Stacje kolejowe – architektura i budownictwo to bogato ilustrowany cykl poświęcony tematyce gmachów dworcowych oraz innych budowli gospodarstwa kolejowego. Szczegółowo, często po raz pierwszy, opis...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 »
Gdańsk 45. Propaganda ukazuje, w jaki sposób politycznie sterowano obrazem walk Armii Czerwonej z niemieckim Wehrmachtem, prowadzonych w Gdańsku oraz jego okolicach w 1945 r. Autor szeroko omawia d...więcej »
For generations now, Edward W. Said's Orientalism has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before...więcej »
A selection of 'greatest hits' essays from the bestselling non-fiction writer. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising ...więcej »
The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birth...więcej »
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..."Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he...więcej »
From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the de...więcej »
Lektura Samochodów PRL-u zabierze nas w fascynującą podróż w czasy, gdy polski przemysł motoryzacyjny wytwarzał corocznie kilkaset tysięcy pojazdów. Produkowane one były w kilk...więcej »
Album Beaty i Pawła Pomykalskich prezentuje prawie sto najwybitniejszych budynków polskiej architektury przedwojennego modernizmu. Okres dwudziestolecia międzywojennego to nie tylko czas ksz...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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....więcej »
The story of the British Empire is a familiar one: Britain came, it saw, it conquered, forging a glorious world empire upon which the sun never set. In fact, far from being the tale of a single nat...więcej »
Publikacja ks. Stanisława Budyna przedstawia dramat 1,5-milionowej rzeszy Polaków (displaced persons– bezpaństwowców), którzy po zakończeniu II wojny światowej przebywali...więcej »
What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were?For over a century we saw them as inferior to Homo Sapiens. Today, Neanderthals are seen as fully human, differe...więcej »
Gdańsk 45. Działania zbrojne prezentuje historyczno-militarne aspekty walk o Gdańsk w 1945 r. na tle ofensywnej operacji wschodniopomorskiej Armii Czerwonej. W pracy wykorzystano wiele niepublikowa...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 »
Throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you.'więcej »