Vincent van Gogh, a painter who was underappreciated during his lifetime and who was missing one ear, took up more than just a paintbrush to survive the hard times. He says, ‘I’ve done a lot of different things in my life: I’ve been a bit of an art dealer, a preacher in the coalfield, a language teacher, a bookseller.’ How did he manage to survive and not give up his passion for painting?...

Maria Sklodowska was an extraordinary woman. Not only was she interested in completely extraordinary things, such as chemical experiments and physical phenomena, but she also wanted to educate herself and became an outstanding scientist! She left Poland and studied at the Sorbonne in France. There she met her husband - Pierre Curie. While researching radioactivity in a duo with her husband,...

This time you have a chance to meet one of the most famous artists in the world. Pablo Picasso, because that's who we're talking about, was the creator of paintings hanging in the best museums, but also sculptures and theater sets. He also had a very interesting and intense life, covering most of the eventful 20th century. He met many famous and interesting people, and he was occupied not...

Nicolaus Copernicus is certainly one of the most famous Poles in the world. No wonder, after all, he led to a real scientific revolution! It was he who ‘stopped the Sun and moved the Earth’, discovering that the planets move around the Sun, not the other way around, as was believed for hundreds of years. Although this citizen of Torun is primarily the author of the famous treatise ‘On the...

Kacey Dawson has always lived life on the edge - impulsively, sometimes recklessly. And now, as lead guitarist for a hot up-and-coming band, she is poised at the brink of fame and fortune. But she is torn between wanting to be a serious musician and the demons that lure her down the glittering but alcohol-soaked path of rock stardom. A wrecked concert in Las Vegas threatens to ruin her...

Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But, it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie._x000D_

Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother's murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from a...

Mysterious doors with lizard-head knobs. Talking stone statues. A crazy girl with a hatchet. Yes, Liv's dreams have been pretty weird lately. Especially the one where she's in a graveyard at night, watching four boys conduct dark magic rituals. The strangest part is that Liv recognizes the boys in her dream. They're classmates from her new school in London, the school where she's starting...

Things seem to be going well for Liv Silver: she's adjusting to her new home (and her new family) in London; she has a burgeoning romance with Henry Harper, one of the cutest boys in school; and the girl who's been turning her dreams into nightmares, Anabel, is now locked up. But serenity doesn't last for long._x000D_

The course of dream travel never did run smooth—at least, not in Liv Silver's experience. Able to visit other people's dreams (whether they want her to or not), Liv has solved mysteries, unearthed difficult truths, fought madmen, and escaped life-threatening peril, all from the comfort of her own bed. But Liv's troubles are just beginning.

The Cyberiad - an amusing mix of traditional fairy tales and science fiction literature with constructors in the role of sorcerers and miracles that are only an incredibly developed engineering skill - is a kind of warning against the lack of moderation, ethics and excessive faith in the omnipotence of engineering.