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...
A brilliant synthesis of history, psychology and storytelling, written in a clear and accessible style. Drawing on diverse sources, Pinker makes the bold and nuanced argument that we are living in ...
In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Milet...
Picturing the women's tradition of manufacturing a quilt through which they materialy express they lived experiences, the film How to Make an American Quilt from the director Jocelyn Moorhouse (199...
Picturing the women's tradition of manufacturing a quilt through which they materialy express they lived experiences, the film How to Make an American Quilt from the director Jocelyn Moorhouse (199...
From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continenta...
As part of project entitled Extreme meteorological and hydrological events in Poland, research has been undertaken in order to define the influence of extreme phenomena on the natural enviroment an...
In recent years, a new cultural sphere based on instant exchange of information has led to new kinds of communication, not merely for practical purposes but also for entertainment, social contact, ...
How Ireland has changed! A small and once impoverished island has come to symbolize the sort of economic success that everyone else wants to emulate. The country that up to the late 1960s offered t...
The present work recognized thet foreign language writing instruction naturally draws on both native language and second language composition studies; yet, being distinctly different from both thos...
The present work recognized thet foreign language writing instruction naturally draws on both native language and second language composition studies; yet, being distinctly different from both thos...
Merytoryczna wartość tej pracy wynika przede wszystkim z tego, że jej cześć empiryczna zawiera pogłębione studium mechanizmu trajektorii ujawniającego się w biografii jednostki w wyniku imigracji. ...
"You are not simply the sum output of your genome," write Deepak Chopra and Rudy Tanzi, Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. "You are t...
Spis Treści :CONTENTSEditorial NoteIntroduction CHAPTER 1. Outline of the History of Jews in Poznań and Swarzędz CHAPTER 2. Source Materials Used in the Study of...
Kultury archeologiczne na ziemiach Polski w jej obecnych granicach w okresie późnej starożytności podlegały różnorodnym i daleko idącym przemianom. Na ten dynamiczny obraz złożyły się...
Scholarship in translation studies is these days developing at an unprecedented rate, as the field is becoming ever more diversified and specialized. This volume aims at disseminating up-to-date kn...
Spis Treści : INTRODUCTION (Justyna Łukaszewicz)Noémie COURTES, Plaute et Rotrou: la traduction des comédies au XVIIe siecle, entre respect et créationM...
Shakespeare’s place in culture can only be captured by many relocations and recreations of his works in/via old and new media. From Shakespeare to Sh(Web)speare provides analysis of Shakespea...
The founding father of modern political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, living in an era of horrific violence, saw human life as meaningless and cruel; here, he argues the only way to escape this brutal...
The present book aims at a detailed analysis of the evolution of dietetic doctrines and an assessment of the value of medical sources for historians of food. In order to achieve the goal, the autho...