W obecnym wydaniu wprowadzono istotne zmiany w hasłach odnoszących się do związków chemicznych, gdzie obok dawnych nazw podano nowe, zalecane przez Międzynarodową Unię Chemii Czystej i Stoso...
W latach 70. ubiegłego wieku w wielu krajach wystąpiło zjawisko finansyzacji, czyli gwałtownego wzrostu znaczenia i skali sektora finansowego w gospodarce, jak również wzrostu znaczenia czyn...
The ultimate guide to the history, science and community behind coffee. Here, Tristan Stephenson explores the origins of coffee, its journey around the world and cultural influence. A section on Fa...
This book is the first one in the world which contains anatomy of the whole tourism phenomen - a basic as well as managerial. It contains cultivating touring, organization touring, rendering servic...
In An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins brought us his engaging memoir of the first 35 years of his life from early childhood in Africa to publication of The Selfish Gene in 1976, when he shot to...
Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century.&q...
Oddajemy w Wasze ręce album ukazujący dawny i współczesny Lublin.Przypominamy w nim, jak wyglądało nasze miasto na przestrzeni ostatnich stu lat. Wiele miejsc w tym czasie w Lublinie c...
This volume contains a collection of selected papers presented in the working groups of the 23rd World Congress of Legal and Social Philosophy held in Kraków in August 2007. The papers focus...
The experience of comparative law extends the experience of Roman law, verifies it and points to the dead-end alleys into which one can be led if the precepts of Roman law are slavishly followed. R...
When Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland, in the 1980s, the country was in a state of subjugation, its living culture largely surviving only underground or in exile. Although the electi...
In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish populati...
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...
After 1945 central planning and management that failed to respect economic rules, above all, consumer preferences, led to the isolation of the Polish economy from global trends, as well as inhibite...
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 ...
Science: A Children's Encyclopedia brings all the essentials of science from elements and energy to gravity and the Periodic Table to life with astonishing pictures for kids.Packed with...
Currently, the key element upon which EU energy policy is focused is the implementation of the so-called Third Liberalisation Package. This policy is based on a mechanism of far reaching regulation...
"God's Playground" was first conceived in the early 1970s as a collection of essays on Polish History. I had just started my first academic post at the School of Slavonic and East Europea...
"God's Playground" was first conceived in the early 1970s as a collection of essays on Polish History. I had just started my first academic post at the School of Slavonic and East Europea...
On 17 December 2012 at the former Stasi prison, now the Political Museum in Rostock, the grand opening of the exhibition "Cold War. A brief history of the divided world " took place. The ...