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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 year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of premature death of Marian Smoluchowski, an outstanding Polish physicist, a pioneer of the kinetic theory of matter currently known as statistical physics. On this occasion, we have published the volume containing: essays on Smoluchowski’s life and his contribution to science, translations into English of Marian Smoluchowski’s papers originally published...