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Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich
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'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.'
A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize.
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A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators but also of everyday heroism, The Gulag Archipelago is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's grand mast
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'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The Times
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a journey th
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
Czyta Krystyna Czubówna.
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Literacka wersja słynnego Archipelagu Gułag. To, co widziałem, tego człowiek nie powinien widzieć, nie powinien o tym wiedzieć. "Rzeczywistości łagrów, przeżywanej przez miliony ludzi, nie można po
Wojna nie ma w sobie nic z kobiety była gotowa już w 1983 roku. Dwa lata przeleżała w wydawnictwie. Autorkę oskarżono o ""pacyfizm, naturalizm oraz podważanie heroicznego obrazu kobiety radzieckiej""
Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd.
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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
"This masterly investigation, spanning 30 years, into the assassination of a cold war dissident, Georgi Markov, in London in 1978 exposes an assassin worthy of James Bond' -Observer, Book of the Week
Słownik zawiera około 12 000 angielskich terminów wraz z ich odpowiednikami lub objaśnieniami w języku polskim, z dziedziny elektryki, a także z dziedzin z nią powiązanych. Został opracowany jako pom
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
Hidden Valley Road contains everything: scientific intrigue, meticulous reporting, startling revelations, and, most of all, a profound sense of humanity. It is that rare book that can be read again a
For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daugh
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A documentary filmmaker who spent years uncovering a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice to the millions who suffered through Covid; a magazine publisher who dodges the secre
One of the world's greatest scientists of human behaviour shows that free will does not exist - and challenges us to rethink the very notion of choice, identity, responsibility, justice, morality and
I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by those w
Zeszyt ćwiczeń do nauki języka angielskiego zawodowego w branży elektronicznej, informatycznej i elektrycznej obejmuje następujące treści: przewodniki i izolatory, budowa atomu, obwody elektryczne, e
„Wojna nie ma w sobie nic z kobiety” była gotowa już w 1983 roku. Dwa lata przeleżała w wydawnictwie. Autorkę oskarżono o „pacyfizm, naturalizm oraz podważanie heroicznego obrazu kobiety radzieckiej”
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