If you live to 80, you'll have barely more than four thousand weeks on earth. How will you decide how to spend them?Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,'...
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?Hallucinations don'...
The essential guide to one of the world's most diverse and fascinating faiths, with a Foreword by Amartya SenK. M. Sen discusses the evolution of Hinduism's central systems of belief an...
W prezentowanej książce Christian Domnitz analizuje publicystykę polityczną w PRL, NRD i Czechosłowacji od podpisania Aktu końcowego KBWE w Helsinkach w 1975 r. do upadku komunizmu w 1989 r. Por&oa...
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their w...
This guide is an attempt to systematize our knowledge of the early changes in Quechua lexicon that were brought about by contact with Spanish language and culture. The language contact phenomena de...
In this brilliant reworking of Lewis Spence's seminal Myths and Legends of the North American Indians, Jon E. Lewis puts the work in context with an extensive new introductory essay and additional ...
Książka dopowiadająca wątki wystawy „After Year Zero”, przygotowanej przez Annett Busch i Anselma Franke w 2013 roku w berlińskim Haus der Kulturen der Welt, a w 2015 rozbudowanej w Muz...
Certyfikowanie kompetencji językowych w sposób trafny i rzetelny jest wyzwaniem od strony zarówno merytorycznej, jak i organizacyjnej, z którym mierzą się jednostki i instytucj...
A comic-book introduction to economics from David Orrell, the author of Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong. With illustrations from Borin Van Loon. Part of the internationally-recognised I...
The final book from Professor Stephen Hawking, the bestselling author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME and arguably the most famous scientist of our age, BRIEF ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS is a profound,...
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their w...
One in seven people suffer from migraine and women are three times more likely to suffer from migraine than men. In 2016, the WHO ranked migraine as the second cause of disability after low back pa...
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovatorsis Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the...
What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit ...
Eseje zawarte w tomie omawiają różne aspekty związków między literaturą, muzyką, teatrem i sztukami performatywnymi w osiemnasto- i dziewiętnastowiecznej Wielkiej Brytanii. Autorzy pr...
Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on ...
Die im Band publizierten 18 Studien greifen die Problematik der Beziehungen zwischen Märchen und Spiel aus diversen Perspektiven auf und berücksichtigen ein reiches Spektrum von Forschung...
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SAPIENS Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we’re going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be...
From the author of the No. 1 bestseller The Silk Roads: A New History of the WorldThe First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history but in this new boo...