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As relevant today as it was when it was first published, Man’s Search for Meaning is a book for finding strength and purpose in times of great despair. “This is a book I reread a lot … it gives me hope … it gives me a sense of strength.”—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the world’s most innovative thinkers explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. “Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the...

By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction audiobook provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War - from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers.

強大な帝国に翻弄されながらも独自の文化を紡ぎ続けた生存戦略と、絶えず揺れ動く東欧史のダイナミズムを解き明かす重厚な歴史ドキュメントです。通勤中や家事の合間に耳を傾ければ、千年以上にわたる激動の時代を...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Drift off to the gentle rhythm of sporting history's strangest corners, where ancient Olympic champions received olive wreaths and free meals for life, and a dog named Pickles once rescued the stolen World Cup trophy from beneath a London hedge. This...

The riveting untold story of how the defection of a KGB saboteur in London led to the rescue of MI5 after a series of disastrous intelligence failures. Drawing on newly declassified intelligence documents and dozens of interviews with spymasters, The Defector tells a startling story of a Soviet...

伝統的な絶対王政や宗教的権威を打ち砕き、理性の力で社会を根底から覆した思想史の激動と、その理想に潜む残酷な矛盾を浮き彫りにする歴史ドキュメンタリー。毎日の通勤時間やリラックスした週末のわずか二時間で...

華やかな宮廷文化の裏側で、名もなき職人や商人たちはどのように生き抜いたのか——ハプスブルク帝国600年の栄華と崩壊を、一つの都市の息遣いから鮮やかに蘇らせる歴史体験です。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや知的...

王権の栄華と錬金術の神秘、そして市民による血塗られた革命が交錯する千年のヨーロッパ史を、日々の通勤時間でも深い没入感とともに味わえる濃密な都市の伝記として鮮やかに紐解きます。壮大な帝国の都であり、激...

手仕事の穏やかなリズムが工場の轟音に飲み込まれた歴史の転換点に立ち返り、現代の私たちの働き方の原点を解き明かす没入型の歴史エンターテインメント。満員電車に揺られる通勤時間や、静かな夜の自己研鑽のひと...

アドリア海の波に刻まれた帝国の興亡から、壮絶な独立への闘争まで、ヨーロッパ史の激動を体感する歴史ノンフィクションの傑作です。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや毎日の通勤電車の中で、知的好奇心を深く満たす没...

分断の壁と幾多の戦争に引き裂かれながらも、崩壊と再建を繰り返してきた「実験都市」の800年を追体験する重厚な歴史ノンフィクション。通勤電車の中で知的な刺激を求める時や、一人静かに思索を深めたい夜に、中世...

冷戦時代の分断された世界を舞台に、国家の威信をかけた月面着陸競争の影で繰り広げられたソ連の巨大宇宙計画の軌跡を丹念にたどる歴史ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間や一人静かに思索に耽りたい夜に、技術と政...

Humankind has come a long way since our ancestors first stood up on two feet, but how did we get to where we are today? This book tells our story, through conflict and intrigue, power won and lost, and great empires built and destroyed. Award-winning author Alex Woolf brings you an accessible, enjoyable exploration of human history. Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the first civilizations, follow marauding Mongols on their quest to conquer, find out what made colonial empires tick, or the more modern origins of current conflict, the answers lie in this book.

現代の格差社会と民主主義のルーツは、蒸気と鉄が支配する19世紀イギリスの光と影の中に隠されています。毎日の通勤や夜のリラックスタイムに、世界史の転換点となる壮大な歴史ドラマへと深く没入してみませんか。...

第一次世界大戦後の社会不安から独裁体制の台頭まで、一見無関係な歴史的要因が第二次世界大戦という巨大な悲劇へとつながる「選択の連鎖」を解き明かす歴史ノンフィクション。通勤の移動中や静かに思考を深めたい...

At 11:40 PM on April 14, 1912, the most confident civilization in human history collided with the one thing it refused to believe in: its own limits. What does it mean to build something "unsinkable" — and what happens to the world when it sinks anyway? How many of the 1,500 who died that night were killed not by the iceberg, but by the arrogance that came before it?

Threatened with extermination, many Jewish people refused to go passively to their deaths at the hands of the Nazis during World War II and instead put up heroic resistance. Prisoners at Sobibór and Treblinka organized successful revolts, while at Auschwitz they sacrificed their lives to dynamite the crematorium. Beyond the barbed wire of the camps, hundreds of Jewish people were active in the French resistance and thousands fought with partisans in other occupied countries. One and a half million more served in the Allied armed forces.

南大西洋の孤島を巡る大国イギリスとアルゼンチンの激突を描く、冷戦期の軍事史と国際政治のダイナミズムを立体的に体感できる歴史オーディオブック。日々の通勤時間や一人静かに過ごす夜のひとときに、知的好奇心...

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthrals with its lively gossip, witty observations and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon...