The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign language classes, or mature and older adults learning and using more than one language to meet life's needs and desires. This Handbook offers a developmentally oriented and socially contextualized survey of research into individual...

W zeszycie m.in.: Junko Yokota Realism in Picture Books for Children: Representations of Our Diverse World, Ona Renner-Fahey Fear and the ‘Fantastic’ in Hanna Krall’s ‘The Dybbuk’ and Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist, Karolina Szymborska „Potłuczone kawałeczki nieśmiertelności” w Przygodach Piotrusia Pana J.M. Barriego.

W siódmym tomie serii Studia Translatorica prezentujemy artykuły m.in. Hanny Burkhardt i Aliny Jurasz Zu einigen Problemen der Darstellung von Kollokationen im deutsch-polnischen Kollokationswörterbuch, Edwarda Białka Kazimirza Filipa Wize przekład poematu Heinricha Heinego Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen (Niemcy. Baśń zimowa). Próba krytyki przekładu, Joanny Szczęk i Marceliny Kałasznik...

This book presents an interdiciplinary colletion of essays providing analyses of global governance of safety and security in various policy fields, ranging from financial crisis to cyber-security. The volume offers essential insights about both European and international measures, normative frameworks and regulatory interventions aimed at controllig risks, preventing hazards and managing...

This book features the mechanisms underlying the life of Jewish communities and the policies pursued by their authorities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th-18th centuries on the example of two communities: Poznań and Swarzędz. It covers such issues as election of community officials and their responsibilities, the rabbi's office, community courts, craftsmen's guilds and...

This book provides an accessible guide to using the rock physics-based forward modeling approach for mapping the subsurface, systematically linking rock properties to seismic amplitude. Providing practical workflows, the book shows how to methodically vary lithology, porosity, rock type, and pore fluids and reservoir geometry, calculate the corresponding elastic properties, and then generate...

From an acclaimed military historian, the definitive account of Italy's experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in southern France...

In Central and Eastern Europe, radical right actors significantly impact public debates and mainstream policy agenda. But despite this high discursive influence, the electoral fortune of radical right parties in the region is much less stable. It has been suggested that this may be due to the fact that mainstream competitors increasingly co-opt issues which are fundamental for the radical...

2015 Reprint of 1944 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This remains one of the most definitive works on card technique, providing step-by-step instructions that will teach you the correct methods for the basic manipulations and for more advanced flourishes. Offering the most foolproof methods available, Jean Hugard and...

The legacy of Professor Jan Stanisław Lipiński for the sake of the development of mathematics in Gdańsk 1969-1998 Convergence of sequences of measurable functions In uniform convergence and some related types of convergence Points of quasicontinuity and of similar generalizations of continuity Topological and algebraic aspects of subsums of series In the abstract density topologies generated...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the...

With dozens of beautiful, original designs and detailed explanations, this Chinese paper cutting book is a great reference for beginners. Paper cutting is a popular papercraft in today's multicultural world, embracing a great variety of themes, designs and images. In China, its birthplace, it is regarded as an elegant traditional folk art. Chinese paper cuts reflect many...

The monograph should therefore play a binary role. First it should present the crystal structures of known chalcogenides. Second book should explain a wide range of preparation methods and basic chemical properties of sulphides, selenides and tellurides that can be important from practical point of view. These materials are referred to as compounds of technological future in optoelectronics...

This publication offers a wonderfully comprehensive and integrated picture of the Labour immigration in the European Union. The book falls into five overlapping parts: Migration – the Notion. The Review of Migration Theories; the Policy of the European Union towards Legal Labour Migration from the Third Countries; Polish Migration Policy. Principles of Admitting Labour Migrants into Polish...

Anna Bednarczyk jest pracownikiem Katedry Literatury i Kultury Rosyjskiej Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego. Od lat interesuje się problematyką przekładu literackiego, czemu poświęciła cztery swoje wcześniejsze monografie (Wysocki po polsku, Wybory translatorskie, Kulturowe aspekty przekładu literackiego i W poszukiwaniu dominanty translatorskiej). Książka Poezja Syberii na przełomie epok (szkice o...

The world's most popular record book is back with thousands of new categories and newly broken records, covering everything from outer space to sporting greats via Instagram, fidget spinners and all manner of human marvels. Inside you'll find hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and countless facts, figures, stats and trivia waiting for you on every action-packed page. Guinness World...

A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally bestselling author. 'Back in the 1960s, long before the denizens of Silicon Valley were infiltrating every facet of our lives, the smart men and women of The Simulmatics Corporation were creating algorithms to predict and even influence human...

Książka podejmuje bardzo aktualne i ważne problemy, które są rozważane zarówno w ujęciu krajowym, regionalnym i lokalnym oraz w różnych ujęciach na obszarze Unii Europejskiej. W badaniach nad społeczeństwem obywatelskim oraz relacją społeczeństw obywatelskich w Unii Europejskiej integracja społeczna jest traktowana jako szczególna wartość perspektywiczna, bez której trudno byłoby mówić o...

This cult classic delves into mysteries such as whether the Loch Ness monster exists, and tells stories of dragons and monsters from around the world. It also looks at some of the most frightening creations of myth and legend. First published in 1977, this is the third book from Usborne's beloved World of the Unknown series to be brought back by popular demand. With a brand-new foreword by...

Monografia zawiera 13 artykułów przedłożonych do publikacji przez krajowych i zagranicznych autorów. Książka proponuje splot tekstów wyrastających ze ściśle naukowej perspektywy badawczej z bardziej praktycznym podejściem proponowanym przez autorów będących jednocześnie twórcami. U źródeł proponowanego zestawienia leży przekonanie redaktorów tomu, że w ostatnich dziesięcioleciach dokonało...