Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Though famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio's boundary-breaking naturalism which...

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession. This was the book that finally overcame the inherent suspicion of fiction that still prevailed in much of America in the late nineteenth...

A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. There, he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia, working as a money launderer,...

When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only...

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint.

Edycja specjalna z okazji dwudziestolecia wydania książki Harry Potter i Kamień Filozoficzny – pozycja obowiązkowa dla najwierniejszych fanów Hogwartu! Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw… Dwadzieścia lat temu te słowa ukazały się drukiem w Polsce, uwalniając Harry’ego z komórki pod schodami. Od tego czasu wiele nowych pokoleń poznało historię młodego czarodzieja i...

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Len Platt, Professor of Modern Literatures, Head of Goldsmiths Learning Enhancement Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London,New Cross, London SE14 6NW. Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way the book of us all as well as all our books. Joyce's last great work,...

The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot – the legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket—returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in 1930’s London. Returning home after lunch one day, Hercule Poirot finds an angry woman waiting outside his front door. She demands to know why Poirot has sent...

„Fascynująco mroczna, łamiąca serce i absolutnie oryginalna opowieść“ . – R.F. Kuang Mehr jest półsierotą, nieślubną córką cesarskiego urzędnika. Jest cicha, na pozór pokorna i ma macochę, która robi co może, by zamienić jej życie w piekło. Ale, wbrew pozorom, to nie jest kolejna wersja baśni o Kopciuszku. Bo Mehr ma też moc, którą odziedziczyła po wygnanej matce. W...

'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times Including conversations with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley and more, this is an essential guide to the most exciting ideas of our time and their proponents from our most brilliant science communicator. Books Do Furnish a Life is divided by theme, including celebrating nature, exploring humanity, and...

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) was undoubtedly the most influential fashion designer of the 20th century. Her clothes and accessories have remained perennially chic, and her legendary fashion house continues to exert a powerful sway over today's designers. Jérôme Gautier tells the story of Chanel's iconic style through hundreds of images, many taken by the leading lights of...

Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant mind, political activism and striking image made her an emblem of the seductions - and the dangers - of the twentieth-century world. Her writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, Fascism and Freudianism, Communism and Americanism, reflected the conflicted meanings of a most...

Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: when your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great...

W Nie poddawaj się Simon Snow i jego przyjaciele zrozumieli, że ich wiedza o świecie może być błędna. W Zbłąkanym synu zastanawiali się, czy błędne nie jest to, co wiedzą o sobie.W Co ma być, to będzie Simon, Baz, Penelope i Agatha muszą zdecydować, jak ma wyglądać ich dalsze życie.Simon powinien rozważyć, czy nadal chce należeć do Świata Magów – a jeśli nie, jak to wpłynie na jego relacje z...

Wkrocz do magicznego miasta, w którym przyszłość królestwa spoczywa w rękach sprytnej i buntowniczej oszustki! Nahri nigdy nie wierzyła w magię. Jest oszustką o niezrównanym talencie, żyjącą na ulicach XVIII- wiecznego Kairu. Wie lepiej niż ktokolwiek inny, że jej profesja – odczyty z dłoni, czary, uzdrowienia – to wszystko sztuczki i sposób na zmanipulowanie osmańskiej...

Drugi tom serii o czwórce prawdopodobnie ostatnich dzieci na Ziemi. Tym razem muszą odkryć, dlaczego zombiaki zniknęły. Idealna seria dla każdego dziecka, które marzyło o tym, by zagrać w swoim własnym komiksie lub grze wideo. Prześmieszna seria, pełna błaznujących dzieciaków i zwariowanych gadżetów. Zapasu zombiaków i gigantycznych potworów wystarczy dla każdego! Zombie...

W czwartej części "Ostatnich dzieciaków na Ziemi" Maxa Bralliera i Douglasa Holgate'a, dzielny i zwariowany bohater Jack Sullivan i jego przyjaciele znów walczą ze złem. Nieoczekiwanie, ich przeciwnikiem staje się... inny człowiek! Tym razem akcja rozgrywa się w środku zimy i wszędzie leży głęboki śnieg. Dobre potwory boją się śniegu i lodu, a dzieci nie mają najlepszych ubrań na zimę, ale...

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with...

Many of us think we know his story well. His ruthless ambition was evident from his insistence, as a three-year-old, that he would one day be 'world king'. Eton and Oxford prepared him well for a frantic career straddling the dog-eat-dog worlds of journalism and politics. His transformation from bumbling stooge on Have I Got New for You to a triumphant Mayor of London was overshadowed only...

The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the...