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For most of human history, we were rural folk. Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons. And yet rural life is oddly invisible our historical records. The daily routine of the peasant, the farmer or the craftsperson could never compete with the glamour of city life, war and royal drama. Lives went unrecorded, stories untold. There is, though, one way in which we can learn about our rural past. The things we have left behind provide a connection that no document can match; physical artefacts are touchstones that breathe life into its history.

私たちはどこにいるのか。そして、どう生きるべきか――。

東京の都市化・近代化を進めたといわれる関東大震災(大正12年/1923年)は、実は人々に過去への郷愁や土地への愛着を呼び起こす契機となった。

A skewering of the American underbelly by the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Deadly Sins, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven, and You're Making Me Hate You The always-outspoken hard rock vocalist Corey Taylor begins America 51 with a reflection on what his itinerant youth...

In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ Until now. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity. The...

Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs.

Jessica Carew Kraft, an urban wife and mom of two, was rooted in the modern world, complete with a high-powered career in tech and the sneaking suspicion that her lifestyle was preventing her and her family from truly thriving. Determined to find a better way, Jessica quit her job and set out to learn about "rewilding" from people who reject the comforts and convenience of civilization by using ancient tools and skills to survive. Along the way, she found an entire community walking the path back from our technology-focused, anxiety-ridden way of life to a simpler, more human experience.

Une heure de promenade auditive dans les pas des anthropologues, en compagnie de Marie-Armelle Deguy, pour interroger nos sociétés humaines.

“A fascinating, thoughtful, and thoroughly enjoyable exploration of a major dimension of human experience.”— Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works A maverick scientist reveals the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways humans think, feel, and behave towards animals in this engaging...

For readers of On Trails, this is an incisive, utterly engaging exploration of walking: how it is fundamental to our being human, how we've designed it out of our lives, and how it is essential that we reembrace it. "I'm going for a walk." How often has this phrase been uttered by someone with a...

Das biologische Fundament ist der erste Teil von Hoimar von Ditfurths „Der Geist fiel nicht vom Himmel“, er behandelt folgende Themen: Einzeller als Hirnsonden (Vom Spürsinn der Mikroben - Woran stirbt ein Paralytiker?) / Biologische Vorentscheidungen (Ein Akt der Abgrenzung - So wenig Außenwelt wie möglich - Die Anziehungskraft des Bekömmlichen) / Paläontologie der Seele (Eine aufschlussreiche Zusammensetzung - Lebende Fossilien) / Bewusstlose Geborgenheit (Ein neues Bauprinzip und seine Folgen - Die Erfindung der Nervenleitung - Vollkommenheit im Kleinen) / Vorzeichen des Kommenden (Nervennetze speichern Programme - Abbilder der Außenwelt).

This album is the first series of audio stories in the "Stories of Hundred Family Surnames" series. The content mainly tells the historical origins and character stories of Chinese surnames such as Zhao, Qian, Sun and Li.