From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning the ...
Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. This rapid change has imperilled the way we think. Without pausing to consider the cost, th...
Publikacja jest owocem konferencji pod patronatem Comité international d’historie de l’art (CIHA) zorganizowanej przez Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury i Zentralinstitut für K...
INVENTING THE ENEMY covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto Eco has written and lectured over the last ten years, from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his recent novel, The Pra...
Henry Kissinger brings his vast experience to bear on a history of CHINA viewed from a diplomatic perspective. Drawing on historical records as well as his personal conversations with Chinese leade...
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...
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...
Takiego albumu jeszcze nie było! Po raz pierwszy publikacja prezentuje wybór zdjęć polskich żołnierzy w trakcie desantu, rozpoznania terenu, niosących pomoc humanitarną czy podczas codzienny...
The extraordinary story of the collection of opportunists, journalists and spies who operated in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when the West were desperate to stop the spread of Bolshevi...
The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe's economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, 'the emerging r...
Transition from totalitarian regimes to democracy has substantially changed the governmental systems in the countries of the Central and Eastern European region. The introduction and operation of n...
The magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his worldIn January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound f...
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...