Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded...
Asearing vision of the human condition - Schopenhauer's perception of the importance of art, morality and self-awareness in a blind struggle against a Godless, meaningless world radically transform...
"Chopin. Biografia ilustrowana" nie jest typową książką prezentującą życiorys wielkiego kompozytora. Album jest zbiorem esejów o niepospolitym człowieku i genialnym artyście. Autor...
On 26 April 1986, at 1.23am, a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come....
Publikacja dokumentuje uroczystość nadania tytułu doktora honoris causa Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu prof. Williamowi R. Dolbierowi Jr., jednemu z najwybitniejszych fizykochemik&oa...
In Inside Apple, Adam Lashinsky provides readers with an insight on leadership and innovation. He introduces Apple business concepts like the 'DRI' (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Respons...
A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the worldBy 1917 ...
Mademoiselle S., identified here only as Simone, was a well-educated and cultured lady living in Paris at the height of the glamorous roaring twenties. Simone’s letters to her married lover C...
Pigułki przeciwbólowe towarzyszyły mi w przeprowadzce ze Szwajcarii do Warszawy – ich biało-czerwony kolor jest zupełnie jak flaga Polski. Do dziś ich nie zużyłam, więc rok spędzo...
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...
Pigułki przeciwbólowe towarzyszyły mi w przeprowadzce ze Szwajcarii do Warszawy – ich biało-czerwony kolor jest zupełnie jak flaga Polski. Do dziś ich nie zużyłam, więc rok spędzo...
George Orwell's first published work, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of the poor in the late twenties. In a bug-infested hotel, survivin...
Na wydany album składają się wspomnienia, zdjęcia oraz odgłosy krajowej i zagranicznej prasy. Część tekstowa to zbiór wspomnień kilkudziesięciu osób w tamtym wydarzeniu, które ...
Describing bizarrely popular Victorian street slang, the madness of crowds, stock market mania (from the South Sea Bubble to Tulip fever), popular fashions, fads, crazes, schemes and scams, this br...
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...
Maciej Billewicz, artysta fotografik, fotoreporter, dziennikarz. Autor ponad 40 wystaw indywidualnych w kraju i za granicą. Fotografował Jana Pawła II, Czesława Miłosza, Lecha Wałęsę, Richarda Nixo...
In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving clas...
Whether you're visiting or working in Poland, this book will help you better understand Poles' everyday behaviors - and perhaps some of your own in a cross - cultural situation. Going beyond pierog...
Leopardi, poet and philosopher, explores in humorous but savage dialogue the power of fashion and its strange irrationality. He also imagines conversations between Hercules and Atlas, Nature and an...