Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, ...
“She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words.” - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from...
Kolejny minialbum w serii o najsłynniejszych polskich sportowcach poświęcony jest Irenie Kirszenstein-Szewińskiej, trzykrotnej mistrzyni olimpijskiej, siedmiokrotnej medalistce igrzysk, pięciokrotn...
First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the ...
Wybór najważniejszych prac malarskich Józefa Pankiewicza, którego dzieła znajdują się w największych polskich muzeach. Wybitny portrecista, twórca epoki realizmu oraz wz...
Tadeusz Rolke (ur. w 1929) to jeden z najwyżej cenionych współczesnych fotografików. Zaliczany do grona prekursorów fotografii reportażowej, znany jest nie tylko w Polsce, ale także za granicą. Głó...
Great art has dreadful manners……The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they ...
‘This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing. It is also an extended invitation to wonder, to pleasure’
Książka „Adamczyk. Plakaty”, opatrzona słowem wstępnym Zdzisława Schuberta, przedstawia twórczość uznanego współczesnego plakacisty – Mirosława Adamczyka. Bohater kolejnego minialbumu w serii Plaka...
Brilliant and disturbing' Yuval Noah HarariThe past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, ...
Jan Stanisławski – jeden z najważniejszych malarzy polskiego symbolizmu, twórca tzw. „krakowskiej szkoły pejzażowej”. Warsztat malarski doskonalił w Paryżu, podróżował również do Włoch, Hiszpanii i...
‘Why is there so much inequality?’ Xenia asks her father, the world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis.Drawing on memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales ...
Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have l...
Jan Jerzy Pinsel to postać tajemnicza – rzeźbiarz,który w połowie XVIII wieku przybył na dawne kresyRzeczpospolitej i pozostawił niezwykłe w swymartystycznym wyrazie ...
Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the con...
Why do human beings behave as they do?We are capable of savage acts of violence but also spectacular feats of kindness: is one side of our nature destined to win out over the other?
The Communist Manifesto was first published in London in 1848, by two young men in their late twenties. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to ...
How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insigh...
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...