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As a unique and innovative addition to the scholarship on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and modern Polish history, this volume provides fresh analysis on the Nazi occupation of Poland. Through new questions and engaging untapped sources the leading historians who have contributed to this volume provide original scholarship to steer debates and expand the historiography surrounding Nazi racial and occupation policies, Polish and Jewish responses to them, persecution, police terror, resistance, and complicity.
Puerto Rican music in New York is given center stage in Ruth Glasser's original and lucid study. Exploring the relationship between the social history and forms of cultural expression of Puerto Ricans, she focuses on the years between the two world wars. Her material integrates the experiences of the mostly working-class Puerto Rican musicians who struggled to make a living during this period with those of their compatriots and the other ethnic groups with whom they shared the cultural landscape. Through recorded songs and live performances, Puerto Rican musicians were important representatives for the national consciousness of their compatriots on both sides of the ocean. Yet they also play...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2008, held in Zakopane, Poland, in June 2008. The 116 revised contributed papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 320 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on neural networks and their applications, fuzzy systems and their applications, evolutionary algorithms and their applications, classification, rule discovery and clustering, image analysis, speech and robotics, bioinformatics and medical applications, various problems of artificial intelligence, and agent systems.
To lato nie należało do udanych. Cały czas tylko padało, padło i jeszcze raz padało. Ola z Frankiem okropnie się nudzili. Na dodatek do ich domu, kwatery nad Modrym Stawem, przestali przyjeżdżać wakacyjni turyści. Mamie zaczynało brakować pieniędzy. Wszystko zmienia się w dniu, w którym Ola odbiera z dworca starszą panią o imieniu Babula Babalunga. Tajemniczą, wesołą staruszkę z ogromną ilością bagażu, która postanawia wynająć pokój w domu dziewczynki. Razem z pojawieniem się nad Modrym Stawem Babuli Babalungi zaczynają się dziać dziwne rzeczy. A starsza pani skrywa pewną tajemnicę. Ola i Franek postanawiają ją odkryć... To, czego się dowiedzą naprawd...
In recent years, scientists have realized that evolution can occur on timescales much shorter than the 'long lapse of ages' emphasized by Darwin - in fact, evolutionary change is occurring all around us all the time. This work provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to eco-evolutionary dynamics, a cutting-edge new field that seeks to unify evolution and ecology into a common conceptual framework focusing on rapid and dynamic environmental and evolutionary change.
The rapid pace of technological change and globalization of products, competition and services have conspired to place a new premium on innovation for firms across the world. Although many variables influence creativity and innovation, the effective leadership of creative teams has proved especially important. This timely Handbook presents the state of the art for what leaders must do to lead creative teams and how they should do it.
Claus Husmann, IV was born 26 July 1824 in Holstenniendorf, Holstein, Germany. His parents were Claus Husmann, III and Catharina Sierken. He married Catharina Mohr in 1860. They had eight children. The family emigrated in about 1870 and settled in Winona, Minnesota. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived in Germany, Minnesota, Wisconsin and elsewhere.
This revised edition discusses how insights from new materialism and posthumanism might be used in investigating second language learning and teaching in classrooms. With these new perspectives in mind, it updates the application of sociocultural theory to understanding how minority language background children learn English in their classrooms.