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Greek Mythology Beasts and Monsters. A Lexicon byBartłomiej Grzegorz Sala presents over seventy mythological creatures from ancient Greek beliefs.

Homemade Christmas Eve and Easter Dishes is a collection of 25 traditional recipes for festive dishes that everyone can make at home. The recipes written by Grażyna Kilanowicz-Barecka are presented in a clear but very attractive way. The book also includes an introduction and comments by Katarzyna Lengren. We encourage you to prepare these tasty dishes both for your family and friends.

Kashubian Mainstays of Paintings by Dorota Folga-Januszewska is a richly illustrated album on the output of two artists — father and son — Włodzimierz and Błażej Ostoja Lniski (the title of the album is a wordplay on their middle name Ostoja, which means a mainstay).

This richly illustrated book by Alina Kręcisz provides several accounts from a journey to the island of Sri Lanka, following the footsteps of famous individuals from the turn of the 20th century — Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and Bronisław Malinowski.

Adam Daniel Rotfeld. In Search of a Strategy is a book by an expert on international affairs, former minister of foreign affairs, Adam Daniel Rotfeld. It is a collection of texts published in magazines and various compilations between 2010–2017. It is accompanied by photographs of the author’s life.

The book written by Jerzy Miśkowiak and designed by Lech Majewski presents the life and art of Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, a 19th-century artist born in Poland, who spent most of her lifetime in Denmark.

The Kiss of a Water Maiden by Jerzy Buczyński is a collection of fantastic stories based on old tales and legends.

Poland. Essays on the Centenary is a book published on the one hundredth anniversary of Poland’s independence celebrated in 2018.

The third and last part of the “black trilogy” by Bartłomiej G. Sala. The book portrays creatures, which – according to alchemists’ notes, historical sources, public opinion, and literature and film classics – were made by men by means of magic, alchemical practices, or scientific experiments.

The album presents the work results of the Polish Infographics Group — the first and only Polish company focusing exclusively on creating infographics as a visual communication tool. Its projects are used by the largest Polish corporations and public institutions, as well as the main media players.

Children in the Polish People’s Republic” is an album containing stunning photographs of the world of children in the Polish People’s Republic. The photographer — Wiesław Zieliński — tells a story of this magical period of life, bringing back childhood memories to everyone who were kids in the 1960s and 1970s.