Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ...while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook ... 続きを読む

Over a hundred years have passed since Charles Creighton's A History of Epidemics in Britain was published. Then, epidemics of infectious diseases accounted for a third of all deaths in the British Is ... 続きを読む

I have become whore through goodwill and libertine through virtue.' Orphaned and penniless at the age of twelve, the beautiful and devout Justine embarks upon her remarkable odyssey. Her steadfas ... 続きを読む

Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is an extraordinary account of the devastation and human suffering inflicted on the city of London by the Great Plague of 1665 which continues to exert ... 続きを読む

'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Fo ... 続きを読む

Schizophrenia is one of the most traumatic psychiatric disorders, both for the affected person and their family. It also carries an unfortunate stigma and suffers from frequent misinterpretation by t ... 続きを読む

工場における部品の組み立てから惑星探査まで、ロボットの活躍の幅が広がる一方で、知能ロボットの開発は21世紀に入ってもなお、かつて予測されたほどには進んでいません。科学技術の粋を集めたロボット工学の未来と、日常生活での実用化について、どのような可能性が考えられるか検証します。(cf. Robots: What Everyone Needs to Know)   Explores ... 続きを読む

An authoritative and comprehensive dictionary containing clear, concise definitions of over 3,400 key economic terms, this A to Z covers all aspects of economics including economic theory, applied mic ... 続きを読む

...behind them all was New York, looking at Karl with the hundred thousand windows of its skyscrapers' Entering New York harbour, the young immigrant Karl Rossmann sees the Statue of Liberty, 'her ... 続きを読む

太古から人々を魅了してやまない星。星はどのようにして生まれ、どのように生き、光り輝き、そして消滅していくのでしょうか。著名な天体物理学者アンドリュー・キングが、銀河系についての理解を促し、重力や熱圧力、磁場、エネルギー発生の影響力なども検討しながら、星の科学を解き明かします。(cf. Galaxies, #192; Planetary Systems, #693)     ... 続きを読む