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Cultural Studies of Drink. Drink, Alcohol and the Work of Cultural Representation. Alcohol (ab)use as a means of inspiration or artistic blockage. Writers and Alcohol. Life writing. Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Lawrence Osborne, Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Brendan Behan, Terence Rattigan, Eugene O'Neill, John Niven

The book is a scientific monograph, based on a natural experiment on cognitive, emotional and social functioning during the year-long isolation of 21 winter hounds at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station. The presented results are unique due to the longitudinal nature and high frequency of the research conducted.

The aim of the book is to refute the claim that God's omniscience, omnipotence and benevolence on the one hand and the existence of evil on the other are together inconsistent.

Neben seinen Großwerken hat Alexander von Humboldt (1769¿1859) auch ein umfangreiches publizistisches ¿uvre veröffentlicht: über 750 verschiedene Aufsätze, Artikel, Essays in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften und als Beiträge zu den Werken anderer Autoren. Rund 40 davon sind auch in russischer Sprache erschienen, vor allem im Anschluss an Humboldts Reise durch Zentral-Asien 1829. Es handelt sich um eine Erzählung, Reiseberichte und Briefe sowie Fachaufsätze zum Beispiel zur russischen Geologie. Sie werden in dieser Edition erstmals gesammelt und nach den historischen Originalen wiedergegeben.

The book covers the life of Piotr Michalowski, the most outstanding painter of Polish Romanticism. After the fall of the anti-Russian uprising, he left behind his career as a technocrat and pursued the arts. This change is documented by the sketchbook he kept in January 1832 which the authors analyze, delving into its deeper structure.

The monograph presents the Polish history of haiku and the forms associated with the genre - in literature and visual arts. Polish works are confronted with Japanese poetry (along with its aesthetic and philosophical contexts) and with haiku-inspired works of different Western authors. The book also touches upon various translatological problems.

The book illuminates the educational potential of nuclear tourism that becomes a site of outdoor and place-based education, promotes STEM, energy literacy, critical thinking, and environmental skills.

The book discusses such issues as: the definition of supervision over courts and judges; the differences between its various components; the scope of the supervision; the entities exercising it; the measures of supervision; the adoption of new technologies into the internal court organization; the trust placed in the courts.

Entering the third decade of the 21st century, Japan will have to face the new security challenges posed by the COVID-19 and manage its current relations with the United States and China, among others. This book focuses on internal and external factors that are influencing current Japanese security policy.

The study makes a significant contribution to the scholarship on Jeremiah in that it critically explicates who the corpus of Jeremiah calls nabi in the text and who not. This discovery is significant for the issue of true and false prophecy in Jeremiah 28.

This book covers deep researches from different perspectives and disciplines upon migration by successful and expert researchers in their fields. In this book, different and rigorous analyses of all areas influenced by migration were made in order to be one of the new reliable sources about the immigration studies with various dimensions.

The book provides new findings regarding the social, economic, and political development of the entire Slavic world in the early middle ages based on a critical edition of Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub's account of his trip to Slavic countries as transmitted by Al-Bakri.

This book showcases a kaleidoscope of tourism and hospitality topics, ranging from tourism education, to sustainable tourism, wildlife tourism, Brexit and tourism, and to travel intermediation, tourist motivation and experiences. This volume stimulates discussion on tourist experiences and management, from the viewpoint of various stakeholders.