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Joseph Conrad: A Psychoanalytic Biography by Bernard Constant Meyer 9780691621302
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €61.73Joseph Conrad once voiced the hope that from the reading of his pages might "emerge at last the vision of a personality: the man behind the books ...a coherent justifiable personality both in its... -
Evur happie & glorious, ffor I hafe at will grete riches by Liliana Sikorska 9783631642115
RRP: €51.65Booksplease Price: €46.86This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2011. The papers cover a wide range of approaches to the issue of... -
Decisive Years in France, 1840-1847 by David H. Pinkney 9780691611136
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €42.53David Pinkney challenges accepted views of the timing of France's Industrial Revolution and the accompanying transformation of French society. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy... -
Academic Culture.: Traditions and the Present Day. by Zbigniew Drozdowicz 9783631854112
RRP: €41.06Booksplease Price: €37.75The author of this book formulates a general thesis that in the academic culture, since the emergence of the first universities until this very day, two types of that culture have competed with each... -
Chopin and His World by Jonathan D. Bellman 9780691177762
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.53A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory... -
Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland's Jewish Revival by Genevieve Zubrzycki
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €30.00An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland todaySince the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by... -
World War II and Two Occupations: Dilemmas of Polish Memory by Anna Wolff-Poweska 9783631663004
RRP: €69.20Booksplease Price: €61.99This anthology presents the work of several authors from different academic disciplines. Film and literature experts, sociologists, historians and theatrologists analyse the Polish memory of the Nazi... -
Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland's Jewish Revival by Genevieve Zubrzycki 9780691237220
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €102.49An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland todaySince the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by... -
The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott by Donald Davie 9780415519953
Booksplease Price: €23.97First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century. Encompassing works... -
The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott by Donald Davie 9780415500418
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €55.32First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century. Encompassing works... -
The War in Ukraine: (Dis)information – Perception – Attitudes by Marcin Grabowski 9783631894699
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €41.33The book is a collection of studies on the war in Ukraine. The considerations focus on different contexts of the first phase of the armed conflict. The authors try to answer questions about the... -
Problems and Solutions in Quantum Physics Zbigniew Ficek 9789814669368
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.30Readers studying the abstract field of quantum physics need to solve plenty of practical, especially quantitative, problems. This book contains tutorial problems with solutions for the textbook... -
Plotinus on the Contemplation of the Intelligible World: Faces of Being and Mirrors of Intellect Mateusz Stróżyński 9781009494861
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €108.14In this study, Mateusz Strozynski offers an experiential and practical way of understanding Plotinus' thought and philosophy through a focus on the act of contemplation. He argues that contemplation,... -
Ethics and the Law in Medicine – in Research and Healthcare by Joanna Długosz 9783631801161
RRP: €57.95Booksplease Price: €52.29This volume contains contributions from the international and interdisciplinary scientific conference "Ethics and the Law in Medicine - in Research and Healthcare", which took place at the Faculty of... -
Approaches to the Study of Sound Structure and Speech: Interdisciplinary Work in Honour of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk by Magdalena Wrembel 9781032087474
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk on the study... -
Vowel-Shifting in the English Language: An Evolutionary Account by Kamil Kazmierski 9783110369502
RRP: €143.40Booksplease Price: €97.20English has long been suspected to be a vowel-shifting language. This hypothesis, often only adumbrated in previous work, is closely investigated in this book. Framed within a novel framework... -
Kulturelle Diversitaet in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Uebersetzung und Rezeption by Beate Sommerfeld 9783631798737
RRP: €66.46Booksplease Price: €59.63Die Beitrage des Bandes erkunden die Moeglichkeiten und Bedingungen kultureller Diversitat und Alteritatserfahrungen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich in... -
A Guide to the Heavens: The Literary Reception of Herman Hugo's "Pia Desideria" in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by Radosław Grześkowiak 9789004547377
Booksplease Price: €90.45This book is available in Open Access thanks to the generous support of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań This is the first monographic study of the reception of Herman Hugo's emblematic book... -
The Making of a Language: The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice, Southern Poland by Tomasz Wicherkiewicz 9783110170993
RRP: €167.79Booksplease Price: €113.55The book presents unique literature in a minority ethnolect - the Germanic dialect of Wilamowice in Southern Poland. The manuscripts, written in the ethnolect at the beginning of the 20th century,... -
Encounters across Difference: Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India by Natalia Bloch 9781793624710
Booksplease Price: €133.43In Encounters across Difference, Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters in India and their potential to empower subaltern communities. Drawing from ethnographic evidence in Hampi and Dharamshala,... -
Dependants' Relief Legislation and Compulsory Portion: Limitations on Freedom of Testation in British Columbia and Germany in Comparative Perspective by Dorota Miler
Booksplease Price: €85.82Aus der Sicht des deutschen Rechts ist es fast unvorstellbar, dass ein Gericht den gesamten letzten Willen eines Erblassers abandern und eine neue Aufteilung seines gesamten Nachlasses anordnen kann... -
Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak 9783030628727
Booksplease Price: €109.79This book challenges the rhetoric linking 'war on terror' with 'war on human trafficking' by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level... -
Athanasius Raczynski (1788-1874). Aristocrat, Diplomat, and Patron of the Arts by Michal Mencfel 9789004504660
Booksplease Price: €81.09This book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczynski (1788-1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it... -
Cultural Mobility in the Interwar Avant-Garde Art Network: Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands by 9781032338958
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.25This book explores the issue of cultural mobility within the interwar network of the European avant-garde, focusing on selected writers, artists, architects, magazines and groups from Poland, Belgium... -
Modernizing Localities in Poland: A Never-ending Transformation Waldemar Kuligowski 9781666950458
Booksplease Price: €101.92Modernizing Localities in Poland: A Never-ending Transformation investigates modern cultural traditions and their transformations in Poland. Designed as a series of case studies analyzing music... -
Digitalization of Democratic Processes in Europe: Southern and Central Europe in Comparative Perspective by Magdalena Musial-Karg 9783030718176
Booksplease Price: €133.42This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies. It examines the various challenges posed by these transformations in the context of political practice and to... -
Phonology of Old English Stress and Metrical Structure by Piotr Gasiorowski 9783631313633
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €45.42This book attempts to build a complete theory of stress in Old English. In particular, the author tries to elucidate the relation, in that language, between stress placement and syllable weight... -
Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing by Joanna Maciulewicz 9783030064723
Booksplease Price: €65.87This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature. It studies... -
The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe: A Study in the Philosophy of History by Klara Naszkowska 9783631809907
RRP: €65.03Booksplease Price: €58.39The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries... -
War Poems by John Hollander 9781857157406
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €10.50Poets of all times, places and sensibilities have been moved to write about war. They have commemorated the Battles of Thermopylae, Agincourt and Shilph, and London in an air raid. They have... -
Populist Political Communication across Europe: Contexts and Contents by Agnieszka Stepinska 9783631835654
RRP: €55.16Booksplease Price: €49.90While most of the scholarship on populism and populist political communication is focused on Western European countries with a long tradition of populist parties' appearance on the political scene... -
Lógos and Máthēma 2: Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics by Jan Hartman 9783631807149
RRP: €65.03Booksplease Price: €58.39The volume consists of thirteen papers devoted to various problems of the philosophy of logic and mathematics. They can be divided into two groups. The first group contains papers devoted to some... -
Logos and Mathema: Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and History of Logic by Roman Murawski 9783631618042
RRP: €75.09Booksplease Price: €67.04The volume contains twenty essays devoted to the philosophy of mathematics and the history of logic. They have been divided into four parts: general philosophical problems of mathematics, Hilbert's... -
Louis Wolowski (1810-1876): A Biography by Jarosław Fazan 9783631910948
RRP: €54.74Booksplease Price: €49.53The book presents the life of Louis Wolowski (1810-1876). Born into a family of Frankist Jews in Warsaw, Wolowski participated in the Polish insurrection of 1830-1831 and later settled in France... -
Europe and the Refugee Response: A Crisis of Values? Elzbieta M. Gozdziak 9781032174556
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27This book explores how the rising numbers of refugees entering Europe from 2015 onwards played into fears of cultural, religious, and ethnic differences across the continent. The migrant, or refugee... -
Regarding the Popular: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and High and Low Culture by Sascha Bru 9783110274561
RRP: €186.24Booksplease Price: €127.62Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo-)avant-gardists and modernists from... -
Identifications of French People of Algerian Origin by Jacek Kubera 9783030358358
Booksplease Price: €109.79This book is an innovative presentation of the way in which the descendants of Muslim immigrants from Algeria in France perceive and deal with multiple social identifications. Against the... -
Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums: 1750-1918 Dominique Bauer 9781041178859
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient spaces functioned as microcosms in which reality was shown, simulated, staged,... -
The Kolbergs of Eastern Europe by Bozena Muszkalska 9783631718360
RRP: €57.48Booksplease Price: €51.88This book draws attention to the reception of Oskar Kolberg's folklorist's work outside of Poland. It also presents the work of other scholars active in Eastern Europe from the nineteenth century to... -
Digital Communication and Populism in Times of Covid-19: Cases, Strategies, Examples by Magdalena Musiał-Karg 9783031337154
Booksplease Price: €133.42This book examines different dimensions of digital communication and populism in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. While doing so, it discusses views, opinions, and research results regarding the...