In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein was just scraping by in Washington DC when an unusual job interview landed her in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama's stenographers. She joined the elite team who acc...
For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. From his beginnings as a Bristol g...
Richard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial reign of his grandfather Edward III. He suffered from the disastrous combination of a most exalted sense...
Designed as a fast bomber that could out-run the fighters of the era, the twin-engine Junkers Ju 88 became one of the most versatile aircraft of the Second World War. Such was the success of the de...
A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historiansWinston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British h...
No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story—until now."Many say I was the best geisha of my generation,"...
W nocy 11 września 1936 roku grupa republikańskich milicjantów otoczyła dom rodziny Roig i Diggle w El Masnou, w Barcelonie. Zanim mężczyźni uprowadzili Joana, chłopak zdążył krzyknąć do swe...
In The Spectacle of Illusion, professional magician-turned experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins investigates the arts of deception as practiced and popularized by mesmerists, magicians...
Pierwsza biografia trenera Kazimierza Górskiego Początek lat 70., w polskiej piłce od II wojny światowej brakuje znaczących sukcesów. Kadrę obejmuje nowy trener. Niedługo cały piłkar...
Patrick O'Brien provides the forward to this edition of the most successful Conway Maritime title. This book is the perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of ...
"An examination of European portraiture since the 1990s, this book shows how major changes in the continent’s political and societal realms have inspired photographers to capture a new i...
Na polskiej ziemi to wspomnienia Attili Szalaiego (1950–2020), węgierskiego dziennikarza i tłumacza, dyplomaty, historyka, działacza opozycyjnego, animatora życia kulturalnego, diarysty i pas...
In the wake of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time - and the only book written by someone who knew him....
Hans Frank, wyposażony przez Hitlera w pełnię władzy na terenie Generalnej Guberni, mógł także swobodnie decydować o losach Kościoła katolickiego na zarządzanym przez siebie terenie. W końcu...
From the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. Thompson's research for Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America, resul...
How does time function? What is ecstasy? What is illusion?Tantra is a set of beliefs and practices that originated in India, and combines eroticism, magic and metaphysics. The extraordi...
Two days after her husband of sixty-seven years dies, nonagenarian Miss Norma is diagnosed with cancer. When given her treatment options - surgery, chemo and radiotherapy - she rises to her full fi...
'In amongst the wreckage scenes of hope. An amazing man - Ahmad played the piano just to spread love' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2The incredible and inspirational true story of one young ma...
There was life before the fall.1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire wa...
1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich's existence had begun. Hitler was dead, but the war had still not ended. Everything had both ground to a halt and y...