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This book is presenting for the first time in full the two main variations of the famous Book of Enoch – the Ethiopian, and the Slav. The style is more popular than academic and helps the reader to get in touch with this mysterious ancient work.
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This book presents the two main Old-Bulgarian dualistic apocrypha dealing with the creation of this world, that is part of The Secret Book of Bogomils, and also a legend about the Antichrist and the end of the world.
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This is the first translation into Romany of Jordan Yovkov's "Stara Planina Legends".
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U maju 2016. godine održan je Šesti međunarodni naučno-stručni skup na kojem su svoje radove prezentirali stručnjaci iz BiH i okruženja.
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The dissertation focuses on the – underrepresented in the state of research – subject of metaphor of school in the contemporary Polish poetry. The inspirations drawn from the works on the subject of the cognitive metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson) and the development of this theory on the poetic matter (Lakoff and Turner), from the papers written in the field of anthropology of education, from the partial analyses of the works by poets using the school scenes and terminology and, at last, from philosophical, psychological, pedagogical and sociological studies on mutual connections between education and non-school world allow to see the multifaceted application of the large metaphor LIFE IS A SCHOOL in the poetry. To show this large-scale subject (both in the aspect of the time-frame and poetic diction or genre) in a systematic way, the thesis consists of two parts, which are the result of two complementary approaches. The first part of the dissertation, Stages, is dedicated to the metaphor of school existing in the Polish poetry of two different periods – the years 1945–1989 (the escape from politics into the universal metaphors of school versus the use of school language as the way to beat the Polish People’s Republic system at its own game) and the new Polish poetry (the last works by the Old Masters, the transformation of the anti-system poetry after 1989, the poems forerunningthe latest poetic strategy, the anti-school statements by the authors who emerged after 1989 and their inclination to use the metaphor of school). This chronological conceptualization of the subject allows to present the intergenerational similarities and differences in including the school scenes, characters, objects and terms in the poetry, but at the same time it shows that the metaphor of school is formed partly under the influence of external (historical, political, social) factors, so this figure can be used not only as the universal large metaphor, but also as the instrument of verbalization of the experiences and changes associated with the specific events.The second part of the thesis, Topics, serves as the examination of those elements of school reality that build the metaphors connected with education. The school accessories, the educational institutions and stages, the teachers and the students, the timetable (lessons, tutoring, truancy, summer breaks), as well as the methods of evaluation of the educational performance appear in the contemporary Polish poetry in various forms and turn out to be the way to verbalize a wide range of existential experiences.The timelessness of school as the large metaphor of life and the specific strategies of metaphorization that change with time both contribute to versatility of this kind of poetic practices – the practices that are able to express different aspects of life metaphorically by the means connected with school. Love and death, past, present and future, self-recognition and the knowledge of the Other become more accessible and understandable when they are presented as the elements of “education” – even if the findings drawn from those “lessons”on the human condition can be really disheartening.
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Volumul "Tradiţie şi inovare în cercetarea ştiinţifică" cuprinde materialele de la ediţia a 6-a a conferinţei ştiinţifice Colloquia Professorum „Tradiţie şi inovare în cercetarea ştiinţifică”, desfăşurată la 29 septembrie 2016, ediţie dedicată Anului Profesorului Nicolae Filip, care în acest an ar fi împlinit vârsta de 90 de ani.
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The Smell of Wet Bricks is a pioneering short novel in English by a Kurdish author. ”The smell of wet bricks” is a fresh voice from a region marked by violence and wars over a century. An author from Kurdistan in Iran, Parvizpur “craves to become the voice of a rich repository of powerful stories.” Excerpt: “His life was not empty of excitement; never did he have a monotonous life, and, even now that his body is lying in a corner there under a tree, never will he be immune from menace. Wanderer, nomad, homeless, or whatever you may call him will not make a change in his path, since he is an emperor. Nothing else matters to him except for his mission. He is in thorough possession of freedom and, equally, emancipated from any kind of blameworthiness.” … “The girl closes the notebook. She thinks about the day that she can go to Resho’s room to be exposed to his inspirations. She would smell the bricks of his room’s wall from which Resho detached its plasters to pour water on them. He loved the smell of wet bricks.”
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At the court of Komnenoi, in the twelfth century only four novels (romances) were written. One of these was Rhodanthe and Dosikles by Theodor Prodromos, the first novel since eighth hundred years. The author was the most famous poet of his time and he wrote numerous secular and religious works. Prodromos’ Rhodanthe and Dosikles consists of nine books in which the author describes, in the realities of ancient Greece, the adventures of two young beloveds. Rhodanthe and Dosikles were captured by pirates, imprisoned and separated, but in the end they meet again. Behind the trivial tale there is a work full of rhetoric art and full of allusion to the twelfth century Byzantium.
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“I was born at the end of World War II, and so I was young in the ’60s. This means that I belong to the so-called (at least in Hungary) ‘great generation’. Young people of this generation, especially in America and Western Europe, rebelled against the existing system, showing their dissatisfaction by protests, new types of music and by outrageous clothes and behaviour. We – here and in the other socialist countries – experienced this, only because of the limitations of the repressive system, in a much gentler way. I have never been a rebel myself, and yet what tied me to this great generation was my desire to know the world much better, to be more informed than the average, to be a real cosmopolitan. That is why I studied languages and travelled much more than most.”
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Lejla Kalamujić has won our hearts with her excellent short story collection Call Me Esteban, and with this collection of plays she will keep us under the same strong impression. Fists Full of Clouds and Other Plays include the eponymous play, Let’s Turn off the Light, and She-Cannibal, which has been successfully staged in the Balkans. The plays are related by tackling the contemporary social problems: the stigma of homosexual and transgender people, loneliness of the elderly, and growing up without parents. Cutting deeply into the tissue of society, Kalamujić reveals also the destructive effects of Yugoslavia’s disintegration, whose citizens afterwards lost their sense of belonging. The author approaches her characters with warmth and empathy, offering them the possibility of a different, better future. To the deviations of humaneness Kalamujić responds with hope. Lejla Kalamujić was born in 1980 in Sarajevo, where she graduated in philosophy and sociology. She published two short story collections, Anatomy of a Smile (2008.), and Call Me Esteban (2015). For the latter she won the “Edo Budiša” Award. She was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature in 2016. She also won numerous short story awards.
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Today’s youth are challenging the older political class around the world and are forming new political generations. Examples from South Africa and elsewhere where peace processes were deemed to be successful show signs of youth disapproval of the current post-conflict conditions. Moreover, the Arab Spring witnessed numerous youth movements emerge in authoritarian and illiberal contexts. This book was prepared in light of these discussions and aims to contribute to these ongoing debates on youth politics by presenting the situation of youth in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) as a case study. It will be the first book that specifically focuses on the Iraqi Kurdish youth and their political, social, and economic participation in Kurdistan. The contemporary history of the KRI is marked by conflict, war, and ethnic cleansing under Saddam Hussein and the tyranny of the Ba’ath regime, significantly affecting the political situation of the Kurds in the Middle East. Most of the recent academic literature has focused on the broader picture or, in other words, the macro politics of the Kurdish conundrum within Iraq and beyond. There is little scholarship about the Kurdish population and their socio-economic conditions after 2003, and almost none about the younger generation of Kurds who came of age during autonomous Kurdish rule. This is a generation that, unlike their forebears, has no direct memory of the decades-long campaigns of repression. Studying and examining the rise of this generation of Kurdish young millennials—“Generation 2000”—who came of age in the aftermath of the United States invasion of Iraq offers a unique approach to understand the dynamics in a region that underwent a substantial socio-political transformation after 2003 as well as the impact of these developments on the youth population. Pursuing different themes and lines of inquiry the contributors of the book analyze the challenges and opportunities for young men and women to fulfil their needs and desires, and contribute to the ongoing quest for nationhood and nation-building.
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The purpose of this edited book is to look at work and migration from multiple viewpoints and illuminate challenges faced by immigrants in the labour markets around the world. It takes an approach that listens to the voices of different migrant groups in different countries, based mostly on qualitative research. In addition to the main themes of discussion centred on labour markets, this book also makes reference to a wide range of discussion topics which often intersect with employment, labour markets and the work experience of migrants. These include themes such as migrant integration, remittance transfers, relations established and maintained with home countries, legal and institutional arrangements and policy making processes in the host countries, through the concepts of employment and work. The chapters highlight immigrants’ experiences both theoretically and empirically in the contributions around the world. “This book, which includes the experiences of specific groups like qualified, unskilled, and female migrants, makes reference to a wide range of discussion topics such as migrant integration, remittance transfers, relations established and maintained with home countries, legal and institutional arrangements and policy making processes in the host countries, through the concepts of employment and work.”
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The book consists of three cycles, “Express pot”, “Nervus vagus” and “Letters”. Every story, especially those in the cycle “Express pot”, suggest unresolved emotional tensions / relationships / situations that culminate in the kitchen and with food. Blagojević places these primordial, traditional spaces of women's business in and around the kitchen on a new level and transforms them into spaces of culmination or resolution of the inner dramas of her heroines. The stories told in this way reveal a new dimension of sauerkraut, polenta or meat hammers because they cease to be food or tools in the kitchen and become a symbol of rebellion, disapproval, social disintegration, social status. Overall, “Nervus Vagus and Other Stories” is a collection of likable and readable stories that will easily win over readers with a strong emotional charge, interesting influences in everyday life and a constant walk between the tragic and the comic and make them look at seemingly ordinary things from a different perspective.
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This book deserves attention and positive criticism, primarily because it is a strongly engaged anti-war reminder of the refugee suffering, the forgotten column of the poor, the trouble from which God seems to have given up. Without any embellishment and idealization, often characteristic of children's literature, even naturalistic refinement you would say, Dakić records and literary shapes his memories. The book “Fiver” is characterized by narrative polyphony and skillfully organized auto-referential text. In it, different destinies, stories and confessions touch and intertwine. They literally flow from several branches, as towards the Danube, and merge towards Željko Nišević and his life story, his discreet heroism. They flow like individual refugee destinies that merged into an indelible column of the main road of recent history.
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In his foreword to World Report on Violence and Health, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2002, Nelson Mandela states that “the twentieth century will be remembered as a century marked by violence”. Now we are nearly at the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, but violence still permeates in our lives at various levels. Various forms of violence occurring at levels of interpersonal, self-directed, collective, state, warfare, child and youth violence, intimate partner violence, environmental violence, and animal violence lay bare the complexity and pervasiveness of the phenomenon, yet it also brings along the necessity to discuss violence from multiple perspectives. Nelson Mandela Dünya Sağlık Örgütü’nün 2002 yılında yayınladığı Şiddet ve Sağlık Hakkında Dünya Raporu’nun önsözünde “yirminci yüzyılın şiddetle mimlenen bir yüzyıl olarak hatırlanacağını” söyler. Bizler, neredeyse yirmi birinci yüzyılın ilk çeyreğinin sonlarını yaşamaktayız, ancak şiddet hayatımıza hala çeşitli düzeylerde nüfuz ediyor. Kişilerarası, öze yöneltilen, kolektif, devlet, savaş, çocuk ve genç şiddeti, yakın eş şiddeti, çevresel şiddet ve hayvan şiddeti gibi çeşitli düzlemlerde vuku bulan şiddet biçimleri olgunun karmaşıklığını ve yaygınlığını açıkça ortaya koymakla beraber şiddet kavramının farklı açılardan tartışılması gerekliliğini de ortaya koymaktadır
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This publication presents Ainu people, a mysterious culture of the Far East. Ainu people have long inhabited the Japanese island of Hokkaido, hence the chapter is concerned with the social context and status they have in Japan. An important chapter of this publication presents Bronisław Piłsudski, who lived among the Ainu people for a long time. He studied their culture and language thoroughly, which was preserved on Edison’s phonograph, and this made him known to the Japanese (in fact, only after almost a century) and Ainu. A list of memorials and memorabilia associated with Piłsudski is also included in this publication. However, the most important aim of the study is presenting the legends of the Ainu people. The legends have been translated into Polish (from Russian, into which they were translated from Japanese) and annotated with linguistic and cultural commentary.
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Krystiana Robb-Narbutt is one of the most inspiring and at the same time least known Polish-Jewish artists and poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. She created prints, installations and objects, as well as miniature prose and poems. She exhibited them at Kordegarda and Zachęta, among other venues. In March 1968, she was sentenced to prison for participating in protests and distributing leaflets. The subjects of her work were biography and imagination. The book contains all of Robb-Narbutt’s poems and prose deciphered from manuscripts, as well as their critical consideration. They are supplemented by the voices of literary and art critics as well as friends of the artist.
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The Price of Gold is an emotional play-testimony about the coming of age of a child who grew up dreaming of becoming a sports dance champion. A child for whom the bodies of the dancers he watched represented both rigor, discipline, freedom and courage. "The Price of Gold" is a vulnerable confession in which memories from the dance hall, from trainings and camps become a subjective map of detachment from formative moments. Remembrance is a transformative act, which gives fragility the power to move forward.
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The collection book includes 20 scientific articles by leading specialists and researchers from a National Scientific Conference in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dobri Chintulov, held in 2022. It was organized by the Regional History Museum "Dr. Simeon Tabakov" in Sliven and the Municipality of Sliven.The topics cover various aspects of Chintulov's work, such as his roles as a teacher, poet, composer and compiler of textbooks. Part of the publication focuses on the portrayal of Sliven during the Revival period, and notable personalities are also presented. The processes of the formation of educational work, ethnology, theater, and fine art in Bulgaria are also traced in detail.
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