In Praise of Shadows

PRZYRODA, KTÓRA PRZEJMUJE MIASTO, ZACZYNA OD NAJMNIEJSZYCH PĘKNIĘĆ W BETONIE Rodzina sikorek zamieszkała w Warszawie pod adresem Metro Świętokrzyska 02. Pewien szpak umościł sobie gniazdo w bombowcu z Muzeum Lotnictwa. Wróble wprowadziły się do starego neonu TEATR DRAMATYCZNY. Przyroda wcisnęła się w najmniejsze szczeliny miasta i znalazła szpary w zabudowanych metropoliach. Zazieleniła dziury chodnikowe, o które potykamy się śpiesząc do pracy. Ten świat, którego nie dostrzegamy na co dzień, oczarowuje jeśli tylko znajdziemy chwilę, żeby go odkryć. Michał Książek zabiera nas na spacer po dobrze znanych ulicach i zachęca, by patrzeć uważniej. Tropi sekretne życie ukryte wśród betonu i schowane za neonami wielkich miast. Z przewrotnym poczuciem humoru opo...

Owoce wiśni tworzy szesnaście opowiadań, wybranych spośród najpoczytniejszych w twórczości Osamu Dazaia. Pisarz nie wychwala w nich takich skarbów „japońskości”, jak ceremonia parzenia herbaty czy teatr nō. Nie mówi współczesnym mu rodakom, jak żyć w strasznych czasach wojny i jak odnaleźć się w powojennej rzeczywistości przegranego państwa. Autor, z humorem i ironią, czerpiąc z osobistych przeżyć oraz doświadczeń, opisuje zwyczajne życie. Drobne zdarzenia, przyjemne i bolesne przeżycia służą pytaniu o kształt i sens ludzkiej egzystencji. Uniwersalizm prozy Osamu Dazaia, jej nadal świeży styl do dziś ujmują rzesze czytelników na całym świecie.

Przedmiotem opisu w tej książce są słowiańskie języki literackie. Praca ma charakter synchroniczno - porównawczy. Autorka prezentuje systemy fonologiczne, struktury gramatyczne i systemy pisowni współczesnych języków słowiańskich oraz historię kształtowania się ich odmian literackich. Przedstawia szeroką panoramę zjawisk charakterystycznych dla słowiańskiego świata językowego, ukazując jego ogromną różnorodność i wskazując interesujące powiązania pomiędzy poszczególnymi językami. Wszystkie zjawiska są bogato ilustrowane materiałem językowym z całej Słowiańszczyzny.

Nowoczesny, zwięzły wykład równań zachowania dla ośrodków płynnych. Wyróżnia się szerokością zakresu tematycznego. Ujmuje wszystkie, najistotniejsze z punktu widzenia zastosowań grupy, zagadnienia tzn. hydrostatykę, opis ruchu płynu nielepkiego, elementy gazodynamiki, podstawy laminarnej warstwy przyściennej, opis przepływu turbulentnego, przepływy filtracyjne i ruch cieczy w zbiornikach. Prezentuje też znacznie rozszerzony materiał dotyczący ruchu turbulentnego.

The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body. „Van der Kolk draws on thirty years of experience to argue powerfully that trauma is one of the West's most urgent public health issues... Packed with science and human stories” – „New Scientist”. „Breathtaking in its scope and breadth, a seminal work by one of the preeminent pioneers in trauma research and treatment” – Peter A. Levine, author of In An Unspoken Voice. „Dr. van der Kolk's masterpiece combines the boundless curiosity of the scientist, the erudition of...

Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going. Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankind's extraordinary history – from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age – and our journey from insignificant apes to rulers of the world. „Unbelievably good. Jaw dropping from the first word to the last”. – Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2

The #1 Sunday Times bestseller from „the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now” („New York Times”) – now in paperback. How should we live properly in a world of chaos and uncertainty? Jordan Peterson has helped millions of people, young and old, men and women, aim at a life of responsibility and meaning. Now he can help you. Drawing on his own work as a clinical psychologist and on lessons from humanity's oldest myths and stories, Peterson offers twelve profound and realistic principles to live by. After all, as he reminds us, we each have a vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. Deep, rewarding and enlightening, 12 Rules for Life is a lifeboat built solidly for stormy seas: ancient wisdom applied to our contemporary problems.

Winner Of The 2015 Pulitzer Prize For Fiction National Book Award Finalist New York Times Bestseller Winner Of The Carnegie Medal For Fiction A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to...

Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying his true nature, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man. His decision eventually brings tragedy. Filled with passion, regret and longing, this story of a fated love triangle has become a landmark of gay writing. James Baldwin caused outrage as a black author writing about white homosexuals, yet for him the issues of race, sexuality and personal freedom were eternally intertwined.

The Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch-enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into administering the desert planet of Dune. Although it is almost completely without water, Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is the only source of a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire. The Duke and his son, Paul, are expecting treachery, and it duly comes ? but from a shockingly unexpected place. Then Paul succeeds his father, and he becomes a catalyst for the native people of Dune, whose knowledge of the ecology of the planet gives them vast power. They have been waiting for a leader like Paul Atreides, a leader who can harness that force ? DUNE: one of the most brilliant science fiction novels ever written, as engrossing and heart-rending today as it was when it was first published half a ce...

Dorian Gray is young, arrogant, and devastatingly handsome. Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait, and struck by the terrible realization that he will age, Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever and finds his desire granted. He abandons himself to a life of hedonism, vice and murder, yet his face remains unmarked by his evil. But, hidden in his attic, the painting ages and corrupts, and one day Dorian must stand face to face with the man he has become. A perfect depiction of fin-de-si?cle decadence, Oscar Wilde's only novel highlights the tension between the polished surface and murky depths of Victorian high society. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray features an afterword by the playwright and actor Peter Harness. Designed...

*Instant USA Today Bestseller* *Instant #1 Indie Bestseller* From Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes One Last Stop, a romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks. . . Moving to New York City is supposed to prove cynical twenty-three-year-old August right: magic and cinematic love stories don?t exist. But then, she meets this gorgeous girl on the train. Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile. August?s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon she discovers there?s one big problem: Jane is displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help Jane. Maybe it?s time to start...

In the years leading up to the Second World War, four sisters live in dilapidated houses in Osaka and Ashiya, and each navigate their own complex, personal relationship to the fading lustre of the Makioka family name. Rich with breathtaking descriptions of ancient customs and an ever-changing natural world, Junichiro Tanizaki evokes in loving detail a long-lost way of life even as it withers under the harsh glare of modernity.