Esther Kinsky, autorka i wielokrotnie nagradzana tłumaczka, wychodząc z własnych doświadczeń, opisuje stosunek między nazwami a rzeczami i zmiany, jakie w tym kontekście dokonują się w procesie tłu...
Pogłębiamy nasze rozumienie świata przez sumienność i metodyczność, lecz na tej drodze często spotyka nas rozczarowanie. Im mocniej wyostrzamy spojrzenie, tym bardziej widzimy samo doświadczenie, a...
John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding (1690) and Two Treatises of Government (1690) weighed heavily on the his...
From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have helped both change the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped. A great orator, however, has to have the right words and the right message t...
Blask. Ołtarz Mariacki Wita Stwosza to książka składająca się z kilku części. Jedna z nich to materiał ikonograficzny przedstawiający stan samego ołtarza, wykonany przez Andrzeja Nowakowskiego. Pos...
The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall...
Język polski w medycynie to publikacja adresowana do studentów anglojęzycznych studiujących medycynę w Polsce. Przeznaczona jest dla osób, które ukończyły kurs podstawowy język...
Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich.Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on rul...
Publikacja podsumowuje prace projektowo-badawcze architekta Kuby Szczęsnego i zaproszonej przez niego grupy współpracowników. Badania miały na celu opracowanie systemu punktowego oczy...
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...
With its wry portrayal of a shallow, materialistic 'leisure class' obsessed by clothes, cars, consumer goods and climbing the social ladder, this withering satire on modern capitalism is as pertine...
Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves t...
The first monograph in English on a major Polish painter.Józef Halas (1927-2015) is one of the major Polish painters of his generation. Active in Wroclaw from 1949 until his deat...
The election of populist far-right party Law and Justice in 2015 marked a shocking break in Polish politics. A period of stability was brutally interrupted as Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his allies took...
Egon Schiele postrzegany jest jako skandalista i ekscentryk – krytyczny względem siebie i innych, bezkompromisowy w swej sztuce i niezależny w obranej postawie życiowej. Zaledwie w wieku 28 l...
What does it mean to be truly free? And can any of us be free until all of us are?Nobel Peace Prize nominee Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freed...
A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress.We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to practice ...
From Tudor times to the First World War, this paperback exhibition book accompanying Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920 charts these women’s journeys to becoming profess...
A fascinating introduction to the life and work of John Constable, this book highlights key aspects of his innovative practice and the ways in which he brought a new vivacity to the observation of ...
This book is an engaging introduction to the life and work of John Singer Sargent, the most accomplished portrait painter of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century.John Singer ...