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名軍師として歴史に名を残した黒田官兵衛孝高(1546~1604)。 戦国時代随一とも言われた鋭い先見力や優れた情報収集力は、織田信長、豊臣秀吉、徳川家康ら、三人の天下人も恐れるほどでした。本能寺の変で信長が殺害されたことを知った官兵衛は、秀吉の天下を確信し、彼の軍師として活躍。晩年は出家して如水(じょすい)と名乗り、福岡藩主の長男・黒田長政を支えました。乱世を駆け抜けた官兵衛の知られざる実像を、信長や秀吉とのエピソードを交えながら、作家の童門冬二さんが独自の視点で語ります。NHKカルチャーアワー 生きる知恵 「武士(もののふ)たちの死生観」(2003年9月15日放送)を再編集し、オーディオブック化しました。

An updated edition of the blockbuster best-selling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two US Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.

No understanding of human life, individual or collective, could be complete without factoring in the role and contribution of these history-shaping teachers. Now, this 36-lecture series takes you deep into the life stories and legacies of these four iconic figures, revealing the core teachings, and thoughts of each, and shedding light on the historical processes that underlie their phenomenal, enduring impact.

Synthesizing the work of thinkers including Freud, Diderot, Nietzsche, and Einstein, delineating the enticing strategies of characters throughout history, The Art of Seduction is a comprehensive guide to getting what we want - any way we can. Controversial but never dull, timeless and up-to-date, it's destined to be Greene's next best seller.

「信玄は戦いに強い“攻める武将”であるという印象が強いかも知れないが、実際の信玄は、“治める武将”つまり政治家として優れていた…」 歴史小説「武田信玄」の著者で直木賞作家・新田次郎(1912~1980)が語る信玄の人間像。聞き手:三國一朗1977年にNHKラジオ第1で放送された「歴史と人間」をオーディオブック化。

A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P.Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved. Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece.

Some 250 years after its first publication, Gibbon's Decline and Fall is still regarded as one of the greatest histories in Western literature. He reports on more than 1,000 years of an empire which extended from the most northern and western parts of Europe to deep into Asia and Africa and covers not only events but also the cultural and religious developments that effected change during that time.

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and number one international best-selling author of The World Is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the 21st century. We all sense it - something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your children. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are speeding up - and it is dizzying.

The Middle East is a critically important area of our world. And, with its current prominence in international affairs, media images of the Middle East reach us on a daily basis. Much media coverage, however, is incomplete at best, failing to take account of either the complexities or the historical background of this pivotal region. For most of us, the real story of the Middle East remains untold. What made this crucial geopolitical area what it is today?

You'll be awe-inspired by the heroic efforts of the crew of the Endurance, a ship that battled its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice while ironically only a day's sail from its destination.

The deep-seated origins and wide-reaching lessons of ancient myths built the foundation for our modern legacies. Explore the mythologies of Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Learn what makes these stories so important, distinctive, and able to withstand the test of time. Discover how, despite geographical implausibilities, many myths from across the oceans share themes, morals, and archetypes.

Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments."

「家康は、現代で言うところの“天才”“奇才”ではない。もっとスケールが違う人物だった。」 小説「徳川家康」の著者・山岡荘八(1907~1978)が語る徳川家康の人間像。聞き手:三國一朗1976年にNHKラジオ第1で放送された「歴史と人間」をオーディオブック化。

激動の戦国時代。名将と呼ばれた戦国大名の下には必ず知謀奇略に優れた軍師がいた。個性あふれる軍師たちが綾なしたドラマ、生き様は、現代においても色あせることなくロマンと感動を与えてくれる。

「私は、いろいろな懊悩、いろいろな煩悶、そういうものに苦しめられると、いつもそれを振り切って旅へ出た。

In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted.

For anyone interested in foreign affairs, this book will catalyze debate, and not only for Mr. Huntington's concluding scenario for World War III. He sees how this could happen if the U.S. mishandles an increasingly xenophobic and truculent China. Chinese assertiveness, Huntington argues, rises out of its felt grievances against a relatively weakening West. After China, the gravest challenge to the West is resurgent Islamic identity.

―誰もがいつ死ぬかわからない時代だったあの日―まだ中学三年生だった昭和２０年の夏、アメリカの超大型爆撃機Ｂ29の爆撃による焼夷弾で、生家は焼失してしまった

不遇の人々の救済に生涯を捧げたマザー・テレサ、十七条の憲法を制定した聖徳太子、障害と闘い福祉活動に力を注いだヘレン・ケラー、凶弾に散ったケネディ兄弟など、偉人たちの生き様を紹介。