In 1952, with the major rearrangement of the state, which officially became the
Polish People's Republic, the government created a separate State Publishing House known as the Wiedza Powszechna, whose full name was Państwowe Wydawnictwo: Wiedza Powszechna (English, "State Publishing House of Common Knowledge") or the Wiedza Powszechna: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Popularno-Naukowe (English, "State-Owned Popular Science Publishing House"). It became a major publisher specializing in dictionaries (vocabularies, encyclopedic dictionaries, etc., language textbooks, phrase books, etc., both for Polish and foreign languages, as well as
popular science books in various areas.[2][3]
In 2012 it was reestablished in
Warsaw[5] as Wydawnictwo Wiedza Powszechna (Wiedza Powszechna Publishing House), specializing in foreign language dictionaries and textbooks.[2][6]
Book series
Biblioteczka dla Kazdego (English, "Bookcase for Everyone")[7]
Biblioteczka Towarzystwa Wiedzy Powszechne (English, "Library of the Universal Knowledge Society")
Biblioteczka Wiedzy Historycznej (English, "Library of Historical Knowledge")[8]
Mysli i Ludzie (English, "Thoughts and People")[12]
Mysli Srebrne i Zlote (English, "Silver and Gold Thoughts")[13]
Omega: Biblioteka Wiedzy Wspolczesnej (English, "Omega: Library of Contemporary Knowledge"); also known as: Biblioteka Wiedzy Wspolczesnej (English, "Library of Contemporary Knowledge")[14]
Przyroda Polska (English, "Nature Poland")
Profile (English, "Profile series")
Sygnaly (English, "Signals series")
W Szeroki Swiat (English, "In the Wide World")
Wydawnictwa Popularno-Encyklopedyczne (English, "Popular Encyclopedia Publications")
Zlota Seria Literatury Popularnonaukowej (English, "Golden Series of Popular Science Literature")[15]