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 »
We don't know what we've got until it's gone...This brief, lucid book by the Director of Science at Royal Botanical Gardens takes you on an unforgettable tour of the natural world, show...więcej »
The Holocaust is much-discussed, much-memorialized and much-portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked.Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust and ac...więcej »
Adam Smith’s landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually c...więcej »
Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humour that has...więcej »
Monografia Thuptena Kungi Chashaba jest pierwszym opracowaniem przechowywanego w Bibliotece Jagiellońskiej w Kolekcji Pandera A unikalnego tybetańskiego rękopisu autorstwa Ngag dbang ’jig gra...więcej »
In a dazzling fusion of Quentin Fiore's bold and inventive graphic design and Marshall McLuhan's unique insight into technology, advertising and mass-media, The Medium is the Massage is a unique st...więcej »
The New Age of Empire takes us back to the beginning of the European Empires, outlining the deliberate terror and suffering wrought during every stage of the expansion, and destroys the self-congra...więcej »
A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth.Retired officer Colonel Mortimer takes a lease on the mansion of Brentwood, the grounds of which share the ruins of an ol...więcej »
The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds to enable real change. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the ...więcej »
'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York TimesWhy can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do...więcej »
Rola i zadania psychologa we współczesnej szkoleKsiążka prezentuje autorski model pracy psychologa w szkole, który zakłada, że praca psychologa w szkole powinna obejmować ...więcej »
Autor przedstawia najważniejsze epizody dwusetletniej historii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz sylwetki jego rektorów, wybitnych profesorów i absolwentów, w tym Fryderyka Chopi...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 »
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 »
The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour...więcej »
Obszerne, filologiczne opracowanie grupy staroangielskich tekstów religijnych datowanych na połowę XI wieku, dotąd stosunkowo mało znanych i niedostatecznie opracowanych. Analiza obejmuje we...więcej »
In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often...więcej »
In answering the question, 'what is history?', E. H. Carr's acclaimed and influential bestseller shows that the facts of history are simply those which the historian selects for scrutiny. His fluen...więcej »
Using rich and varied narrative images and resources, literary artworks, excerpts from philosophical and sociological writings, musicological theories and film studies, historical documents, and ot...więcej »
