In What Do We Really Know? Simon Blackburn addresses the twenty most-asked philosophical questions, including 'Can machines think?', 'What is the meaning of life?', 'Is death to be feared?', 'Why b...
In an introduction to proceedings of the conference 'Images and Myths of Europe', organised in 2002 at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Romano Prodi wrote: "These 'Images a...
When we look back from the vantage point of the 21st century and ask ourselves what the previous century was all about, what do we see? Our first inclination is to focus on historical events: the 2...
In answering the question, 'what is history?', E. H. Carr's acclaimed and influential bestseller shows that the facts of history are simply those which the historian selects for scrutiny. His fluen...
For thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, apps and accelerometers allow us to see the natural world like never b...
"If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust - far from ...
The British system has been radically transformed in recent decades, far more than most of us realise. As acclaimed political scientist and bestselling author Anthony King shows, this transformatio...
How much of today's financial crisis is really a crisis of education... or lack education?And what can a parent to - today, at home - to give their child a financial headstart?In ...
Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we ...
W Gorlicach, prawie siedmiotysięcznym galicyjskim mieście, przed 1914 r. nikt nie zdawał sobie sprawy, czym jest wojna. Wieści o jej wybuchu wzbudziły ciekawość, która szybko przerodziła się...
W Gorlicach, prawie siedmiotysięcznym galicyjskim mieście, przed 1914 r. nikt nie zdawał sobie sprawy, czym jest wojna. Wieści o jej wybuchu wzbudziły ciekawość, która szybko przerodziła się...
Słownik zawiera ponad 150 tys. słów i zwrotów, a także: objaśnienia użycia słów, wymowę wyrazów, idiomy, przysłowia i powiedzenia. Wszystko to w dwóch poaźnych, p...
In "Winner Take All", Dambisa Moyo cuts through the misconceptions and noise surrounding resource scarcity with a penetrating analysis of what really is at stake. Revealing the hard facts...
Studia dedykowane Profesor Marii Dzielskiej. Książka zawiera kilkadziesiąt artykułów badaczy polskich i zagranicznych, dotyczących różnych problemów świata antycznego i bizanty...
The 1990s were a particularly violent decade in the history of Karachi. Political, ethnic and religious conflicts, as well as a number of security operations, ravaged the city, which in the middle ...
Jak ubrać się w krzesło? Czy można nosić na sobie lampę i co znaczy „wnętrze do noszenia”?Odpowiedzi na te i inne pytania znajdą Państwo w publikacji dokumentującej nietuzinkową a...
Oficyna Wydawnicza „Impuls”, we współpracy z Uniwersytetem Pedagogicznym im. KEN w Krakowie, wystąpiła z międzynarodowym projektem, zatytułowanym Women in different global contex...
"Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusader...
A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture – and what we can do to fight their influenceFour titanic corporations are now the most powe...