ARCHITECTURE TODAY to przegląd 140 projektów 40 najważniejszych współczesnych pracowni architektonicznych z całego świata. Obok znanych, np.: FORM4 Architecture, Querkraft, RZAPS czy UNStudio, książka prezentuje wschodzące talenty współczesnej architektury, których projekty są już rozpoznawalne i szeroko komentowane. Każde z tych rozsianych po całym świecie biur, w szczególny...

Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as Bagheera, the graceful black panther, and Shere Khan, the tiger with the blazing eyes. Other animal stories range from the simple heroism found in...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince is an endearing tale of equal appeal to the young and the grown-ups. It blends a simple story of an aviator forced to land in a remote desert and his meeting a small boy, the Little Prince from another planet, with an allegory of human condition; entertaining, thought-provoking and mind-triggering in the process. The beautiful illustrations drawn...

Co kupujesz komuś na 500. urodziny? Araminta rozpaczliwie próbuje wymyślić idealny prezent dla swojego ulubionego ducha, Sir Horace'a, ale trudno jest kupić prezenty dla kogoś, kto nie ma konkretnych zainteresowań i ciała. Wtedy genialny pomysł prowadzi do kłopotów, gdy wszystko nie idzie zgodnie z planem, a Araminta zastanawia się, czy kiedykolwiek jeszcze zobaczy Horace'a lub swoją...

W prowincjonalnym, amerykańskim Hog Town trwają poszukiwania nastoletniej Natalie. Gdy policja znajduje w lesie pusty, płytki grób, atmosfera w miasteczku gęstnieje, a mieszkańcy spodziewają się inwazji żywych trupów... The Rotten Town to wyjątkowa książka do nauki języka angielskiego (American English). Dzięki lekturze przerażająco wciągającej historii...

TW TYM TYGODNIU publikujemy nasz coroczny przewodnik prognostyczny na nadchodzący rok, The World Ahead 2024. Nasi korespondenci i zaproszeni eksperci zastanawiają się nad stanem demokracji , ponieważ kraje, w których mieszka połowa światowej populacji, przeprowadzają wybory krajowe; narastającym konfliktem i niepokojem w coraz bardziej wielobiegunowym świecie; a także nad wyzwaniami i...

Gdy Serena zaczyna pracę jako stewardessa, jej związek z Gregiem zostaje wystawiony na próbę. Kiedy pewnego dnia lot powrotny z Pragi do Londynu zostaje odwołany, znużona wyrzutami Grega Serena postanawia odwiedzić Phila, swojego dawnego nauczyciela muzyki, obecnie znanego pianistę. Spotkanie wzbudza w obojgu niepohamowaną falę pożądania... Serena&s Nocturnes to powieść erotyczna dla...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up. Now a major motion picture starring Emma Watson and Logan Lerman. Stephen Chbosky's new film Wonder, starring Owen Wilson and Julia Roberts is out now. Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the...

With an Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario, Canada. This edition includes both Volumes One and Two. Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation....

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes...

Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste...

With an Introduction by Janet Browne, Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University. In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there...

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out...

From the bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGOTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Thank you Taylor Jenkins Reid for the escapism we all need- a sex-on-the-beach cocktail (quite literally) of a book' PANDORA SYKES'I LOVE it . . . I can't remember the last time I read a book that was so fun' DOLLY ALDERTON'It's 365 pages of pure exhilaration'...

Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the...

‘Wendy Wood is the world’s foremost expert in the field, and this book is essential’ – Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit. What if you could harness the extraordinary power of your unconscious mind, which already determines so much of what you do, to achieve your goals? Shockingly, we spend nearly half our day repeating things we've done in the past without thinking...

This edition features new content for 2021 from Dr Mary Dobson: Plagues, Pandemics and Planetary Health. Have you ever wondered how the universe began? Or what it takes to put humans on the moon? Do you know what happens in the microscopic world of a life-saving vaccine? What would you do if you could travel through space and time? "A glorious scientific gaze at our world, and the universe...

Auschwitz and Birkenau were separate from each other,by about a 45 minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evolved into a killing machine in 1941. Later that year a new site called Birkenau was found to extend the Auschwitz complex. Here a vast complex of buildings were constructed to hold initially Russian POWs and later Jews as a labour...

Children's Classic Stories is a timeless collection of fairytales, fables and folktales. Many you will know by heart, others you will be familiar with and some will be new to you. Charming illustrations by renowned children's artists bring to life much-loved characters such as Dick Whittington and Snow White--and introduce many new ones-- to keep you entertained time and time again. This...

Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, 'In a German Pension', appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The...