In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Separated from her parents on arrival, she endures unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Jos...
"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I w...
In 1954, a young television presenter named David Attenborough was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo's collection, and to f...
The year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of premature death of Marian Smoluchowski, an outstanding Polish physicist, a pioneer of the kinetic theory of matter currently known as statistical physic...
An unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros.Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and the aesthetic...
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannica...
Kino jest poetycką siłą. A kamera – poetycką bronią. Dokładnie w takim znaczeniu, jak ujął to Kafka, pisząc: »Książka powinna być jak siekiera, która rozbija zamarznięte morze we...
Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. W...
How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this true account of his depression, Styron describ...
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...
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...
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a c...
After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and ho...
A new edition of Keri Smith's bestseller, with updated materialThink of Wreck This Journal as the anarchist's Artist's Way -- the book for those who've always wanted to draw outside the...
Sensitively edited and with a connecting commentary by editor, Mirjam Pressler, the abridged edition of The Diary of Anne Frank gives younger readers their first introduction to the extraordinary d...
Kronika opery od 1992 do 2012 roku powstała ze względu na przypadający w tym roku jubileusz pracy Michała Znanieckiego. Jest to opracowanie działalności artystycznej najwybitniejszego polskiego re...
Ilustrowane wydawnictwo Chopin, autorstwa Mieczysława Tomaszewskiego, przygotowane zostało z okazji obchodów 160. rocznicy śmierci oraz 200. rocznicy urodzin Fryderyka Chopina. Syntetyzujące...
Described here are the places where Chopin lived, stayed on his summer holidays or visited in passing. Each of the chapters – devoted to the regions of Mazovia, Wielkopolska, Malopolska, etc....