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Performing Arts

Polonica

(A)pollonia Twenty-First Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage

Duniec Krystyna, Klass Joanna, Krakowska Joanna

ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780857421784, Seagull Books, February 2014
416 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Questioning the ethics of historical narratives and the construction of national identities, this anthology of Polish plays explores the trauma of war, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, and reappraisals of the post-communist reality in Poland. The ele...

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Photography

Polonica

Liminal Spaces Jurek Wajdowicz. Fotografie_75

ISBN: PB: 9783037784105, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2014
112 pp., 38.1x29.5 cm, 75 illus.

Polish-born photographer Jurek Wajdowicz's new art book luxuriates the viewer with both saturated and minimalist images that float between abstraction and reality of both the perceived and the imagined. The largeness of this limited-edition publicati...

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Architecture

Design

Don't Brand My Public Space!

Baur Ruedi, Thiery Sebastien

ISBN: PB: 9783037783481, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2013
288 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 1669 illus.

"Don't Brand My Public Space!" is a critical investigation of the visual strategies employed to identify and brand political spaces. Isn't it about time to look at their often banal images as part of a crisis of political representation? In the conte...

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Europe

Polonica

Midnight Train to Siberia A Polish Family's Courage in Surviving the Wartime Hell Created by Stalin

Radomska Teresa, Goral Alicja

ISBN: PB: 9781909544765, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, March 2013
182 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

One freezing February night in 1940, fifteen-year-old Alicja Radomski, her parents and younger sister and brother were dragged from their home and forced to board a cattle train to be transported over a thousand miles to the wastes of Siberia. They w...

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Europe

Polonica

Chasing Warsaw Socio-Material Dynamics of Urban Change since 1990

Grubbauer Monika, Kusiak Joanna

ISBN: PB: 9783593397788, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
336 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Warsaw is one of the most dynamically developing cities in Europe, and its rich history has marked it as an epicenter of many modes of urbanism: Tzarist, modernist, socialist, and – in the past two decades – aggressively neoliberal. Focusing on Warsa...

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Europe

Polonica

Katyn A Crime Without Punishment

Cienciala Anna M., Lebedeva Natalia S., Materski Wojciech

ISBN: PB: 9780300195477, Yale University Press, January 2013
618 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The book shows the background and mechanics of the Soviet mass executions in spring 1940 of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war – army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians – taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. The...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Needle in the Bone How a Holocaust Survivor and a Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other

Mirriam-Goldberg Caryn

ISBN: HB: 9781612345680, Casemate, Potomac Books, November 2012
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.

"Needle in the Bone" highlights the astonishing stories of two Poles – a Holocaust survivor, Lou Frydman, and a Polish resistance fighter, Jarek Piekalkewicz. As mere teenagers during World War II, they defied daunting odds, lost everything and nearl...

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History of Art

Polonica

Drama and Devotion Heemskerck's Ecce Homo Altarpiece from Warsaw

Woollett Anne T.

ISBN: PB: 9781606061121, Getty Publications, July 2012
112 pp., 25.3x22.8 cm, 58 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.

This title offers a fascinating look at the efforts of the J. Paul Getty Museum to preserve and expose a stunning 16th century triptych. Maerten van Heemskerck (1498-1574) was one of the most active and inventive Dutch painters of the 16th century. O...

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Military

Polonica

Armed Forces of Poland in the West 1939-46 Strategic Concepts, Planning, Limited Success but no Victory!

Peszke Michael Alfred

ISBN: PB: 9781908916549, ISBN: HB: 9781909982604, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2012
80 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 photos, 3 maps

This monograph focuses on the strategic concepts, planning and the limited success of the Polish military, leading up to the British Guarantee of March, 1939 and then throughout the Second World War. Recreated in France, the Polish Military concept...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Diary

Gombrowicz Witold, translated by Lillian Vallee, new preface by Rita Gombrowicz

ISBN: PB: 9780300118063, Yale University Press, June 2012
800 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his "Diary" with one of literature's most memorable openings: Mond...

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