The second of Trollope's Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women.
The secret to a good life, seen from the ice, is to keep your joys simple. 'Erling Kagge transforms and consoles us' Alain de Botton ____________________________Erling Kagge was the first...
Stan prawny: 15 czerwca 2024 r. Książka stanowi naukowe opracowanie najważniejszych zagadnień teorii prawa administracyjnego i ustrojowego. Omawia pojęcia prawa administracyjnego, a także jego...
A funny, feminist twist on the Cinderella fairy tale for fans of fractured fairy tales Princess Harriet Hamsterbone is not the kind of princess who enjoys fancy dresses or extravagant parties....
This is a wonderful new selection of Henry James' short stories exploring the relationship between art and life, edited aby Michael Gorra. This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry...
One of the best sea novels ever written, "The Sea-Wolf" tells of mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation. Also in this volume are the stories "The Law of Life," "The...
A memoir from Pearce, who grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum, where he had to dodge attacks from his alcoholic father and steal to get by. He then went on to build up a business and become a...
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle. "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The...
Out of the mists of Oregon lore, Ken Kesey has summoned a long-remembered story he first heard as a boy from his father around a campfire: the "last go round" at the Pendleton Round-Up in...
Our lives have become increasingly stressful. How can we turn this stress into strength and resilience?Whether it's our to-do lists, deadlines, difficult conversations or crises small or large,...
Stan prawny: Stan prawny na 1 lipca 2024 r. Książka pokazuje zagadnienia powstania ustawy o ekonomii społecznej, a także filozoficzno-prawne podstawy ekonomii społecznej i jej wpływ na wspólnotę...
Książka dotyczy instytucji powództwa o uzgodnienie treści księgi wieczystej z rzeczywistym stanem prawnym. Problem występowania w księgach wieczystych niezgodności z rzeczywistością za każdym razem...
W książce zaprezentowano wyniki badań nad normatywnym kształtem egzekucji administracyjnej należności pieniężnych w prawie polskim i austriackim, ukierunkowanych na identyfikację przyczyn...
W książce omówiono wpływ nowych technologii na administrację publiczną zarówno w kontekście ich oddziaływania na społeczeństwo, jak i na funkcjonowanie państwa i stosunki międzynarodowe....
25 lat obowiązywania Kodeksu karnego stanowi właściwy moment do oceny stanu polskiego prawa karnego, dokonanej poprzez pryzmat wprowadzonych nowelizacji, głębszej refleksji nad jakością przepisów...
In 1461 Edward earl of March, an able, handsome, and charming eighteen-year old, usurped the English throne from his feeble Lancastrian predecessor Henry VI. Ten years on, following outbreaks of...
At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired aby Reinhard Heydrich and organized and...
Tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. This book illustrates how the women of the 1950s yearned for...
Poetry and music have been associated with each other from the very beginning. The Penguin Book of English Song draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh...
Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk--based on the hit USA Network series Monk, starring Tony Shaloub--the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's...
A woman defies expectations--including those of an arrogant earl--in the first regency romance in New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter's Fairbourne Quartet. Despite the limits of...
This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks...