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In the Circle of Life and Death – on Warsaw
The Beginning Łubieński tells the story of Warsaw as its creator, from its absolute beginning, when millions of years ago it was located under the surface of warm seas. There are stories here about mythical and prehistoric animals, such as the mermaid, the elephant, and th...
Non-algorithmic Basis of Our Thinking
Although it is not easy for a layman to go through all the issues that are difficult to understand in the physical description of the world, it is also very fascinating. In short, you can learn from the dialogue between journalist Jerzy Sosnowski and theoretical physicist Krz...
“The Dividing Line Between Good and Evil Crosses the Heart of Every Human Being”*
The authors make a bold attempt to define and counter the disturbing social trends of the second decade of the 21st century. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt present with surgical precision the changes in the functioning of the American higher education community, the social...
“I Do Not Button Up My Overalls…”*
Eliza Kącka's autobiographical book is much more than a story about family, about the bond with her daughter, about the experience of being the mother of a child on the spectrum. Kącka takes us to the epicenter of the struggle for a dignified existence. Through the author’s ...
Freedom is a Mortal Threat
In Piotr Skwiecinski's book, the reader looks at Russia, its present, its historical circumstances, its schizophrenic fusion of mutually exclusive traditions, its obsession with defending itself against the so-called collective West, its infatuation with the Asian experience ...
Ananke, or Destiny
Maciej Zaremba Bielawski's book is an intricately woven tale of family history, focusing on his mother's story and intertwining it with that of his father and their ancestors. His mother, a miracle survivor of the Holocaust, sought psychiatric help for her brother short...
Against Our Civilization
Aleksander Wat and his book "My Age" is the absolute of historical testimony of an individual. In 1964, during his stay in Berkeley, struggling with a serious illness, Wat began to record his memories for therapeutic purposes, talking to Czesław Miłosz. Together, they take th...
“You Can’t Idealize Just Anything…”*
Andrzej Bobkowski's Szkice piórkiem is the most outstanding Polish diary of the 20th century. The 26-year-old economist, a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics, leaves for Paris with his wife in March 1939, where the outbreak of War II finds him. The preserved notes beg...
