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New Media Behind the Iron Curtain. Cultural History of Video Microcomputers and Satellite Television in Communist Poland – ebook
Piotr Sitarski Maria B. Garda Krzysztof Jajko
During the years of the Polish People’s Republic, Poles were cut off from the western world. Travel was restricted, as was access to out- side culture and goods. This unique situation led to a period of great ingenuity in the realm of new media. Not only were media adapted to suit Poles’ needs, but new technology was fashioned to gain access to western television, film and video games. Bringing people...Data dostępności:
Between Crisis and Innovation - European Policies Through National and Transnational Perspectives – ebook
Krzysztof Łobos Peter Schiffauer
Does the global economic and financial crisis put European integration into question or does it rather constitute a challenge and an opportunity for the European Union to innovate both economically and politically and to become an actor in global policy that is capable to ensure sustainable development? Deepened academic studies of the European integration process show in an exemplary manner how the...Data dostępności:
Muhammad and the Origin of Islam in the Byzantine-Slavic Literary Context. A Bibliographical History – ebook
Zofia A. Brzozowska Mirosław J. Leszka Teresa Wolińska
The presented publication is a type of bibliographic dictionary, compiled by an interdisciplinary team of authors (Byzantynists and Paleoslavists), containing an overview of medieval texts referring to the person of Muhammad, the Arabs, and the circumstances of the birth of Islam, which were known in the Slavia Orthodoxa area (especially in its eastern part, i.e. in Rus’). Therefore, it presents the...Data dostępności:
Participatory Social Work: Research, Practice, Education – ebook
Mariusz Granosik Anita Gulczyńska Małgorzata Kostrzyńska Brian Littlechild
Participatory social work raises anew the issues of credibility of knowledge, processes of its creation and use, the purpose of social work, and its relationship to politics. It has given the impetus to the emergence of participatory research teams or, in the more radical viewpoints, to the gradual de-academization of both the empirical and theoretical aspects of social work. In this book we focus...Data dostępności:
The Bulgarian State in 927-969. The Epoch of Tsar Peter I – ebook
Mirosław J. Leszka Kirił Marinow
Tsar Peter (927-969), the book’s protagonist, is all too frequently presented in modern scholarship as a weak ruler, devoid of any grander political aspirations, focused on religious matters, indeed - pious, but neglecting the vital interests of his subjects. It was said that during his reign both his court and state became Byzantinised, that the central authority was completely helpless in the...Data dostępności:
Homes of the Homeless. A Study of Life in Crisis – ebook
Inga B. Kuźma
The book presents the image of home as experienced and expressed by the men and women who are affected by the crisis of homelessness and live in specialized institutions. The author presents her own experience in carrying out research in total institutions and, above all, she focuses on describing and interpreting the stories of people from homeless centers who speak about the ups and downs of...Data dostępności:
Controlled Foreign Companies (CFC) and Tax Avoidance: International and Comparative Perspectives with Specific Reference to Polish Tax and Constitutional Law EU Law and Tax Treaties – ebook
Błażej Kuźniacki
The lion's share of global investments are likely being conducted for tax avoidance purposes through controlled foreign companies (CFC) established in tax havens or low tax jurisdictions. Avoiding tax via CFCs causes several problems, in particular it: leads to the unfair and unbalanced taxation of income; may widen the gap between the poorest and the richest, which then further adversely affects...Data dostępności:
Administrative Proceedings in the Habsburg Succession Countries – ebook
Zbigniew Kmieciak
The book describes the evolvement and present state of administrative procedure law in nine European countries. The authors’ intention was to identify the differences and similarities in administrative procedures, the origins of which should be found in the solutions developed in times of the Habsburg Monarchy, primarily in the course of judicial activity of the Vienna Administrative Court. They became...Data dostępności:
Terrorism in the 21st century in the light of law – ebook
Dominika Dróżdż
This book explorers the most recent trends in terrorism in the 21th century. A central theme of this book is the in-depth analysis of the West with the risk from the Islamic State and Al-Quaida that could be seen for example in Paris and Brussels attacks; their strength is also seen in the ISIS territory. The Islamic State and Al-Quaida can loose their role in the war, but it seems that Al Quaida and...Data dostępności:
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Milk and Dairy Products in the Medicine and Culinary Art of Antiquity and Early Byzantium (1st-7th Centuries AD) – ebook
Zofia Rzeźnicka Maciej Kokoszko
The following publication constitutes a continuation of a longstanding research conducted by both authors on nourishment, dietetics, pharmacology and gastronomy in the Late Antiquity and early Byzantium. The book was created based primarily on Greek medical treatises composed from the 1 st to 7 th century, but it takes into account data that originates outside of this collection. The goal of the authors...Data dostępności:
Social Construction of Sex Work. Ethnography of Escort Agencies in Poland – ebook
Izabela Ślęzak
The book presents the social organization of escort agencies in Poland. The author focuses on analyzing the actions of female sex workers who are seen as active entities co-creating their working conditions. The author discusses the relationships between employees of the premises, namely the women providing sex services, the managers of the agencies and the security workers. Furthermore, she analyses...Data dostępności:
Overcoming Controversies in East Asia – ebook
Tomasz Kamiński
Controversies, sometimes bitter controversies, are an inherent element of international relations. Conflicting interests, different values, overlapping spheres of influences... all this make dispute settlement mechanisms crucial elements of international system. Searching for cooperation mechanisms that may help in overcoming existing controversies in Asia is the main topic of this monograph. ...Data dostępności:
Academic teachers under stress in the publish or perish era – ebook
Maciej Mitręga Anna Wieczorek
This book is dedicated to all scholars from all over the world that choose very difficult profession and struggle nowadays with "publish and perish" academic culture. The empirical study presented in the book focuses on academic teacher stress. We applied qualitative research design to identify stressors experienced by scholars employed at Polish universities. These stressors referred to such main...Data dostępności:
Lingüística hispánica en Polonia: tendencias y direcciones de investigación – ebook
Janusz Bień Beata Brzozowska-Zburzyńska Antonio M. López Gonzalez Wiaczesław Nowikow
El presente volumen contiene 25 artículos cuya publicación es fruto de la colaboración entre el Área de Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad Marie Curie-Skłodowska de Lublin, el Departamento de Filología Románica de la Universidad Católica de Lublin juan Pablo li, y el Departamento de Filología Española de la Universidad de Łódź. Lingüística hispánica en Polonia: tendencias y direcciones de investigación...Data dostępności:
Exploring the virtual world of learning across generations. Information and communications technology for the educational support of immigrant youth – ebook
Marcin Rojek Joanna Leek Petr Svoboda
The book addresses the issue of intergenerational learning in a virtual world created by information and communication technology (ICT) and the role of ICT in an educational environment. In order to discuss how ICT can be used as a means to prevent early school leaving among immigrant youth, this book explores the literature on how learning can be understood in the intergenerational context, the challenges...Data dostępności:
Richard Swineshead’s Theory of Motion – ebook
Robert Podkoński
Richard Swineshead’s short treatises (opuscula) on motion provide us with a direct insight into the successive stages in the fourteenth-century Oxford speculative, mathematical science of local motion not only token generally, but also with respect to the progress of this thinker’s scientific awareness and knowledge. Even though the dependence of these opuscula on his predecessors’ – William Heytesbury...Data dostępności:
African Heat – ebook
Renée Pascal
Monon is an actress on the threshold ofa career. On the day of the first of a significant theatre award happens suddenly something what breaks her world into small pieces. The pain of personal tragedy she trying to suppress in intensive work as a war correspondent… and not only. Transmissions journalistic and relationships from engulfed by chaos Libya are only a cover for a dangerous and full of puzzles...Data dostępności:
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Living in the Land of Ashes – ebook
Konstanty Gebert
Is there Jewish life in Poland after the Shoah? Should there be? How do present-day Polish Jews, children and grand-children of survivors, relate both to the wartime horrors and to the glorious history of Polish Jewry which preceded them? Do they feel comfortable living as a tiny minority in an overwhelmingly Catholic country? How do their Polish and Jewish identities interact? How did living for forty...Data dostępności:
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SMEs in Modern Economics. Selected Issues – ebook
Opracowanie zbiorowe
This book is devoted to the fascinating issues in small and medium size enterprises in contemporary economy. Although most of research and analyses concern Poland, the book is enriched by several foreign studies from Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Germany and the UK. A wide variety of problems is covered here, but since there exists a vast amount of aspects regarding SMEs, only major issues could...Data dostępności:
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Accounting. Recording and Firm Reporting as Source of Information for Users to Take Economic Decisions – ebook
Jolanta Gadawska
Accounting is a specific language in business. Mastering accounting regulations allows not only the maintaining of records of economic operations and their appropriate analysis, but also the creation of financial reports in accordance with international standards of accounting. In this publication we can find selected issues related to business accounting. The regulations put forward by the International...Data dostępności:
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