We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective survival: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with its rising risk of nuclear w...
Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering consciousness. I've Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett's own intellect and instructs us how we ...
A documentary filmmaker who spent years uncovering a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice to the millions who suffered through Covid; a magazine publisher who dodges the sec...
Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre optic cables an...
1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and y...
One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying ar...
'Art and art history jumped the tracks with Andy Warhol. Blake Gopnik's lucid account of the artist and the wild times puts all that back on track again. An eye-opening biography that reads like a ...
Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at...
Książka ukazuje różne momenty historii Polski – od XI do XXI wieku. Ale wszystko jest tu na opak. Narodowe katastrofy jako następstwa „wstawania z kolan”. Pierwsze powstani...
Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them beforeFancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit wi...
A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporationPerhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial for...
The runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications for our economy, society and way of life, even leaving Silicon Valley as a new Rust Belt, its techn...
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A History of the Bible, this is the story of how the Bible has been translated, and why it mattersThe Bible is held to be both universal and ...
Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience....
Syndrom Pogorelicia wyrasta z zainteresowań performatywnością muzyki i samą performatyką jako alternatywnym podejściem do refleksji o sztuce dźwięku. Performatywność zmusza do wyjścia poza oswojoną...
Antologia tekstów Pawła Jasienicy to podróż w intelektualny świat polskiej inteligencji lat powojennych, w którym polemika publicystyczna stała się jedną z form walki z narzuco...
Wojciech Jerzy Has, Janusz Morgenstern oraz tandem realizatorski Jerzy Hoffman i Edward Skórzewski – to znani reżyserzy, którzy w różnych latach wywierali mniej lub bardz...
Ewa Kierska – krakowska artystka niedoceniana, zapomniana, przemilczana. Nikt dotąd nie zdecydował się poświęcić jej twórczości wnikliwej pracy. Czy da się odnaleźć faktyczne powody ta...