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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.A notebook full of secrets, two untimely deaths – something sinister is stirring in the perfect seaside town of Morannez... It’s summer and holidaymakers are flocking to the idyllic Brittany coast. But when first an old traveller woman dies in suspicious circumstances, and then a campaign of hate seemingly drives another victim to take his own life, events take a very dark turn. Mila Shepherd has come to France to look after her niece, Ani, following the accident in which both Ani’s parents were lost at sea. Mila has moved into their family holiday home, as well as taken her sister Sophie’s place in an agency which specialises in tracking down missing people...
An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland today Since the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by non-Jewish Poles with a passionate new interest in all things Jewish. Klezmer music, Jewish-style restaurants, kosher vodka, and festivals of Jewish culture have become popular, while new museums, memorials, Jewish studies programs, and Holocaust research centers reflect soul-searching about Polish-Jewish relations before, during, and after the Holocaust. In Resurrecting the Jew, Geneviève Zubrzycki examines this revival and asks what it means to try to bring Jewish culture back to life in a coun...
The book analyses a variety of topics and current issues in linguistics and literary studies, focusing especially on such aspects as memory, identity and cognition. Firstly, it discusses the notion of memory and the idea of reimagining, as well as coming to terms with the past. Secondly, it studies the relationship between perception, cognition and language use. It then investigates a variety of practices of language users, language learners and translators, such as the use of borrowings from hip-hop and slang. The book is intended for researchers in the fields of linguistics and literary studies, lecturers teaching undergraduate and master’s students on courses in language and literature.
Przestępcy seksualni zwykle postrzegani są w dość jednolitych kategoriach – jako sprawcy, którzy w wynaturzonych czynach seksualnych realizują swoje potrzeby seksualne. W wielu wypadkach przestępstwa te określane są mianem crime of passion. Po tym pojęciem skrywa się fałszywa sugestia, że sprawcy ci nie do końca są odpowiedzialni za swoje działania, targani gwałtownymi namiętnościami, nie panują nad zachowaniem. W książce Przestępcy seksualni. Zabójcy, gwałciciele, pedofile i ich resocjalizacja został przedstawiony rzeczywisty, wielowymiarowy wizerunek sprawców przestępstw seksualnych ukazujący zróżnicowane czynniki ryzyka, okoliczności, a także tło motywa...
This book covers a variety of topics in material, mechanical, and management engineering, especially in the area of machine design, product assembly, measurement systems, process planning and quality control. It describes cutting-edge methods and applications, together with exemplary case studies. The content is based on papers presented at the 5th International Scientific-Technical Conference (MANUFACTURING 2017) held in Poznan, Poland on 24-26 October 2017. The book brings together engineering and economic topics, is intended as an extensive, timely and practice-oriented reference guide for researchers and practitioners, and is expected to foster better communication and closer cooperation between universities and their business and industry partners.
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In this volume, Stanisław Rosik focuses on the meaning and significance of Old Slavic religion as presented in three German chronicles (the works of Thietmar of Merseburg, Adam of Bremen, Helmold of Bosau) written during the time of the Christianization of the Western Slavs. The source analyses show the ways the chroniclers understood, explained and represented pre-Christian beliefs and cults, which were interpreted as elements of a foreign, “barbarian”, culture and were evaluated from the perspective of Church doctrine. In this study, individual features of the three authors are discussed– including the issue of the credibility of their information on Old Slavic religion– and broader conclusions on medieval thought are also presented.
This book gathers timely contributions on metrology and measurement systems, across different disciplines and fields of applications. The chapters, which were presented at the 7th International Scientific-Technical Conference, MANUFACTURING 2022, held on May 16-19, 2022, in Poznan, Poland, cover cutting-edge research and best-practices concerning the use of optical, computed tomographic, and coordinate metrology systems to assess the fidelity of 3D printing processes and products. They discuss strategies for automating, and for improving the effectiveness of quality control and measuring processes. All in all, this book provides both researchers and practitioners with a timely guide on cutting-edge measuring systems supporting the development of modern and additive manufacturing in the context of industry 4.0.
Based on an extensive corpus-based study, this revealing book explores how epistemic stance is expressed in the early modern period, and in doing so, presents new methodologies for using corpora to investigate issues in historical pragmatics. It provides a new, corpus-driven method for the analysis of pragmatic functions that rely on context-dependent interpretations. By retrieving passages that include a high-density of the pragmatic function under investigation, the subsequent analysis can reveal previously neglected forms and context-dependent factors. It includes four empirical studies that apply the method to the analysis of epistemic stance in four Early Modern English corpora, the result of which emphasise the importance of context for the expression of stance. It also includes an appendix with inventories of Early Modern English stance expressions, offering starting points for further research studies. It is essential reading for researchers and students in historical pragmatics and corpus pragmatics.
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