career

This monograph focuses on the ever topical issues of work, enterprise and career in the English language, literature and culture. Its first part is devoted to language studies and analyses the metaphors of work in the English translation of the Polish Kodeks pracy, the functioning of modal expressions in the UK's Employment Rights Acts of 1996, and the problems that legal terms and expressions pose...

The story mainly concerns the invasion of Xerxes in Greece and the burning of Athens, which was the main event in his career. The author emphasized how the war destroyed the population and productivity of the lands through which Xerxes had led his army, and also how it affected the prosperity of his own Median country. Most of the book is devoted to the campaign on the war. A brief history that contains...

In The Great Stone Face, Hawthorne compares different types of human activity. Most of them are aimed at finding success in society. But Hawthorne believes that the success of the Finnish businessman or general, who turned military affairs into a means of his personal career, or a clever politician who is uncleanly making his way to power, is an imaginary success. Even the poet, the creator of beautiful...

Czwarty Robert Baer Autor bestsellerów „The New York Times” Kim był najgroźniejszy rosyjski szpieg w CIA? Niezwykła i dotąd nieznana historia ekscytującego polowania na szpiega KGB w najwyższych kręgach CIA. Gdyby nie ta historia, być może Władimir Putin nigdy nie doszedłby do władzy. Zimna wojna dobiegała końca, kiedy amerykański wywiad zdemaskował trzech znanych rosyjskich szpiegów:...