A book as rich and sprawling as the seductive metropolis it evokes, Rio de Janeiro builds a kaleidoscopic portrait of this city of extremes, and its history of conflict and corruption. Award-winnin...
In his moving essay, Samuel Johnson offers wise words on confronting grief at the loss of a loved one. The other pieces here, ranging from art to marriage to morality, demonstrate the brilliance, p...
A profound influence on medieval Europe's view of the wider world, this thirteenth-century account of a Venetian merchant's amazing experiences in the court of the great Mongol leader, Kubilai Khan...
In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer.However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey from my c...
Features three essays that examine the nature of progress and development in the emerging global superpower, and asks fundamental questions about modern civilization itself. This title explores lif...
Aprofound consolation to early believers, these two books from the Bible deeply influenced the rise of the Christian church: the apocalyptic Revelation portraying the religion's ultimate triumph ov...
"Chopin. Biografia ilustrowana" nie jest typową książką prezentującą życiorys wielkiego kompozytora. Album jest zbiorem esejów o niepospolitym człowieku i genialnym artyście. Autor...
Not simply an investigation into melancholy, these unique essays form part of a panoramic celebration of human behaviour from the time of the ancients to the Renaissance. God, devils, old age, diet...
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...
"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 ...