Książka opowiada o budowie imperium Sony od podstaw przez ludzi zupełnie niezwykłych. W jaki sposób osiągnęli ten trudny do wyobrażenia sukces? Co musieli zrobić i czego się wyrzec? Książkę cechuje wy...
Reportaż, czyli polska specjalność w najlepszym wykonaniu. "Made in Poland" to autoportret reporterów Dużego Formatu - to oni wybrali swoje najciekawsze teksty, by zaprezentować je czytelnikom. Hugo-B...
Język to władza. Dlatego napisałam tę książkę. Szwedzkie słowo lagom, oznaczające życie wystarczająco dobre, rozprzestrzeniło się w świecie jako symbol szwedzkiego umiaru, wygodnego i przyjemnego życi...
Spis Treści : I. MAN AND CLIMATE; II. LONG-TERM CLIMATIC DATA SERIES; III. CHANGEABILITY OF CLIMATE IN THE 20THCENTURY; IV.CLIMATE OF NATURAL AND HUMAN IMPACTED ECOSYSTEMS; V. CHANGES IN MEASUREMENTS ...
Tajwan - kraj o ludności większej od całej Skandynawii, o gospodarce większej od polskiej, ojczyzna takich koncernów jak Asus, Acer, Giant czy HTC. A także kraj, o którym bardzo mało można przeczytać ...
Książka zawiera dziewięć niepublikowanych wcześniej sztuk nowych autorów (Roberta Bolesto, Pawła Demirskiego, Magdy Fertacz, Tomasza Kaczmarka, Macieja Kowalewskiego, Danuty Łukasińskiej, Tomasza Mana...
(...) Do Breslau dojechaliśmy wieczorem - wspominał dzień 14 stycznia 1945 roku Ulrich Frodien, jeden z mieszkańców miasta. - W zasypanym śniegiem mieście panowały ciemności. Nie paliły się lampy ulic...
The book describes the reasons for the correlation between changes in the number of universally valid legal acts introduced and changes in the national economy. This book is addressed mainly to people...
Jak stwierdził w swych wspomnieniach Aleksander Fredro, Człowiek z koniem, niby centaur, jest dopiero jednostką w kawalerii. Historiografia polska podążając za tą zasadą, jak się wydaje, nie lubi zsa...
Theodore Fleming's fieldwork on bats has taken him to tropical forests all over the world. This is a personal account of his many adventures, the animals and plants he has encountered, his relationshi...
An entertaining, anecdotal look at the origins of language and ideas in the USA. Bryson explains why two bicycle repairmen from Ohio succeeded in mastering manned flight, why the assassination of Pres...
Jakop is a lonely man. Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funerals of people he doesn't know, obscuring his identity ...
A decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. This time the setting is Atlanta, Geo...
Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national and transnational/diasporic interest since the 1990s: The emergence of the Indian homose...
Almost from the beginning of art, humans have portrayed cats. The animal originally domesticated for the humble purpose of catching mice was already a goddess in ancient Egypt and a beloved household ...
Architecture is never an isolated production. It is deeply embedded in the fabric of any social and cultural dynamic, even though new impetuses are often made and established through architecture. Thi...
A definitive account of the geography of industrialization in India. The primary goal is to analyse the consequences of specific policies, and show how policy frameworks need to be changed to achieve ...
A funny, tender, utterly beguiling story about a woman's search for happiness. It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, th...
Jane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania, Afric...
The Jews are starving to death behind the Ghetto wall in World War II Poland, and two orphaned Jewish sisters have escaped and pretend to be Polish.
Rome. 110BC. A city which is home to Gaius Marius, prosperous but lowborn, a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth. It is also home to Lucius Cornelius Sulla,...
Gilles Bachelet's cat behaves like any normal cat; sleeping, eating, getting in the way, making a mess, but in this warm and funny picture book he happens to be...a very large elephant. The simplest c...
Starring the ultimate anti-hero, and under the helm of writer Luke Lieberman, Matt Wolpert, and artist Diego Bernard, Man with No Name Volume 2 continues the epic saga based on Sergio Leone's modern m...
What if the Allies had lost the Second World War ...? The Nazis have taken over New York - the Japanese control California. In a neutral buffer zone existing between the two states an underground auth...
Following his star turn in I am a Tree Tim is back for more comic fun. This time he's spending half term cleaning cars, and screaming toddlers have taken over his home. He's not happy. Luckily his fri...
Dumas' famous musketeers return in another exciting swashbuckler. And this time, Aramis is embarking on the most perilous mission of all: to depose King Louis XIV and put his twin brother Philip on th...
Accounting: An Introduction is renowned for its clear, accessible and uncluttered style. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the main principles of financial accounting, management accounting,...