The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand. It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology - the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information.

日本誕生の神話が、現代に蘇る!すいすい読めると好評の『超訳 古事記』が、著者朗読により新たな生命を得る!『古事記』とは、1300年前、稗田阿礼が語り、太安万侶が聞き書きした口伝伝承であり、『超訳 古事記』(ミシマ社刊行、ISBN:978-4-903908-15-1)は、鎌田東二が現代の稗田阿礼となって現代語で語り、書き取ってできた、まさに神語りの再現。その著者でありフリーランス神主・神道ソングライターでもある鎌田東二が、自ら朗読して完成した、究極の神語りが、このオーディオブックです。 リズム良く、そして厳かに、大胆に語られる日本生誕物語。聴けば古事記とはこんなに面白かったのか!と魅入られてしまうこと間違いありません。本州や九州、四国はこんなふうに誕生したのか!出雲の国から初代天皇(すめらのみこと)誕生まで、しっかりと知っておきたい古の神々の物語が一気に楽しめます。

フランツ・カフカの未完の長編作品。

ある城に雇われた主人公、測量士K。
雇われたはずなのに、雪道やら役所の複雑な組織に阻まれ城の門は開く様子はない。 城に行くことを待つ間、寒村に滞在するがその村にある奇妙な習慣になじむことがでない。 小さな世界で従うべき慣習は「法律」であり、城に入れないとは疎外された人間・・・
1920年台の作品ですが今を生きるわたしたちにも通底する要素や カフカの鋭くも奇妙で味わい深い作品を朗読でお楽しみください。

"The Little Prince" is a long story that in the format of books has beaten sales records in the world and in all languages ​​since 1943, when it was first published in French. Its pages evoke the most deeply rooted and essential values ​​of Humanism - in a simple and clear way - in which solidarity, kindness, integrity, tenacity, companionship and enthusiasm for knowledge are revealed.

First published in 1843, it tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and unpleasant man who dislikes people generally and Christmas especially. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come and given a glimpse of the many homes and lives which Scrooge has touched in his wretched life to date. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

昭和初期の大教育者であり「次郎物語」の著者として知られる下村湖人による論語の現代訳。 著者がこよなく愛した「論語」。 不朽の名作を朗読でお楽しみください。

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.

ちくま新書「生きるための論語」が好評の安冨教授が旧来の解釈から論語を解き放ち、魂に響く生き生きとした言葉でよみがえらせます。

Captain Arthur Hastings, invalided in the Great War, is recuperating as a guest of John Cavendish at Styles Court, the "country-place" of John's autocratic old aunt, Emily Inglethorpe - she of a sizeable fortune, and so recently remarried to a man 20 years her junior. When Emily's sudden heart attack is found to be attributable to strychnine, Hastings recruits an old friend, now retired, to aid in the local investigation. With impeccable timing, Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective, makes his dramatic entrance into the pages of crime literature.

『哲学探究』を、ひとりでよんでいくのはとても骨がおれる。言語ゲームとは何か…後期ウィトゲンシュタインの代表作『哲学探究』をわかりやすく読み解く。