Asia is the biggest continent, home to half of the world’s population. It is religion that still plays a key role in this vast land, which is highly diverse in terms of culture, economy and g...
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 ...
Monografia składa się z dziesięciu artykułów autorstwa polskich i zagranicznych literaturoznawców zajmujących się twórczością noblisty J.M. Coetzee’go. Teksty stanowią ko...
The main idea behind The history of Poland. A National and State between West and East was to combine both scientific and educational qualities, as well as enable researchers and students to establ...
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...
The book continues investigations presented in The Concept of State in Polish Political Thought in the Period 1918-1939 by Jerzy Juchnowski and Jan Ryszard Sielezin. It presents the development of ...
This book is a result of the VI International Conference of PhD students of Szczecin University where the authors presented the outcomes of their research on Asian countries. All the collected pape...
"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 publication of Ambassador of the Middle Kingdom met with widespread interest in China and was described as the best monograph in the world about Michal Boym. It was recognized as containing the...
Książka zawiera artykuły poświęcone poezji Eliota w przekroju od wczesnej do późnej twórczości, szczególnie uwzględniających ważne obecnie a mało opracowane w stosunku do tej p...
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...
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...
Kolejny tom z serii "Edukacja Międzykulturowa" traktuje o wartościach. Zagadnienia dotyczące wartości ujęte są zarówno w sposób właściwy aksjologii, a więc mają przedstawien...
The development of the European single market and rapid technological changes have resulted in major economic changes in Europe and have convinced the governments of the need to upgrade their educa...
In this publication, the author takes insight into different dychotomies and reductionist stances present in the scientific discourse, and public debate. They are often treated as a kind of paradig...
The publishing market has recently seen a number of new – very interestingfrom a research point of view – books, the authors of whichundertake a thorough analysis of various factors tha...
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...