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- Papers collected in this volume investigate several important issues in philosophy of language and linguistics, both traditional (such as the influences of analytic philosophy on language planning movements, or the concepts of truth and falsehood), and the most recent (including accounts of semantics and pragmatics of pejoratives and slurs; John MacFarlane’s views on disagreement; the status of Universal...
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- This monograph should be of interest to a wide range of readers because money, banks and business have been an integral part of history of all societies as well as an experience shared by each one of us. The book is divided into two parts - the more extensive part one comprises: - several texts that follow advancement of capitalist economy in 18th and 19thcentury Britain with all the concurrent developments...
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- Since the initial arrival of Spanish, French and English explorers, North America has stirred controversies, discussions and conflicting interpretations. A source of fascination for explorers, settlers and those in the Old World, the continent has, not surprisingly, generated many myths, fictions and stereotypes. The United States of America, the first independent country established on the continent,...
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- Crime and Punishment - a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist, philosopher and short story writer. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature. Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg, who formulates a plan to kill an unscrupulous...
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- The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain - a novella by Charles Dickens, an English writer who is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past. He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw's phantom twin and is "an awful likeness of himself...with his features,...
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- “Down and Out in Paris and London“ is a book by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities....
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- This book deals with selected issues of public economic law related to the state’s infl uence on the economy and its entities. This influence is particularly visible in the infrastructure sectors, including energy, telecommunications and postal services, as well as in the sector of providing medical services. Th rough legal norms, the state regulates and rations competitive relations in the economy,...
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- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel by Lewis Carroll, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Set six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum...
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- Przemysław Sobolewski Zbigniew Banaszczyk Beata Janiszewska Maria Boratyńska Witold Borysiak Leszek Bosek Marek SafjanThe publication presents several dozen judgements of European and constitutional tribunals and of Polish as well as foreign courts which relate to the main issues of the debate conducted in Poland nowadays. They illustrate current development trends that occur in Polish and European medical law and also reveal the complexity and intricacy of medical issues. Separate statements enclosed to some judgements...
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- “Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays“ is a book by George Orwell, an English novelist, essayist, and journalist. He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. “Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays“ is a collection of 9 essays and a number of articles written by George Orwell. The collection consists of these titles: Shooting an Elephant,...
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- The Honey Way is an educational and self-reflexive book for children of all ages about a teddy bear that embarks on a European tour initially in search for fun and freedom but soon to be confronted with timeless questions pertaining to his own existence. Stefan Potocki is an author of Polish stories for children who uses time and travel, as the teacher and its vehicle, to suggest a definition of what...
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- Zebrane w tomie eseje przestawiają różne sposoby interpretacji przestrzeni wiejskiej i miejskiej w wybranych tekstach literackich i materiale wizualnym. Autorzy monografii badają różne podejścia do miasta, przestrzeni miejskich, krajobrazu, wsi i topografii w brytyjskiej literaturze i kulturze XVIII i XIX wieku, proponując bardziej szczegółowy ogląd pojedynczych dzieł podejmujących tę tematykę. ...
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- In this edition of Romeo and Juliet you will find the original text of the play of William Shakespeare. The edition was annotated an illustrated. Thanks to this study guide you will discover the theme of ill-fated love, Shakespeare’s background, detailed biography and historical events that influenced Romeo and Juliet.
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- 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...
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- Embark on a journey into the enigmatic and eerie with "Blanche Bruyn and Other Extraordinary Stories." This enthralling anthology brings together the spine-chilling narratives of some of literature's most renowned masters, including Honoré de Balzac, Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe, and Andrzej Juliusz Sarwa. Each story in this collection is a brilliant foray into Gothic horror,...
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- "This volume is respectfully dedicated to Professor Tadeusz Majda, a renowned scholar in the fields of Oriental Studies and Art History. His numerous publications attest to his preeminent scholarly standing. But it is not the high number of his books and articles that alone mark him as a true teacher and a man of knowledge. It is the position he holds among his learned colleagues; the intense interest...
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- The essays collected in the volume cover a wide selection of texts representing different genres, literary currents and ideological perspectives to offer diverse interpretative insights into the cultural significance of travel and foreignness in British writing of the nineteenth century. Taken together, they aptly display the complexity of attitudes towards the Other as well as the diversity of textual...
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- The book titled „Security in the 21st Century Technologies and Protection Strategies” was written in English by the author. It provides a comprehensive exploration of modern security challenges and the advanced technologies that have been developed to address them. The author examines various protection strategies, integrating physical and digital security measures, and discusses how the rapid evolution...
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- This is a selection of methods in magic and sketches in heathen theology that were found effective over the years. It is not an absolute course, but a supplement to Occultosophia, and is intended to contain practical methods with which one can easily get started. It is intended for an intelligent practitioner who is a beginner. Magick is an art of virtuosity. It is a personal religion and set of tools...
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- This monograph focuses on the ever topical issues of work, enterprise and career in the English language, literature and culture. Its first part is devoted to language studies and analyses the metaphors of work in the English translation of the Polish Kodeks pracy, the functioning of modal expressions in the UK's Employment Rights Acts of 1996, and the problems that legal terms and expressions pose...
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