In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the fou...
Książka stanowi cenny przyczynek do badań źródeł sukcesu i znaczenia polskiej kadry technicznej w Dwudziestoleciu Niepodległości.Bohaterowi tej pracy przypadła chlubna rola twór...
Praca dotyczy twórczości jednego z najwybitniejszych współczesnych pisarzy hiszpańskich Juana Goytisolo (ur. w 1931 r. w Barcelonie), mało znanego w Polsce. Pozwala prześledzić rozw&o...
"W Londynie, przy herbatce, emerytowana kurtyzana opowiada koleżance o swym życiu i bujnej erotycznej przeszłości. Jako nastolatka została sprzedana przez rodziców na żonę pewnego starc...
ALBUM FOTOGRAFICZNY - TWÓRCZOŚĆ HELMUTA NEWTONAŚwiat Helmuta Newtona jest niezwykle złożony i różnorodny. Uznany w latach sześćdziesiątych za szokującego prowokatora dziś cieszy...
Ilustrowane wydawnictwo Chopin, autorstwa Mieczysława Tomaszewskiego, przygotowane zostało z okazji obchodów 160. rocznicy śmierci oraz 200. rocznicy urodzin Fryderyka Chopina. Syntetyzujące...
North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world’s most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the...
"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man'...
In March 2002 Basia Meder began her adventure of a lifetime, a solo backpacking journey in Africa. Equipped with previous backpacking experiences in fifty countries around the world she freed hers...
This collection of essays on sound and sense in modern poetry draws on several papers given at a seminar in Turin as part of the ESSE conference in August 2010. Other contributions congenial to the...
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a c...
Czy wiesz że ... co dziesiąty Polak jest szlachcicem!?Być może nasi przodkowie odegrali w polskiej historii rolę ważniejszą niż myślimy? Może przed laty nie chciano, byśmy wiedzieli, że...
In September 2012, a YOUGOV poll conducted in Britain found that the person British workers would most like as their manager was Sir Richard Branson.With over 40 years in business, Rich...
To celebrate The Rolling Stones's 50 years in show business, this is a biography of frontman Mick Jagger, which gives fans an insight into a more complex, impressive and often endearing character. ...
After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of Fre...
Książka Martyny Grądzkiej pt. Przerwane dzieciństwo. Losy dzieci Żydowskiego Domu Sierot przy ul. Dietla 64 w Krakowie podczas okupacji niemieckiej (A Broken Childhood The Fate of the Children from...
Since their first publication in 1821, de Maistre's dark writings have fascinated and appalled critics, with their relentless hatred of the Enlightenment and view of humans as murderous beasts who ...
Noam Chomsky is the world's foremost intellectual activist. Over the last half century, no one has done more to question the great global powers who govern our lives, forensically scrutinizing poli...
'Out of the hideously scarred soil of Flanders rose black, splintered trunks of trees'In one of the greatest war memoirs ever written, an ordinary German soldier recalls the horror and ...
FORBIDDEN LESSONS IN A KABUL GUESTHOUSE is an inspirational memoir by Suraya Sadeed, an Afghan woman from a wealthy family who became an exile in America after the Russians invaded. She made a happ...