日本人が生きていける財産を残し、その遺産で今も日本を救い続けている

Instead of trying to predict "Black Swan" events such as coups or crises, forecasters should look at how political systems handle disorder. The best indicator of a country's future trajectory is not a lengthy past stability, but recent moderate volatility.

Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery? In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores some of the questions about the Greeks and Romans that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has answered in the classroom and online. Unlike most books on the classical world, the focus is not on famous figures or events, but on the fascinating details of daily life.

■大統領の陰で動くエキスパートたち　第2期トランプ政権は、2025年からの4年間で何をするつもりなのか。同政権で国防次官を務めるエルブリッジ・A・コルビーなど“トランプの参謀たち”がめざすのは、「台湾有事の阻止」だ。

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.

This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the 20th century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.

What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind.

「集団的自衛権をもたない国は侵攻される」。ウクライナをはじめ、世界がロシアの暴虐から得た教訓である。ところが、日本には「集団的自衛権は憲法違反」という珍奇な説を訴える人々がいる。

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.

Following an evaluation of the legacy of the Cold War the author assesses the uncertainties of the post-Cold War era, the weakening of America by its prolonged warfare in the greater Middle East, by the enlarged war on terror and by the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Amid the decline of the liberal world order and the rise of China, the author examines Chinese attempts to establish a new order.

Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and colonialism. Pieces of each of these theories help explain key events on the path to modern riches. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in eighteenth-century Britain? Why did some European countries, the United States, and Japan catch up in the nineteenth century? Why did it take until the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries for other countries?

America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the 20th century. All of this is exacerbated by Washington’s war-like demonizing of the Kremlin leadership and by Russiagate’s unprecedented allegations. US mainstream media accounts are highly selective and seriously misleading. American “disinformation”, not only Russian, is a growing peril.

近現代の日本史・世界史を総合し、近代化、大衆化、グローバル化の歴史像を考える高校の必修科目が始まる。シリーズ第一巻は中国史、イギリス史、アメリカ史、アフリカ史、中東史の歴史家とともに、近現代史の

初めて明かされるスパイ戦争の最前線！インテリジェンス・マスターが初めて明かすスパイ戦争の最前線！

GHQ（連合国軍最高司令官総司令部）による日本の「経済民主化」は、増税をはじめ今日まで続く緊縮財政策の起源の一つ、すなわち「経済弱体化」政策だった。