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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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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot The Roof Garden Commission

Baum Kelly, Wagstaff Sheena

ISBN: PB: 9781588396679, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2019
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 58 colour illus.

Contemporary artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) has received international acclaim for her minimalist, large-scale sculptures and installations intended to parse, but not resolve, various scientific and metaphysical conundrums. Kwade's site-specific insta...

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Travel

Biography & Memoires

Wartime Notebooks France, 1940-1944

Bobkowski Andrzej, Drabik Grazyna, Engelstein Laura

ISBN: HB: 9780300176711, Yale University Press, November 2018
704 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 black&white illus.

A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress. When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied Fr...

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Contemporary Art

Polonica

Die Spuren

Balka Miroslaw

ISBN: HB: 9783954762330, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, May 2018
132 pp., 26.1x19.7 cm, black&white illus., language: English / German

Miroslaw Balka (born 1958 in Warsaw, lives and works in Otwock, Poland) doesn't shy away from emptiness, nothingness, and death. With his existential questions, Balka counts among the internationally bestknown Polish artists of his generation. Along...

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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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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

Jewish Studies

Death of the Shtetl

Bauer Yehuda

ISBN: PB: 9780300167931, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm

In this book Yehuda Bauer, an internationally-acclaimed Holocaust historian, recounts the destruction of the shtetls, small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia, at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942. Bauer brings together all available documents, test...

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Polonica

Cultural Studies

Bagel The Surprising History of a Modest Bread

Balinska Maria

ISBN: PB: 9780300158205, Yale University Press, July 2009
242 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Maria Balinska's captivating cultural history of the bagel and its journey through the centuries.

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Polonica

Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of Interwar Europe

Borzecki Jerzy

ISBN: HB: 9780300121216, Yale University Press, April 2008
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus., 6 maps

The Soviet-Polish peace treaty of 1921, also known as the "Riga peace", ended the war of 1919-1920 and may be considered the most important Eastern European treaty of the interwar period. This deeply researched book offers the first post-Soviet accou...

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