When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out'Written...więcej »
"Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding 'the soul of Japan...więcej »
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.więcej »
Gdzie można spotkać w Polsce błękitne żaby, a gdzie usłyszeć tokujące cietrzewie? Dlaczego znad Biebrzy zniknęły bataliony? I jak może się zakończyć nieoczekiwane spotkanie z wilkiem?Cz...więcej »
Przez kilka dekad nazwisko Harveya Weinsteina było w Hollywood synonimem władzy. Mógł tworzyć gwiazdy i je niszczyć, nadawać karierom bieg lub dusić je w zarodku. Przez wiele lat krążyły plo...więcej »
Najgłośniejszy reportaż śledczy ostatnich lat!Gdy w 1998 roku doktor Andrew Wakefield opublikował w czasopiśmie naukowym „The Lancet” artykuł o związku szczepionki przeciwko...więcej »
'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...więcej »
'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...więcej »
'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...więcej »
Pod ziemią umieszczamy to, co cenne, co kochamy lub chcemy chronić; niekiedy ukrywamy to, co szkodliwe. Jednak to, co zostało kiedyś pogrzebane w ziemi, może w niej trwać dłużej od nas. I może nieo...więcej »
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...więcej »
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<...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
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 ...więcej »
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...więcej »
Dlaczego w Szwecji płoną ośrodki dla uchodźców? Dlaczego w holu największego instytutu badawczego w kraju, Karolinska Institutet, nadal znajduje się popiersie Gustava Retziusa, pioniera teor...więcej »
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, ...więcej »
“She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words.” - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from...więcej »
Despite years of stagnation, Japan remains one of the world's largest economies and a country which exerts a remarkable cultural fascination. David Pilling's new book is an entertaining, deeply kno...więcej »
