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Apr 01, 2009 ... Hedge funds in 2008 Number of hedge funds worldwide in 2008: about ten thousand. Amount of capital they controlled: 200 billion dollars. Percentage of hedge funds operating from London and New York (including its environs): 20 percent and 40 percent, ...
From the editor.
Apr 01, 2009 ... Professor Domanski's article about thirteenth-century Polish historian Wincenty Kadlubek prompts two reflections. First, the term national character, so frowned upon in academia, has more gravitas than scholars are willing to admit. Propped by its literary and intellectual ...
Justice and mercy in Wincenty Kadlubek's system of political virtues.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... When studies of the Polish past began to be written in partitioned Poland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the current historical methodologies such as scientism and positivism failed to provide tools to properly assess Wincenty Kadlubek's Chronicles of the Kings and Princes of ...
Sanctity or sanctimony in Stanis law Wyspianski's Akropolis: on boundary oppositions, subverted expectations, and Irony.(Critical essay)
Apr 01, 2009; ... The theme of animation, which constitutes one of the essential elements of Stanislaw Wyspianski's (1869-1907) poetics, manifests itself in Akropolis through the multi-faceted story of resurrection. The story resonates on a complementary array of thematic and formal levels. First and ...
Adam Mickiewicz's First Lecture in College de France 1840-1844.(Lecture)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Translator's Introduction (2008) During the time he lived in Western Europe as an emigre poet, Adam Mickiewicz was twice invited to serve as professor of literature at institutions of higher learning. In 1839-40 at the University of Lausanne he lectured on Latin literature. In ...
Books Books and Periodicals Received.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BOOKS Books and Periodicals Received Listy, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Part 3 (in four volumes), edited with an introduction and notes by Maria Bokszczanin. Warsaw: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy ydawniczy and Instytut Ksiazki, 2007. 595, 507, and 683 pages. Illustrations. ISBN ...
The Coming Spring.(Brief article)(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Coming Spring, by Stefan Zeromski. Translated by Bill Johnston. Budapest-New York: Central Europeaqn University Press (ceupress@ceu.hu), 2007. xiii + 413 pages. ISBN ...
History and Geopolitics: a contest for Eastern Europe.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... History and Geopolitics A contest for Eastern Europe By Andrzej Nowak. Warsaw: Polish Institute of International Affairs (Warecka 1a, 00-950 Warsaw, pub<www.pism.pl>), 2008. 363 pages. Index. ISBN 978-83-89607-28-7. Paper. "The end of history" after the cold war should have been ...
Katyn.(Movie review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... A film directed and written by Andrzej Wajda. Based on the novel Post Mortem by Andrzej Mularczyk. In Polish, Russian, and German, with English subtitles. With archival black and white film footage. Running time: 2:01 hours. for Samir Baijal In a forest near Katyn ...
American Betrayal: Franklin Roosevelt Casts Poland into Communist Captivity.(Book review)
Apr 01, 2009; ... American Betrayal Franklin Roosevelt Casts Poland into Communist Captivity By Francis Casimir Kajencki. El Paso, TX: Southwest Polonia Press, 2007.xiv + 285 pages. Photographs, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-0-9627190-8-0. Hardcover. Col. Kajencki (U.S. Army, retired) passed away ...
Why learning used to be a privilege of the few.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Average price of printed books in sixteenth-century Europe: 2 florins (1 florin=3.5 g of gold). ...
How Russians love their country.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Percentage of young (aged 24 to 35) Russians living in Moscow and St. Petersburg who want to leave their country temporarily or permanently: 50 percent. Percentage of Russians in the provinces who live ...
Books and war in Poland.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Estimated number of books destroyed in Poland from 1939 through 1941: 15,000,000. Source: ...
Gazprom facing gas underproduction.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Gazprom President Alexei Miller's assessment of gas output between 2007-2009: no change. Actual gas output from 2005 on: in 2005, 555 billion cubic meters; in 2006, 556 billion cubic meters; in 2007, 548.5 billion cubic meters; no data for 2008 and no data on the previously ...
Losses of American investors in Russia.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Amount of dollars American citizens lost when the Russian government nationalized Yukos: 12 billion dollars. Source: Anders ...
Russia and Ukraine.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Estimate of the number of Russian passports held illegally by inhabitants of the Crimea: up to 100,000. Status of the inhabitants of Ukraine who hold dual citizenship (Ukrainian and Russian): illegal. Ukraine does not allow dual citizenship. Results of a recent investigation of ...
Opinions of Ukrainians about Russia and NATO after Russia-Georgia conflict.
Jan 01, 2009 ... Percentage of Ukrainians who blame Russia for the conflict and consider Russians to be aggressors: 44.3 percent. Percentage of Ukrainians who consider Russian actions to be a "peacekeeping operation": 41.4 percent. The undecided vote: 14.3 percent. Breakdown by ...
Ecological value of Polish agriculture.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Number of varieties of apple trees still cultivated in Polish orchards: about 200. Names of some varieties now cultivated only in Poland: malinowki, antonowki, papierowki, renety gwiazdkowe. kosztele (the favorite of King Jan III Sobieski)--all tall trees, in contrast to the ...
Organic farming in Poland.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Number of organic farms in Poland in 1996 and 2008: 300 and 13,500, respectively. Average farm size in Poland: 17 acres, ideally suited for organic farming according to Bernhard Jansen, head ...
Dependence on Russian gas in Europe.(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Germany, 39 percent; Italy; 30 percent; Poland, 61 percent; Lithuania, 84 percent; Slovakia, 100 ...