Every day of your life is spent surrounded by mysteries that involve what appear to be rather ordinary human behaviors. What makes you happy? Where did your personality come from? Why do you have trouble controlling certain behaviors? Why do you behave differently as an adult than you did as an adolescent?Since the start of recorded history, and probably even before, people have been interested in answering questions about why we behave the way we do.

Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles, those streams ran red with blood-and the United States was truly born.

In The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research, celebrated medievalist Dorsey Armstrong shares the fascinating new story of this old pandemic—revealed by dedicated researchers working with 21st-century technologies and a knowledge of language and history that now provide input from all geographic areas of the medieval world. In seven engaging lectures, Professor Armstrong corrects explanations of the pandemic that are now known to be inaccurate and offers a more robust description of plague biology than has ever been known.

Grammar! For many of us, the word triggers memories of finger-wagging schoolteachers, and of wrestling with the ambiguous and complicated rules of using formal language. But what is grammar? In fact, it's the integral basis of how we speak and write. As such, a refined awareness of grammar opens a world of possibilities for both your pleasure in the English language and your skill in using it, in both speech and the written word.

名だたる文筆家が登場する、文藝春秋の文化講演会。 『日本人とユダヤ人』の著者が含蓄とユーモアたっぷりに語る、江戸の文化習俗。「日本人は昔から親を大事にしない?」「子供に渡した財産を取り上げる制度?」「幕府の財政難は検地のせい?」「桂小五郎と木戸孝允、二つの名前がある理由」など。山本七平が、現代社会を江戸で斬る。(1988年11月26日 静岡市民文化会館 菊池寛生誕百周年記念講演会より)
●江戸人の結婚と離婚 ●江戸人の家系と血縁 ●江戸人の土地とカネ ●江戸人の相続と隠居 ●江戸人の宗教と道徳 文藝春秋の文化講演会は、文学談や執筆秘話に人生論も交え、含蓄と味わい深い講演があなたの生き方に豊かさと彩りを添えます。