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Active World Explorers - The Ultimate Family Adventure Book One

by Witold Matulewicz ...

Who lives on the volcano on Santorini and serves Greek coffee to tourists? What does pizza have to do with Aloe Vera? Where in Europe can you find an entrance to a magic forest with fighting knights and secret burrows? And where can you smell the biggest stinky poop in the world?You will find out the answers to these and many more questions in this collection of most popular articles from the ... Read more

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Who lives on the volcano on Santorini and serves Greek coffee to tourists? What does pizza have to do with Aloe Vera? Where in Europe can you find an entrance to a magic forest with fighting knights and secret burrows? And where can you smell the biggest stinky poop in the world?You will find out the answers to these and many more questions in this collection of most popular articles from the
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What's Cooking in the Kremlin

From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork

by Witold Szablowski ...

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...

**A New York Times Editors’ Choice“Entertaining . . . A heady mix of propaganda and paranoia . . . [Szabłowski writes] sensitively . . . not just about food but also its terrible absence.” —The New York Times Book Review“Riveting—a delicious odyssey full of history, humor, and jaw-dropping stories. If you want to understand the making of modern Russia, read this book.” —Daniel Stone, bestselling ... Read more

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**A New York Times Editors’ Choice“Entertaining . . . A heady mix of propaganda and paranoia . . . [Szabłowski writes] sensitively . . . not just about food but also its terrible absence.” —The New York Times Book Review“Riveting—a delicious odyssey full of history, humor, and jaw-dropping stories. If you want to understand the making of modern Russia, read this book.” —Daniel Stone, bestselling
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Cosmos

A Novel

by Witold Gombrowicz ...

A "creatively captivating and intellectually challenging" existential mystery from the great Polish author—"sly, funny, and . . . lovingly translated" ( The New York Times).Winner of the 1967 International Prize for LiteratureMilan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz "one of the great novelists of our century." Now his most famous novel, Cosmos, is available in a critically acclaimed translation by ... Read more

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A "creatively captivating and intellectually challenging" existential mystery from the great Polish author—"sly, funny, and . . . lovingly translated" ( The New York Times).Winner of the 1967 International Prize for LiteratureMilan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz "one of the great novelists of our century." Now his most famous novel, Cosmos, is available in a critically acclaimed translation by
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The Possessed

by Witold Gombrowicz ...

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...

From “a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail” (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz’s harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English translationWitold Gombrowicz is considered by many to be Poland’s greatest modernist, and in The Possessed, he demonstrates his playful brilliance and astonishing range by using the familiar ... Read more

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From “a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail” (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz’s harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English translationWitold Gombrowicz is considered by many to be Poland’s greatest modernist, and in The Possessed, he demonstrates his playful brilliance and astonishing range by using the familiar
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How to Feed a Dictator

Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

by Witold Szablowski ...

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...

**“Amazing stories . . . Intimate portraits of how [these five ruthless leaders] were at home and at the table.” —Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR’s Weekend Edition SundayAnthony Bourdain meets Kapuściński in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears and What’s Cooking in the Kremlin**Now ... Read more

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**“Amazing stories . . . Intimate portraits of how [these five ruthless leaders] were at home and at the table.” —Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR’s Weekend Edition SundayAnthony Bourdain meets Kapuściński in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears and What’s Cooking in the Kremlin**Now
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How Architecture Works

A Humanist's Toolkit

by Witold Rybczynski ...

The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review).We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the ... Read more

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The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review).We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the
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Dancing Bears

True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny

by Witold Szablowski ...

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...

***As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered*“Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review“Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szabłowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny and The Road to UnfreedomAn incisive, humorous, and heartbreaking account of people ... Read more

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***As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered*“Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review“Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szabłowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny and The Road to UnfreedomAn incisive, humorous, and heartbreaking account of people
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The Driving Machine

A Design History of the Car

by Witold Rybczynski ...

**“[A] compact epic.… Brisk, lucid and enjoyable.” —Richard Snow, Wall Street JournalThe renowned design writer on the extraordinary history of car design.**In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski—hailed as “one of the best writers on design working today” by Publishers Weekly—tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and ... Read more

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**“[A] compact epic.… Brisk, lucid and enjoyable.” —Richard Snow, Wall Street JournalThe renowned design writer on the extraordinary history of car design.**In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski—hailed as “one of the best writers on design working today” by Publishers Weekly—tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and
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Last Harvest

From Cornfield to New Town

by Witold Rybczynski ...

In Last Harvest, the award-winning author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance tells the compelling story of New Daleville, a brand-new residential subdivision in rural Pennsylvania. When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met ... Read more

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In Last Harvest, the award-winning author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance tells the compelling story of New Daleville, a brand-new residential subdivision in rural Pennsylvania. When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met
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Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing

24th International Conference, ICAISC 2025, Zakopane, Poland, June 22–26, 2025, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Leszek Rutkowski, Rafał Scherer, Marcin Korytkowski, Witold Pedrycz, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Jacek M. Zurada ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume constitutes the proceedings of 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2025, Zakopane, Poland, during June 22–26, 2025.The 83 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions.They are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I - Neural Networks and Their Applications; Fuzzy Systems and Their ... Read more

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This volume constitutes the proceedings of 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2025, Zakopane, Poland, during June 22–26, 2025.The 83 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions.They are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I - Neural Networks and Their Applications; Fuzzy Systems and Their
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Pornografia

A Novel

by Witold Gombrowicz ...

Translated by Danuta Borchardt ...

The place is Poland, in the early years of the German occupation. Pornografia's narrator, an author named Witold Gombrowicz, meets a swarthy and overly formal man named Fyderyk at a Warsaw house party, and the two soon become engaged in a business of a dubious (if not downright criminal) nature. When an acquaintance of theirs, a corpulent provincial landowner named Hipolit, requests that they come ... Read more

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The place is Poland, in the early years of the German occupation. Pornografia's narrator, an author named Witold Gombrowicz, meets a swarthy and overly formal man named Fyderyk at a Warsaw house party, and the two soon become engaged in a business of a dubious (if not downright criminal) nature. When an acquaintance of theirs, a corpulent provincial landowner named Hipolit, requests that they come
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Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing

24th International Conference, ICAISC 2025, Zakopane, Poland, June 22–26, 2025, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Leszek Rutkowski, Rafał Scherer, Marcin Korytkowski, Witold Pedrycz, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Jacek M. Zurada ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume constitutes the proceedings of 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2025, Zakopane, Poland, during June 22–26, 2025.The 83 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions.They are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I - Neural Networks and Their Applications; Fuzzy Systems and Their ... Read more

$102.99 CAD

This volume constitutes the proceedings of 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ICAISC 2025, Zakopane, Poland, during June 22–26, 2025.The 83 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions.They are organized in topical sections as follows:Part I - Neural Networks and Their Applications; Fuzzy Systems and Their
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