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...

Julia Fiedorczuk The Problems of Environmental...

The financial crisis of 2008–2009 has become the most serious challenge for the Central and Eastern European countries after they had completed the process of post-socialist transformation and became EU members. The negative impacts of the recession on their most important international partners multiplied their own tensions and imbalances which – in some cases – have led to a dramatic...

En Auvergne, dans la petite station thermale d’Enval, la découverte d’une nouvelle source suscite toutes les convoitises : des paysans roublards, un banquier spéculateur et des médecins charlatans s’affrontent. Dans ce roman au vitriol, " on dirait vraiment que les sources ne sont pas minéralisées, mais ensorcelées " !

Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita are four women who have worked at Truviv, Inc., for years. The sudden death of Truviv's CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Ames is a complicated man, a man they’ve all known for a long time, a man who’s always been surrounded by...whispers. Whispers that have always been ignored by those in charge. But the world has changed,...

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...

IND A FUTURE. LOSE A PAST. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy her . . . RUN ROSE RUN: a story glittering with danger and desire.

Warsaw, the Unvanquished - a historic, patriotic and modern capital. Conceptand design Leszek Sosnowski Text Wladyslaw Bartoszewski Photo Adam Bujak First edition

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...