The book is a study of the phenomenon present in European culture for two thousand years and constantly evolving, although based on an incorrect assumption that ancient Egyptians acquired knowledge inaccessible to others and jealously guarded, which gave

The author analyses female experience, present in Maria Pinińska-Bereś’ works, as connected with the processes taking place in socialist Poland: the development of sex knowledge and counselling, the strong influence of Catholic Church, counter-culture

Featuring mathematical accuracy, simple, clear lecture on general relativity, focused on applications in cosmology, gravitational waves, black holes, as well as relativistic stars, which makes it also an introduction to relativistic astrophysics.