The title of this volume appears to suggest that modernity is somehow devoid of something of utmost importance. Sixteen years after the death of Leo Strauss, certainly one of the most profound thin...
Solidarity and prosperity fostered by economic integration: this principle has underpinned the European project from the start, and the establishment of a common currency was supposed to be its mos...
Nothing enflames the language gripers like a misplaced disinterested, an illogical irregardless, a hideous operationalisation. To a purist these are 'howlers' and 'non-words', fit only for scorn. B...
A book can be both a good academic manual and a source of knowledge for practitioners – the media employees (especially managers). The author skillfully combines various conventions making a ...
Zbiór artykułów Poets of the past. Poets of the Present, stanowiący uzupełnienie oraz kontynuację tematyki poruszonej w 3. tomie serii between.pomiędzy, porusza problem wpływu poezji ...
Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging. These writings from On the Origin of Spec...
Książka zawiera szczegółowy wstęp i 12 artykułów różnego autorstwa, poświęconych prozie Paula Austera w przekroju od wczesnej do najświeższej twórczości, ze szczeg&oacut...
Słownik dokumentuje potoczne wykrzyknienia w języku angielskim. Te krótkie wyrażenia emocjonalne służą jako użyteczny środek przekazywania informacji i stanowią ważną część leksykonu angiels...
In this uniquely skewed look at the purpose and function of a book, Smith offers an illustrated guide that asks readers to creatively examine all the different ways "This Is Not a Book" c...
This book develops a model of bioethics. Integrated in science. The main idea is that medical professionals and biologists do have sufficient moral competences to determine their own ethical frames...
The authors of the "Freakonomics" books on using data over emotion to answer questions have turned what they've learned into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking smarter, harder ...
An account of the extraordinary meeting between four brilliant political activists: Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Pentagon Papers insider Daniel Ellsberg and...
The present book focuses on the morphological analysis of Classical Japanese verbal and adjectival forms. It does not present any new facts (or hardly any), but attempts to describe them in a new w...
This is Freud's groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man, subject to psychotic episodes and neuroses. Through the patient's dream of childhood wolves, Freud was able to determine his rea...
This is Freud's groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man, subject to psychotic episodes and neuroses. Through the patient's dream of childhood wolves, Freud was able to determine his rea...
Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous f...
An impressive work of media and communication scholarship, this meticulously researched book provides comprehensive and authoritative treatment to the development of European Union media policy, in...
Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on ...
This pioneering monographic dictionary documents Spanish loanwords in American slang, a vibrant and expanding part of informal lexicon of American English. The dictionary describes over 500 such ex...
For some four centuries the Ottoman Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Europe as well as ruler of the Middle East. By 1914 it had been drastically weakened and circled by numerous p...