Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the twentieth-century world.
'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.'A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism...
'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the arti...
The CEO of Disney, one of Time’s most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who...
Based on Jack Kerouac's memories of the beloved older brother who died when he was a boy, it is unique among his novels for its dreamlike evocation of the sensations of childhood - its wisdom, angu...
A POCKET HISTORY OF POLAND began as a course on Polish history and culture that Dariusz Sirko, then 25, gave in Madeira island, Portugal, while participating in the European Voluntary Service in 20...
The story of a man whose music changed the world.Farrokh Bulsara was a young boy who loved music and was known for being quiet and kind, even when people made fun of his unusual teeth.<...
Wstrząsająca historia Solomona Northupa – dystyngowanego, wykształconego obywatela Północy Stanów Zjednoczonych, który – uprowadzony i sprzedany handlarzom niewolni...
'Foucault must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists' The New York Times Book ReviewSociety Must Be Defended is Michel Foucault's devastating critiqu...
Zestaw trzech albumów poświęconych wybitnym politykom II Rzeczypospolitej - Ignacemu Paderewskiemu, Józefowi Piłsudskiemu i Ignacemu Mościckiemu. Ta patriotyczna trylogia objęta zosta...
W książce zostały zaprezentowane życiorysy czterech działaczy społecznych: Antoine’a-Frédérica Ozanama (1813-1853), ks. Carla Sonnenscheina (1876-1929), Piera Giorgia Frassatieg...
Życie grobowe otwiera czytelnika na zdumienie. Pozwala zachwycić się opowieścią o świecie ukrytą w strefie pośredniej pomiędzy żywymi a umarłymi, pomiędzy przestrzenią codzienności (miasta, wsi, pu...
The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wr...
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: 'The most important book I have read in quite some time' Daniel Kahneman; 'A must-read' Max Tegmark; 'The book we've all been waiting for' Sam Harris<...
What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel th...
'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the...
A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great FireIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little...
In the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of Rome to reveal a decisive break from the classical Greek version of ...
The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived in classical Greek culture.From the stranger byways of G...
Roman Polanski: A Retrospective is the definitive tribute to one of the world’s most prolific and influential film directors. Editor and film critic James Greenberg takes readers chronologica...