England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, ...

West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim - all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties ...

The Frank revelations of the innermost life of one of the greatest explorers of the human mind. A unique document of our own and of all time. ‘Jung’s single-minded humility, his passion to unearth truth, is one of the loveliest impressions to emerge from this absorbing and many-sided book.’ THE TIMES ‘He was on a giant scale … he was a ...

American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences ...

The Jewish fellow-citizen of Cracow rescued by Oskar Schindler

Jan Paweł II stale zachęcał do świętości. Poprzez liczne beatyfikacje i kanonizacje, na przykładach konkretnych osób, Ojciec Święty ukazywał, że osiągnięcie świętości jest realne dla zwykłego śmiertelnika. Przekonywał jednak głównie własnym życiem, zachęcał przykładem osobistym. Promieniowanie świętości cechowało cały Jego Pontyfikat, odczuwalne było w kontaktach z bliźnimi, W modlitwie...

Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is an impassioned look at the sport by one of its true aficionados. It reflects Hemingway's conviction that bullfighting was more than mere sport and reveals a rich source of inspiration for his art. The unrivaled drama of bullfighting, with its rigorous combination of athleticism and artistry... 

The moving memoir of a doctor who became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives 'Beautiful and deeply moving. A truly extraordinary work that will change how we think about our lives and the society we live in' Michael Puett, author of The Path When Dr Arthur Kleinman, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist, began caring ...

This book tells the remarkable story of the Benetton family and the businessthey have built. It is a story of hard work and risk-taking, and of court cases! How did this Italian family become the international success it is today?

A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month As religion divided sixteenth-century Europe, an extraordinary group of women rose to power. They governed nations while kings fought in foreign lands. They ruled on behalf of nephews, brothers and sons. They negotiated peace between their warring nations. For decades, they ran Europe. Small ...

Brad Pitt was crazy in Twelve Monkeys. Dangerous in Too Young to Die? Angry in Sleepers. Sexy in Thelma and Louise. He tries different things in each movie, but is the real Brad Pitt really crazy, dangerous, angry and sexy? Brad can ask $20,000,000 for a movie. What is more, people really like him when they work with him. Brad Pitt doesn't like giving interviews, [...] 

The Dalai Lama’s message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame, he remains personally elusive. Now, Alexander Norman, acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of the history of Tibet, delivers the definitive biography—unique, multi-layered, and at times even shocking. The Dalai Lama illuminates an ...

Poziom 2 - 600 słów. W styczniu 2009 roku do Białego Domu wprowadził się nowy prezydent. Kim tak naprawdę jest Barrack Obama? Co wiemy o jego rodzinie i wcześniejszym życiu? Dlaczego chciał zostać politykiem i co sprawiło, że doszedł na sam szczyt swojej kariery? To właśnie jego historia.

Poziom 1 - 300 słów. Wyścigi samochodowe to dawniej sport tylko dla mężczyzn, lecz nie w dzisiejszych czasach. Danica Patrick jest z USA, Mika Duno z Wenezueli, a Laleh Seddigh z Iranu. Wszystkie te kobiety biorą udział w rajdach samochodowych i ścigają się z mężczyznami, co najlepsze - wygrywają z nimi. Przeczytaj historię tych ...

"Introduction by Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denial July 15, 1942, Wednesday Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o’clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I’m separated from the world. Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia is ...

A sizable biography of an outstanding Polish composer, organ virtuoso, conductor, teacher and social activist. The book follows him from the day he was born in Polish lands under Prussian rule, through his education in Berlin, experience and prizes gained in Europe and across the world, social and artistic work in Kraków, and until the last years spent in Poznań. ...

This book comprises two works by Maria Czapska. 1. A Family of Central Europe, originally published in Polish in 1970 under the title: Europa w rodzinie, later translated into French as: Une famille d'Europe centrale 1772-1914. 2. Through the storm, originally published in Polish in 1978 under the title: Czas odmieniony, later translated into French as: À travers la ...

W książce autorka nie bada ,,autobiografii w ogóle", lecz zajmuje się jedną z jej gałęzi, tj. autobiografią pisarzy NRD. W tytule rozprawy pojawiło się określenie ,,autobiografie byłych pisarzy NRD", bowiem przedstawia ona interpretacje zarówno tekstów powstałych i opublikowanych w państwie NRD, jak i zajmuje się utworami wydanymi przez enerdowskich...

Unabridged English value reproduction of Candide by Voltaire, is a book that belongs on the shelf of those desiring to contemplate life.  Voltaire subtly challenges the reader’s complacent view of the world through extreme, and often gruesome, exaggeration.

Bibliografia dotyczy prac w zakresie akwizycji języka pierwszego. Obejmuje głównie piśmiennictwo w języku angielskim i jest pierwszą tego typu bibliografią w Polsce. Skierowana jest do osób interesujących się szeroko pojętą psycholingwistyką, w szczególności zaś akwizycją języka pierwszego.