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#1 New York Times Bestseller New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates Official U.S. edition From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and...

『サピエンス全史』を超える衝撃――知の巨人、6年ぶりの書き下ろし超大作「ネクサス」（NEXUS）とは？――「つながり」「結びつき」「絆」「中心」「中枢」などの意

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. “Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly...

『サピエンス全史』を超える衝撃――巨人、6年ぶりの書き下ろし超大作「ネクサス」（NEXUS）とは？――「つながり」「結びつき」「絆」「中心」「中枢」などの意

歴史を動かしたのは、人か、コーヒーか。 ■元々はイスラム世界の秘薬だったコーヒー ■コーヒー大国になったオスマン帝国 ■ヨーロッパにコーヒーをもたらしたウィーン包囲 ■美味しいコーヒーを淹れられることで出世できる時代があった。

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods. Over the past century...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history. Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped...

愛憎、欲望、権力、迷信――こうして、歴史は動いてしまう。 教科書には書かれない、リアルすぎる「人間ドラマ」がここに！ 処女王・エリザベス1世の夢は、夜遅くひらく、ナポレオンもヒトラーも狂わされた「聖遺物」の真実、虚飾をはぎとられた"生身の女"マリー・アントワネット。

世界は「戦後」から「戦前」へ。 歴史は繰り返す。だから、未来に備えられる。 中東危機、ウクライナ戦争、外国人問題、世界インフレ……。 混迷の時代を世界史の知恵で戦え。 東大名誉教授が教える、21世紀を生き抜くための新教養。

For fans of Yuval Noah Harari and David Graeber comes a sweeping history of destruction, exploring how our urge to burn it all down has shaped human progress across the centuries. Smashing idols, defacing monuments, burning books, breaking windows, toppling statues… for as long as humans have...

Spend twenty-four hours in the vibrant, divided world of Shogun's Japan. In 1614, Japan stood at a crossroads. As the Tokugawa shogunate tightened its grip on power, samurai prepared for war, Christians faced persecution, and foreign merchants navigated a rapidly shifting political landscape. In...

The ancient inheritance that made us who we areand is now driving us to ruin. Each of us is endowed with an inheritancea set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generations, this inheritance has taken us to ever greater heights: driving the...

ピラミッドの謎、ファラオの呪い、オーパーツ、知られざる古代人の日常生活まで──＼すべての謎がせいぞろい！！／＼古代エジプトのあらゆる謎がつまった古代エジプト決定版！／

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY** What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a...

Brought to you by Penguin. The audiobook edition of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, read by Derek Perkins. **THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment. How can we protect...

#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...

 
In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church.  

Brought to you by Penguin. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts...