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, ...
Humorous, clever and concise, these guides take an analytical but affectionate look at different nations, their character and quirks.Written from an insider’s perspective, they of...
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...
Czech this out if you are headed for Prague. A tongue-in-cheek guide to the bewildering Czechs. As in the rest of the Xenophobe series, the authors provide information and insight into the national...
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. ...
Humorous, clever and concise, these guides take an analytical but affectionate look at different nations, their character and quirks.Written from an insider’s perspective, they of...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This book presents a cognitive linguistic study of distance representations carried out using the British National Corpus and the National Corpus of Polish. Corpusbased examination of linguist...
The monograph repeatedly covers the question of the actual purpose of running an economic activity as well as the problem of referring to ethical values by entrepreneurs and the Aristotelian dilemm...
This book presents a cognitive linguistic study of distance representations carried out using the British National Corpus and the National Corpus of Polish. Corpusbased examination of linguist...
Welsh pride is real pride – the sort that requires no justification or excuse.Essential reading for all partners of the Welsh! Written by an expat Welshman who has lived in Englan...