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「The Book」
究極の文明再構築ガイド 英語版 本の言語を選択
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Somewhere between sacred text and explorer's codex lies an object unlike any other ever bound between two covers - a monument five thousand hours in the making, rendered entirely by human hand.
Every word within these pages was wrestled from the world by human minds. Every illustration born from a human hand. Five thousand hours — not of processing, but of thinking, questioning, drawing, and beginning again. There is no algorithm here. Only people, and their extraordinary devotion to getting it right.
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Originally funded by 30,000+ believers
400,000+ copies in homes around the world
Highest-funded publication in Kickstarter history
What if you could carry all of human
civilization in your hands?
Сonsider the question seriously. Empires have risen on the strength of a single idea. Civilizations have perished for want of knowledge that was simply... lost. The wheel. Penicillin. The arch. The printing press. The power grid. For ten thousand years, humanity has accumulated a vast and fragile inheritance - discoveries and inventions that transformed our species from cave-dwellers into builders of cities that touch the clouds.
Now, you can possess it all.
Every essential mechanism. Every critical process. Every foundational material. Rendered not as dry encyclopedia entry, but as a living, breathing illuminated manuscript for the modern age - illustrated with the fervor of a medieval monk, verified with the rigor of a contemporary scientist, and bound with the permanence of an heirloom meant to outlast its owner.
This is The Book. It is not ignorable. It is not a coffee table ornament. It is a testament of our species - and one of the most extraordinary objects ever made.
5,000+ Hours of Creation
400+ Pages of Knowledge
1,000+ Hand-Drawn Illustrations
$3M+ Raised by Believers
Translated into 6 languages worldwide
Every detail deliberate. Every
material chosen.
In an age of disposable content, this is a declaration that some things deserve to be made properly - slowly, obsessively, and without compromise. The Hungry Minds collective is, by their own description, "proudly slow, painstakingly deliberate, and utterly uncompromising." Every element of The Book was selected not for convenience, but for consequence.
I. Lithographic Printing
with Soy Inks
The pages of The Book are not merely printed - they are pressed. High-quality lithographic printing using soy-based inks produces colors of extraordinary depth and fidelity, each illustration rendered with a richness and sharpness that digital reproduction cannot approximate. The result is a chromatic intensity that feels, quite literally, alive.
II. 157gsm Uncoated
Paper Stock
The leaves of this volume are printed on 157gsm premium paper - substantial, cream-toned, and possessed of that particular quality that invites the fingertip to linger. Each page has a tactile authority. It is paper that knows its own importance, that resists the crumple of time and the indignity of dog-ears.
III. Silver Embossed
Cover
The cover announces itself before a single page is turned. Premium silver embossing catches the light at every angle - precise, restrained, and unmistakably intentional. This is not decoration. It is signature. The mark of an object that knows exactly what it is and makes no apology for the statement it makes upon a shelf.
IV. Expertly Sewn
Binding
Where mass-produced books are glued and prayed over, The Book is sewn. Traditional sewn binding ensures that no page loosens, no spine cracks, no section departs from its companions. This is a volume built not for a season but for a generation - one to be passed, with love, from one hungry mind to the next.
V. Every Illustration,
by Human Hand
Each of the thousand-plus illustrations within began as pencil on paper. One line. One idea. One invention at a time. The team of artists brought a medieval illuminator's devotion to a steampunk encyclopedist's canvas - hiding literary allusions in margins, layering mythological references beneath scientific diagrams, and imbuing every image with a wit that rewards the attentive eye.
VI. Every Fact,
Verified by Experts
Verified by Experts The Book's 5,000+ hours were not spent in illustration alone. Scientists, historians, engineers, and subject-matter experts subjected every claim within these pages to rigorous scrutiny. What you hold is not one person's opinion of how civilization works - it is the distilled, verified consensus of those who have dedicated their lives to understanding it.
A hefty, comprehensive, and stunningly illustrated tome... The book creates a feeling that you have travelled back in time, accessing secretive information reserved
only for a select few.
From the first flame to molecular
gastronomy
Twenty-three chapters span the full breadth of human civilization - from the most elemental act of survival to the most rarefied pinnacles of culture. There is no hierarchy here. The fire-maker and the architect stand as equals, as they always have in the history of our species.
| Fire & Survival | Food & Agriculture | The Human Body & Medicine |
Materials & Manufacture |
| Mechanics & Engineering |
Architecture & Construction |
Navigation & Seafaring |
Energy & Power Grids |
| Chemistry & Alchemy | Communication & Language |
Mathematics & Logic | Governance & Society |
| Commerce & Economy | Aviation & Transport | Music & Acoustics | Art & Aesthetics |
| Astronomy & Cosmology |
Rites of Passage | Molecular Gastronomy |
Weapons & Defense |
| Plants & Botany | The Animal Kingdom | + Much More Within |
Chapters to explore
Turn a page at random. You may find yourself studying the anatomy of the human bloodstream, the chain of accidents that gave us penicillin, or the surprisingly elegant geometry of why a chair holds your weight. Every spread is a doorway. Every margin hides a joke for the careful reader. Mythological creatures lurk beside engineering diagrams. Sly references reward the close eye. The Book does not simply teach - it invites you to wander.
生体組織と血液
人間の身体はそれ自体が小宇宙です。すべてが互いに繋がっており、エネルギーと栄養が身体の供給システムである血液を通して身体中を巡ります。血液は通常、体の中に留めておくのが望ましいのですが、命に関わる状況では他の人と共有できます。幸い、同じ血液型の人を見つけるのは、同じ関心、政治的見解、音楽の趣味を持っている人を見つけるよりも簡単です。
自転車
一部の発明は自然に生み出されます。例えば、車輪のように、ほとんど自発的に発生した様に見える物もあります。一方で、幸運な偶然が重ならなければ生まれない発明もあります。しかし、ほとんどの場合、発見は長く急な坂道を登るような道のりで、瞬間的なひらめきによる導きが必要です。2つの車輪を丈夫なフレームに接続し、チェーンと1組のペダルを取り付けると、重い荷物を輸送したり、友人と一緒に移動するのに適した、楽しく効率的な乗り物を作ることが出来ます。自転車の設計の基本原理を使用することで、他にも多くの便利な装置を作成したり、発電することができます。
アニメーション
アニメーションは、単純な目の錯覚を利用して機能します。何枚もの連続した静止画をとても速く連続で提示すると、視聴者の脳は、それらを連続した動画として解釈します。この効果は、直前の画像とわずかに異なる、多数の連続した画像を使用する事によって生じます。しかし、視覚の持続性は、アニメーションの一要素に過ぎません。私たちは、アニメーションのキャラクターを見るとき、キャラクターに共感し、一体感を持ち始めます。私たちは、キャラクターと一緒に笑い、泣き、また恐怖で叫びます。これには、映画撮影技術が関わっています。
フェスティバル
人間にとって、日常のルーチンや生存のための戦いから休息を取ることは極めて重要です。そうでないと、創造的活動ができません。否定的な考えが心に積み重なると、従属的になりやすくなり、社会は停滞期に入ります。祭りやカーニバルは緊張を和らげ、創造的な心を再起動させるのに役立ちます。祭りの文化は、社会的な安全装置として意図された階層、教義、規範といったものに対する生きた矛盾です。このような祝祭は、自由の感覚を与え、人々がしばらくの間義務や責任を忘れて、祭りの雰囲気に浸り、本当にのびのびとした真の自分になることを可能にします。
寿司
食べ物はもちろん、そのカロリーと栄養価が大切です。でもそれだけではありません！食べ物は個人の成長と自己表現の機会です。新しい味や感覚は脳内で新たなつながりを作り、良い食事は体だけでなく心も癒してくれます。食べる物が人を作ると言います。だから、とてもバランスのとれた食事を用意することで、最高の自分を作ってみませんか？お寿司の作り方を学びましょう。調理するのはお米だけ。シンプルにできるものを複雑にしないことが寿司の極意です。
Made for those who never
stopped asking, "why?"
The Book was born from a childhood question - one founder, lying awake in the dark, wondering: if I were alive in the Middle Ages, what would I make a bowstring from? That restless curiosity is the spirit this volume was made to honour and to feed.
It is for the engineer who suspects the ancients knew things we have forgotten. For the artist who wants to understand the mathematics of beauty. For the parent who wishes to hand their child not a screen but a portal to the entire history of human ingenuity. For anyone who has ever looked at a bridge, a ship, a loaf of bread, or a symphony and thought: how, exactly, does that work?
And it is, without question, the most extraordinary gift one curious mind has ever been able to give another.
It arrives with considerable presence
At nearly five pounds and over thirteen inches tall, The Book does not merely sit upon a shelf — it commands one. This is an object with physical authority, the satisfying weight of something that means to last.
The world
has taken notice
We want to make magic artifacts
Timur Kadyrov,Co-Founder, Hungry Minds
Select the form worthy
of its contents
All that you may
wish to know
The Book is printed on 157gsm premium uncoated paper using high-quality offset lithographic printing with soy-based inks — chosen specifically for their color depth, tactile quality, and longevity. The cream-toned leaves have a slight warmth that gives the volume its aged, manuscript quality.
Yes — The Book is appropriate for all ages. The current edition has removed an earlier section on intimate technologies from the main volume. It is now included separately in a sealed envelope for adult readers, so the book itself may be freely shared with curious young minds.
The Book is currently available in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, and Japanese. Further languages may follow should demand warrant the undertaking.
The Book weighs 4.96 lb (2.25 kg) and measures 9.3 × 13.6 × 2 inches. Its physical presence, we are told, is part of what makes the first encounter with it so memorable.
All orders are processed within 5 business days. Tracking information is sent upon dispatch. Express delivery is available for US orders.
978-0-578-37745-2
Some objects are purchased.
Others are inherited.
The Book is the kind of object that outlasts its first owner. That sits on a shelf for decades. That a child picks up one afternoon and carries into adulthood. That is passed along with a handwritten note tucked inside the cover. It was made to survive. It was made to matter. And there is, we would suggest, no finer thing to give - or to give yourself.
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