Najnowsza książka Bonnetta to swego rodzaju atlas niezwykłych i nietypowych miejsc, białych plam na oficjalnych mapach świata. W epoce map Google’a, może się nam wydawać, że cały świat został już dokładnie opisany, oznaczony i obfotografowany. A tymc...

Synopsis In 2012, the world arrived in London for the Olympics...and Ann Morgan went out to meet it. She read her way around all the globe’s 196 independent countries (plus one extra), sampling one book from every nation – from classics and folk tale...

Current technological revolution, immense Internet penetration, and mobile technologies resulted in a brand new type of consumer. This new consumer changed the manner of making purchasing decisions, but also leaves thousands of footprints on WWW page...

Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE, Ninth Edition, is appropriate for a variety of fields--including education, languages, psychology, anthropology, English, and teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)--at bo...

To understand continental drift and plate tectonics, the shifting and collisions that make and unmake continents, requires a long view. The Earth, after all, is 4.6 billion years old. This book extends our vision to take in the greatest geological cy...

Questioning the stereotypes associated with Victorian domesticity, Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of narratives by Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Eliot, Eden, Gaskell, Oliphant and Reade. Cohen traces ways in which domestic work, often perce...