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  • God Owes Us Nothing

    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 salvation or damnation. Leszek Kolakowski approaches this paradox as both an exercise in theology and in revisionist Christian history based on ... Read more

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  • Modernity on Endless Trial

    Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have never appeared before in English."Exemplary. . . . It should be celebrated." —Arthur C. Danto, New York Times Book Review"This book . . . express[es] Kolakowski's thought on God, man, reason, history, ... Read more

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  • Women and Weapons in the Viking World

    Amazons of the North

    "Invigorating . . . Gardeła reappraises the connections between women and violence in an early-medieval society that has left few texts to guide us." — Studies in Late AntiquityThis book sets out to investigate the idea of "the armed woman" in the Viking Age through a comprehensive and cross-cultural approach and weaves a nuanced picture of women's lives in the Viking world.The Viking Age (c. AD ... Read more

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  • The Norse Sorceress

    Mind and Materiality in the Viking World

    Old Norse literature abounds with descriptions of magic acts that allow ritual specialists of various kinds to manipulate the world around them, see into the future or the distant past, change weather conditions, influence the outcomes of battles, and more. While magic practitioners are known under myriad terms, the most iconic of them is the völva. As the central figure of the famous mythological ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Japanese Security

    Edited by Leszek Buszynski ...
    Series series Handbooks on Japanese Studies
    Japan has risen in stature to become an important player not only in the Western Pacific, but the wider Indo-Pacific. From a defeated nation that adopted a pacifist constitution and demilitarization, Japan has been provoked by unwelcomed external events to ensure its security. It has faced a challenging security environment and specific threats that have transformed its domestic politics and given ... Read more

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  • Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing

    An Algorithm for Mitigating Hallucinations in LLMs

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume constitutes the proceedings of 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2025, Zakopane, Poland, during June 22–26, 2025.The 83 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions.They are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I - Neural Networks and Their Applications; Fuzzy Systems and Their ... Read more

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  • Software Technologies

    20th International Conference, ICSOFT 2025, Bilbao, Spain, June 10–12, 2025, Revised Selected Papers

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software Technologies, ICSOFT 2025, held in Bilbao, Spain, during June 10–12, 2025.The 6 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They were organized into topical sections as follows: Software Engineering and Systems Development; and ... Read more

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  • Key to the identification and ecology of Daphnia (Crustacea: Cladocera) of North America (north of Mexico)

    The key to North American (north of Mexico) Daphnia (Crustacea, Cladocera), along with the information about species ecology, distribution and recent taxonomic progress of the field, constructed in such a way that should be easy to use by unexperienced person. ... Read more

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  • Systems Biology

    Functional Strategies of Living Organisms

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open-access textbook is an excellent introduction to systems biology, which has developed rapidly in recent years. It discusses the processes in living organisms in an integrated way, enabling the reader to understand the fundamental principles and cause-effect relationships in biology and biochemistry. The authors have chosen an original but at the same time clear way of presenting the ... Read more

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  • Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing

    22nd International Conference, ICAISC 2023, Zakopane, Poland, June 18–22, 2023, Proceedings, Part I

    Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    The two-volume set LNAI 14125 and 14126 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2023, held in Zakopane, Poland, during June 18–22, 2023.The 84 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 175 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical ... Read more

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  • Is God Happy?

    Selected Essays

    The late Leszek Kolakowski was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. A prominent anticommunist writer, Kolakowski was also a deeply humanistic thinker, and his meditations on society, religion, morality, and culture stand alongside his political writings as commentaries on intellectual-and everyday-life in the twentieth century.Kolakowski’s extraordinary empathy, humor ... Read more

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  • Roman Ingarden’s Aesthetics and Ontology

    Contemporary Readings

    This volume explores the work of Polish phenomenologist Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) with respect to his ontology, epistemology and aesthetics. An outstanding student of Edmund Husserl, it offers a unique tribute to one of the most important figures in contemporary philosophy.Leszek Sosnowski and Natalia Anna Michna introduce a team of renowned scholars to present new and timely readings of Ingarden ... Read more

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