They knew the world wasn't a sphere. Either it stretched at the poles or it bulged at the equator. But which? They needed to know because accurate maps saved lives at sea and made money on land. But measuring the earth was so difficult that most thought it impossible. The world's first international team of scientists was sent to a continent of unmapped rainforests and ice-shrouded volcanoes...

A leading pediatric psychiatrist shows clinicians a holistic, full-spectrum approach to children’s well-being. Every child possesses enormous untapped potential, and yet the number of kids suffering from mental illness today seems to creep ever upward. Depression, anxiety, ADHD, OCD, oppositional defiant disorder, anger issues—you name it—are increasingly prevalent, leaving clinician’s offices...

Ground study material for the EASA PPL(H) and good for other licences too.

W pracy opisano cykl życiowy wszystkich występujących w Polsce gatunków muchówek z rodzaju Lipara (L. lucens, L. similis, L. rufitarsis i L. pullitarsis). Opis każdego z nich zawiera szczegółowe informacje dotyczące wyboru miejsca na roślinie w okresie składania jaj, sposobu żerowania larw, rodzaju spożywanego pokarmu oraz budowy galasów. Etologia larw pierwszego i drugiego stadium, została...

Zebrane w tomie artykuły to owoc dużej erudycji i przede wszystkim własnych dociekań Autorów. Tworzą bogatą, różnorodną, a przecież spoistą całość - będąc z jednej strony wyrazem szacunku, wdzięczności i sympatii dla Profesora Marka Kęsika i ukazując ważny dorobek romanistyczny, a z drugiej stanowiąc cenne "instrumentum laboris" oraz źródło inspiracji i informacji w dalszych badaniach nad...

Tematem książki są rodzaje i kategorie, w których wyraża się w tradycji klasycznej namysł nad bytem oraz dynamiką i strukturą rzeczywistości i które w filozoficznej samorefleksji stają się przedmiotami owego myślenia. […] Wielkim bogactwem historyków filozofii starożytnej jest umiejętność odkrywania i analizowania kontekstu źródłowego owych najogólniejszych pojęć, odczytywania pytań...

Julia Fiedorczuk The Problems of Environmental...

Tom 3 w serii Breslauer Studien zur Medienlinguistik / Wrocławskie studia z lingwistyki mediów rozwija i łączy dwie teorie w badaniach nad tekstami medialnymi: multimodalność i kontrastywność. Pierwsze podejście – multimodalność – dotyczy interakcji różnych znaków w tekstach medialnych, natomiast drugi koncept – kontrastywność – obejmuje cechy wspólne i różne w kształtowaniu tekstów i...

Polish Libraries is an English-language peer-reviewed journal published by the National Library of Poland and presenting valuable up-to-date library science research. Its current edition (vol.4) includes: an insightful paper by Marta Cichoń about the National Library Descriptors Project; an analysis of adolescents’ reading habits by Zofia Zasacka; a text by Janusz Lachowski about the...

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 all its complexity and competing rationales; it offers a study of EU enlargement and conditionality; and it examines in detail the EU’s impact on the new member states in Central and Eastern...

We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world -- but it's a lot older than you think. As ancient as the pyramids, its history is even more surprising. In Spare Parts, cultural historian Paul Craddock takes us on a fascinating journey and unearths incredible untold stories, from Indian surgeons regrafting lost noses in the sixth century BC, to the...

Containing both medical and legal perspectives, Criminal Abortion is an important document from the early decades of the anti-abortion crusade. Dr. Storer led the medical campaign against abortion during the second half of the nineteenth century. His efforts were supported by Heard, a notable jurist and legal scholar. The motivations for both men were primarily racist, xenophobic and sexist....

Magdalena Ruta explores the virtually unknown area of Yiddish literature created in Poland after World War II. She unravels before general readers and future researchers numerous texts and analyses them in a lucid and captivating manner. The book should appeal to readers from various disciplines as well as to a non-scholarly audience as it touches upon difficult and complex problems that...

Tłumaczenie na język angielski zbiorowego wydawnictwa opublikowanego przez IPN w 2019 r. pt. Antykomunizm Polaków w XX wieku. Obrazuje postawy Polaków wobec działalności komunistów, jak i wobec samej komunistycznej ideologii w dwudziestym stuleciu.

„Studia Romanica Posnaniensia” to czasopismo naukowe poświęcone szeroko pojmowanym badaniom nad językiem i literaturą. Wydawane od 1971 r, publikuje artykuły autorów krajowych i zagranicznych z renomowanych ośrodków uniwersyteckich, jak również prace młodych badaczy. Obecnie ukazuje...

Parmi les cinq sens, l'odorat est certainement celui qui est le moins etudie par les litteraires, ce dont temoigne, sans conteste, la deficience flagrante de travaux qui lui sont consacres. Toujours est-il que, si nous comparons la situation de l'olfaction a celle des quatre autres sens, pour lesquels on dispose d'etudes nourries, nous constatons facilement que le sens olfactif n'a guere...

From exoskeletons to neural implants, biomedical devices are no less than life-changing. Compact and constant power sources are necessary to keep these devices running efficiently. Edwar Romero's Powering Biomedical Devices reviews the background, current technologies, and possible future developments of these power sources, examining not only the types of biomedical power sources available...

Most astronomers believe that the universe began about 15 billion years ago when an explosion led to its expansion and cooling. The present state of the universe compels us to believe that the universe was extremely hot and dense in its infancy. In the beginning there was intense radiation. The photons produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter and a plasma soup of particles and...

Engineering has been an essential collaborator in biological research and breakthroughs in biology are often enabled by technological advances. Decoding the double helix structure of DNA, for example, only became possible after significant advances in such technologies as X-ray diffraction and gel electrophoresis. Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis improved as new technologies —...

Key Features Master all the basic concepts of Git to protect your code and make it easier to evolve Use Git proficiently, and learn how to resolve day-by-day challenges easily This step-by-step guide is packed with examples to help you learn and work with Git's internals Book Description Since its inception, Git has attracted skilled developers due to its...