The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testamentsweaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named La…
In this new collection of reviews and essays, Jonathan Rosenbaum focuses on the political and social dynamics of the contemporary movie scene. Rosenbaum, widely regarded as the most gifted contemporary American commentator on the cinema, e…
Heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor's inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza and Israel regardless of their ethnic origin…
早稲田大学法学部卒，警察官など複数の職業を経て，20代後半で声優界の門を叩いた異色の経歴の持ち主．50歳直前で，新規の仕事がパタッと来なくなるという危機を経験．そこから自己を見つめ直して，体と呼吸を鍛えることで仕事が激増，トップ声優の地位に上…
Written nearly a thousand years ago, al-Warraq's cookbook is the most comprehensive work of its kind. This traditional cookbook with more than 600 recipes from the luxurious cuisine of medieval Islam is also a rare guide to the contemporar…
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a pioneering photographer, Oxford don and mathematician, who - as Lewis Carroll - gave the world not only Alice, but the Jabberwocky, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat and an unfor…
Vienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious and extravagant peace conference in modern European history. With the feared Napoleon Bonaparte presumably defeated and exiled to the small island of Elb…
人間，ドジだってかまわない．ニブイのも才能だ．誤りを恐れず，お互いに迷惑をかけあいながら，ジグザグ進んで行こう．まちがったら，やり直せばよいのだ．そもそも世の中には，正しいか誤っているか，結論のくだせないことの方が多いのだから．少年の頃を…
Whether lurking in corners or taking center stage, cats are a ubiquitous presence in Japanese art. Depending on the situation, they may invite good fortune, prompt the viewer to meditate on a tale or provide evidence of an unseen world of …
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that …
世界的数学者にして大道芸人．ハンガリーに生まれ，26歳でフランスに亡命．イギリス，アメリカ，スウェーデン，インドなどを旅したのち日本に定住する‥‥アウシュヴィッツで殺された祖父母のこと，医者の両親の愛情につつまれた少年時代．数学オリンピックで…
The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people—including Star Wars creator George Lucas. …
これまでのような「分析」「論理」「理性」に軸足をおいた経営，いわば「サイエンス重視の意思決定」では，今日のように複雑で不安定な世界においてビジネスの舵取りをすることはできない「直感」と「感性」の時代‥‥組織開発・リーダー育成を専門とするコー…
Sephardic Jews trace their origins to Spain and Portugal. They enjoyed a renaissance in these lands until their expulsion from Spain in 1492, when they settled in the countries along the Mediterranean, throughout the Ottoman Empire, in the…
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the iron curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German ident…
The object of this study is to clarify why and how it happened that women remained marginal in the processes of social change that took place during the development of Israeli society. Bernstein examines the role played by continuous unemp…
"Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water."Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, renowned the world over for his martial arts and film legacy. But Lee was also a deeply philosophical thinker, learning at an early age that martial arts ar…
キスカ島に残された四頭の軍用犬北・正勇・勝・エクスプロージョン．彼らを始祖として交配と混血を繰りかえし繁殖した無数のイヌが国境も海峡も思想も越境し，"戦争の世紀=20世紀"を駆けぬける．炸裂する言葉のスピードと熱が衝撃的な，エンタテインメントと…
Over 150 old photos and drawings, 135 pages of detailed information from the source. A distinctive book authored by one of Madam Sun Jian-Yun's (daughter of Grandmaster Sun Lu-T'ang) direct long-term students. Contains old translations fro…
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.—the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In th…
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.—the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In th…
The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companio…
Biba dominated London fashion from the mid-1960s and, for over a decade, it defined the dress and outlook of a generation. Celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the first Biba boutique, this book takes a revealing look at …
ヨーロッパ文学から離れて，土着派のマーク・トウェインなどと併せて，アメリカ文学として独立した画期的作品．後走者のヘミングウエイ，フォークナーなどに多大な影響を与えた．オハイオ州ワインズバーグ・オハイオという町を設定して，そこに住む人々の生…
世界最初の全身麻酔による乳癌手術に成功し，漢方から蘭医学への過渡期に新時代を開いた紀州の外科医華岡青洲．その不朽の業績の陰には，麻酔剤「通仙散」を完成させるために進んで自らを人体実験に捧げた妻と母とがあった‥‥美談の裏にくりひろげられる，青…
This book argues that Vaishnavas (devotees of the Hindu god Vishnu and his various forms) throughout South Asia turned this epic about an apocalyptic, bloody war into works of ardent bhakti or “devotion” focused on the beloved Hindu deity …
A Fly in the Soup is a book of memoirs. Charles Simic was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and spent his childhood in a city bombed by the Nazis in 1941 and then by the Allies in 1944. He was jailed with his mother after the war for t…
唯物論か観念論か，弁証法とは何か，唯物論的な歴史の見方とは‥‥ドイツ古典哲学を批判的に継承し成立した科学的社会主義の世界観・歴史観の内容を包括的に叙述した基本文献を，多くの訳注を添えて紹介する――． 出版後，フリードリヒ・エンゲルス（Friedrich …
スペイン内戦，第2次大戦，赤狩り‥‥荒れ狂う歴史の波に翻弄されながらも，自らの直感と正義を信じ，「劇的」かつ「熱狂的」に生きた女性劇作家の回想録――． アメリカ演劇の開花期とされる1920年代の明朗な豊潤さに比べ，左翼運動が演劇に影響を与えた1930年…
21年間にわたるアメリカ滞在中に行った講演の中から15篇，また英国での講演から3篇を収録．「医学はサイエンスに支えられたアートである」と定義したオスラー博士の医の真髄を語る講演集．84年刊に次ぐ新訂増補版――． 医学関係者を中心に，「オスレリアン」…
