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  • California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion’s Novels

    Exiled from Eden

    by Katarzyna Nowak McNeice ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion’s Novels: Exiled from Eden focuses on the concept of Californian identity in the fiction of Joan Didion. This identity is understood as melancholic, in the sense that the critics following the tradition of both Sigmund Freud and Walter Benjamin use the word. The book traces the progress of the way Californian identity is portrayed in ... Read more

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  • Refugee Voices in Modern Global History

    Reckoning with Refugeedom

    by Peter Gatrell, Katarzyna Nowak, Lauren Banko, Anindita Ghoshal ...
    Across modern history, refugees have articulated their experiences and wishes against the backdrop of mass displacement brought about by world wars, civil war, revolution, population exchange, decolonisation, and state formation. Men and women displaced in different sites, from different backgrounds, and at different times have played for high stakes: they deliberated about what to say and to whom ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Warsaw Ghetto Police

    The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation

    by Katarzyna Person ...
    Translated by Zygmunt Nowak-Soliński ...
    In ***Warsaw Ghetto Police,***Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service.Person tracks the everyday life of policemen as their involvement with the horrors of ghetto life gradually increased. Facing and engaging with brutality, corruption, and the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Bilingual Autobiographical Poetry of Henry Beissel

    by Paulina Katarzyna Nowak ...
    Series Book 41 - Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
    The book is the first academic study of Henry Beissel’s bilingual poetic autobiography. The Canadian poet going back through memories to his childhood in Nazi Germany, wrote a long poem in English and reinterpreted it in German – his mother tongue, neglected for decades. The study offers a comparative reading of the two distinctly different versions of the poem, juxtaposing various perspectives, ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare Market

    Opportunities and Threats

    by Katarzyna Szalonka, Jolanta Blicharz, Wioletta Nowak, Krzysztof Błoński, Tomasz Wiśniewski, Adrianna Szalonka, Konrad Żak ...
    The aim of this publication is to present the results of research on the use of AI tools’ potential in revolutionizing healthcare services.The book presents a study on the identification of unmet health needs in aging societies, indicating a gap in the supply of medical services. While the senior population is among the groups that frequently use healthcare services and where the demand gap is ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Primates in Flooded Habitats

    Ecology and Conservation

    Edited by Katarzyna Nowak, Adrian A. Barnett, Ikki Matsuda ...
    Nearly half the world's primate species use flooded habitats at one time or another, from swamp-going Congo gorillas and mangrove-eating proboscis monkeys, to uacaris in Amazonian riverside forests. This first-ever volume on the subject brings together experts from around the world in a ground breaking volume spanning fossil history, current biology and future research and conservation priorities. ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD

  • A Dark California

    Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture

    Edited by Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, Agata Zarzycka ...
    Focusing on portrayals of California in popular culture, this collection of new essays traces a central theme of darkness through literature (Toby Barlow, Angela Carter, Joan Didion, Thomas Pynchon, and Claire Vaye Watkins), video games (L.A. Noire), music (Death Grips, Lana Del Rey, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers), TV (True Detective and American Horror Story), and film (Starry Eyes, Southland ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands

    Edited by Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Dominika Ferens, Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, Marcin Tereszewski ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    This interdisciplinary collection explores the diverse relationships between the frequently ignored and inherently ambiguous hinterlands and their manifestations in literature and culture. Moving away from perspectives that emphasize the marginality of hinterlands and present them as devoid of agency and “cultural currency”, this collection assembles a series of original essays using various modes ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Complex Human Dynamics

    From Mind to Societies

    Edited by Andrzej Nowak, Katarzyna Winkowska-Nowak, David Brée ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book, edited and authored by a closely collaborating network of social scientists and psychologists, recasts typical research topics in these fields into the language of nonlinear, dynamic and complex systems. The aim is to provide scientists with different backgrounds - physics, applied mathematics and computer sciences - with the opportunity to apply the tools of their trade to an ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • The Return of History

    Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jennifer Welsh ...
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