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パンデミックは世界を変えたのか――新型コロナの大流行を経験した私たちには，疫病と人類の関わりを問い直すという重い課題が突きつけられている．

衝撃の数理モデル「資本主義が続く限り、人口はゼロになる」なぜ少子化対策は失敗するのか？人口減の根本にあるメカニズムは何か？まったく新しい着眼が拓く、日本再生の道！

人の身体は50歳を過ぎると、あちこちに痛みが出てくるもの。日本人は「我慢は美徳」とばかりに耐えようとするが、痛みは生活の質を落とすだけでなく、我慢するほどに強まる仕組みになっているから無意味だ。

「いつかはクラウン」から「毎日100円ショップ」の時代へ　
もはや「中流」ではない。「下流」なのだ

「下流」とは、単に所得が低いということではない。

かつては水産物の争奪戦で中国に敗れ問題になった「買い負け」。しかしいまや、半導体、LNG(液化天然ガス)、牛肉、人材といったあらゆる分野で日本の買い負けが顕著になっている。

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.

Thomas Piketty’s best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system.

Who was the first fascist? Decades before Mussolini, the Marquis de Morès was the first populist and openly antisemitic leader in the Western world. A key figure behind the Dreyfus affair, he took France by storm with his inflammatory media rhetoric and violent stunts. Morès invoked the fasces – the ancient Roman bundle of wooden rods – to symbolize the society he wished to create: a union of all social classes against their enemy, the Jews. In The First Fascist, award-winning historian Sergio Luzzatto explores the untold story of the rise and fall of the Marquis as well as his ominous legacy.

Rapoartele aveau la origine niște articole publicate de Proiectul pentru Raportarea Crimei Organizate și Corupției (OCCRP), un consorțiu neobosit și neînfricat de jurnaliști din toată Europa de Est, care au expus două așa-numite „spălătorii" – scheme sofisticate de spălare a miliarde de euro. În ambele cazuri, infractorii se foloseau de companii britanice fictive pentru a-și ascunde identitatea și de Danske Bank pentru a-și transfera banii.

Violence is often described as a social issue, a moral failing, or an innate human instinct. But in fact, argues Dr. Gary Slutkin, violence is a contagion that infects a society like a disease. This isn't a metaphor. In THE END OF VIOLENCE, Dr. Slutkin draws on the expertise gleaned from 40+ years on the frontlines fighting deadly epidemics to reveal that violence operates according to the same predictable logic as every other contagious disease, initially infecting a small number of carriers then spreading from host to host.

Housing dominates headlines, yet few truly understand how affordable housing works—or why it’s failing. Bittersweet Lane is the first book to demystify America’s housing crisis from both a professional and deeply personal perspective. Spanning from Ireland to America, from the Bittersweet Lane Apartments to M.I.T., Bittersweet Lane also carries the stories and deep scars of intergenerational poverty while offering a bold vision for change.

They are going to kill people, investigative reporter for The Nation Amy Littlefield knew, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. As a journalist covering abortion for more than a decade, she had already chronicled many near-death experiences caused by anti-abortion policy. After the anti-abortion movement’s staggering defeat of Roe, she became fascinated with their victory and why they seemed so much better organized than the pro-choice movement. She set out to investigate the murderers of Roe.

Discrimination and Disparities gathers a wide array of empirical evidence to challenge the idea that different economic outcomes can be explained by any one factor, be it discrimination, exploitation, or genetics. This revised and enlarged edition also analyzes the human consequences of the prevailing social vision of these disparities and the policies based on that vision--from educational disasters to widespread crime and violence.

David Sussillo has made a career at the cutting edge of neuroscience and technology—yet his path there was anything but a straight line. Born to drug-addicted parents in New Mexico, he navigated a childhood marked by violence and neglect. But a seed was planted at the unlikeliest of places—the local arcade. What follows is a remarkable journey of resilience and transformation, from the chaotic corridors of group homes to the halls of Columbia and Stanford.

Creator of the global sensation “Humans of New York” and author of four #1 New York Times bestsellers, Brandon Stanton has shown us a unique side of our communities, our neighbors, and ourselves. Now, he takes us further and deeper than he’s ever gone before. Embracing all five boroughs, Dear New York is a book filled with contradictions, yet brimming with life. It is an unprecedented portrait of the world’s greatest city, and a personal tribute to the people who provide its soul.

En un mundo donde la ironía y el sarcasmo siguen siendo una importante herramienta para revelar verdades incómodas, el nuevo libro de Iñaki Domínguez muestra cómo, desde tiempos inmemoriales, los bufones han usado el humor no solo para entretener, sino para cuestionar el orden establecido y desafiar las normas. Acompañado de grandes pensadores y sin morderse la lengua, desenmascara cómo hoy los cómicos están siendo atacados por la ideología dominante que quiere imponer una representación falsaria y moralista del mundo que favorezca a las élites económicas.

Las nuevas hornadas generacionales, los millennials y los Z, han sido criadas con enfoques terapéuticos y padres hipervigilantes que estaban obsesionados con la felicidad de sus hijos. Sin embargo, esos niños son hoy jóvenes solitarios, ansiosos, deprimidos e inseguros. En Mala terapia, Shrier, una de las pensadoras más lúcidas y atrevidas del momento, no duda en señalar a la industria de la salud mental como una pieza clave en la forja de padres inseguros y niños incapaces de madurar.

En un relato personal, íntimo y profundo, a raíz de su propia experiencia con un padre alcohólico, Olivia Laing nos propone una nueva perspectiva para entender los procesos creativos de seis célebres escritores norteamericanos partiendo de sus biografías y su relación con el alcohol. Mientras viaja desde la Nueva York de Cheever hasta la Nueva Orleans de Williams y desde el Cayo Hueso de Hemingway hasta el Port Angeles de Carver, Laing une las piezas de este mapa topográfico del alcoholismo, desde los horrores de la adicción hasta la milagrosa posibilidad de la rehabilitación.

In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb calls the "antifragile" is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits from shocks, uncertainty, and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. The antifragile needs disorder in order to survive and flourish. Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner.

日本の医学と医療の進歩の最大の抵抗勢力、それが医学部です。●ガン検診の普及でガンが増える不思議●老年医学専門医の少ない県ほど寿命が長い！？