Migration is not only a demographic, sociological or economic problem. It is a complex multidimensional issue within the member states of the European Union which is a source of complications in th...
Within the area of media studies the radio seems relatively neglected. It is television, Internet and its applications, or even the press, though declining but still important, that the gather much...
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...
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...
The recent surge in popularity of the nations of performance and performativity provides an incentive for ezamining their productivity for contemporary models of knowledge production. Drawing upon ...
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 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 ...
The dynamic development of new technologies triggers changes in the environment in which the book and the library function: consequently, new questions need to be asked about their position and rol...
This book presents a unique collection of the most relevant perspectives in contemporary human rights education. Different intellectual, legal, political and philosophical traditions and views are ...
Z wielokulturowością człowiek stykał się od czasów najdawniejszych, traktując ją jako zjawisko codzienne, przejawiające się w normalnym współistnieniu nacji, od pokoleń żyjących obok ...
John Paul II, Islam and the Middle East will certainly evoke numerous discussions on John Paul II's attitude towards Islam and the Middle Eastern predicament and inspire new reflections, critical r...
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...
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 ...
Political communication based on political structures has a formalized character where the roles of a sender and a recipient have been clearly determined. If contains in itself fundamental issues c...
The principal tasks of pedagogues are the democratization and humanization of educational process; the introduction of innovations, alternative forms of studying; providing the professional self-re...
The present book focuses on the morphological analysis of Classical Japanese verbal and adjectival forms. It does not present any new facts (or hardly any), but attempts to describe them in a new w...
This is the second volume of a two volumes series on cultural and gender issues. While the first volume concentrated mainly on the different manifestations of cultural encounters (e.g. acculturatio...
An impressive work of media and communication scholarship, this meticulously researched book provides comprehensive and authoritative treatment to the development of European Union media policy, in...