Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

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Women and power

Kobiety i władza

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: women’s history; gender history; women’s power; political history; social history; women; authority; power

The book presents the results of studies on the history of women in Poland as well as in other countries and regions of the world. The authors analyse the relations of women and power from antiquity to the end of the 20th century – from court rivalry in the times of Artaxerxes II, through images of female rulers from the Piast and Jagiellonian dynasties, to women’s history in the 19th and 20th century.

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The Anatomy of Charismatic Leadership

Anatomia przywództwa charyzmatycznego

Author(s): Maria Wiśniewska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: leadership; charismatic leadership; social leaders; sociology of leadership

The monograph of one of the twenty five most influential women in Europe (according to The Wall Street Journal) contains the analysis of causative factors of leadership and sources of social perception of the leader’s charisma. The author, using her own professional experience and multi-disciplinary scientific knowledge, provides two model and theoretical conceptions: the first one refers to general leadership, the second one to charismatic leadership. The hypotheses are confronted by selected cases of leadership seen as charismatic: of John Paul II, Lech Wałęsa, Margaret Thatcher and Steve Jobs.

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A Human Family. The Reception of the Exhibition The Family of Man in Poland and a Humanistic Photographic Paradigm

Rodzina człowiecza. Recepcja wystawy "The Family of Man" w Polsce a humanistyczny paradygmat fotografii

Author(s): Kamila Dworniczak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: photography; photo report; modernism; art criticism; realism; humanism

The author analyses the original project of the exhibition, its travels around the world and the specific character of its presentation in Poland, as well as the phenomenon of humanistic photo report seen as a visual language in transnational communication, characteristic of the modern thinking about the medium.

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Climate Change. Getting the Basics Right

Klimatyczne ABC. Interdyscyplinarne podstawy współczesnej wiedzy o zmianie klimatu

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: climate change; mechanisms; causes; physical science basis; ecology; mitigation; adaptation

"Climate Change – Getting the Basics Right" is a compendium of reliable information on climate change, created as the initiative of scientists working at the University of Warsaw. Its authors are experts from a number of academic centers, working in various fields of science. The result is a textbook that is easy to read and interdisciplinary, as is the problem of climate change. The issues covered in this book are linked to such traditional school subjects as physics, chemistry, biology (including ecology), geography, psychology and social sciences. The book is divided into four parts that presenting the mechanisms (Part 1) and causes (Part 2) of climate change, the consequences of this process for life on our planet (Part 3), and the actions we can take to prevent the most negative effects of climate change (Part 4). The book is aimed at university students interested in better understanding the basics of climate change, regardless of their field of study, as well as teachers and high school students, and anyone looking for inspiration for appropriate action.

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Lege Artis Civil Law Journals. Volume 8

Zeszyty cywilistyczne Lege Artis. Tom 8

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: civil law; liabilities; property law; inheritance law; construction contracts

Lege Artis Civil Law Journals The publication contains articles analysing the latest issues in the field of broadly understood substantive civil law and procedural civil law. The texts concern such problems as: personal rights and intellectual property rights, the institution of exploitation and datio in solutum, liability for damages, Swiss franc mortgages, construction contracts, the protection of trade secret, inheritance law, company law and arbitration proceedings.

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Researchers of the Ancient World. Profiles of Scholars from the Archive of Professor Ryszard Gansiniec

Badacze świata starożytnego. Biogramy uczonych z archiwum profesora Ryszarda Gansińca

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Ryszard Gansiniec; classical philology; ancient history; classical archaeology

The books contains an edition of 29 profiles of Polish and foreign scholars of broadly understood antiquity studies: classical philology, ancient history and classical archaeology. The documents come from the personal archive of Ryszard Gansiniec (1888-1958), one of the most versatile Polish scholars. The profiles, written mostly in the interwar period, with some coming from World War Two days and the postwar years, provide valuable information on both prominent researchers and those who due to various circumstances have not registered in our collective memory.

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Minorities and Their Languages in the Face of Crisis. Anti-Stigmatisation Package for the Project „Language as a Cure: Linguistic Vitality as a Tool for Psychological Well-Being, Health and Economic Sustainability”

Меншыны і іх языкы в кризі. Антистиґматызацийный пакєт проєкту «Языковый антидот: языкова жывотніст як нарядя будуваня психічного добростану, здравля і постійного розвитку»

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: ethnic minorities; minority languages; minority discrimination; preventing discrimination; psychological well-being

The publication in Lemko, which is the result of the “Language as a Cure” project, analyses the influence of discrimination experienced by ethnic minorities and migrants on their health and well-being. It also looks at the benefits of preserving native languages and strong ethnic identity as well as the consequences of the pandemic for these groups. The books contains practical recommendations and solutions for improving the functioning of minority groups in Poland and supporting the efforts to preserve their languages and culture, preventing discrimination and stigmatization as well as building better relations between ethnic minorities and majorities.

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Estimating Water and Wastewater Tariffs. Regulatory and management aspects

Szacowanie taryf za wodę i ścieki. Aspekty regulacyjne i zarządcze

Author(s): Leszek Borowiec,Kinga Maciejewska / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: municipal market; public sector; market regulation; water supply; sewage disposal; monopoly market; accounting; accounting policy; tariff application; tariff

Written by practitioners, the monograph comprehensively presents the issues of municipal market regulation of water supply and sewage disposal from both regulatory and management perspectives. A source of new knowledge on the methodology of recording, obtaining, processing and reporting financial and non-financial information necessary for the regulator, the book can provide theoretical and practical assistance to managers and employees of the municipal sector, providers of collective water supply and sewage disposal services, market regulators, as well as to didacticians and postgraduate students interested in management in the municipal sector.

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What Would Hercules Do?

What Would Hercules Do?

Author(s): Susan Deacy / Language(s): English

Keywords: Choice of Hercules; autism; Classical Antiquity; mythology; inclusive education

One day, according to the Ancient Greek author Xenophon, the hero Hercules “went out to a quiet place and sat, pondering”. This book explores what happened here and how and why it can resonate with autistic young people. The book presents a set of ten lessons, each dealing with an aspect of what happened when Hercules entered the quiet place, met two women (or goddesses, or personifications…) and was tasked to make a choice between two paths, literal and metaphorical. The lessons deal, too, with particular dimensions of autism, including: communicating, emotions, decision-making, sensory experiences, planning and interests. This pathbreaking book should be of particular interest to professionals and practitioners looking to utilize the appeal of mythology in their work with autistic children and academics in areas such as education, Classics and literature interested in the experiential application of their subject.

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The Winter’s Tale

Opowieść zimowa

Author(s): William Shakespeare / Language(s): English

Keywords: William Shakespeare; new translation of Shakespeare’s plays; critical edition; The Winter’s Tale

Strong, fluent and precise translation by Piotr Kamiński, accompanied by an incisive preface and commentary by Anna Cetera-Włodarczyk, with a beautiful book design by Maciej Buszewicz. The edition includes footnotes and the lists of Polish translations and productions of "The Winter’s Tale". In The Winter’s Tale a farcically jealous lover declares himself a prophet: "How blest am I in my just censure, in my true opinion! Alack, for lesser knowledge! How accursed in being so blest! (2.1) This sudden surge of Leontes’s supernatural powers seals the fate of his Queen. We can see her briefly when she cuddles her little son but soon afterwards the Sicilian oikos crumbles: their home, their family are all gone. From now on Hermione assumes her part in an ancient tragedy and the plot plunges into pathos. She defends herself with stunning dignity, goes into labour and childbirth, appears at court, and, finally, falls unconscious. Even her offstage death is complaint with ancient conventions which refuse to turn death into a spectacle. (Preface by Anna Cetera-Włodarczyk)

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21st Century as the Pacific Century. Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition

21st Century as the Pacific Century. Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: regional policy; international policy; countries of the South Pacific; Oceania; climate changes

The publication, which is the result of a conference of the same title, aims to explain to the readers culture, political relations and climate conditions in the region of the South Pacific. The authors point to cause and effect relationships, provide figures and in-depth analyses of political, economic and social forces operating in Southeast Asia and Oceania and the influence countries of the region exert on the whole modern world.

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Imaging the Shoah

Obrazowanie Zagłady

Author(s): Krzysztof Rybak / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Polish literature; children's and young adult literature; Holocaust; Shoah

The book analyses Polish literary works on the Holocaust for children and young adults published in the 21st century. The author examines the representation of the Shoah in books for young readers and investigates how literary and visual portraits of people, space and time as well as peritexts are constructed. To achieve this, he uses narratology, post-memory and ideology studies.

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Rack Focuses

Przeostrzenia

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: cinema; political transformations; 20th century; Polish cinema; film studies

The book summarizes two moments of political breakthrough, which allows to look at Polish history in the 20th century not only from the perspective of violent transformations, but also long-lasting social, political and cultural narratives, reflected in Polish film productions, the organization of the film industry and the expectations the film audiences held of Polish cinema. The authors reflect on the narratives Polish filmmakers had to face, what elements of these narratives are present in Polish films which today prove both socio-political shocks and continuity and which form the complicated genealogy of the Third Polish Republic. The texts addressing this issue in German, Russian and Czechoslovakian cinema allow for seeing both transformations in Polish cinema in the transnational context.

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Vehicles of Memory. The Past and Power in Old Kraków (Until the End of the 18th Century)

Wehikuły pamięci. Przeszłość i władza w dawnym Krakowie (do końca XVIII w.)

Author(s): Piotr Okniński / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Kraków; burghers; Old Polish city; urban culture; city chancellery; city archive; culture of memor

The book is devoted to the culture of memory of the political elites of Kraków in the middle ages and early modern times (until the end of 18th century). The author concentrates on the workings of the city’s “vehicles of memory”: political practices aimed at the making, shaping and institutionalizing of the official memory of the city, whose chief medium were copies of privileges guarded in the city hall. This sui generis politics of memory on the part of Kraków authorities served above all to legitimize the autonomy of the city’s legal and political system. The centre coordinating the work of Kraków’s “vehicles of memory” was the chancellery run by the city council.

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Towards Community-Based Social Services

W stronę środowiskowych usług społecznych

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: professional aid activity; aid professions; deinstitutionalisation of aid practices; social services; community-based approach

The monograph presents the analytical and research output of the first year’s activities of the University Observatory on Deinstitutionalisation of Aid Practices (Uniwersyteckie Obserwatorium Deinstytucjonalizacji Praktyk Pomocowych, UODI) – a partnership initiative of University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation, Centre for Europe, and Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies. In 2022, the Observatory analysed aid activities in six problem areas (fosterage, disability, mental health, addictions, homelessness and senior programmes). Secondly, it looked at the emergence of deinstitionalisation policy in the European Union. Thirdly, aid addressed to Ukrainian war refugees was examined.

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The Multicultural Central-Eastern Europe: Experiences of the Past, Challenges of the Present

Wielokulturowość Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej: doświadczenia przeszłości i wyzwania teraźniejszości

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Polish,Ukrainian,Belarusian

Keywords: Central-Eastern Europe; identity; international relations; culture; national consciousness

The monograph is a fruit of research by representatives of a variety of academic disciplines: historians, cultural and literary studies scholars, and linguists studying Central-Eastern Europe. The polydisciplinary and multinational group of authors – scholars from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania – is united by their interest in the cultural identity of the region’s nations. The problem of the cultural history and the present of Central-Eastern Europe is presented in two perspectives: one looks at processes of shaping elements of the identity of Central-Eastern European nations, while the other offers highly-focused synchronic analyses of selected cultural phenomena.

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Discovering Belarus... On the Occasion of the 65th Anniversary of Belarusian Studies at the University of Warsaw

Спазнаючы Беларусь… Да 65-годдзя беларусістыкі Варшаўскага ўніверсітэта

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Polish,Belarusian

Keywords: Belarusian Studies in Warsaw; anniversary; history of the Department of Belarusian Studies at the University of Warsaw; linguistics; Belarus; Belarusian language

This monograph celebrates the 65th anniversary of Belarusian Studies at the University of Warsaw. It presents little-known facts from the history of the Department of Belarusian Studies as well as the Department’s present-day academic and didactic achievements and directions of its development. Apart from anniversary-related texts, the book feature research articles by Polish and Belarusian scholars, touching on socio-linguistic, anthropological, lexicographic, etymological, dialectological and toponymic questions, in both historical and modern contexts.

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The Influence of Melody and Rhythm on the Creation of Multivariate Perception of Auditory Scene Analysis. The Processing of Sounds into Perceptual Streams as Exemplified by Selected Musical Works

Wpływ melodyki i rytmiki na tworzenie wielowariantowości odbioru wrażeń słuchowych. Przetwarzanie dźwięków w strumienie percepcyjne na przykładzie wybranych dzieł muzycznych

Author(s): Adam Rosiński / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: musical acoustics; sound perception; auditory organization; music; analysis; auditory scene analysis

The presented book is devoted to the theoretical and practical aspects related to the classification and arrangement of sounds relating to perceptual streaming during the listener's perception of a piece of music. The author has attempted to analyse musical works in an innovative way, which takes into account the various perceptual aspects that may arise during the listening of a given piece, thus enabling the listener to interpret the music differently in the form of various variants. The book presents an analysis of works by the following composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Antonio Vivaldi. The author has deliberately chosen compositions that may be familiar to both musicians and people without musical training.

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Unique or universal. Japan and its Contribution to World Civilization. Volume 1

Unique or universal. Japan and its Contribution to World Civilization. Volume 1

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: Japan; Japanese culture; Japanese literature

The first volume of texts resulting from the international conference celebrating 100 years of Japanese Studies at the University of Warsaw opens with two texts paying homage to the history and tradition of researching Japan in Poland. In the subsequent chapters researchers specializing in the field of Japanese studies discuss the uniqueness or universality of Japanese philosophy, history, aesthetics, and visual arts, reflecting on Japan’s contribution to world civilization in relation to the globalizing world of blurred boundaries.

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Unique or universal. Japan and its Contribution to World Civilization. Volume 2

Unique or universal. Japan and its Contribution to World Civilization. Volume 2

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: Japan; Japanese culture; Japanese literature

The second volume of texts submitted for the international conference celebrating 100 years of Japanese Studies at the University of Warsaw contains articles on the uniqueness or universality of Japanese literature, language, theatre and film. The authors examine both classical and modern examples of Japanese prose, poetry, and performative arts, debating whether the numerous ‘unique’ areas of Japanese culture have become universally recognized, and already constitute an inseparable part of our contemporary transcultural world.

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