So often in life, we get stuck in a cycle of response. We put out fires. We deal with emergencies. We stay downstream, handling one problem after another, but we never make our way upstream to fix ...
Autorka, Heidemarie hrabina Schall-Riaucour, wnuczka generała pułkownika Franza Haldera, pisząc biografię byłego szefa Sztabu Generalnego niemieckich Wojsk Lądowych (1938-1942) miała dostęp do całe...
'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) -- The Sunday Times Number 1 BestsellerWhat happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal accou...
Jak to jest, kiedy niespodziewanie pukają do drzwi, w 20 minut każą się spakować i opuścić ciepłe mieszkanie? Jak to jest pozostawić miejsce urządzane przez kilka lat i udać się w nieznane? Co stał...
Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby Seagull was obsessed with numbers. They were the keys that unlocked the randomness of football results, the beauty of art and the ...
Following World War I, Germany and Italy began to develop their aviation industry and seek new opportunities to expand their global presence. At the same time, Latin America was a region with an un...
Przedruk na podstawie oryginału, trzy tomy w jednym woluminie.Jedno z najlepszych źródeł do poznania życia polskiego w tragicznych chwilach końca XVIII wieku. Autor jako naoczny uczest...
A superb book Financial Times, Books of the YearAdam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he real...
In the 1930s, Germany was at a turning point, with many looking to the Nazi phenomenon as part of widespread resentment towards cosmopolitan liberal democracy and capitalism. This was a global situ...
If you could reinvent the internet now, what would it look like?'A superb and timely book showing how we can face up to the tsunami of big data that threatens to engulf us all' Stephen Fry
Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis the detailed records of one squad from the Nazis' extermination groups and ...
„Grzeszna cyganeria” to wyjątkowo ciekawa publikacja autorstwa Stefanii Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowskiej. Autorka podejmuje intrygujący temat skandali w polskim życiu artystycznym dwudziesto...
How did the ancient Chinese think about the world? What does environmental consciousness stand for in the Chinese tradition? Where does China's obsession with education come from? We ar...
First seen during the American Civil War and later appearing in the Franco-Prussian War and the Anglo-Boer Wars, the armored train came to prominence on the Eastern Front during World War I. It was...
"Marc Morris jest historykiem i prezenterem telewizyjnym specjalizującym się w tematyce średniowiecza, a także autorem książek A Great and Terrible King, King John oraz Norman Conquest, ogłosz...
‘A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters’ Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin History of China
At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own.The creator of the phenomenally bestselling Disc...
VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times...
In the era of celebrity culture, we are now more fascinated than ever with the lives of our leading artists. Creative personalities are always intriguing, and to learn something new about the great...