In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often...
Anne Applebaum is a leading historian of communism and a penetrating investigator of contemporary politics. Here she sets her sights on the big question, one with which she herself has been deeply ...
Typeface combinations don’t always work together naturally. For an experienced designer, the process becomes largely intuitive, but even seasoned professionals sometimes struggle to come up w...
This book seeks to examine and explore an issue within the study of constitutionalism that is an extensive phenomenon that cannot be easily reduced merely to the written legal document. Now this cl...
Uncovered is an oral history of the stories behind the most ground-breaking and controversial magazine covers ever published, as told by the people who created them.Compiled by industry...
An indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky's talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the world's leading intellectuals of the ...
From the burrows and secret bunkers beneath our feet to imagined hellscapes and surrealist dreamscapes, the disquieting, alarming and wonderful visuals span natural and constructed subterranea and ...
Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail... '26 February, White House Briefing RoomThe coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Suddenly it's not just a public health...
For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her dau...
We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world?The answer to that is one of the strange...
Something really strange happened 10,000 years ago, and it changed everything.Why did millions of people agree to obey a few leaders? Where did kings and kingdoms come from?
Translated by F Max-Muller, revised and with an Introduction by Suren Navlakha.Upanishads are mankind's oldest works of philosophy, predating the earliest Greek philosophy. They are the...
A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS
In a riveting journey into the recent past, he traces how six distinctive modern nations - Finland, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Germany and Australia - have survived defining catastrophes, and identif...
Bibliofilski album fotograficzny dokumentujący rejon historycznego Urzecza, rozpościerającego się po obydwu stronach Wisły od południowych rubieży Warszawy aż po Pilicę i Wilgę. Wiktor Strumiłło, w...
From Brexit, to Donald Trump, to extremist parties in Europe and the developing world, populism has dominated recent headlines.But what explains the rise of leaders who stoke nationalis...
In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to al...
A landmark publication tracing the final months of Van Gogh’s life.Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: His Final Months offers a unique and impressive overview of the paintings and drawi...
The genius and the angst of a tortured talentToday, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In paintings such as Sunflowers,...