This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Ro...więcej »
How might we see ourselves more clearly? Consult Rembrandt.Who can encourage us to see more intimately? Tracey Emin is the expert.What about helping us see through pain? Loo...więcej »
A marvelous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation.Tom Hanks Simply, a masterpiece. Here, An...więcej »
A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives.We tend to imagine Western Civilisation as a golden thre...więcej »
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, f...więcej »
Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family, especially his grandfather Berl, originated: Krakowiec (Krah...więcej »
I tak Polacy przybyli do nieznanego sobie kraju, który pilnie potrzebował żywności, a ówczesną stolicą Iranu wstrząsały bunty zbożowe. Z relacji niektórych z nich dowiadujemy s...więcej »
Książka Régisa Debraya pod nieco przewrotnym tytułem Sceptyk w Ziemi Świętej jest pozycją bardzo szczególną, z uwagi na sposób traktowania wędrówki po Ziemi Świętej, jak...więcej »
Książka ukazuje arabską społeczność Bliskiego Wschodu, której zarówno podczas kolonizacji, jak i dekolonizacji, nie udało się oprzeć zewnętrznym czynnikom dominacji i manipulacji oraz...więcej »
Pielgrzymka do Mekki Abdallaha Hammoudiego to interesująca opowieść marokańskiego antropologa, od wielu lat pracującego i mieszkającego w Stanach Zjednoczonych, o jego hadżdżu, pielgrzymce do święt...więcej »
Londyn - nieustannie tętniące życiem jedno z największych europejskich miast, w którym ścierają się wpływy różnorodnych kultur i tradycji. Stolica Wielkiej Brytanii stała się dla Auto...więcej »
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. T...więcej »
Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.'The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythma...więcej »
The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technolo...więcej »
The Bible is held to be both universal and specific, the source of fundamental truths inscribed in words that are exact and sacred. For much of the history of Judaism and almost the entirety of Chr...więcej »
Our world is losing its humanity.Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about power than the people who vote for them. And t...więcej »
The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a...więcej »
In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, a...więcej »
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also ...więcej »
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...więcej »
