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The book addresses the twentieth century history and anthropology of Jews in Poland, as well as culture and literature pertaining to the Holocaust.

After a distinction between private religious visions and prophetic religious manifestations this book provides a deteiled description of the great Marian Apparitions in Guadalupe, La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugorje and Kibeho.

This volume offers a selection of essays on Catalan cultural studies that delves into the history and language of the Catalan-speaking lands. A combination of novel approaches from the literary, linguistic and educational fields contribute to offering a view of the Catalan-speaking lands in contemporary research trends.

Convention and Contravention in Ben Jonson's Three Comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair aims to explain comedy, carnival, laughter, and satire in Jonson's selected plays, and what it means to deceive as well as to be deceived in Jonson's world of drama.

The contributions to this volume focus on contemporary cinematic productions, literary works and testimonies of popular culture in Western Societies telling of a very present triangulation: money and crime in times of neoliberalism.

The book deals with the changes in the field of communication with the Coronavirus epidemic. The content of the book, in which the reflections of the epidemics, which have been the subject of novels and films throughout history, in literature and cinema are also discussed, the effects of the epidemic which became a reality as of March 2020.

This book reveals the value of pirate radio, with a special focus on local radio stations that broadcast illegally in Poland and other countries from the region in the early 90s. The analysis of the sources supports the conclusion that, although the pirates left a lasting legacy, they lost out in the licensed regime driven by market logic.

The book is devoted to "contraband" literature from the USSR that was first published abroad over the Soviet period. The volume explores tamizdat as a literary practice and political institution from a variety of perspectives and situates it in the context of its domestic counterparts: gosizdat and samizdat.

The study analyzes the factual and fictional elements in three novels by Joyce Carol Oates. The innovative genre used, which separates itself from previous similar forms of fact writing, aims to give a new voice to females who died in mysterious circumstances, and to provide a criticism of contemporary American society and its treatment of women.

All papers of this edition give an opportunity for reflection on the chances, challenges and difficulties associated with the long-term transformation of higher education and scientific activities. Therefore, the concept of "scientific excellence" has been perceived as a guiding idea in the academics' efforts.

All texts in this volume give an opportunity to reflect in-depth on the opportunities, challenges and difficulties associated with the continuous transformation of higher education and scientific activities. In this context, the concept of "scientific excellence" has been perceived as a guiding idea in the scholars' efforts.

The book is integrating articles from the field of learning disabilities. It is reflecting new aspects of trauma, resilience and coping with stress. In the last chapter are articles about violence, peace building and disaster management.

The volume aims to offer a broader outlook on the last five hundred years of Anglo-Iberian relations, often reduced to cliched binaries and largely limited to normative voices. The chapters deal with relatively little-known Anglo-Iberian events and figures. They seek to look beyond persistent ideological biases to foster mutual understanding.

The authors reveal the essential connection of well-whishing and charitable acts with the interior structure of persons. The moral education and realisation of students are inevitably linked to establishment of authentic friendly relationships.

The volume explores the various 'labyrinths' of Leibniz's philosophy, i.e. hard-to-solve problems in which the human mind in entangled. In addition to the two well-known mazes of freedom and continuum, the authors examine other issues collected in mazes of theodicy, consciousness and absolute and relative differences.

This book investigates administrative reports prepared in the EU and national settings. The multidimensional genre analysis situates administrative reports among other reports, accounts for the context of their production and use, and investigates their macrostructure, lexico-grammatical patterns and multimodality.