From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same humanity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in his bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality.

The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.

In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will while jettisoning the impediments". In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of free will worth wanting - those that underwrite moral and artistic responsibility - are not threatened by advances in science but distinguished, explained, and justified in detail.

Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.

使徒言行録は、教会の最初の活動とその発展について描いています。教会の根本的な特徴、キリストに従うとはどういうことなのかを示しています。

In "The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s eulogy for all that is buried after World War I, April promises a flowering. But as the world mourns the spirit of a bygone era, what future can emerge from the cold, dead, infertile ground? Doubt and fear grip the narrator, too, in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” - a self-examination of an anxious, overeducated man unable to act against feelings of paralyzing impotence.

In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.

Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the best-selling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey.

「よい知らせ」を意味する「福音」。ヨハネによる福音書は、ほかの3つの福音書とは異なった物語や教えが多く載せられています。その中から、この福音書に特徴的と思われるいくつかの個所を抜粋しました。人々のためにひとり子の命をささげる神の愛、友のためにいのちをささげるイエスの愛、それにこたえる弟子たちの愛について明らかにされます。

This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work, and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition, Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes.

ヨハネの黙示録は、そのシンボリックな描写のゆえに、歴史上、多くの思想家やアーティストたちの想像をかき立ててきました。ただ、文書自体は、復活のイエスの言葉を土台とした深い回心により、歴史を読み解き、苦難の中で信仰を生きる人に最終的に訪れる救いを見抜くよう招くものとなっています。ここでは、前半の回心への招きと天上の宴、最後の救いの様子を抜粋しました。

Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research to which he has contributed for over half a century.

「よい知らせ」を意味する「福音」。イエスの言葉とはたらきが中心になっています。聖書の中には4つの福音が収められていますが、ここでは4つすべてをなるべく重ならないように抜粋しました。イエスの誕生のときに東方の占星術の学者たちが礼拝に来るエピソードなどマタイによる福音書独自の物語や、イエスの言葉による教えを中心に抜粋しています。

Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and best-selling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals - also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the he chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.

Composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the most famous and influential work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The work is a philosophical novel in which the character of Zarathustra, a religious prophet-like figure, delivers a series of lessons and sermons in a Biblical style that articulate the central ideas of Nietzsche's mature thought.

Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.

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。

World politics is entering a new phase, in which the great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of international conflict will be cultural.

2016年、新潮社は創業120周年を迎えます。これを記念して、日本を代表する作家のひとり、筒井康隆さんのトークイベントを開催しました。 1960年代にSF作家としてデビューして以来、ドタバタ爆笑小説、実験小説、そして純文学と、ジャンルの壁を軽やかに乗り越え、旺盛な創作活動を続けてこられた筒井さん。新潮文庫でも『家族八景』『虚航船団』『パプリカ』『聖痕』をはじめとする名作たちが今なお新しい読者を獲得し続けており、昨年暮れには曰く「わが最高傑作にして、おそらくは最後の長篇」という『モナドの領域』でファンを大いに驚かせ、また、感動させてくれました。 対談のお相手を務めるのは、「新潮」2016年1月号に出色の『モナドの領域』論を寄稿した佐々木敦さん。『あなたは今、この文章を読んでいる。』（慶應義塾大学出版会）で、メタフィクションを拡張するパラフィクションという概念を提起し、筒井さんをして「創作意欲を触発させられた」と言わしめたこの稀代の批評家に、筒井康隆ワールドの過去・現在・未来について、鋭く切り込んでいただきます。 50年以上にわたり創作の第一線で活躍してきた筒井さんの今後の展望とは――。作家の生の声に接する貴重な機会をお見逃しなく！

【内容紹介】鎌倉仏教の対極をなす法然と明恵。真逆の思想を持った二人の生きざまと人間的魅力に、比較宗教学を専門とする町田宗鳳氏が迫ります。【講師紹介】広島大学教授 町田宗鳳- 1950年、京都生まれ。14歳で出家し、以来20年間京都の大徳寺で修行をする。34歳で寺を離れ、以後数々の大学で教授をつとめる。著書『法然対明恵』『法然―世紀末の革命者』など多数。

妻の頭を帽子とまちがえてかぶろうとする音楽家、からだの感覚を失って姿勢が保てなくなってしまった若い母親…

日本では「女の一生」で有名なモーパッサンだが、実はフランス文学短編の名手としても知られている。ここに収められた作品はいずれも15分から30分程度という、聴いても読んでも手ごろな作品ばかりである。

夏目漱石が松山にいた頃、正岡子規が支那から帰って漱石の家に転がり込んだ。食い意地の張った子規と、仕方なく俳句を詠んだ漱石。同い年の漱石と子規の気質が垣間見られるエピソード。

Instead of trying to predict "Black Swan" events such as coups or crises, forecasters should look at how political systems handle disorder. The best indicator of a country's future trajectory is not a lengthy past stability, but recent moderate volatility.