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The arrival of the 1980s saw millions living behind the Iron Curtain flee their homeland in search of a better tomorrow. Step-by-step, they trudged persistently to reach their dream of happiness. These were the Columbuses of the 1980s – risk takers who had the courage to test themselves and explore the notoriety of the western world first-hand. Was It Worth It is a modern odyssey spanning three continents and following one family’s path to a new, unfamiliar future. It tells of the characters’ struggle to adapt to foreign places, languages and customs. With settings in Lima, Paris, Ottawa, and exploring venues in other countries, the book offers readers an insight into what it takes to start from scratch in an unknown land. Did they find what they were looking for?
Though often unnoticed by scholars of literature and history, Polish American women have for decades been fighting back against the patriarchy they encountered in America and the patriarchy that followed them from Poland. Through close readings of several Polish American and Polish Canadian novels and short stories published over the last seven decades, Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction traces the evolution of this struggle and women’s efforts to construct gendered and classed ethnicity. Focusing predominantly on work by North American born and immigrant authors that represents the Polish American Catholic tradition, Grażyna J. Kozaczka puts texts in conversation...
Publikacja przedstawia zbiór zasad dotyczących sposobu wykonywania pracy mediatora w sprawach cywilnych, łącząc przy tym elementy teoretyczne oraz praktyczne. W książce omówiono genezę instytucji mediacji, ustawodawstwo prawne - z podaniem konkretnych przepisów prawa regulujących mediację, kodeksy etyki mediatora oraz standardy postępowania mediacyjnego i kształcenia przyszłych mediatorów. Zaprezentowano również naczelne zasady mediacji oraz jej rodzaje. Szczególnie dokładnie opisano cechy i zadania dobrego mediatora oraz fazy i etapy mediacji. Uzupełnieniem rozważań jest przedstawienie barier w mediacji i sposobów im przeciwdziałania. Całość pracy zamyka bogaty w...
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In the 80s thousands of young Poles left their homeland to find a better life. The road to the new happiness was often bumpy. This book is a contemporary odyssey that leads through three continents to find a life of prosperity and a meaning of life. Did they find what you were looking for?
George Charles Bingham, the third Earl of Lucan (1800-1888) was damned from nearly all sides during his lifetime - despised in Ireland, sneered at in England. He was branded as the incompetent general who lost the Light Brigade at the infamous charge at Balaclava; a landlord ogre who evicted starving tenants at the time of the great potato famine in Ireland; and 'an ugly a person as you would wish to meet with' according to Daniel O'Connell, the Irish nationalist politician. Ever since, this unenviable caricature has become crystallized in traditional historical lore. But is it a true picture? The Notorious Third Lord Lucan: An Embattled Life re-examines this demonized picture and delves int...