Hard power, Soft Belief, and the future of the West. Silicon Valley has lost its way. Our most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the West's dominant place in the geopolitical order. But that relationship has now eroded, with perilous repercussions. Today, the market rewards shallow engagement with the potential of technology. Engineers and founders build photo-sharing apps and marketing algorithms, unwittingly becoming vessels for the ambitions of others. This complacency has spread into academia, politics, and the boardroom. ... |
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Collections of documents. Edited by: Evgeniy Kandilarov, Soyoung Kim, Svetla Karteva-Dancheva. ... This collection of documents is dedicated to the relations between the European Union and the East Asian region, which includes three of the EU strategic partners in East Asia: China, Japan and the Republic of Korea. The EU's rising interest in Asia has been largely based on the economic and political importance of Asia in the post-Cold War period, as well as the impact that it has had on Europe's own international relations. The whole Indo-Pacific region is rapidly evolving and is becoming the centre of ... |
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The analysis of the specifics of taxation and tax control for different types of tax obligations is impossible without basic knowledge of the system of taxation and tax control implemented in the Republic of Bulgaria. The purpose of this textbook is to give a practical orientation to the knowledge that undergraduate and master's degree students should acquire in the disciplines related to taxation and tax control. The authors of the textbook hope that this material will also enhance the knowledge of the professionals in the field of accounting, financial reporting, and tax control, by providing the correct ... |
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Разказани от домашни, диви и екзотични животни. ... Комунизъм - какво е това? Религия? Производител на автомобили? На тези и още редица други въпроси отговарят героите на "Басни за комунизма" - мишката, която живее в Музея на комунизма в Прага, къртицата, която изследва "Легендата за Берлинската стена", котката на генерал Ярузелски, папагалът на Тито, бездомното куче от Букурещ - интригуващи свидетели на историята на Източна Европа от не съвсем далечното минало. За разлика от хората, повечето животни имат панорамно зрение - и именно тази им особеност авторката активира, за да открои различните аспекти ... |
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A dangerously romantic Scarlet Pimpernel-inspired fantasy with post-revolution witches from acclaimed author Kristen Ciccarelli. On the night Rune's life changed forever, blood ran in the streets. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating revolution, witches have been diminished from powerful rulers to outcasts ruthlessly hunted due to their waning magic, and Rune must hide what she is. Spending her days pretending to be nothing more than a vapid young socialite, Rune spends her nights as the Crimson Moth, a witch vigilante who rescues her kind from being purged. When a rescue goes wrong, she decides to throw the witch ... |
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What History Reveals About Our Future. ... How does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Levitsky and Ziblatt explain why democracies fail, how leaders like Trump subvert them today and what each of us can do to protect our democratic rights. "Anyone who is concerned about the future of democracy should read this brisk, accessible book. Anyone who is not concerned ... |
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The continuation and the ending the story from the book Heartless Hunter. ... Love has never been so deadly. A witch... Rune Winters is on the run. Ever since the boy she loved, Gideon Sharpe, revealed who she was and delivered her into enemy hands, everyone wants her dead. If Rune hopes to survive, she must ally herself with the cruel and dangerous Cressida Roseblood, who's planning to take back the Republic and reinstate a Reign of Witches-something Cressida needs Rune to accomplish. A witch hunter... Apparently it wasn't enough for Rune to deceive Gideon; she's now betrayed him by allying herself with ... |
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Изданието се предлага на български и английски език. ... "Исус Христос - власт и политика" представлява задълбочено и същевременно модерно описание на библейския произход на понятия като поведенчески модели, лидерство и лидерски практики, послания и тяхното въздействие, власт и властови амбиции, рейтинг и обществено доверие. Alexander Urumov was born in 1969. He holds a master's degree in Bulgarian studies from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". Urumov has worked in public communications and media for over twenty years and has accumulated extensive professional experience as journalist and ... |
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In this article collection, one can find papers which were presented on the International Conference on Korean Studies, which was held in Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski" on April 23, 2019. The conference was organized as a part of the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion and with the Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2015-OLU-2250004). Contributors put the main focus on the current political, economic and social relations between Korea and some of the East European countries. Most of the researches ... |
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This volume entitled "Korean Society Today" contains contributions to the International Conference on Korean Studies which was held in the Center for Korean Studies at St. Kliment Ohridski Sofia University on March 9, 2018. The conference was organized as a part of the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion, and with the Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2015-OLU-2250004). Contributors put main focus on the current political, economical and social relations between Korea and European countries. Most of the ... |
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Ivo Damyanov has a MSc in Mathematics (1995) and holds a PhD in Computer science (2012). He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics, at the South-West University, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. His professional and scientific research interests are in the fields of Discrete Functions, Tree Automata, Universal Algebra, Metaprogramming, Domain-Specific Languages, Code Generation and Static Code Analysis, etc. Slavcho Shtrakov has a PhD degree in Discrete Mathematics and has a DSc degree in Algebra and Discrete Mathematics. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics at the South-West University, ... |
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Outlined are the caves where cave fauna has been recorded in Albania (120 caves, 137 animal species), North Macedonia (55 caves, 152 animal species) and Turkey (ca. 150 caves, 426 animal species). The book also contains comparisons between the cave animals (mostly troglobites and stygobites) in the three countries and the dwellers of the caves of the neighbouring countries or regions. Maps of the distribution of the troglobites and the stygobites - in any one of the described countries - and bibliographies of the papers on these faunas (99 papers on Albanian, 94 on North Macedonian and 320 on Turkish cave fauna) are also ... |
