Харлем, Ню Йорк, през 60-те години на XX век. Карни притежава малък магазин за мебели. Завършил колеж, той иска да скъса с бандитското минало на баща си и да води почтен живот. Но в Харлем това е почти невъзможно, тук престъпността не е само сред бедните. И докато той опитва да преодолее ограниченията и униженията, бял полицай убива чернокожо момче. Това отприщва бунт, който опустошава Харлем. Пропастта между черните и белите обаче остава непреодолима. Колсън Уайтхед е американски писател, роден през 1969 г. Има 7 романа, но чак "Подземната железница" му носи световна известност, като става една от най- ... |
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Dedicated to the 60 th anniversary of Bulgaria`s accession to UNESCO. ... The basic thematic units in the volume include theoretical understandings related to the interpretation and maintenance of cultural heritage; sharing of innovative ideas for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage or of the preservation of tangible cultural heritage; as well as articles dedicated to pertinent problems of the representation of cultural heritage in a museum and archival environment together with the national and regional experience in the implementation of cultural policies. During the conference the problems of tangible and ... |
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Geppetto carves himself a puppet out of wood. He loves the puppet and calls him Pinocchio. Pinocchio doesn't want to be a puppet. He wants to be a real boy, but he is naughty and cannot tell the truth... "Macmillan English Explorers" is an eight-level reading scheme written specifically for young learners of English. They bring first language teaching methods to reading lessons in international classrooms. Informed by the National Literacy Strategy and by teaching methodology for first language speakers of English, "Macmillan Explorers" is supported by an understanding of the needs of young ... |
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This is a collection of stories about our fathers who, although physically gone, are nevertheless always present. These poetic essays deliver a book about life, death, and loss; about happiness, which is always intimately personal; about life’s fundamental lessons and the communication between generations. Besides drawing a dispersed but convincing portrait of life from the years of World War II through the Cold War era to the beginning of the twenty-first century, the stories included in the anthology are also of great literary quality and artistic value. And though they offer elements of history and national psychology, ... |
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The International symposium dedicated to the 120th Anniversary of Sofia University and the 50th Anniversary of the Commencement of the European Economic Community was organized by the Department of Logic, Ethics, and Aesthetics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, the Italian Institute of Culture in Sofia, and the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Sofia. It was held at the SU main campus on 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., known as the Rectorate, on September 23-25, 2008 as the news of the bizarre and troubling financial crisis poured in from all sides. The conference organizers observed that since the last two ... |
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Prof. Dr. Cyril Pavlikianov , Dr. Habilitatus (D.Sc.), Ph.D., M.A. is born in Sofia in 1965. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Byzantine History at the National and Capodistrian University of Athens in 1998. He has been Assistant Professor of Modern Greek Philology (1998 - 2001) and Associate Professor of Byzantine Literature (2001 - 2007) at the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology of the University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski". In 2004 he obtained the scholarly degree Doctor Habilitatus (Doctor Scientiarum) in Mediaeval History, and in 2007 he was elected full Professor of Byzantine Philology and ... |
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Foreign languages are the communicative means of bridging the gap between cultures and people (Vesselinov, 2019a, p. 7). At the University of National and World Economy (UNWE) - Sofia, Bulgaria, the foreign language teaching is organized and carried out by the lecturers at the Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of International Economics and Politics, who periodically update their syllabuses and regularly publish textbooks and workbooks for the different majors (Vesselinov, 2019b, p. 180). Along with studying English as a first or second foreign language, UNWE students of Economics or ... |
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Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look? There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille have been taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption have grown up with this lesson all her lives. But when Jam meets Pet she begins to question what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt the evil lurking in Redemption's house... But how do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit the exist? "Heart-stirring... riveting.... important." SLJ "Terrific... a tale that defies categorization... forcing readors to deeply rethink assumptions about ... |
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"Funny, thought-provoking feminism"Guardian, on The Exact Opposite of Okay ... Izzy O`Neill: writer, activist, world`s worst waitress. It`s been two monts since eighteen-year-old Izzy O`Neill was slut-shamed in a national scandal. As well as coming to terms with the fact that thousands of people have seen her foofer - Izzy is juggling high school, writing a screenplay and figuiring out what to do next with her life. When another girl`s nude photos are leaked, Izzy and the Bitches Bite Back team decide to take action. They`re taking the fight all the way to the top...and won`t let anyone bring them down. It`s ... |
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Архивите на "НАМПД". Книгата е част от поредицата "Приключенията на Кърт Остин" на издателство "Pro Book". ... Когато екипът на НАМПД открива хиляди жертви на смъртоносен токсин, Кърт Остин и Джо Дзавала няма да се спрат пред нищо, за да намерят създадената още от древните египтяни противоотрова. Кърт Остин и най-верният му приятел Джо Дзавала са изправени пред безмилостен търговец на власт, готов да създаде нова египетска империя, която ще бъде велика като тази на фараоните. Част от неговия план е да източва новооткритите под Сахара подземни води, но той разполага и с дори още по- ... |
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Prof. Dr. Cyril P. Pavlikianov , Dr. Habilitatus (D.Sc.), Ph.D., M.A. is born in Sofia in 1965. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Byzantine History at the National and Capodistrian University of Athens in 1998. He has been Assistant Professor of Modern Greek Philology (1998 - 2001) and Associate Professor of Byzantine Literature (2001 - 2007) at the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology of the University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski". In 2004 he obtained the scholarly degree Doctor Habilitatus (Doctor Scientiarum) in Mediaeval History, and in 2007 he was elected full Professor of Byzantine Philology and ... |
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La deuxième monographie de la série, consacrée à la faune cavernicole de la Péninsule Balkanique, traite la Grèce, pays très riche en grottes (plus de 10 milles) dont seulement 240 ont était l'objet de recherche biospéologique. Les 630 espèces d‘animaux cavernicoles, publiées jusqu‘a 2015, sont énumérées avec leurs localités et des notes sur la biologie. Les grotte aux animaux sont décrite en bref et plusieurs notes sur la zoogéographie de cette faune y trouvent place. La faune grecque est comparée avec les faunes cavernicoles ... |
