„Ossendowski zasłużył albo na nagrodę geografów za podróże, albo na Nobla za wyobraźnię pisarską”.Krzysztof MasłońAntoni Ferdynand Ossendowski nie bał się żyć....
Atomowy szpieg. Ryszard Kukliński i wojna wywiadów nie jest kolejnym głosem w jałowej i trwającej bez końca dyskusji pod hasłem „bohater czy zdrajca”. Choć autorzy z sympatią spo...
In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and ...
A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges...
Anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century will still have to read Orwell' Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of BooksWhether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittil...
Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays – to India, China and Africa – with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstron...
After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and ho...
Książka Ignacy Loyola, sam i na piechotę została uznana za jedną z najbardziej wartościowych biografii tego niezwykłego człowieka i założyciela Towarzystwa Jezusowego (jezuitów). Autor opisu...
The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall...
In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood a...
Michel de Montaigne was the originator of the modern essay form; in these diverse pieces he expresses his views on relationships, contemplates the idea that man is no different from any animal, arg...
Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materi...
ROZALIA CELAKÓWNA. PISMA Podtytuł: Notatki i wspomnienia z życia. Listy do kierownika sumienia ks. Władysława Całki CSsR. Odpowiedzi na pytania dla ostatniego kierownika sumienia
George Orwell's first published work, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of the poor in the late twenties. In a bug-infested hotel, survivin...
Skoordynowany przez Obywatelskie Forum Sztuki Współczesnej w maju 2012 roku strajk w obronie praw socjalnych artystów pod hasłem „Dzień bez sztuki” (w geście solidarności ...
A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from you...
Najgłośniejsza premiera 2016 roku!Jarosław Kaczyński to pierwszoplanowy polski polityk. W swojej autobiografii po raz pierwszy ujawnia swój punkt widzenia i wiele nieznanych dotąd szcz...
Niepokorna zakonnica w rozmowie szczerej do bólu.O siostrze Małgorzacie Chmielewskiej mówi się, że to zadziorna kobieta z charakterem. Już w wieku 10 lat została "eks...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened...
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...