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Frida
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo life, work, and love are examined through the lens of her sister in this dramatic biographical novel. Frida Kahlo, painter and cultural icon, lived a life of extremes. The subject of an Academy Award(c)–nominated film starring Salma Hayek, Kahlo was crippled by polio and left barren by an accident when she was a teenager. And yet she went on to fall in love with and marry another star of the art world, muralist Diego Rivera. filled with passion, jealousy, and deceit, their story captured the world’s imagination. Told in the voice of Frida’s sister Cristina, who bears witness to Frida and Diego’s tumultuous marriage, this is a brilliantly vivid work of historical fiction. What unfolds is an intense tale of sibling rivalry, as both sisters vie for Rivera’s affection. Mujica imbues the lives and loves of these remarkable characters with sparkling drama and builds her tale to a shattering conclusion. Praise for Frida “A vivid creation. . . . This story burns with dramatic urgency.” —The New York Times “The best kind of fictionalized biography: rich, vibrant, and psychologically astute.” —Kirkus Reviews
Pan Michael
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The King and the Crown of Thorns
In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis's authority and the Capetian kingship. However, the translation of the Crown of Thorns to France had already a history under Louis's reign: French hagiographers and chroniclers affirmed that the first relics of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople were transferred to Aachen by Charlemagne, then to Saint-Denis Abbey by Charles the Bald. The book discusses Saint Louis's translation of the Crown of Thorns as seen on the background of both Carolingian historical memory in Capetian era and Carolingian and Capetian tradition of the royal cult of relics.
The Palace Complex
An exploration of the history and significance of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was “gifted” to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace’s visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from a “Palace of Culture complex.” Despite attempts to privatize it, the Palace remains municipally owned, and continues to play host to a variety of public institutions and services. The Parade Square, which surrounds the building, has resisted attempts to convert it into a money-making comm...
The Coming Spring
Zeromski's last novel tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who finds himself in Baku, Azerbaijan, a predominantly Armenia city, as the Russian Revolution breaks out. He becomes embroiled in the chaos caused by the revolution, and barely escapes with his life. Then, he and his father set off on a horrendous journey west to reach Poland. His father dies en route, but Cezary makes it to the newly independent Poland. Here he struggles to find his place in the turmoil of the new country. Cezary sees the suffering of the poor and the working classes, yet his experiences in the newly formed Soviet Union make him deeply suspicious of socialist and communist solutions. Cezary is an outsider among both the gentry and the working classes, and he cannot find where he belongs. Furthermore, he has unsuccessful and tragic love relations. The novel ends when, despite his profound misgivings, he takes up political action on behalf of the poor.
Twórczość
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The Deluge
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With Fire and Sword
A novel that describes the revolt of the Cossacks in the Ukraine supported by the Tartars in 1648-57 against the Polish-Lithuanian Comonwealth.
Gry miejskie jako współczesna, oryginalna i innowacyjna metoda nauczania i uczenia się seniorów
Prezentowana publikacja jest efektem projektu "Gry miejskie jako współczesna, oryginalna i innowacyjna metoda nauczania i uczenia się seniorów" [LoGaSET], koordynowanego przez Fundację Pro Scientia Publica, finansowanego ze środków Erasmus plus KA2 partnerstwa strategiczne, nr 2017-1-PL01-KA204-038869. Kierownikiem naukowym projektu była dr Ewa Jurczyk-Romanowska (Uniwersytet Wrocławski). Publikacja została przygotowana w czterech wersjach językowych.
REBEL TIMES 102
Chciałoby się rzec, że wszystko zaczęło się od Magica, ale tak naprawdę pierwszy był Doomtrooper. Przynajmniej w moim przypadku. W 1996 roku byłem kompletnie zielony nie tylko w kwestii gier karcianych, ale w samej idei nowoczesnych gier. Kolekcjonerskich. Wymagających sporych nakładów pieniężnych. Miałem oczywiście za sobą Magię i Miecz, do której posiadałem wszystkie dodatki. Miałem i Magiczny Miecz, mimo że było to w zasadzie to samo: tyle że z o wiele lepszymi ilustracjami. Na tyle zapadającymi w pamięć, że miałem je przed oczami przez wiele lat podczas sesji w Warhammera. No właśnie, gry fabularne, idealnie kolekcjonerskie, ukrywające to jednak pod płasz...
