検索キーワード： 歴史

「何もない」という概念がいかにして数学史を覆し、現代科学の基盤を築き上げたのか、知的好奇心を揺さぶるポピュラーサイエンスの傑作。毎日の通勤時間や夜の静かなリラックスタイムが、人類最大の知的発明を追体...

生命の設計図であるDNAを自らの手で書き換えるという、人類史上最もスリリングで危険なゲノム編集の探求と倫理的葛藤を解き明かす科学ドキュメンタリー。毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜のリラックスタイムが、目に見えな...

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...

Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity and determination restored the promise of a future to the more than 50,000 people diagnosed each year with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).

“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...

G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, made medical history by becoming the first doctors to operate deep inside the human heart.

「敵が先に核兵器を手にしたら」という底知れぬ恐怖が、人類史上最大の極秘軍事プロジェクトを加速させた歴史ノンフィクション。通勤や移動の限られた時間であっても、圧倒的な緊迫感とともにあなたを20世紀最大の...

直感に反するミクロの法則を解き明かし、見慣れた日常の景色を劇的に変える量子物理学の驚くべき世界へようこそ。通勤電車に揺られる慌ただしい時間や、家事の合間のふとした瞬間に耳を傾けるだけで、複雑な数式に...

Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer, or having a personalized understanding of your individual genes, organs, and cells. Imagine being able to monitor your body's well-being, or have a diet tailored to your microbiome. The Secret Body reveals how these and other stunning breakthroughs and technologies are transforming our understanding of how the human body works, what it is capable of, how to protect it from disease, and how we might manipulate it in the future.

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...

画一的な教育で浮きこぼれた不器用な少年がいかにして相対性理論を生み出す大器晩成の思索家へと変貌したのか、知られざる挫折と成長の軌跡を描く感動の伝記ノンフィクション。周りに馴染めず戸惑う日々から、研究...

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025: the profound and life-affirming memoir about finding our way in a chaotic world If fish don't exist, what else do we have wrong? As a child, Lulu Miller's scientist father taught her that chaos will come for us all. There is no cosmic...

The discovery of DNA’s structure is the story of five towering minds in pursuit of the advancement of science, and for almost all of them, the prospect of fame and immortality: Watson, Crick, Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus Pauling. Howard Markel skillfully recreates the intense intellectual journey, and fraught personal relationships, that ultimately led to a spectacular breakthrough. But it is Rosalind Franklin - fiercely determined, relentless, and an outsider at Cambridge and the University of London in the 1950s - who becomes a focal point for Markel.

The question of how falling cats land on their feet has intrigued humans since at least the middle of the 19th century. In this playful and eye-opening history, physicist, and cat parent Gregory Gbur explores how attempts to understand the cat-righting reflex have provided crucial insights into puzzles in mathematics, geophysics, neuroscience, and human space exploration....

In The Invention of the Modern Dog, Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton explore when, where, why, and how Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs. Though talk of "breed" was common before this period in the context of livestock, the modern idea of a dog breed defined in terms of shape, size, coat, and color arose during the Victorian period in response to a burgeoning competitive dog show culture.

This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's Bulldog") and his grandson, the scientist, conservationist, and zoologist Julian Huxley.

An inspiring new perspective on the science versus religion debate. Can science explain everything? Many people think so. Science, and the technologies it has spawned, has delivered so much to the world: Clean water; more food; better healthcare; longer life. And we live in a time of rapid scientific progress that holds enormous promise for many of the problems we face as humankind. So much so, in fact, that many see no need or use for religion and belief systems that offer us answers to the mysteries of our universe. Science has explained it, they assume. Religion is redundant.

A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science. 

From the best-selling author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically inclined still hold space for spirituality? Gazing at the stars, falling in love, or listening to music, we sometimes feel a transcendent connection with a cosmic unity...

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were - and still are. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book.