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Zawieszeni. O zaginionych i ludziach, którzy ich szukają
Ania wracała ze szkolnej zabawy. Bruno wyjechał na wymarzone wakacje do Indii. Joanna wybrała się w góry, a Paweł chciał spotkać się z rodziną. To, co ich łączy, to fakt, że nigdy nie dotarli do domu. Co roku w Polsce ginie ponad dziesięć tysięcy osób. Wychodzą z domu, ze szkoły czy pracy, wyjeżdżają na wakacje i znikają bez śladu – chociaż wydaje się to nieprawdopodobne. Szymon J. Wróbel podejmuje trud dotarcia do rodzin osób zaginionych i wysłuchania ich przejmujących historii – o bliskich, którzy jakby zapadli się pod ziemię, mnożących się pytaniach bez odpowiedzi oraz nadziei, która nigdy nie gaśnie. Zawieszeni. O zaginionych i ludziach, którzy ...
Nation and History
The important scholarly achievements of Polish historians remain largely unknown outside Poland. In Nation and History, editors Peter Brock, John Stanley, and Piotr J. Wróbel have brought together twenty-four essays on Polish historians from the Enlightenment to the Second World War, an era of unparalleled changes in every aspect of Polish life. From the late eighteenth century until 1918, the Polish state was partitioned between its three neighbours: Russia, Prussia (Germany), and Austria. Polish historiography throughout this period tended to focus on the reasons behind the old Polish state's decline and fall. This shaped Polish historians' vision of their country's past and created the burden of not only having to discuss the state, but the issue of 'nation' - its essence, its shape, and its failure. The contributors to this volume - from Poland and abroad - closely examine the role played by historians in both the documenting and shaping of Poland's history. While featuring different approaches, Nation and History serves as the most comprehensive work on Polish historiography written in English.
Fragmentation in East Central Europe
WWI led to a radical reshaping of Europe's political borders and the emergence of a series of smaller states from the ruins of larger empires. This study examines how four East Central European states - Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia - dealt with the breakdown of commerce and mobility, caused by new borders, high tariffs, and trade wars.
Conscious History
Thoroughly researched, this study highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar Polish Jewry and analyses its political and social context. As Jewish citizens struggled to assert their place in a newly independent Poland, a dedicated group of Jewish scholars fascinated by history devoted themselves to creating a sense of Polish Jewish belonging while also fighting for their rights as an ethnic minority. The political climate made it hard for these men and women to pursue an academic career; instead they had to continue their efforts to create and disseminate Polish Jewish history by teaching outside the university and publishing in scholarly and popula...
Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis
Warsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from its inception in the late 18th century to its emergence as a Jewish metropolis within a few generations, to its destruction during the German occupation and tentative re-emergence in the postwar period. The highly original contributions collected here investigate Warsaw Jewry’s religious and cultural life, press and publications, political life, and relations with the surrounding Polish society. This monumental volume is dedicated to Professor Antony Polonsky, chief historian of the new Warsaw Museum for the History of Polish Jews, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
Tischner. Biografia
Ktoś mi kiedyś powiedział, że jak Tischner wchodził do pokoju, to jakby się drzwi otwierały w człowieku. Drzwi się otwierały – i żyć się chciało. Każdy z nas nosi w sobie pragnienie, że przyjdzie taki ktoś, kto mu powie: „Słuchaj, cała ta twoja szamotanina ma sens”. Każdy chce to usłyszeć – czy to będzie poeta, czy gość, który ma budę z warzywami, polityk, który już nie wie, za czym głosuje, czy zdesperowana matka niepełnosprawnego dziecka... Tischner. Biografia to nowa książka. Choć można też powiedzieć – zmieniona i znacznie poszerzona wersja książki Tischner opublikowanej w 2001 roku. Dodałem wiele wątków, bo przez ostatnich dwadzieścia...
The Animals in Us - We in Animals
In art and literature, animals appear not only as an allegoric representation but as a reference which troubles the border between humanity and animality. The aim of this book is to challenge traditional ways of confronting animality with humanity and to consider how the Darwinian turn has modified this relationship in postmodern narratives. The subject of animality in culture, ethics, philosophy, art and literature is explored and reevaluated, and a host of questions regarding the conditions of co-existence of humans and animals is asked: Should discourse ethics now include entities that initially seemed mute and were excluded from discussions? Does the modern animal rights movement need a theology, and vice versa, is there a theology that needs animals? Are animals in literature just metaphors of human characters, or do they reveal something more profound, a direction of human desires, or a fantasy of transgressing humanity? This book provides answers and thus gives a new impetus to a so far largely overlooked field.
Renewable Energy Sources: Engineering, Technology, Innovation
This book presents peer-reviewed papers based on the oral and poster presentations during the 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy Sources, which was held from June 20 to 22, 2018 in Krynica, Poland. The scope of the conference included a wide range of topics in renewable energy technology, with a major focus on biomass, solar energy and geothermal energy, but also extending to heat pumps, fuel cells, wind energy, energy storage, and the modelling and optimization of renewable energy systems. This edition of the conference had a special focus on the role of renewable energy in the reduction of air pollution in the Eastern European region. Traditionally this conference is a unique...
