Maggie Delaney kończy swoją podróż dookoła świata. Za kilka dni ma wrócić do Londynu, lecz nagle sytuacja wymyka jej się spod kontroli. Porwana i uwięziona na pustyni, dowiaduje się, ...
A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain.1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off o...
Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced...
Major Nick Falconer jest człowiekiem z zasadami. Bardzo poważnie traktuje swoje obowiązki i uważa, że prawa należy przestrzegać ponad wszystko. W pracy śledczej jest konsekwentny i nieustępliwy. Mi...
No nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations – the illusory nature of much of what we call ‘progress’, the pr...
What characterize Armani's style and make it so contemporary and relevant are crossovers of identity and culture, as can be seen from the mannish taste that influences many of his recent collection...
Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes… it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur… and it had hands and fe...
Strings of colorful glass beads were a popular commodity traded throughout ancient Nubia in the earlier half of the first millennium AD. Combining macroscopic examination with laboratory analyses, ...
Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential...
W klinice neurochirurgii dziecięcego szpitala w Londynie ścierają się dwie osobowości. On: doktor Alistair North, Brytyjczyk, uznany specjalista, a jednocześnie ekscentryk i kobieciarz, wyznający z...
A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its ow...
The exhibition Jew, Pole, Legionary 1914-1920, marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, was planned as a reminder of a forgotten aspect of the Great War. The outbreak o...
Małżeństwo Susannah i Leonidasa było zaaranżowane, mimo to Susannah miała nadzieję na szczęśliwy związek. Jednak Leonidas w noc poślubną zostawił ją i wyjechał w interesach. Zaraz potem dowiedziała...
From its first publication in 1816 Rob Roy has been recognised as containing some of Scott's finest writing and most engaging, fully realised characters. The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a ...
Abby Hart od ponad dwóch lat prowadzi blog dla kobiet. Ma liczne grono fanek, a opisywanego przez nią narzeczonego wszystkie uznają za ideał. Abby nikomu go jeszcze nie przedstawiła, ale wła...
The volume edited by Prof. Dorota Siemieniecka is an original work of high cognitive value and significant practical qualities. I recommend reading it to educators, academic teachers, students of p...
‘Hello, I’m Raggedy Ann. Welcome to my world. I’m going to tell you about myself and this book. Some grown-ups think I’m just another rag doll with floppy arms and legs who ...
The Phoenix and the Carpet is E. Nesbit's second fantasy novel and is the sequel to Five Children and It.From Robert, Anthea, Jane and Cyril's new nursery carpet there falls...
When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block, whose son has been killed by Customs Officers. Unoffici...
Przed laty Wolf Arrandale został oskarżony o zamordowanie byłej żony i kradzież jej rodowych klejnotów. Ojciec Wolfa uwierzył w winę syna i zmusił go do wyjazdu z Anglii. Od tamtej pory Wolf...