For more than half a century, American power in the Pacific has successfully kept the peace. But it has also cemented the tensions in the toxic rivalry between China and Japan, consumed with endles...
From escalating climate change to the devastation in Syria, pandemic state surveillance to looming nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes stock of the world today. Over the course of ten conversations wit...
'Masterfully opens up a little explored realm: how the quest for religion and spirituality drives hundreds of millions of Chinese' Pankaj Mishra'A fascinating odyssey ... a nuanced group portrait o...
What makes a hit a hit? In Hit Makers, Atlantic Senior Editor Derek Thompson puts pop culture under the lens of science to answer the question that every business, every producer, every person look...
Subtitled, "A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything". A fascinating and amusing look at the hidden side of things, jammed full of anecdotes and provocative questions abou...
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 ...
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 ...
Dobrobyt społeczności lokalnych jest ściśle związany z poziomem kompetencji jednostek w tworzeniu i korzystaniu z postępu technologicznego, informacyjnego i społecznego. Książka przedstawia badania...
W książce przedstawiono interdyscyplinarną analizę czynników decydujących o zdolnościach rozwojowych lokalnych społeczności w pięciu wybranych regionach Polski. Analizie poddano wskaźniki ek...
Crikey, the world according to Clarkson's been a funny old place of late . . .For a while, Jeremy could be found in his normal position as the tallest man on British television but, mor...
Crikey, the world according to Clarkson's been a funny old place of late . . .For a while, Jeremy could be found in his normal position as the tallest man on British television but, mor...
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...
Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays – to India, China and Africa – with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstron...
Publikacja jest anglojęzycznym zwieńczeniem serii Genealogia współczesności. Historia idei w Polsce 1815–1939. Książka ma charakter przeglądowy, zawarte w niej są, przygotowane przez c...
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...