Biografia króla Bawarii Ludwika II Wittelsbacha, przyjaciela i mecenasa Wagnera, budowniczego fantazyjnych zamków w Alpach, ostatniego romantyka na tronie. Potoczyście napisane ...
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...
A visual exploration of the movements of peoples, cultures, and ideas that brings a human perspective to a global phenomenonDiscover how the migration of peoples has shaped the modern world.<...
Pełna biografia Benedykta XVI Czy pontyfikat Benedykta XVI, jak powtarzali jego przeciwnicy, był jedynie pasmem porażek? Czy może wybór tego wybitnego myśliciela i konserwatysty, jednego z ...
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...
Sto lat temu, w 1918 roku Polska odzyskała Niepodległość. Cieszyła się nią krótko, aby pogrążyć się na kilkadziesiąt lat w mrokach II wojny światowej i komunizmu. W tych czasach zniewolenia ...
Niezwykle utalentowana malarka portretów i aktów, skandalistka, ikona ery jazzu.Urodziła się w Warszawie w 1898 roku w bogatej rodzinie należącej do elity kulturalnej. W czasie ...
'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours, I stayed up late unbuttoning Levis in back room...
"I give this as a present more than other book. I buy it for people so often that I’ve been known to give girlfriends two copies, one birthday after another’ - Dolly Alderton...
In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super-void. What could be the culprit? A super massive blac...
'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 ...
Przedstawiamy Państwu ósmy tom rozważań prof. dr. hab. Witolda Modzelewskiego na temat historii stosunków polsko-rosyjskich pt. "Polska – Rosja. Reset na stulecie pokoju ry...
A fast-paced, gripping insider account of the entrepreneurs and renegades racing to bring lab-grown meat to the world.The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmen...
Award-winning journalist and documentary maker Stefania Rousselle had stopped believing in love. She had covered a series of bleak assignments, from terrorist attacks to the rise of the far right. ...
Pierwsze polskie wydanie kultowej książki poświęconej projektowaniu. Od czego zależy, czy przedmiot jest dobrze lub źle zaprojektowany? Kiedy spełnia on oczekiwania użytkowników, a kiedy zas...
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.
Linda Nochlin’s landmark essay heralded the dawn of a feminist history of art. It remains fundamental to any appreciation of art today. At once challenging and enlightening, it is never less ...
No one can say they're a better all-around athlete than Mat Fraser. Weightlifting, gymnastics, kettlebells, running, swimming, rowing, Strongman: he's relentlessly trained them all, so you don't ha...
As the market consolidates under fewer and larger companies, it's increasingly in the interest of private companies to behave like nations. And when the government is bogged down in bureaucratic ne...