W imieniu Komitetu Redakcyjnego mam zaszczyt przedstawić zbiór studiów i prac, dedykowanych Profesorowi Wacławowi Uruszczakowi, wybitnemu historykowi i znawcy prawa.Praca powsta...
This volume was published with the financial support of the Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University in Cracow and Social Movements and Mobilisation Typologies in the...
Stanisław Śnieżewski , Józef Korpanty – classical philologist and his work Bibliografia prac Józefa KorpantegoStanisław Śnieżewski, Józef Korpanty – fil...
The book collects the most contemporary issues related to the process of ageing of societies in Central and Eastern Europe. The multiplicity of topics presented with the variety of theoretical and ...
Stanisław Śnieżewski , Józef Korpanty – classical philologist and his work Bibliografia prac Józefa KorpantegoStanisław Śnieżewski, Józef Korpanty – fil...
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 ...
The new book by Dorota Rudnicka-Kassem will certainly benefit humanists from various academic disciplines exploring the legacy of Muslim civilization. 'From the Richness of Islamic History' with it...
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...
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...
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....
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...
"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...
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...
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...
This book constitutes the second part of the two-volume monograph edicated to the phenomenon of Perso-Arabic lexical borrowings in Hindustani (by some scholars also named Hindi-Urdu or Hirdu). It i...
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...