When it comes to death, is there ever a best case scenario? In this disarmingly witty book, Julian Barnes confronts our unending obsession with the end. He reflects on what it means to miss God, wh...
Explore the world one step at a time. Wanderlust presents legendary walking routes with inviting maps, practical tips, and inspiring landscape photographs.The exciting Canyon Trail in Z...
Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life, right up to his death at the age of ninety. Publications have hitherto presented his long career as a chronological sequence....
Działalność Fundacji im. Stefana Kuryłowicza ma na celu wspieranie i promocję odważnej i odpowiedzialnej twórczości architektonicznej. Patron Fundacji, wierzył, że ład architektoniczno-urban...
Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond...
‘Steeped in glory, loved by players for his light touch, he is probably the most coveted coach in the world.’ - Financial Times ‘a treasury of anecdote and insight’ - The Gu...
Książka Życie. Instrukcja zawiera wybór tekstów literackich (w tym fragmenty prozy Georges’a Pereca) oraz teksty z zakresu literaturoznawstwa, socjologii i sztuki.ar...
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...
This book is the New York Times Number One Bestseller. The Sunday Times Number one Bestseller. Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable. (New York Times...
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovatorsis Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the...
Throughout my life I have achieved many remarkable things. In Screw It, Let's Do It, I will share with you my ideas and the secrets of my success, but not simply because I hope they'll help you ach...
We fed the monster until it blew up ...'While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the ba...
Edycja dwujęzyczna polsko-angielska.Nagroda dla Nobla to eseistyczne rozważania autora Waldemara Andrzejczyka. Opowieść krąży wokół kategorii Nagrody im. Alfreda Nobla, lecz nie ...
Monografia Viatoris. Który pokonuje drogę. Ponowoczesny romantyzm Piotra Jargusza jest zebraniem wieloletnich obserwacji artystycznych działań Piotra Jargusza, które sam twórca...
'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.'In this c...
„Wydanie tego tomu jest powodem do świętowania. Tłumaczenia Davida Fricka wreszcie pozwalają anglojęzycznym czytelnikom wsłuchać się swobodnie w wyjątkowe, polskie wypowiedzi Chopina i wychwy...
'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 ...
Throughout my life I have achieved many remarkable things. In Screw It, Let's Do It, I will share with you my ideas and the secrets of my success, but not simply because I hope they'll help you ach...
Mieczysław Tomaszewski, Chopin: The Man, His Work and Its Resonance, jest poprawioną i uzupełnioną wersją anglojęzyczną książki – laureatki wielokrotnych nagród Chopin. Człowiek, dzieł...
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...