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,...
Książka Teresy Bruś Life Writing as Self-Collecting in the 1930: Cecil Day Lewis and Louis MacNeice stanowi porównanie twórczości autobiograficznej dwóch ważnych angielskich po...
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...
Transformacja demokratyczna w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej spowodowała zmiany na wielu płaszczyznach życia społecznego, z uwzględnieniem polityki i mediów masowych. W dwadzieścia lat po up...
Transformacja demokratyczna w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej spowodowała zmiany na wielu płaszczyznach życia społecznego, z uwzględnieniem polityki i mediów masowych. W dwadzieścia lat po up...
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...
W roku 2011 z inicjatywy i staraniem Wydawnictwa Naukowego Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu ukazał się drukiem t. I Opera selecta zawierający wybór prac Profesora poprzednio publiko...
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...
Ways of Knowing Places analyzes several responses to a crisis in American ethnographic and literary representation that began roughly in the 1960s. Confronted by unprecedental social, economic, and...
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...