With its wry portrayal of a shallow, materialistic 'leisure class' obsessed by clothes, cars, consumer goods and climbing the social ladder, this withering satire on modern capitalism is as pertine...
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...
„Wążer? Łonga”? Kiedy przybywał na Wyspy Brytyjskie, dziennikarze nie wiedzieli nawet, jak poprawnie wymówić jego nazwisko. Ale wystarczyły dwa sezony, by zaczęto odmieniać je w ...
Nowa książka najczęściej nagradzanej dziennikarki 2015 roku. Zbiór reportaży Justyny Kopińskiej „Polska odwraca oczy” to opowieści o najważniejszych niewyjaśnionych s...
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannica...
Mary Wollstonecraft's passionate declaration of female independence shattered the stereotype of docile, decorative womanhood, anticipated a new era of equality and established her as the founder of...
Starali się o niego najbogatsi. Odmawiał Realowi Madryt, Bayernowi Monachium i Chelsea. Odrzucił nawet opiewającą na 13,5 miliona euro ofertę z Kataru. Wszystko po to, by pozostać wiernym Liverpool...
Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves t...
Książka zawiera relacje Beaty Babiarczyk, polskiej pielęgniarki, która jako jedna z pierwszych zdecydowała się skorzystać z możliwości podjęcia legalnej pracy w Norwegii, dokąd wyjechała po ...
Po niemal pięciu dekadach wojny z narkotykami ugruntowane przekonanie o szkodliwości wszelkich substancji psychoaktywnych zaczyna rozpadać się pod naporem kolejnych dowodów naukowych.B...
This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours.
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 ...
Throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you.'
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....
Ten zbiór esejów ma za punkt wyjścia złowieszczy fenomen Mein Kampf - książkę z połowy lat dwudziestych XX wieku, która również przez wielkich tamtego świata nigdy nie z...
From the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. Thompson's research for Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America, resul...
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertainin...
From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - Alain de Botton sets out to unders...
Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother an...