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Winner of the 2021 Business Book of the Year Award What is the difference between a startup that makes it, and one that crashes and burns? Behind every story of success is an unfair advantage. But an Unfair Advantage is not just about your parents' wealth or who you know: anyone can have one. An...

Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve.   

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods.

未曾有の経済成長がもたらしたきらびやかな繁栄と、その陰で深く静かに進行した深刻な格差社会という、19世紀アメリカの光と影の歴史を紐解き、現代に通じる不平等の構造を解き明かします。南北戦争後の荒れた大地...

避けられない終焉である「死」を、ただ恐れるべきタブーとしてではなく、私たちが紡いできた豊かな儀式と深い受容のプロセスとして解き明かす、心を揺さぶる死生学の探求です。眠れない夜や、大切な人との別れに直...

個人の努力だけでは越えられない経済格差の壁と、少数の勝者に富の集中をもたらす社会構造のからくりを鮮やかに解き明かす没入型リスニング体験。毎日の通勤電車の中で「なぜこんなに頑張っているのに報われないの...

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。

At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of US military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades - with tensions exacerbated by the often volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a 12-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s. But the situation is more complex than it seems. In Night in the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson takes listeners deep into the “border towns” surrounding the bases....

ただの紙切れやデジタル数字が世界を動かす力を持つ理由——それは、私たちが無意識に共有する「共同幻想」という壮大な経済の歴史に隠されています。毎日の通勤電車の中で社会の複雑さに戸惑う時、この知的好奇心...

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

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...

One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party...

The world-famous bestseller that brought new insight, hope and understanding to millions now available on CD! Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross created her classic seminal work, On Death and Dying, to offer us a new perspective on the terminally ill. It is not a psychoanalytic study, nor is it a...

In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of all human interaction, and the exploitation of that data by corporations. Through fascinating characters, Rushkoff explains why those with the most power to change our current trajectory have no interest in doing so.

世界のあらゆる文化に共通する「死者が帰ってくる物語」をひもとき、私たちが抱える喪失の痛みや死への恐れを優しく包み込む、文化人類学と心理学が交差する思索の旅。夜の静寂の中で知的好奇心を深く刺激し、恐ろ...

避けられない老いの運命と永遠の命を渇望する人類の探求が激突する、生命科学と医学史が織りなす壮大な知のドラマ。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや知的な散歩のひとときに、人間の有限性について深く思索を巡らせる...

数千年の沈黙を破り、古代ヨーロッパの泥炭湿地から完全な姿で現れた死者たちが、生と死の境界を超えて、私たちの知的好奇心を深く刺激する歴史と考古学の真実を語り始めます。通勤の喧騒を離れて深い教養の世界に...

世間の「普通」という重圧からあなたをそっと解放し、子どもを持たないという人生の選択を心から肯定するための自己探求の旅へと誘います。周囲の無言の期待と自分の本当の願いが入り混じり、生きづらさを感じてい...

Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this postcapitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism might actually entail.

潜在患者は1000万人以上。それは、「●●●」な疾患！（答えは本書に）アレルギーだと誤診、喘息だと過剰治療、気にしすぎだと放置……。社会に誤解され、医療から無視されがちな“ナゾの病”がよく分かる！