This is not history for history's sake, however – this is the history of our present and future, long beyond cold war, into war on terror, war on drugs' Ed Vulliamy, GuardianThe U...
Leonardo in Detail is also available in a compact portable edition!Leonardo da Vinci is the archetypal universal man, a multi-talented genius who left an indelible mark on all the realm...
'With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world's favourite natural history broadcaster documents some of his expeditions from the late 1950s onwards' Sunday Express'A wondrous reminder...
'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The TimesFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a ...
The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It&r...
In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Separated from her parents on arrival, she endures unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Jos...
In 1954, a young television presenter named David Attenborough was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo's collection, and to f...
Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama on Selma and the meaning of America, spe...
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grote...
One of our best-known living philosophers Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideologic...
Nietypowy autoportret jednego z najwybitniejszych współczesnych polskich reżyserów i animatorów. Główna jego część to opowieść obrazkowa ułożona z rodzinnych fotografii,...
Dobrowolne udanie się Witolda Pileckiego do obozu Auschwitz, a potem pozostanie w nim przez prawie trzy lata było być może jednym z najbardziej bohaterskich czynów, jakich kiedykolwiek dokon...
Żydzi polscy - wyrazista i stale obecna, przynajmniej od XIII wieku, społeczność kultywująca odrębność wyznaniową, kulturową i językową – już w czasach Rzeczpospolitej Obojga Narodów z...
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a few years, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to sho...
Prace naukowe Marii Curie są powszechnie znane, a jej pisma pozwalają lepiej zrozumieć stosunki, jakie utrzymywała ze swoimi bliskimi, współpracownikami i naukowcami.Jej korespondencja...
Nietypowy autoportret jednego z najwybitniejszych współczesnych polskich reżyserów i animatorów. Główna jego część to opowieść obrazkowa ułożona z rodzinnych fotografii,...
Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards...
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....
'His first novel is a revelation ... the writing is vivid, serious and extraordinary ... wonderful' The TimesThe Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly afte...