Over 20 years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journey, NOTES FROM A SMALL IS...
This book summarises more than a decade of work conducted by two researchers who set out to verify in archival sources the existing biographical information about Fryderyk Chopin, his family and hi...
An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's inimitable portrait of ‘the great Father of Waters&rsqu...
This book summarises more than a decade of work conducted by two researchers who set out to verify in archival sources the existing biographical information about Fryderyk Chopin, his family and hi...
In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to...
For nearly two years the two most infamous dictators in history actively collaborated with one another. The Nazi-Soviet Pact stunned the world when it was announced, the Second World War was launch...
This is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his sub...
Mieczysław Tomaszewski, Chopin: The Man, His Work and Its Resonance, jest poprawioną i uzupełnioną wersją anglojęzyczną książki – laureatki wielokrotnych nagród Chopin. Człowiek, dzieł...
"Chopin. Biografia ilustrowana" nie jest typową książką prezentującą życiorys wielkiego kompozytora. Album jest zbiorem esejów o niepospolitym człowieku i genialnym artyście. Autor...
"Chopin. Biografia ilustrowana" nie jest typową książką prezentującą życiorys wielkiego kompozytora. Album jest zbiorem esejów o niepospolitym człowieku i genialnym artyście. Autor...
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...
G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from th...
G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from th...
Angielskojęzyczna monografia Stanisław Wyspiański - Konstantinas Mikalojus Čiurlionis, Powinowactwa kultur, pogranicza sztuk (Stanisław Wyspiański - Konstantinas Mikalojus Čiurlionis, the Neighbour...
Angielskojęzyczna monografia Stanisław Wyspiański - Konstantinas Mikalojus Čiurlionis, Powinowactwa kultur, pogranicza sztuk (Stanisław Wyspiański - Konstantinas Mikalojus Čiurlionis, the Neighbour...
Album "Europa Chopina" prezentuje europejskie miejscowości, w których mieszkał i do których podróżował wybitny polski kompozytor - Fryderyk Chopin. Wśród nich ...
Jest to kronika wielkiej rywalizacji ponad tysiąca chopinistów - opowieść o radości zwycięzców i dramacie pokonanych. Chronologię walki o Grand Prix i inne nagrody przeplatają refleks...
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...
"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...
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...