Janet Poland
Janet Poland is the coauthor of The Art of Parenting Twins, as well as the author of The Sensitive Child and The Demanding Child. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Partitions of Poland 1772, 1793, 1795, The
 Partitions of Poland: 1772, 1793, 1795 by Jerzy Lukowski: The history of Poland, which is commonly overlooked and, when examined, is often the victim of historical generalization and stereotyping. The latter portion of the eighteenth century, commonly [... more]
CDN$41.95
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Bogdana Carpenter
Hailed by Czeslaw Milosz as "the grande dame of Polish poetry" and named "one of the foremost Polish poets of the twentieth century" by Ryszard Kapuscinski, Julia Hartwig has long been considered the gold standard of poetry in her [... more]
Random House |
Witold Sarnecki
The history of Poland is a fascinating study of a people struggling to achieve nationhood in the face of internal and external enemies. Poland became a unified Christian state in AD 966 and by the 12th century a knightly class had emerged - a ... [... more]
Random House |
Uncivil Society
Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second largest Jewish community in ... [... more]
Random House |
Benjamin Bender
Holocaust survivor Bender was 11 years old when the German army invaded his native Poland. He lived in Czestochowa, a backward town steeped in medieval ideas and anti-Semitic attitudes--and thoroughly unprepared for the mechanized terror of the ... [... more]
Random House |
Janet Poland
The Unique Joys and Challenges of Raising Twins and Other Multiples Remember when you first heard the news? After regaining the power of speech, you allowed the joy and anxious anticipation to settle in. Though family and friends simply suggest ... [... more]
Random House |
Andrej Krystoforski
Andrej Krystoforski was born in Poland during World War II. After earning a master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, he began working as an illustrator and designer. Several years after receiving an art scholarship from the ... [... more]
Random House |
Poland
Rough is right: The only thing rough about this book is that it was allowed to pass a copy editor and onto printing while in rough draft form. This is by far one of the worst travel guides I have ever purchased...way out of date, biased, bigoted. If one [... more]
CDN$23.85
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Privatizing the Police-State: The Case of Poland
Excellent and provocative: For people interested in Central-Eastern European politics this book is a must-read. It provides a reader with a thorough and provocative insight into the murky mechanisms of the use of secret police to control the transition [... more]
CDN$110.37
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A Concise History of Poland
Best concise history so far-Better than the usual myths: In contrast to the usual myths, it is such a pleasure to read a more honest historical account written by two ethnic Polish writers, now, after many decades of war propagandas. As the authors of [... more]
CDN$25.95
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Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust
Mixed emotions: Yitzhak Shamir's statement had disgraced him - anti semitism in Europe cannot be denied - what also cannot be denied is that Poland was the only European country to give Jewish citizens rights, and had the only government which publicly [... more]
CDN$20.79
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