'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scraw...
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, here illustrated throughout the inner pages by Sir John Tenniel's much ...
The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the current obsession with self-help by decades. Leading the reader step by step ...
Although it is over 120 years since his infamous trial for indecency, Oscar Wilde has never held greater fascination for us. This packed illustrated biography tells the life of Oscar Wilde through ...
What is language?Why do we have it?Why does that matter?Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing accomplishment and one that remains poorly understood.Upe...
'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigati...
The Language o f Religion, Past and Present presents a collection of articles devoted to sacred language, based on materials from a cycle of interdisciplinary conferences with the participation of ...
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019'If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture, you should not miss this engrossing...
This is Frederick Forsyth's life in his own words; his highly anticipated autobiography is as thrilling as his fiction. Packed with anecdotes from a life well lived, THE OUTSIDER is an exclusive be...
This is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his sub...
How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction?From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himse...
For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakes...
Niniejsza publikacja stanowi ciekawą propozycję dla osób zajmujących się tłumaczeniami ustnymi: zarówno praktykujących tłumaczy konsekutywnych i symultanicznych, jak i tych dopiero pr...
Prezentowana publikacja jest pierwszym na polskim rynku wydawniczym przystępnie napisanym i aktualnym kompendium wiedzy na temat ustanawiania, statusu i odpowiedzialności tłumaczy przysięgłych w Po...
Podręcznik „To się czyta!” do języka polskiego dla klasy 1 branżowej szkoły I stopnia przygotowuje ucznia do świadomego odbioru różnych tekstów kultury, wyrażania własnych...
Książka koncentruje się na koncepcjach i działaniach Jerzego Giedroycia podejmowanych wobec własnych oraz cudzych archiwaliów. Na tle półwiecznej działalności Instytutu Literackiego u...
"This volume is an excellent introduction to the world of J. R. R. Tolkien. Recounting in images and words the story of his early years and life as a scholar and family man, the book also illu...
The monographic study Towards Female Empowerment - The New Generation of Irish Women Poets: Vona Groarke, Sinéad Morrissey, Caítriona O’Reilly, and Mary O’Donoghue analys...
Niewiele było w XX wieku dzieł o literaturze porównywalnych z tym dokonaniem szwajcarskiego badacza Waltera Muschga (1898?1965). Pomnikowe „Tragiczne dzieje literatury” ukazały s...
Książka Tragizm w "Komedii" Dantego jest próbą szczegółowej interpretacji jednego z ważnych aspektów poematu wielkiego florentczyka, który – jak dotąd &n...