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Communicating scientific and academic know-how is extremely relevant to our modern, knowledge-based society. Not only do individuals make decisions and act on the basis of scientific and academic knowledge, but so do political, economic and other types of institutions. As a field of practice, scientific and academic communication is omnipresent, regardless of whether it takes the form of scientific journalism or scientific PR. This series of publications provides a forum for current research into communicating scientific and academic knowledge and the public sphere, academia and other areas of society, such as politics or economics, and scientists and academics among each other.

The new series of publications entitled Poland’s Foreign Policy Library, edited by Dariusz Pop?awski and Karina Paulina Marczuk, scholars at the University of Warsaw, examines the various dimensions of Poland’s bilateral relations with other states, mainly during the last twenty five years since the end of the Cold War. Due to the complexity of these relations, however, it is necessary to take their historical background into consideration. That is why, in certain volumes, historical aspects of Poland’s bilateral relationships are addressed, i.e. prior to 1991, which will enable the readers to understand the multifaceted nature of those relationships better. The authors, a group of mainly Polish scholars, do not only address issues such as Poland’s foreign policy or security cooperation, but also its economic cooperation with both European and non-European countries. Moreover, they do not only use secondary sources in their books, but also legal acts, archival documents and other official papers concerning Poland’s relations written in a variety of languages, which adds to the value of the series.

This series compiles publications which present the histories of the media, society and technology as reciprocal. It welcomes studies on phenomena that are characterised by the persistence of their specific materiality and practices. Consequently, from a methodological perspective it aims to focus on innovative historiographical processes, such as historical praxeology, historical ethnography or the analysis of traceable chains of actors and their actions, among others. The publications examine how the ethnomethodology and technological methods used in the 'longue durée' approach to the study of history have a bearing on the present and influence the media and media practices today. They reveal the genealogies of media history, which are underpinned by perspectives from the histories of art, society, technology and science at the same time. These publications may be written in either German or English.

This series of publications deals with all kinds of social anthropological relationships and conflicts in different societies and types of society. For example, this can encompass examining family relationships, social differences and structures, and power relations and conflicts between ethnic groups, big men and the societies they belong to. The studies in the series analyse concepts such as kinship, castes and ‘ethnoclasses’ (socio-cultural groups which in general have a low social status and which display ethnic characteristics that distinguish them as immigrants or descendants of immigrants) in the same critical depth as gender and nation building. It also welcomes studies from a variety of related fields such as ethnology, cultural studies and social geography, along with works written in different languages.