From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.

The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.

In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will while jettisoning the impediments". In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting - those that underwrite moral and artistic responsibility - are not threatened by advances in science but distinguished, explained, and justified in detail.

「よい知らせ」を意味する「福音」。ヨハネによる福音書は、ほかの3つの福音書とは異なった物語や教えが多く載せられています。その中から、この福音書に特徴的と思われるいくつかの個所を抜粋しました。人々のためにひとり子の命をささげる神の愛、友のためにいのちをささげるイエスの愛、それにこたえる弟子たちの愛について明らかにされます。

ヨハネの黙示録は、そのシンボリックな描写のゆえに、歴史上、多くの思想家やアーティストたちの想像をかき立ててきました。ただ、文書自体は、復活のイエスの言葉を土台とした深い回心により、歴史を読み解き、苦難の中で信仰を生きる人に最終的に訪れる救いを見抜くよう招くものとなっています。ここでは、前半の回心への招きと天上の宴、最後の救いの様子を抜粋しました。

「よい知らせ」を意味する「福音」。イエスの言葉とはたらきが中心になっています。聖書の中には4つの福音が収められていますが、ここでは4つすべてをなるべく重ならないように抜粋しました。イエスの誕生のときに東方の占星術の学者たちが礼拝に来るエピソードなどマタイによる福音書独自の物語や、イエスの言葉による教えを中心に抜粋しています。

In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.

Written in the form of a letter to a Frenchman, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France is an impassioned attack on the French Revolution and its hasty destruction of the Church, the old elites, and the Crown. Burke tackles the new republic and its allegiance to principles such as liberty and equality, as well as its failure to recognize the complexities of human nature, society, and wisdom accumulated over time, contending that gradual change and adjustment is far better than immediate upheaval.

This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work, and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition, Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes.

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research to which he has contributed for over half a century.

Drawing from her work as a psychoanalyst and cantadora (keeper of old stories), Dr. Estes uses myths and folktales to illustrate how societies systematically strip away the feminine spirit. Through an exploration into the nature of the wild woman archetype, Dr. Estes helps listeners rediscover and free their own wild nature.

Composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the most famous and influential work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The work is a philosophical novel in which the character of Zarathustra, a religious prophet-like figure, delivers a series of lessons and sermons in a Biblical style that articulate the central ideas of Nietzsche's mature thought.

Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.

日本では「女の一生」で有名なモーパッサンだが、実はフランス文学短編の名手としても知られている。ここに収められた作品はいずれも15分から30分程度という、聴いても読んでも手ごろな作品ばかりである。

World politics is entering a new phase, in which the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of international conflict will be cultural.

【内容紹介】古代日本、邪馬台国卑弥呼の服装とはどんなものだったのか?稲作文化と深く関わりつつ今に受け継がれている衣服の歴史について、衣装研究の第一人者である武田佐知子氏が解説する。【講師紹介】大阪大学理事 武田佐知子- 1948年、東京都生まれ。東京都立大学大学院博士課程修了。著書『古代国家の形成と衣服制-袴と貫頭衣-』『衣服で読み直す日本史』など多数。

夏目漱石が松山にいた頃、正岡子規が支那から帰って漱石の家に転がり込んだ。食い意地の張った子規と、仕方なく俳句を詠んだ漱石。同い年の漱石と子規の気質が垣間見られるエピソード。

【内容紹介】「忠臣蔵」としてあまりにも有名な元禄赤穂事件ですが、その史実を伝える資料は多くは残されていません。江戸研究で知られる山本博文氏が、事件の経緯や浪士たちの心情について史実をもとに語ります。 【講師紹介】東京大学教授 山本博文- 1957年、岡山県生まれ。東京大学史料編纂所教授。江戸時代の研究で有名。著書『鬼平と出世』『サムライの掟』など多数。

私たちが日々実践している文字による言語活動は、長い時をへて形づくられてきたものだ。古代における漢字の受容から、往来物による学びの時代へ。近世の文字文化の多様な展開から、近代学校の成立へ。

【内容紹介】武家社会の開拓者、平清盛の真実を解く-「諸行無常」「盛者必衰」の代名詞でもある平家の代表として知られる清盛だが、従来までの貴族社会の打開、積極的な貿易など、改革心を漲らせた頼れるリーダーであった。源平争いの敗者という漠然としたイメージを超えて、今、平清盛の実像に切り込む。 【講師紹介】神戸大学教授 高橋昌明- 1945年、高知県生まれ。専門は日本中世史、武士論・平氏政権論。著書『増補改訂 清盛以前』『中世史の理論と方法』など多数。

すべてが白黒に見える全色盲に陥った画家、激しいチックを起こすトゥレット症候群の外科医、「わたしは火星の人類学者のようだ」と漏らす自閉症の動物学者…

Instead of trying to predict "Black Swan" events such as coups or crises, forecasters should look at how political systems handle disorder. The best indicator of a country's future trajectory is not a lengthy past stability, but recent moderate volatility.

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....

Since taking over TED in the early 2000s, Chris Anderson has shown how carefully crafted short talks can be the key to unlocking empathy, stirring excitement, spreading knowledge, and promoting a shared dream. Done right, a talk can electrify a room and transform an audience's worldview. Done right, a talk is more powerful than anything in written form.