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 ...
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...
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...
"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...
Spis Treści :CONTENTSEditorial NoteIntroduction CHAPTER 1. Outline of the History of Jews in Poznań and Swarzędz CHAPTER 2. Source Materials Used in the Study of...
Kultury archeologiczne na ziemiach Polski w jej obecnych granicach w okresie późnej starożytności podlegały różnorodnym i daleko idącym przemianom. Na ten dynamiczny obraz złożyły się...
Spis Treści : INTRODUCTION (Justyna Łukaszewicz)Noémie COURTES, Plaute et Rotrou: la traduction des comédies au XVIIe siecle, entre respect et créationM...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...