Anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century will still have to read Orwell' Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of BooksWhether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittil...
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...
Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materi...
This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous words on the declaration of war with Germany, as well as his rousing call to the British in June 1940 af...
Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to be...
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeate...
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...
Modlitwa jest naturalną potrzebą człowieka, jak pragnienie jedzenia i picia. Znają ją wszystkie religie świata. Prosimy Boga o przebaczenie win oraz o spełnienie potrzeb. Prosimy także w intencji i...
Jak Józef żyje swoim powołaniem opiekuna Maryi, Jezusa, Kościoła? Nieustannie słucha Boga, jest otwarty na Jego znaki, gotowy wypełniać nie tyle swój, ile Jego plan. Józef jest...
Ojciec Pio z Pietrelciny (1887-1968) - mistyk z zakonu kapucynów, charyzmatyczny kapłan, niestrudzony kierownik duchowy i spowiednik czytający w ludzkich sercach. Swą ofiarną służbą zyskiwał...
Niniejsza publikacja z dziedziny najnowszej historii analizuje jeden z największych trwających obecnie konfliktów, który od 2001 r. rozgrywa się w Afganistanie. Książka pozwala czytel...
"Ponieważ źle znoszę fakt, że prawo izraelskie narzuca mi przynależność do jakiejś fikcyjnej wspólnoty etnicznej, a jeszcze gorzej konieczność prezentowania się reszcie świata jako czło...
Książka Ignacy Loyola, sam i na piechotę została uznana za jedną z najbardziej wartościowych biografii tego niezwykłego człowieka i założyciela Towarzystwa Jezusowego (jezuitów). Autor opisu...
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...
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...