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The book focuses on the Polish social policy in the period 1918-1939, its contextual (historical, organisational, conceptual, financial) conditionings, the institutions, and primarily on the practical activities. The subject matter scope of the research covers labour and employment issues, social insurance, social welfare and health care system.

The present collection comprises chapters dedicated to figure of Rome as an Arcadia-city: like ideal consular roads, the included papers develop into varied thematic branches: they pass through Poland, England, Greece, Russia - extending from the ancient Rome to the 20th century.

A hopeless individual is more vulnerable and is threatened with indifference, meaninglessness, anxiety, and despair. Are there symptoms of this in the West? Is it an individual phenomenon or has it been historically and culturally transmitted? This book analyzes how hope contributes to forming a healthy and responsible identity. But, what hope?

This book attempts a profile of literary Salem by analyzing recurring themes and motifs such as real estate conflicts, the infamous afflicted girls, Salem's metaphorical significance in politics, the motif of ancestry tracing, the re-appropriation of the witch as a figure of female empowerment, and the fear of history repeating.

This book presents a purposeful didactic intervention aiming to develop information competence in translation students. The study findings may be particularly useful for translation teachers and professional translators who want to improve their web search expertise.

The book presents a linguo-cultural picture of traditional values reflected in Anglo-American and Polish proverbs. The paremiological analysis carried out from a contrastive perspective provides additional evidence supporting the claim about the existence of distinct axiological differences specific only to a given linguo-culture.

Esta obra presenta una novedosa taxonomia para la categorizacion de los errores ortograficos en zonas de contacto linguistico, disenada a partir de la combinacion del analisis contrastivo entre la ortografia del ingles y del espanol con los errores detectados en Gibraltar para comprobar como el contacto linguistico se ve reflejado en la ortografia.

Based on the ethnographic method, this volume offers analytical insights into the workings of agency in late industrialism, revealed in interactions between a power plant and a local community in Opole, Silesia, in southwestern Poland. Political, economic, ethnic, gender, and mobility issues are examined through the prism of various scales.

Memories, which are subjective reconstructions of past events, reflect collectively constructed "truths" about the surrounding world, and, thus, contribute to the further construction of the image or interpretation of the past and the present. This book focuses on the topic of memory in the Middle and Far Eastern societies.

This book investigates the ways and the degree in which bilingualism affects language, cognitive and narrative abilities in bilingual children. The results of the research reveal the significance of biliteracy in the above areas. The book also provides research observations and classroom implications of the finds or the research.

The book describes an empirical study into the involvement of secondary school learners in the production of two happenings. It took the form of particpatory action research and used a research strategy based upon bricolage and the rhizome. The data showed learners were actively involved in the happening project, unlike their school lessons.

This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical critique. Special attention is given to matters of politics and gender.

En esta obra se expone un programa básico sobre la observación, la enseñanza y la representación del conocimiento geográfico. Un curso de Geografía promovido por Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, principal representante de la Ilustración española, para quien la Geografía era una ciencia útil (para la economía y la política) y una ciencia necesaria (para la vida).

State intervention in economic activities to drive development requires specificinstitutional prerequisites that maintain strategic collaboration between thestate and businesses.

The book examines the early modern debates on just war, transatlantic conquest and slavery, the 18th- and 19th-century shift towards natural science, and contemporary philosophy on decolonization. Political circumstance and exploiting available terminology produced new meanings or "translations" which increasingly developed a momentum of their own.