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Infinite Powers recounts how calculus tantalized and thrilled its inventors, starting with its first glimmers in ancient Greece and bringing us right up to the discovery of gravitational waves. Strogatz reveals how this form of math rose to the challenges of each age: how to determine the area of a circle with only sand and a stick; how to explain why Mars goes "backwards" sometimes; how to turn the tide in the fight against AIDS.    

氷に閉ざされた極限環境と人間の限界が激しく衝突する壮絶な歴史を描き出す、静かな夜のリラックスタイムや集中したい通勤時間に最適な極地探検ノンフィクションです。未知なる純白の荒野がいかにして探検家たちを...

Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure is Frank Worsley's first-hand account of one of the greatest survival stories ever told. As captain of the Endurance, Worsley recounts Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctic expedition with remarkable clarity and immediacy, taking readers from the crushing grip of the pack ice to the extraordinary voyage that saved every member of the crew. Rich in detail and driven by the perspective of someone who lived through it, this is a gripping story of courage, leadership, and resilience in the face of overwhelming odds.

You'll be awe-inspired by the heroic efforts of the crew of the Endurance, a ship that battled its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice while ironically only a day's sail from its destination.

An all-new recording of the landmark #1 bestseller! In April 1970, during the glory days of the Apollo space program, NASA sent Navy Captain Jim Lovell and two other astronauts on America’s fifth mission to the moon. Only fifty-five hours into the flight of Apollo 13, disaster struck: a...

Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth-largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand years and more. 

This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was...

Spanning a million years of history, the mysteries in this book include fabled relics, legendary cities, mythical species, and undeciphered languages that have bedeviled seekers for centuries.

巨大な帝国の野望ではなく、わずか数隻の小さな船が未知の外洋へと漕ぎ出した瞬間から、海洋史の歯車は劇的に回り始めます。毎日の通勤時間や夜のリラックスタイムに、波の音や活気あふれる港のざわめきが耳元で蘇...

古代中国の絶大な権力が築き上げた未発掘の地下宮殿と、それを永遠に守り続ける兵馬俑の謎を紐解く、知的好奇心を満たす歴史の旅へようこそ。夜の静寂なリラックスタイムや、毎日の通勤のひとときに、広大な陵園の...

The Viking Age - from 750 to 1050 saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. 

This book interweaves two narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy's Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin's last expedition?

From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an “utterly delightful…hugely entertaining” (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history. In the early 1800s the natural...

過酷な極地探検の記録と最新の考古学が交差する、19世紀最大の海難事故の全貌を冷静かつ解像度高く描き出す歴史ノンフィクション。知的好奇心が刺激される静かな夜のひとときや、深い思索にふけりたい通勤の道中に...

絶海の孤島はいかにして生命の実験室となり、歴史を覆す進化論のインスピレーションを生み出したのか、壮大な自然科学の旅へとあなたを誘います。毎日の通勤時間や就寝前の静かなひとときに、知的好奇心を心地よく...

世界の果てへと続く未知の海を前に、辺境の一介の港町はいかにして大航海時代という歴史の巨大な扉をこじ開け、地球規模の海洋帝国へと変貌したのか。朝の通勤電車や週末の長い散歩中、イヤホンから流れるテージョ...

From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two...

資源も人口も乏しいヨーロッパ辺境の小国が、いかにして大航海時代を牽引し、世界を繋ぐ広大な海洋帝国へと成り上がったのか、知的好奇心を満たす重厚な世界史の旅が始まります。毎日の通勤時間や夜の静かなリラッ...

世界最大の征服者が残した究極の歴史ミステリー。なぜ巨大帝国の頂点に立った男の墓は、800年経った今もモンゴル高原のどこかに隠され続けているのか。毎日の通勤時間や知的好奇心を満たしたい夜のひとときに、この...

辺境の地から世界を繋ぐ黄金の帝国へ、繁栄と衰退が交錯するスペイン史の光と影をたどり、信仰と征服が織りなす壮大な人間ドラマを解き明かします。毎日の通勤時間やリラックスタイムが、地中海の風と熱気を帯びた...