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Cave fauna of Bulgaria

Author(s): Petar Beron / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2015

Petar Beron Sc.D worked at the Institute of Zoology and the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a biologist from 1963 to 2010. Specializing in acarology and Biospeleology, he began exploring caves and cave fauna since 1955. He went on expeditions in New Guinea, Indonesia, Mexico, Cuba, China, Vietnam, on the Balkan Peninsula, in Corsica and South America. In his journeys, he discovered many new species of caves and animals. Author and co-author of many books and articles on speleology, zoogeography, and acarology. The present publication contains data on 153 species not recorded so far in the previous catalogs of Bulgarian cave fauna. Data on 813 caves, including 189 published for the first time in the list of caves from which animals have been recorded find a place. After these changes, the total number of the animals known from Bulgarian caves becomes 866 (including 130 troglobite and 72 stygobites species). The updated bibliography of Bulgarian cave fauna contains 584 titles.

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Faune cavernicole de la Grece

Author(s): Petar Beron / Language(s): French / Publication Year: 2016

Petar Beron Sc.D worked at the Institute of Zoology and the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a biologist from 1963 to 2010. Specializing in acarology and Biospeleology, he began exploring caves and cave fauna since 1955. He went on expeditions in New Guinea, Indonesia, Mexico, Cuba, China, Vietnam, on the Balkan Peninsula, in Corsica and South America. In his journeys, he discovered many new species of caves and animals. Author and co-author of many books and articles on speleology, zoogeography, and acarology. The second monograph of the series, devoted to the cave fauna of the Balkan Peninsula, treats Greece, a country full of caves (more than 10 miles) and only 240 caves have been the subject of biospeleological research. The 630 species of cavernicolous animals, published until 2015, are listed with their localities and notes on their biology. The caves of some animals are briefly described, and some observations have been made of the zoogeography of this fauna. The Greek fauna is compared with the cave faunas of neighboring countries. The bibliography contains more than 300 titles of works regarding the Greek fauna inhabiting the caves. This fauna is very different from the fauna of neighboring countries. During the author's field surveys (since 1968) he has found several new species such as Speleodentorcula, Telsonius, Titanophyllum, Thassoblaniulus, Alistratia, Maroniela, Jason and others.

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South Slavonic Apocryphal Collections

Author(s): Anisava Miltenova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian,Old Slavonic,Old Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2018

This book represents a study of the textology, typology, sources and literary peculiarities of the so-called ’miscellanies of mixed content' in the South Slavonic tradition (from the end of 13th – the beginning of 18th c.) – less known or unknown in the Humanities. The problem is closely related to the apocryphal collections in the Balkan Cyrillic manuscripts, as the Apocrypha are a significant part of this type of manuscripts. The scope of the study is to popularize the series and texts that fill the gap in the translation and perception of the Slavonic Apocrypha. New information is presented over the sources of translations, as well as the compilation approach of Slavonic writers, which reproduces a new version of the texts. The copies of the Slavonic texts are published in the supplement. The typology of manuscripts is supported by plectograms produced in the Repertory of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters (http://repertorium.obdurodon.org/).

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Византийска философия. Четири центъра на синтеза

Author(s): Georgi Kapriev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2011

Instead of a short abstract, please refer to the PDF-files of the introduction to the book, its table of content and the sample-PDF which, each of them, you can download for free from here. We hope you'll get through this files a more comprehensive impression about the book than would be provided by just a few lines of an abstract / summary.

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Владетелят | Двуезично издание

Author(s): Niccolò Machiavelli / Language(s): Bulgarian,Italian / Publication Year: 2014

„The Prince” was written by Niccolo' Machiavelli in the 1500s. It has continued to be a best seller in many languages. The Prince is a classic book that explores the attainment, maintenance, and utilization of political power in the western world. Machiavelli wrote The Prince to demonstrate his skill in the art of the state, presenting advice on how a prince might acquire and hold power. Machiavelli defended the notion of rule by force rather than by law. Accordingly, The Prince seems to rationalize a number of actions done solely to perpetuate power. It is an examination of power-its attainment, development, and successful use.

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Загадки на зоогеографията

Author(s): Petar Beron / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2015

The book explores contemporary trends in zoogeography. Hypotheses for the settlement of the islands of Madagascar, New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia and many other areas of the earth and oceans are discussed. This edition raises many questions, some of which about mysteries and real puzzles - how the moa came to New Zealand, why the Madagascar fauna is so different from the African one. There is evidence of the mysterious fauna of caves such as Movile and Ayalon. Along with the past of Sahara and Antarctica, the fauna of the Balkan Peninsula has not been missed. The separate chapters are accompanied by the most important literature on the issues at stake.

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Историко-философски изследвания. Том I Античност. Античната философия като феномен на културата. „Неписаното учение“ на Платон. Наблюдения върху Платоновото понятие за истината. Панеций и платонизацията на стоицизма

Author(s): Tzotcho Boiadjiev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2017

The cultural approach is based on the belief that - despite even the most dramatic contradictions between strict and disciplined theory and the hardly perceived detachment and disparity of human habitation - philosophy is nothing but the life itself in the logos. To reconstruct the past philosophical system means not only to correctly restore the logical scheme of the respective doctrine, but above all, to manifest its living flesh, its beyond logical element.

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Литературна теория. Том 1 Питания и изпитания

Author(s): Nikola Georgiev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2017

Extremely delicate, well-trained and fine man, Nikola Georgiev is an unspoken polemist in the field of science: a rebel who crashes systems. The critic in science directly or indirectly deals with methodological problems; the scholar creates an interpretative context of new literary works and discourages established hierarchies in the literary canon. Nikola Georgiev de-concentrates every routine, and with an infinitely rich rhetorical instrumentation covers the range of almost all forms of speech - from sharp sarcasm and subtle irony to schizophrenic severity and metaphysical reflexivity, thus indicating the limitations and risks of any talk, writing, and theoretical style of literature that deviates from rationality and faith in the social, cultural and human sense of literary science. Nikola Georgiev's work should be published and studied over and over again and this is the reason why he published this book in two volumes. The first includes both the published and unreleased works of the author. He could not reach all that we would like: the volume would have disturbed even the most daring reader. – Sava Savchev

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Максим Изповедник. Въведение в мисловната му система

Author(s): Georgi Kapriev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2010

If there is an author with whom all the volumes of the dominant philosophical style in Byzantium can be covered at a high level, if we want to enter this style through the work of a single philosopher, his name without any doubt is Maximus the Confessor. In every aspect - in a meaningful, structural and methodological perspective - he should be regarded as the father of Byzantine philosophy and of Byzantine theology in general, so his significance for the East is comparable only to Augustine's importance for Western culture.

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Механика срещу символика. Генезисът на новоевропейския историзъм

Author(s): Georgi Kapriev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2017

This book interprets, from a philosophical perspective, the changes in the historical thinking of Western European culture in the period of XII-XIII. At that time, under the pressure of the powerful mental and social coups, the process of distancing between the historical and the metaphysical: the separation between the history and the philosophy of history takes place. The naturalization of history and therefore the inevitable favoritism of the methodologies, typical for modernism, are reflected in the positive-mechanistic approach to the "historical". The analysis tracks the transformation of the "searching and viewing" of history, along with the fundamental notions: time, place, image, essence. The new thinking of history produces phenomena that are accepted today as "natural". These include the introduction of history into the corpus of science and the "birth of the author".

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Носталгични пътеки. Есета

Author(s): Sava Slavchev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2017

"Sava Slavchev's essays are balanced, elegant and erudite, completely devoid of unnecessary categorical timelines. Here's what I wrote to the author as soon as I read his book: "This is your form, the enjoyment of freedom in the way you use it is evident. I wanted the end of the essay in the part on literature and culture to be bolder and accusing, even sinister, to gain a place in the mind of the reader. Luckily there is nothing like that! The cultural man is known in the way he protects the culture, and I am a barbarian and realized myself as such while I was reading. But this awareness does not hurt me, no - it inspires me! " - Peter Delchev

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От Плитон до Висарион. Философските дискусии от последните десетилетия на Византия

Author(s): Tzotcho Boiadjiev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2016

The presented text constitutes the literary basis of my lecture given to the students of philosophy at Sofia University. Of course, the transcript only transmits schematically the actual content of the course. The living atmosphere of communicating with the audience remains unbearable. Stylistically, the text follows Étienne Gilson's recommendation to read the studied author with a pencil in hand. At the same time, he, in some way, stylized the discussed contraversion, ignoring the ecclesiastic, ideological, political, and other contexts of discussion. This is done for the sole purpose of demonstrating the philosophical substance as much as possible in the intellectual disturbances of the last decades of Byzantium. The hope is that such an "extract" will show how inherently inappropriate and misleading is the question often asked: "Is there such a thing as Byzantine philosophy?" For several years now, studies have confirmed the immanent philosophical character of Byzantine culture. This book is a modest attempt to add a few more arguments in this direction. - Tzotcho Boiadjiev

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Психология на преднамереното влияние

Author(s): Georgi Karastoyanov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2012

The presented monograph is a result of many years of practical work and research of the author in the sphere of intentional influence in Bulgaria, USA and NATO structures. It would be of interest to psychologists, sociologists, psychological surgeons, PR and image-maker specialist, managers, and anyone who wants to understand the psychological mechanisms of influence - why do we think what we think, why we feel what we feel, why we act the way we do it, and how other people and the media influence us. In fact, the book does not offer ready-made recipes, but an understanding of the process that enables us to protect ourselves from unwanted influences and to be more effective in achieving our goals.

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Разплата. История на Отон. Пратеничество в Константинопол. Разплата. История на Отон. Пратеничество в Константинопол

Author(s): Liudprand Liudprand of Cremona / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2015

This modern translation of all the surviving literary compositions ascribed to Liudprand, the bishop of Cremona from 962 to 972, offers unrivaled insight into society and culture in western Europe during the "iron century". Since Liudprand enjoyed the favor of the Saxon Roman emperor Otto the Great, and traveled to Constantinople more than once on official business, his narratives also reveal European attitudes toward the Byzantine Empire and the culture of its refined capital city. No other tenth-century writer had such privileged access to the high spheres of power, or such acerbic wit and willingness to articulate critiques of the doings of powerful people. Liudprand's historical texts (the Antapodosis on European events in the first half of the 900s, and his Historia Ottonison the rise to power of Otto the Great) provide a unique view of the recent past against a genuinely European backdrop, unusual in a time of localized cultural horizons. Liudprand's famous satirical description of his misadventures as Ottonian legate at the Byzantine court in 968 is a vital source of information on Byzantine ritual and diplomatic process, as well as a classic of medieval intercultural encounter. Readers interested in medieval European culture, the history of diplomacy, Italian and German medieval history, and the history of Byzantium will find this collection of translated texts rewarding. A full introduction and extensive notes help readers to place Liudprand's writings in context.

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СВ. АТАНАСИЙ АЛЕКСАНДРИЙСКИ, ВТОРО СЛОВО ПРОТИВ АРИАНИТЕ (В СТАРОБЪЛГАРСКИ ПРЕВОД) ПЪРВО ИЗДАНИЕ / SТ. AТНANASIUS ALEXANDRINUS, ORATIO II CONTRA ARIANOS (VERSIONIS PALEOBULGARICAE). EDIТIO PRINCEPS

Author(s): st.Athanasius of Alexandria / Language(s): Greek, Ancient (to 1453),Bulgarian,Old Bulgarian / Publication Year: 2015

The book contains the Old Bulgarian translation of Athanasius of Alexandria's The Second Oratio against the Arians composed by Konstantin of Preslav in 906. The copy prepared in Novgorod in 1489 is found in MS 968 of the Pogodin collection, St. Petersburg. The parallel Slavonic and Greek texts are provided with Slavonic and Greek readings, comments and index. The index of Oratio II is prepared by prof. Ivan Hristov, Sofia University.Some Glagolitic graphemes in the Cyrillic copy and the translations language confirms the Preslav origin of the protograph of MS 968. The script MS 968 contents short Life of Athanasius, the three authentic Orationes against the Arians, The Encyclical Letter to the Bishops of Egypt an Libya (as The Fourth Oratio) and The Epistle on Easter (as The Fifth Oratio). The Greek protograph of the Slavonic version queries a Greek manuscript, belonging to the so-called tradition x. The researcher claims, that Konstantins version of Oratio II is a subject of a sequentially Greek redaction towards a strict verbatim translation with expressions foreign to the Slavic grammar. A comparison between Oratio II and Oratio III in MS 968 proves, that the Oratio III has not been edited and preserved the feachers of a free translation from a Greek protograph, which had belonged to a mixed x and RSP-tradition. Closest to the Slavonic protograph is the Greek Manuscript Atheniensis gr. 428, X c., some readings are registred only in the manuscripts Patmiacus 4, X-XI c. and Patmiacus A3, XI c.The linguistic exegesis, developed by Athanasius in his comments to the Holy Scripture, was adopted and expanded by Constantine of Preslav to express the antonyms of 'constant, eternal divine substance' versus 'non-divine existence, limited in time and space'. Constantine of Preslav created a theological register and coined a special Slavonic doublets for each of the to dimensions - divine and not divine. He implemented the linguistic exegesis on morphological, syntactical and graphical level, too.A review of the unexplored works, attributed to Athanasius in the South Slavonic tradition, is included; it opens the perspective for further investigation.

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