At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the...
Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend - sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden-centre lovers and those in search of a good time are all welcome.This sparkling collection of Sue To...
"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...
Książka stanowi cenny przyczynek do badań źródeł sukcesu i znaczenia polskiej kadry technicznej w Dwudziestoleciu Niepodległości.Bohaterowi tej pracy przypadła chlubna rola twór...
Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend - sun-worshippers, work-shy writers, garden-centre lovers and those in search of a good time are all welcome.This sparkling collection of Sue To...
The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe's economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, 'the emerging r...
Francis Bacon's landmark writings on subjects ranging from anger and ambition, marriage and money to envy and empire established him as the founding father of modern scientific thinking, with his r...
In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the fou...
Książka stanowi cenny przyczynek do badań źródeł sukcesu i znaczenia polskiej kadry technicznej w Dwudziestoleciu Niepodległości.Bohaterowi tej pracy przypadła chlubna rola twór...
"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...
ALBUM FOTOGRAFICZNY - TWÓRCZOŚĆ HELMUTA NEWTONAŚwiat Helmuta Newtona jest niezwykle złożony i różnorodny. Uznany w latach sześćdziesiątych za szokującego prowokatora dziś cieszy...
North Korea continues to make headlines, arousing curiosity and fear in equal measure. The world’s most secretive nuclear power, it still has Gulag-style prison camps, allows no access to the...
"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'...
In March 2002 Basia Meder began her adventure of a lifetime, a solo backpacking journey in Africa. Equipped with previous backpacking experiences in fifty countries around the world she freed hers...
This collection of essays on sound and sense in modern poetry draws on several papers given at a seminar in Turin as part of the ESSE conference in August 2010. Other contributions congenial to the...
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a c...
Czy wiesz że ... co dziesiąty Polak jest szlachcicem!?Być może nasi przodkowie odegrali w polskiej historii rolę ważniejszą niż myślimy? Może przed laty nie chciano, byśmy wiedzieli, że...
In September 2012, a YOUGOV poll conducted in Britain found that the person British workers would most like as their manager was Sir Richard Branson.With over 40 years in business, Rich...
To celebrate The Rolling Stones's 50 years in show business, this is a biography of frontman Mick Jagger, which gives fans an insight into a more complex, impressive and often endearing character. ...
After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of Fre...