Historia & arkeologi

Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the...

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Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time fo...

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After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generatio...

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Irena Rochas urodzila sie Aniela Tarnowicz w Warszawie w 1906 roku i byla najmlodszym dzieckiem w duzej, tradycyjnej polskiej rodzinie wyzszej klasy sredniej. Wybuch w 1914 roku I wojny swiatowej zastal Irene i jej rodzine w Moskwie, a pozniejszy ...

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Zapraszamy serdecznie czytelnikow do naszej nowej ksiazki. Tym razem, tematem przewodnim sa wspomnienia o tworcach, ktorzy odeszli. Otrzymalysmy szereg ciekawych, czesto bardzo osobistych wspomnien w formie esejow, wywiadow i wierszy. Prezentujemy...

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Andrzej Franaszeks award-winning biography of Czeslaw Miloszthe great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980offers a rich portrait of the writer and his troubled century, providing context for a larger appreciation of his ...

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This continuation of Pylyp Orlyk's "Diariusz Podrozny" encompasses the dramatic years 1727--1731. From his honorary" confinement in Ottoman Thessalonica, the Ukrainian Hetman-in-exile tried to influence on his behalf the European po...

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This Indian adventure is intrinsically linked to World War II: after the deportations to the Soviet Union a group of Poles found safe refuge in India, where they would stay until the end of the War , hoping to return to their own country. Unfortun...

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Zachowac pozytek z tego, co nazywane jest zyciem cywilizowanym, a zaradzic jednoczesnie niesionemu przezen zlu, powinno byc pierwszym przedmiotem mysli przy reformowaniu prawa: Thomas Paine, Sprawiedliwosc agrarna, wydanie Folwella dla Benjamina F...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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