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...
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...
Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous f...
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 ...
The development of civilization and globalization processes have on one hand contributed to the improvement of the quality of life of a modern man, and on the other, faced him with a number of risk...
The Editors of the volume prepared under the National Center for Science project believe that over twenty years of experience is a good opportunity to analyze and assess the ethnic politisc of East...
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...
Zebrane w tomie artykuły to owoc dużej erudycji i przede wszystkim własnych dociekań Autorów. Tworzą bogatą, różnorodną, a przecież spoistą całość - będąc z jednej strony wyrazem szac...
Książka obejmuje szereg bardzo istotnych zagadnień, słabo opisanych w dotychczasowej literaturze, stąd wartość niniejszej monografii jest szczególna. Ujęcie tematu stanowiło wyzwanie dla aut...
Written at a time when most of Europe supported the French Revolution, Edmund Burke’s prescient and, at the time, controversial denunciation of its mob rule predicted the Terror, began the mo...
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...
In "Winner Take All", Dambisa Moyo cuts through the misconceptions and noise surrounding resource scarcity with a penetrating analysis of what really is at stake. Revealing the hard facts...