Diversity of social, political, and cultural problems that modern Asian countries face encourages research intended to explain their sources and consequences. What is more, their multiformity means...więcej »
It has been nearly fifty years since Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) put forward the term "dialogic imagination" in the title of his four essays on language and the novel, thereb...więcej »
Future generations will consider the beginning of the 21st century as a historic moment when the effectiveness of elections as a democratic procedure began to be exhausted. The primary reason for t...więcej »
The study is based on a case study of a socio-educational microregion located in Central Pomerania. This case is considered from the point of view of teaching English in local schools. In this pers...więcej »
Half a century of research has resulted in machines capable of beating the best human chess players, and humanoid robots that can interact. But can machines really think? Is the mind just a complic...więcej »
A comic-book introduction to economics from David Orrell, the author of Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong. With illustrations from Borin Van Loon. Part of the internationally-recognised I...więcej »
How did the mind evolve? How does the human mind differ from the minds of our ancestors, and from the minds of our nearest relatives, the apes? What are the universal features of the human mind, an...więcej »
What is mathematics, and why is it such a mystery to so many people? Mathematics is the greatest creation of human intelligence. It affects us all. We depend on it in our daily lives, and yet many ...więcej »
Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really like? What is special about the human mind and consci...więcej »
In the book, the reader will be introduced to a collection of analyses on the multifaceted issue of pandemics from monodisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. The juxtaposition of research...więcej »
When Nicolaus Copernicus claimed that the Earth was not stationary at the centre of the universe but circled the Sun, he brought about a total revolution in the sciences and consternation in the Ch...więcej »
The first chapter deals with circumpolar poetry. Chapter 2 provides an analysis of a poem. Chapter 3 mainly thematizes the content of sagns, but also a little about how to use sagns in teaching. Th...więcej »
The Asia and Pacific Library book series is a unique initiative that promotes the most interesting works on Asian Studies by Polish and foreign authors. It deeply corresponds withe the business str...więcej »
Security is one of the fundamental human needs in the contemporary world. Not only citizens, but also political elites should have this awareness because it is them who are largely responsible for ...więcej »