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 ...
Cultural Heritage of Central and Eastern Europe is still little known, but is increasingly being exposed as an area for scientific research. This region of Europe has experienced exceptional histor...
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...
The historical milieu in Toruń, built from scratch after the Second World War by people working at the Universities in Vilnius and Lvov before 1939, has always boasted eminent personages. One of th...
Monografia jest poświęcona analizie interferencji leksykalno-semantycznej w procesie przekładu. Zjawisko to polega na oddziaływaniu systemu jednego języka na inny, zwłaszcza w wypadku językó...
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...
Monografia jest poświęcona analizie interferencji leksykalno-semantycznej w procesie przekładu. Zjawisko to polega na oddziaływaniu systemu jednego języka na inny, zwłaszcza w wypadku językó...
This book is about reading. Throughout the book, the author explains the complexity of the dual-language involvement of FL/L2 reading by showing how L1 and FL/L2 factors interplay in FL/L2 reading....
„Nowy to rodzaj malarstwa. Tu nie drzewo, nie miedź, nie płótno przedstawia te obrazy, ale niebo barwy, nawet podczas najciemniejszej nocy widziane". Tymi właśnie słowami prof. Ja...
The classical work of Samuel Pufendorf on the reign of Charles X Gustav, King of Sweden, printed in Nuremberg in 1696, has not been systematically explored. The translation project made it possible...
Prezentowana książka jest zaproszeniem do spotkania z Fiodorem Dostojewskim w kręgu problemów kultury nie tylko rosyjskiej, lecz także europejskiej i azjatyckiej - od drugiej połowy XI...
"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...
The book Academics of Jewish Heritage in the Modern History of the Jagiellonian University is a collective work, anniversary commemorative publication connected with the 650th anniversary of the fo...
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...
Cultural heritage is one of the concepts that have made an unusual career in the 20th century. The cultural codes associated with it – senses, meanings, and ideas, characteristic for specific...
Spis Treści : INTRODUCTION (Justyna Łukaszewicz)Noémie COURTES, Plaute et Rotrou: la traduction des comédies au XVIIe siecle, entre respect et créationM...
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...
These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past a...