A Teraz Będzie Co Nieco O Naszych W Nauce

A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

‘A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman’ BARACK OBAMA

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved – and now seriously teenage – son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that’s where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

In this marvellous account, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes of ‘Jimmy’ Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America’s most impressive memoir writers.

‘She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds’ OPRAH WINFREY

‘She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents – used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate’ TONI MORRISON

W tym tomie kolekcji „Najwybitniejsi Naukowcy”, prezentującej postaci ludzi nauki, których badania przyczyniły się do rozwoju ludzkości w różnych dziedzinach – medycynie, przyrodzie, fizyce czy astronomii, poznamy angielską matematyczkę Adę Lovelace. Ada była córką lorda Byrona, znanego poety. Wychowywała ja matka, która chciała dać jej jak najlepsze wykształcenie, dlatego skierowała jej zainteresowania ku matematyce i logice. Dzięki matce Ada poznała Charlesa Babbage`a, twórcę maszyny analitycznej, zwanej często pierwszym komputerem. Chcąc przybliżyć jego pracę innym, Ada przetłumaczyła z włoskiego artykuł o wynalazku Babbage`a i dodała do niego obszerny komentarz z algorytmem do wykonania na maszynie analitycznej. Z tego powodu uznaje się ją za pierwsza programistkę. W albumie znajdują się krótkie biogramy najważniejszych postaci występujących w komiksie, posłowie dr. Tomasza Rożka, propagatora nauki i twórcy kanału Nauka To Lubię, oraz kalendarium odkryć bohaterki. Twórcą serii „Najwybitniejsi Naukowcy” jest hiszpański scenarzysta i rysownik Jordi Bayarri. Kolekcję poleca portal Nauka To Lubię Junior.

La photo est célebre. C'est un premier communiant, cheveux sagement ramenés sur le côté, regard qui défie l'objectif. Il s'appelle Arthur Rimbaud. Mais sur le cliché d'origine posait aussi son frere aîné, Frédéric. Cet autre Rimbaud a été volontairement supprimé de l'image. Comme il fut " oublié par la plupart des biographes.
Pourtant, les deux freres furent d'abord fusionnels, compagnons d'ennui dans leurs Ardennes natales. Puis leurs chemins se séparerent. L'un a été élevé au rang de génie, tandis que l'autre, conducteur de caleche, fut banni par sa famille, effacé de la correspondance d'Arthur et dépossédé des droits sur l'ouvre.
En quoi était-il si genant ce frere ? Pourquoi une telle conspiration familiale ?

On croyait tout savoir du plus célebre des poetes. Il restait encore une part d'ombre.

Auteur de La Captive de Mitterrand, qui fut un succes critique et public, David Le Bailly signe ici un roman singulier, ou la fiction se mele a l'enquete. Il raconte, interroge, imagine et disseque avec talent la mécanique implacable des secrets de famille.

In this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the most iconic, enigmatic and controversial artist of modern times.

For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous.

This fully updated and illustrated story of Banksy’s life and career builds an intriguing picture of his world and unpicks its contradictions. Whether art or vandalism, anti-establishment or sell-out, Banksy and his work have become a cultural phenomenon and the question ‘Who is Banksy?’ is as much about his career as it is ‘the man behind the wall’.

From his beginnings as a Bristol graffiti artist, his artwork is now sold at auction for seven-figure sums and hangs on celebrities’ walls. The appearance of a new Banksy is national news, his documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop was Oscar-nominated and people queue for hours to see his latest exhibition. Now more National Treasure than edgy outsider, who is Banksy and how did he become what he is today?

This book charts Banksy's journey from the graffiti-scrawled streets of Barton Hill, the working class neighbourhood of Bristol where he and others covered the walls with vibrant pieces while trying to avoid the police, through to some of the most prestigious galleries of the world, where his daring acts of guerilla art have forced us to reconsider how we define as art.

From the artist's own words to recollections of friends and colleagues, this book also examines the contradictions of Banksy's life: charting how a privately educated boy from a middle class area of Bristol reinvented himself as a rogue and an outlaw who would take the art world by storm.

With beautiful reproductions of some of his most controversial and recognisable works, this detailed study is a truly indispensible guide to understanding the ultimate art rebel whose work is no less relevant today than it was when he first started out some thirty years ago.

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'Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei Guo. She came second only to loneliness.'

In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is 'illegal.'

Qian is just seven when she moves to America, the 'Beautiful Country', where she and her parents find that the roads of New York City are not paved with gold, but crushing fear and scarcity. Unable to speak English at first, Qian and her parents must work wherever they can to survive, all while she battles hunger and loneliness at school. Thus begins an extraordinary story that describes, in vivid colours, days labouring in sweatshops and sushi factories, nights scavenging the streets for furniture, and the terrifying moment when the family emerges from the shadows to seek emergency medical treatment for Qian's mother.

Qian Julie Wang's memoir is an unforgettable account of what it means to live under the perpetual threat of deportation and the small joys and sheer determination that kept her family afloat in a new land. Told from a child's perspective, in a voice that is intimate, poignant and startlingly lyrical, Beautiful Country is the story of a girl who learns first to live - and then escape - an invisible life.

Okoliczności historyczne spowodowały, że Bronisław Piłsudski, pozostając w głębokim cieniu swego brata Józefa, przez bardzo długi czas był dla Polaków niemal nieznany. Ich losy potoczyły się odrębnymi torami, nie łączyło ich także podobieństwo charakterów. Józef był człowiekiem walki, Bronisław pacyfistą, przeciwnikiem wszelkich działań zbrojnych i jakiejkolwiek przemocy. [...] Książka przybliża zawiłe koleje jego losu. W stulecie śmierci Bronisława Iskry przypominają jego postać nie tylko jako wybitnego etnografa, lecz również od mniej znanej strony – jako człowieka niewolnego od wahań i rozterek, marzyciela i rozbitka duchowego, pechowca i samotnika, któremu życie poskąpiło szczęścia.