January 2021: in one week, a motley crew of retail traders on Reddit's r/wallstreetbets forum seemingly accomplish the impossible - they bring down some of the biggest, richest players on Wall Stre...
The award-winning Financial Times columnist exposes the threat that Big Tech poses to our democracies, our economies and ourselves'Powerful' Sunday TimesGoogle and Facebook ...
Imponujący zbiór tekstów z lat 1951-2004 tworzy plastyczne i ruchome tło dla życiowych perypetii oraz umysłowych przygód Czesława Miłosza – od decyzji pozostania na emigr...
Reportaż totalny. Kronika naszych czasów. Jedna z ważniejszych książek non-fiction ostatnich lat. Ponad 795 milionów ludzi na świecie wciąż cierpi głód. Co dziewiąty mieszkan...
In over a year of on-the-ground reportage, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled across the US to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America to...
'A fabulous journey through thirty years of political and intellectual ferment ... will reorient our reading of Foucault's major works' Didier EribonThe Essential Works of Michel Foucau...
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...
'Such an addictive and likeable book...One of this year's best memoirs' The Telegraph'It's the resistance to the obvious narratives that makes Rough Magic so appealing: the book undermi...
Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his...
Kronika życia społeczności żydowskiej w Krakowie w latach 1939–1945. Pamiętniki, dzienniki, wspomnienia, zapisane rozmowy po latach, prasa, dokumenty, archiwalne fotografie i… nasza pa...
When Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, his goal was simple: to offer paying customers a trip to space by the end of the decade. Seventeen years, countless delays, and one catastrophi...
Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened. Today, average...
Imponujący zbiór tekstów z lat 1951-2004 tworzy plastyczne i ruchome tło dla życiowych perypetii oraz umysłowych przygód Czesława Miłosza – od decyzji pozostania na emigr...
'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging ...
Trzecia część Rozmów zagranicznych z Czesławem Miłoszem i zarazem piąty wolumen rozmów z Noblistą dostarcza kolejnej porcji cennych komentarzy poety do spraw nurtujących go przez lata...
From Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Joseph Stiglitz, this account of the dangers of free market fundamentalism reveals what has gone so wrong, but also shows us a way out.
In this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift in our view of Stalin as an ally in the Second World War. Stalin's only difference from Hitler, he argues, was ...
When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured?Every society in the history of humanity ha...
This is the inside story of a small group of mavericks, eccentrics and geniuses who turned Artificial Intelligence from a fringe enthusiasm into a transformative technology. It's the story of how t...
The end of Europe's empires has so often been seen as a story of high politics and warfare. In Tim Harper's remarkable new book the narrative is very different: it shows how empires were fundamenta...