'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.'In this c...
This short primer distils Ruchir Sharma's decades of global analytic experience into ten rules for identifying nations that are poised to take off or crash.A wake-up call to economists ...
Behind the Throne is a history of family life.The families concerned were royal families. But they still had to get up in the morning. They ate and entertained their friends and worried...
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..."Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he...
'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.'Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left...
'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.
Książka Bockrisa to fascynująca biografia człowieka-legendy, prekursora popartu, najsłynniejszego i najbardziej kontrowersyjnego amerykańskiego artysty.Warhol zrewolucjonizował współcz...
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy'What does it mean to be a good person? R...
In 2008, Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown, and Bobby Murphy made a photo app called Snapchat. Just two years later, Facebook wanted to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. This is the story of how Snapchat grew ...
Index funds are the most widely influential investment vehicles available. They have revolutionised investing by saving millions of people billions of dollars in fees that would otherwise have gone...
Skandalista, alkoholik, chuligan – taki obraz Wojaczka wyłania się z dokumentów milicyjnych. Poeta wpisuje się w nurt kontestacji lat 60-tych: niezgoda na mieszczańską stabilizację, si...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - kaleki bon vivant fascynujący oryginalnością swej sztuki, samotny w tłumie przyjaciół i wielbicieli, symbol paryskiej cyganerii schyłku XIX stulecia. Legenda za k...
Tołstoj był człowiekiem pełnym sprzeczności. Mimo uwielbienia dla Franklina i jego purytańskich zasad życia przegrywał w karty kolejne wsie i folwarki. Nie mógł lub nie potrafił porozumieć s...
The World of Sex is Henry Miller's most important essay, the manifesto in which he explains why sex matters and why he wrote his famously banned novels, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. Se...
The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today'<...
Soren Kierkegaard, one of the most passionate and challenging of modern philosophers, is now celebrated as the father of existentialism - yet his contemporaries described him as a philosopher of th...
The elder daughter of Henry VIII, Mary I (1553-58) became England's ruler on the unexpected death of her brother Edward VI. Her short reign is one of the great potential turning points in the count...
In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One li...
From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain's twentieth century.It is usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of con...
Słynny tekst o miłości - dziewiętnastowieczne kazanie - który zmienił życie milionów ludzi, opracowany przez Paulo Coelho. Autor, wychodząc od słynnego „Listu do Koryntian&rdquo...