Psychology in Practice Among the measurable effects of the research project Adaptation of tools enabling the diagnosis of the quality of physical and social environment of development of children between the age of 6 and 36 months there are: initial identification of risk factors and favourable-development factors present in the physical and social space of small children in Poland, elaboration of a number of directions facilitating the complex diagnosis of the level of pro-...

The 6th volume of “Chronicles of Terror” is the second dedicated to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex. Former inmates, male and female citizens of pre-war Poland as well as witnesses from other European nations, talk about the fate of the women and children interned at the camp. They reveal the details of the atrocious living conditions in the women’s camp, the crimes committed by their German overseers, the experiments into mass sterilization and the extermination of Jews ...

Spróbowaliśmy zebrać w jednej książce to, co z polskiej literatury pozostaje w trwałej pamięci pokoleń, do czego powracają dziadkowie, rodzice i sami młodzi j najmłodsi czytelnicy.
Tak narodził się ten dziwny tom, w którym obok baśni znalazły się opowiadania realistyczne, dzieła dawne z bardzo współczesnymi, poważne ze śmiesznymi.

Does happiness have a colour and how does it taste? Why is waiting for someone not the same as missing someone? Can curiosity cause rumbling in your head? How bad can fear make things look, and what happens if they are really bad? Why is revenge always the worst counsellor? Can one weep with gratitude? A sensitive boy in various stages of his life experiences the twelve most important human emotions. He tries to express his feelings in his childish manner and most of al...

Kultowy basista i współzałożyciel Red Hot Chili Peppers opowiada historię swojego życia. Z Australii, przez nowojorskie przedmieścia, aż po Los Angeles – w Acid for the Children Flea zabiera czytelników w osobistą i pełną anegdot podróż po miejscach swojej młodości. Opowiada o doświadczeniach, które ukształtowały go jako artystę i jako człowieka, i zaprasza nas do Miasta Aniołów lat 70. i 80., gdzie brud współegzystuje z przepychem, a zabawa jest chaotyczna i niebezpieczna. ...

Family fun: play and master the art of illusion with your child it's a great way of spending time for your family Simple props: you need just a few objects of everyday use; you can perform magic at home, outside, or on a trip Training of mind: the magic tricks have been selected for children aged 4-9 and they will help to develop your child's imagination, creativity and memory! As children play, they will also practice arithmetic and the knowledge of physical phenomena Develo...

„English Picture Dictionary for Children. Aktywizujący słownik obrazkowy.” to praktyczna pomoc do wprowadzania i utrwalania angielskich słówek. Przydatna do pracy z dziećmi przedszkolnymi i szkolnymi. „English Picture Dictionary for Children” wyróżnia nowoczesna formuła opracowania: • 21 rozdziałów prezentujących tematycznie zgrupowane słownictwo opisujące np.: dom, rodzinę, zabawki, kolory, liczby, jedzenie, ciało człowieka, sporty, życie w mieście, pojazdy, zwierzęta. • Każ...

Why do: Dutch babies seem so content, and sleep so well? Dutch parents let their kids play outside on their own? The Dutch trust their children to bike to school? Dutch schools not set homework for the under-tens? Dutch teenagers not rebel? What is the secret of bringing up the happiest kids in the world? The secret of bringing up the happiest kids in the world. In a recent UNICEF study of child well-being, Dutch children came out on top as the happiest all-round. In Growing ...

When a person having a certain degree of knowledge on historic events in Europe listens to the contemporary academic, publicist, or political discourse, they are faced with a great lie on the topic of World War II, which consists, among others, in narratives using the phrase “Polish death camps” and accuse Poles of participation in the Holocaust of Jews. This assumption, held by modern Western people, contradicts historic facts and yet appears to be so common that even the Pr...

Classical Antiquity is a particularly important field in terms of “Hope studies” […]. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators of culture, across many parts of the world, and with the new media and globalization only increasing its impact. Thus, in our research at this stage, we have decided to study how the authors of literary and audiovisual texts for youth make use of the anci...

This work is a fascinating attempt to probe deep into the socio-cultural ramifications of the visual artefacts of ancient India, which has a rich heritage of iconographic treasures of varying sizes and styles. The art objects selected for analysis are mainly from the Mathura region of the Kushan era and belong to a period between 50–60 and 300 of the Common Era. This period is perceived as that of ‘multicultural environment’ enriched with different streams of tradition. Ac...

One day, according to the Ancient Greek author Xenophon, the hero Hercules “went out to a quiet place and sat, pondering”. This book explores what happened here and how and why it can resonate with autistic young people. The book presents a set of ten lessons, each dealing with an aspect of what happened when Hercules entered the quiet place, met two women (or goddesses, or personifications…) and was tasked to make a choice between two paths, literal and metaphorical. The les...