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The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: degrowth.

Renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking book revisits the formation of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had it happened today it could only have been called "ethnic cleansing."

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.

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。

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.

妻の死や仲間の裏切りなどの絶望を乗り越え、苦労の末に石見銀山の間歩（坑道）を開発した尾紅孫右衛門の非業の最期を描いた「石見銀山ー尾紅間歩」。

「半兵衛は歴史の影に身を隠そうとした男。身を隠したがゆえに、三国志における諸葛孔明のような伝説がついてまわるようになった…」 劇作家・福田善之が語る竹中半兵衛の人間像。聞き手:三國一朗1979年にNHKラジオ第1で放送された「人物春秋」をオーディオブック化。

Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members - mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age.

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.

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.

―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

天下人や大大名と渡り合い、戦国を生き抜いた幸綱・昌幸・信幸・信繁ら真田一族。信濃の弱小氏族から大名へと、いかに成長したのか。

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of Kings and Kaisers and Czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed...and how horrible it became.

Cobalt Red is the searing first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt.

This audiobook contains the original text of the Communist Manifesto as written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. For any lover of economics or history, this book is a must-listen. Narrated by Mark Harrietha, you will not find a crisper performance of this classic.

史実は小説よりも奇なり！ 幾重にも彩なす事実と虚構、想像を掻き立てる物語世界を展開する「忠臣蔵」。 今でも日本人の心を捉えて離さないその魅力とは? 「忠臣蔵」真の姿を 浮かび上がらせる新形式の歴史エンターテイメント。 目次 第1章 刃傷松之廊下 第01問 刃傷事件があったのはいつ？ 第05問 吉良は本当に浅野をいじめたのか？ 第08問 刃傷は内匠頭の乱心が原因か？ 第23問 内匠頭を取り押さえた梶川って何者？ 第2章 赤穂浅野家断絶 第24問 事件の知らせはいつ赤穂に届いた？ 第26問 事件後、大石はまず何をした？ 第35問 仇討ちを最初に主張したのは誰？ 第43問 大石の遊興費はどこから出た？ 第3章 それぞれの仇討ち 第48問 吉良上野介はなぜ隠居したのか？ 第51問 お軽・勘平のモデルになったのは誰？ 第52問 高田郡兵衛はなぜ義盟から脱落したのか？ 第4章 吉良邸討ち入り 第63問 討ち入りに参加したのは何人だったのか？ 第72問 幕府はなぜ治安出動しなかったのか？ 第76問 吉良方の清水一学は相当の使い手だったのか？ 第5章 赤穂事件と忠臣蔵 第87問 最初に赤穂浪士を賛美した学者は誰か？ 第88問 赤穂浪士を批判した代表的な学者は誰か？ 第92問 赤穂事件を題材にした劇が最初に上演されたのはいつか？ 第98問...

The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the compelling autobiography of Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi, who inspired millions with the sheer strength of his personal actions and steadfast upholding of the twin principles of truth and non-violence in the face of the most adverse circumstances. Starting from his birth, this autobiography traces the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man who went on to become a Mahatma. Divided into five sections, the listener is moved by the stark honesty with which Gandhi has written his autobiography

lf a man cannot stand freedom, he will probably turn fascist. This, in the fewest possible words, is the essential argument in this modem classic, Escape from Freedom. The author, Erich Fromm, is a distinguished psychologist, late of Berlin and Heidelberg, now of New York City.

There is no story in 20th-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time.

At Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau reflected on simpler living in the natural world. By removing himself from the distractions of materialism, Thoreau hoped to not only improve his spiritual life but also gain a better understanding of society through solitary introspection. In Walden, Thoreau condenses his two-year, two-month, two-day stay into a single year, using the four seasons to symbolize human development - a cycle of life shared by both nature and man. A celebration of personal renewal through self-reliance, independence, and simplicity....