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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Marcos Kurtycz An Art of Total Action Against the State of War

ISBN: HB: 9788417047900, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, March 2021
376 pp., 28x22 cm, 635 colour and black&white illus.

This publication reproduces images of the posters, mail art, letters and artists' books that Polish-born artist Marcos Kurtycz (1934-96) made in defiance of the commodification of art Mexico, where he moved in the late 1960s.

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Literary Criticism

Europe

My Father, the Germans and I Essays, Lectures, Interviews

Becker Jurek

ISBN: PB: 9780857428240, ISBN: HB: 9781906497477, Seagull Books, March 2021
200 pp., 22.9x14 cm

Jurek Becker (1937-1997) is best known for his novel "Jacob the Liar", which follows the life of a man, who, like Becker, lived in the Lodz ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Throughout his career, Becker also wrote nonfic...

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Literary Criticism

Polonica

Malvina, or Spoken Word in the Novel

Szary-Matywiecka Ewa

ISBN: PB: 9788024645322, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book-length study, Ewa Szary-Matywiecka examines Maria Wirtemberska's Malvina, or the Heart's Intuition, an international success upon its publication in 1816 that is now widely co...

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Fiction

Polonica

Mountains of Parnassus

Milosz Czeslaw

ISBN: HB: 9780300214253, Yale University Press, March 2017
184 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

The Nobel laureate's unfinished science fiction novel-available in English for the first time ever Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz was one of the twentieth century's most esteemed poets and essayists. This outstanding tr...

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Linguistics

Polonica

Mood, Aspect, Modality Revisited New Answers to Old Questions

Blaszczak Joanna, Giannakidou Anastasia, Klimek-Jankowska Dorota, Migdalski Krzysztof

ISBN: HB: 9780226363523, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 15 line drawings, 14 tables

Over the past several decades, linguistic theorizing of tense, aspect, and mood (TAM), along with a strongly growing body of crosslinguistic studies, has revealed complexity in the data that challenges traditional distinctions and treatments of these...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Marlena Kudlicka

ISBN: HB: 9783954761722, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2016
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 40 colour illus., language: English

The roots of early modernism are palpable in the works of Marlena Kudlicka (b. Tomaszow Lubelski, 1973; lives and works in Berlin). She adopts the narrative register of the avant-garde to transpose it into a realm that lies beyond anonymous and stand...

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Chemistry

Biography & Memoires

Making Marie Curie Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information

Hemmungs Wirten Eva

ISBN: PB: 9780226422503, ISBN: HB: 9780226235844, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones

In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements – the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multipl...

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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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Military

Polonica

Military Government in Exile The Polish Government in Exile 1939-1945, a study of discontent

McGilvray Evan

ISBN: PB: 9781906033583, ISBN: HB: 9781908916976, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2010
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos, 1 map

This work examines the nature of the relationship between the British Government and the Polish Government-in-Exile, 1939-1945. The relationship was extremely difficult owing to the extremity of the time and the situations of the two governments. Bef...

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Polonica

Biography & Memoires

Malinowski Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1881-1920

Young Michael W.

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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