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Ciąg dalszy dramatycznej opowieści o podwodnych bitwach w czasie II wojny światowej. Tom drugi opisuje ostatnie trzy lata bitwy o Atlantyk, do maja 1945 roku, gdy szczęście odwróciło się od niemieckiej marynarki wojennej i poniosła ona największe straty ze wszystkich rodzajów sił zbrojnych III Rzeszy. Autor szczegółowo przedstawia najważniejsze...

A compelling story of 20th century events and people, including those familiar and unfamiliar to students. The goal of this book is to emphasize what students need to know about America's past to function best in the society that emerged from the 20th century. The authors accomplish this by using a strong, clear narrative as well as integrating...

'Philosophy is written in this great book which is continually open before our eyes - I mean the universe...' Galileo's astronomical discoveries changed the way we look at the world, and our place in the universe. Threatened by the Inquisition for daring to contradict the literal truth of the Bible, Galileo ignited a scientific revolution when he...

The German Minority in Interwar Poland analyzes what happened when Germans from three different empires - the Russian, Habsburg and German - were forced to live together in one new state. After the First World War, German national activists made regional distinctions among these Germans and German-speakers in Poland, with preference initially for...

The two-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation (OEBI) will fill a crucial need in the field of biblical studies by providing detailed, comprehensive treatments of the latest approaches to and methods for interpretation of the Bible written by expert practitioners. It will provide a single source for authoritative reference overviews...

Since the nineteenth century, it has been assumed that the concept of personal identity in the early modern period is bound up with secularization. Indeed, many explanations of the emergence of modernity have been based on this thesis, in which Shakespeare as a secular author has played a central role. However, the idea of secularization is now...