Słynni polscy olimpijczycy to unikalna kolekcja: 20 opowieści o wspaniałych chwilach polskiego sportu - o triumfach, sławie i medalach, ale też o porażkach i upadkach. 20 fascynujących życiorysów ludz...
Wydany przez Hitlera w dniu 3 kwietnia 1939 r. rozkaz o jednolitych przygotowaniach wojennych Wehrmachtu na okres 1939/40 zawierał polecenie, by niemieckie siły zbrojne osiągnęły stan pozwalający, w p...
Po zakończeniu wojny secesyjnej głównymi zadaniami armii Stanów Zjednoczonych były walka, podbój i trzymanie w ryzach Indian mieszkających na zachód od Missisipi. Wykonując tę misję, żołnierze napotyk...
Miasta to zwierciadła cywilizacji, a w Krakowie i Pradze znajdujemy może najpełniejszy obraz cywilizacji Europy Środkowej. Dialog obu tych miast i zmienność ich wzajemnych relacji pobudzają do szersze...
Książka poświęcona została kształtowaniu i ewolucji wizerunku mieszkańców Arabii w źródłach starożytnych i wczesnośredniowiecznych. Mieszkańców cesarstwa łączyły z Arabami różnorodne relacje – pol...
What would you do if you were born to be a predator? Would you fight your natural instincts or give in to your nature? Eden is a soul eater closing in on her Awakening. Her family has convinced he...
A Jack Reacher short story, published exclusively as an ebook: now also available in the new Reacher short story collection, No Middle Name. The tiny town of Naismith has nothing going for it - excep...
How well do you know the man you love? For five years Will has hidden from his mafia family, keeping secrets in order to live happily with the Dom of his dreams, Lindi Samms. But that life is about t...
Early in her life, Josephine Malone learned the hard way that there was only one person she could love and trust: her grandmother, Lydia Malone. Out of necessity, unconsciously and very successfully, ...
The world is facing a war to end all wars, a confrontation that will destroy everything Dion and Chloe hold dear. With Palemon’s dragon army growing in number, time is running out… Dion is doing ever...
What business teams can learn from football when the game is on the line Companies and governmental organizations have spent years of training and billions of dollars on improvement efforts, yet conti...
17th century, somewhere off the coast of Venezuela. Captain Crown abducted from his quarters and brutally murdered. Senior Assistant Red with the crew sent fulfill the last will of Crown: to find ...
"Where do serial killers come from?" and why has Buckaroo, Oregon given birth to sixteen of the most vile serial killers in the world? NSA Agent Nicholas Finch needs to solve that mystery in order to ...
Aging populations. Weather shocks. Scarce water. Globalization. Security threats. Policymakers today confront a number of developments that threaten to burden public budgets for decades to come, or ba...
Be spontaneous, they say. That's how I ended up on the back of a stranger's bike. A sexy, tall, tattooed stranger, but a stranger nonetheless. How was I to know that a chance meeting with this man, ...
The contemporary work has in some instances been in the form of lively debates between proponents of different viewpoints, and the literature is characterized by a genuine vitality. Work has appeared ...
December 7, 1941--the date of Japan's surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor--is Âa date which will live in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the meanings att...
A collection of photographs of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo by the Hungarian-born photographer Nickolas Muray. Kahlo met Muray in Mexico in 1931, and they began an affair that was to continue over s...
Focusing on the concepts and interactions of free will, moral responsibility, and determinism, this text represents the most up-to-date account of the four major positions in the free will debate. Fou...
Alvin is a good man. He works with dysfunctional teenagers, and where everyone else sees apprentice career criminals, he sees hope. No-one has ever taught him to accentuate the positive; his mind is s...
This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics ‘The Aesthetics of Silence’, a brilliant account of language, thought...
Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than l...
The "Clifton Chronicles" is Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious work in fourdecades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of HarryClifton's life begins in 1920, with the chilling words, 'I...
My name is Amy Gumm—and I'm the other girl from Kansas. After a tornado swept through my trailer park, I ended up in Oz. But it wasn't like the Oz I knew from books and movies. Dorothy had returned,...
The godlike being Ashura-ô has killed the equally skilled and mighty rival,Yasha-ô. But now Ashura-ô seems depressed. What this means to the countryof Shura, none can tell . . . especially the five fr...
More than 20 years ago, a little known Swiss psychoanalayst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving "The Drama ...
In the Autumn of 1940 the Jews of Warsaw were forced into a crowded ghetto, enduring unimaginable conditions until most were killed. Yet, amid this, one man, Emanuel Ringelblum, started an extraordina...
This book responds to the often damaging assumption that everyone is online and is using online resources within the specified parameters of employers, government and national laws. This book examines...
Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what The Jungle did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. The plot follows the clash between an oil developer and his son. Typical of Sinclair, ...