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This book examines poverty in Poland during the transition to capitalism and in the decade that followed through the lives of women in disadvantaged post-industrial urban neighborhoods. It searches for the causes that drive and maintain poverty in changes in industrial relations, welfare regimes, and family structures and relations.

This volume contains revised and updated editions of articles by Andrzej Krzanowski coming from different periods of his forty-year-long research activities in Peru, from the first expedition to the Huaura Valley up to the most recent research on the Central Coast. Krzanowski is the first Pole to have conducted archaeological research in the Andes and led the 1978¿1987 Polish Scientific Expedition to the Andes, which carried out interdisciplinary research (archaeology, geography, ethnography) on settlements in the high mountain region of Huaura-Checras. Since 2009, he has been focusing on pre-Columbian fortifications on the Peruvian Central Coast.

Between Prometheism and Realpolitik explores Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Soviet relations following the Treaty of Riga of March 1921. A Polish-Soviet cold war broke out on front including Ukraine and the Ukrainian question. Jan Jacek Bruski addresses the first, crucial phase of this Polish-Soviet tussle.

Henryk Glebocki offers a new analysis of the Polish-Russian conflict in imperial Russia. He considers interactions among Russian public opinion, imperial policy, and the Polish conflict's impact on Russian political ideas, especially their relationship to the Polish national movement and the effect of the Polish question on their evolution.

?The spiral of global dependency created by China calls for a comparative approach that draws upon local perspectives in every region of the world. The contributors to this volume analyze the similarities and relations between China and Central and Eastern European countries. These articles demonstrate the similarities in processes of transformation in both regions, and they address the challenges of socio-cultural and economic developments that have occurred in China and the Central and Eastern Europe countries.

In recent years, there has been intensive development of the Polish civil aviation sector, especially regional airports. Effective growth requires a diagnosis of their competitiveness in today's turbulent passenger transport market. The book compares regional airports in Poland with competitive European ports. It uses econometric analysis to model regional airport competitiveness, which is applicable to practical management of modern airports. The book also analyzes possible directions of the growth of Polish airports, taking into account the current economic and political situation as well as forecasts for passenger transport sector development.