ZUKAN - 人文・思想・社会 1

[About the Book] You live each day as best you can, yet your mind finds no rest. Anxiety and doubt linger, and you find yourself asking, “What is life?” “Why do people suffer?” ーHow has Buddhism engaged with such questions? This book offers a clear and accessible exploration of what Buddhism tr……続きを見る

[About the Book] ーBeneath the “official history” lies a buried truth- Completed in the 8th century, the Nihon Shoki is often regarded as Japan’s oldest official chronicle. Yet when compared with Chinese historical works such as the New Book of Tang, elements of historical revision and narrative……続きを見る

英語から、最難関のアラビア語まで12ヵ国語をたった5年で習得した著者が明かす、遊ぶように学んで外国語を習得する極意。 日本で生まれ育ちながら、5年間で12ヵ国語（スペイン語、英語、フランス語、アラビア語、インドネシア語、ロシア語、ポルトガル語、ドイツ語、トルコ語、中国語、タイ語、韓国語）を習得。ほぼ独学……続きを見る

**2012 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner!** A cultural adventure for kids, All About Japan offers a journey to a new place-and ways to bring it to life! Dive into stories, play some games from Japan, and learn some Japanese songs. Two friends, a boy from the country and a gir……続きを見る

わたしには、“物の怪”がいれば、生きていける…“怪”を巡る５つのＳｔｏｒｙ。続きを見る

本書では，ピアジェ理論の中でもっとも重要なものは，「人間は知識を外部から取り込むことによって獲得するのではなく，外界との相互作用を通して内部から構成する」という「構成論」であるという視点から，幼児教育における物と関わるあそびについて述べる。続きを見る

The Art of War is one of the world's great masterpieces-presenting timeless strategies that are as important in the boardroom as on the battlefield. Now, experience Sun Tzu's classic as never before in this riveting graphic novel brimming with battles, betrayals and political intrigues. The book ……続きを見る

[About the Book] ーEducation that nurtures the heart creates the future- This book is the life’s work of the author, an English teacher who has dedicated his career to the practice of education rooted in Japan’s traditions of kokoro no kyōiku (education of the heart), spiritual discipline, and m……続きを見る

The true story of Japan's surrender in World War II and how it nearly didn't happen! In the final days of World War II, Japan lay in ruins and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been obliterated. A tense drama unfolds in Tokyo as Japan teeters on the edge of Armageddon. Japan's Longest Day ……続きを見る

What does "good luck" look like and how do you achieve it? Lucky symbols, lucky numbers, lucky charms and luck-creating rituals--how is it that a disciplined and hard-working country like Japan is so invested in the idea of luck? And what, exactly, does "good luck" mean? This insightful book--by……続きを見る

In Japan, where the number of foreign residents is increasing rapidly, how are migrant children whose mother tongue is not Japanese learning their mother tongue and Japanese at school? We call them CLD (Culturally Linguistically Diverse) children (Cummins, 1991). This book is the result of the fir……続きを見る

［about the product］ It is never the right medicine to keep prescribing drugs with a name for a disease. If you are healthy, you are happy. As long as you are healthy, you will be happy, and as long as you are healthy, you will get by. As if to encourage this belief in health, the world is o……続きを見る

The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third. Hisayuki takes revered haikus written by others to comment on observations he has had regarding the world, human life, and how to live peacefully. ……続きを見る

Do places influence human behavior? In everyday thinking, spaces and places are generally seen as empty vessels where human activity occurs. Digging a bit deeper, we can distinguish spaces from places: places are spaces that have meanings attached - an empty room becomes a classroom or a bedroom d……続きを見る

A chance discovery of sixty-odd works of art in a filing cabinet in Kyoto University’s Department of Geography in 2014 triggered an investigation which soon morphed into a multi-disciplinary research project seeking to understand their origins and significance. The works were reproductions of sket……続きを見る

The Bhagalpur riots occurred in the Indian state of Bihar during the 1989 Lok Sabha election campaign. In the lead-up, political actors and parties exploited religious identities for their own electoral purposes. In this book, Nakamizo systematically and comprehensively analyses the course of the ……続きを見る