One of our best-known living philosophers Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideologic...
The classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a s...
Pierwsza polska biografia wielkiego poety XX wieku Paul Celan – Żyd, wieczny tułacz, rodem z Czerniowców, rubieży kultur i języków – był jednym z najwybitniejszych poet&o...
"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I w...
Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the twentieth-century world.
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most ...
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of ...
'Foucault must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists' The New York Times Book ReviewSociety Must Be Defended is Michel Foucault's devastating critiqu...
Światowy megabestseller Sapiens. Od zwierząt do bogów w graficznej odsłonie. Epicka, pięknie ilustrowana i pełna humoru historia ludzkości. A gdybyśmy tak 12 000 lat temu wpadli w pułapkę ...
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grote...
Najważniejsze studia i szkice o twórczości Czesława Miłosza z lat 1998–2011, które powstały jeszcze za życia noblisty i stanowiły komentarz do jego publikowanych wówczas ...
In 1960, when he was almost sixty years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people....
Bardzo ciekawe listy autora do tłumacza i do kolegi po piórze – dywagacje na temat tłumaczonych utworów, niuansów znaczeniowych, interpretacji, będę znakomitym dopowied...
Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards...
In this profoundly moving book, Emmy-winning journalist Elizabeth Flock explores the stories of three women living in deeply patriarchal places with destructive cultures of honour, places in which ...
Henryk Waniek odkrywa przed czytelnikami Śląsk, opisując go z niezwykłą wrażliwością. W erudycyjny i inteligentny sposób opowiada o kraju i krajobrazie, o ludziach i duchowych związkach, kt&...
Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. But magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe - has developed a bad reputation....
Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own, and when she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. E...
The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers, written by one of our greatest historiansNo American statesman has been as revered and ...