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The West has long defined the pursuit of happiness in economic terms but now, in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, it is time to think again about what constitutes our happiness. In this wide-ranging new book, the leading economist Daniel Cohen traces our current malaise back to the rise of homo economicus: for the last 200 years, the...

During Medieval times, the Black Death wiped out one-fifth of the world's population. Four centuries later, in 1665, the plague returned with a vengeance, cutting a long and deadly swathe through the British Isles. Though the murderous contagion eventually came to be known as the Great Plague of London, the devastation it wrought on England's...

Human Development is widely recognised as the overriding goal of development, yet its realization is challenged by growing inequality, macro-economic fluctuations, and recurrent financial crises. This edited collection reflects on the work of Richard Jolly and includes contributions from leading scholars of development, all of whom have worked with...

This powerful study chronicles the evolution of the invasion plan and culminates in a day-by-day account of the landings by sea and by air on the Normandy beaches, followed by the grim six-week struggle to break through the German defences. An important feature is the space devoted to the German point of view, based on the latest archival research,...

W latach 1905-1910 studiował niesystematycznie w krakowskiej Akademii Sztuk Pięknych u Józefa Mehoffera oraz u Władysława Ślewińskiego w Poroninie. Podróżował do Włoch, Francji i Niemiec. W 1914 uczestniczył w etnograficznej ekspedycji Bronisława Malinowskiego do Australii, skąd na wiadomość o wybuchu I wojny światowej wrócił do Europy. Wczesna...

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