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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.

This book examines memory of the Holocaust among young Poles, including the attitudes toward Jews and the Holocaust in comparative context. It focuses on grassroots action, often initiated by local civil society organizations or individual teachers or students.

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.

This book is a collection of six papers on selected issues in teaching Arabic as a foreign language, and the many methodological challenges connected with the specificity and complexity of the sociolinguistic situation in the Arab world.

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.

The world is standing on the very edge of the fastest industrial revolution ever. A revolution which will rapidly increase the efficiency of many production processes. Automation (both mechanical and the one happening with computer processes) will reduce the demand for human work and release a huge amount of time we can use for further development. Industry 4.0 has been a buzz word recently. It is about interconnecting devices and giving them the possibility to making autonomous decisions. It is certainly a way of increasing efficiency of production, but it will also have impact on the facilitation of other processes within the organization.At the same time, it is said that we are on the verge of an ecological catastrophe and that we have merely a few years before irreversible climate changes may endanger the future of our species. Some say, that the development of AI will solve most of our problems. We believe that the need for the activity of human beings will be even bigger.

The aim of this study is to provide an overview of research findings on the acquisition and use of articles in English as a second language, investigated from a phraseological perspective. It also presents an examination of various linguistic accounts of the English article system with respect to their application to English language teaching.

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 main topic of this book is how to argue for formal epistemic norms of credence. Leszek Wronski advocates formal justificational pluralism, suggesting the use of various formal tools in arguments for synchronic and diachronic norms.

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?

Andrzej Szczerski examines how artists responded to the post-1989 transition to democracy and a free market economy and proposed directions for these transformations to take, as well as their role in shaping remembrance of the communist era.

Oceania, the islands located in the Pacific Ocean that are a part of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, has become increasingly important in international affairs. The politics, economics, history, and culture of the states of Oceania are an essential piece in the global puzzle of the twenty-first century.

This book considers migration to Europe in terms of the role adult civic education can play in the integration of newcomers with host communities. It contrasts Germany, Poland, and Ukraine, each of which saw different forms of migration and reactions to it.

This book considers the presence of language aggression in postclassical Roman law. It seeks out particular ideologically charged terms in the relevant articles of law, focusing on those who are regarded as enemies of the state.

This book describes a new paradigm in social sciences, contemplative inquiry. Deep contemplation of a situation is an epistemological choice for social scientists. It is a fundamentally different approach to research, whereby the investigator is researching not only the object but also the situation of research and herself/ himself in it.

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 collective monograph offers new cross-national insight into participatory social work as well as discussion of its barriers and side effects. Prepared by an international team of researchers, it seeks to help further reflection on the implications and consequences of conducting research and practice in participatory manners.

This book presents an analysis of the social organization of escort agencies in Poland. Izabela Slezak analyzes the interactions between sex workers and their clients as well as the relationships among the women providing sex services, their employers, and security workers.

This book is an attempt to diagnose the condition of (post-)modern comparative literature and to formulate its role in the media society in a multicultural world. Andrzej Hejmej reviews the current situation of an ¿indiscipline¿ in the widest possible perspective, taking into account both the first concepts from the nineteenth century, including proposals from the French comparative literary scholars, Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, and the institutional work of H. Von Meltzl, as well as the latest concepts from the comparative literary scholars from Western Europe and the U.S.The history of the formation of the main trends of comparative literary studies is explained through the use of metaphors: the Eiffel Tower, the World Trade Center, and the Tower of Babel. Tackling a variety of proposals from comparative literature scholars as well as proposals from researchers into intermedial and intercultural phenomena leads us to a new look at comparative literature and comparative literary studies. As a result, Hejmej understands modern comparative literature not so much as a further extension of the institutional dimension but more as an interpretative practice embedded in everyday life. This intercultural perspective opens new horizons for comparative literary studies in the twenty-first century.