Wydawnictwo Yale University Press

Autor z głębokim zaangażowaniem i precyzją ukazuje właściwe rozumienie dynamizmu życia moralnego oraz tłumaczy jego funkcjonowanie, tak w wymiarze indywidualnym (osoba - podmiot działań moralnych)...

Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the...

In 1909, renowned artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) embarked on a series of stylistic experiments that had a dramatic effect on modern art. This book examines the ways in which Picassos art of 1909 intertwines and engages with the larger...

Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. All of us must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible...

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field. What causes poverty Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism Is government intervention in...

Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reids best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the Forgotten Continent. The former Americas editor for the Economist,...

Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing...

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of todays states Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle...

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of...

Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration the messages are published and also...

Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the...

While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred scripture of Islam, the third Abrahamic faith, has generally been considered separately. Noted religious scholar Gabriel Said Reynolds draws on centuries...

A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilizations transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly...

Evocative and often highly erotic works on paper by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso are presented along with new details about Scofield Thayer (1889-1982), the unusual and complicated man who collected them. Thayer was a wealthy...

This revelatory publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted account of Cy Twomblys masterpiece Fifty Days at Iliam (1978), a series of ten paintings based on Alexander Popes 18th-century translation of Homers Iliad. Essays by a team of...

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) as a radical inventor: an artist who discarded convention and disrupted hierarchies, overturning the traditional basis of culture while revolutionising the way people perceive and interact with art. Calders new line was...

We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isnt, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war civil often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor...

Biografia Giambattisty Tiepola wraz z największymi dziełami artysty. Książka w języku...