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『源氏物語』がなければ道長の栄華もなかった！　無官で貧しい学者の娘が、なぜ世界最高峰の文学作品を執筆できたのか？後宮で、道長が紫式部に期待したこととは？

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なぜ日本兵１万人が消えたままなのか？滑走路下にいるのか、それとも……民間人の上陸が原則禁止された硫黄島に４度上陸し、日米の機密文書も徹底調査。

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ナチスが実現させようとしていた世界とは？

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教科書に載っているあの人たちには誰にも言えない過去があった

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ヒトラー、織田信長、ゾルゲ、マリー・アントワネット、ポル・ポト・・・ 多大な犠牲の上に彼らが残した〝黒い足跡〟とは？

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.

『忘れられた日本人』で知られる民俗学者・宮本常一とは何者だったのか。その民俗学の底流にある「思想」とは？

SAS Great Escapes Four recounts how soldiers of the world's most famous fighting force, the SAS, carried out some of the most daring escapes of World War Two. Ranging from the infamous desert campaign of 1944 to the unforgiving terrain of the Vosges Mountains, these inspirational narratives include the tale of three Captains escaping an Italian Prisoner of War Camp in 1943; a perilous escape across Europe aided by the Resistance networks of Holland, Belgium; and a death-defying return to Britain via boat, tunnel and train.

Born into slavery in Maryland, Frederick Douglass escaped bondage to become an abolitionist leader, orator and politician, and one of the most famous African-Americans of the 19th century. His autobiographical Narrative, an immediate bestseller in 1845, was soon acknowledged as a pivotal text in the struggle against slavery. In this moving and beautifully written account, he lays bare a system that brutalised everyone it touched.

Janka was a Polish Jewish girl, and Alberto, a Spanish Greek Jewish man. This tale reveals how love and hearts of kindness came out of the horrors of the concentration camps. In 1949, they came to Australia, bringing two cultures, 13 languages and their toddler Nina, to forge a new beginning. These two people would never have met and fallen in love, if they hadn’t survived the attempted extermination of a race in the death chambers of Europe. They knew and taught their children, that we cannot move on without forgiveness.

فصول هذا الكتاب كانت في الأصل أحاديث كان علي الطنطاوي يبثها من إذاعة دمشق لمدة نصف قرن تقريبا

Seven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America's leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall.

In 1914, the Great War was raging all around the globe. It was by far the largest and bloodiest conflagration the world had ever seen. The balance of vast imperial powers the world over was shifting in tectonic, unpredictable ways.

"تاريخٌ حافلٌ بالأحداثِ لشخصيةٍ لطالما كانت مسار جدل. يروي الكاتب -بشكلٍ حيادي- قصة العراق ويتناول مراحل حياة «صدام حسين» من طفولته إلى مماته، مستخدمًا أدوات التحليل النفسي للغوص في تفاصيل شخصيته.

يعدُّ رفاعة الطهطاوي أحد قادة النهضة المعرفية في مصر في عهد عزيز مصر محمد علي باشا، ورواد الفكر التنويرى فيها، بعد فترة من الاضمحلال الفكرى عاشتها مصر...ولد ونشأ في أسرة كريمة الأصل شريفة النسب، فأبوه ينتهي نسبه إلى الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب، وأمه فاطمة بنت الشيخ أحمد الفرغلي، ينتهي نسبها إلى قبيلة الخزرج الأنصارية.

The Lausiac History is a timeless classic of immense value to anyone studying the lives of the great Desert Fathers and Mothers. Embark with Palladius on a journey into the desert and encounter saints like John of Egypt, Moses the Black, Isidora the Fool-for-Christ, and Macarius the Great.

لقد جاء هذا الكتاب كحصيلة للبحث المستمر في مشكلة الطلبة الموهوبين غير المنجزين ومن خلال الإطلاع على أكثر من 500 كتاب في النجاح والتوفق والموهبة، شملت سيرة مئات الناجحين والعلماء والعظماء ليصير كتالوجًا يتبعه من يريد النجاح وتخليد اسمه وعمله

How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover over decades and so low key, that even after your escape, aided by MI6, no-one even notices you are gone. The Spy in the Archive is the remarkable story of how Vasili Mitrokhin – an introverted archivist who loved nothing more than dusty files – ended up changing the world.

You've probably heard clips from Senator Clinton's interview with Barbara Walters. But now you can listen to her full account of her years in the White House. Hillary Clinton vividly describes her pain over her husband's betrayal with Monica Lewinky saying that former President Bill Clinton lied to her about the relationship until the weekend before he admitted the nature of it to a grand jury.