At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulate...
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report presented in March 2014, today climate change is already having substantial and widespread impacts which are being felt on all cont...
'Masterfully opens up a little explored realm: how the quest for religion and spirituality drives hundreds of millions of Chinese' Pankaj Mishra'A fascinating odyssey ... a nuanced group portrait o...
What is reality, really?Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive?How does this change the way we understand the world?We humans tend to be...
If you can persuade a cat ... you can persuade anyone. This is the essential guide to getting your way.Jay Heinrichs, award-winning author of Thank You for Arguing and advisor to the Pe...
What makes a hit a hit? In Hit Makers, Atlantic Senior Editor Derek Thompson puts pop culture under the lens of science to answer the question that every business, every producer, every person look...
Is anything ever not an interpretation? Does interpretation go all the way down? Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think ...
Z recenzji wydawniczej prof. zw. dra hab. Juliana Maliszewskiego (Katedra Języka Biznesu Politechniki Częstochowskiej):„Tom zbiorowy (…) Selected aspects of interpreting in...
Native Lands is Norman Davies's account of a global circumnavigation, of the places he visited and the history he found there, from Abu Dhabi to Singapore, the settlement of Tasmania to the short-l...
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combinati...
From the international bestselling expert on dealing with assholes'With cutting-edge research and real-life examples that are thought-provoking and often hilarious, thisis an indispensable resource...
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It...
'A history of resilience ... sweeping, comprehensive ... it's a story that has been waiting to be told' Guardian 'An account sorely needed ... a kaleidoscopic view of Native American history, refre...
Przekład ustny jest taką formą przekładu, w której — oprócz transferu języka źródłowego na język docelowy — dochodzi do wielu procesów kognitywnych oraz psyc...
An attempt to present another critical study about the fiction of Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) virtually amounts to Benedykt Chmielowski’s descript...
The work begins with a chapter which presents the genesis of the ECHR, which is important for a proper understanding of the Convention system, and this is followed by a chapter on the principles of...
Oddawana do rąk Czytelnika monografia jest pierwszą anglojęzyczną publikacją prezentującą w sposób kompleksowy regulacje prawne Rady Europy dotyczące medycznie wspomaganej prokreacji. Autor,...
The problem of restitution of cultural property is by no means a new one. This study’s aim is to reconstruct the philosophical-legal issues connected with restitution of cultural property by ...
Prezentowany tom jest zbiorem tekstów autorstwa polskich i włoskich historyków sztuki dotyczących problematyki artystyczno-ideowej jezuickich kompleksów uniwersyteckich Genui i...