Janusz: 47 books

‘King Matthew the First’ is firmly established in the canon of world classics for children. Written in 1922, this children's novel tells the adventures of a ten-year-old prince who suddenly inherits the throne from his father. At first the boy submits himself to old royal customs and to...

Scritto nel 1929, questo piccolo e prezioso pamphlet del grande pedagogo polacco Janusz Korczak non ha perso la sua forza provocatoria e la sua natura politica. Korczak è uno dei rari adulti che sa penetrare un mondo ormai lontano e irraggiungibile, quello del bambino, e descriverlo dall’interno...

Considerada un clásico, Diario del gueto constituye un inestimable testimonio autobiográfico. Janusz Korczak, pediatra de éxito y autor de fama mundial que en su ciudad natal, Varsovia, renuncia a una brillante carrera científica para dedicarse al cuidado de los huérfanos. Tras la ocupación...

As the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 demonstrated in no uncertain terms, Russia has developed into a neo-imperialist power seeking to restore its spheres of dominance, to undermine the emergence of a wider Europe, and to prevent the development of a coherent transatlantic community. Under...

This bracing collection marks the first appearance in English of the Polish poet Janusz Szuber, hailed as the greatest discovery in Polish poetry of the late twentieth century when, in his late forties, he began publishing the work he’d been producing for almost thirty years. Nobel Laureate Wislawa...

Born in Poland in 1878, educator, physician, and legendary child advocate Janusz Korczak believed that simply understanding children is the key to being able to take care of them. It’s a basic premise too often overlooked. This collection of one hundred quotations and passages from Korczak’s...

Quando nel 1929 Janusz Korczak pubblica Le regole della vita ha uno scopo ben preciso: costruire “una pedagogia per i giovani e per gli adulti”, come indica il sottotitolo; mettere a disposizione di tutti gli adulti e di tutti i giovani – insieme – un saggio, un libro scientifico che permetta...

This book focuses specifically on the key results in stochastic processes that have become essential for finance practitioners to understand. The authors study the Wiener process and Itô integrals in some detail, with a focus on results needed for the Black–Scholes option pricing model. After developing...

It’s not a question “if”, it’s the question “when” something will collapse! What will come to an end first: overpopulation, economic collapse, shortage of crude oil, unpolluted air, uncontaminated land, pure water, natural resources, etc? However, something eventually will come to an end....

This book analyzes the legal and economic situation concerning the removal and allocation of the natural resources in the Caspian Sea – the largest enclosed body of salt water in the world, which not only constitutes a fragile ecosystem with great fishery resources, but is also rich in oil and gas...

The book provides a review of experimental methods and presents the worldwide newest literature regarding chemical substances fluxes via submarine groundwater discharge (SGD). Thus, the book characterizes both the distribution of chemicals in groundwater impacted areas in the Baltic Sea and their...

This textbook approaches optimization from a multi-aspect, multi-criteria perspective. By using a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach, it avoids the limits and oversimplifications that can come with optimization models with one criterion. The book is presented in a concise form, addressing...

What do Yoga - a profound spiritual system or a series of physical exercises, the Harappa, or Indus Valley Civilization, a civilization, worlds apart from all other societies, and Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a tiny speck in the enormous Pacific Ocean all have in common? Separated over four thousand years and thousands of kilometers, yet they all share a very peculiar and unique connection.

When Elizabeth Thiessen embarks on an expedition to study the cave murals of Baja California, Mexico, she is catapulted onto a mythical, existential journey into the unknown. Within days of landing in the Baja, Elizabeth discovers that her daughter, Patricia—posted in Afghanistan with the Canadian...