Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

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"Gdybym znał dobrze język polski…" Wybór tekstów z ćwiczeniami do nauki gramatyki polskiej dla cudzoziemców

Author(s): Marek Gołkowski,Anna Kiermut,Maria Kuc,Małgorzata Majewska-Meyers / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2018

A handbook of the Polish language for foreigners – beginners and intermediate students. It includes 40 methodological units devoted to the basic Polish grammar issues, the key to exercises enabling the students to work with the handbook on their own, and an example test on grammatical correctness.

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"Я не враг церкви, а еë друг и уверенный православный": церковная проблематика в публицистике Николая Лескова

Author(s): Marta Łukaszewicz / Language(s): Russian / Publication Year: 2019

The book contains analysis of the way of presenting issues essential for the life of the Orthodox Church in the 19th-century Russia in Nikolai Leskov’s journalistic works. Writer’s literary output is discussed in its historical and social context, against the background of contemporary press discussions. It reveals a bond between his spiritual quest, the emerging modern religiosity and changes taking place in the Church. It also allows to highlight similarities and differences between Leskov and his contemporaries and to trace the evolution of the writer’s views.

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50 lat Wydziału Biologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego we wspomnieniach

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2019

A commemorative publication recounting the history of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Warsaw through the words of its former and current staff and friends. Comprised of written down interviews and split by themes into over a dozen chapters, it portrays the history of the Faculty in chronological order. It is supplemented by a collection of almost two hundred photographs from over half a century of the institution’s functioning.

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6th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics. 25 June - 2 July 2016 Sandomierz, Poland

Author(s): / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2017

The 6th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics took place in Sandomierz from June 25 to July 2, 2016. The primary goal of each of our invited speakers was to give a series of lectures which – in a pedagogical way – introduced selected topics in modern statistical physics with the idea of arriving at open problems. The idea was to inspire the audience to make research related to presented topics.The lectures were given by distinguished physicists: Bernard Derrida: Collège de France & École Normale Supérieure, Siegfried Dietrich: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems & University of Stuttgart, L. Mahadevan: Harvard University, Kim Sneppen: University of Copenhagen, Herbert Spohn: Technische University München, Daniel Ueltschi: University of Warwick. The present volume contains the lecture notes which the invited speakers kindly agreed to publish.

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A Brief Outline of the History of English

Author(s): Jerzy Wełna / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2003

The book contains a brief account of the history of the English language as well as its variants in the British Isles and overseas. In order to illustrate the problems under discussion the author adduces text samples from documents relating to English history and literature and also translations of some difficult words and phrases.

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A Dictionary of Film Terms and Film Studies

Author(s): Andrzej Weseliński / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2014

his dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the discipline of film studies, including key theoretical and technical terms, overviews of film genres and movements, film adaptations of literature, the Hollywood studio system, film industry practices, and the impact of digital technologies in cinema.

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Akt pamięci. Tradycja akatystowa w kontekście form pamięci

Author(s): Aleksandra Jakóbczyk-Gola / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2014

The book identifies complex characteristic features of the media tradition of Akathists, based on the example of the text of the Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God and its performances as part of worship. An analysis of the complex functions fulfilled by the Akathist in serving the aims of remembering – often characterized by heterogeneity, accomplished in different ways and playing different roles. The Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God with its accompanying icon was one of the fundamental elements of Orthodox worship, influential also outside the Orthodox Church, e.g., in Polish territories.

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Aleksander Gieysztor w pamięci i badaniach historycznych

Author(s): Alicja Kulecka / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2017

The publication was inspired by the celebrations of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Professor Aleksander Gieysztor (2016). It contains memoir texts and essays written as a result of the deep scientific reflection on the work of this outstanding scholar. Most papers are devoted to Aleksander Gieysztor as the director of the Institute of History at the University of Warsaw. The book also discusses Professor’s role in shaping the ceremonial of the University of Warsaw.

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Ancient DNA and Genetic Engineering

Author(s): Piotr Węgleński / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2020

This book is dedicated to ancient DNA (aDNA) – genetic material of organisms that perished hundreds to many thousands years ago. Only recently a subject of science fiction fantasies, now aDNA brings us vast amounts of invaluable, otherwise inaccessible, knowledge about the extinct species as well as about the past of the extant ones, including our own. The author in a reader-friendly way presents the methods of obtaining and analyzing aDNA and the application of aDNA research in a range of fields, from evolutionary biology through biodiversity conservation to archaeology. Numerous accompanying illustrations guide the reader throughout the text.

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Annie Proulx

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2020

The philosophical underpinnings and existential implications of Annie Proulx’s fiction situate it in the tradition of literary naturalism. The writer portrays characters from the lower social classes, people who are unable to overcome the impasse in which they have found themselves. Far from idyllic sentiments, Proulx’s approach to the experience of place connects her to the writers associated with so-called new regionalism. She shows the degrading influence of the life amidst beautiful natural surroundings on individual human psyche. Proulx looks closely at the processes of the commodification of regional culture and interprets them as symptoms of a dangerous global tendency.

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Antropolodzy na wojnie. O "brudnej" użyteczności nauk społecznych

Author(s): Michał Kowalski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2015

The study explores the history of cooperation between anthropologists, army and intelligence since the times of James Cook’s expeditions, through the colonial rivalry between European powers, the First and the Second World Wars, the Cold War, until recent military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. It analyses and seeks to evaluate the process of defining standards required of anthropologists working in extreme and ethically dubious circumstances. The part devoted to HTS program, which was implemented in Iraq and Afghanistan, shows how data collected by “anthropologists in military uniforms” was used in a technologically advanced way.

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Antropologia pamięci. Zagadnienia i wybór tekstów

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2018

An anthology of translations of several dozen texts on various aspects of memory studies as a modern field of research and anthropological reflection. The texts present the problem of cultural memory in the context of anthropology of the body, things, media, space, as well as different types of social and historical anthropology.

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Antropologia polityczna w Afryce

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2019

A collection of articles from the field of political anthropology in the context of African studies, covering history, culture and politics in Africa. The authors present the development of political anthropology from a historical perspective. They look back on the figure of Georges Balandier and analyse his works. The also write about customary law in refugee camps, events connected to the end of the war in Algeria, the modern history of both Sudans and about the “politicalness” of the filmmaker and anthropologist – Jean Rouch.

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Antropologia praktyk językowych

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2016

Development and concretisation of the original perspective concerning the word anthropology, which was formed at the Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University and used in language practice research. The perspective is considered the best method to perceive the language as cultural phenomenon. An extensive theoretical introduction justifies this approach and puts the undertaken research into the context of contemporary changes in cultural studies. The volume contains twelve articles which present study cases of language practice seen as cultural practice in historical context: from antiquity to modern times, from the forms of word art to swearing and searching the web.

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Antropologia tańca

Author(s): Anya Peterson Royce / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2014

In her dance studies, conducted from an anthropological perspective, Royce combines her own experiences of dance with ethnographical knowledge and knowledge of culture, which enables her to situate dance within other performative arts. The publication is a textbook for theatre studies students, ethnologists exploring the topic of rituals and central-American rites, students of cultural studies and the humanities, as well as practitioners analysing dance in action (instructors, choreographers) or specialists in dance therapy.

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Antytrynitaryzm w Pierwszej Rzeczypospolitej w kontekście europejskim. Źródła – rozwój – oddziaływanie. Tom X

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2017

The authors present the complex relations between the Polish antitrinitarians (Polish brothers called Arians or Socinians) and representatives of other denominations functioning in the 16th and 17th centuries in the territory of the First Polish Republic. They attempt to place this community in the context of debates and disputes taking place in Europe then. The texts focus on the axiological issues present in the discourse of the representatives of the Polish Brethren and contacts with the European thought.

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Apollinaire à travers l'Europe

Author(s): / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 2015

Result of the reflection of researchers from several countries (France, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland), the volume brings together studies on the presence of Europe (in the geographical and cultural sense) in the work of Apollinaire. The articles deal also with the major themes of European literature reflected in his writings, with reception of his work in Europe as well as with specific issues of its influence or resonance in Poland.

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Archeologia zatroskania. Staropolskie kalendarze w działaniu

Author(s): Ada Arendt / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2019

An analysis of Old Polish astrological almanacs that combines various scholarly traditions, such as elements of microhistory, anthropology of print and literacy, or the sociological theory of time. The author focuses on an anthropological understanding of the cultural practice and its implications for the functioning of memory, rationality and self-reflection, as well as the perception of time.

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Archiwa Polski i Europy: wspólne dziedzictwo – różne doświadczenia

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2017

The publication, divided into thematic blocks, provides an overview of archival issues in the broad context of the processes of shaping European archives, cooperation between them and the role archives play in society. The first part includes, among others texts on attempts to create a great European archive by Napoleon Bonaparte and contemporary tools for cooperation between the archives of a united Europe (European Archive Portal, ARENA projects, AREA and others). The second part deals with the interesting issue of the formation of archival science as a science and the development of archives in a situation of subordination to oppressive political systems in the interwar period (Germany, USSR), war (based on the fate of the Vilnius archives) and post-war (PRL). The third part includes texts on various Polish archives and methods used in archives, in the context of their practical use and in relation to the place that archives occupy in social life. The publication is summed up by a text discussing the French National Archives in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine as an example of a modern archive adapted (at least in intention) to the needs of modern users.

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Archiwiści i historycy wobec państwa i społeczeństwa. Zbiór studiów

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2020

The collective publication aims to show problems arising from the fact that history and archivistics serve many social roles. Therefore, the book presents a comprehensive study of academic circles, institutions and people who create different forms of narrative concerning the past.

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