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 »
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On 24 February 2022, Russia shocked the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on loved ones who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since the Seco...więcej »
'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of think...więcej »
From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - Alain de Botton sets out to unders...więcej »
Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this collection of Poe's brilliant tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother an...więcej »
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing rounds up the voices of women from across history to discuss the meaning and practice of feminism. This is a book that every person should read: the multiplicit...więcej »
Told from the inside out, this is a harrowing, humorous and hard-hitting tale of life behind bars by a prison doctor who has seen it all. Literally.Dr Shahed Yousaf spends his time runn...więcej »
"Historia czytania" to zbiór esejów, usiana anegdotami wędrówka przez labirynty biblioteki ludzkości, której patronem jest Jorge Luis Borges. Nieprzypadkowo: A...więcej »
In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, a...więcej »
Po znakomitym tomie rozpraw i materiałów do biografii Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza - "Witkacego portrecie wielokrotym" - papieża witkacologii prof. Janusza Deglera przedstawiamy...więcej »
Iris Murdoch, znana w Polsce głównie jako pisarka, była też wybitną przedstawicielką filozofii, przemawiającą głosem odrębnym na tle innych dwudziestowiecznych myślicieli. Prezentowany tom j...więcej »
Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it.The Playbook is an exposé of the extraordinary lengths that corporations will go to in order to d...więcej »
Since early 2020, Dolly Alderton has been sharing her wisdom, warmth and wit with the countless people who have written in to her Dear Dolly agony aunt column in The Sunday Times Style. Their quest...więcej »
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Książka zawiera dwa najciekawsze literacko, najważniejsze utwory prozą pisarki i poetki modernistycznej Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945): baśniowo-epistolarną powieść "Malik", i...więcej »
Fascynująca, napisana popularyzatorskim językiem książka Williama Daviesa mówi o tym, jak pojęcie szczęścia stało się obiektem współczesnego marketingu - przedmiotem, który moż...więcej »
First published over sixty years ago, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has reached millions of young people throughout the world. In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleein...więcej »
The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Professor Eugen Herrigel in this timeless account. This book is the result of the author's six year q...więcej »