The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a ...
Cervantes’ tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso, has fascinated gene...
Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad's shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the ...
Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in pr...
First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of marit...
Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including the natural sciences as well as the more stric...
The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about f...
Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly realised characters ...
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-E...
"Angielsko - polski słownik informatyczny. Słownik podręczny" zawiera ok. 11 000 podstawowych terminów angielskich występujących w związanej z informatyką literaturze tego języka o...
Słownik zawiera około 14 000 podstawowych terminów angielskich z dziedziny medycyny, a także dziedzin z nią powiązanych: biologia, biochemia, farmacja, wraz z ich odpowiednikami lub objaśnie...
Polish psychologist, Urszula Tokarska, has done a great service to the emerging field of temporal psychology by creating this unique volume, along with 18 authors from around the world, which illus...
Głównym celem powstania monografii było wypełnienie luki publikacyjnej na rynku literatury naukowo-technicznej, obejmującej zagadnienia związane z asynchronicznymi metodami radiolokalizacyjn...
The monograph should therefore play a binary role. First it should present the crystal structures of known chalcogenides. Second book should explain a wide range of preparation methods and basic ch...
Słownik przeznaczony jest dla studentów chemii, pracowników naukowych specjalizujących się w chromatografii i technikach elektromigracyjnych, a także osób zatrudnionych w labor...
The author proposes a redefinition of critical flow conditions that become universal for pressurised flows, free-surface flow conditions in any shape of channel cross-sectional areas. In fact, the ...
This monograph is the result of a scientific investigation conducted by the research team of the International Economics Department of the Cracow University of Economics. Its scope embraces a wide ...
Obszerny anglojęzyczny katalog indeksów retencji RI i widm mas ponad 1100 substancji, z których dotychczas wiele nie zostało scharakteryzowanych (m.in. flawonoidy). Dla ponad 60% prze...
The emergence and convergence of new technologies such as biotechnologies, information, educational or renewable energy technologies allow to enhance the efficiency and productivity growth, open up...