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...
As part of project entitled Extreme meteorological and hydrological events in Poland, research has been undertaken in order to define the influence of extreme phenomena on the natural enviroment an...
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. ...
„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...
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...
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...
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...