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The Murderers' Love

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Are you quick to adapt to a new environment? Are you in favour of stabilising actions? Have you ever killed a man? Resting his elbows on the table top, Hilt gave his answers composedly, realizing that he had never actually thought about all these things in that way. He never questioned his own life, positioned himself in some coordinate system, yes – no – yes – yes – no, as in the game “connect the dots”… As the interview dragged on, he came to reflect more deeply on the meaning of what he was saying and to feel more and more strongly that it was all some sort of theatre in which he was both the audience and the actor. What did you feel when you saw a dead body for the first time?

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Paweł Huelle
The Other Stories

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The stories gathered in this collection could well make a novel each. The yarn-spinning seems endless, another story always pops up and begs to be told. Anything can get it going, really: an old photograph, a laconic note in a chronicle, a map or even, as in the story of Magdalena, “a carefully handwritten inventory of household goods.” Huelle effortlessly transforms himself into a storytelling medium for whom these traces of the past are enough to go back, uncover the bygone events, unravel the knotted threads of human lives, the farces and the dramas, rekindle the smothered feelings. How much is true and how much is made up – only the storyteller knows. Is Mr Hakagawa as real as Cavafy eagerly waiting for his lover in a café? Did the mysterious vicar P. in fact exchange letters with Thomas Mann? Who is the actual author of the forgotten novel Der Scherz?

Huelle seems to have a soft spot for telling tall tales and doesn’t check himself even while recounting what he himself saw and experienced in Prague, Petersburg or Dublin. Granted, yarn-spinning may be burdensome in life, but in literature it is definitely a virtue.

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ks. Michał Heller
The Philosophy of Nature: A Historical Scetch

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Fr. Heller's The Philosophy of Nature is a new and considerably expanded edition of the popular The Philosophy of the World published by Znak in 1992. The author gives an overview of the most important systems of nature in the history of European thinking, starting with the cosmology of Plato and ending with the Open Universe of Karl Popper, he presents a critical presentation of the methods used by contemporary philosophies of nature, and discusses philosophical controversies centered around the discoveries of 20^th century physics: the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, and the unified theory. The Philosophy of Nature is a fascinating and indispensable source of knowledge for both scientists interested in philosophy and philosophers analysing the relationship between philosophy and physics.

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How did the modern picture of the universe shape itself historically?

Why did the mechanistic view of nature fall?

What philosophical problems does 20^th century physics create?

Does a philosophy of nature even exist?

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Marcin Brykczyński
Marta Ignerska
Joanna Olech
The Pink Piglet

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This simply incredible children’s tale tells the story of a certain Piglet, who does not accept himself as he is, and desperately wants to try being someone else. And so the
Piglet takes a walk and asks the animals he meets for advice.
Through its narrative The Pink Piglet demonstrates the value of friendship and helps each reader discover beauty within themselves.
It is also an artistic book, with an unconventional set of illustrations by Marta Ignerska and Joanna Olech. This makes it a unique book on the Polish book market. The book’s author, Marcin Brykczyński, is a known translator and a distinguished author of children’s books.

Marta Ingnerska, for her illustrations and layout, and Joanna Olech, for her illustrations, both received honorable mentions in the IBBY competition for „2006 Book of the Year.”

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Ryszard Kapuściński
The Rapid Current of History. Writings on the 20th and 21st Centuries

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A collection of Ryszard Kapuściński’s ruminations about globalization, history, and specific geographical regions: Africa, Latin America, Europe and Russia.

The book’s selection of texts and arrangement of the chapters was approved by Ryszard Kapuściński himself. One can treat this text as a supplement to his first-rate works of reportage, or as a point of departure for weighing in on the richness of our multifaceted modern world.

„These texts show Ryszard Kapuściński as not only a reporter and writer, they demonstrate his bewildering professional knowledge (after all, he was educated as a
historian) about the fate and culture of regions he visited. But it is not a mere show of erudition. Kapuściński calls on facts in oder to interpret them, to show historical and cultural parallels, and to prognosticate.”

(from Krystyna Straczek’s introduction)

This book is illustrated with Kapuściński’s very own previously unpublished pictures.

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