Słownik zawiera około 500 aktualnych haseł wraz z przykładami ilustrującymi ich użycie. Obejmuje wszystkie aspekty nauk o filmie, zawiera najważniejsze terminy teoretyczne i techniczne związane z f...
Publikacja jest anglojęzycznym zwieńczeniem serii Genealogia współczesności. Historia idei w Polsce 1815–1939. Książka ma charakter przeglądowy, zawarte w niej są, przygotowane przez c...
Migration is not only a demographic, sociological or economic problem. It is a complex multidimensional issue within the member states of the European Union which is a source of complications in th...
Within the area of media studies the radio seems relatively neglected. It is television, Internet and its applications, or even the press, though declining but still important, that the gather much...
Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of In...
Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of In...
George Orwell's first published work, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of the poor in the late twenties. In a bug-infested hotel, survivin...
Describing bizarrely popular Victorian street slang, the madness of crowds, stock market mania (from the South Sea Bubble to Tulip fever), popular fashions, fads, crazes, schemes and scams, this br...
Książka opisuje problemy grup narodowych lub etnicznych, które dążą do zachowania swojej tożsamości mimo braku własnego państwa. Gromadzi artykuły badaczy zainteresowanych różnymi asp...
It is the aim of this essay to study the period of history from 1861 to 1872 so far as it relates to the American Negro. In effect, this tale of the dawn of Freedom is an account of that government...
„Herito” – kwartalnik ukazujący się w wersji polsko-angielskiej – to nowa inicjatywa Międzynarodowego Centrum Kultury. Mamy nadzieję, że stanie się jedynym w swoim rodzaju f...
Kiedy przed dwudziestu laty Adam Miłobędzki nazwał socmodernizmem okres od końca lat pięćdziesiątych do lat osiemdziesiątych ubiegłego wieku i w wydanej nakładem Międzynarodowego Centrum Kultury ks...
Krajobraz to nie tylko malarskie lub wzrokowe efekty – pisał w 1943 roku Stanisław Vincenz – lecz także gleba, po której stąpamy i na której pracujemy, jej falistość lub r...
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...
Since their first publication in 1821, de Maistre's dark writings have fascinated and appalled critics, with their relentless hatred of the Enlightenment and view of humans as murderous beasts who ...
Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on ...
Today, hundreds of thousands of people, desperate to escape war, violence and poverty, are crossing the Mediterranean to seek refuge in Europe. Our response from our protected European standpoint, ...
This is the ultimate guide to the world of the Freak. Renegade thinkers and bestselling sensations Levitt and Dubner have carefully curated the very best of their blogs, conversations, wisecracks a...
The book presents an analysis of five major communitarian critiques of liberalism. Particular communitarians (A. Etzioni, M. Walzer, M. Sandel, Ch. Taylor, A. MacIntyre), though not all of them ide...