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Acrobat of the Heart, An  Item#: BK2398
An Acrobat of the Heart: A Physical Approach to Acting Inspired by the Work of Jerzy Grotowski Written by Stephen Wangh Afterword by Andre GregoryWhen the renowned Polish director Jerzy Grotowski began his 1967 American workshop with the ...
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Another Day of Life  Item#: BK2405
Another Day of Life Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand & Katarzyna Mroczkowska-BrandIn 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the ...
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Black Book of Communism, The  Item#: BK2533
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression Written by Stephane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panne, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin Translated by Jonathan Murphy Edited by Mark KramerAlready famous ...
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Captive Mind, The  Item#: BK2388
The Captive Mind Written by Czeslaw Milosz Translated from the Polish by Jane Zielonko Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of the East, ...
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Defense of Ardor, A  Item#: BK2426
A Defense of Ardor: Essays Written by Adam Zagajewski Translated from the Polish by Clare CavanaghArdor, inspiration, the soul, the sublime: such terms have long since fallen from favor among critics and artists alike. In his new collection ...
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Democracy at Dawn: Notes from Poland and Points East  Item#: BK2523
Democracy at Dawn: Notes from Poland and Points East by Frederick QuinnFrom the sweeping changes of democratic reform to the bloody conflict of the Chechen Republic, 1993-95 was a tumultuous time for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet ...
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Democratic Government in Poland  Item#: BK2549
Democratic Government in Poland: Constitutional Politics Since 1989 by George SanfordDemocratic government has now been entrenched in Poland. An increasingly significant European actor, Poland presents problematic but also stimulating challenges ...
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Emperor, The  Item#: BK2407
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand & Katarzyna Mroczkowska-BrandHaile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and ...
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Exile Mission, The  Item#: BK2440
The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939-1956 by Anna D. Jaroszynska-KirchmannThe Exile Mission explores the interactions between two distinct Polish immigrant groups: those Polish Americans who were ...
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Framing the Polish Home  Item#: BK2444
Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self Edited by Bozena ShallcrossAs the subject of ideological, aesthetic, and existential manipulations, the Polish home and its representation is an ever-changing ...
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Germany, Poland and Europe: Conflict, Cooperation and Europe  Item#: BK2551
Germany, Poland and Europe: Conflict, Co-operation and Europeanization by Marcin ZaborowskiThe Second World War began with Germany's invasion of Poland and ended with Europe humiliated and split between two Superpowers. Fifty years later ...
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History of Poland, A  Item#: BK2433
A History of Poland by Anita J. PrazmowskaThe turbulent history of Poland has long attracted international interest. In this wide-ranging survey, Anita J. Prazmowska explores the story of Poland from early settlements, through to the emergence ...
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Imperium  Item#: BK2409
Imperium Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski Translated from the Polish by Klara GlowczewskaThe Polish journalist whose The Soccer War and The Emperor are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in Imperium to the ...
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Main Currents of Marxism  Item#: BK2437
Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown Written by Leszek Kolakowski Translated from the Polish by P.S. FallaRenowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and ...
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My Century  Item#: BK2395
My Century: The Odyssey of a Polish Intellectual Written by Aleksander Wat Edited & Translated from the Polish by Richard Lourie Introduction by Czeslaw MiloszIn My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account ...
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Poland  Item#: BK2396
Poland: A Novel by James A. MichenerLike the heroic land that is its subject, James Michener's Poland teems with vivid events and unforgettable characters in the sweeping span of eight tumultuous centuries. In a tradition of resistance to ...
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Poland Between East and West  Item#: BK2532
Poland Between East and West: The Controversies over Self-Definition and Modernization in Partitioned Poland by Andrzej WalickiHarvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies: The August Zaleski Lectures Harvard University, 18-22 April 1994Lecture ...
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Polish Writers on Writing: The Writers World Series  Item#: BK2569
Polish Writers on Writing: The Writers World Series Edited by Adam Zagajewski Featuring twentieth-century writers, including Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, as well as celebrated poet Zbigniew Herbert and ...
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Politics and Government in the Visegrad Countries  Item#: BK2546
Politics and Government in the Visegrad Countries: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia by John FitzmauriceWritten in 1998, the four countries that are the subject of this book were most likely to become the first Central European ...
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Privatizing the Police-State: The Case of Poland  Item#: BK2547
Privatizing the Police-State: The Case of Poland Written by Maria Los and Andrzej Zybertowicz Forward by Gary T. MarxThis is the first book that documents and analyzes the paramount role of secret services in the decomposition of the communist ...
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Shadow of the Sun, The  Item#: BK2410
The Shadow of the Sun Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski Translated from the Polish by Klara GlowczewskaIn 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of ...
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Shah of Shahs  Item#: BK2408
Shah of Shahs Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand & Katarzyna Mroczkowska-BrandIn Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of ...
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Soccer War, The  Item#: BK2406
The Soccer War Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski Translated from the Polish by William R. BrandPart diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily ...
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Social Costs of Transformation to a Market Economy  Item#: BK2544
Social Costs of Transformation to a Market Economy in Post-Socialist Countries: The Cases of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary by Jan AdamThe transformation provisions have brought about a replacement of the planning system by a capitalist ...
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To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays  Item#: BK2386
To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays Written by Czeslaw Milosz Edited and with an Introduction by Bogdana Carpenter & Madeline G. LevineTo Begin Where I Am is the most complete one-volume edition of Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings available in ...
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Travellers History of Poland, A  Item#: BK2528
A Traveller's History of Poland by John RadzilowskiPoland is a major European country with over 38 million inhabitants and a land area comparable to Spain. It has played a major role in European history, but its subjugation by foreign powers in ...
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Travels with Herodotus  Item#: BK2411
Travels with Herodotus Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski Translated from the Polish by Klara GlowczewskaFrom the renowned journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond ...
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United States, Western Europe and the Polish Crisis, The  Item#: BK2550
The United States, Western Europe and the Polish Crisis: International Relations in the Second Cold War by Helene SjursenThe Polish crisis of 1980 was triggered by the emergence of the first independent trade union Solidarity, in communist ...
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