Covering such inscrutable characters as Martin Heidegger, Michel de Montaigne, Karl Popper, and Claude Lévi-Strauss (apparently not just a designer of jeans), writer Hubert van den Bergh—author of the best-selling How to Sound Clever—and journalist Thomas W. Hodgkinson offer you a wry look inside the mirrored palaces of high culture.
Read this book and you'll never again mistake Hegel for Engels, you'll know when precisely to drop Foucault's name into a conversation and how to pronounce "Borgesian," and you'll learn many more essential pointers for the intellectual life.
Cathedrals and great churches are among the most iconic sights of the world’s towns and cities. Visible from miles around, the cathedrals of Canterbury, St Paul’s, Chartres and St Stephen’s in Vienna dominate their skylines. Others surprise by their statistics: Salisbury has Britain’s tallest spire, Wells the largest display of medieval sculptures in the world, while King’s College Chapel in Cambridge boasts the largest fan vaulting in existence. Not all are ancient: Dresden’s reconstructed Frauenkirche opened in 2005 and Gaudi’s masterpiece in Barcelona is still under construction. Award-winning travel writer Sue Dobson gives us a highly personal tour of their highlights.
Apply the wisdom of philosophers to become a happier person.
What is happiness? What makes you happy?Is there more to life than happiness?
Learn to cultivate your taste for pleasure, free yourself from the various disturbances of life, and overcome irrational expectations that cause distress. Go with the flow and rediscover the joy of existence.
Filled with exercises, tips and case studies, this Practical Guide will enable you to see happiness in a new light, with the help of the world’s greatest minds
If you ve ever dreamed of embarking on an epic car journeyl, The 50 Greatest Road Trips is packed full of the most exotic, exciting and iconic drives across the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa.
From the Amalfi Coast to the Draa Valley, the Silk Road to the Alaska Highway, the North Coast 500 to the Historic Route 66, it showcases the ultimate in car adventures.
This unmissable selection will make you feel the urge to climb into an old Chevrolet, crank up the tunes on the stereo, flick the sunroof open and settle back for one heck of a ride on the open road.
Whether negotiating the fractured limestone pavements of Ireland's Burren Way or rock scrambling through Utah's Buckskin Gulch, the rush of life is slowed when all you need for the day is on your back and your only goal a well-grassed campsite.
Zapraszamy do lektury naszej, książki o chlebie, W oparciu o wiedzę historyczną oraz etnograficzną, Piotr Kowalski odtwarza historię wypieków i snuje opowieść o fascynujących kulturowych sensach pieczywa. Bez chleba nie ma domu. Bez chleba nie ma człowieka. Ten podstawowy, codzienny pokarm jest też fundamentem kultury.
Ale nie samą opowieścią o chlebie żyje człowiek. Na końcu książki zamieściliśmy więc sprawdzone, proste receptury - aby przestrzeń domu jeszcze raz napełniła się charakterystycznym zapachem świeżego chleba. Żytni czy pszenny? Biały czy graham? Polski czy litewski? Pieczywo tradycyjne czy chrupkie? A może kwas chlebowy? Zachęcamy do spróbowania domowej roboty smakołyków.
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