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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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; ...
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...
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...
Chopin in Paris: The 1830s to szósta z serii publikacji pokonferencyjnych. Znalazły się w niej rozszerzone wersje referatów wygłoszonych na VI Międzynarodowej Konferencji Chopinologic...
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...
A collection of over 300 quotes from Bill Gates, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and tech icon. Part of the In Their Own Words series. Get inside the head of one of the most important leaders of our ...
One of the world's most celebrated cosmologists presents her breakthrough explanation of our origins in the multiverse.In recent years, Laura Mersini-Houghton's ground-breaking theory, ...
Choć prawda zawarta w tym zbiorze niezwykle dowcipnych, zaczepnych, wzruszających i bardzo, BARDZO osobistych esejów jest nadzwyczaj bolesna, to… Tiffany Haddish przedstawia ją tak, ż...
The Darkness Manifesto urges us to cherish darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth.Entire ecosystems rely on natural darkness to flourish, fro...
One of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.As R...