Society
Georgy Borisov
My Stories (1973 – 2023). Volume 1
In this impressive literary work in terms of volume and time span, which the author has called “My Stories”, and some would define it as a kind of “writer’s diary”, Georgi Borisov presents his unpublished poems, th
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Georgy Borisov
My Stories (1973 – 2023). Volume 2
There are few servants of the Word in our country today who are able to resist vanity and not deviate from the path on which their talent has led them. And on this path, if you remain true to your nature and indifferent to the tempta
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Marin Georgiev
The Conspiracy of the Dead
"The Conspiracy of the Dead" by Marin Georgiev is a story about the "intermediate Bulgarian time". For a time that supposedly no longer exists, but which must be witnessed if we want to understand what and how it was. The stories and testimonies
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Alexander Kiossev
Job and Jobbery
The book covers short journalistic texts written on various occasions in the period 2000-2024. The style is sometimes serious and sad, other times - cheerful, playfully intellectual. Some of the texts are longer and reflective, others are shorter
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Juan José Millás
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look.
Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesn’t quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or s
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Anna Zarkova
The Death of the White Fox
On October 2, 1996, Andrey Lukanov was shot in front of his home - a prominent politician of the Bulgarian transition to democracy, prime minister in two governments, deputy. By whom and why? To this day, none of the versions have
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Jerry Toner
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire
"Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative." The Times
Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before tre
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Ivan Shishiev
Sketches of Sofia: 24 hours
“Sketches of Sofia” is a photography project by Ivan Shishiev, which since its inception in 2015 has undergone great development and accumulated thousands of fans/followers. Initially started as a Facebook page, “Sketches of Sof
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Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism — an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history.
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 180
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Edi Rama
Kurban
Disappointed by his loss at the local elections in 2011, Edi Rama decided to analyze what was achieved in Tirana in the context of the situation in the country and present his vision for the future of the capital and of Albania. Thus
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Nikolay Tsenkov
The Triumph of the Masses
The book summarizes the main anthropological and axiological concepts of the masses. At the same time, the modern social incarnations of the mass person (economic agent, figure of power and deformer of the informational and cultural enviro
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Alberto Angela
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
“The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series interested in a real-world game of thrones.” - Booklist
One of Italy’s most
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Half a Century of Bulgaria 1878-1928. Illustrated anniversary album. Phototype edition
"And precisely in these conditions, when everyone seeks salvation for himself and as he sees it possible, a woman, already in adulthood, performs a work with the spirit of Vazov's presence, evoking the memory of the great patriotic gestures
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Mark Nelissen
Darwin at the Supermarket
What is the function of pain? Is everybody homosexual? Do we discriminate against our children? Why are young prostitutes more successful than older ones? Why do appreciative audiences all over the world clap their hands? And were we once
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Eliot Weinberger
An Elemental Thing
With An Elemental Thing, Eliot Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us
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Noël Carroll
Humour: A Very Short Introduction
Humour has been discovered in every known human culture and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. Humour can serve many functions; it can be used to relieve stress, to promote goodwill among strangers, to dissipate tens
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Maria Popova
Figuring
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the
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Collective
The Transition. Bulgaria 30 Years Later
This book is a brief account of what has been achieved and not achieved in various areas of public life in Bulgaria over the last thirty years, defined by some as a completed, by others as an incomplete, or even as a permanent trans
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Ronald de Sousa
Love: a Very Short Introduction, First Edition
Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and eve
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Terry Eagleton
The Meaning of Life
The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction titled The Meaning of Life, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serio
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José Ortega y Gasset
Europe and the Nation Idea
"One of the immanent characteristics of European culture is that it is periodically experiencing crises. This, however, means that, unlike other great historical cultures, it is not closed, it is not forever crystallized culture. There
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Collective
The changing nature of work. World Development Report 2019
The World Development Report (WDR) 2019: The Changing Nature of Work studies how the nature of work is changing as a result of advances in technology today. Fears that robots will take away jobs from people have dominated the disc
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Marc Lilla
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and jurists who, whether they lived in democratic, communist, or fascist societies, supported and defended totalitarian principles and horrific regimes. But
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Mariela Gemisheva
Time and Style. An Outline of the History of Fashion in the 20th Century
"With its classic status in the context of modernity, fashion is not just a social system with established rules. Rather, it tends to modify its own rules because of its RIGHT OF NEGLIGENCE OR "BETRAYAL". We follow fashion, as its v
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Tony Judt
Thinking the twentieth century
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought.” (Los Angeles Times)
One of our most brilliant historians, Tony Judt brings th
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Anders Aslund
Europe's Growth Challenge
Europe is in a serious crisis but that it can face up to these challenges. In Europe's Growth Challenge Anders Aslund and Simeon Djankov argue that the European Union can only be successful if it carries out substantial changes in the Europea
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Jean Pierre Vernant
The Universe, the Gods, and Men. Ancient Greek Myths
In this enchanting retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his deep knowledge of the subject with an original storytelling style.
Beginning with the creation of Earth out of Chaos, Vernant continues with the castration of
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Michael Wolff
Fire and Fury
With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Since
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Cédric Villani
Moon Dreamers
Four geniuses that changed the history:
Werner Heisenberg, the unsure of himself.
Alan Turing, the unrestrained.
Leo Szilard, the traveling prophet.
Hugh Dowding, the heavenly knight.
Physicists, a mathematician and a military m
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Luc Ferry
The Transhumanist Revolution
Transhumanism is a movement whose purpose is to contribute to the unlimited improvement of man's physical and intellectual abilities by all means - genetic, chemical, mechanical, informational. In its ultimate form, it popularizes the physic
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Alberto Angela
The Three Days of Pompeii
“The Three Days of Pompeii” narrates the biggest tragedy of antiquity by following the last hours of some of Pompeii’s inhabitants who really existed. Alberto Angela, the Italian paleontologist, science promoter and documentary
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Luis Bassat
The Creativity
How many are the discoveries that contribute to the quality of our lives? Inventions such as the phonograph and the record-player (1877) the incandescent bulb by Thomas Edison (1879) the shaving blades, invented by Gillette (1901) in order to subs
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Alberto Angela
Love and Sex in Ancient Rome
How did ancient Romans dressed themselves? How did they kiss? Did they arrive with red roses when meeting someone for the first time? What happened in the wedding night? What tricks did women use in order to seduce men? And how did they cheat?
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Anders Aslund
The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism
The fall of communism 25 years ago transformed the political and economic landscape in more than two dozen countries across Europe and Asia. In this volume, political leaders, scholars, and policymakers assess the lessons learned from the "great reb
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Kristin Dimitrova
Etherial Songs and Secret Services
What do the foreigners think of us? What have we become famous for all over the world? Whether they treat us as the country of roses, people with heroic history, the homeland of Orpheus, technical nation or paradise? No, not for the tim
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Beppe Severgnini
Mamma Mia!: Berlusconi Explained For Posterity And Friends Abroad
What is it in the operatic Italian psyche that allows-indeed, forgives, even applauds-Italy's premier for conducting a lifestyle as decadent as a Fellini extravaganza, while organizing an ongoing string of questionable behaviors and politicall
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Alberto Angela
The Reach of Rome: A Journey Through the Lands of the Ancient Empire, Following a Coin
In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Civilization of the Spectacle
Mario Vargas Llosa: "Civilization of the Spectacle" (La civilización del espectáculo) is an attempt to express a feeling of concern, an anguish of sorts, on seeing what we understood by "culture" when I was young, changing
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Dalai Lama
Let’s Declare Peace!
As Hessel admits, this text differs from his essays, because through it he turned to the spirit for the first time. Conversely, what is striking in the words of the Dalai Lama, is his will to emphasize the importance of "secular ethics", the on
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André Comte-Sponville
Is Capitalism Moral?
Is capitalism moral? Nobody can escape that question because we are all subjects both of morality and capitalism. As we work, we save and consume, we participate in the economic system of capitalism that some of us justify and condemn others, led by
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John Steinbeck
America and Americans
There is no writer more quintessentially American than John Steinbeck. More than forty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Yet his nonfiction-the writings in which he spoke directly about hi
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Stéphane Hessel
Time for Outrage
After 93 years, it is almost the final act. The end for me is not very far off any more. But it still leaves me a chance to be able to remind others of what acted as the basis of my political engagement. It was the years of resistance to th
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Beppe Severgnini
La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
Join the bestselling author of Ciao, America! on a lively tour of modern Italy that sees behind the seductive face it puts on for visitors (la bella figura) to its maddening, paradoxical true self.
You won't need luggage for this
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Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev
My Political Biography
This is the second edition of the autobiography of Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgaria's first democratically elected president after the fall of communism.
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Alberto Angela
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome
Many books, documentaries and movies claim to chronicle daily life in Ancient Rome, but it's rare to find a narrative so encrusted in detail as this lively offering from an Italian author and television host. Adopting a first person plural voice, A
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Luc Ferry
Learning to Live
A history of philosophy to inspire readers, young and old. Ferry was formerly the Minister for Youth and Education in France, and is the author of "Learning to Live", which sold over 300,000 copies. He shows how philosophy is essenti
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Francesco Alberoni
I Love You
A 400-page volume, it is the most complete and systematic of Alberoni's works on the love theme. The processes or mechanisms that create love bonds are of four types. The first is the pleasure principle. We bond with those who gi
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Pascal de Sutter
Ces fous qui nous gouvernent
Should one be insane in order to aim power? Either megalomaniac at some extend to chase it, or paranoic to protect themselves from betrayals...?
According to the media it is all clear: George Bush is an "autistic", Silvio Berlusconi - "megalomaniac
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