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Tom przedstawia materiały pierwszej z serii konferencji pod zbiorczym tytułem "Hinc Omnia. Zbiory historyczne, artystyczne i specjalne w bibliotekach oraz innych instytucjach kultury". Ar...
Hiroshige is one of the most important artists of the Japanese woodblock print and is considered a master of “ukiyo-e,” the “pictures of the floating world.” His evocative i...
Ten wyczerpujący przewodnik po dziejach ludzkości zabiera czytelnika w podróż w czasie, która zaczyna się 4 miliony lat temu i prowadzi przez setki najważniejszych stanowisk archeolog...
For centuries humanity has engaged in a virtual exploration of space through astronomical observation, aided by astounding scientific and technological advances. In more than sixty years since the ...
From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. All the strands of T...
First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this d...
His Great Wave of Kanagawa is the most famous work in East Asian art. Hokusai, a self-confessed eccentric and obsessive, created with his pictures of the floating world a veritable encyclopedia of ...
The German invasion of the Netherlands was meant to be a lightning-fast surgical strike, aimed at shoring up the right flank of the assault on France and Belgium. With a bold plan based largely on ...
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From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life. Holy Madness probes into the psyche that ...
We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been abl...
Visual art is enlightening, challenging, informative and arresting; but it can also be therapeutic, reducing anxiety and stress levels, and offering perspective on the challenges that we all face i...
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Discover everything you need to know about Economics.What is Economics? Why do consumers borrow and save? How do economic systems work? Money and investing can be daunting. This book co...