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Towards communicative river management in Poland
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POLITICAL COMMUNICATION IN GERMANY AND POLAND
Diese Studie vergleicht die politische Kommunikation in Deutschland und Polen. Der Forschungsüberblick macht deutlich, dass international vergleichende Analysen, die etablierte Demokratien und Transformationsländer umfassen, relativ selten durchgeführt werden. Dabei gibt es keine Untersuchungen, …
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Women and physical culture in modern Poland
… of women's physical culture in modern Poland from the late nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. The basic premise of this work is that unlike most western countries where sportswomen have typically been marginalized in their athletic endeavors, Polish female …
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The gauntlet cast: Poland challenges the Soviet Union
… a Soviet military intervention. The events in Poland which erupted in August,1980, provide the most recent example. This study, which cannot be all-inclusive because of information difficulties and the currency of the situation, addresses: 1) what is currently happening in Poland; 2) how these …
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Manifestations of Poland in nineteenth-century French culture
This dissertation looks at manifestations of Poland in nineteenth-century France and how perceptions of Poland and Polish people evolved throughout the century. This evolution was a result of political changes in France as well as an increasing awareness and understanding of Poland. The Great …
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Bodies and Borders: Gendered Nationalism in Contemporary Poland
… 2018, marked the 100th year anniversary of Poland regaining independence in 1918, following nearly 123 years of partition. To commemorate this centennial anniversary, museums and cultural institutions around the country hosted exhibitions presenting national identity and narratives. In this …
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The Construction of National Identity in post-1918 Poland
… construction of the modern national identity in Poland following the state’s creation in 1918. Its central aim is to argue that although much of Poland’s national identity was, in fact, the product of the revolutionary eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the twentieth century, ethnocultural …
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The adoption of IFRS in Poland: an institutional approach
… practice. The research uses a case study of Poland to address three main research questions. Firstly, whether the accounting standards as promulgated by IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) have been fully adopted by Polish listed companies? Secondly, the thesis addresses the …
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Radical transformation of a socialist economy--Poland 1989-1991
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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History, culture and alcohol: Drinking patterns in Poland and Australia
It is a widely held view in Poland that for centuries those in power have promoted heavy drinking among their subjects in order to achieve their various goals and that this contributed to the development of Polish drinking patterns. There is some empirical evidence that the political economy of …
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Solidarity versus Sisterhood: Women's Issues, Feminism and Potential in Poland
… and trajectory of women's issues and activism in Poland, this work begins discussing the early twentieth century, moving through to the time period of the Solidarity trade union movement, continuing through the political transitions during the 1990s and ending in the present day. By examining a …
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Socially inherited memory, gender and the public sphere in Poland
… the nature of the gendered transformation in Poland's public sphere in its mediated aspects between the years 1980 and 1994 lies in the role of 'socially inherited memory'. Socially inherited memory is the dialectical and gendered process by which a given society both remembers and forgets …
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Becoming a Side: Legal Mobilization and Environmental Protection in Poland
… environmental legal mobilization in contemporary Poland. It examines how administrative law is being used by individuals and societal groups to enforce environmental protection commitments, and what the broader implications of interactions with the administrative legal system are for legal …
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The Gothic Presence of Poland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
<p>The references to Poland in United States print culture indicate that Poland is a significant presence in the nineteenth-century literary imagination. Though often idealized, Poland emerges as a gothic presence registering anxieties about culture, imperialism, slavery, the Other, economic ruin, …
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The Day of Judaism in the Catholic Church of Poland
… “The Day of Judaism in the Catholic Church of Poland,” a special time in the Polish Church calendar to rediscover her roots in Judaism. Thus, the aim of this study is to present the changes taking place in the Catholic Church in Poland in the wake of the Second Vatican Council—changes that seek …
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Weichselian glaciations in the middle Notec River region, northwest Poland
… glaciations in the middle Notec River area, NW Poland. A new lithostratigraphy of the study area has been established, based on correlation of stratigraphical position, clast lithology, fabrics and grain size composition of till units. The lithostratigraphy covers two glacial advances of …
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Gender effects on productive incomes and retirement incomes in Poland
… and on the retirement income of retirees in Poland in the early stages of the transformation. The overall hypotheses tested are: 1) high productive incomes of currently employed individuals are a function of gender, other sociodemographic characteristics, and human capital factors: and 2) …
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Language background and use among the German minority in Poland
The German minority in Poland has a special history that includes many changes, many difficulties, but also many victories. To further understand this group of people, their background, and their use of the German language, this study first examines the multiple population shifts among the German …
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Memory, Cinema and Deathscapes: Re-membering the Holocaust in Poland
… Holocaust memory cultures in Kraków, Poland. Poland is central to the Holocaust and its memory – historically, spatially and imaginatively. Popularly conceptualised as a vast deathscape, or landscape of death, and custodian of an overwhelming majority of the Holocaust’s landscapes, …
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Batax Limited--a case study on business management in Poland
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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