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.

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.

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.

「桜の花が咲くと人々は酒をぶらさげたり団子をたべたて花の下を歩いて絶景だの春ランマンだのと浮かれて陽気になりますが、これは嘘です。」 昔、鈴鹿峠の山中にあった桜の森。花の季節になると、旅人はみんな森の花の下で気が変になったといいます。この森に住み始めた情け容赦のない山賊は、あるとき美しい女に出会い、亭主を殺して女房にします。その女のいいなりになり多くの人を殺めますが、桜に惑わされやがてその女房を…。 鬼気迫る桜の花の妖しさを林隆三が凄みをきかせて語ります。

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.

聖書には聖パウロの手紙がたくさん収められています。ローマの教会への手紙は、その最初に載せられています。すべての人が罪の淵の中で苦しんでいたこと、そこにキリストが現われ、死と復活をとおして救いを完成したこと、だからこのイエスを信じることによって救われること、その救いとは神の霊が与えられて神の子とされること、この愛、神との一体化を壊すことはだれであっても不可能であることが述べられます。

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。

Danish countess Karen Blixon, known as Isak Dineson, ran a coffee plantation in Kenya in the years when Africa remained a romantic and formidable continent to most Europeans. Out of Africa is her account of her life there, with stories of her respectful relationships with the Masai, Kikuyu, and Somali natives who work on her land; the European friends who visit her; and the imposing permanence of the wild, high land itself.

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.

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.

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.

Every story of Chesterton's unassuming little priest detective, from the first four published collections: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), and The Secret of Father Brown (1927).

義人ヨブが突然の不幸に見舞われ、それでも神を信頼し続けていたのが、ついにはその苦しみの意味を求めて神に切実な叫びをあげる物語の抜粋です。正しい人がなぜ苦しむのか、その意味はどこにあるのかについて、信仰の観点から見つめています。

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。

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.

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.

Drawing from her work as a psychoanalyst and cantadora (keeper of old stories), Dr. Estes uses myths and folktales to illustrate how societies systematically strip away the feminine spirit. Through an exploration into the nature of the wild woman archetype, Dr. Estes helps listeners rediscover and free their own wild nature.

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。

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】古代日本、邪馬台国卑弥呼の服装とはどんなものだったのか?稲作文化と深く関わりつつ今に受け継がれている衣服の歴史について、衣装研究の第一人者である武田佐知子氏が解説する。【講師紹介】大阪大学理事 武田佐知子- 1948年、東京都生まれ。東京都立大学大学院博士課程修了。著書『古代国家の形成と衣服制-袴と貫頭衣-』『衣服で読み直す日本史』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…

Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick.