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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 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 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 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.

Neben seinen Großwerken hat Alexander von Humboldt (1769¿1859) auch ein umfangreiches publizistisches ¿uvre veröffentlicht: über 750 verschiedene Aufsätze, Artikel, Essays in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften und als Beiträge zu den Werken anderer Autoren. Rund 40 davon sind auch in russischer Sprache erschienen, vor allem im Anschluss an Humboldts Reise durch Zentral-Asien 1829. Es handelt sich um eine Erzählung, Reiseberichte und Briefe sowie Fachaufsätze zum Beispiel zur russischen Geologie. Sie werden in dieser Edition erstmals gesammelt und nach den historischen Originalen wiedergegeben.

The book covers the life of Piotr Michalowski, the most outstanding painter of Polish Romanticism. After the fall of the anti-Russian uprising, he left behind his career as a technocrat and pursued the arts. This change is documented by the sketchbook he kept in January 1832 which the authors analyze, delving into its deeper structure.

The monograph presents the Polish history of haiku and the forms associated with the genre - in literature and visual arts. Polish works are confronted with Japanese poetry (along with its aesthetic and philosophical contexts) and with haiku-inspired works of different Western authors. The book also touches upon various translatological problems.