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■「もやもや」する日本 □「日本ってどういう国？」が分からなくなっている ■信号は守るのに、コンプラ違反天国 □日本には「世間」はあるが、「社会」がない 7割の日本人が「この国は衰退している」と考えている。

におい、音、手ざわり、そして電子機器の画面の明るさまで──。資本主義と技術は五感を商品にし、日常の体験そのものを設計してきた。都市空間とデパートがもたらした新しい消費行動の感覚、ガラス、プラスチック、セロハンなどの新素材による衛生観の更新、パック旅行やテーマパーク、「パノラマ」やVRまで、身近な事例で百年超の軌跡をたどる、新しい学問分野「感覚史」の入門書。

小さくとも、したたかに、抗っていく――。出版社「ころから」戦記！ 近年、小規模で個性的な「ひとり出版社」が注目を集めている。だが、2013年創立の出版社「ころから」にはフォロワー（追随する者）がいないと業界では評判だ。その独自性の源泉はどこにあるのか。

The protagonist of Just Do It is Phil Knight, a reclusive billionaire who started a two-man operation importing Japanese running shoes and built it into a $4 billion company. Irreverent, unpredictable, and leery of the sports establishment, Knight created the most muscular jock culture in business, a place where employees routinely took two hours at lunch to work out and then strategized late into the night in their holy war against competitors Reebok and Adidas.

あこがれを集める歴史の都・京都！ そんな古都を「きらい」と明言するのは、京都育ちで、ずっと京都に住んでいる著者だ。千年積もった洛中人の毒や、坊さんと舞子さんとのコラボレーションなど、「こんなん書いてええのんか？」という衝撃の新京都論。

日本人にとって「推し」とは何か。その起源から現代の最前線までを徹底分析！ 日本人にとって推し活はもはや一時の熱狂ではない。現代の推しは、私たちに「ハレの日」を与えてくれる一方で、「ケの日常」もまたともにあることを教えてくれる。それは、この社会に広く浸透した一つの文化なのだ。では、私たちはそんな推しと、どのように持続可能な関係性を築いていけるだろうか。「推し活」文化の源流から令和の最前線までをひもとき、ポスト消費社会における「推しの構造」を鮮やかに読み解く。

Over 50 years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture. Some 20 years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. Here, 33 writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture.

From a bestselling novelist, this "cultural phenomenon" is a fascinating foray into the hearts, minds, and mating habits of modern-day New Yorkers and the inspiration behind the television series (Oprah). Enter a world where the shocking and hilarious dating rituals of the privileged are exposed...

In the best-selling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories, The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological makeup.

紫煙くすぶる川船の危険なイカサマ賭博から、莫大な富と名誉が交差する国際的な競技へ、一枚のカードが人間の欲望と社会を根底から変えていく壮大な文化史の旅が始まります。毎日の通勤時間や知的な刺激に飢えてい...

In The Extinction of Experience, Christine Rosen investigates the cultural and emotional shifts that accompany our embrace of technology. In warm, philosophical prose, Rosen reveals key human experiences at risk of going extinct, including face-to-face communication, sense of place, authentic emotion, and even boredom. Considering cultural trends, like TikTok challenges and mukbang, and politically unsettling phenomena, like sociometric trackers and online conspiracy culture, Rosen exposes an unprecedented shift in the human condition, one that habituates us to alienation and control. 

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? Abroad in...

全知全能とは程遠い感情的な神々と、私たちの心の奥底に潜む不安を具現化した恐ろしい怪物たちが織りなすギリシャ神話の世界へ没入し、現代に生きるあなた自身の内面を深く見つめ直す旅に出かけましょう。通勤電車...

Foreword by Steven Pinker Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our...

Read by Audiofile Golden Voice Narrator January LaVoy. A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the...

From the creator of the viral Kardashian Kolloquium comes a New Media manifesto for the TikTok age - blending theory, cultural analysis and history to explain the meteoric rise of the Kardashians and what their fame reveals about how media functions today. Since 2007, Kim Kardashian and her...

Internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to improve profitability and practices for dozens of Fortune 100 companies. His groundbreaking revelations shed light not just on business but on the way every human being acts and lives around the world.

Winner of Audiobook of the Year at The Specsavers National Book Awards 2018 Penguin presents the audio edition of The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, read by Benedict Cumberbatch. The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting journey to discover the meaning...

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...

Riotous and galvanizing, Tits Up excavates the diverse truths of mammary glands from the strip club to the operating room, from the nation’s oldest human milk bank to the fit rooms of bra designers. Thornton draws insights from plastic surgeons, lactation consultants, body-positive witches, lingerie models, and “free the nipple” activists to explore the status of breasts as emblems of femininity. She examines how women’s chests have become a billion-dollar business, as well as a stage for debates about race, class, gender, and desire.