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Obsolete Scandinavian Loanwords in English by Magdalena Bator 9783631613160
RRP: $123.05Booksplease Price: $109.86So far, no comprehensive study of the obsolescence of Scandinavian loanwords in English has ever been published. This book remedies that situation, and presents an analysis of the causes of... -
The Discursive Construction of European Identities: A Multi-Level Approach to Discourse and Identity in the Transforming European Union by Michal Krzyzanowski 9783631610466
RRP: $115.44Booksplease Price: $67.82This book looks at the discursive construction of European identities in a variety of institutional and non-institutional contexts and through a variety of social and political actors. Its multilevel... -
Amber in the Circum-Adriatic Bronze Age: Acquisition, Circulation and Adaptation by Mateusz Cwaliński 9783631888575
RRP: $105.30Booksplease Price: $94.59The present book takes up the long-debated subject of the presence of amber around the Adriatic during the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC). It offers an exhaustive review of the current state of... -
Digital Communication and Populism in Times of Covid-19: Cases, Strategies, Examples by Magdalena Musiał-Karg 9783031337154
Booksplease Price: $218.63This 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... -
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient: Other Encounters by Liliana Sikorska 9781501521492
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $25.97Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European... -
New Perspectives in Transnational History of Communism in East Central Europe by Krzysztof Brzechczyn 9783631771402
RRP: $108.42Booksplease Price: $97.85The book offers a transnational perspective on history of communism in East-Central Europe. It analyzes the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of communist systems and focuses on different... -
Nuclear Gaia: Media Archives of Planetary Harm Agnieszka Jelewska 9781835951538
RRP: $194.90Booksplease Price: $172.34Describes the transformations we have witnessed due to the development of nuclear science and technology, accelerating policies interdependent on energy, and military procedures that have led us to... -
Dynamic Point Symbols in Earthquake Mapping: Visualization Research in Space and Time Paweł Cybulski 9781041216933
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $215.26Dynamic Point Symbols in Earthquake Mapping: Visualization Research in Space and Time examines how animated symbols enhance digital map comprehension, particularly for earthquake data visualization... -
Juvenile Justice Systems: Poland-Brazil-Portugal by Barbara Janusz-Pohl 9783631855843
RRP: $82.49Booksplease Price: $74.94Juvenile Justice Systems outlines options for shaping the juvenile liability models, in the form of model-patterns: the welfare model, the justice model, the rehabilitative treatment model, the... -
Multilingualism and English: The Canton of Zurich as a linguistic paradigm by Agnieszka Stepkowska 9783631639207
RRP: $130.85Booksplease Price: $117.18This study examines the use of English in Switzerland from a multilingual perspective based on a corpus of 400 interviews collected in the German speaking Canton of Zurich. It presents a framework... -
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Middle English Prepositions and Adverbs with the Prefix "be-" in Prose Texts: A Study in Their Semantics, Dialectology and Frequency by Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska 9783631724811
RRP: $100.72Booksplease Price: $90.66This book offers the first comprehensive study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs combining the prefix "be-" with a preposition, an adverb or a numeral recorded in prose texts. Six best... -
Supervision over Court and Judges: Insights into Selected Legal Systems by Wojciech Piatek 9783631836170
RRP: $82.49Booksplease Price: $74.94The aim of this book is to present the conditions under which the positive role of supervision over courts and judges can be performed, and to shed light on what conditions have to be fulfilled in... -
Talk as Therapy: Psychotherapy in a Linguistic Perspective by Joanna Pawelczyk 9781934078662
RRP: $211.58Booksplease Price: $143.42The book is an empirical study of naturally occurring talk between psychotherapist and clients experiencing various anxieties and traumas that most of us recognize and can relate to. By relying on... -
Personality Matters: The Translator's Personality in the Process of Self-Revision by Olha Lehka-Paul Lehka-Paul
RRP: $105.30Booksplease Price: $88.12The analysis of translated texts and investigations into the cognitive mechanisms involved in the process of translation have been at the core of translation studies so far. Yet Personality Matters... -
Horizontal Art History and Beyond: Revising Peripheral Critical Practices by Agata Jakubowska 9781032030692
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40This book is devoted to the concept of horizontal art history-a proposal of a paradigm shift formulated by the Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski (1952-2015)-that aims at undermining the hegemony... -
Faces of the Enlightenment: Philosophical sketches by Zbigniew Drozdowicz 9783631803912
RRP: $88.04Booksplease Price: $79.74The author of this book speaks out again in regard to the Enlightenment. His inspiration comes not only from new observations occasioned by own studies, but also from the recently read material as... -
Memory as Burden and Liberation: Germans and their Nazi Past (1945-2010) by Anna Wolff-Poweska 9783631640517
RRP: $146.06Booksplease Price: $130.26This book examines both the obvious and less obvious ways in which Germans struggle with their Nazi past. It embraces only a small part of a complex problem, which is impossible for an individual... -
Hero, Conspiracy, and Death: The Jewish Lectures: Translated by Alex Shannon by Maria Janion 9783631623572
RRP: $98.28Booksplease Price: $88.55With Hero, Conspiracy and Death: The Jewish Lectures, the author has written a book of sweeping significance for readers interested in Polish history, Jewish history, and the Holocaust in which she... -
1914-1918 - An Anatomy of Global Confl1ict by Andrzej Chwalba
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $60.041914-1918: An Anatomy of Global Conflict recounts a history of the First World War from an anthropological perspective. It shares the stories of individual participants, which include soldiers,... -
Mediatizing Secular State: Media, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Poland by Damian Guzek 9783631775356
RRP: $108.42Booksplease Price: $97.27The book provides an empirically based analysis of changes on how various political and denominational actors seek to influence the Church and state relationship, as well as how we understand the... -
Antoni Szalowski: Person and Work by Elzbieta Szczurko 9783631639955
RRP: $159.02Booksplease Price: $141.43"(This book) is the first extensive study of the works of Antoni Szalowski, which provide a clear example of the adaptation of the principles of Neoclassicism and the norms of Nadia Boulanger... -
The Formation of the Modern Austrian Nation: Theory of nation formation and nation-building policies of Austria after 1945 by Barbara Klich-Kluczewska 9783631914502
RRP: $89.70Booksplease Price: $81.16The Austrian case of nation formation was a latecomer in the European perspective. Only after the II World War did the Austrian nation form, which resulted in a general omission of the Austrian case... -
The Home, Nations and Empires, and Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces: 1750-1918 Dominique Bauer 9781041188179
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its imagery, and exhibitions and museums that display both... -
Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen: Five Encounters with the Sages Juliusz Tyszka 9780367644413
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40The book contains three accounts of five public speeches and conversations with the public of two outstanding figures of theatre and performance, Jerzy Grotowski and Ludwik Flaszen, from 1993 to 1997... -
(Extra)Ordinary?: The Concept of Authenticity in Celebrity and Fan Studies by Jade Alexander
Booksplease Price: $109.84Questioning what "makes" a celebrity and how celebrity is controlled, dispersed and received are aspects branching out of (Extra)Ordinary's debate over celebrities as ordinary/extraordinary. Jade... -
History – Culture – Metaphor. On Historical Thinking by Barbara Klich-Kluczewska 9783631925447
RRP: $89.70Booksplease Price: $81.16Historiography is one of the most systematic accounts of the fate of culture. It is also a record of human-reflexive and reflective metaphors of the world, simultaneously anthropomorphizing and... -
Intertextual Transactions in American and Irish Fictions: Edited by Janusz Semrau by Jacek Fisiak 9783631587041
RRP: $87.95Booksplease Price: $79.64This volume is a posthumous revised edition of selected papers by Andrzej Kopcewicz on intertextual transactions in classic works of American and Irish fiction, published originally between 1992 and... -
Re-Figuring Hayden White by Frank Ankersmit
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature... -
Inheritance of Features in Metaphoric Mappings in English by Jacek Fisiak 9783631590898
Booksplease Price: $83.27The book is devoted to conceptual metaphors in English according to the level of abstraction in their target domains. The findings reveal a striking difference between mappings onto concrete domains... -
East Anglian English Jacek Fisiak 9780859915717
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $178.19East Anglia the easternmost area of England was probably home to the first-ever form of language which can be called English. East Anglian English has had a very considerable input into the... -
Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura by M. Jane Toswell 9783631868959
RRP: $96.92Booksplease Price: $87.36In a time when female scholars were rare in Japanese universities, Michiko Ogura completed an excellent doctorate in Old English syntax, then achieved a position at Chiba University, from which she... -
The impact of Directive 2005/29/EC on Polish law on combating unfair competition by Barbara Janusz-Pohl 9783631933480
RRP: $105.30Booksplease Price: $94.59Polish law on combating unfair competition is influenced by EU law. This influence is so significant that it requires a new and comprehensive look at Polish solutions. The aim of the conducted... -
Re-Figuring Hayden White by Frank Ankersmit 9780804760034
RRP: $249.60Booksplease Price: $200.27Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature... -
Art and Politics During the Cold War: Poland and the Netherlands Michał Wenderski 9781032454115
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01Drawing on thousands of historical documents from Polish and Dutch archives, this book explores Cold War cultural exchange between so-called 'smaller powers' of this global conflict, which thus far... -
Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children's Media Simon Bacon 9781476675527
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children. They emerge as... -
We Robots: Questioning the Neutrality of Technology, Ethical AI and Technological Determinism Lode Lauwaert 9783031771736
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.98This book takes a philosophical look at traditional technological tools such as hammers and drills as well as the modern: autonomous cars, ChatGPT, smartphones, apps, steam engines, nuclear power... -
Word Order Matters: Current Issues in Syntax and Morpho-Syntax by Jacek Witkoś 9783631879528
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $67.72This book contains a selection of papers on issues of current interest in syntax and morpho-syntax. Most topics pertain to the question of the relation between word order and syntactic structure. The... -
Democratisation and De-democratisation in Multi-level Democracy in Poland Adam Szymański 9781041128427
Booksplease Price: $117.16This book analyses and reveals evidence of changing patterns and processes of democratic or autocratic direction at subnational levels (provinces and cities) along with their relationship to those at... -
Essays and Studies in Middle English: 9th International Conference on Middle English, Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, 2015 by Magdalena Bator 9783631715390
RRP: $120.90Booksplease Price: $108.01This volume is a selection of papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Middle English held at Wyzsza Szkola Filologiczna (Philological School of Higher Education) in Wroclaw, Poland,... -
Three Decades of Polish Socio-Economic Transformations: Geographical Perspectives by Paweł Churski 9783031061103
Booksplease Price: $178.78This edited volume analyses and discusses the systematisation of Polish socio-economic transformations of the last three decades using selected examples of the most important changes. 1989 marked...