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Kosynierzy z Daru Pomorza, autorstwa długoletniego kapitana statków PLO Gabriela Oleszka, są książką, w której szczegółowo omówiony został okres nauki w Państwowej Szkole Morskiej rocznika 1965-1968, łącznie z kandydatką na „Darze Pomorza”, rejsami na statkach szkolnych „Zenit” i „Horyzont” oraz ich praktykami na dziesięciotysięcznikach PLO: „Ludwik Solski”, „Hanoi”, „Jan Matejko” i „Adolf Warski”....

Autorem książki „Inny świat marynarzy” jest ceniony pisarz marynista (autor 8 książek), który morze i pracę na morzu doskonale zna z autopsji, bo na statkach PLO i PŻB przepracował blisko 40 lat, z czego kilkanaście jako kapitan, głównie promów. Opisuje w niej, wartkim reporterskim językiem ciekawsze fragmenty biografii kilkunastu ludzi morza, którzy oprócz kariery na morzu, odnieśli jeszcze większe...

Album ma 280 str. formatu 312x230 mm i zawiera 846 zdjęć. Poświęcony jest on ''Stefanowi Batoremu'' - ostatniemu transatlantykowi pływającemu pod polską banderą, który przeszedł również do historii żeglugi światowej. Był bowiem jednym z dwóch, ostatnich pasażerskich liniowców, utrzymujących stałe, regularne połączenie między Europą a północną Ameryką i jednocześnie statkiem, który zakończył trwającą...

In 1999, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr invested nearly $12 million in a startup that had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. Doerr introduced the founders to OKRs and with them at the foundation of their management, the startup grew from forty employees to more than 70,000 with a market cap exceeding $600 billion. The startup was Google. Since...

Over the past quarter century, Seth Godin has taught and inspired millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, leaders, and fans from all walks of life, via his blog, online courses, lectures, and bestselling books. He is the inventor of countless ideas and phrases that have made their way into mainstream business language, from Permission Marketing to Purple Cow to Tribes to The Dip. Now, for the first...

What does it take to win success and influence? In a world where we are constantly connected, it's those with the best people skills who win the day. Those who build the right relationships. Those who truly understand and connect with their colleagues, their customers, their partners. Those who others like, respect and trust. The Art of People reveals the eleven people skills that will get you more...

Career ladders and jobs for life are a thing of the past Today, we're living in a world of squiggly careers, where moving frequently and fluidly between roles, industries, locations, and even careers, is becoming the new normal. Squiggly careers can feel stressful and overwhelming, but if you know how to make the most of them, they can be full of opportunity, freedom and purpose. And to make the...

Lucian Freud was one of the world's greatest realist artists. Working only from life, he once claimed, `I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't there in front of me.' This revelatory publication features a selection of beautifully reproduced images from his sketchbooks. Most of the sketches - which include works in pencil, pastel and watercolour from across the artist's long career -...

Paul Cezanne painted almost 200 portraits, including twenty-six of himself and twenty-nine of his wife. This book explores the portraiture of this remarkable artist, whom both Matisse and Picasso called `the father of us all', and accompanies a major international exhibition -the first devoted exclusively to this aspect of Cezanne's work. This book, like the exhibition it accompanies, looks at the...

In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg's first, modest iteration. It has grown into a tech giant, the largest social media platform and one of the most gargantuan companies in the world, with...