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〔転売屋は社会に役立つ〕ヤク中、ダフ屋、売春婦、悪徳警官……「不道徳」な人々を憎悪し、袋叩きにする現代社会。

In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his fiercest rivals to key cabinet positions, making them help achieve his vision for peace. As well as a thrilling piece of narrative history, it's an inspiring study of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. A book to bury yourself in.

政治の第一線で活躍し続ける2人が語る、これまでの日本の姿と、これからの日本の進むべき道とは？大阪府知事、日本維新の会代表を歴任し、現在は大阪市長としと、国務大臣として国政の第一線で活躍し、現在は橋下氏とともに改革を目指す堺屋太一氏。それぞれの政治信条と日本という国への思い、大阪への思い、そして改革への気迫が伝わる1冊です。明治維新以来、ほとんど変わらない行政システムで運営されてきた日本はいま“下り坂”にあります。その中でも大阪は、「よいことも悪いことも大阪から始まる」と言われ盛衰を先駆けて経験してきました。そんな大阪だからこそ、いま“下り坂”にある日本の復活を成し遂げる先兵となれる。そう語る2人が、日本復活のための大改革の具体案として挙げるのが「大阪都構想」です。本書では、「大阪都構想」を推し進める橋下徹大阪府知事（現、大阪市長）と、大阪万博の開催や電電公社の分割民営化にも携わり、国務大臣として第一線を経験した堺屋太一氏が、対談を交えつつ「大阪都構想」の全貌を明らかにしていきます。経済の基本と社会の本質を変えるには、人事の変更（政権交代）や仕方の変更（政策転換）ではなく、体制を変えなければなりません。「大阪都構想」は、140年以上も前に完成し、今や時代遅れになってしまった体制を、世界に通用する、現代という時代に適した体制へと変えるきっかけとなる構想です。日本の命運は“大阪都”が実現

In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one's own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life.

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　東京電力・福島第一原子力発電所の事故発生から２年半ちかくが経過した。同原発近くの港では、海水の放射性物質の汚染濃度が原因不明のまま上昇し、事故収束のメドは一向に立たないなか、全国の原発が再稼働に向けて動き出した。 　安倍政権が成長戦略の柱の１つとして推進する原発輸出政策も問題含みだ。年内をメドにエネルギー基本計画を策定するとしているが、安倍政権が原発を将来的にどう位置づけるのか、方向はまだ見えない。中小企業は電気代値上げに苦しみ、事故収束に当たる労働者の不足も懸念される。３・１１後、原発に起因する問題は何一つ解決したとはいえないだろう。 　７月に投開票が行われた参議院選挙の争点の一つは原発再稼働の是非だったが、残念ながら論戦が深まったとは言いがたい。５つの争点を軸に、原発と東電をめぐる問題点を徹底検証した。

For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of - and in the words of - America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers.

Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs”. It went viral. After a million online views in 17 different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer.

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.

A soldier, former member of Congress, and a presidential candidate, Tulsi loves her country: "I answered the call of duty and took an oath, dedicating my life to supporting and defending those freedoms, both in uniform and in public office. I became a Democrat when I ran for office because I saw them as a party that stood up for the little guy and against the interests of big business and warmongers. I remained a Democrat for twenty years, albeit with an independent streak." Today that party is unrecognizable.

From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait but Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times.

In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't. The ultimate problem, she shows in her comic, scathing essay, is female self-doubt and the silencing of women. Rebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books about civil society, popular power, uprisings, art, environment, place, pleasure, politics, hope, and memory, most recently The Faraway Nearby, a book on empathy and storytelling.

Karl Marx (1818–1883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication in Marx’s lifetime, it would become one of the most consequential books in history. This magnificent new edition of Capital is a translation of Marx for the twenty-first century.

今後１０～２０年で人工知能（ＡＩ）やロボットに代替される可能性が高い職業に就いている人は、米国で４７％に上る。日本でも、ほぼ同程度との調査が発表された。テクノロジーの進化はどこまで人間の仕事を奪うのか。もはやＳＦではない技術革新の驚異的なスピード。その現実を紹介しつつ、あわせて誰もが大きな変化に直面する近未来へ向けたポイントを探る。

本誌は『週刊東洋経済』2016年2月20日号掲載の15ページ分を電子化したものです。

日本の工場で、事故・事件が相次いでいる。化学メーカーではこの数年に深刻な事故が頻発した。いずれも死傷者を伴うものだった。

　若者の学力低下が懸念さ

ビル・ゲイツも絶賛の著者が、数字で明かす71の真実。「少子化の未来はどうなる？」「中国はどこまで成長するのか？」「食品ロスのとんでもない量」……。数字で比較すれば、世界のリアルな姿が見えてくる。

Over the past four years, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty documented his close observations on current events through a regular column in the French newspaper Le Monde. His pen captured the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Macron’s ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always through the lens of Piketty’s fight for a more equitable world. This collection brings together those articles.

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.

2021年秋引退。世界一の権力を持った女性宰相メルケルの決定的評伝！東独出身の地味な理系少女が、なぜ権力の頂点に立てたのか？――その強さの源泉は「倫理」と「科学」にあった。

The daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was raised in a California community that cared deeply about social justice. As she rose to prominence as a political leader, her experiences would become her guiding light as she grappled with an array of complex issues and learned to bring a voice to the voiceless. Now, in The Truths We Hold, Harris reckons with the big challenges we face together.