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The Holocaust Ethos in the 21st Century. Dilemmas and Challenges – ebook
Dan Soen Nitza Davidovitch
The contributions to this volume on the ethos of the Holocaust in the 21st century, and the dilemmas and challenges of Holocaust education, represent a wealth of experience based on studies conducted by scholars from Israel and beyond. Each offers a unique perspective on this issue.Data dostępności:
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Travel and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century British Writing – ebook
Magdalena Pypeć Przemysław Uściński
The essays collected in the volume cover a wide selection of texts representing different genres, literary currents and ideological perspectives to offer diverse interpretative insights into the cultural significance of travel and foreignness in British writing of the nineteenth century. Taken together, they aptly display the complexity of attitudes towards the Other as well as the diversity of textual...Data dostępności:
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Spartan symmachy in the VI and V century BCE – ebook
Aleksander Wolicki
The book contains systematic critique of the traditionalist model’s historiographical assumptions concerning the Spartan alliances in the VI and V century BCE. First chapter is devoted to the critique of the sources. In the second chapter we look at three areas where the original impulse for the creation of a coherent, uniform alliance around Sparta has been sought: Sparta’s helot problem, relations...Data dostępności:
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Terrorism in the 21st century in the light of law – ebook
Dominika Dróżdż
This book explorers the most recent trends in terrorism in the 21th century. A central theme of this book is the in-depth analysis of the West with the risk from the Islamic State and Al-Quaida that could be seen for example in Paris and Brussels attacks; their strength is also seen in the ISIS territory. The Islamic State and Al-Quaida can loose their role in the war, but it seems that Al Quaida and...Data dostępności:
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Byzantium and the Arabs. The Encounter of Civilizations from Sixth to Mid-Eighth Century – ebook
Teresa Wolińska Paweł Filipczak
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...Data dostępności:
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A Thorny Path – ebook
Georg Ebers Clara Bell
A nineteenth-century novel from a German Egyptologist and novelist who discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus in Luxor. Georg Ebers wanted to familiarize the public with the discoveries of Egyptologists. The novel really describes the hard life of Egypt in the 19th century. An unusual theme for the novel was chosen, but really interesting and exciting.Data dostępności:
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Sanditon And Other Miscellanea – ebook
Jane Austen
Sanditon And Other Miscellanea contains: Plan of a Novel Sanditon The Watsons Cancelled Chapter of "Persuasion" Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing...Data dostępności:
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Prince Roman – ebook
Joseph Conrad
Prince Roman is a Pole who relinquishes his comfortable position in the aristocracy to fight as an unknown soldier, resisting Russian oppression. In captivity, he has every opportunity to avoid punishment, but he declares his unconditional commitment to the liberation of Poland. As a result, he suffers a quarter century in the imperial equivalent of the Gulag – Siberian mines in the ninth century,...Data dostępności:
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Ninety-Three – ebook
Victor Hugo
The historical novel of the famous and my beloved French writer, a fiery patriot of his homeland, a convinced democrat and great humanist. Hugo, in his novel, imbued with the spirit of freedom and humanity, shows the greatness of the revolutionary coup of the end of the 18th century, the fearlessness and heroism of the French revolutionary people, who staunchly defended their homeland from counter-revolutionary...Data dostępności:
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Looking Backward – ebook
Edward Bellamy
This is a book about a man of 1887, who turned out to be in 2000. It was actually written in 1887, and author Edward Bellamy predicts certain things, such as radio and credit cards. The main character discovered that all social class differences were erased, and there is a utopian society. He wonders how in the twenty-first century all kinds of music are available at the touch of a button. Credit card...Data dostępności:
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