In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and ...
John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design i...
A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened...
Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he invest...
Niniejsza publikacja z dziedziny najnowszej historii analizuje jeden z największych trwających obecnie konfliktów, który od 2001 r. rozgrywa się w Afganistanie. Książka pozwala czytel...
Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards...
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.Susan...
The first rock-star writer'GuardianWith ‘long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips … and Harleys flashing chrome’, the Hell&rsq...
In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood a...
George Orwell's first published work, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of the poor in the late twenties. In a bug-infested hotel, survivin...
This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'.In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he...
In 1960, when he was almost sixty years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people....
A chemist by training, Primo Levi became one of the supreme witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In these haunting reflections inspired by the elements of the periodic table, he ranges from you...
Jerzy Grotowski, jeden z najwybitniejszych artystów światowego teatru w XX wieku, był człowiekiem spotkań. Można powiedzieć, że jego droga w sztuce realizowała się poprzez spotkania z ludźmi...
Zuihitsu, czyli „w ślad za pędzelkiem”: notatki gromadzące to, co przyjdzie nam na myśl, co sobie przypomnimy w wolnej chwili, co samo spłynie na papier. Zapiski spod wezgłowia japoński...
Publikowane w niniejszym tomie referaty były prezentowane podczas obrad I Krajowej Konferencji Turkologicznej w Poznaniu w 2007 roku i II Krajowej Konferencji Turkologicznej w Warszawie w 2008 roku...
Bogato ilustrowana i znakomicie udokumentowana książka przedstawia architekturę, sztukę książki i rzemiosło artystyczne w poszczególnych regionach świata islamu od Andaluzji i Maroka, przez ...
Demon Maxwella jest jednym z najciekawszych eksperymentów myślowych w historii fizyki, o niemal półtorawiecznej historii.Polega on na wyobrażeniu sobie czynnika (mechanizm...
Książka Górski Karabach w polityce niepodległego Azerbejdżanu jest rezultatem kilkuletnich badań na temat konfliktu karabachskiego. Autor wyjaśnia w niej wpływ secesji Górskiego Karab...