Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by h...
From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the de...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial political figures. She burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened she wo...
In the "Chronicles of Terror" series we publish testimonies of specific individuals – victims and witnesses of two totalitarianisms. They record the personal experiences of thousand...
Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining.Why did Pheidippides run the 26...
The reviewed monograph has both cognitive and practical value. The cognitive value results from the authors' scientific analysis of significant problems that have not yet been researched. The util...
‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen FryWelcome to the life of a junior doctor:...
Historia niniejszego albumu zaczęła się podczas wyjazdu autorów do Rzymu na pogrzeb papieża Jana Pawła II. To przejmujące wydarzenie kiełkowało przez kilka lat, by zaowocować chęcią odkrywan...
Proud to be a Mammal (1942-97) is Czeslaw Milosz's moving and diverse collection of essays. Among them, he covers his passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped ou...
Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics.
From prehistoric England, Stonehenge and the Romans to modern times, discover the people, places and events that built a country. A concise but comprehensive guide to English history and how Englan...
W albumie poświęconym historii i znaczeniu ulicy Nalewki - najsłynniejszej, wręcz legendarnej żydowskiej ulicy, będącej bijącym sercem Dzielnicy Północnej - obok licznych archiwalnych fotogr...
W albumie poświęconym historii i znaczeniu ulicy Nalewki - najsłynniejszej, wręcz legendarnej żydowskiej ulicy, będącej bijącym sercem Dzielnicy Północnej - obok licznych archiwalnych fotogr...
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...
Autor przedstawia najważniejsze epizody dwusetletniej historii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz sylwetki jego rektorów, wybitnych profesorów i absolwentów, w tym Fryderyka Chopi...
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR The West's domination of world politics is coming to a close. The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and a new era of global instability has begu...
This volume contains texts published during 2011-2013 in the Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały yearly published by the Polish Center for Holocaust Research, Warsaw. The purpose of Holocaust ...
The author of this publication strives to analyze the transformation in the educational process of the Romanis3 reflected by the key phenomena that define our modern education systems: institutiona...
Obszerne, filologiczne opracowanie grupy staroangielskich tekstów religijnych datowanych na połowę XI wieku, dotąd stosunkowo mało znanych i niedostatecznie opracowanych. Analiza obejmuje we...
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a few years, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to sho...