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Sketches from a Secret War A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine
ISBN: PB: 9780300125993, Yale University Press, October 2007
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus., 6 maps
The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him to different roles – intelligence operative, powerful statesman, underground activist, li...
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£22,00
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Crosses of Auschwitz Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland
ISBN: PB: 9780226993041, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
280 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 map, 5 tables, 39 halftones
In the summer and fall of 1998, ultranationalist Polish Catholics erected hundreds of crosses outside Auschwitz, setting off a fierce debate that pitted Catholics and Jews against one another. While this controversy had ramifications that extended we...
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£28,00
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When God Looked the Other Way An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption
ISBN: PB: 9780226004440, University of Chicago Press, May 2006
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 maps
Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian governments only recently admitted culpability. S...
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£13,00
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Reconstruction of Nations Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999
ISBN: PB: 9780300105865, Yale University Press, September 2004
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 34 illus.
Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood o...
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£19,99
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Malinowski Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1881-1920
ISBN: HB: 9780300102949, Yale University Press, May 2004
720 pp., 23.9x16.9 cm, 40 illus.
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was one of the most colourful and charismatic social scientists of the twentieth century. His contributions as a founding father of social anthropology and his complex personality earned him international notoriety an...
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£30,00
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Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922
ISBN: PB: 9780226644240, University of Chicago Press, November 2003
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods – the Back of the Yards and South Chicago – and the sto...
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£22,50
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Women and the Nazi East Agents and Witnesses of Germanization
ISBN: HB: 9780300100402, Yale University Press, September 2003
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 maps, 37 illus.
This book examines the role of women in Nazi Germany's "nationality struggle" during the 1930s and in measures to Germanize occupied Poland during World War II. Drawing on previously untapped material from Polish and German archives, as well as memoi...
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£30,00
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Ghetto Diary
ISBN: PB: 9780300097429, Yale University Press, June 2003
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) is one of the legendary figures to emerge from the Holocaust. A successful paediatrician and well-known author in his native Warsaw, he gave up a brilliant medical career to devote himself to the care of orphans. Like so ma...
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£14,99
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Presence of Myth
ISBN: PB: 9780226450575, University of Chicago Press, November 2001
145 pp., 23x15 cm
With "The Presence of Myth", Kolakowski demonstrates that no matter how hard man strives for purely rational thought, there has always been-and always will be-a reservoir of mythical images that lend "being" and "consciousness" a specifically human m...
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£21,00
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God Owes Us Nothing A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the Spirit of Jansenism
ISBN: PB: 9780226450537, ISBN: HB: 9780226450513, University of Chicago Press, May 1998
248 pp., 23x15 cm
"God Owes Us Nothing" reflects on the centuries-long debate in Christianity: how do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's responsibility for their own...
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£17,50
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£36,00
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