'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.'In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its ...
Urodzony w 1917 roku Adam Humer do partii komunistycznej wstąpił jeszcze przed II wojną światową. W latach stalinizmu był wicedyrektorem Departamentu Śledczego Ministerstwa Bezpieczeństwa Publiczne...
Bohumil Hrabal. Wybitny czeski prozaik, zapatrzony w naturszczyków mistrz słowa, który potrafił wznieść nieliterackość mowy potocznej na wyżyny uniwersalnej opowieści o człowieku i św...
The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the BeagleIntroducing Little Black Cl...
Autorzy: Bolesław Prus, Edward Słoński, Maria Helena Szpyrkówna, Ferdynand Ossendowski, Wanda Mazanowska, Zdzisław Kleszczyński, O.P. [dziennikarz „Tajnego Detektywa”], Helena Bo...
The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall...
After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and ho...
A new edition of Keri Smith's bestseller, with updated materialThink of Wreck This Journal as the anarchist's Artist's Way -- the book for those who've always wanted to draw outside the...
Monumentalna, nieocenzurowana biografia Arethy Franklin stworzona przez jednego z najbardziej znanych biografów świata muzyki. David Ritz przygotowywał się do napisana tej książki niemal czt...
„Nie myślę o sobie czule. Mnie mogłoby nie być. Jestem tylko kostiumem”. W szczerej i bardzo osobistej rozmowie Maciej Nowak opuszcza swoje ciało, by spojrzeć na siebie z ironicznym dy...
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 ...
Wybór znakomitych reportaży poświęconych Czechom, uwikłanym w czasy, w jakich przyszło im żyć. Czechosłowacja i Czechy - Gottland - to kraj horroru, smutku i groteski. Gottland Mariusza Szcz...
"Dziennik pisany później to znakomity literacko zapis włóczęgi przez Bałkany, a Andrzej Stasiuk pisze tak, jakby fotografował"".Bartosz Marzec, ""Rzeczp...
Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on...
Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson’s writings were recognized as ...
Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves t...
An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the...
Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism,...
Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its i...