The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums BC. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them.

Best-selling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world - from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 BC in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome.

Dive into the gritty world of crime and corruption with Dashiell Hammett's "Red Harvest," masterfully narrated by Mike Vendetti. Set in the lawless town of Personville, also known as Poisonville, this classic detective story follows a relentless detective as he navigates a web of deceit, murder, and betrayal. Hammett, the undisputed master of detective fiction in late 1920s America, delivers a hard-hitting tale that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

江戸八百八町においてその名を知らぬ者のない、旗本退屈男と異名をとった直参旗本、早乙女主水之介のチャンバラ活劇オーディオブック。禄は直参旗本の千二百石、屋敷は本所長割下水、剣の奥義は諸羽流正眼崩し、武芸十八般に通ずる無双な腕力、にもかかわらず江戸の天下は腹の立つ程な泰平ぶりを示し、腕を振るうべき戦乱もなく、ために栄達もなく、故にこの人の世が、否生きている事すら迄が、退屈で退屈でならない退屈男。清廉潔白な性格で、権力の腐敗を憂い、一方で庶民に慈悲深く、「長割下水のお殿様」とも慕われる退屈男。「旗本退屈男」は、1930年以来、計30本の映画が製作され、テレビドラマとしても何度もリメイクされている、時代小説家・佐々木味津三による人気時代小説。江戸の天下で繰り広げられる退屈男の痛快な「退屈払い」を、一人十役変幻自在の声色でオーディオブック化!! 「ほほう、これは少々退屈払いが出来そうじゃわい。 ―退屈男」 小気味のいい男の小気味のいいオーディオブックは、これから始まるのです。※本作品は発表時の未熟な時代背景から、今日の社会では一般的でなく、 不適切と思われる表現が含まれている箇所がございます。 しかし作品のオリジナル性を最大限に尊重し、 なるべく当時のまま忠実に再現することを優先いたしました。

In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, author Nick Lane brings together the latest research findings in the exciting field of mitochondria research to reveal how our growing understanding of mitochondria is shedding light on how complex life evolved, why sex arose (why don't we just bud?), and why we age and die. This understanding is of fundamental importance, both in understanding how we and all other complex life came to be, but also in order to be able to control our own illnesses, and delay our degeneration and death.

It is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on display. But there is far more to the story. Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World explores the 100 years of research on Tutankhamun that have taken place since the tomb's discovery, from the several objects in the tomb made of meteoritic iron that came from outer space to new evidence that shows that Tutankhamun may actually have been a warrior who went into battle.

The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies.

名だたる文筆家が登場する、文藝春秋の文化講演会。 「浮世絵は芸術にあらず」…『だましゑ歌麿』で知られる高橋が、探偵眼で浮世絵の本質を露わに。図版資料もついて、目と耳と頭が喜ぶ愉快なギャラリートーク。(2000年 千里阪急ホテル 梅花短期大学五十周年記念 文藝春秋文化講演会 講演原題「浮世絵の面白さ」より)
●見える、見えない ●命が間に合わない ●消えていった人の心 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。

【内容紹介】謎多き人物、柿本人麻呂とは??柿本人麻呂といえば万葉の時代を生きた歌聖としてあまりにも有名だが、その生涯については謎が多い。「万葉集」の権威・中西進が、柿本人麻呂と彼が生きた古代国家について興味深い話を聴かせてくれる。【講師紹介】奈良県立万葉文化館館長 中西進- 1929年東京都生まれ。「万葉集」など古代文化の比較研究を主に、日本文化の全体像を視野におさめた研究・評論活動で知られる。大佛次郎賞、和辻哲郎文化賞ほか多数受賞。

Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas based on the tales of Charles Dickens. Here is the legendary Laurence Olivier starring in ‘Mr Micawber's Difficulties’, adapted from Charles Dickens' original 'David Copperfield' and Laurence Olivier starring in 'A Christmas Carol' adapted from Charles Dickens' original 'A Christmas Carol'.Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950's by the late Harry Alan Towers.

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny.

【内容紹介】幾多の能作品や芸論書を著した世阿弥。瀬戸内寂聴さんが、謎深い佐渡での晩年に焦点を当て、その波乱に満ちた生涯を振り返ります。悲喜交々の出来事を昇華させ、彼が老いの境地で咲かせた“花”とは。【講師紹介】作家 瀬戸内寂聴- 1922年、徳島県生まれ。『女子大生・曲愛玲』で新潮社同人雑誌賞受賞。2007年、禅光坊の住職に就任。著書『源氏物語』(現代語訳)、『秘花』など多数。

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.

【内容紹介】大仏建立や聖武天皇、遣唐使など、奈良時代を象徴する出来事や人物について、「世界一受けたい授業」でおなじみの河合敦氏が判り易く語る。 【講師紹介】作家 河合敦- 1965年、東京都生まれ。現役の教師として日本史を分かりやすく教えるかたわら、執筆活動を行う。著書『人物で読む平城京の歴史』『早わかり日本史』など多数。

The Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe.