Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith’s contemporaries and became an immediate bestseller. That edition sold out quickly and others followed. Today,...

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...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this a gripping and...

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...

Brisingr” (czytaj:bri-sin-gr) Christophera Paoliniego czyli 3. tom przygód Eragona Eragon i jego smoczyca Saphira ledwie uszli z życiem z ogromnej bitwy z wojownikami Imperium na Płonących Równinach. Teraz muszą stawić czoło kolejnym niebezpieczeństwom – a także splątanej sieci obietnic i przysiąg, których Eragon może nie zdołać dotrzymać. Pierwsza to obietnica złożona kuzynowi Rotanowi, że...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the...

A ground-breaking collection of essays which tackles the philosophical issues at play in cosmology, physics, mathematics and neuroscience. Considering topics such as the presence of ontology in cosmological theory and physics, it also weighs up the philosophical issues connected with mathematical method, the neuroscience of emotions and evolutionary anthropology. Contributions also feature...

Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest language in the world?...

"Jane Eyre" ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position...

The Art Of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly know to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactis of its time. it has been the most famous oan influential of China's Seven Military...

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 colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior....

‘As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved…It was good, good, good…’ Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into...

With an Introduction and Notes by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury. With Illustrations by R.Seymour, R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by...

This book is a voice in the ongoing discussion on the communicative nature and consequences of content and language integrated learning (CLIL). The innovative character of the present study rests upon its context on the one hand, and its perspective on the other. The numerous accounts available in international research literature on this topic typically concern naturally bilingual...

Frigiel i przyjaciele udają się do miasta wszelkich uciech - Famouz. Odbywa się tam turniej gwiazd, a bohater, który zyska sobie największe uznanie publiczności, otrzyma w nagrodę własną podobiznę ze złota: posąg naturalnej wielkości. Aby zwyciężyć, będzie musiał stawić czoło najlepszym i najgorszym awanturnikom spod znaku Minecrafta. Ale, ale, czy za tym nie kryje się coś więcej? Czy...

"Pomnik cesarzowej jest potężny i wzbudza strach."Nadszedł czas silnych kobiet i równoległych światów.Oto zakończenie epickiej opowieści, na które czekali wszyscy.Kto ma zginąć - zginie. Kto przeżyć - być może przeżyje. "Pomnik Cesarzowej Achai" po prostu mnie porwał i znokautował poprzednią serię z cyklu, "Achaję". Lubimy czytać Z czystym sumieniem mogę...

Things aren’t as bad as we think. Fact. When asked simple questions about global trends – why the world’s population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty – we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness,...

Jerzy Zięba od ponad 20 lat zajmuje się naturoterapią, szczególnie w odniesieniu do naturalnych metod leczenia i zapobiegania chorobom przewlekłym i nowotworom. Książka Ukryte Terapie powstała po wielu latach analiz badań medycznych czy innych publikacji, które nawet w środowisku medycznym są zupełnie nieznane. Autor publikuje artykuły w prasie, jak też prowadzi wykłady dotyczące prostych i...

Młodzi bohaterowie są świadkami walki o władzę w Poznaniu. Ojciec Mieszka, książę Siemomysł, posługuje się zbrodnią, krzywoprzysięstwem i Wareskimi najemnikami, aby zniszczyć starą arystokracje plemienną.