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Unknown lutsk karaim letters in hebrew script (19th–20th centuries)
The work presents – as far as is now possible – the language spoken by Lutsk Karaims in the second half of the 19th and in the first two decades of the 20th centuries. This is attempted by means of editing eleven private letters and five open letters written in Lutsk Karaim – with Hebrew interpol...
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Twentieth-century models of the theatrical work
The book offers the reader a clear model of reflection on a work of theater art and on the consequences and achievements of contemporary theatrical autonomism.
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Religion and politics in the greco-roman world
Papers published in this volume are dealing with different aspects of relations between politics and religion in the Mediterranean world in period from IV c. B.C. to III c. A.D. In individual papers are discussed and interpreted various examples of interference of politics, philosophy, and religi...
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Management by values
?This book demonstrates the significance of values in organizational management. It depicts differences between various types of organization, including joint stock companies, other trading companies, and non-commercial enterprises. The book emphasizes the role of values in the formation of organ...
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Management accounting innovations
A growing number of companies are implementing modern cost accounting systems, such as activity-based costing (ABC). This book analyzes the general development and diffusion of ABC and its effect on Polish companies. It analyzes ABC literature in Polish journals and its implementation, structure,...
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The plurality of realities
The Plurality of Realities contains four texts by Leon Chwistek that deal with his original philosophical conception called the theory of plurality of realities. This collection is essential not only for understanding the full-fledged version of Chwistek’s conception but also for surveying its de...
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Zx spectrum demoscene
This book describes three phenomena in digital media. Firstly, it concerns the 8-bit personal computer ZX Spectrum produced by the British company Sinclair Research since 1982. As a publication about a specific platform, it falls into the mainstream category of platform studies and it pays specia...
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Studies on the iranian world
Today, the Iranian world, which encompasses the whole Persian-speaking and culturally "Persianate" region, including Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Tajikistan, parts of Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, is a geopolitically sensitive region. But it is also a distinct cultural area with a rich and...
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The sacred and film
This book about the transcendent cinema of Darren Aronofsky takes the reader on a journey through the selected filmography of this outstanding American director.
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Justiniana prima
The book explores the history of Justiniana Prima, a city built by Emperor Justinian I (527-565) in his birthplace near Niš in present-day Serbia. Previous studies focused on determining the city's location, underestimating the significance of analyzing written sources for the reconstruction of t...
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Reading comprehension in polish and english
This book is about reading. Throughout the book, the author explains the complexity of the dual-language involvement of FL/L2 reading by showing how L1 and FL/L2 factors interplay in FL/L2 reading. The main aim of the book is to explore reading in English in the foreign/second language context as...
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Social construction of sex work
This book presents an analysis of the social organization of escort agencies in Poland. Izabela Ślęzak analyzes the interactions between sex workers and their clients as well as the relationships among the women providing sex services, their employers, and security workers.
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In good form
The main topic of this book is how to argue for formal epistemic norms of credence. Leszek Wroński advocates formal justificational pluralism, suggesting the use of various formal tools in arguments for synchronic and diachronic norms.
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Progress in latin america (in the post-covid reality)
This book addresses questions about the lessons learned by Latin American countries and societies from the pandemic.
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The latin -iēs/ia inflection
The monograph concerns the origin of the Latin -iēs/-ia inflection, the topic which to this day has not been explained satisfactorily. The proposal presented in the book allows for the most economic solution to the problem without difficult assumptions which were present in the previous hypothese...
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Media in china, china in the media
Mass media play a significant role in the production and reproduction of identities and lifestyles, values and world-views. They also convey information about the world we live in, as they reflect elements of the broader context within which they come into being. This volume, the first on this to...
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The process of sme growth
This book contributes to the emerging research on the growth process of firms, with a focus on the expansion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A comprehensive approach to the issue of small firm growth draws upon empirical findings of the characteristics and economic importance of hig...
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Theater in the face of war
This book aims to commemorate and honor people and events in Polish and Ukrainian theater at a time when people-to-people solidarity is especially important and should rise above nationalistic prejudices, historical resentments or political interests.
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Anthropology as social critique
This book contains chapters based on presentations and debates that were held during a panel session entitled “Anthropology as Opinion-Maker: A Dilemma of Analysis versus Application” as part of the “Anthropology in the World” conference in London (June 8–10, 2012). The aim of this book is to dis...
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Participatory social work
This collective monograph offers new cross-national insight into participatory social work as well as discussion of its barriers and side effects. Prepared by an international team of researchers, it seeks to help further reflection on the implications and consequences of conducting research and ...
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Contemporary arab world
This book is a collection of six papers on selected issues in teaching Arabic as a foreign language, and the many methodological challenges connected with the specificity and complexity of the sociolinguistic situation in the Arab world.
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Direction: future
Over the past two decades, in the wake of the postcommunist transition, the emergence of Romani activism has been an important development accompanying political changes in Central and Eastern Europe. This book discusses the emergence of the transitional Roma movement and the genesis of the Roma ...
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Microbial biotechnology in the laboratory and practice
This book examines fundamental issues in microbial biotechnology, such as microorganism culturing and uses in industry and environmental protection. It details modern analytical techniques, known as omics, as well as digital techniques used to record adverse changes in the environment resulting f...
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Aftermath
This volume’s twenty-three essays by international scholars revisit the notion and representation of aftermath, understood here as a consequence, result, or aftereffect of a seminal event (to an individual, a community, society, regions or nations), and explore its transformative and life-changin...
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Airport competitiveness
In recent years, there has been intensive development of the Polish civil aviation sector, especially regional airports. Effective growth requires a diagnosis of their competitiveness in today's turbulent passenger transport market. The book compares regional airports in Poland with competitive E...
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Romantic dialogues and afterlives
Contributors to this book examine Romantic writers’ responses to their contemporaries, explore their dialogues with the culture of the past, and their interactions across the arts and sciences. They also scrutinize the Romantics’ far-reaching influence, linking them with their predecessors and su...
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U.s.–latin american relations
U.S. – Latin American Relations is the next volume in Basic American Documents. It presents a collections of primary sources related to U.S. relations with the Latin American and Caribbean region. The selection of texts and documents seek to demonstrate a more modern and complicated history. Ther...
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Regenerative medicine for the treatment of urinary incontinence
This monograph addresses an innovative autologous muscle-derived stem cell therapy for urinary incontinence in women. It provides a detailed overview of studies and research projects on the use of stem cells for the treatment of urinary incontinence. It provides updated information about this con...
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The united states and the world
The effect of the conference is reflected in the contributions that follow in this volume and in the rich, interdisciplinary debate over the American impact on the world, integration in Pax Americana and patterns of integration in other parts of the world, different and/or similar approaches to c...
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Oceania
Oceania, the islands located in the Pacific Ocean that are a part of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, has become increasingly important in international affairs. The politics, economics, history, and culture of the states of Oceania are an essential piece in the global puzzle of the twenty-f...
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The dynamics of complexity, accuracy and fluency in second language development
?This book looks at the development of language skills in Swedish as a second language in young adults, beginning from the first months of their second language instruction and ending after three years of intensive language courses. The focus is on three proficiency dimensions: complexity, accura...
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Archaeology on medieval knights' manor houses in poland
The relics of medieval knights' manors still shape the landscape of Poland today. The anonymous hills contain the remnants of wooden buildings, sometimes ones of stone or brick, as well as numerous tiny artifacts, the trace of the households of the past. Called "grodziska stozkowate" (motte), unl...
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Developing the "sociology of ageing"
The book collects the most contemporary issues related to the process of ageing of societies in Central and Eastern Europe. The multiplicity of topics presented with the variety of theoretical and methodological approaches means that although it is a publication by many authors, it is a consisten...
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The "image-event" in the early post-9/11 novel
How can literature respond to a monumental event, unprecedented historically, politically, and culturally, whose memory will forever be inseparable from its mass media coverage? How can writers represent what Jean Baudrillard called an "image-event"? In particular, what form can they use to conve...
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Vocational interests of youth in ecuador
This methodologically sound psychometric tool has been handed to Ecuadorian psychologists and teachers as a guide in the career counselling field. The tool will have a significant impact on the democratization of youth, assisting them to make well-targeted choices when planning their education an...
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Central asia and iran
This volume contains 12 studies on political, social, economic, and religious aspects of the history of Central Asia and Iran in the period from the fourth century B.C.E. to the fifth century C.E. by leading specialists in the field. They interpret and reconstructing the region's past based on va...
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Crime without punishment
This book is an exploration of the scope and methods used by Germany in its extermination and Germanization policy aimed at Polish children in the years 1939 to 1945. The German leadership remained firmly convinced that the crimes they committed on children would never see the light of day.
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Prepositional network models
This book presents an ongoing debate in cognitive linguistics about the modelling of prepositional polysemy, known as "the story of over." Additionally, it discusses a Polish counterpart - "the story of za(-)" (a preposition and a verbal prefix). Its further aim is to reveal a deep divergence of ...
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Macedonian discourses
This book takes on critical problems in current Macedonistics, with a special emphasis on text linguistics and linguistics of discourse. It focuses on the language of modern Macedonian discourses, including scientific, political, parliamentary, and media, and on the Macedonian literary text and t...
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Anthropology and ethnology during world war ii
The volume presents a collection of texts describing research into the Sektion Rassen und-Volsktumsforschung of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO)—a Nazi-led institution established in occupied Poland during World War II. The research was carried out by anthropologists together with histor...
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The shields of the empire
This book reconstructs the involvement of the Eastern Roman military elite in various matters of the state during the reigns of the emperors Theodosius II, Marcian, and Leo I.
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Transcending traditions
Transcending Traditions is an attempt to systemise Thurayya AI-Baqsami's literary creativity as well as examining the significance of her artistic work.
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Dynamic capability-based approach to value appropriation
?Extant management literature provides a quite comprehensive picture of the dynamic nature of value creation, whereas value appropriation has received much less scholarly attention. The number of research works devoted to the complex issues of value receiving, protecting, and retaining is at the ...
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Faces of contemporary management
The faces of contemporary management relate to a vast range of methods directed at ensuring effectiveness in the functioning of organizations. This book discusses current research trends in management science in human resource management, corporate social responsibility, and contemporary manageme...
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Resilience and health
Resilience and Health presents a wide-ranging scientific dialogue on resilience issues interpreted in the following contexts: theoretical and philosophical, in the perspective of lifespan developmental psychology, the experience of chronic disease and disability, as well as in the family and soci...
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Words and dictionaries
This book is a collection of articles written in honor of Professor Stanislaw Stachowski, a distinguished linguist from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Stachowski is known both in Polish academic circles and to a wider world of scholars as an expert in Turkish, Balkan, and Slavonic linguis...
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Authors on authors
Among many types of life-writing genres that recently have not only become central to contemporary academic discourse, but also attracted wide readership, the biographical novel deserves special attention. Authors on Authors examines biographical-novel-about-a-writer--a sub-genre of biographical ...
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Media management
This book compares American and European media management systems, emphasizing both practical and theoretical implications for successful media organizations. Peter Drucker said the twenty-first century's most important resource would be information, and that, contrary to traditional economics, t...
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From cotton and smoke
This book considers the history of Łódź, a former textile hub now in central Poland, as one of confrontation with modernity. It presents a multifaceted portrait of twentieth-century urban experience beyond the metropolis.
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