Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months...
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grote...
Discover the key themes and big ideas behind more than 80 of the world's most important historical events - from the dawn of civilization to the 21st century.From the origins of Homo sa...
In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has ...
Praca zbiorowa pod redakcją Anny ParzymiesZbiór artykułów z dziedziny językoznawstwa, historii i sztuki uczonych z najważniejszych ośrodków orientalistycznych Europ...
For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. This is a book of extraordinary scope and daring. It is convent...
A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz K...
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...
Prace naukowe Marii Curie są powszechnie znane, a jej pisma pozwalają lepiej zrozumieć stosunki, jakie utrzymywała ze swoimi bliskimi, współpracownikami i naukowcami.Jej korespondencja...
Nietypowy autoportret jednego z najwybitniejszych współczesnych polskich reżyserów i animatorów. Główna jego część to opowieść obrazkowa ułożona z rodzinnych fotografii,...
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...
The emergence of cultural urban studies in the 21st century is a component of the global, intellectual landscape. In the historical perspective, there are studies on cultural urban studies in Engla...
Ptolemeias (Tolmeita) jest dużym śródziemnomorskim miastem położonym w Cyrenajce (Libia), w regionie z pozoru oddalonym od głównych ośrodków kultury antycznej, ale niezwykle at...
Publikacja stanowi wspaniałe źródło wiedzy o Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii Północnej. Adresowana jest przede wszystkim do tych uczniów gimnazjów i szkół ponadgimna...
Stability and changeability of identities, especially in the context of their disappearance and revival, is one of the leitmotifs of the current publication, which is a fruit of a collective effort...
In Halik Kochanski's extraordinary book, the untold story of Poland and the Poles in the Second World War is finally heardBy almost every measure the fate of the inhabitants of Poland w...
In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people.German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called...
'Shines an incisive and entertaining light into the secretive world of the South Korean technology giant shaping our digital lives in ways we probably can't imagine' -- Brad StoneCan th...
On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured ...