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Most users, especially young people, suffer from serious symptoms of addiction. The idea of having no access to the internet causes them anxiety, bordering on panic, pupil enlargement, sweating, refusal of food, or bulimia. Few manage to get rid of this state alone without outside help. It seems as if the reading of literary and scholarly texts remains a privilege of few people in the near future.
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The purpose of this textis to present the main conclusions of Samuel Bowles’ book The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens. The book sums up author’s engagement with the interdisciplinary field of research on human cooperation. The aim of the bookis to provide an account of interactions between the economic and moral incentives guiding humanaction. Author hopes that it will allow for creation of policy tools, superior to those provided by the rational choice paradigm.
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In 2017 the organizers of dráMÁzat – perhaps most popular Transylvanian drama competition – were the Tomcsa Sándor Theatre in Odorheiu-Secuiesc and the Szigligeti Theatre in Oradea. The winning texts of the competition (for the fourth time in a row) were published in a volume, reviewed here by Pál Böjthe. The book contains Hungarian texts by Sári Oláh-Horváth, Erzsébet Scipiades, Dénes Krusovszky and András Hatházi, and Romanian dramas by Marian Popescu and Radu Popescu, with the Hungarian translation of the latter one.
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Activities of the Center for research of modern and contemporary history Tuzla
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The three Baltic countries are celebrating 100 years of independence this year. What kind of societies have they become in the last century marked by both freedom and occupation? Three creative leaders from Estonia,Latvia and Lithuania reflect on their struggles.
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Russia, with its cheap electricity and talented tech professionals, has become an important hub for cryptocurrency. And it seems the Russian authorities are starting to see the benefits of blockchain technology,especially in terms of overcoming US sanctions.
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A conversation with Tomasz Sikora,a Polish musician and member of Karbido
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Since the passage of a new anti-NGO law in Hungary,civil society organisations have been on the edge. No one knows for certain what will happen. The biggest fear is that there will be a backlash after the European Parliament voted to support triggering Article 7 against Hungary.
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Like other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Poland’s public debate on migration and Islam has become a discussion about how to “prevent the danger” from entering the country. And amid it all, one group of voices is absent: those of Muslims themselves.
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Yavor Konov’s latest book is a novelty for Bulgarian musicological literature, as no other book has been devoted to Athanasius Kircher for the time being. This fact has been taken into consideration with its content modelled on the classical ‘life and career’ pattern. Even the title has put a special accent and has shown the professional affinity of its author, musician (pianist) and musicologist, for Kircher’s fundamental Musurgia Universalis. The book came to life because of its author’s will to share what has drawn his attention, to make available in the public domain the legacy of a figure of three centuries ago still igniting discussions, affinities and oppositions. (Yavor Konov was also behind the Bulgarian reception of Gioseffo Zarlino and Sébastiеn de Brossard). Yavor Konov’s presentation of the parts of Kirher’s work is clear, wellstructured and balanced. Aware of the fact that he can’t afford to follow consistently several steps first, a rigorous scientific research, then the results, requiring a dialogue with and possibly, a consensus among specialised communities, sink in and verify them, and only then promotion – Konov unites these steps into one, developing the panorama of this incredible oeuvre in terms as comprehensible, readable and even attractive as possible. The author’s views, evaluations and interpretations take the same synthetic approach. We’d agree with some of them and disagree with others, and still others would seem markedly subjective to us, but in any event, we’ll have a basis for communication. Providing a wealth of facts about Kircher’s life, illustrations (Yavor Konov specifies that the illustrations are available on free websites), an index of the works of this prolific scholar, testifying to his wide range of research fields, Yavor Konov’s book would attract various readerships, widening like circular ripples and depending on the interests of Kircher himself, who has gone down in history because of his unique place between the fairytale and the scholarly, whose works have always over the centuries attracted readers, followed now by Bulgarian readers as well.
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