A vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day.

「音声を聞くだけで英検に頻出の英単語を覚えられる単語集」、「キクタン英検」が、音声全面改訂でパワーアップしました。英検1級合格に必要な単語力・熟語力に加え、リスニング力も同時に身につきます！
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四字熟語、故事成語、ことわざ、オノマトペなど日本語独特の言い回しを「慣用表現」として取り上げ、英語の表現を紹介しています。ビジネス頻出の言い回しから若者言葉まで多彩な表現をカバー。「言いたいことが通じ

Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring.

In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.

"Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed causality - the study of cause and effect - on a firm scientific basis.

人間の頭脳に潜入、秘密を探り出す特殊能力を持つ超戦士・精神ダイバーの活躍を描くシリーズ第一弾！
〈精神（サイコ）ダイバーとは人間の頭脳に潜入し、その秘密を探り出す特殊能力を持つ超戦士である〉過激派集団から大金を奪った文成仙吉（ふみなりせんきち）は、山中で闇の乱交儀式を目撃したため、巨大な獣人に襲われ指を食いちぎられた。一方、聖城高野山（こうやさん）で空海（くうかい）の即身仏（ミイラ）が盗まれ、精神ダイバー久門鳳介（くもんほうすけ）と密教術の達人美空（びくう）が謎を追うが、獣人が2人の前に…。（サイコダイバーシリーズ全1/12巻）

Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the “resource curse,” seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects of the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert on tax havens, revealing the dark corners of that world long before the scandals of the Panama and Paradise Papers.

The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most digestible book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI.

Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and as a human being trying to make sense of the world changing around him.