Gibbon's masterpiece on Rome is a monument of literature and a model of modern historical research. There has never been anything quite like it since its publication between 1776 and 1788. Although some of Gibbon's views are considered controversial today, there is no doubt that his research and patient devotion to scholarship produced one of the most valuable and renowned histories of all time.

On the day of his wedding, Edmond Dantès is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in a grim island fortress off Marseilles. A fellow prisoner inspires Dantès to escape and guides him to a fortune in treasure. Dantès returns home under the pseudonym of the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, in order to avenge himself on the men who conspired to destroy him.

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual history and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians and scholars for half a century.

This new edition explores the ethical reasoning we can use to approach medical ethics, introducing the most important "tools" of ethical reasoning, and discussing how argument, thought experiments, and intuition can be combined in the consideration of medical ethics. Considering its practical application, Tony Hope and Michael Dunn explore how medical ethics supports health professionals through the growing use of ethics expertise in clinical settings.

「人よく菜根を咬みえば、則ち百事なすべし」。菜根は堅くて筋が多い、これをかみしめてこそものの真の味わいがわかる。

Adam Smith (1723-1790) was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations, his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics. It earned him an enormous reputation and would become one of the most influential works on economics ever published. Smith is widely cited as the father of modern economics and capitalism. Smith studied social philosophy at the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford.

Crime and Punishment is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel about the nature of law and morality, told through the eyes of a murderer and his internal conflict.

日本の古典芸能の一つ「能」　世阿弥が一子相伝の書として書いた能の真髄を原文のまま読み上げました。その心得は現代にも通じることが多く、ビジネスマンへの指南書として様々な本が出版されています。能の歴史から心得までがまとまった作品です。 　「秘すれば花なり。秘せずば花なるべからず」——見せ方の重要性 　「稽古は強かれ、情識はなかれと也」——我執の怖さ 　「上手は下手の手本、下手は上手の手本」——侮りへの警告 ーーこの文の香りに、言葉のえらびかたに、世阿弥のひととなりも感じていただければと願います。

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.

スペインの哲学者オルテガ・イ・ガセット（一八八三─一九五五）による痛烈な時代批判の書．自らの使命を顧みず，みんなと同じであることに満足しきった「大衆」は，人間の生や世界をいかに変質させたのか．

To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. The issue is crucial for both the study and practice of international politics. John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato argue that rational decisions in international politics rest on credible theories about how the world works and emerge from deliberative decision‑making processes.

日本一過激な請負人のノウハウを1冊に凝縮した、日本一まっとうなガイドブック。地方が抱える問題を「ネタ」「モノ」「ヒト」「カネ」「組織」の5つに体系化。

For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single blind turn of a card."

500年の時を超え、読み継がれてきた不朽の名著

賢人マキャベリによる、君主としてのあるべき姿、思考、方法論。 建前や倫理観を廃し、理想論ではなく本音と実績をベースにした実践的手法の26章。

目次

訳者序文

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第1章 君主の治める国にはどんな種類があり、またそれらはいかにして獲得されるか？
第2章 世襲制の君主国について
第3章 混成型の君主国について
第4章 アレクサンドロス大王が征服したダレイオスの王国ではなぜ大王の死後もその後継者に対して反乱が起きなかったのか？
第5章 併合するまで市民が独自の法体制のもとで統治していた都市や国をどう治めるべきか？
第6章 自らの武力と力量とによって獲得した新たな君主国について
第7章 他国の武力ないしは幸運の力によって獲得した新たな君主国について
第8章 悪辣な手段によって君主の座を手に入れた者について
第9章 市民型君主国について
第10章 君主国の国力を測るよい方法
第11章 教会が支配する君主国について
第12章 軍隊の種類と傭兵について
第13章...

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