Staroobrzędowcy, zwani również starowiercami, są potomkami Rosjan, którzy odrzucili reformy wprowadzane przez Patriarchę Nikona w Rosyjskiej Cerkwi Prawosławnej w drugiej połowie XVII...
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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...
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 ...
The historical milieu in Toruń, built from scratch after the Second World War by people working at the Universities in Vilnius and Lvov before 1939, has always boasted eminent personages. One of th...
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...
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past a...
Monografii Poszukiwanie tożsamości kulturowej w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej patronuje Milan Kundera, autor opublikowanego w 1983 r. artykułu Zachód porwany albo tragedia Europy Środkowej, te...
A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages, which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of power...
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...
The book contains a selection of articles written in the years 1962-2004 and published in English or French languages. They provide information and present views of the author on matters relating t...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Monografia pt.: „Towards an integrated conceptual model of metaphorical linguistic expressions in English" [W kierunku zintegrowanego modelu konceptualnego metaforycznych wyrażeń językow...
Now in paperback, this is a history of the cotton industry, and the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It won the Bancroft Prize and the Philip Taft Prize and w...