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Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere. The book has given rise to more than 200 "nudge units" in governments around the world and countless groups of behavioral scientists in every part of the economy. It has taught us how to use thoughtful "choice architecture" - a concept the authors invented - to help us make better decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society.

この世界には「移動できる人」と「移動できない人」がいる。 日本人は移動しなくなったのか？ 人生は移動距離で決まるのか？ なぜ「移動格差」が生まれているのか？ 通勤・通学、買い物、旅行、引っ越し、観光、移民・難民、気候危機…… 日常生活か

In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit.

「善意」の国際協力は限界を迎えている．アフリカの人びとはSNSや衛星放送で日々目にする豊かな国の暮らしを羨望し，先進国との関係に疑念を抱くようになった．「支援」によって困窮する農村や女性，国際詐欺や陰謀論……

人の身体は50歳を過ぎると、あちこちに痛みが出てくるもの。日本人は「我慢は美徳」とばかりに耐えようとするが、痛みは生活の質を落とすだけでなく、我慢するほどに強まる仕組みになっているから無意味だ。

話題作がついに上陸！多くの人の心を動かした全米ベストセラー！変化の激しい時代をサバイブする新しい生き方、自分らしい人生の見つけ方

Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their secrets. In the process, he takes his readers from science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultra-runners are pushing their bodies to the limit.

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In this book, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.

累計50万部突破！大人気シリーズ待望のBEST版「世界のニュースを日本人は何も知らない」シリーズ第１弾～第５弾の内容を、著者渾身のセレクトにより１冊に凝縮！

もはやこれまでと諦めてうなだれたとき，足元にまったく違うモノサシが落ちている．与えられた問いの外に出てみれば，あらふしぎ，あなたの弱さは克服すべきものじゃなく，存在の「傾き」として不意に輝きだす──．

突如自由を奪われ，独裁体制下で生きた二四年．北朝鮮からの「帰国」を後押ししたのは，現地に暮らすある人の言葉だった――．私はなぜ拉致されたのか．

A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then - diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions - continue to confront us today.

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing.

医学は、人体の構造・機能の美しさを明らかにし、病気の成り立ちを理解し、多くの病気にひそむ謎を解いていくことで、膨大な数の治療手段を生み出してきた。

怖いのは誤嚥だけじゃない！「足腰に力が入らない」のも、「のど」が弱ったせいだった！？誰でもいますぐできる「声を出すだけ」健康長寿法！

かつては水産物の争奪戦で中国に敗れ問題になった「買い負け」。しかしいまや、半導体、LNG(液化天然ガス)、牛肉、人材といったあらゆる分野で日本の買い負けが顕著になっている。

Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself.

The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.

Robert Greene is a master guide for millions, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves.

In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities.