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Textbook is an attempt to present the history of Poland’s state system and law from the earliest times up to the present. Generally speaking, this publication is intended for Polish students who are studying law in English. It also attempts to popularize the history of Poland’s law abroad and it is the first work of this kind in Poland available in English. This will help to bring the subject-matter...

This book is an attempt at a reconstruction of complex relations between Byzantium and the Arabs from the sixth to the eighth century. It discusses the religious and political situation in the Middle East on the eve of the Arab conquest, characterises the attitude adopted by the inhabitants of Byzantine provinces toward the Arab invaders, analyses the administrative structures of Byzantium and the...

Henryk Warszawski, znany jako Wars, kompozytor, pianista, dyrygent i aranżer, debiutował przed wojną. Napisał muzykę do wielu filmów. Jego piosenki śpiewały największe gwiazdy międzywojennego kina i kabaretu: Loda Halama, Hanka Ordonówna, Tola Mankiewiczówna, Zula Pogorzelska oraz Eugeniusz Bodo, Andrzej Bogucki, Adolf Dymsza, Kazimierz Krukowski i Aleksander Żabczyński. Zmobilizowany w 1939 roku...

Alexandra Ziolkowska-Boehm’s “Open Wounds: A Native American Heritage”was inspired by her great uncle, sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski,who in response to the Lakota Sioux Indian Chief Henry Standing Bear’s request “tell my story in stone”, decided to sculpt Sioux Chief Crazy Horse from a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Ziolkowska-Boehm explores the real...