Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trendlines rather than the headlines,...

The future needs Dyslexic Thinking! British social entrepreneur, founder and CEO of charity Made By Dyslexia, Kate Griggs has been shifting the narrative on dyslexia and educating people on its strengths since 2004. Having been surrounded by an extraordinary 'smorgasbord of Dyslexic Thinking' her whole life, Griggs knows the superpower of dyslexia all too well. With a forward from Sir...

Boken, som är femte upplagan, ska användas som ett redskap för chefer, arbetsledare, pedagoger, fackliga förtroendemän och skyddsombud inom skolan och hjälpa dem att lösa svåra arbetsmiljöproblem på arbetsplatsen. Skolans arbetsmiljö. Praktiska typfall är till stor del uppbyggd på konkreta exempel som författarna kommit i kontakt med i sina roller som arbetsrättsjurister på central...

Dr. Agnieszka Bieńczyk - Missala is a lecturer at the Institutei of International Relations of the Warsaw University and an analist at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. She is engaged in problems of human rights and democracy, primarily in the context of security and foreign policy, and has written articles that have appeared in: Rocznik Strategiczny, Sprawy Międzynarodowe,...

The problem of the continuity of science from the medieval to the modern times of the 17th century, when Galileo and Newton developed the correct theory of mechanics, occupied historians of science from the beginning of the 20th century. Some believe that the fourteenth-century English scholars who created the School of Oxford Calculators and their French and Italian followers. with their...

Something happens in students when they define themselves as makers and inventors and creators. They discover powerful skills-problem-solving, critical thinking, and imagination-that will help them shape the world's future ... our future. If that's true, why isn't creativity a priority in more schools today? Educators John Spencer and A.J. Juliani know firsthand the challenges teachers face...

When it was published in 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness quickly became one of the most influential books in modern economics and politics. Within a short time, it had inspired whole government departments in the US and UK, and others as far afield as Singapore. One of the keys to Nudge’s success is Thaler and Sunstein’s...

A collection of essays dealing with the issue of normativity from various academic and scientific perspectives. The Reader will learn how phenomena such as norms, morality and rule-following are described and explained in philosophy, biology, psychology, linguistics and neuroscience. In addition, a discussion of the naturalistic fallacy from the philosophical and ethical perspectives will be...

We humans are social animals, naturally driven to form close-knit groups. All too often, though, these groups become partisan. They start to compete with one another. They become mutually hostile. Why does this happen? And what can be done to counter the tendency In Poles Apart, an expert on polarisation, a behavioural scientist and a professional communicator explain why we are so prone to be...

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 brought together to explore some of the issues challenging standard justification. Widely accessible also to non experts, contributors aim at opening new perspective on the state of the art of...

This book is a valuable synthesis of relations between USA and USSR in the 1970s seen through the prism of trade relations which Washington used for two distinctive purposes: as a “reward” mechanism encouraging cooperation, or conversely, as a tool of “punishment” in response to undesired activities. Such an instrumental approach to economic issues in the 1970s was not anything new in...

„Najlepsza książka o Bali dla poważnego gościa… Zawiera świeżość osobistych doświadczeń.” — Dr. Hildred Geertz, autorka książki „Kinship in Bali” i profesor antropologii na Uniwersytecie Princeton na Bali, to, co widzisz – sekala – to barwny świat ceremonii, rytuałów, tańca i dramatu. To, czego nie widzisz, co jest okultystyczne – niskala – to doktryna leżąca u podstaw...

Everyone knows that democracy is in trouble, but do we know what democracy actually is? Political philosopher Jan-Werner Müller, author of the widely acclaimed What Is Populism?, takes us back to basics. In this short, elegant volume, he explains how democracy is founded on three vital principles: liberty, equality, and also uncertainty. The latter, he argues, is crucial for ensuring...

How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the...

Poland has been building its market economy for slightly more than a quarter of a century and has been a member of the European Union for thirteen years. Currently, Poland can feel the results of the international crisis, but with some delay compared to the other European countries. Despite its stable economic development and relatively low unemployment, a deterioration in the quality of...

Herman Pontzer's ground-breaking research has revealed how, contrary to received wisdom, exercise does not increase our metabolism. Instead, we burn calories within a very narrow range: nearly 3,000 calories per day, no matter our activity level. In this book, he draws on twenty years of cutting-edge science to take a closer look at what happens to the energy we consume. Burn...

Capitalism has a history of several hundred years, while the socialist regime existed only for a few decades. But this pair of opposites was central to the history of the twentieth century. This book covers topics such as socialism, capitalism, democracy, and change of system.

Publikacja w języku angielskim stanowi wybór artykułów z dwóch książek poświęconych trudnym problemom w stosunkach polsko-niemieckich po II wojnie światowej: Problem reparacji, odszkodowań i świadczeń w stosunkach polsko-niemieckich 1944–2004 oraz Transfer - obywatelstwo - majątek....

Należy przede wszystkim pozytywnie ocenić wybór i sposób ujęcia problematyki będącej przedmiotem książki, gdyż jest to z jednej strony istotny przyczynek do badań nad rolą retoryki w marketingu politycznym, z drugiej zaś zarówno diagnoza jak i wnioski sformułowane przez Autora są niezwykle cenne z punktu widzenia praktyki politycznej i powinny stać się przedmiotem refleksji nad przebiegiem...

This monograph is the result of the research programme “Crises of the European integration process and the methods of overcoming them” financed by National Science Centre. This project was completed in September 2015 and realised between 2013 and 2015. The research team consisted of 28 members mainly from the Institute of European Studies at the University of Warsaw but also from the...