‘It is Hustvedt’s gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.’ Hilary Mantel, GuardianFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essa...
For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This boo...
Zbliża się czas konfrontacji księcia Kanuta z ojcem, królem Swenem Widłobrodym. Rozpoczyna się rozgrywka polityczna, w której nie wiadomo, kto jest pionkiem, a kto rozgrywającym. Thor...
As befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman's sparkling memoir is as entertaining as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer of Butc...
Barbed, witty, revealing and entertaining, Too Famous could be an instant classic.Bestselling author of Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide and chronicler of the Trump White House Michae...
With polarizing events like Trump and Brexit in mind, Black and White Thinking argues that by understanding the evolutionary programming of our binary brains we can adapt our thinking to make subtl...
How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himse...
'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange ph...
For Picasso he was ‘like our father’; for Matisse, ‘a god of painting’. Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) is widely regarded as the father of modern art. In this authori...
A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally bestselling author.'Back in the 1960s, ...
For fans of Randall Munro’s WHAT IF? Matt Parker’s HUMBLE PI and anyone looking for practical tips on how to stop the end of the world!Dr Matt Winning is a stand-up comedian...
One of the least understood stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but also by thousands of ordinary Germans ...
Eleanor Bennett won't let her own death get in the way of the truth. So when her estranged children - Byron and Benny - reunite for her funeral in California, they discover a puzzling inheritance. ...
„Boży generałowie – Wielcy reformatorzy” książka poświęcona ludziom, którzy w wyjątkowy sposób zapisali się na kartach historii. Ludziom, którzy wpłynęli na b...
Czy w mętnym jeziorze można dostrzec Nessie – legendarnego węża wodnego z Loch Ness? Czym właściwie są yokai – stworzenia, które według pradawnych opowieści można spotkać w Japon...
Piąty i ostatni tom przygód młodego korespondenta wojennego w rewelacyjnej serii „DMZ – Strefa Zdemilitaryzowana”. W szóstym roku wojny Matty Roth dostaje niesłych...
Timothy Hunter z pozoru jest zwykłym trzynastolatkiem, spędzającym dni na oglądaniu telewizji i jeździe na deskorolce. Jednak w rzeczywistości jest inny niż prawie wszyscy na Ziemi, chociaż jeszcze...
Ringelblum rozpoczął pracę nad monografią poświęconą historii Żydów w Warszawie już w okresie studenckim, a podsumowaniem pierwszego etapu była jego rozprawa doktorska, obroniona w 1927 r., ...
Swiss artist HR Giger (1940–2014) is most famous for his creation of the space monster in Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror sci-fi film Alien, which earned him an Oscar. In retrospect, this wa...