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- Summary: You are in England, the 19th and 20th centuries. You witness a murder, you would witness. But first of all you should know who, and why had to kill an innocent person: a young woman with a child. When every suspicion is incriminating her husband, a former soldier, he becomes fated to go through his own ordeal. However, in the end, is he truly guilty? Or maybe their torments were all in va...
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- La Santa Muerte, Most Holy Death, Angel of Death, Bony Lady, Archangel of Light, Holy Death, la Flaquita, la Niña Blanca, Our Holy Lady, The Most Beautiful Girl, Mother Death, White Rose. Many people can easily see the growing popularity of la Santa Muerte. The number of Her images is amazing - a skeleton dressed in feminine robes holding a scythe in one hand and the globe in the other, covered...
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- Everything you wanted to know about Poland but didn't have a chance to ask about. You will get acquainted with many less or more grotesque situations the author witnessed or took part in, jokes, opinions and pieces of conversations she heard. The book does not include observations only. You may find many interesting pieces of information taken from scientific literature weaved into the text. The...
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- The monograph focuses on current issues and refers to the latest EU directives and Polish law on consumer protection. The Authors provide legal analyses not only of system-wide issues, but also examine specific legal acts and regulatory approaches currently in force in markets of foremost concern to consumers, i.e. foodstuffs, tourism services, and financial services. As a result, the reader has an...
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- Heritage can often be difficult, as best evidenced by the former Auschwitz concentration camp or the Palace of Culture and Science. In Poland, however, the most problematic is the heritage left behind by the Third Reich. The complexity of this issue is demonstrated in the latest book by the International Cultural Centre. It also provides the most complete, often surprising, overview of these "badly...
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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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- The Warsaw Voice Magazine - The English - language guide to events in Poland. Provide our readers with the reliable and objective news on Poland and Central Europe. Magazine publishes news features, interviews, reports and analysis on politics, business and economy. Our readers also learn about interesting opportunities to spend their free time in Warsaw and find advice where to take a weekend trip....
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- This book is a collection of some of Konrad’s reviews and writings. The collection is divided into two parts, primarily the sections „Letters”, its reviews. The second section is called Life, but this is only true in a limited sense. It contains Conrad’s views on some of the pressing political issues of the day. They range from the Russo-Japanese War and the question of the independence of Poland to...
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- Prince Roman is a Pole who relinquishes his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as an unknown soldier, resisting Russian oppression. In captivity, he has every opportunity to avoid punishment, but he declares his unconditional commitment to the liberation of Poland. As a result, he suffers a quarter century in the imperial equivalent of the Gulag – Siberian mines in the ninth century,...
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- Though dated stylistically, this novel has the makings of a decent movie thriller. The story takes place between the Anschluss, the Nazi takeover of Austria, March 1938, and the invasion of Poland in September 1939. A wealthy Jewish banker, philanthropist, and art collector is forced to flee Vienna to avoid imprisonment by the Nazi’s. He disappears on the night the Germans march into Austria, and his...
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- An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, which states that some Jews in Eastern Europe took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1,000 concentration camps in Poland for German civilians. The book provides details of the imprisonment of 200,000 Germans „many of them starved, beaten and tortured” and estimates that „more than 60,000 died at the hands...
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- Textbook is an attempt to present the history of Poland’s state system and law from the earliest times up to the present. Generally speaking, this publication is intended for Polish students who are studying law in English. It also attempts to popularize the history of Poland’s law abroad and it is the first work of this kind in Poland available in English. This will help to bring the subject-matter...
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- The editorial series Freshwater Fauna of Poland has existed since 1935. Up to now 22 volumes (in Polish) have been published, treating both vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Particular volumes contain rich general data concerning described taxa and detailed information on species, genera, families and orders. Integral parts of all volumes are identification keys. Thanks to such a way of presentation,...
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- 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...
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- After life imprisonment was reinstated as a penalty in Poland, 304 murderers were sentenced between 19 November 1995 and 31 December 2011. In this monograph, the authors present the results of their own research conducted between 2012 and 2017. The research involved: a criminological analysis of aggravated homicides and their perpetrators; an analysis of the judicial dimension of life imprisonment;...
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- 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...
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- „(...) The issue of the work is embedded in the mainstream of modern capital practice management in the hospitality industry. The author of the work, in a consequent managerial approach, focused her attention on the importance of employee innovation, human capital profitability and estimation of its added value in hotel strategic development. The work provides answers to the fundamental questions...
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- Prawo pracy jest jedną z dziedzin prawa, którą można nazwać wysoce „umiędzynarodowioną". Standardy krajowych porządków prawnych z zakresu prawa pracy mogą mieć dość uniwersalny charakter. W przypadku polskiego prawa pracy, pomimo pewnych podobieństw do innych krajów, nie zatraciło ono swojej oryginalności, i za sprawą takich czynników lokalnych jak historia czy też własna kultura i myśl prawna, wciąż...
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- The publication presents the results of research completed within the ‘Coins of the Roman Republic in Central Europe’ project implemented at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. The author discusses the coins of the Roman Republic found in East-Central Europe north of the Sudetes and the Carpathian mountains (the territories of Poland, western Belarus and western Ukraine) – issues from...
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- Discover Polish Host Cities during the European Football Championship 2012 with „Euro Know How – A Guidebook to Euro and More”! "We can do it and we are proud of it!", "We are proud of what we are creating!", "Because there are people who are worth being admired!" – these are the mottos underlying the creation of the Euro Know How guidebook – a lifestyle album about the four Polish host cities where...
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