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Every single human being is becoming unintentionally more and more dependent on Information and Communication technologies. In a reality of ambient intelligence we all sacrifice our rights for the sake of convenience and security.

Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies or cognitive skills? Are doomed to disintegration and an episodic self? This book examines how technologies affect our selves from the perspective of health humanities (e.g., transplantology, bionics, disability studies), phenomenology, philosophy of mind and posthumanism

The book deals with the fate of Poles from Poznan, Upper Silesia, Masuria, and Eastern Pomerania, who served in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. In regiments recruited on the Polish soil, it was common to use the Polish language, and from 1917 Poles deserted to the Polish Army in France

The book deals with the issue of the Holocaust in the Polish literature for children and adolescents. Drawing upon some of the leading Polish authors of the twentieth and the twentieth-first centuries, the author reveals the historical, ideological, and cultural entanglement of their works.

The work argues strongly that child adoption is something good and noble when it aims at the good and welfare of the child but at the same time not relegating the welfare of the adoptive parents to the background.

This book presents a comprehensive picture of binding relations in Polish and specifically focuses on two problem areas: (a) subject orientation of reflexives, and (b) the fact that dative experiencers locally bind both reflexive possessives and pronominal ones. The analysis rests on current minimalist mechanisms such as Agree, Valuation and Move.

This work is located in the field of contrastive media linguistics. Its goal is to examine the origin and nature of readers' comments by readers of French and English popular science magazines. The book dissects media content using text linguistic tools. Transmedial cultures are explored across time, platforms, languages, and editing houses.

Arbitration of intra-corporate disputes has an interdisciplinary angle combining arbitration and corporate law. The book has a solution-oriented approach. It acts as a guide for corporate practitioners arbitrating their disputes in Turkey. It provides risk analyses and proposals to minimize the risks to consider during all stages of arbitration.

This book deals with different visions of culture in management, emphasising epistemological and methodological pluralism, and the need for the development of new, creative concepts of culture. It presents reflections on the most significant cognitive problems of cultural currents.

The monograph covers the history of the only strictly scientific Polish musicological periodical. The subject allows the author to present the beginnings of Polish musicology and its evolution through three epochs: the late partitioning period, the interwar period of Poland's independence, and the early years after the Second World War.

The book investigates Kant's aesthetic theory and its problematic relation to theory of knowledge in his transcendental philosophy. It discusses the nature of Kant's aesthetic theory and that constitute a pure aesthetic judgment of reflection and attempts to clarify its proper place in critical philosophy regarding his theory of knowledge.

The authors include elements of social network analysis into the classical neo-institutional theories of the government coalition formation process. They verify the benefits and accuracy of this modified analytical model in the analysis of three deviant cases of coalition formation: in Canada (2008), Great Britain (2010) and New Zealand (2017).

Fur 600 soziokulturelle Zentren und Kulturinitiativen in Deutschland liegen keine nachhaltigen Handlungsansatze vor. Die qualitative Studie offenbart deutliche Lucken und Entwicklungspotentiale und formt erste Starthilfen, Wegweiser und Positionslichter fur eine strategische, zukunftsweisende Ausrichtung - nicht nur fur soziokulturelle Zentren.

This volume provides the reader with critical insights into language education policies. It focuses, among others, on migration and minority languages, indigenous languages, and content and language integrated learning instruction, underlining the strengths and weaknesses of these policies.

The main theme and objective of this work considers the evolution of the Irish attitude towards Poland and the Poles during the first half of the nineteenth century, and advanced Irish-Polish relations, emphasising the place of the Polish Question in the process of shaping modern Irish nationalism.

This book emerged out of the requirement of collecting theories about researching customer and its behaviors which changes with the interaction social media has created, which has a place to stay in relationship within the distances and timelessness created by speed incident to digitalization.

The authors of the book try to integrate the results of multidimensional research on problem of imagination, image, figurative thinking and symbol in a lot of traditions of European thought and contemporary philosophy and social practices.

Polish Literature and the Holocaust (1939-1968) scrutinizes literary and documentary testimonies rooted in that historical, political, and anthropological context and produced during (1939-1945) or after (1945-1968) the extermination of Jews in the Second World War. It overviews belles-lettres, personal document literature, and press publications.