Korea. Art and Artistic Relations with Europe contains selected papers presented at the international conference organized by the Polish Institute of World Art Studies in Warsaw in 2012. Those include analyses of the aesthetic concepts and interpreta...

A guide to understanding the Californians which shows the quirks of personality that set them apart from the rest of the Americans. Extracts from the book I dream therefore I am Californians are delusional. Like characters out of Dashiell Hammett's M...

In Medieval and Renaissance Europe, where life expectancy was under 40 and the Catholic Church taught that, after dying, the soul faced a terrifying and uncertain onward journey, death was a major cultural preoccupation. This fascinating book sets ou...

Dolssa, a young gentlewoman from the city, is on the run from a rogue monk who wants to burn her as a heretic for her beliefs. Botille, a scrappy and charismatic peasant, is a matchmaker running a tavern with her two sisters in a tiny seaside village...

Mistyczny dyskurs rewolucji współtworzyli na przełomie XIX i XX wieku intelektualiści różnych opcji światopoglądowych i politycznych, od wyznawcy etycznego anarchizmu Gustava Landauera po uczonego-ezoteryka Ericha Gutkinda i pruskiego konserwatystę F...

As the BBC’s North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the 18 months it’s taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States,...