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The book deals with the Jewish presence in the first half of the 20th century in two cities - Warsaw and Berlin. The analyzed and described material consists of literary works of selected authors. Particular attention was paid to the formation of modern Jewish identities in both capitals.

The book provides the first comprehensive study of love and ethics in late medieval poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer, James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. It shows how the ideas on love, virtue, and human well-being were disseminated between England and Scotland and adjusted to meet cultural changes.

The book offers a view of literary text translation as a reconstruction of the non-standard linguistic worldview embedded in that text, and emerging from the standard, conventional worldview in a given language and culture. Using a metaphor of two icebergs, this thesis is by analyses of English translations of two poems by Wislawa Szymborska.

This book offers a pragmatic approach to bridging the gap between the humanities and business studies. Based on a critical reading of disciplinary cultures, the book analyses historical and contemporary U.S. business literature. Practical examples help the reader translate leadership tools for application-oriented humanities in the digital age.

Studies on the distinguished works of English and American Literature of various genres like poetry, plays and fiction are included in this book. The book focuses on and around the central themes of "marginalisation, discrimination, isolation and existence."

Das Verständnis von Liebe und Partnerschaft hat sich unter den Bedingungen der Spätmoderne verändert: Durch Digitalisierung, Globalisierung und die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz von alternativen Lebensmodellen erscheint der Möglichkeitsraum der Liebe unendlich ausgedehnt. Auf diese Veränderung reagiert auch die Literatur. Der vorliegende Band verbindet spieltheoretische Ansätze (von Kant bis Baudrillard) mit (post-)modernen Liebeskonzeptionen (vor allem von Niklas Luhmann, Roland Barthes und Eva Illouz), um einen Blick auf die Auseinandersetzung mit den Geschlechterbeziehungen in der Gegenwartsliteratur zu werfen. Er geht der These nach, dass die Liebe unter den Bedingungen der Spätmoderne ein Phänomen ist, das sich mit Schlüsselkategorien der Spieltheorie adäquat erfassen lässt.

This publication focuses on the characterization of the Slovak party system and its analysis from the perspective of cleavages and emerging government groups. The monograph also includes a description of the individual types of emerging government coalitions and their politological analysis on the basis of the RILE index (right - left positioning).

This book collects research on the Western European Masorah and addresses the question of how Ashkenazic scholars integrated the Oriental Masorah into the Ashkenazic lore and law. It addresses philological and art-historical topics and provides new methodological tools from the field of digital humanities for the analysis of masora figurata.

This book presents new questions, methods and approaches in Humanism of young researchers participated in the Inter-/Trans-/Unidisciplinary Methods-Techniques-Structures conference. The authors shed new light on works of literature, foreign cultures and languages of the world by adopting broad perspectives and using various methods.

This volume presents new questions, methods and approaches in Humanism by promoting scholarly work of young researchers who participated in the Inter-/Trans-/Unidisciplinary Methods - Techniques - Structures conference in Warsaw, Poland.

This book analyses the promises and challenges of doctoral studies as a form of teacher professional development. Drawing on a study of 30 Polish teachers with PhDs, this text suggests that the doctorate is an important vehicle for enhancing teachers' knowledge and research skills, and, ultimately, building a research-rich teaching profession.

This book tells thestory of 64 Circassian families who during the Kosovo conflictin 1989/99 migrated from the Field of Blackbirds to the Republic ofAdygheya in the Russian North Caucasus, their historical "homeland". It focuseson the identification process among the Kosovo Circassians before andafter this migration.

This book examines the socio-professional background of the clergy in Transylvania, between 1848 and 1918, with a view to offering a comprehensive perspective on the clerical profession across various religious denominations.

The book introduces a framework for examining the validity of tests that aim to assess second-language proficiency development over time and/or in relation to second-language instruction. The book reports the findings of a longitudinal study that examined the sensitivity to change of a test of second-language proficiency development.

An educational vision implies the idea of an educational image (Bildsamkeit) and the idea of the evolution and humanization of society(ies). Visions can be regarded as non-educational in the sense of stepping back from far-reaching, even dogmatic demands.

El objetivo de esta obra es doble: por una parte, otorgar a las formulas de saludo y de despedida -poco estudiadas hasta ahora- un lugar destacado en la investigacion linguistica y, por otra, analizar su funcionamiento sincronico y diacronico en varias lenguas romanicas.

Cultural Studies of Drink. Drink, Alcohol and the Work of Cultural Representation. Alcohol (ab)use as a means of inspiration or artistic blockage. Writers and Alcohol. Life writing. Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Lawrence Osborne, Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Brendan Behan, Terence Rattigan, Eugene O'Neill, John Niven

The book is a scientific monograph, based on a natural experiment on cognitive, emotional and social functioning during the year-long isolation of 21 winter hounds at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station. The presented results are unique due to the longitudinal nature and high frequency of the research conducted.

The aim of the book is to refute the claim that God's omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence on the one hand and the existence of evil on the other are together inconsistent.