Virtual Reality has long been one of the dominant clichés of science fiction. Now Virtual Reality is a reality: those big headsets that make people look ridiculous, even while radiating star...
The book presents the biography of Maria, daughter of Christopher Lekapenos (the eldest son of emperor Romanos I). For about 35 years, she was the tsaritsa of the Bulgarians at the side of her husb...
The final work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Günter Grass – a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, and the world.Suddenly, in spite of the trials ...
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books. Years later, when her father died and she was struck deeply by gr...
This book is not yet another modified version of the so-called biographism in science, so strongly criticized in the ‘serious’ literary studies and in other disciplines adopting the for...
For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another. The Nazi-Soviet Pact stunned the world when it was announced, the Second World War was launch...
This book is a cognitively valuable scientific elaboration. It fits perfectly into the theoretical and methodological research trend, whose common denominator is the analysis of auto/biographical n...
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at clo...
Shakespeare’s place in culture can only be captured by many relocations and recreations of his works in/via old and new media. From Shakespeare to Sh(Web)speare provides analysis of Shakespea...
“This book is a cognitively valuable scientific elaboration. It fits perfectly into the theoretical and methodological research trend, whose common denominator is the analysis of auto/biograp...
"Dżuma, ospa, gruźlica, cholera, grypa, AIDS… Te słowa budzą w nas strach. Skąd się wzięły te choroby? W jaki sposób i kiedy przybrały rozmiary epidemii? Jak ludzie próbow...
"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...
"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'...
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would...
Oto prawda o mrocznym sercu BaliHotel K to szokująca opowieść o więzieniu i jego mieszkańcach, o dzikich nocach seksu organizowanych przez skorumpowanych strażników dla więźni&oa...
Oto prawda o mrocznym sercu BaliHotel K to szokująca opowieść o więzieniu i jego mieszkańcach, o dzikich nocach seksu organizowanych przez skorumpowanych strażników dla więźni&oa...
Oto prawda o mrocznym sercu BaliHotel K to szokująca opowieść o więzieniu i jego mieszkańcach, o dzikich nocach seksu organizowanych przez skorumpowanych strażników dla więźni&oa...
Bogato ilustrowany album "Polska Chopina" Piotra Cieśli prezentuje miejscowości związane z wybitnym kompozytorem - Fryderykiem Chopinem. Dzięki wspaniałym fotografiom (ich układ odpowiada...
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had th...