E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.

Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization, there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today and the identity of who is controlling its future. In the midst of this, contemporary art continues to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, flout generally received ideas, and switch between confronting viewers with works of great emotional profundity and jaw-dropping triviality.

The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period - one not easily chronicled within a single book. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation.

光源氏の愛の遍歴と苦悩を描く、日本文学史最大の古典古典文学の主要作品をセレクトし、現代語訳と原文とで構成した「日本の古典をよむ」（全20冊）シリーズの1冊です。「源氏物語」は、平安中期に紫式部によって書かれた五十四帖からなる長編物語。上巻には、光源氏が藤壺との過ちに苦悩しつつ、さまざまな女性との愛を重ね、准太上天皇に上り、栄華を極めるまでの、桐壺巻～藤裏葉巻を収録しています。

With intelligence and wit, author Jonathan Clements blends documentary and storytelling styles to connect the past, present, and future of Japan, and in broad yet detailed strokes reveals a country of paradoxes: a modern nation steeped in ancient traditions; a democracy with an emperor as head of state; a famously safe society built on 108 volcanoes resting on the world's most active earthquake zone; a fast-paced urban and technologically advanced country whose land consists predominantly of mountains and forests.

This is a wonderful collection of the most popular and important stories from the Old and New Testament.

While intensely attentive to its own tradition, Japanese literature has also embraced the outside world, particularly the influence of China. Beyond this, Japan boasts a powerful literary culture, made up of cultivated reading publics, both aristocratic and bourgeois, literary salons, specialized presses, authoritative judges of talent who cultivated and celebrated particular writers and styles, and a canon consisting of classics. This Very Short Introduction traces the rich history of Japanese literature from its beginnings over a millennium ago to the present day.

Tristan und Isolde centres around two lovers who dream of romantic love and yearn for oblivion. No composer had written such a work before. Turning his back on traditional tonality, Wagner changed the course of Western music with Tristan und Isolde. But there’s also fact behind the fiction: while he wrote his opera Wagner was in love with another’s man’s wife, Mathilde Wesendonk. So Tristan and Isolde are also Richard and Mathilde.

These 12 illuminating lectures paint a rich and detailed portrait of the life, works, and ideas of this remarkable figure, whose own search for God has profoundly shaped all of Western Christianity. You'll learn what Augustine taught and why he taught it – and how those teachings and doctrines helped shape the Roman Catholic Church. These lectures are rewarding even if you have no background at all in classical philosophy or Christian theology.

In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history - almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943 - 1944. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens - the Leningrad Symphony.

アメリカの主要な新聞・雑誌、TVニュース、日本の英字新聞、VOAなどをデータベースに、ニュース英語を理解するために必要な英単語を厳選。COVID19、オリンピック、米中貿易摩擦、IT関連

だれでもカンタンに速読!2000年の歴史を倍速インプット2倍速で聞いても心地よい読み方で収録しました。動画を見るように読みやすいのに記憶に定着しやすい日本史講

好評だった前著、『究極の英単語セレクション～極上の1000語』（現：『究極の英単語プレミアムVol.1』を受けて、さらに難度を上げ、内容をアップデータした新著が誕生しました！

千年を超えて読み継がれてきた『源氏物語』。その魅力の核心はどこにあるのだろうか。既存の物語を下敷きとしながら生み出された経緯に注目しつつ、長大な物語の隅々まで目を配り

コンプライアンス遵守が盛んに叫ばれる現代。かつて全盛を極めた「やくざ映画」の命脈も風前の灯火だ。しかし、その中は「組織論」「義理と人情」など、日本社会の本質を理解するカギがそこかしこに隠され

An idiom is a group of words with a special meaning of its own that is not clear from the meanings of the individual words. Idioms such as "think out of the box" and "a long shot" are used extensively in English in e-mail, newspapers, and conversations. When you don't understand idioms, you can feel left out of a conversation or miss the point of a story. This audiobook focuses on 100 frequently used idioms.

【聞き流すだけで英語をマスター】
　日本語→英語の順、細かい区切りで学ぶ「小分割/和英順方式」なので、辞書なしでスラスラ学んでいける！　

「どんな事態に直面しても『それにもかかわらず! 』と言い切る自信のある人間。そういう人間だけが政治への『天職』を持つ」。マックス・ヴェーバーがドイツ敗戦直後、自らが没する前年に行った講演の記録。

「日本会議」とは何なのか?
市民運動が嘲笑の対象にさえなった80年代以降の日本で、めげずに、愚直に、地道に、 そして極めて民主的な、市民運動の王道を歩んできた「一群の人々」がいた。
彼らは地道な運動を通し、「日本会議」をフロント団体として政権に影響を与えるまでに至った。
そして今、彼らの運動が結実し、日本の民主主義は殺されようとしている―― 安倍政権を支える「日本会議」の真の姿とは?
中核にはどのような思想があるのか?
膨大な資料と関係者への取材により明らかになる「日本の保守圧力団体」の真の姿。

第1回大宅壮一メモリアル日本ノンフィクション大賞 読者賞 受賞

商談でも社交の場でも、最低限おさえておきたい63の名画を収録。
ルーヴル美術館は西洋の歴史・宗教・文化を学ぶ最高の教材!西洋絵画は、時代を映す鏡。