Intercity train with only 2hrs 40 minutes journey makes Cracow available for a one-day trip from Warsaw. Cracow - the Cultural Capital of Europe of the year 2000 - rich in history, outstanding works of art and architecture. The city is the location of the Jagiellonian University [founded in 1364], the Royal Castle - Wawel, with its mythical Wawel Cathedral and the largest and most beautiful...

The problem of the continuity of science from the medieval to the modern times of the 17th century, when Galileo and Newton developed the correct theory of mechanics, occupied historians of science from the beginning of the 20th century. Some believe that the fourteenth-century English scholars who created the School of Oxford Calculators and their French and Italian followers. with their...

Cognitive Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies traces 14 ground-breaking studies by researchers such as Chomsky, Tulving, and Stroop to re-examine and reflect on their findings and engage in a lively discussion of the subsequent work that they have inspired. Revisiting the Classic Studies is a series of texts that introduces readers to the studies in psychology that...

Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat; he has seen how individuals and organizations, too often and to great cost, fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on the probability of something happening instead of the interface by which it can be managed. In Risk, McChrystal offers a new system of responding to risk, through ten...

Mateo Lemoine est un prodige du football. A dix-huit ans, il surprend son entourage et ses fans en s'inscrivant a la fac de Vernet, la petite ville ou il vit avec sa mere, pour conquérir le titre universitaire que son pere, entraîneur de talent disparu prématurément, était sur le point de remporter avant sa mort. Malgré son niveau, ou a cause de lui, Mateo peine a trouver sa place au sein de...

A day without laughter is a day wasted.' It is Christmas Day when Charlie Chaplin receives a visit from Death. The great actor is 82 years old, but not yet ready to face the final curtain. Desperate to see his teenage son grow up, the actor strikes a deal: if he manages to make Death laugh, he will win an extra year of life.

Something happens in students when they define themselves as makers and inventors and creators. They discover powerful skills-problem-solving, critical thinking, and imagination-that will help them shape the world's future ... our future. If that's true, why isn't creativity a priority in more schools today? Educators John Spencer and A.J. Juliani know firsthand the challenges teachers face...

Magazyn dla nowoczesnych kobiet, obecnie ukazuje się w ponad 60 krajach. Prezentuje nowe trendy w modzie, zdjęcia z pokazów, nowości kosmetyczne i makijażowe, aktualności ze świata kultury, piękne wnętrza i zdrową kuchnie. Przybliża sylwetki inspirujących postaci, twórców, tematy związane z rodziną, rozwojem osobistym, psychologią i pracą.

Struggling to Get Your Foot in the Door of Big Companies? Setting up meetings with corporate decision makers has never been harder. It's almost impossible to get them to pick up the phone. They never return your calls. And if you do happen to catch them, they blow you off right away. It's time to stop making endless cold calls or waiting for the phone to ring. In today's crazy marketplace,...

During the past decade there has been a tremendous growth in daylighting analysis methods, allowing designers to meet ever higher standards. But in relying too heavily on these methods, there is a risk of reducing daylighting design to a quantitative exercise, overlooking the qualitative, aesthetic, and experiential aspects of design. This book reveals how architects have bridged the poetic and...

Welche Buchstaben entderckst du im Klassenzimmer?  Wer wurfelt sich am schnellsten zur Schule? Und kannst du schon die Uhr lesen? In diesem bunten Buch fur die Einschulung gibt es: - Ubungen zum SEchreiben und Le4sen - Aufgaben zum Rechnen im Zahlenraum bis 20  - Ratsel rund ums Them Achule - Bastelideen zur Einschulung  - 100 sticker...

Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed the perilous journey to paradise, a utopian Egypt that could only be entered following the final judgment. When acclaimed photographer Sandro...

An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late abstract paintings, experiencing Richter’s work always offers us the unexpected and unseen. Where he once set out to liberate the medium from ideological ballast, today, faced with the overwhelming...

The State We're In is the first new collection in a decade from the writer that John Updike credited with creating 'an entirely different kind of short story'. Cool, ironic and witty, these stories are sharply observed, but underpinned with a quiet tenderness. Told through the voices of vivid and engaging women of all ages, The State We're In explores their doubts and desires and reveals the...

'This is Inglorious Basterds - but much better. Because it is the real story of clandestine Jewish fighters wreaking havoc against the Nazi war machine' Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the entire European continent. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of Jewish...

Compact and easy to use, Kaplan & Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, Fourth Edition is an authoritative, affordable text that provides must-know information in clinical psychiatry. Containing the most relevant clinical material from the best-selling Kaplan and Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry, Eleventh Edition , it offers step-by-step guidance on the clinical examination, the...

When it was published in 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness quickly became one of the most influential books in modern economics and politics. Within a short time, it had inspired whole government departments in the US and UK, and others as far afield as Singapore. One of the keys to Nudge’s success is Thaler and Sunstein’s...

Atlas turystyczno-samochodowy Niemiec, Beneluxu, Austrii, Szwajcarii, Czech na rok 2016, bardzo praktyczny w podróży. Publikacja zawiera: - aktualny stan dróg i autostrad, - dokładny indeks nazw, - skorowidz podziału na arkusze map, - 57 plany centrów miast, Atlasy są aktualizowane każdego roku.

As one of Britain’s leading newspapers for more than 200 years The Times has covered every major world events as they happened. This book profiles the ones that have had the most impact on the world today from the fall of the Berlin Wall to stepping onto the Moon. News-breaking stories as told from The Times with commentary setting each event in context. Historian and editor, James Owens,...

In A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country' when he became prime minister in 1940. Yet he was also a deeply flawed character, whose personal ambition would cloud his political judgement. While Churchill's Shadow gives due credit to the achievements, it also reveals some spectacular failures; indeed, it appears that for every Finest Hour there were many more Gallipolis....