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The 6th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics took place in Sandomierz from June 25 to July 2, 2016. The primary goal of each of our invited speakers was to give a series of lectures which – in a pedagogical way – introduced selected topics in modern statistical physics with the idea of arriving at open problems. The idea was to inspire the audience to make research related to presented topics. The...

The book presents the history of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition narrated from the anthropological-cultural perspective and based on extensive source material, which enabled the authors to explore the less known aspects of one of the most important music competitions in the world. It is worthy of note that the authors use extensive source material: quotations from press releases...

The book contains systematic critique of the traditionalist model’s historiographical assumptions concerning the Spartan alliances in the VI and V century BCE. First chapter is devoted to the critique of the sources. In the second chapter we look at three areas where the original impulse for the creation of a coherent, uniform alliance around Sparta has been sought: Sparta’s helot problem, relations...

The book contains the analysis of coin finds from the territory of present-day Ukraine and Belarus, but only those found outside the borders of the antique world, excluding the Greek and Roman towns in the Northern Black Sea Coast region. The key objective of the study (prepared within the Coins of the Roman Republic in Central Europe project implemented 2014–2017 at the Institute of Archaeology, University...