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#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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson's vividly told A Little History of the United States.

Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.

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.

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...

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.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis. Now with an epilogue that...