Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world. The most successful images enter our collective consciousness, defining eras, making history, or simply touching som...więcej »
Stephen Hawking was a very famous scientist whose ideas changed the world. He studied space and time and taught people about the universe. Stephen was often very ill and his life was not easy, but ...więcej »
Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies throughout the early 1970s, audiences enthusiastically em...więcej »
Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops t...więcej »
Przez większość życia uważałem Ślązaków za jaskiniowców z kilofem i roladą. Swoją śląskość wypierałem. W podstawówce pani Chmiel grała nam na akordeonie Rotę, a ja nie miałem p...więcej »
Learn all about the mysterious and exciting legends of the gods and heroes in Ancient Greece, from the birth of Heracles and the adventures of Theseus, to the first fall of Troy and the battle of t...więcej »
It is May 1940. Western countries are falling into Nazi hands. Britain must prepare to be invaded any day. The future of the world lies on the shoulders of one man. This is the story of how British...więcej »
While the female nude has long played a conspicuous role in western iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such attention, or acceptance. This ode to the male physique celebrates the evo...więcej »
W chłodne popołudnie lutego 2019 roku do ambasady Korei Północnej w Madrycie wtargnęli zamaskowani napastnicy, by porwać jednego z urzędników. Grupą dowodził Adrian Hong, znany aktywista zajmujący ...więcej »
Doświadczenia mniejszości białorusko-prawosławnej rzadko mieszczą się w oficjalnej historii Polski. Panowała niepisana zasada, by nie rozmawiać o doznawanych krzywdach, bieżeństwie, przesiedleniach...więcej »
Chłopska fotografia – ta rodzinna, prywatna – nie ma zwykle odrębnego miejsca w archiwach czy instytucjach. Przez wiele dekad mało kto się nią interesował, nie była traktowana jako części „narodowe...więcej »
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that fl...więcej »
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...więcej »
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series written for learners of English as a foreign language, each title includes carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises.<...więcej »
"Dobrze się myśli literaturą to zbiór esejów" o praktykowaniu wiary w literaturę, rozumianą jako konieczność mówiącego człowieka. Ryszard Koziołek przekonuje, że ilekroć próbujemy coś wyjaśnić, por...więcej »
A Revolution in PaintingThe mysterious genius who transformed European artCaravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was always a name to ...więcej »
Space ShapersAn encyclopedia of modern architectureWith more than 280 entries, this architectural A–Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensabl...więcej »
The Museum Ludwig’s handbook of photography in the 20th centuryThe history of photography began nearly 200 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognized as a medi...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 »
A unique language of symbols, literature, and lightWith meticulous theories and many thousands of paintings, drawings, and watercolors, Paul Klee (1879–1940) is considered one of the mo...więcej »