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...
Monografii Poszukiwanie tożsamości kulturowej w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej patronuje Milan Kundera, autor opublikowanego w 1983 r. artykułu Zachód porwany albo tragedia Europy Środkowej, te...
The contemporary Chinese engagement in Africa dates back to the 1950's, and it has gained momentum in the last two decades. The Chinese presence in African countries has been getting more and more ...
Ocenianie nie jest zajęciem szczególnie przyjemnym, zwłaszcza jeżeli oceniać trzeba własne zachowania czy wyniki podejmowanych działań. Niemniej bywa zajęciem wdzięcznym, jeśli okazuje się,...
Książka Teresy Bruś Life Writing as Self-Collecting in the 1930: Cecil Day Lewis and Louis MacNeice stanowi porównanie twórczości autobiograficznej dwóch ważnych angielskich po...
A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages, which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of power...
Transformacja demokratyczna w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej spowodowała zmiany na wielu płaszczyznach życia społecznego, z uwzględnieniem polityki i mediów masowych. W dwadzieścia lat po up...
Transformacja demokratyczna w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej spowodowała zmiany na wielu płaszczyznach życia społecznego, z uwzględnieniem polityki i mediów masowych. W dwadzieścia lat po up...
The year 2012 saw the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Japanology (at present, of Japanology and Sinology) at the Jagiellonian University. On this occasion, an int...
The title of this volume appears to suggest that modernity is somehow devoid of something of utmost importance. Sixteen years after the death of Leo Strauss, certainly one of the most profound thin...
Solidarity and prosperity fostered by economic integration: this principle has underpinned the European project from the start, and the establishment of a common currency was supposed to be its mos...
Nothing enflames the language gripers like a misplaced disinterested, an illogical irregardless, a hideous operationalisation. To a purist these are 'howlers' and 'non-words', fit only for scorn. B...
A book can be both a good academic manual and a source of knowledge for practitioners – the media employees (especially managers). The author skillfully combines various conventions making a ...
Charles Darwin transformed our understanding of the world with the idea of natural selection, challenging the notion that species are fixed and unchanging. These writings from On the Origin of Spec...
Posiłkując się ustaleniami Michaiła Bachtina - <<dominujące modele przestrzeni>> - Kristina Vorontsova wyróżnia w swojej pracy trzy modele przestrzeni, a mianowicie - geokulturow...
The book contains a selection of articles written in the years 1962-2004 and published in English or French languages. They provide information and present views of the author on matters relating t...
Niniejszy tom zawiera pierwszy w polskiej literaturze naukowej zbiór osiemnastu wyselekcjonowanych tekstów powstałych na podstawie referatów, które wygłoszono podczas I ...
In this uniquely skewed look at the purpose and function of a book, Smith offers an illustrated guide that asks readers to creatively examine all the different ways "This Is Not a Book" c...
Ways of Knowing Places analyzes several responses to a crisis in American ethnographic and literary representation that began roughly in the 1960s. Confronted by unprecedental social, economic, and...
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 ...