Books detailing military music are rare, with books on Scottish military music rarer still. Almost no academic attention has been given to the history of Scottish regimental Pipes and ...więcej »
Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography.Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie’s readers a...więcej »
From her girl squad to the Swifties to the world at large, Taylor's the BFF of the pop music world. As the go-to shoulder to cry on and chronicler of heartbreak, she relates her personal life and e...więcej »
Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an...więcej »
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...więcej »
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...więcej »
Kathryn Bonella lifts the lid on Bali's nightmarish narcotics underworld. Among the island's drug dealers 'It's snowing in Bali' is code that the south-east Asian paradise is full of cocaine. For t...więcej »
Throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you.'więcej »
On the four sides of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, serried tablets display the names of 660 honoured commanders of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Most are those of generals and marshals of ...więcej »
Everything the young fan wants to know about Liverpool Football Club, packed with facts about the legendary players, managers, matches and more that tell the story of the football institution belov...więcej »
Podczas drugiej wojny światowej w szeregach alianckich walczyło niemal milion żołnierzy Żydów. W okupowanych przez Niemcy krajach Europy Żydzi stawiali opór zbrojny – do jego na...więcej »
In his essay-manifesto of 1999, Zenon Fajfer defined liberature – a literary genre encompassing works whose authors intentionally design the shape of the book, so that it matches their textua...więcej »
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 »
Maj 2015. Pięć szalonych dziewczyn jedzie do dalekiego kraju, by go zwyczajnie poznać, jego kulturę, mieszkańców, by zobaczyć Wielki Kaukaz z bliska, zasmakować wyśmienitej kuchni i wina, by...więcej »
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Chopin in Paris: The 1830s to szósta z serii publikacji pokonferencyjnych. Znalazły się w niej rozszerzone wersje referatów wygłoszonych na VI Międzynarodowej Konferencji Chopinologic...więcej »
Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary brilliance made his face a symbol and his name...więcej »
A collection of more than 400 quotes from Elon Musk, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and tech icon. Part of the In Their Own Words series. Get inside the head of one of the most compelling entreprene...więcej »
A collection of over 300 quotes from Bill Gates, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and tech icon. Part of the In Their Own Words series. Get inside the head of one of the most important leaders of our ...więcej »
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, ...więcej »