The first rock-star writer'GuardianWith ‘long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips … and Harleys flashing chrome’, the Hell&rsq...
Monografia Viatoris. Który pokonuje drogę. Ponowoczesny romantyzm Piotra Jargusza jest zebraniem wieloletnich obserwacji artystycznych działań Piotra Jargusza, które sam twórca...
Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial ...
Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its i...
This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'.In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he...
Edycja dwujęzyczna polsko-angielska.Nagroda dla Nobla to eseistyczne rozważania autora Waldemara Andrzejczyka. Opowieść krąży wokół kategorii Nagrody im. Alfreda Nobla, lecz nie ...
Mary Wollstonecraft's passionate declaration of female independence shattered the stereotype of docile, decorative womanhood, anticipated a new era of equality and established her as the founder of...
Ilustrowane wydawnictwo Chopin, autorstwa Mieczysława Tomaszewskiego, przygotowane zostało z okazji obchodów 160. rocznicy śmierci oraz 200. rocznicy urodzin Fryderyka Chopina. Syntetyzujące...
Kronika opery od 1992 do 2012 roku powstała ze względu na przypadający w tym roku jubileusz pracy Michała Znanieckiego. Jest to opracowanie działalności artystycznej najwybitniejszego polskiego re...
Charles Manson was an unlikely messiah. Freshly paroled, he stumbled into San Francisco in 1967 just as thousands of impressionable young people were streaming into town for the Summer of Love. Pos...
Acclaimed for his good looks as much as his searing acting ability, Canadian actor Ryan Gosling first came to attention, aged 12, as a Mouseketeer in Disney's Mickey Mouse Club. After the show ende...
In 1978, the US government waged a war against organised crime. One man was left behind the lines. From 1976 until 1981, Special Agent Pistone lived undercover with the Mafia.
In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the sho...
The coronavirus outbreak is a grave test for China. Never since its founding in 1949 has the People's Republic seen an intense epidemic. The coronavirus is aggresive and spreads very fast, reaching...
This book documents a difficult period, with the whole of China fighting the coronavirus outbreak. It is part our effort to give readers both at home and abroad a full picture of China's battle aga...
A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an an...
'After having put my shoes on and let my thoughts wander, I am sure of one thing - to put one foot in front of the other is one of the most important things we do.'From those perilous f...
How can we bring people together?Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and heal...
The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science. Faraday’s forte was electricity, a revolut...