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...
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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...
Lucian Boia - urodzony w 1944 r. w Bukareszcie historyk jest jednym z najważniejszych, a zarazem najbardziej poczytnych i cenionych współczesnych rumuńskich intelektualistów. Znany gł...
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...
Pierwszy tytuł z reaktywowanej, słynnej serii PIW-u "Biblioteka Syrenki". Ignacy Baliński, prawnik, społecznik i polityk, ale też literat, poeta, publikujący recenzje z wydarzeń teatraln...
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...
Biografia Sybilli Jerozolimskiej, królowej Jerozolimy w latach 1186–1190. Autorka, historyczka średniowiecza, prof.Helen J. Nicholson, ze stosunkowo nielicznych i rozproszonych źr&oacu...
Ksiądz Profesor Jan Sochoń jest nie tylko cenionym naukowcem, nauczycielem akademickim, popularyzatorem myśli filozoficznej, ale też cenionym poetą i pisarzem. Wyrazem wdzięczności i podsumowaniem ...
"Książka ta jest próbą naszkicowania panoramy naszej epoki. Nie tylko jednak. Wychodząc od zdarzeń i dokumentów, ludzi i ich relacji, dzieł sztuki i kultury masowej, próbu...
A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand ma...
'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and conventi...
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; ...
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, ...
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
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...
'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...
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...
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...