WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR The West's domination of world politics is coming to a close. The flow of wealth and power is turning from West to East and a new era of global instability has begu...
How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to...
In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and...
The study, "The Language of the Gods in the World of Royal Ladies of Kerala. Toward a History of Women's Writing in Sanskrit in the 18th- to 20th-century Kerala", addresses the subject of...
On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured ...
A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture.‘We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns ...
José Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country.From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape ...
Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have l...
Dunaj to nie tylko druga najdłuższa rzeka Europy, przepływająca przez dziesięć krajów, ale przede wszystkim monumentalny nośnik pamięci: historycznej, zbiorowej, kulturowej. W jego wodach od...
Publikacja jest owocem konferencji pod patronatem Comité international d’historie de l’art (CIHA) zorganizowanej przez Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury i Zentralinstitut für K...
SPIS TREŚCI:Peter Scott, Does Higher Education Need to Play a Different Role in Timesof Global Crisis?ARTYKUŁYProblemy polskieStosunki międzynarodoweProblemy mys...
With great joy we present to the readers the new, twentieth issue of Politeja: The Journal of the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University. It is a celebratory ...
Kwartalnik ukazujący się w wersji polsko-angielskiej – to inicjatywa Międzynarodowego Centrum Kultury. Mamy nadzieję, że stanie się jedynym w swoim rodzaju forum dyskusji o dziedzictwie, kult...
Album zawiera niemal 200 zdjęć przedmiotów powstałych na przełomie XIX i XX wieku. W tym okresie w Czechach i na Morawach działali wielcy mecenasi i koneserzy sztuki. Dzięki ich pasji został...
Małgorzata Abassy's book is a useful and clever analysis in which an intellectual story of a Russian thinker becomes a material for a case study that strengthens a broader reflection about the tran...
The study, Vijayanagara: A Forgotten Empire of Poetesses, is devoted to two works: the Madhuravijaya of Ga?gadevi and Varadambikapari?aya Campu by Tirumalamba. The Madhuravij...
Ethnicity, as a conceptual category developed by representatives of various scientififi c disciplines, refers to extensive and complex sets of social and psychological phenomena that take place bot...
Ethnicity, as a conceptual category developed by representatives of various scientififi c disciplines, refers to extensive and complex sets of social and psychological phenomena that take place bot...
Fenomen Pomarańczowej Alternatywy to szczególny rozdział najnowszej historii Polski i upadku komunizmu w Europie. Etos Solidarności, która w latach 1980-1981 jako wspólnota pol...
Fenomen Pomarańczowej Alternatywy to szczególny rozdział najnowszej historii Polski i upadku komunizmu w Europie. Etos Solidarności, która w latach 1980-1981 jako wspólnota pol...