First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad's place in literature as one of...

A collection of essays from the leading scholars in the field dealing with various dimensions of legal negotiations. The contributions concern the logical structure of legal negotiations, as well as the possible philosophical assumptions behind the process of negotiating. The collection covers also the problem of the economic mechanisms and the psychological underpinnings of negotiationg in...

'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER TLS, OBSERVER, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with...

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for...

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body. 'Van der Kolk draws on thirty years of experience to argue powerfully that trauma...

Annabeth and her friends Piper, Jason and Leo have landed at Camp Jupiter with one mission in mind. The time has come for Roman and Greek demigods to unite. With Percy Jackson, Hazel and Frank by their side, they must combine forces to find - and close - the Doors of Death. But Annabeth s hiding a secret - a command from her moher, the goddess of war and wisdom: "Follow the mark of Athena....

Książka zawiera wykaz i omówienie serii oraz podserii zbiorów fotografii wykonanych przede wszystkim przez żołnierzy Wehrmachtu i funkcjonariuszy SS, dokumentujące ogrom zbrodni popełnionych przez wojska niemieckie na terenach Polski.

Alternatywna wersja przebiegu największej bitwy średniowiecza! Najnowszy album mistrza polskiego komiksu - Papcia Chmiela - o tematyce historycznej. Tym razem Tytus, Romek i A`Tomek zostają oddelegowani przez Papcia, by rozprawić się z zakonem krzyżackim na polach grunwaldzkich AD 1410. Trójka kochanych przez miliony czytelników bohaterów w znaczący sposób przyczynia się do zwycięstwa w...

The flaxen-haired beauty of the childlike Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon’s classic novel of sensation uncovers the truth about its heroine in a plot involving bigamy, arson and murder. It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of...

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for...

„Wydanie tego tomu jest powodem do świętowania. Tłumaczenia Davida Fricka wreszcie pozwalają anglojęzycznym czytelnikom wsłuchać się swobodnie w wyjątkowe, polskie wypowiedzi Chopina i wychwycić ich niuanse. W poszczególnych listach obserwujemy charakterystyczne procesy zachodzące w wyobraźni kompozytora, niekiedy w postaci w pełni rozwiniętych narracji (z logicznymi strukturami właściwymi...

Noe był człowiekiem takim jak my. Kochamy, kłamiemy, zabijamy… Ale to właśnie on miał zadecydować o tym, czy ocalejemy. Prace nad arką, jedyną nadzieją na zachowanie życia na Ziemi, trwają. Noe, jego synowie oraz upadłe anioły pracują w pocie czoła, a monumentalny szkielet okrętu rośnie w oczach. Z czterech stron świata nadciągają wszelkie stworzenia: ptaki, gady, owady, a także ssaki, w...

Roland Deschain, bliski śmierci po ataku Powolnych Mutantów, zostaje przygarnięty przez grupę Sióstr specjalizujących się w tym co można nazwać przeciwieństwem leczenia. Te szkaradne, przypominające trupy istoty znane jako Siostrzyczki z Elurii w swych pokręconych umysłach mają żądzę mordu. A w swym obecnym stanie Roland nie może zrobić prawie nic by nie znajdować się na ich łasce.

300 years before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon flame and saw the Seven Kingdoms turned to ash. So began the Targaryens’ bloody rule, with fire and blood. Setting brother against brother, mother against daughter, and dragon against dragon. Chronicled by a learned maester of the Citadel, this thrilling and...

Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends...

How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?

Based on Charlotte Brontë's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid social order, it is also the story of a woman's right to love and be loved.

Niekończący się konflikt. Stary grzech. Nowe objawienie. Simon Hathaway, członek Wewnętrznego Sanktuarium Zakonu Templariuszy, staje na czele wydziału Badań Historycznych Abstergo Industries, wnosząc do nowej pracy swoje analityczne podejście i chłodne spojrzenie. Ale Simon jest także głodny wiedzy i zafascynowany możliwością bezpośredniego doświadczania historii poprzez wspomnienia...

The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions. Thematically, there is a rich orchestration of the contrasts between age and youth, corruption and innocence, decline and regeneration. Both...

With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer. Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of...