Fifty years ago, Sir Richard Branson started his first business. In his new autobiography, Finding My Virginity, the Virgin Founder shares his personal, intimate thoughts on five decades as the wor...
Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse ...
A terrorist plot to kill hundreds of innocent people.An undercover agent posing as a wealthy Al-Qaeda sympathiser.A race against time to gain the terrorists’ trust and bring them ...
Curiocity is a new A to Z exploring every aspect of life in London. Its 26 chapters weave together the city's stories with striking reflections, practical ideas and itineraries, and contributi...
This is Maria Sharapova's gripping and fearless autobiography, telling her story from her roots in the small Siberian town her parents had fled to after the Chernobyl disaster, through her arrival ...
In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One li...
From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain's twentieth century.It is usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of con...
False economics. Threats, bribes, extortion. Debt, deception, coups, assassinations and unbridled military power. These are the tools used by the ‘corporatocracy’ – a vast network...
In Trans-Europe Express, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, ca...
For a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his flamboyant predecessor Edward VII, inventing the m...
Rozmowa z Pedrem Costą – portugalskim reżyserem i scenarzystą, jedną z największych osobowości europejskiego kina, twórcą prawdziwie niezależnym. W wywiadzie (przeprowadzonym przez Agn...
Nie minęły dwa lata od śmierci najwybitniejszego polskiego reżysera i wciąż staramy się ogarnąć rozmiary jego dzieła. Numery specjalne poświęcone twórczości Andrzeja Wajdy opublikowały już c...
In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, "it was surprisi...
Spis treści:PREFACE / 7INTRODUCTION. THE CONSTITUENTS OF MEMORIAL CULTURE / 111. Memory and the question of the "production of space" / 112. Collective...
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...
A new edition of Adam Zamoyski's definitive biography of Chopin, first published in 1979 and unavailable in English for many years.Few composers elicit such strong emotions as Chopin. F...
Winner of Asymptote Journal's 2016 Close Approximations Translation Contest and Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Prize, History of a Disappearance is the fascinating true story of a small mi...
Based on three years of extensive research and reporting, two of today's most acclaimed investigative journalists, Jeff Benedict of Sports Illustrated and eleven-time Emmy Award winner Armen Keteyi...
Architektura zrównoważona jest w środowisku architektonicznym określeniem nobilitującym, choć da się je rozumieć różnorako: od futurystycznych rozwiązań proponowanych przez wykwalifik...