A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and the West. . The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas - and now by the coronavir...
This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in western relations since the early 2000s, from the di...
Spis treściIntroduction Chapter I: The origin of the Council of Europe and its influence on the Parliamentary Assembly Chapter II: The Parliamentary Assembly’s place in the ...
This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation an...
‘The best account in a single volume of Spain since 1898, exemplary for concision and for accuracy in the use of language, as well as for equanimity and generosity of spirit’ Felipe Fer...
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompass...
The Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on...
You can never take what you love too seriously and The Periodic Table of Football celebrates this fact.Welcome to The Periodic Table of Football. Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you...
The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds to enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the ...
Discover how our big social, political and ethical ideas are formed with The Philosophy Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a si...
Rozmowy z najwybitniejszymi pianistami przełomu XX i XXI wieku to nowa seria wydawnicza Narodowego Instytutu Fryderyka Chopina. Bohaterem pierwszej książki w serii jest Garrick Ohlsson – wybi...
Książka jest poświęcona jednemu z najciekawszych zjawisk w amerykańskiej sztuce końca XX wieku, znanemu pod nazwą The Pictures Generation, czyli twórczości pokoleniowej grupy artystów...
See the Solar System like never beforeThe Planets is an awe-inspiring and informative journey through the Solar System, with all-new 3D globes and models built using the latest data gat...
Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it.The Playbook is an exposé of the extraordinary lengths that corporations will go to in order to d...
Tim Marshall’s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation’s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn’t cha...
The study of law is, first and foremost, the study of a human practice. The full account of the practice of law can be given by explaining legal rule-following behaviour not only from the scientifi...
Learn about human nature, behaviour and how the mind works with The Psychology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and ...
This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality is always psychosexuality - that there is no sexuality ...
A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar...a veritable tour de force Richard Overy, New Statesman Transnational history at its finest ...social, politi...
'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York TimesWhy can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do...