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Doing Business with Tigers: Trends, Features and Prospects for Poland’s Trade with Asia

Author(s): Artur Gradziuk,Patryk Toporowski / Language(s): English

Keywords: Asia; China; economy; Poland; trade

Should a new opening be expected in Poland’s relations with the Asian countries? The current trade statistics suggest that this cannot be ruled out.In 2011, the value of Polish exports to Asian markets rose by €1 billion against 2011, and Polish entrepreneurs now seem less fearful when starting a business there.For Asian countries in turn cooperation with Poland is becoming the key to the European market. These issues are examined by our researchers Artur Gradziuk and Patryk Toporowski in the latest PISM report "Doing Business with Tigers: Trends, Features and Prospects for Poland's Trade with Asia." The authors of the report stress that alongside China, the number one trading partner in Asia, other Asian markets, in particular India and Kazakhstan, are also important for the Polish exporters. Poland’s presence in Japan and South Korea is growing, and trade with Asia is beneficial in particular for the Polish chemical, cosmetic, food and machinery industries.A report is a part of the project „Trade with Asia - An Opportunity For Visegrad Countries?” (no 11220101) financed by the International Visegrad Fund. The other project partners are: EUROPEUM, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Slovak Academy of Sciences.

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The Limitations of E-commerce Development in Full Operating Cycle Firms: V4 Countries Case

Author(s): Emilia Brożyna,Grzegorz Michalski,Guenter Blendinger,Ahmed Ahmidat / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: financing e-commerce; financial analysis; financial performance; V4 financial reality; financial liquidity management;

Financial efficiency of an entities operating in full operating cycle conditions is influenced by environmental characteristics. That paper analyzes one of the financial results measured by cash tied in inventories in e-commerce full operating cycle financially constrained V4 entities. In recent decades, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe there are significant changes in national economies. Many of them joined the European Union in 2004. Among the EU Member States noteworthy is the largest group of countries of Central and Eastern Europe: Czechia, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. On 15 February 1991 they have concluded an agreement on the formation of the Visegrad Group. It was aimed at expanding cooperation between these countries and in the initial phase of accession to the European Union and NATO. Analysis of the changes that have taken place in companies using online sales in the countries of the Visegrad Group is the subject of this article.

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INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER, CLASS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE POETRY: ZHENG XIAOQIONG AND HER WRITING FROM BELOW

Author(s): Justyna Jaguścik / Language(s): English,Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: women’s studies; feminism; female; European; Asian; African

The book shows the the picture of feminity in European and world culture, which emerges from the texts concerning the beginnings of women’s movement as well as in the recent publications, describing existential experience of women in local and global dimension. The publication explores the problems of distant cultures and close nations of our continent, especially Central Europe. The provided perspectives show a visible symmetry of fates of women living in Western, Middle East, African and Asian cultures.

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EMPRESS AND AFRICAN: TWO FEMALE IMAGES ON TERRACOTTA OIL LAMPS FROM THE RED SEA PORT OF BERENIKE

Author(s): Iwona Zych / Language(s): English,French / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: oil lamp; Berenike; Red Sea trade; Byzantine empress; African; venationes; Tunisian workshops; ARS; imitation

Two early sixth-century terracotta oil lamps from Berenike are an indirect witness to the sources of trade (and the people involved in the commerce) that passed through the Red Sea port. Oil lamps made of clay were rarely a commodity for sale, yet they traveled inconspicuously, part of the personal luggage or a luxury item, more a souvenir or a gift than a traded item. In a harbor like Berenike, a melting pot of different cultures and tastes, their presence reflects the major and minor players on the local commercial scene. These two special pieces, one absolutely unique in terms of the iconography of its decoration, showcase the individual preferences of their otherwise anonymous owner: on one hand, a belief in the protective power of the image of a Byzantine empress in fifth and sixth century Mediterranean society and, on the other, a taste for the exotic, a portrait head of an African woman (?), expressed in craft work.

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Designer competence is a component of the basic competency of future teachers of technologies

Author(s): Yevgen Kulyk / Language(s): English,Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: education; competence; design; methodology of studying

The existing educational system of Eastern European countries in the 20th century functioned in the paradigm of the socialistic existence of a person, which formed an appropriate culture in all branches of the economy. Eastern European countries’ entry into the global market system highlighted the educational problems that needed to be solved in the first place in order to adapt their society to the global community. The analysis conducted in this article made it possible to establish that the existence of a considerable number of concepts such as “competence,” “competent,” unfortunately, does not provide science with the sufficient methodological basis necessary for experimental identification and description of their substantive differentiation, determination of their role in the substantiation of the methodology of competent personality formation. It is suggested that the level of mastering concepts can be used as the level of formation of the phenomenon under study. It is shown that revealing the content of the concept of “design competence” will allow us to expand the boundaries of the system of scientific knowledge and to establish mechanisms for the formation of a certain phenomenon in the professional training of future teachers of technology. In this case, “design competency” can reflect both the low, generalized goal of education (presence of knowledge, skills, personal qualities) during the reproduction of an activity based on a pattern, and the high goal (generalized goal of education) – an active component of education, as part of which knowledge, skills, and personal qualities are used in non-standard situations that require the use of elements of creativity, that is, a higher level of generalization. It is clear that such self-management can be realized only if the student has the appropriate regulatory basis formed for his activity, namely: the conceptual basis (knowledge of design problems), the emotional and value basis (relation to the environment and society), and the operating basis (ability to interact with environmental objects).

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POVERTY ALLEVIATION THROUGH SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES AND GOOD PRACTICES

Author(s): Katina Kostadinova Popova / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: poverty; tourism; sustainability; development

In the first two decades of the 21st century, socially and economically disadvantaged people form a significant part of the global society. World organizations face the problem of providing minimal economic benefits to the population with limited options. The literature discusses whether tourism can be a tool to overcome poverty problems and how effective it can be in the context of globalization and socio-economic inequality. The aim of the current study is to identify the role of tourism sector in improving the well-being of marginalized communities, considering three traditional scenarios: pessimistic, realistic and optimistic. The results showed that international tourism creates numerous opportunities for socially disadvantaged people, as the positive effects depend on the willingness of these stratums to take part in the process of social and labor integration.

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SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT DURING THE CRISIS AND FINANCING OPPORTUNITIES

УСТОЙЧИВО РАЗВИТИЕ НА СЕЛСКОТО СТОПАНСТВО ПО ВРЕМЕ НА КРИЗА И ВЪЗМОЖНОСТИТЕ ЗА ФИНАНСИРАНЕ

Author(s): Milen Vlaev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: agricultural land; investment loan; financing; lease; return on capital; sustainability; balance sheet structure; interest rate

All economic and social subjects were are more or less affected during the economic crises. These processes affect both large and small businesses, and their impact is different with respect to the sectors in which the economic operators operate. In this regard, the report seeks to analyze the behavior of agricultural companies in times of economic crisis. To present how access to capital affects the various processes in the sector, and what are the possible obstacles that companies in the agricultural sector face. Analyzing the structure of the business and the readiness of companies to present possible solutions to reduce their impact of crises on the Agribusiness sector. n the appendix we will use only one sub-sector, namely it is best seen during the crisis, which is Vegetable Production and Fruit Growing.

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Spaces that Haunt: Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Old Nurse’s Story”

Author(s): Anna Kędra-Kardela / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Elizabeth Gaskell; “The Old Nurse’s Story”; haunted house; Gothic space; Victorian Gothic

The author applies Manuel Aguirre’s theory of two zones in horror literature separated by thresholds – “the human world” and the “Otherworld” – to the haunted house in one of Elizabeth Gaskell’s rare excursions into the supernatural, “The Old Nurse’s Story.” There is analysis of the concern voiced about the fate of female victims of men and of the undermining of the idea of home as a safe place by its presentation as anti-home.

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Arnold Bennett’s Romance of the Suburbs

Author(s): Małgorzata Nitka / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Bennett; A Man from the North; suburbs; writing; romance; monotony; individuality

"A Man from the North" (1898), Arnold Bennett’s first novel, reflects, to a certain degree, the end-of-the-century shift in which, as Lynne Hapgood contends, suburbs rather than city constitute the narrative location and become a literary subject in its own right. The novel tells the story of Richard Larch who comes to London to attempt a literary career, for which he believes himself destined. He fails to accomplish the dream as he lacks both talent and commitment, while the dream itself turns out to be a piece of self-delusion. He turns out to be more suited to the regular and unimaginative life of a clerk and husband commuting to work from the suburbs. Even though this conclusion suggests that the suburban pattern of life may annihilate literary creativity, Bennett considers possibilities of their reconciliation. This paper seeks to examine the relationship between writing and suburbs as shown in the novel as well as to discuss larger, social and cultural, implications of the suburbs.

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The Semiotics of the Gothic Country House in Jane Austen’s "Northanger Abbey"

Author(s): Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Jane Austen; Northanger Abbey; gothic convention; novel of manners; dialogic form

The article discusses the semiotics of the gothic setting in Jane Austen’s "Northanger Abbey". It argues that the novel’s dialogic form juxtaposes contrasting genres and codes constructing a multi-layered and vibrant dialogue between the realistic and the fantastic modes of the novel.

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WHEN BEING IN SOCIAL EXCLUSION RISK BECOMES RISKIER: SCHOOL OF SLIMNIC, VRANCEA, ROMANIA, IN PANDEMIC

Author(s): Dorina CROITORU,Ana GAVRILESCU / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: social exclusion risk; distance education; COVID-19 pandemic; Roma children;

For the whole world, the COVID-19 pandemic is a risk situation. All domains of activity are certainly affected by isolation and social distancing measures. Each social field is differently affected, but the Education sector is facing major challenges for teachers, students and institutional managers. In Romania, school activities have been suspended starting 12 March and there is a possibility to reopen them in September. Until then, all activity has been transferred online. In our case study, we examined a school from a disadvantaged part of the country, which is included in a predefined project called “Sustainable social and educational integration through sports activities”. The project takes place at the National University of Physical Education and Sport, Bucharest, Romania, in partnership with the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. The objective of the project is to facilitate the educational and social integration of 2600 children at risk of social exclusion, selected from the 8 development regions of the country, through integrated activities based on sport. During school closure in the spring of 2020 (due to the COVID-19 pandemic), the situation for School no. 67, grades 5-8 (a sample that is in the project, mainly Roma population), is as follows: only 3 students have laptops, 2 students have personal computers, and 30 students have smartphones. Out of all 67, 35 communicate online, but 32 do not. The communication methods used for students with no online access include worksheets sent by regular mail, messages sent to keypad phones and talking using the landline."

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THE HOLOCAUST IN SLOVAKIA: PERSPECTIVE OF OBSERVERS. COPING WITH THE PAST?

Author(s): Monika Vrzgulová / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Holocaust; Slovakia; World War II; Ethnological research;

The social and political changes in Slovakia after 1989 opened many new challenges, tasks, and issues. One of the consequences of these changes was the fact that the public and expert discourse started to raise topics on the modern history of Slovakia - before taboo, overlooked, or ideologically interpreted by the Communist regime. A request and interest suddenly emerged to explore our own history without the dictate of ideology, independently and openly. The history topics which were previously taboo referred to the period of the wartime Slovak state (1939-1945) and its totalitarian regime, and the forms of the Holocaust in Slovakia. Historians and social scientists started to explore these topics from the perspective of their science disciplines. In order to contribute to a critical re-assessment of the ideologically burdened images of the past and to the overcoming of historic stereotypes surviving in our societies, the oral history method is primarily used in my ethnological research. It represents an appropriate tool for the capturing of subjective testimonies of experienced events at a certain historic period. Thanks to this method, it is possible to obtain an interpretation of historic events from the perspective of individuals who are part of the society. My research is based on the assumption that the affiliation of a witness to a certain social group or groups determines his/her testimony, and the memory processes depend not only on external stimuli, but also on the particular social context (Halbwachs 1980; Assman 1992; Ferencová - Nosková 2009: 21-31).

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THE ENTHUSIAST AS LEARNER: A CASE STUDY

Author(s): Aleksandra Litawa / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: passion; enthusiast; passion-inspired learning; enthusiast as learner

The easiest way to recognise an enthusiast is that they talk about their object of interest with a twinkle in their eye. The space occupied by this passion is their own individual world of values where, free from the outside world’s pressures, they have the opportunity not only to focus attention on issues that are important to them, but above all to think and act in a way that is optimal. The aim of the present research was to recognise the attributes of the enthusiast as learner. A qualitative strategy was adopted in the research and a single case study was used. Data was collected using an in-depth, semi-structured interview technique with a self-taught artist who loved painting on tree bark. The analysis of the interview provided insight into features characterising the enthusiast as learner. Attributes distinguished, i.e. curiosity, deep engagement and high motivation, determined each other. Importantly, they initiated the emergence of other, positive and desirable features from the perspective of learning, such as readiness to apply effort, perseverance and determination to achieve goals, courage and creativity in solving problems, belief in the rightness of actions undertaken, self-confidence, effectiveness and the pursuit of mastery.

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Building Brand Image among Modern Individual Customers – Case Study of Starbucks Corporation

Author(s): Maimoona Selinah Mabena,Geraldine Tatiana Diaz Riaño / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: corporate image building;brand management;mass marketing, segmentation marketing;customer management;loyalty

This case study presents the problems and challenges of image building for Starbucks. The company creates marketing strategies based on both mass marketing and segmentation marketing. In order to create a positive image in the eyes of specific types of individual customers, the company identifies obstacles and problems and undertakes actions aimed not only at creating comfortable, modern places that are attractive in the eyes of customers, but also actions aimed at making the shopping process more attractive by improving the distribution of products and services, conducting activities aimed at providing products that meet customers' needs and their proper promotion through various advertising activities. The case study below presents both the currently implemented ways of building the company's relationships with individual customers, as well as proposals for future solutions in this area.

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COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATOR AND FOREIGN STUDENT IN INTERCULTURAL CLASSROOM

Author(s): Anna Kazakantoni / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: intercultural education; communication; intercultural classroom;

In Greece, the composition of student population is linguistically and culturally diverse. For this reason, the Greek educational system faces many difficulties in the integration and education of these students. It is worth noting the noticeable change in the composition of students and the conversion of mono-cultural classes into multiculturalism, which has brought about administrative and institutional changes on the part of the state department, in order to keep the educational process in line with the new data. In the context of intercultural education, intercultural communication is a complex procedure. This term includes the communication between individuals or groups of different linguistic, social, cultural, ethnic, religious and educational background. It focuses on social attributes, thought patterns, and the cultures of different groups of people and also involves understanding the different cultures, languages and customs of people from other countries. Specifically, the aim of this study was to investigate the interactive relationships between educators and foreign students, the quality of their communication and interaction with each other, and any problems that make it difficult and ineffective.

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METAPHORIC REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT “CREATIVE PROCESS” IN V. NABOKOV’S NOVEL “THE GIFT”

Author(s): Albina Novikova,Yuliya Vladimirovna Golovnyova / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: metaphor; descriptor theory of metaphor; V. Nabokov; Russian literature; linguistic analysis of literary text;

Descriptions of the process of artistic creation take an outstanding place in V. Nabokov’s works and abound both in conventional and creative metaphors. In this article we analyze metaphoric representation of the concept “creative process” in V. Nabokov’s novel “The Gift”. The theoretical basis of research is the descriptor theory of metaphor by A.N. Baranov. The article reveals the most frequent metaphorical models of creative process in the novel and the areas of its metaphoric conceptualization.

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THE EFFICIENCY OF THE VALUE CREATION MODEL IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Author(s): Petr Suchánek,Martin Štěrba / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: value creation model; EVA ratio; financial analysis; performance; manufacturing industry;

The subject of this article is determining the efficiency of the Value Creation Model (VCM) in the manufacturing industry in the Czech Republic. The aim of the article is to identify and compare the ability of VCM to distinguish companies creating value or destroying value in the manufacturing and food industries. VCM has been designed on the research basis of food enterprises, where its explanatory power is very good. The question then becomes: what explanatory power does it have in other sectors? To determine and compare predictive ability, VCM values will be calculated for selected companies from the manufacturing industry and on that basis enterprises will be classified as enterprises creating or destroying value or enterprises in the so-called grey zone. The EVA ratio will be also calculated for the same enterprises and used to divide them into enterprises creating and destroying value. Finally, the consensus of classification by the VCM index and EVA will be determined for enterpriseswithin the sector and this will be compared with the level of agreement in food enterprises, which will serve as a control sample. So the efficiency of VCM within selected sectors will be determined and at the same time it will be possible to compare this efficiency between these sectors.

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Where does the Czech Republic export to?

Author(s): Ladislava Kuchynková / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Czech export; foreign markets; foreign trade; CzechTrade agency; Free Trade Agreement;

This scoping review examines the current situation of the Czech export market and its prospects for the future. Firstly, it looks at the Czech Republic’s traditional partners, who are mainly its neighbouring countries, and highlights the main Czech export activities. It then focuses on perspective destinations from the perspective of the growing volume of trade in recent years, as well as from the perspective of the current dynamic development of local economies. The CzechTrade agency plays a key role in promoting Czech exports and is active abroad in its search for business opportunities and in helping new and existing Czech exporters in establishing themselves in new markets. The Free Trade Agreement is another important tool for supporting Czech exports, and Czech exporters have been able to utilize its many advantages.

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Multivocality in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Author(s): Adisa Ahmetspahić / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: multivocality; historiographic metafiction; neo-Victorian; Waterland; Possession;

The late twentieth-century Britain has shown great degrees of emulation of the Victorian era with the aim of regaining the past glory and stirring the national pride. Fictional works produced at the time were categorized as neo-Victorian fiction. These works critically asses and talk/write back to the Victorian values, thereby countering Victorian metanarratives and allowing the emergence of petit récits. The aim of this paper is to broaden current knowledge of multivocality through the lens of historiographic metafiction in neo-Victorian fiction. The paper discusses two neo-Victorian novels: A. S. Byatt’s Possession and Graham Swift’s Waterland. The principal concern of this paper is the degree to which neo-Victorian fiction relies on historiographic metafiction and how historiographic metafiction engenders multivocality that had been suppressed in the Victorian age. Discussions of both novels greatly revolve around the historical representation of the past, the role of history and its narrativization, and the plurality of history, whereas the discussion of Byatt’s Possession takes into consideration the position of women and women artist’s autonomy in the Victorian era.

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The Return of History in Colin Thubron's Travelogue Behind the Wall: A Journey through China

Author(s): Pavel Petkov / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: China; travel writing; imagology; history; postcolonial

The paper discusses Colin Thubron’s book Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China – one of the most popular twentiethcentury travelogues about this country. It explores the various ways in which the author constructs the image of the Chinese people, especially when these images are related to China’s recent history. More specifically, I focus on a discursive phenomenon – an imagined “return of history” – which the reader can witness throughout the book. The author constantly travels around the country, expecting to somehow see the history he has heard so much about at home. He expects something from China and is prepared to see this ‘something’ even in the face of the evidence. At the same time he feels he has every right to pass judgments on what he perceives as history, while denying the Chinese he meets the right to comment on British history.The paper discusses Colin Thubron’s book Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China – one of the most popular twentiethcentury travelogues about this country. It explores the various ways in which the author constructs the image of the Chinese people, especially when these images are related to China’s recent history. More specifically, I focus on a discursive phenomenon – an imagined “return of history” – which the reader can witness throughout the book. The author constantly travels around the country, expecting to somehow see the history he has heard so much about at home. He expects something from China and is prepared to see this ‘something’ even in the face of the evidence. At the same time he feels he has every right to pass judgments on what he perceives as history, while denying the Chinese he meets the right to comment on British history.

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Doing Business with Tigers: Trends, Features and Prospects for Poland’s Trade with Asia

The Limitations of E-commerce Development in Full Operating Cycle Firms: V4 Countries Case

INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER, CLASS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE POETRY: ZHENG XIAOQIONG AND HER WRITING FROM BELOW

EMPRESS AND AFRICAN: TWO FEMALE IMAGES ON TERRACOTTA OIL LAMPS FROM THE RED SEA PORT OF BERENIKE

Designer competence is a component of the basic competency of future teachers of technologies

POVERTY ALLEVIATION THROUGH SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES AND GOOD PRACTICES

УСТОЙЧИВО РАЗВИТИЕ НА СЕЛСКОТО СТОПАНСТВО ПО ВРЕМЕ НА КРИЗА И ВЪЗМОЖНОСТИТЕ ЗА ФИНАНСИРАНЕ

Spaces that Haunt: Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Old Nurse’s Story”

Arnold Bennett’s Romance of the Suburbs

The Semiotics of the Gothic Country House in Jane Austen’s "Northanger Abbey"

WHEN BEING IN SOCIAL EXCLUSION RISK BECOMES RISKIER: SCHOOL OF SLIMNIC, VRANCEA, ROMANIA, IN PANDEMIC

THE HOLOCAUST IN SLOVAKIA: PERSPECTIVE OF OBSERVERS. COPING WITH THE PAST?

THE ENTHUSIAST AS LEARNER: A CASE STUDY

Building Brand Image among Modern Individual Customers – Case Study of Starbucks Corporation

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATOR AND FOREIGN STUDENT IN INTERCULTURAL CLASSROOM

METAPHORIC REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT “CREATIVE PROCESS” IN V. NABOKOV’S NOVEL “THE GIFT”

THE EFFICIENCY OF THE VALUE CREATION MODEL IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Where does the Czech Republic export to?

Multivocality in Neo-Victorian Fiction

The Return of History in Colin Thubron's Travelogue Behind the Wall: A Journey through China