Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but l...
As well as analyzing the major changes and the myths that emerged, The Fear and the Freedom uses individual stories to examine the philosophical and psychological impact of the war, by sh...
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulate...
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report presented in March 2014, today climate change is already having substantial and widespread impacts which are being felt on all cont...
What is reality, really?Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive?How does this change the way we understand the world?We humans tend to be...
What makes a hit a hit? In Hit Makers, Atlantic Senior Editor Derek Thompson puts pop culture under the lens of science to answer the question that every business, every producer, every person look...
Is anything ever not an interpretation? Does interpretation go all the way down? Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think ...
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An attempt to present another critical study about the fiction of Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) and Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) virtually amounts to Benedykt Chmielowski’s descript...
The work begins with a chapter which presents the genesis of the ECHR, which is important for a proper understanding of the Convention system, and this is followed by a chapter on the principles of...
Oddawana do rąk Czytelnika monografia jest pierwszą anglojęzyczną publikacją prezentującą w sposób kompleksowy regulacje prawne Rady Europy dotyczące medycznie wspomaganej prokreacji. Autor,...
The problem of restitution of cultural property is by no means a new one. This study’s aim is to reconstruct the philosophical-legal issues connected with restitution of cultural property by ...
The "Relevance Studies in Poland" series accommodates selected papers written by the participants of the biennial conference "Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation&qu...
Benedick: I am man enough to say that I love thee. Is that not strange?Beatrice: Not really…Benedick: By my sword, Beatrice thou lovest me.Beatrice: Get over yourself...
The authors of the "Freakonomics" books on using data over emotion to answer questions have turned what they've learned into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking smarter, harder ...
Dobrobyt społeczności lokalnych jest ściśle związany z poziomem kompetencji jednostek w tworzeniu i korzystaniu z postępu technologicznego, informacyjnego i społecznego. Książka przedstawia badania...
W książce przedstawiono interdyscyplinarną analizę czynników decydujących o zdolnościach rozwojowych lokalnych społeczności w pięciu wybranych regionach Polski. Analizie poddano wskaźniki ek...
Gibbon's subversive and iconoclastic description of the rise of Christianity inspired outrage upon publication, and remains one of the most eloquent and damning indictments of the delusory nature o...
Monografia składa się z dziesięciu artykułów autorstwa polskich i zagranicznych literaturoznawców zajmujących się twórczością noblisty J.M. Coetzee’go. Teksty stanowią ko...