Książka Jolanty Ambrosewicz-Jacobs stanowi interesującą lekturę z dziedziny studiów nad polską pamięcią Holokaustu, a zwłaszcza jej kształtowania w procesie edukacji. Niemal w całości oparta...
Szósty tom serii „From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria” zawiera artykuły dotyczące kwestii związanych ze sztukami wizualnymi i muzyką, religią, problematyką gender oraz zagadnieniam...
Reading the Past, Understanding the Present offers an original approach towards interpreting the plays by William Shakespeare in the context of various crises and social phenomena occurring in the ...
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their w...
Released in 1984, Steven E. Rhoads' classic was considered by many to be among the best introductions to the economic way of thinking and its applications. This anniversary edition has been updated...
Piotr Piotrowski (1952–2015) stał się jedną z głównych postaci w dyskursie o historii sztuki w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej, a także globalnej historii sztuki, będąc wśród tych, ...
Publikacja poświęcona jest szesnastowiecznemu manuskryptowi z Nowej Hiszpanii (ob. Meksyk), zawierającemu trójjęzyczny słownik hiszpańsko-łacińsko-nahuatl. Jest to najstarsze znane dzieło le...
For generations now, Edward W. Said's Orientalism has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before...
‘We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinar...
The year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of premature death of Marian Smoluchowski, an outstanding Polish physicist, a pioneer of the kinetic theory of matter currently known as statistical physic...
Esej monograficzny Wojciecha Kajtocha, znanego medioznawcy, historyka i teoretyka literatury, ma wiele walorów poznawczych. Porusza zasadniczo nowy temat, który wcześniej nie został z...
Focusing on a carefully curated selection of Catholic art and artefacts, this book explains the meaning of the iconography and the mystic power of the faith's ritual objects. A wealth of often hidd...
What is a self? Greenblatt argues that the 16th century saw the awakening of modern self-consciousness, the ability to fashion an identity out of the culture and politics of one’s society. In...
This publication, which is now being bestowed on its readers, opens a new publishing series - Paphos Agora Project. Its purpose is to publish research results of the Jagiellonian University project...
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their w...
Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humour that has...
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their w...
Andrey Tarkovsky was the most important Russian filmmaker of the post-war era, and one of the world’s most renowned cinematic geniuses. He directed the first five of his seven films – I...
The most captivating and intriguing 19th-century murders from around the world are re-examined in this disquieting volume, which takes readers on a perilous journey around the world’s most be...
A new, fully updated edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth.David Attenborough’s unforgettable meeting with gorillas became an iconic moment for millio...