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重力という絶対的な壁に挑んだ名もなき技術者たちの劇的な試行錯誤と、人類の宇宙探査の歴史を追体験する感動的なノンフィクション。夜の静かなドライブや毎日の通勤時間に耳を傾ければ、日常の風景が壮大な知的好...

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study...

AIという人類の壮大な夢が、いかにして挫折と復活を乗り越え、現代のビジネスや社会を根底から覆す現実のテクノロジーへと進化したのか。毎日の通勤時間やリラックスした夜のひとときに、複雑なテクノロジーの歴史...

エーゲ海の沈没船から引き揚げられた謎の青銅の塊が、歴史の常識を激しく揺さぶる「古代のコンピューター」へと変貌を遂げる、息を呑むような科学史ミステリーの世界へ飛び込みましょう。毎日の通勤時間や夜の静か...

二千年に及ぶ古代中国の軍事防衛と辺境社会の記憶を呼び覚まし、石と土に秘められた国家の野望と兵士の孤独を鮮やかに描き出す歴史ノンフィクションです。通勤電車の喧騒を逃れたい時や、静寂のなかで知的な没入感...

無限のクリーンエネルギーとなる核融合発電の実現を目指し、星を輝かせる圧倒的な物理現象を地上で再現しようとする人類の果てしない科学的挑戦を描き出します。日々の通勤や、静かに知的好奇心を深めたい夜のひと...

Trace the sweeping world history of human civilization, where ancient tools and raw power forged our modern world. Perfect for your daily commute, this thought-provoking journey connects the origins of fire and farming to the complex internet infrastructure we rely on today. Transform your...

圧倒的な軍事力を持たずとも、中世中国の高度な技術革新と爆発的な経済成長がいかにして近代世界の礎を築いたのか、その歴史のダイナミズムを解き明かします。印刷術の普及や火薬、羅針盤の発明が社会の隅々に浸透...

Ein unscheinbares Artefakt aus der Antike stellt die moderne Archäologie vor ein elektrisierendes historisches Rätsel. Begleite diese investigative Spurensuche entspannt auf dem täglichen Pendelweg und tauche tief in die faszinierende Welt mesopotamischer Ausgrabungen ein. Könnte ein...

The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities. This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers.

In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised toanswer this all-important question.

Brought to you by Penguin. Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big. We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in...

Brought to you by Penguin. Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet...

We are standing at the greatest inflection point in human history. Al is changing everything—how we work, create, learn, communicate, build businesses, and live our lives. But the real question isn't what Al can do. It's what we can do with it. In this timely and practical guide, Evan J. Cholfin makes the case for a future where humans and Al work together to unlock a new generation of health, wealth, creativity, and success—whether you're in a corporation, running a business, or starting from your dorm room. This is your moment. This is your move. Let's build the future.

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and...

A timely exposé of the ludicrous and cruel obsessions of Silicon Valley’s oligarchs. “In an era when billionaire space races and AI hype dominate headlines, More Everything Forever arrives as a much-needed reality check.” —The Atlantic Tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos...

The former editor of the Financial Times delivers, “with literary flair and stunning revelations” (Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize winner), the unputdownable first Western biography of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, financial disruptor and personification of the 21st century’s addiction to instant...

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story...

Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones— they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but overlooked factors in the making of our contemporary world.

*** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** * WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2025 FOR BUSINESS REPORTING * What if the greatest business success story of the twenty-first century was hiding the West’s gravest mistake? For two decades, Apple poured billions into China, training...