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「いつかはクラウン」から「毎日100円ショップ」の時代へ　
もはや「中流」ではない。「下流」なのだ

「下流」とは、単に所得が低いということではない。

統計データに基づく経営分析から読み解く日本企業の50年史「企業成長なくして、経済成長はない」日本経済の成長の低さの原因を、政府の経済政策のまずさに求めることも多い。

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.

かつて「一億総中流社会」と言われた日本。戦後、日本の経済成長を支えたのは、企業で猛烈に働き、消費意欲も旺盛な中間層の人たちだった。しかし、バブル崩壊から30年が経ったいま、その形は大きく崩れている。

かつては水産物の争奪戦で中国に敗れ問題になった「買い負け」。しかしいまや、半導体、LNG(液化天然ガス)、牛肉、人材といったあらゆる分野で日本の買い負けが顕著になっている。

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets.

Available for the first time in audio, America’s most revered novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think...

100分de名著」(NHK Eテレ)で取り上げる作品を九年にわたり選び続けてきたプロデューサーが最も戦慄を覚えたのは、現代社会のありようを言い当てる「名著の予知能力」。

Peter F. Drucker may be best known as a writer on business and management, but these subjects were not his foremost intellectual concern. Drucker's primary concerns were community, in which the individual has status, and society, in which the individual has function. Here he has assembled selections from his vast writings on these subjects. This collection presents the full range of Drucker's thought on community, society, and political structure and constitutes an ideal introduction to his ideas.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Denial of Death explores how people and cultures around the world have reacted to the concept of death from celebrated cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is...

誰も語らなかった日本経済復活の秘策!経済的豊かさから、年々遠のいていく日本。「お得で賢い」と思っていた消費は、「国産品の不買運動」だった。

裏金問題、万博予算倍増、マイナンバートラブル…。「どうせそのうち忘れるだろう」に全力抗議！「とかく日本人は、喉元過ぎれば熱さ忘れると言われるが、この本がその憤慨の記憶を呼び起こすことに１ミリでもお役に立てれば幸甚だ。」

In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.

The bestselling author of What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20's engaging and practical guide to how to become lucky, based on her classes at Stanford University and her popular TED talk. Much of what we call luck is the result of deliberate actions and consistent efforts. As Tina Seelig shared in...

心がスッと軽くなる8つの物語「他人はガッカリさせていいの」生きていれば、いろいろと辛いこともあるし、やりきれないこともある。日々ストレスがたまりがち……夜、ふとんに入ると、

The #1 bestselling pioneer of "fratire" and a leading evolutionary psychologist team up to create the dating book for guys. Whether they conducted their research in life or in the lab, experts Tucker Max and Dr. Geoffrey Miller have spent the last 20+ years learning what women really want from...

この世に真実を語り残しておきたい――。1992年に統一教会の広報担当になり翌年から1999年まで約7年間にわたって広報部長を務めた大江益夫氏。

100歳までの健康は「声」が重要です！このような「声の異変」が病気のサインかもしれません・声がかすれる・ガラガラ声・しゃがれ声・声がモゴモゴ

Ten years after Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s death: “An inspiring…guide to life, distilled from the experiences of people who face death” (Kirkus Reviews)—the beloved classic now with a new introduction and updated resources section. Is this really how I want to live my life? Each one of...