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Going Infinite The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon [Oprawa Twarda]
Michael Lewis

Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't just rich. Before he turned thirty he'd become the world's youngest billionaire, making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy. CEOs, celebrities and world leaders vied for hi

Power and Progress Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Daron Acemoglu , Simon Johnson

The extraordinary untold story of how technological change has shaped our history and determined who wins and who loses the rewards of prosperity. Throughout history, technological change - wh

Beyond the Wall East Germany, 1949-1990 [Oprawa Miękka]
Katja Hoyer

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR pres

Norymberga Naziści oczami psychiatry [Oprawa Miękka]
Jack El-Hai

Latem 1945 roku, niedługo po kapitulacji III Rzeszy, najwyżsi rangą dowódcy niemieccy trafiają do ciasnych cel ośrodka Mondorf-Les-Bains, gdzie czekają na proces i wyroki. Hermann Göring, sybaryta pr

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz [Oprawa Miękka]
Lucy Adlington

The powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WW

Knowing What We Know The Transmission of Knowledge.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Simon Winchester

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look a

Bauhaus 1919-1933 [Oprawa Twarda]
Magdalena Droste

Best of Bauhaus The definitive reference work, now in a compact format In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernit

Meltdown [Oprawa Miękka]
Duncan Mavin

A 166-year-old bastion of Swiss banking, Credit Suisse was among the most important and influential financial institutions in the world – but a veneer of high-class service disguised a darker, dirtie

Unnatural Causes [Oprawa Miękka]
Richard Shepherd

Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death. He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including some of the most high-profile cases

Jak wychować nazistę Reportaż o fanatycznej edukac.. [Oprawa Twarda]
Gregor Ziemer

Książka ostrzeżenie przed tym, co może się stać, jeśli edukację naszych dzieci oddamy w ręce fanatyków. Partia interesuje się dzieckiem, zanim zostanie ono poczęte. Matki sprowadzają je na świ

Niemiecka jesień Reportaż z podróży po Niemczech [Oprawa Twarda]
Stig Dagerman

Ze wstępem Elfriede Jelinek (przekład Elżbieta Kalinowska) Była szara deszczowa jesień 1946 roku. Miasta zrujnowane po alianckich nalotach. Ludzie gnieździli się w zimnych zalanych piwnicach. Panował

Down and Out in Paris and London [Oprawa Miękka]
George Orwell

George Orwell's first published work, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of the poor in the late twenties. In a bug-infested hotel, surviving

Hell's Angels [Oprawa Miękka]
Hunter S. Thompson

The first rock-star writer' Guardian With ‘long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping, earrings, chain whips … and Harleys flashing chrome’, the Hell’s Angels erupted into 1960s America,

Notes from A Small Island [Oprawa Miękka]

After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a few years, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop

Green Hills of Africa [Oprawa Miękka]
Ernest Hemingway

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life

Berlin Hipsterska stolica Europy [Oprawa Miękka]
Jacob Hein

Mnóstwo dworców, co najmniej dwa śródmieścia, ale żadnego nowoczesnego lotniska – to możliwe tylko w Berlinie! Jakob Hein z sympatią i humorem opisuje miasto, które zmienia się jak żadne inne, i przy

A Gourmet's View of Książ The Lost World of Książ .. [Oprawa Twarda]
Opracowanie Zbiorowe

An album of Luis Hardouin's photographs, a chef who from 1909 to 1926 was in charge of the kitchen of the Hochberg family in Książ Castle, and likely employed by Hans Heinrich XV until 1932. Książ

Football in Sun and Shadow [Oprawa Miękka]
Eduardo Galeano

This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes

Hitler's Monsters A Supernatural History of the Th.. [Oprawa Miękka]
Eric Kurlander

The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power. The Nazi fascinati

Miami and the Siege of Chicago [Oprawa Miękka]
Norman Mailer

Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to

Magnum China [Oprawa Twarda]
Colin Pantall , Zheng Ziyu , Jonathan Fenby

Many of Magnum’s most renowned photographers, beginning with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson on assignment in the 1930s, have photographed China, returning time and again, their fascination gro

The Almost Nearly Perfect People [Oprawa Miękka]
Michael Booth

The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes. 'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world. Finns have the largest per capita gun ownershi

A Moveable Feast [Oprawa Miękka]
Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but

Chernobyl [Oprawa Miękka]
Serhii Plokhy

On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighter