Publikacja powstała w krakowskim ośrodku naukowym skupionym przy Akademii Ignatianum, posiadającym wybitne osiągnięcia w zakresie badań nad historią edukacji w Polsce, a zwłaszcza szkolnictwa jezui...
Mało znany jest aspekt internowania Polaków i przedstawicieli innych narodów okupowanych w obozach na terytorium Cesarstwa Habsburgów. W polskiej literaturze historycznej...
"Niestety generał Joseph Roth nie doczekał pierwszego wydania swojej książki. Z tego względu do przygotowanych przez Autora „Przedmowy” oraz „Wstępu” dodano „Słow...
No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations – the illusory nature of much of what we call ‘progress’, the pr...
Poczet książąt i księżnych mazowieckich otwiera Konrad I, protoplasta Piastów mazowieckich i kujawskich, kończy zaś Anna, córka Konrada III Rudego, ostatnia księżna mazowiecka. Publik...
"The European Union is struggling. The rise of Euroskeptic parties in member states, economic distress in the south, the migrant crisis, and Brexit top the news. But deeper structural problems...
Totally gripping … fascinating, revelatory and surreal -- Simon Sebag MontefioreHow do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror?This is untold story of on...
From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary...
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi from the middle ages to the present dayIn the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to...
"Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these writings from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust in the words of its first interpreters, the victims themselve...
'Superbly researched and enormously entertaining .. one of the outstanding books of the year' The TimesAn epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict, this ground-breaking biograp...
“Sometimes ideas change the world. This astonishing, miraculous, shattering, inspiring book captures the origins and the arc of the movement for sex equality. It’s a book whose time has...
"This volume is an excellent introduction to the world of J. R. R. Tolkien. Recounting in images and words the story of his early years and life as a scholar and family man, the book also illu...
"After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Fuhrer's err...
"This richly illustrated publication explores the full career of the hugely influential and endlessly fascinating French-American artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). A pioneer whose creative ou...
Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management – including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management – have changed the way we view busines...
Prezentowane opracowanie stanowi czwarty tom z serii wydawniczej: „Polacy – Syberia. XVIII-XIX wiek”. W pracy zamieszczone zostały materiały ukazujące stosunek przedstawiciel...
Książka Zbigniewa Rylskiego to przykład literatury historycznej tworzonej przez samych Powstańców. Zwróćmy uwagę, że w przypadku batalionu „Parasol” zdecydowaną większość,...
'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, Guardi...
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...