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...
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...
„Nowy to rodzaj malarstwa. Tu nie drzewo, nie miedź, nie płótno przedstawia te obrazy, ale niebo barwy, nawet podczas najciemniejszej nocy widziane". Tymi właśnie słowami prof. Ja...
"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 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...
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...
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...
Ocenianie nie jest zajęciem szczególnie przyjemnym, zwłaszcza jeżeli oceniać trzeba własne zachowania czy wyniki podejmowanych działań. Niemniej bywa zajęciem wdzięcznym, jeśli okazuje się,...
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...
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...
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...
Niniejszy tom zawiera pierwszy w polskiej literaturze naukowej zbiór osiemnastu wyselekcjonowanych tekstów powstałych na podstawie referatów, które wygłoszono podczas I ...
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...
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...
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...