A beautifully told art story for children, looking at Georgia O'Keeffe's life through her masterpieces. Accompanied by stunning original illustrations from Alice Wietzel. - The Portrait of an Artis...
First published in 1938, this charming book introduces the British high street. Shops include the family butcher, the cheesemonger, the baker and confectioner and the oyster bar, as well as special...
What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood’s glittering success and subsequent collapse...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened...
Pocket Museum: Vikings brings together nearly 200 of the most remarkable artefacts that are held in museum collections around the world. Although the popular image of the Vikings is one of wild, vi...
The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as...
The authors of this book present a study of the first Arab novels that dealt with the Arab Spring in the period 2011-2013. They show the rapid reaction of Arab novelists to what happened in their c...
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than one per cent of the country's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized 'd...
Jak narodziła się tradycja kolędowania?Co znaczyły życzenia kolędników was hail?Czy dziś rozumiemy staroangielskie kolędy?Kto pierwszy całował się pod jemiołą?Jak rod...
The irreplaceable role of narrative in generating meaning inspires Ricoeur to develop an ingenious concept of narrative identity. The inclusion of issues such as mutuality of vulnerability and inde...
It should be stated that the book is an original scientific study of an applicatory nature, which combines management issues with numerous other areas. It allows for noticing and understanding a va...
This collection of essays is devoted to the perspective of agreement, often referred to as reconciliation or communication. […] Everyone is a human being and understanding this fact is share...
This book explores the philosophical issues raised by the fact that while some people, at a given time, have experienced fundamental changes to their frameworks of belief and evaluative commitment ...
Written in beautiful, accessible language, the linguistic and philosophical analyzes are presented carefully, and with care for both sides of the argument. The book is addressed to both the linguis...
Turn your inner voice from critic to coachAs humans, we all have a special ability that is unique to our species: an inner voice. It helps us focus, achieve our goals and reflect on lif...
‘Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn’t always like that. When she started out on Vogue she was often so miserable...
Przedstawione w tomie badania obejmują kilka dziedzin badań orientalistycznych: arabistykę, turkologię, ałtaistykę, indologię (z jej wewnętrznym zróżnicowaniem: sanskrytologię, tamilistykę i...
This book consists of five chapters. In the first chapter, we look at early Sm?ti cosmogonies presented in MS 1 and MDhP 175–176, 240. It is argued that the creation of the world is seen as a...
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey – from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly dig...