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Autobiografia prof. dr hab. Wojciecha Łączkowskiego została ujęta w niezwykłą formę literacką – wewnętrznego dialogu. Na tle panoramy polskich dziejów w wieku XX i XXI, Profesor opowiada historię swojego życia, odnosząc ją do dokonujących się równocześnie przemian społecznych, gospodarczych i ustrojowych. Towarzyszy temu ocena wskazująca, jakie znaczenie w życiu każdego człowieka ma rodzinny dom oraz wartości w tym domu kształtowane i uzupełniane przez kolejne pokolenia. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu i jego Wydział Prawa, uniwersytecka wspólnota, uniwersyteckie indywidualności stanowią nić przewodnią wspomnień Profesora, będących autentycznym dokumentem minionej epoki, utrwalających pamięć o historii Uniwersytetu.
From the international bestselling author comes an unmissable new un-telling of the life of one of the most captivating and misrepresented female figures in history.
Cleopatra, Egyptian Princess, grows up the favoured daughter of the Pharoah, hiding amongst the scrolls in the great library of Alexandria with her beloved slave Charmian, longing for the chance one day to write her own story.
Then when her father dies, willing that Cleopatra rule with her selfish brother Ptolemy, danger stirs. As the young Egyptian Queen sails the Nile to greet her people, he plots to destroy her and take the throne for himself.
But while Ptolemy has the power of Egypt behind him, Cleopatra has her wits. And when the great Caesar arrives from Rome, she realises he could be the key to her salvation - though courting this powerful man could cost her everything.
Can Cleopatra save her life, her throne and her beloved Egypt and finally write her own history?
Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs was many things:
A Space expert at NASA
An adviser to the World Health Organisation
A successful Big Pharma executive
But Michael Briggs had a secret.
A scandal broke out in 1986 when research he conducted was revealed to be compromised. Patients were also claiming that a pregnancy test he pioneered had caused devastating birth defects. Soon after his fall from grace, Briggs was dead, struck down by a mystery illness in a foreign country
Briggs left behind a long list of publications, patents, and inventions. But he also left behind hundreds of people who believe they are victims of his negligence and who are still fighting for justice to this day.
And he left someone else: his daughter, Joanne. After decades of wondering who her father really was, Joanne decided to investigate for herself. In hypnotic prose, she uncovers the secret that shaped her father's entire life and made his story more fantastic than any science fiction. As she discovered, Briggs's greatest invention was himself.
A tribute to and exploration of the magic behind one of Hollywood's most legendary and unknowable stars, Keanu Reeves, and the profound lessons we can learn from his successThere can be no doubt: Keanu Reeves is a phenomenon. He’s at once a badass action star, a hunky dreamboat who People magazine has called “the Internet’s boyfriend,” a vintage motorcycle enthusiast, a niche art book publisher, a living meme, and a legend. He seems to upend every rule governing celebrity in the 21st century.
But how?In Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant, cultural critic Alex Pappademas attempts to address Keanu’s unmatched eternality and the other big questions raised by his career arc. Sharp, funny, deeply researched, and fully celebratory of the enigmatic actor, this is the first book to take Keanu’s whole deal as seriously as it deserves. Yes, even Johnny Mnemonic, where Keanu mind melds with a dolphin.
Along the way, Pappademas reveals the lessons we can learn from Keanu about Hollywood, our broader culture, and even life itself.
Sprawdźcie, czy Fryckowi i Emilce spodobało się cyrkowe przedstawienie!
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„Mały Chopin” to krótkie historyjki powstałe z inspiracji barwną biografią Fryderyka Chopina. Opowieści te – chociaż umiejscowione w przeszłości – są wciąż aktualne, a Frycek sprawdza się w roli kolegi każdego dziecka! Autorką tekstów i ilustracji jest artystka wizualna – Aga Pietrzykowska (Studio „Pe”).
Seria wydawnicza została nagrodzona Nagrodą Główną w XXI Edycji Konkursu „Świat Przyjazny Dziecku” organizowanego przez Komitet Ochrony Praw Dziecka.
Kiedy czternastoletnia Caitlin odpowiada na ogłoszenie znalezione w gazecie – „Poszukujemy modelek” – nie wie, że w ten sposób podpisuje na siebie wyrok. Od tego czasu jest nieustannie kontrolowana, gwałcona, sprzedawana i przekazywana gangom w całej Wielkiej Brytanii. Jej oprawcy wcale się nie ukrywali: często odbierali ją ze szkoły lub z domu i zabierali do swoich mieszkań, domów rodzinnych lub hoteli, gdzie była systematycznie wykorzystywana. „Pozwólcie mi odejść. Wstrząsająca historia ofiary handlu ludźmi” to opowieść Caitlin o piekle, które udało jej się przetrwać.
Chopin. Książka obrazkowa Zosi Dzierżawskiej jest klasycznym picture-bookiem, który przenosi nas w świat rodziny, kolegów i zabaw młodego Fryderyka Chopina. Naszpikowane detalami rysunki, inspirowane są atmosferą listów i wspomnień wszelkich chopinowskich „figlów, żartów i konceptów”. Obrazy te uzupełnione są krótkimi komentarzami Marity Albán Juárez, ale i bez nich czytelnik dowie się, co otaczało i kształtowało Chopina od dzieciństwa, aż po dzień wyjazdu z Warszawy.
Idea powstała, gdy autorka zilustrowała z sukcesem Tajemniczy Ogród Frances Hodgson Burnett w edukacyjnej serii wydanej przez Oxford.
Picturebook o Chopinie jest efektem założeń o oryginalnej w formie i namalowanej klasyczną kreską historii, spokojnymi kolorami i szlachetnym papierem – antidotum na otaczający nas nadmiar sztucznych, przejaskrawionych obrazów.
The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations: 25th Anniversary edition, with a new introduction written and read by Irvine Welsh.
BEFORE THERE WAS THE BEAR, THERE WAS BOURDAIN.
‘Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino’ A.A. Gill
‘Fantastic: as lip-smackingly seductive as a bowl of fat chips and pungent aioli’ Daily Telegraph
After twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all – and he meant all.
From his first oyster in the Gironde as a child, to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain’s tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny.
From one of our leading biographers and critics comes an exhilarating, landmark new look at Muriel Spark.
The word most commonly used to describe Muriel Spark is 'puzzling'. Spark was a puzzle, and so too are her books. She dealt in word games, tricks, and ciphers; her life was composed of weird accidents, strange coincidences and spooky events. Evelyn Waugh thought she was a saint, Bernard Levin said she was a witch, and she described herself as 'Muriel the Marvel with her X-ray eyes'. Following the clues, riddles, and instructions Spark planted for posterity in her biographies, fiction, autobiography and archives, Frances Wilson aims to crack her code.
Electric Spark explores not the celebrated Dame Muriel but the apprentice mage discovering her powers. We return to her early years when everything was piled on: divorce, madness, murder, espionage, poverty, skulduggery, blackmail, love affairs, revenge, and a major religious conversion. If this sounds like a novel by Muriel Spark it is because the experiences of the 1940s and 1950s became, alchemically reduced, the material of her art.
Powołaniem Chopina było bez wątpienia komponowanie, co do tego nikt nie ma najmniejszych wątpliwości. Ale, co może mniej oczywiste, ten słynny kompozytor i wirtuoz fortepianu posiadał też inne talenty. Znakomicie rysował, posiadał zdolności aktorskie, a także całkiem nieźle pisał. Co prawda cierpiał na podejrzliwość wobec werbalnej ekspresji („Tyle rzeczy za piórem powstaje” – pisał do swego przyjaciela, Wojciecha Grzymały) i zamiast listów do rodziny, wolał pisać nuty, ale i tak pozostawił po sobie mnóstwo listów, notatki, laurki, wiersze, fragmenty dziennika. A sądząc po ich stylu, przywiązywał do nich i do przekazywanych treści wielką wagę, nigdy nie pisał od niechcenia. Smakował sens słów, dobierając je niesłychanie trafnie. Umiejętność doboru określeń i naturalny dowcip wskazują, że słuch muzyczny ujawniał się u Chopina również w budowaniu frazy językowej Pisząc używał cudownej polszczyzny inteligenckiej Warszawy. Kiedy chciał wyrazić coś bardzo istotnego, potrafił łamać reguły. Ale wszystko, co pisał, pełne jest Chopina. Chopina, który kształtował się w czasie romantyzmu, po upadku naszego państwa w 1795 roku. Chopina, który odczuwał, że egzystować znaczy jednocześnie być przedmiotem i podmiotem. Że dopiero wtedy człowiek istnieje, kiedy żyje i dla siebie i dla innych. Powyższy opis pochodzi od wydawcy.
A timely manifesto on how digital currencies will win the New Cold War and the struggle for geopolitical supremacy in the twenty-first century.
A New Cold War is underway. Whereas the first Cold War was dominated by the threat of nuclear conflict, the new front line is economic and financial, but still dominated by technology. Who controls its future will help decide the outcome of the geopolitical struggle between China and the US.
Since the end of the Second World War, the US dollar has been the global reserve currency, which has ensured American dominance of the world economy. But no longer. More than a hundred countries are developing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), digital equivalents to cash that will utterly transform how we do business at home and abroad.
China was the first country to recognise the potential of this new money. The West's media focused on the new currency's role in China's surveillance state, creating widespread concern about all CBDCs. But they have largely overlooked a more important aspect of its existence: as a tool through which to 'de-dollarise' the developing world at the speed of light. When China's President Xi Jinping officially launched the digital yuan in February 2022, he also agreed a pact of 'limitless co-operation' with Russia. Within days, Russia launched its war on Ukraine, secure in the knowledge it could bypass US sanctions.
Urgent, clear-eyed and groundbreaking, Smart Money shows us how CBDCs are going to impact all of our futures in ways that most of us have failed to even consider. If the West is to compete, it needs to act fast to develop its own global digital currencies that reflect the values of liberal democracies.
Alfred to bibliotekarz, mól książkowy oraz niespełniony pisarz. Izoluje się od otoczenia, nie nawiązuje bliskich relacji z ludźmi, trzyma się na dystans.
Pewnego dnia zaczyna słyszeć głos, który informuje go, że wkrótce złamie nogę, trafi do szpitala, a tam głos podyktuje mu powieść.
Zgodnie z zapowiedzią Alfred ląduje w szpitalu i posłusznie pisze książkę… o swoim życiu.
„Wyprzedzając jutro” Mirosława Zapały to fascynujące połączenie rzeczywistości i mistycyzmu. Alfred musi stawić czoła swoim lękom, przeszłości oraz tajemniczemu głosowi.
Czy zdoła rozplątać tajemnice swojej przeszłości? Czy głos, który nawiedza Ala, będzie jego wybawieniem, czy też przepowiednią długotrwałej choroby psychicznej?
From April 1942 to March 1944, Hélène Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity.
With her colleagues, she plays the violin and she seeks refuge from the everyday in what she calls the "selfish magic" of English literature and poetry. But this is Paris under the occupation and her family is Jewish.
"There are some books that are great, not because their writers were born for literary success, but because circumstances force upon them the writing of a truly great book. Such a one is Hélène Berr's Journal" CARMEN CALLIL
Eventually, there comes the time when all Jews are required to wear a yellow star. She tries to remain calm and rational, keeping to what routine she can: studying, reading, enjoying the beauty of Paris. Yet always there is fear for the future, and eventually, in March 1944, Hélène and her family are arrested, taken to Drancy Transit Camp and soon sent to Auschwitz. She went - as is later discovered - on the death march to Bergen-Belsen and there she died in 1945, only five days before the liberation of the camp. The last words in the journal she had left behind in Paris were "Horror! Horror! Horror!", a hideous and poignant echo of her English studies.
Hélène Berr's story is almost too painful to read, foreshadowing horror as it does amidst an enviable appetite for life, for beauty, for literature, for all that lasts.
On June 7th 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamt, but to Texas. The man who persuades the passengers to go is David Jochelmann, Rachel Cockerell's great-grandfather. It marks the beginning of the Galveston Movement, a forgotten moment in history when 10,000 Jews fled to Texas in the lead-up to WWI.
The charismatic leader of the movement is Jochelmann's closest friend, Israel Zangwill, whose novels have made him famous across Europe and America. As Eastern Europe becomes infected by anti-Semitic violence, Zangwill embarks on a desperate search across the continents for a temporary homeland: from Australia to Canada, Angola to Antarctica. He reluctantly settles on Galveston, Texas. He fears the Jewish people will be absorbed into the great American melting pot, but there is no other hope.
In a highly inventive style, Cockerell uses exclusively source material to capture history as it unfolds, weaving together letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles and interviews into a vivid account of those who were there. Melting Point follows Zangwill and the Jochelmann family through two world wars, to London, New York and Jerusalem - as their lives intertwine with some of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century, and each chooses whether to cling to their history or melt into their new surroundings. It is a story that asks what it means to belong, and what can be salvaged from the past.
Now with an exclusive new introduction from the author, Ken Follett, who will donate all royalties to the charity La Fondation du Patrimoine.
‘Two days after Notre-Dame burned, I flew to Paris to appear on the TV programme La Grande Librairie for a discussion about cathedrals. The following morning I had breakfast at the Hotel Bristol with my French publisher, and she asked me to write a short book about Notre-Dame and what it means to all of us. She said she would donate the publisher’s profits to the rebuilding fund and, if I wished, I could do the same with my royalties. Yes, I said; of course, I’d love to.’ – Ken Follett
Originally written in aid of the crucial restoration work to restore Paris’s great cathedral, Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals is a moving, short piece of non-fiction celebrating the stunning history of this beloved building from Ken Follett, author of the multi-million-copy-selling Kingsbridge series.
A graphic novel biography of actor, humanitarian, and style icon Audrey Hepburn—best known for Breakfast at Tiffany’s and one of the most enduring and beloved celebrities of the 20th century
Author Eileen Hofer and illustrator Christopher Longé peel back the myth of Audrey Hepburn in this graphic novel exploring the life behind her legacy.
From the trauma of abandonment and war to her dizzying rise to stardom and her commitment to charity work in her retirement, Hofer and Christopher show Hepburn as she was—and how she came by the strength and grace that made her so much more than a movie star.
Born into privilege, Audrey Hepburn lived an incredible riches-to-rags-to-riches life as her childhood was swiftly upended by World War II. During the course of her incredible career, she was a muse of Givenchy, only the third woman to win the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award), and an activist whose work for UNICEF earned her a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992.
Her inimitable charisma, deep empathy, and dedication to her craft built a lasting legacy—one that stands out among her peers during Hollywood’s golden era.
Decades later, a cottage industry of books about how best to emulate her, a robot named Sophia that is based on her, and even a digital likeness (which was featured in an ad for Galaxy chocolate), all speak to her enduring legacy. Hepburn’s skill as a performer and her magnetism won her generations of fans worldwide.
Her name is synonymous with elegance and a certain kind of movie stardom given the impeccable image she so carefully curated during her lifetime—an image which hid incredible resilience and strength.
A Holocaust survivor reflects on his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and the hardships of being a postwar refugee, in this deeply moving memoir written with surprising wit and humor.
“Weinberg’s graphic memories are haunting . . . an essential title for discussion.” —Booklist
In 1939, 12-year-old Felix Weinberg lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identity. Born into a respectable Czech family, Felix’s early years were idyllic. But when Nazi persecution threatened in 1938, his father travelled to England, hoping to arrange for his family to emigrate there. His efforts came too late—and his wife and children fell into the hands of the Fascist occupiers.
Thus begins a harrowing tale of survival, horror, and determination. Over the following years, Felix survived 5 concentration camps, including Terezín, Auschwitz and Birkenau, as well as the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. Losing both his brother and mother in the camps, Felix was liberated at Buchenwald and eventually reunited at the age of 17 with his father in Britain, where they built a new life together.
An extraordinary memoir, as well as a meditation on the nature of memory. It helps us understand why the Holocaust remains a singular presence at the heart of historical debate.
A phenomenon of 21st-century bookmaking, Oliver Jeffers has carved an extraordinary career that shows no sign of slowing. Still only in his forties, he has published an array of hugely popular books, both as illustrator and author–illustrator. This overview of his life and work – so far – charts his passion for the environment and his quest to understand humanity’s major challenges, and the impact this has had on his creative and intellectual output.
The list of Jeffers’s accomplishments is long and glittering: he has held numerous one-man shows, in both the UK and the USA, and was appointed an MBE in 2022 for services to the arts. Most importantly, however, he has tirelessly pushed the boundaries of what a picturebook can be. His regular exploration of existential issues – whether through illustration or other media such as site-specific installation or film – has exerted a major influence on the practice of authorial picturebook-making.
This addition to Thames & Hudson’s acclaimed Illustrators series is the first book to focus closely on Oliver Jeffers’s practice as an illustrator, offering an in-depth analysis of his processes, influences, styles and subjects as they have changed over time.
The eternal singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, and lyrics by Henry Alford, “the most graceful of humorists” (Vanity Fair) and a writer for The New Yorker.
Joni Mitchell’s life, psyche, and evolving legacy are explored here in vivid technicolor—from her childhood in Saskatoon, Canada, to her arrival in Laurel Canyon that turned her into, as Alford puts it, “the bard of heartbreak and longing.” Each period of Mitchell’s life is observed via the artists, friends, family, and lovers she encountered along the way, including James Taylor, Leonard Cohen, Georgia O’Keefe, Prince, and, most significantly, Kilauren, the daughter Mitchell gave up for adoption at birth but then reconnected with decades later.
Presented in the impressionistic vein of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, I Dream of Joni explores in fifty-three essays, with the author’s trademark wit and verve, the life of the legendary singer-songwriter.
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