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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...

This illuminating study explores the ways in which the shattering defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. The author describes the countless ways in which the Japanese met the challenge of "starting over", from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes, fears, and activities of ordinary men and women in every walk of life.

伝統的な幕藩体制から近代国家へ、わずか一世代で成し遂げられた激動のパラダイムシフトの全貌と歴史のうねりを鮮やかに解き明かします。幕末の動揺から新政府の樹立、そして憲法制定に至る怒涛の展開は、あなたの...

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...

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?

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...

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.

Listen "live" to one of the most iconic orators of all times in this packed-full collection of Martin Luther King Jr. speeches. King's rich and passionate style of delivery will transport you back to the era of the civil-rights movement, when King advocated non-violent resistance in the pursuit of equality and dignity not only for blacks but for all mankind. Seldom has any leader since inspired and captivated an audience worldwide and motivated a nation to action.

Perhaps thanks to TV period dramas, the popular imagination may picture the Edwardian era as an idyllic window between the wars, a time of manners and tea on the lawn. But below the surface lies a frenetic and often bizarre age where scientific leaps forward went hand in hand with belief in fairies, and secrets of sex, lies and murder simmered. Across 12 episodes, in this sequel to his Victorian Secrets, Stephen Fry uncovers some of the startling and unexpected hidden histories of the Edwardians.

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。...

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories.

Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence. The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why? In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the...

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...

理想と現実の激しい衝突を通じて、共産主義という歴史的イデオロギーがいかに世界を熱狂させ、そして悲劇的な崩壊へ向かったのかを解き明かす壮大な知の旅。19世紀の産業化が生んだ格差への怒りが、いかにして20世...

吸血鬼ドラキュラ伝説のベールを剥ぎ取り、古代ローマから現代へと続く激動のヨーロッパ史を一本のドラマチックな物語として体感することで、あなたの知的好奇心は深く満たされます。毎日の通勤や家事の時間が、大...

Bloomsbury presents Humankind by Rutger Bregman, read by Thomas Judd and Rutger Bregman. THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ‘Hugely, highly and happily recommended’ Stephen Fry ‘You should read...

オスマン帝国の栄華と崩壊から現代の中東地政学まで、宗教と世俗化が激しく衝突する激動の世界史を約2時間で体感する歴史紀行。毎日の通勤時間やリラックスタイムが、知的好奇心を強烈に刺激する濃密な学びの場へ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD “A provocative read...There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusually, Mr. Dalio has managed to identify metrics from that history that can be applied to...

#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR. A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that...

エジプト文明の周縁という常識を打ち破る古代ナイルの覇者「黒人ファラオ」の栄光から、現代の国家建設の苦悩まで、アフリカ史を揺るがす巨大な興亡の軌跡を描き出します。毎日の通勤のひとときや教養を深めたい静...