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Polish Folktales and Folklore

By: Michal Malinowski,Anne Pellowski

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Wit, humor, and warmth permeate the stories in this collection. Here are more than 50 traditional folktales from the people of Poland, ranging from animal and humorous tales to why stories, tales of magic and the supernatural, and local legends. In addition, you'll find riddles, nursery rhymes, games and activities, recipes, and background information on the land, the people, and the stories-all enhanced by maps and handsome color photos and illustrations. A wonderful addition to the folklore collection, this book provides material that folklorists will wish to study, storytellers will be eager to share with their audiences, and educators will want explore with their students. A delicious assortment of folktales from Poland awaits you in this appealing collection. More than 50 tales range from local legends, animal tales, and magic tales to religious legends, stories of demons and supernatural creatures, humorous tales, and how and why tales-exemplifying the Polish spirit, character, and sense of humor. In addition, you'll find historical background; directions for traditional games, crafts, recipes; and color photographs that depict the people, the land, and the traditions of this fascinating country.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1598845020

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Developing Multilingual Education Policies

Theory, Research, Practice

By: Michal Tannenbaum,Elana Shohamy

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Developing Multilingual Education Policies

Theory, Research, Practice

By: Michal Tannenbaum,Elana Shohamy

Multilingual policies are increasingly important and required in educational settings worldwide, yet a solid experimental body of theory, research, and practice providing guidance for the development of policies is lacking. The Israeli context presented in this book serves as a case study or a model that could be used by bodies or entities seeking to devise a multilingual policy. The authors begin by addressing the general notion of a multilingual education policy with specific reference to the Israeli context. The book then focuses on specific challenges confronting the new policy that have been explored in empirical studies, and concludes with a proposed framework for a new multilingual education policy related to the core theoretical topics and empirical findings discussed in the previous chapters. This framework includes principles and strategies for implementing the process described in the book in other contexts, ensuring wide applicability and relevance. Developing Multilingual Education Policies: Theory, Research, Practice is an essential read for all involved in language policy and planning within applied linguistics and education.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000829367

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9781000829365

Applications of Numerical Methods in Molecular Spectroscopy

By: Peter Pelikan,Michal Ceppan,Marek Liska

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Applications of Numerical Methods in Molecular Spectroscopy

By: Peter Pelikan,Michal Ceppan,Marek Liska

Applications of Numerical Methods in Molecular Spectroscopy provides a mathematical background, theoretical perspective, and review of spectral data processing methods. The book discusses methods of complex spectral profile separation into bands, factor analysis methods, methods of quantitative analysis in molecular spectroscopy and reflectance spectroscopy, and new data processing methods. Mathematical methods in special areas of molecular spectroscopy, such as color science, electron spin resonance, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies are also covered. The book will benefit researchers and postgraduate students in fields of chemistry, physics, and biology.

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CRC Press

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100009894X

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9781000098945

EU-Space and the Euroclass

Modernity, Nationality and Lifestyle among Eurocrats in Brussels

By: Pawel Michal Lewicki

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EU-Space and the Euroclass

Modernity, Nationality and Lifestyle among Eurocrats in Brussels

By: Pawel Michal Lewicki

How are prestige and power anchored in EU-Brussels? Which performances are valued and which are not? Pawel Lewicki's ethnographic analysis gives an insight into how different understandings of modernity and class structures reproduce national performances and stereotypes among EU civil servants. Divisions permeate both political and private life and are not only visible on the map of the city, but also in lifestyles of people living and working in EU-Brussels. In such a cultural setting the strategies applied by newcomers to the EU are shown by Pawel Lewicki in an impressive way. He shows how their presence reveals deeper postcolonial and (post-)imperial dynamics at the heart of the Union.

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transcript Verlag

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3839439744

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9783839439746

London's Polish Borders

Transnationalizing Class and Ethnicity among Polish Migrants in London

By: Michal P. Garapich

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London's Polish Borders

Transnationalizing Class and Ethnicity among Polish Migrants in London

By: Michal P. Garapich

The figure of the Polish plumber or builder has long been a well-established icon of the British national imagination, uncovering the UK's collective unease with immigration from Central and Eastern Europe. But despite the powerful impact the UK's second largest language group has had on their host country's culture and politics, very little is known about its members. This painstakingly researched book offers a broad perspective on Polish migrants in the UK, taking into account discursive actions, policies, family connections, transnational networks, and political engagement of the diaspora. Born out of a decade of ethnographic studies among various communities of Polish nationals living in London, Michal P. Garapich documents the changes affecting both Polish migrants and British society, offering insight into the inner tensions and struggles within what is often assumed to be a uniform and homogeneous category. From Polish financial sector workers to the Polish homeless population, this groundbreaking book provides a street-level account of cultural and social determinants of Polish migrants as they continually rework their relation to class and ethnicity.

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Columbia University Press

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3838266072

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9783838266077

The Palace Complex

A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed

By: Michal Murawski

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The Palace Complex

A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed

By: Michal Murawski

An exploration of the history and significance of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was “gifted” to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace’s visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from a “Palace of Culture complex.” Despite attempts to privatize it, the Palace remains municipally owned, and continues to play host to a variety of public institutions and services. The Parade Square, which surrounds the building, has resisted attempts to convert it into a money-making commercial center. Author Michal Murawski traces the skyscraper’s powerful impact on twenty-first century Warsaw; on its architectural and urban landscape; on its political, ideological, and cultural lives; and on the bodies and minds of its inhabitants. The Palace Complex explores the many factors that allow Warsaw’s Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city. “The most brilliant book on a building in many years, making a case for Warsaw’s once-loathed Palace of Culture and Science as the most enduring and successful legacy of Polish state socialism.” —Owen Hatherley, The New Statesman’s“Books of the Year” list (UK) “An ambitious anthropological biography of Poland’s tallest and most infamous building, the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. . . . It is a truly fascinating story that challenges a tenacious stereotype, and Murawski tells it brilliantly, judiciously layering literatures from multiple disciplines, his own ethnographic work, and personal anecdotes.” —Patryk Babiracki, H-Net History

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Indiana University Press

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0253039991

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9780253039996

War Narratives in Post-Conflict Societies

Keeping the Past Alive in the former Yugoslavia

By: Michal Mochtak

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War Narratives in Post-Conflict Societies

Keeping the Past Alive in the former Yugoslavia

By: Michal Mochtak

This book studies war narratives and their role in the political arenas of post-conflict societies, with a focus on the former Yugoslavia. How do politicians in postwar societies talk about the past war? How do they discursively represent vulnerable social groups created by the conflict? Does the nature of this representation depend on the politicians’ ideology, personal characteristics, or their record of combat service? The book answers these questions by pairing natural language processing tools and large corpora of parliamentary debates collected in three southeast European post-conflict societies (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia). Using the latest advances in computer science, the book explores patterns in the war discourse of the political elites of these countries and discusses how politicians talk about war in terms of common narratives and shared frameworks. Mapping over 20 years of parliamentary debates, the book presents a new perspective on the role of the legacies of war in public space and develops theoretical arguments about reconciliation in post-conflict societies. The wars of the 1990s and the breakup of Yugoslavia have created three totally different settings for remembering the past conflicts in these countries, despite their common history. It is a story of victorious battles (Croatia), past grievances (Bosnia-Herzegovina), and denial (Serbia), showing the different flavors of past wars in various national contexts that are symptomatic of many post-conflict societies in different parts of the world. This book will be of much interest to students of war and conflict studies, southeastern European politics, discourse analysis, and international relations.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003857116

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9781003857112

A Comparison of 20th Century Theories of Style (in the Context of Czech and British Scholarly Discourses)

By: Michal Křístek

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A Comparison of 20th Century Theories of Style (in the Context of Czech and British Scholarly Discourses)

By: Michal Křístek

Práce poskytuje srovnání teoretických přístupů k problematice stylu, a to v rámci českého a anglosaského (především britského) kontextu. Cílem bylo ukázat a srovnat odlišná metodologická pojetí založená na odlišných teoretických východiscích – proto byly zvoleny dva odlišné kulturní okruhy: pozornost je však samozřejmě věnována také vztahů mezi nimi. Dvacáté století bylo vybráno úmyslně, jako období, v němž se v obou prostředích stylistika konstituovala jako moderní teoretická disciplína opírající se o základnu lingvistiky a literární vědy. Práci mohou využít jak domácí, tak zahraniční studenti a vyučující, především bohemisté a anglisté.

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Masarykova univerzita

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8021082178

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9788021082175

Oxide Scale Behavior in High Temperature Metal Processing

By: Michal Krzyzanowski,John H. Beynon,Didier C. J. Farrugia

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Oxide Scale Behavior in High Temperature Metal Processing

By: Michal Krzyzanowski,John H. Beynon,Didier C. J. Farrugia

The result of a fruitful, on-going collaboration between academia and industry, this book reviews recent advances in research on oxide scale behavior in high-temperature forming processes. Presenting novel, previously neglected approaches, the authors emphasize the pivotal role of reproducible experiments to elucidate the oxide scale properties and develop quantitative models with predictive accuracy. Each chapter consists of a detailed, systematic examination of different aspects of oxide scale formation with immediate impact for researchers and developers in industry. The clear and stringent style of presentation makes this monograph both coherent and easily readable.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527630325

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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part I: 1918-1968

By: Balázs Trencsényi,Michal Kopeček,Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič,Maria Falina,Mónika Baár,Maciej Janowski

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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part I: 1918-1968

By: Balázs Trencsényi,Michal Kopeček,Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič,Maria Falina,Mónika Baár,Maciej Janowski

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a synthetic work, authored by an international team of researchers, covering twenty national cultures and 250 years. It goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of political ideas and discourses. Its principal aim is to make these cultures available for the global 'market of ideas' and revisit some of the basic assumptions about the history of modern political thought, and modernity as such. The present volume is a sequel to Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century'. It begins with the end of the Great War, depicting the colorful intellectual landscape of the interwar period and the increasing political and ideological radicalization culminating in the Second World War. Taking the war experience both as a breaking point but in many ways also a transmitter of previous intellectual traditions, it maps the intellectual paradigms and debates of the immediate postwar years, marked by a negotiation between the democratic and communist agendas, as well as the subsequent processes of political and cultural Stalinization. Subsequently, the post-Stalinist period is analyzed with a special focus on the various attempts of de-Stalinization and the rise of revisionist Marxism and other critical projects culminating in the carnivalesque but also extremely dramatic year of 1968. This volume is followed by Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part II: 1968-2018.

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Oxford University Press

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0191056960

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Book's by Michal Malinowski

Polish Folktales and Folklore

Polish Folktales and Folklore

Developing Multilingual Education Policies

Developing Multilingual Education Policies

Applications of Numerical Methods in Molecular Spectroscopy

Applications of Numerical Methods in Molecular Spectroscopy

EU-Space and the Euroclass

EU-Space and the Euroclass

London's Polish Borders

London's Polish Borders

The Palace Complex

The Palace Complex

War Narratives in Post-Conflict Societies

War Narratives in Post-Conflict Societies

A Comparison of 20th Century Theories of Style (in the Context of Czech and British Scholarly Discourses)

A Comparison of 20th Century Theories of Style (in the Context of Czech and British Scholarly Discourses)

Oxide Scale Behavior in High Temperature Metal Processing

Oxide Scale Behavior in High Temperature Metal Processing

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

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