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At the beginning of 2020, the Polish justice system faced an unprecedented challenge due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The need to reduce face-to-face contact, limit the activities of...

1 Thess 1:9-10; 4:13-18; 5:1-11 (also 1 Cor 15) present Paul's extensive exhortations on the afterlife based on Christ's death and resurrection. Paul employs principally apocalyptic and...

The volume puts the "event, experiences and memory" at its center and integrates South-Eastern Europe more into the comparative picture of the "Great War". Der Band beleuchtet "Ereignis, Erfahrung...

The study provides a comprehensive description of from a micro- and macro-linguistic perspective. A corpus of different spoken and written genres is the basis for a detailed quantitative and...

The book contains contributions on the significance of German culture for Romanian art, language, and literature. Not only will the direct influence of German role models on Romanian culture be...

The book examines the impact of Europe-wide and global developments on national higher education systems along the issues of convergence and diversity, of equity and of the relationship of centres...

This monograph demonstrates that the Fourth Gospel is a detailed, sequentially organized reworking of the Acts of the Apostles. The strictly sequential, hypertextual dependence on Acts explains...

The infinitival particle to carries the feature irrealis and is one of the irrealis moods.Infinitives are of different sizes: control infinitive is bi-clausal, raising infinitive is mono-clausal and...

The ethnographic research into death rituals and food practices in the Polish-Belarusian borderland shows that the symbolic boundaries between the Catholic and Orthodox believers are dynamic and...

The book analyzes the methods used in the construction of the grounded type of sociological theory. It provides an overview of examples of qualitative research which are used for delineating the...

Much research has been conducted on PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and acculturative stress; this study addresses the two by redefining Heimat. Heimat is complex: this study proposes that it...

The monograph explores the heritage of Central and Eastern Europe, which is particularly important nowadays in the era of globalization, on the one hand, and nationalism, on the other, and the war on...

This is the first monograph to examine the notion of a translator's competence from the perspective of Gadamerian hermeneutics. The study's main objective is to depict different conceptualizations of...

The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries...

The horses in All the Pretty Horses are ubiquitous but rarely the center of attention. Their depiction is surprisingly authentic and without anthropomorphization. This book illustrates how an...

This book contains recent articles concerning the debate on human enhancement in light of moral philosophy and science. It offers not only the thorough consideration on the promise, limitations, and...

The book investigates the phenomenon of Frontism (a Swiss far-right movement) in the period between 1933 and 1945. Research has proven that Swiss Frontists attempted to mix Swiss national identity...

This monograph proposes a framework of analysis tailored specifically for a critical investigation of the ideology of power as it is linguistically illustrated in the military discourse of the...

The aim of the book is to analyze the perception of the Tsarist and Bolshevik Russia in the Polish political thought in the 19th and 20th century. The wide and well-documented research applied an...

The book examines diverse aspects of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The contributors analyze the improvement of the position of EU and US in the world economy, as well as in...

This book is primarily designed to address the legal challenges arising in international law and selected fields of national law, both as a result of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and,...

The book analyzes the constitutional rules and property rights for the German economy in 1990-2015. It is an economic historical study embedded in positive constitutional economics and the property...

This dissertation investigates the influence of large family shareholders on financial decisions and the performance of listed firms in Germany. This country is especially interesting, as the German...

This book is an investigation into the correlation between level of extroversion, orientation of locus of control and gender on levels of attainment in reading and listening at the university level,...

The translation celebrations were a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of the French kingship. The book discusses the translation of the Crown of Thorns on the background of both...

This book draws attention to the reception of Oskar Kolberg's folklorist's work outside of Poland. It also presents the work of other scholars active in Eastern Europe from the nineteenth century to...

The volume explores the various 'labyrinths' of Leibniz's philosophy, i.e. hard-to-solve problems in which the human mind in entangled. In addition to the two well-known mazes of freedom and...

The Land Between is the first concise history of Slovenia and Slovenes written in English by leading scholars from the country. The authors base their arguments on Slovenian, former Yugoslav, and...

The work, entitled The Language of Czech and Polish Civil Law Contracts: A Comparative Study Based on Corpus Research, is devoted to aspects of the field of specialised translation and provides an...

This monograph offers an analysis of the lexical domain of beauty and other additional lexical domains that are figuratively used to refer to beauty, highlighting their central role in the...