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Crises of the Sentence
ISBN: PB: 9780226617190, ISBN: HB: 9780226617053, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
There are few forms in which so much authority has been invested with so little reflection as the sentence. Though a fundamental unit of discourse, it has rarely been an explicit object of inquiry, often taking a back seat to concepts such as the wor...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Mountains of Parnassus
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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£12,99
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Jewish Families in Europe, 1939-Present History, Representation, and Memory
ISBN: PB: 9781512600100, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, January 2017
306 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children....
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Uncanny Era Conversations between Vaclav Havel and Adam Michnik
ISBN: HB: 9780300204032, Yale University Press, July 2015
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 colour illus.
Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel first encountered Polish historian and dissident Adam Michnik in 1978 at a clandestine meeting on a mountaintop along the Polish-Czechoslovak border. This initial meeting of two extraordinary thinkers who "...
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Trouble with History Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300185973, Yale University Press, July 2015
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to t...
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House of Shadows
ISBN: HB: 9780857420282, Seagull Books, December 2014
484 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroiled in the struggle for Polish independence. This is a history of Eastern Europe told in miniature throug...
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Alicja Kwade Grad der Gewissheit
ISBN: HB: 9783954760510, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, February 2014
160 pp., 28x21 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English / German
The sculptures, video works, and installations of Alicja Kwade (b. Katowice, Poland, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) explore economic, scientific, and socio-cultural systems and their inherent uncertainties. For example, the artist traces the flows...
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£32,50
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Needle in the Bone How a Holocaust Survivor and a Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and Found Each Other
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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£18,00
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Escape from the Nazis The Incredible and Inspiring Saga of Two Young Jews on the Run in World War II Poland
ISBN: HB: 9781550280555, Casemate, Formac-Lorimer, January 2011
211 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm
Ben Mandelkern was only 23 when the Nazis invaded his native Poland in September 1939. From then until the end of the war his one concern was survival. Like other Polish Jews, Ben and his young wife, Helena, came face to face with the evil of Nazism...
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Military Government in Exile The Polish Government in Exile 1939-1945, a study of discontent
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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