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Kaleidoscope of Poland. A cultural encyclopedia [Oscar E. Swan] Prolog

Polski dla obcokrajowców

W "Kaleidoscope of Poland" zawarta jest podstawowa, autentyczna wiedza o Polsce. Książka ta zadziwia szczegółowością i wielością detali dotyczących współczesnej kultury kraju. Czytelnik może błyskawicznie zorientować się kto jest kim w Polsce, a nawet poznać krajowych celebrytów. Wiele ustępów Kalejdoskopu mówi o bogatej historii Polski i Polaków, ich determinacji w walce o wolność, sile pozwalającej na przezwyciężanie trudności. Kalejdoskop to książka dla każdego, kto chce poznać Polskę i Polaków. Mariusz Siara, PROLOG Polish Language School, Kraków Książka ta jest pełna spostrzeżeń dotyczących mentalności polskiej. Jest absolutnym niezbędnikiem dla wszystkich, którzy chcą odwiedzić ten kraj, robić w nim interesy, albo po prostu zdobyć wiedzę o tym, co działo się w tej części świata przez wieki - wszystko to w niezwykle przystępny i przyjemny sposób. - Adam Zamoyski, (fragment wstępu) "Kaleidoscope of Poland" to bardzo czytelnie zorganizowany leksykon, składający się z krótkich artykułów dotyczących ważnych osobistości, miejsc, wydarzeń i osiągnięć ponad tysiącletniej polskiej historii i kultury. Wypełniony setkami wpisów i ilustracji stanowi przydatne i poręczne kompendium wiedzy, z którego korzystać można w domu, służyć może też świetnie jako uzupełnienie przewodnika turystycznego w czasie podróży albo jako pomoc w studiach językowych. Zapoznanie się z nim będzie przyjemnością dla każdego, kto jest zainteresowany Polską. Czy rzecz dotyczy bułeczek, czy rzeki Bug, Chopina albo Curie-Skłodowskiej

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Kaleidoscope of Poland. A cultural encyclopedia (Kalejdoskop) Prolog

Polski dla obcokrajowców / Poznajemy Polskę

W "Kaleidoscope of Poland" zawarta jest podstawowa, autentyczna wiedza o Polsce. Książka ta zadziwia szczegółowością i wielością detali dotyczących współczesnej kultury kraju. Czytelnik może błyskawicznie zorientować się kto jest kim w Polsce, a nawet poznać krajowych celebrytów. Wiele ustępów Kalejdoskopu mówi o bogatej historii Polski i Polaków, ich determinacji w walce o wolność, sile pozwalającej na przezwyciężanie trudności. Kalejdoskop to książka dla każdego, kto chce poznać Polskę i Polaków.Mariusz Siara, PROLOG Polish Language School, KrakówKsiążka ta jest pełna spostrzeżeń dotyczących mentalności polskiej. Jest absolutnym niezbędnikiem dla wszystkich, którzy chcą odwiedzić ten kraj, robić w nim interesy, albo po prostu zdobyć wiedzę o tym, co działo się w tej części świata przez wieki - wszystko to w niezwykle przystępny i przyjemny sposób.- Adam Zamoyski, (fragment wstępu)"Kaleidoscope of Poland" to bardzo czytelnie zorganizowany leksykon, składający się z krótkich artykułów dotyczących ważnych osobistości, miejsc, wydarzeń i osiągnięć ponad tysiącletniej polskiej historii i kultury. Wypełniony setkami wpisów i ilustracji stanowi przydatne i poręczne kompendium wiedzy, z którego korzystać można w domu, służyć może też świetnie jako uzupełnienie przewodnika turystycznego w czasie podróży albo jako pomoc w studiach językowych. Zapoznanie się z nim będzie przyjemnością dla każdego, kto jest zainteresowany Polską.Czy rzecz dotyczy bułeczek, czy rzeki Bug, Chopina albo Curie-Skłodowskiej

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30,00 zł

Język a komunikacja 24. Studies in American Language, Culture and Literature Tertium

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Seria "Język a komunikacja" W obliczu jednoczenia się Europy porozumiewanie się ponad podziałami politycznymi, kulturowymi i językowymi staje się potrzebą bodaj czy nie najważniejszą. "Tertium" , Krakowskie Towarzystwo Popularyzowania Wiedzy o Komunikacji Językowej powołane do życia przez grupę pracowników Wydziału Filologicznego Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w 1995 roku, wychodzi naprzeciw temu wyzwaniu. Społeczność akademickich filologów chciała dać impuls takim poczynaniom, które zainicjowałyby forum dyskusyjne na temat komunikacji językowej ponad podziałami na filologie, w szerokim środowisku, nie tylko krakowskim, lecz także ogólnopolskim. Troską pomysłodawców było, by rzetelne przemyślenia, ciekawe pomysły, sprawy budzące zainteresowanie, choć nie pozbawione naukowego zaplecza przybierały zarazem tak przystępną formę, by przysłowiowy przeciętny inteligent mógł bez trudu i nie bez przyjemności z nimi się zapoznać. A collection of papers dealing with language, culture, literature and politics. All of them concern issues which could be subsumed under the heading "American Studies". SPIS TREśCI: PREFACE J.FISIAK, P.CHRUSZCZEWSKI FACES OF LANGUAGE - Action Implicative Discourse Analysis Method as a New Approach to American Political Discourse M.BIENIEK - Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspects of Legitimization of the War-on-Terror P.CAP - President Bush’s Address to the Nation on U.S. Policy in Iraq: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach I.A.EL-HUSSARI - American English Dialectology. A Historical Survey R.KIM - Sport Announcers Talk. A Linguistic Analysis of Basketball Broadcast D.KSIĘŻARCZYK - On Universality of Slang Usage: Motives for Using Slang in English and Polish  M.WIDAWSKI - Proximisation Patterns for Linguistic Legitimisation A.E.WIECZOREK FACES OF CULTURE We Own the World N.CHOMSKY "We - the American ..." Speech Communities P.CHRUSZCZEWSKI Reference to Normality as a Way of Asserting Ingroup Membership. The Woodward Case in the Media  J.CHOVANEC "Spinning the thread/(t)s" around Images of Time C.CMECIU Seneca-Cayuga Tribal Dynamism and its Impact on Identity  (Selected Issues Based Mostly on the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma) M.R.ODELSKI FACES OF LITERATURE Vladimir Nabokov’s American Adventure M.GÓRSKA Ineffable Socialities in American Literature. A Preliminary Perspective J.SEMRAU Rediscovering America. Native American Spirituality in William Carlos Williams' and Gary Snyder's Poems  P.ZAZULA FACES OF POLITICS Warming up the Cold War. The United States through the Prism of a Polish 1952 Daily Newspaper - an Outline Proposal  A.KNAPIK The Policy of U.S. Presidents toward Poland 1956-1970 J.TYSZKIEWICZ

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Diplomatic History: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press

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Diplomatic history is the critical study of the management of relations between nation-states. Based on significant historical case studies - the American Revolution, the origins of the Great War and its aftermath, Versailles, the Iraq War, and diplomacy in the age of globalization - this book locates the universal role of diplomatic negotiation.

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Fascism: A Warning HarperCollins

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#1 New York Times BestsellerA personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of stateA Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, "is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have."The twentieth century was defined by the clash between democracy and Fascism, a struggle that created uncertainty about the survival of human freedom and left millions dead. Given the horrors of that experience, one might expect the world to reject the spiritual successors to Hitler and Mussolini should they arise in our era. In Fascism: A Warning, Madeleine Albright draws on her experiences as a child in war-torn Europe and her distinguished career as a diplomat to question that assumption.Fascism, as she shows, not only endured through the twentieth century but now presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II. The momentum toward democracy that swept the world when the Berlin Wall fell has gone into reverse. The United States, which historically championed the free world, is led by a president who exacerbates division and heaps scorn on democratic institutions. In many countries, economic, technological, and cultural factors are weakening the political center and empowering the extremes of right and left. Contemporary leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are employing many of the tactics used by Fascists in the 1920s and 30s.Fascism: A Warning is a book for our times that is relevant to all times. Written by someone who has not only studied history but helped to shape it, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past.

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116,67 zł

VANISHED KHANS AND EMPTY STEPPES A HISTORY OF KAZAKHSTAN From Pre-History to Post-Independence Silk Road Media

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The book opens with an outline of the history of Almaty, from its nineteenth-century origins as a remote outpost of the Russian empire, up to its present status as the thriving second city of modern-day Kazakhstan. The story then goes back to the Neolithic and early Bronze Ages, and the sensational discovery of the famous Golden Man of the Scythian empire. A succession of armies and empires, tribes and khanates, appeared and disappeared, before the siege and destruction in 1219 of the ancient Silk Road city of Otrar under the Mongol leader Genghis Khan. The emergence of the first identifiable Kazakh state in the sixteenth century was followed by early contacts with Russia, the country which came to be the dominant influence in Kazakhstan and Central Asia for three hundred years. The book shows how Kazakhstan has been inextricably caught up in the vast historical processes - of revolution, civil war, and the rise and fall of communism - which have extended out from Russia over the last century. In the process the country has changed dramatically, from a simple nomadic society of khans and clans, to a modern and outward-looking nation. The transition has been difficult and tumultuous for millions of people, but Vanished Khans and Empty Steppes illustrates how Kazakhstan has emerged as one of the world's most successful post-communist countries.

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How to Worship a King Creation House

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For centuries, the sea and those who sail upon it have inspired the imaginations of British musicians. Generations of British artists have viewed the ocean as a metaphor for the mutable human condition - by turns calm and reflective, tempestuous and destructive - and have been influenced as much by its physical presence as by its musical potential. But just as geographical perspectives and attitudes on seascapes have evolved over time, so too have cultural assumptions about their meaning and significance. Changes in how Britons have used the sea to travel, communicate, work, play, and go to war have all irresistibly shaped the way that maritime imagery has been conceived, represented, and disseminated in British music. By exploring the sea's significance within the complex world of British music, this book reveals a network of largely unexamined cultural tropes unique to this island nation. The essays are organised around three main themes: the Sea as Landscape, the Sea as Profession, and the Sea as Metaphor, covering an array of topics drawn from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first.Featuring studies of pieces by the likes of Purcell, Arne, Sullivan, Vaughan Williams, and Davies, as well as examinations of cultural touchstones such as the BBC, the Scottish fishing industry, and the Aldeburgh Festival, The Sea in the British Musical Imagination will be of interest to musicologists as well as scholars in history, British studies, cultural studies, and English literature. ERIC SAYLOR is Associate Professor of Musicology at Drake University. CHRISTOPHER M. SCHEER is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Utah State University.

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A to Z of Polish Cinema Scarecrow Press

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In 1902, scientist and inventor Kazimierz Proszynski made the first Polish narrative film, The Return of a Merry Fellow (Powrot Birbanta). Since then, the Polish film industry has produced a diverse body of work, ranging from patriotic melodramas and epic adaptations of the national literary canon to Yiddish cinema and films portraying the corrupted side of communism. Poland has produced several internationally known films, including Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy, A Generation (1955), Kanal (1957), and Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water (1962), and Andrzej Munk's The Passenger (1963). Often performing specific political and cultural duties for their nation, Polish filmmakers were well aware of their role as educators, entertainers, social activists, and political leaders. The A to Z of Polish Cinema fills the gap in film scholarship, presenting an extensive factual survey of Polish film. Through its chronology, introductory essay, appendixes, bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on films, directors, actors, producers, and film institutions, a balanced picture of the richness of Polish cinema is presented.Readers with professional interest in cinema will welcome this new work, which would be useful for any senior undergraduate or post-graduate courses in film studies.

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42,60 zł

Reconstruction: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press Inc

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The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures was the inability to chart a progressive course for race r

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A Tale Of Love And Darkness Mariner Books

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Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this family saga tells the the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and '50s. It is also a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.

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A Tale of Love and Darkness HARCOURT BRACE & CO

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Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this family saga tells the the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 1940s and 50s and fifties. It is also a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.

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American Political History: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press Inc

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The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short Introduction, Donald Critchlow takes on this contradiction between original theory and actual practice. This brief, accessible book explores the nature of the two-party system, key turning points in American political history, representative presidential and congressional elections, struggles to expand the electorate, and critical social protest and third-party movements. The volume emphasizes the continuity of a liberal tradition challenged by partisan divide, war, and periodic economic turmoil. American Political History: A Very Short Introduction explores the emergence of a democratic political culture within a republican form of government, showing the mobilization and extension of the mass electorate over the lifespan of the country. In a nation characterized by great racial, ethnic, and religious diversity, American democracy has proven extraordinarily durable.Individual parties have risen and fallen, but the dominance of the two-party system persists. Fierce debates over the meaning of the U.S. Constitution have created profound divisions within the parties and among voters, but a belief in the importance of constitutional order persists among political leaders and voters. Americans have been deeply divided about the extent of federal power, slavery, the meaning of citizenship, immigration policy, civil rights, and a range of economic, financial, and social policies. New immigrants, racial minorities, and women have joined the electorate and the debates. But American political history, with its deep social divisions, bellicose rhetoric, and antagonistic partisanship provides valuable lessons about the meaning and viability of democracy in the early 21st century. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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Friendship Across the Seas Springer, Berlin

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This Open Access book describes the history of the relationship between the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), the heir to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and the United States Navy (US Navy), with a focus on the individuals who helped build it. Former enemies who fought fiercely on the seas and in the air during the Pacific War, the two navies came to respect each other in action. Soon after the war, when the Cold War turned hot, they began to work together as allies, driven by their respective national interests. With the generous assistance of the US Navy, the JMSDF was established as its counterpart. Over the years, these two navies have gradually built strong ties. Individual officers and sailors on both sides overcame mixed feelings about their erstwhile foes to feel respect for and trust in each other. This was made possible by conducting countless joint exercises and operations at sea. US Navy leaders began to realize that this small maritime force, notwithstanding domestic political, constitutional, and legal limitations, does its job well, is reliable, and can be fully trusted. The JMSDF realized that, sharing common interests and values, there was no better navy in the Asia-Pacific region to ally with. Over seventy years of accumulated shared experiences have transformed this into perhaps the most successful navy-to-navy partnership in the world. The US-Japan maritime alliance today is anchored in this history. Numerous admirals, officers, and sailors of the two navies working together have greatly contributed to the stability and prosperity of the Asia-Pacific region for the past seven decades.  This book is intended for readers interested in the history of US-Japan relations and for naval officers and sailors from the US and other countries. It is the author's sincere desire that they read this book and appreciate the longstanding cooperation between the JMSDF and the US Navy.

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SPQR - A History of Ancient Rome Liveright

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A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists.Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in central Italy? In S.P.Q.R., world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even two thousand years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty.From the foundational myth of Romulus and Remus to 212 ce

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A-7 Corsair II Units 1975-91 Bloomsbury Publishing

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A highly detailed, illustrated history of the A-7 Corsair II and its service from the end of the Vietnam War through to Desert Storm.At the A-7 Corsair II's peak in the mid-1980s, some 30 US Navy squadrons flew various versions of t

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