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 ...
The Labour Law Education Society, established in 2012, is one of the academic networks which were brought to life to study labour law from a comparative perspective. This monograph is a result of r...
Łódź, the third largest Polish city, was chosen as an example, as it is one of the few largest cities which experienced the political transition in Poland very painfully. It is also a city o...
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...
The skill of writing efectively has always been considered one of the biggest challenges of foreign language learning and teaching, yet it is only recently that we have have witnessed renewed inter...
A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz K...
The powerful presence behind this book is, of course, Jane Urquhart herself, and it is to her that the book is dedicated with our thanks compliments. We all appreciated her being with us, her patie...
Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are known for their unique eyes with exceptionally high spatial acuities, unparalleled among any terrestrial invertebrates. These unusual eyes enable salticids to recog...
The unique strength of the current work is the author's attempt to create his own framework for investigating construal, (…) drawing on a number of theoretical perspectives that have never b...
Polish and Ukrainian academic centers engaged in spatial and urban studies have been conducting scientific cooperation for many years - examples include contacts between Łódź and Lviv univer...
Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. Above all, it will make you think in ways you had not thought before.’ Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast, and SlowYuval Noa...
Selected as a Book of the Year by many of the British broadsheets, Vanished Kingdoms is a dazzling account of Europe's lost realms, which peers through the cracks of history to discover the kingdom...
Antony Beevor's impressive military history of the D-Day landings and battle for Normandy now in paperback. Making use of overlooked and new material, Beevor's gripping narrative brings to life bot...
The monographic study Towards Female Empowerment - The New Generation of Irish Women Poets: Vona Groarke, Sinéad Morrissey, Caítriona O’Reilly, and Mary O’Donoghue analys...
What does the single life look like and does it have anything in common with what the media show? This question has caused much discussion on the Internet, in TV debates, in the press and on the ra...
The attempt to make a comparative study of Lviv and Łódź in search of certain regularities seems at the first glimpse rather farfetched, because apparently there are rather few analogies bet...
Inspiracją dla prezentowanej książki jest osoba Umberta Eco oraz Jego dokonania naukowe i literackie. Dedykowana jest Profesorowi Eco na pamiątkę nadania Mu tytułu doktora honoris causa Uniwersytet...
In times of rapid technological change, enthusiasts of the new often subscribe to the theory of “supersession,” the idea that newer technologies supersede or vanquish older ones. But as...
Inspiracją dla prezentowanej książki jest osoba Umberta Eco oraz Jego dokonania naukowe i literackie. Dedykowana jest Profesorowi Eco na pamiątkę nadania Mu tytułu doktora honoris causa Uniwersytet...
Spying has changed. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, spooks are expected to uncover plots buried in mountains of data. Yet this makes the need for trained field operatives who can...