In July 2007 a conference entitled «Ethical Liberalism in Contemporary Societies» was hosted by the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice, Poland. The conference was organised through collaboration between the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and the Collegium Polonicum, a joint institution of the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and the Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań. This volume collects the contributions to this conference. The problematics of liberalism affects ethicists and philosophers not only in Europe but also in Latin America and the Middle East. Scholars from these three regions met to discuss the role that the ethical aspect of liberal thought can play in the contemporary world. They also approached ethical liberalism from a historical perspective. Focusing on ethical liberalism's interconnectedness with politics, globalisation and culture, the conference participants not only elaborated on theoretical approaches, but also turned their attention to empirical case studies. This volume presents their thoughts and contributions which, although naturally fragmentary, are symptomatic of the present day and age.

This collection of papers by leading researchers gives a broad picture of current research directions in geometric aspects of partial differential equations. Based on lectures presented at a Minisymposium on Spectral Invariants - Heat Equation Approach, held in September 1998 at Roskilde University in Denmark, the book provides both a careful exposition of new perspectives in classical index theory and an introduction to currently active areas of the field. Presented here are new index theorems as well as new calculations of the eta-invariant, of the spectral flow, of the Maslov index, of Seiberg-Witten monopoles, heat kernels, determinants, non-commutative residues, and of the Ray-Singer torsion. New types of boundary value problems for operators of Dirac type and generalizations to manifolds with cuspidal ends, to non-compact and to infinite-dimensional manifolds are also discussed. Throughout the book, the use of advanced analysis methods for gaining geometric insight emerges as a central theme. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book would be suitable as a text for an advanced graduate topics course on geometric aspects of partial differential equations and spectral invariants.

Legacy of the White Eagle is the true story of author Julian E. Kulski's childhood resistance to Germany's occupation of his native Poland in World War II. When the Nazi invasion in 1939 shattered Poland's democratic government and Kulski's Christian family, Kulski swore an oath of secrecy and became a freedom fighter at the age of 12. He struggled against the occupation and survived as a prisoner of war until American soldiers rescued him from a German prison camp at age 16. A handful of maps and black-and-white illustrations enhance Legacy of the White Eagle, as does an accompanying DVD with videotaped interviews with Kulski and surviving freedom fighters in Warsaw, and also a teacher's guide recommending topics for students' research.

"To książka, jaką zawsze chciałem mieć" – prof. Ryszard Markiewicz Publikacja stanowi odpowiedź na potrzebę nowego obszernego komentarza z zakresu prawa autorskiego, które jest najdynamiczniej rozwijającą się dziedziną w polskim systemie prawa. O wyjątkowości opracowania stanowi to, że jako jedyne na polskim rynku omawia aż trzy powiązane ze sobą tematycznie ustawy: o prawie autorskim i prawach pokrewnych, o ochronie baz danych oraz o zbiorowym zarządzaniu prawami autorskimi i prawami pokrewnymi. Ostatnia z tych ustaw jest komentowana po raz pierwszy. Komentarz ten jest szczególny również ze względu na sposób jego ujęcia – ma charakter nie tylko praktyczny, gdyż równocześnie jest rozbudowanym opracowaniem naukowym, w szerokim zakresie uwzględniającym zagraniczną literaturę i orzecznictwo oraz prawo Unii Europejskiej. Wśród autorów opracowania znaleźli się naukowcy, często łączący pracę naukową z praktyką adwokata i radcy prawnego, głównie z kręgu krakowskiego (związani z Katedrą Prawa Własności Intelektualnej UJ), ale reprezentowane są także inne ośrodki akademickie.