Our modern-day cities might seem to represent our separation from the vitality of the natural world. Yet, as Ben Wilson reveals in this invigorating re-examination of urban landscapes across the gl...więcej »
Deft, absorbing and informativeTimes Literary Supplement Informative, essential reading on women's mountaineering wrapped within a profoundly personal memoir. There is jo...więcej »
Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A journalistic marvel' JAMES MEEK'A powerful, unforgettable book' NADIFA MOHAMMEDThis is the story of a ...więcej »
A marvelous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation.Tom Hanks Simply, a masterpiece. Here, An...więcej »
In the 1930s, women and men from across the world made their way to Spain to be part of what they saw as a historic fight for freedom from fascism. Tomorrow Perhaps the Future follows extraordinary...więcej »
Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Euro...więcej »
King of Pop Art Andy Warhol is one of the greatest artists of all time. Rarely venturing into public without his camera and tape recorder, Warhol was a great observer and documentarist of the Ameri...więcej »
A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor. ‘A book that will stay with you for lif...więcej »
Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family, especially his grandfather Berl, originated: Krakowiec (Krah...więcej »
'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and conventi...więcej »
Joan Didion’s hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties.We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The...więcej »
Joan Didion’s savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixtie...więcej »
Everything the young fan wants to know about Liverpool Football Club, packed with facts about the legendary players, managers, matches and more that tell the story of the football institution belov...więcej »
Podczas drugiej wojny światowej w szeregach alianckich walczyło niemal milion żołnierzy Żydów. W okupowanych przez Niemcy krajach Europy Żydzi stawiali opór zbrojny – do jego na...więcej »
From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics'Violence can destroy power; ...więcej »
Maj 2015. Pięć szalonych dziewczyn jedzie do dalekiego kraju, by go zwyczajnie poznać, jego kulturę, mieszkańców, by zobaczyć Wielki Kaukaz z bliska, zasmakować wyśmienitej kuchni i wina, by...więcej »
Maj 2015. Pięć szalonych dziewczyn jedzie do dalekiego kraju, by go zwyczajnie poznać, jego kulturę, mieszkańców, by zobaczyć Wielki Kaukaz z bliska, zasmakować wyśmienitej kuchni i wina, by...więcej »
Chopin in Paris: The 1830s to szósta z serii publikacji pokonferencyjnych. Znalazły się w niej rozszerzone wersje referatów wygłoszonych na VI Międzynarodowej Konferencji Chopinologic...więcej »
Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name...więcej »
That Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince – the world’s pre-eminent how-to manual o...więcej »
