This volume is a Festschrift in honour of Professor Marek Mejor’s over forty years of remarkable contributions as a researcher in the field of Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist studies, as well a...
Fast and FuriousThe action men of modernismWith motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Gi...
Czasopismo z zakresu nauk prawnych. Wydawane od 1974 roku. Autorami tekstów są nie tylko wybitni naukowcy, ale również praktycy polscy i zagraniczni. Opisują i wyjaśniają problemy poj...
When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist’s Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in ...
With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (1893–1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ...
Albertus Seba’s unrivalled catalog of animals, insects and plantsThe Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century’s greatest natural history achievements and remains ...
The power of plants throughout historyCelebrating the magick of the natural realm, Volume IV of The Library of Esoterica, delves into the symbolism, ceremony, and our ritual relationships wit...
Sebastião Salgado on the traces of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforestSebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of thi...
Absurdity against the establishmentEmerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the m...
Fernando Botero is an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the Colombian’s “Boterismo” technique has captured collectors, institutions, and public spaces worldwid...
The life’s work of an infographics pioneerFritz Kahn (1888–1968) was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer. Chased out of Germany by ...
Playthings From the Past For the PresentUp until the 20th century, children’s play was not a subject that demanded much attention. While objects that entertained children have been pres...
The world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages to the 1950sMagic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics ...
Volume two of the definitive exploration [br]of the [i]Star Wars[/i] galaxyFrom the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled ...
Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who liv...
W numerze dominują tematy dotyczące: paradygmatu dyplomacji naukowej Unii Europejskiej, polityki Unii Europejskiej w kwestiach niedyskryminacji, rozwoju, bezpieczeństwa cyfrowego, obecności radykal...
Podróż i inność w dziewiętnastowiecznym piśmiennictwie brytyjskimEseje zebrane w tomie obejmują szeroki wybór tekstów reprezentujących różne gatunki, nurty l...
The Japanese woodblock print showcased breathtaking landscapes, blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons that torment the living, and made sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors into rock stars. This co...
A photographic portrait of RomeThis bumper photographic portrait of Rome brings together hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through to today to explore the extraordinary history, beauty, ...
The vivid history of the capital of love and photographyA city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography.It was on the banks of...