Paul Klee (1879–1940) created some of the most innovative and best-loved works of the twentieth century in etching, drawing, ink, pastel, oil paint, and watercolor. Although he moved freely b...
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...
The exploits of the famous never cease to captivate our imaginations – rulers, artists, explorers, and ?all the great personalities of history. Yet many quieter lives also have the ability to...
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...
The definitive overview of Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel creations since his first show in 1983 – the first book in a new ‘Catwalk’ series. A treasure trove of inspiration, this r...
The definitive overview of Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel creations since his first show in 1983 – the first book in a new ‘Catwalk’ series. A treasure trove of inspiration, this r...
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...
"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...
"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'...
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...
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...
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would...
Oto prawda o mrocznym sercu BaliHotel K to szokująca opowieść o więzieniu i jego mieszkańcach, o dzikich nocach seksu organizowanych przez skorumpowanych strażników dla więźni&oa...
Oto prawda o mrocznym sercu BaliHotel K to szokująca opowieść o więzieniu i jego mieszkańcach, o dzikich nocach seksu organizowanych przez skorumpowanych strażników dla więźni&oa...
Oto prawda o mrocznym sercu BaliHotel K to szokująca opowieść o więzieniu i jego mieszkańcach, o dzikich nocach seksu organizowanych przez skorumpowanych strażników dla więźni&oa...
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had th...
Doskonale udokumentowana historia mniej nagłośnionych procesów zbrodniarzy hitlerowskich, jakie odbyły się tuż po wojnie w Dachau. Sądzono tam bezpośrednich oprawców: oficerów ...