This vintage book contains Immanuel Kant’s 1790 philosophical work, “Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgement”. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was a famous German philosopher, widely hailed as one of the most important figures of modern philosophy. This seminal volume provided the foundation for the development of modern aesthetics, and is highly recommended for those with a serious interest in...

"Książka podejmuje ważny temat dotyczący perspektyw rozwoju tożsamości UE jako globalnego aktora. Wiadomo, że jest to sprawa żywo dyskutowana wśród specjalistów. Próba budowania wspólnej identyfikacji w Europie ma dwa podstawowe wyzwania. Pierwsze dotyczy wzmocnienia polityki zagranicznej UE, a tym samym ma prowadzić do podwyższenia pozycji geopolitycznej Europy w stosunkach...

Dans la ville de Kahani, au pays d'Alifbay, Luka, douze ans, mene une vie heureuse et paisible avec sa mere Soraya, son pere Rachid Khalifa, conteur, et son frere Haroun, de vingt ans son aîné. Tout bascule le jour ou son pere sombre dans un sommeil sans fin. Pour le sauver, le jeune Luka doit partir a la recherche du Feu de la Vie. Reprenant la mer des histoires ou son frere avait tant...

‘Where can the human animal seek its energy in this era of lockdowns and social distancing? Dodge may help us to find out’ Guardian ‘If you’re a fan of Maggie Nelson’s work, you’ll like this book. It’s truly beautiful’ Dazed Is love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such...

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...

'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in...

In 1961, a Douglas DC-6B aeroplane transporting the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld, disappeared over the Congolese jungle at the height of the Cold War. Soon afterward, Hammarskjöld was discovered in the smoking wreckage, an Ace of Spades playing card placed on his body. He had been heralded as the Congo's best hope for peace and independence. Now he was dead. The...

THE postcard on the cover of this book says it all. The card was written by John Lennon and sent to his friend Chris Hutchins. On the card's photograph of the Beatles, John had drawn a fifth member - the founder of the group Stuart Sutcliffe who John went on to describe as the best friend he ever had. This is the kind of confidence John, Paul George and Ringo shared with writer Hutchins who...

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...

Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, to Covid-19. People living through the crises have always recorded what they saw, what they felt, and what they did. Some presented sober facts laced with anecdote, while others produced emotional outpourings; moralists speculated on the origins of...

'This book is going to fundamentally change some of the most important conversations in your life-the ones you have with yourself.' - Adam Grant, bestselling author of Give and Take Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Daniel H. Pink's Next Big Idea Club Winter 2021 Winning Selection One of the best new books of 2021 - BBC Science Focus Magazine, The...

What is depression? Is it a persistent low mood or a complex range of symptoms? Is it a single diagnosis or a range of mental disorders requiring different treatments? And is there a way of curing such a complex, and diverse, condition? A sufferer of depression himself, science writer Alex Riley has spent years thinking about these issues as he was prescribed antidepressants and underwent...

The authors of the articles in the present volume were searching for answer to the following questions: how have the values of Polish society been affected by the transformation processes, and, to what degree are these values similar to the values and attitudes of the European Union citizens?...

Barbara Engelking writes about everyday experiences of Jews in hiding Marcin Zaremba explores the issue of "szaber" or smuggling in war-time Poland Jan Grabowski presents a case study of a murder perpetrated by the unit of Miechow AK on a group of Jews in hiding Dagmara Swałtek writes about crimes against the Jews in rural areas to Cracow

Barbara Engelking writes about everyday experiences of Jews in hiding Marcin Zaremba explores the issue of "szaber" or smuggling in war-time Poland Jan Grabowski presents a case study of a murder perpetrated by the unit of Miechow AK on a group of Jews in hiding Dagmara Swałtek writes about crimes against the Jews in rural areas to Cracow

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...

Jędrzej Chumiński: Die Instrumentalisierung der polnischen Gewerkschaften und der Arbeitervertretungen in den Jahren 1944-1945 Cecylia Leszczyńska, Łucja Lisiecka: Useful or Harmful? Money Usury Law in the Second Republic of Poland Roman Macyra: Polish Commodity Exchanges in the Years 1946-1951. An Outline of the Problem

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...