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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.

The monograph outlines the directions of evolution in management sciences, focusing on changes emerging in the environment and emphasizing the processes of adaptation and resilience building.

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.

A catalogue of works devoted to end-of-life themes. The volume consists of eleven articles arranged in four parts corresponding to a broad range of issues: law, ethics, philosophy, and cultural studies. The arrangement of the book is thus constructed around various perspectives upon which any reflection on death and dying must be based.

In the midst of the pandemic, the Jagiellonian University organized a series of lectures¿presented virtually and open to the general public¿in which eminent Polish scholars addressed the most crucial and tenacious issues of our times. This book presents the highlights of these lectures.

This book offers innovative readings of the motif of crisis as explored by twentieth- and twenty-first-century novelists, spanning personal and identity crisis, interpersonal relationships and family ties, and threats on a global scale.

This book is a collection of papers written in honor of Professor El¿bieta Mäczak-Wohlfeld on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. The chapters have been written by linguists affiliated with different universities in Poland and abroad, all of whom wish to pay tribute to her outstanding contribution to language contact scholarship.

Resilience is founded primarily on positive psychology and health psychology, but the theoretical construct is also present in interdisciplinary research perspectives: medicine, pedagogy, and sociology. The authors of this monograph pay attention to the aspect of the relationship of the individual with their social context.

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 successors across Europe and America.

During the years of the Polish People¿s Republic, Poles were cut off from the western world. This situation led to a period of great ingenuity in the realm of media. Coupling archival research with in-depth interviews, this book explores media behind the Iron Curtain, bringing to life the talent and determination of the PPR¿s new media pioneers.

This volume presents a selection of papers delivered at the 14th International Conference on English and American Literature and Language, an international event organized by the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The articles in the first volume revolve around the topics of literary and cultural studies.

Tsar Peter (927-969) is frequently presented in modern scholarship as a weak ruler, focused on religious matters. This book constructs a comprehensive and balanced view of Peter, his reign, and the role he played in the history of medieval Bulgaria.

This volume considers intellectuals within the social history of World War I. It offers a reflection on intellectuals' stance toward militarism and the outbreak of war. It examines their reactions, thoughts, and predictions and the ways in which they interpreted the meaning of the war, as well as how they saw the possibilities of the postwar era.

The essays included in this volume attempt to explain Shakespeare's continued popularity worldwide. How is it possible for works written with a quill over four hundred years ago by a man in ruffs and tights to resonate with the hearts and minds of contemporary recipients all over the world?

This book presents research on the temples founded by the Birla family in northern and central India. It examines the whole of the Birlas' sacral foundations, both their importance in the context of national art as well as their function in the social or political discourse on identity in pre-independence India.

The volume presents a collection of texts describing research into the Sektion Rassen und-Volsktumsforschung of the Institut fur Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO)-a Nazi-led institution established in occupied Poland during World War II. The research was carried out by anthropologists together with historians, sociologists, and physical anthropologists.

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 and career. The authors¿ study may be viewed as pioneering work, due to its consideration of the significant cultural and geographic regional differentiation among graduates from the Pacific coast, the Andes, the Amazon rainforest and the Galapagos Islands. Reaching to the classics of literature on the subject, the authors have performed a momentous work, which is the construction of a psychometric tool that will be helpful in diagnosing career interests in the entire population of Ecuadorian youth. Worth additional acknowledgement are the high reliability indicators of the career interests questionnaire conducted on a representative and large study group, as well as the defined psychometric accuracy of the scale. This publication makes a civilizational quantum leap in the education of Ecuadorian youth, guaranteeing them a career choice that corresponds to their interests and ambitions. This pioneering publication on the Polish and world markets confirms the fact that Polish psychologists have the capability to ¿export¿ the psychometric school of thought to the Latin American region, with all of the scientific, social and humanitarian consequences involved.