Credited with creating some of the most luxurious and spectacular haute couture pieces of all time, Christian Dior became a fashion icon overnight in 1947 with the launch of his ‘New Look&rsq...
Esej monograficzny Wojciecha Kajtocha, znanego medioznawcy, historyka i teoretyka literatury, ma wiele walorów poznawczych. Porusza zasadniczo nowy temat, który wcześniej nie został z...
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...
Photography: The Whole Story leads you through the world’s most iconic photographs – those images that have become key reference points in our conception of ourselves and the world arou...
Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, to Covid-19. People living through the crises have ...
The aesthetic of our contemporary environment, including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 191...
Słownik hebrajsko-angielsko-polski jest przeznaczony głównie dla osób rozpoczynających swoją przygodę z językiem hebrajskim lub znających go w stopniu średnio zaawansowanym. Publikacj...
The advent of railways played an instrumental part in Britain’s economic and social revolution in the 19th century, with technical advances that were the envy of the world. From the beginning...
The idea of democracy which emerged in the Athenian polis constitutes a major determinant of social and political life at the and of the 20th and the begining of the 21st century. Both indirect and...
What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero’s Baths?’ – so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have on public consciousnes...
Bauhaus Goes West is the story of cultural and artistic exchange between Germany and the West over a period of seventy years. It presents a view of the influential Bauhaus school in relation to the...
W ostatnich latach media i technologie cyfrowe znacząco wpłynęły na kształt rynku wydawniczo-księgarskiego, procesy produkcji i dystrybucji książki, jej formę edytorską oraz społeczny obieg i prakt...
Nearly three decades after the publication of the ground-breaking Foundations of Cognitive Grammar (vol. 1, 1987), the framework devised by Ronald W. Langacker for a cognitively-grounded account of...
Of What Is Passing: Present-Tense Narration in the Contemporary Historical Novel explores a type of fiction that is illustrative of two current trends: on the one hand, the increasing popularity of...
A concise, accessible, and up- to-date overview of the arts of Africa from prehistoric times to the present day.This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African con...
This work is a fascinating attempt to probe deep into the socio-cultural ramifications of the visual artefacts of ancient India, which has a rich heritage of iconographic treasures of varying sizes...
The complex phenomenon of colour has received detailed attention from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, physiology, psychology, linguistics and philosophy. However, the people who work most c...
The book is dedicated to the topic and relevant issue, namely the impact of the war in Ukraine on the policy of the Visegrad Group countries. Collective monography deals with various aspects of rel...
This book […] is the result of a scholarly intervention into the space of the Kraków Ethnographic Museum. While reflecting on one specific project, it opens many questions relevant fo...