Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST—exams, autocracy, stability, and technology—from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty's introduction of the civil service exam, known as Keju, in 587 CE—and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this uniformity came with a huge downside: stifled creativity.

With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the major speculative episodes in our economy over the last three centuries. Exposing the ways in which normally sane people display reckless behavior in pursuit of profit, Galbraith asserts that our "notoriously short" financial memory is what creates the conditions for market collapse. By recognizing these signs and understanding what causes them we can guard against future recessions and have a better hold on our country's (and our own) financial destiny.

世界の恒久的平和はいかにしてもたらされるべきか．

In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, author Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level.

戦後生まれの代表的な作家となった中上健次(1946-1992)は、郷里・熊野と土地に根差した一族への痛切なこだわりを終生いだき続けた。

大正・昭和時代の代表的哲学者。京都大学教授・名誉教授。西田哲学と呼称される京都学派の創始者。 日本初の本格的な哲学書となった、西田の代表作［弘道館、1911（明治44）年１月］。

禅の修業を通して得た東洋的精神性の自覚と＜純粋経験＞の立場から、知識・道徳・宗教への思索を深めた独自の哲学論を展開。 東洋と西洋の哲学を統合した東西思想の統一が、近代的自我の確立に苦しんでいた青年層に衝撃的な影響を与えた。

民族、国家、宗教、言語……。独自の社会主義連邦の道を歩んできたユーゴの解体から三〇年。暴力と憎悪の連鎖が引き起こしたあの紛争は、いまだ過ぎ去らぬ重い歴史として、私たちの前に立ちはだかっている。

主人公・唯野仁。彼は若年ながら早治大学英米文学科の名物教授であり、実は隠れて小説を発表している新進作家である。 いいですね!うらやましいですね!唯野先生、多才ですね!・・・しかしその内幕は、グロテスクな日常---賄賂の対象にされなくて拗ねちゃった学部長等々---を乗り切らなければならないは、壮大な文学理論を打ち立てなければならないは、締め切りもあるし、でもそれはヒミツだしと、超☆多忙。 ・・・さて。 事実は小説より奇なり。象牙の塔の内情は、こんな甘いものではないぞ、もっとむちゃくちゃだぞという某大学教員の証言があるのですがどうでしょう。 笑いすぎて涙がこぼれるほど笑えるのは、コレが「よくできたフィクション」と思ってるからなのですが・・・ コレが事実、またはそれ以下なら笑うに笑えないと思うのですけれど、どうでしょう・・・ 悩みはアナタを追い込むことでしょう!総時間10時間を超え、プロデューサーも追い込みました!まさに怪作!これぞ日本版オーディオブックの真髄です。 「ことのは出版オーディオブックの情報はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. China's military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan's brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years, less than 10 percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history.

An immediate sensation when it was first published in two volumes in 1945, Popper's monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right and is credited with inspiring anticommunist dissidents during the Cold War. Arguing that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics, Popper traces the roots of an opposite, authoritarian tendency to a tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel.

生産様式から交換様式への移行を告げた『世界史の構造』から一〇年余，交換様式から生まれる「力」を軸に柄谷行人の全思想体系の核心を示す

近現代の日本史・世界史を総合し、近代化、大衆化、グローバル化の歴史像を考える高校の必修科目が始まる。シリーズ第一巻は中国史、イギリス史、アメリカ史、アフリカ史、中東史の歴史家とともに、近現代史の

政党とは本来、政権を目指して集まった集団である。つまり、与党になって政策を実現するからこそ存在価値を持つ。だが、日本の野党は政権を取る意志に乏しく、歴史的に常に弱い。

Considered one of the finest historical works in the English language, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is lauded for its graceful, elegant prose style as much as for its epic scope. Remarkably accurate for its day, Gibbon's treatise holds a high place in the history of literature and remains an enduring subject of study.

Gibbon's monumental work traces the history of more than 13 centuries, covering the great events as well as the general historical progression. This first volume covers A.D. 180 to A.D. 395, which includes the establishment of Christianity and the Crusades.

Words. We use them all the time, every day, mostly without giving them much thought at all. We take for granted that they’re here at our disposal whenever we need them. But if you’ve ever wished you could communicate more effectively, words are the place to start. It’s incumbent upon you to choose the best words to accomplish your goals, because how you choose to communicate influences—well, everything! The power of communication shapes our professional goals, our relationships, and our lives—so the words we choose to use carry a great deal of power.