Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. Above all, it will make you think in ways you had not thought before.’ Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast, and SlowYuval Noa...
Selected as a Book of the Year by many of the British broadsheets, Vanished Kingdoms is a dazzling account of Europe's lost realms, which peers through the cracks of history to discover the kingdom...
Antony Beevor's impressive military history of the D-Day landings and battle for Normandy now in paperback. Making use of overlooked and new material, Beevor's gripping narrative brings to life bot...
W imieniu Komitetu Redakcyjnego mam zaszczyt przedstawić zbiór studiów i prac, dedykowanych Profesorowi Wacławowi Uruszczakowi, wybitnemu historykowi i znawcy prawa.Praca powsta...
W imieniu Komitetu Redakcyjnego mam zaszczyt przedstawić zbiór studiów i prac, dedykowanych Profesorowi Wacławowi Uruszczakowi, wybitnemu historykowi i znawcy prawa.Praca powsta...
The book collects the most contemporary issues related to the process of ageing of societies in Central and Eastern Europe. The multiplicity of topics presented with the variety of theoretical and ...
Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots buried in mountains of data. Yet this makes the need for trained field operatives who can...
A brilliant synthesis of history, psychology and storytelling, written in a clear and accessible style. Drawing on diverse sources, Pinker makes the bold and nuanced argument that we are living in ...
Monografia składa się z dziesięciu artykułów autorstwa polskich i zagranicznych literaturoznawców zajmujących się twórczością noblisty J.M. Coetzee’go. Teksty stanowią ko...
Cultural Heritage of Central and Eastern Europe is still little known, but is increasingly being exposed as an area for scientific research. This region of Europe has experienced exceptional histor...
In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Milet...
From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continenta...
This book is about reading. Throughout the book, the author explains the complexity of the dual-language involvement of FL/L2 reading by showing how L1 and FL/L2 factors interplay in FL/L2 reading....
The classical work of Samuel Pufendorf on the reign of Charles X Gustav, King of Sweden, printed in Nuremberg in 1696, has not been systematically explored. The translation project made it possible...
"You are not simply the sum output of your genome," write Deepak Chopra and Rudy Tanzi, Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. "You are t...
The publication of Ambassador of the Middle Kingdom met with widespread interest in China and was described as the best monograph in the world about Michal Boym. It was recognized as containing the...
The book Academics of Jewish Heritage in the Modern History of the Jagiellonian University is a collective work, anniversary commemorative publication connected with the 650th anniversary of the fo...
Cultural heritage is one of the concepts that have made an unusual career in the 20th century. The cultural codes associated with it – senses, meanings, and ideas, characteristic for specific...
Książka zawiera artykuły poświęcone poezji Eliota w przekroju od wczesnej do późnej twórczości, szczególnie uwzględniających ważne obecnie a mało opracowane w stosunku do tej p...
The founding father of modern political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, living in an era of horrific violence, saw human life as meaningless and cruel; here, he argues the only way to escape this brutal...