This book compares the results of twenty years of international media assistance in the five countries of the western Balkans. It asks what happens to imported models when they are applied to newly evolving media systems in societies in transition. The b

В Вестеросе продолжается война и связанная с этим смута. Потеряв отца, который по сути и был правителем, Серсея в роли регентши при своем малолетнем сыне пытается сохранить в своих руках единоличную власть над страной. Она ссорится со всеми, кто пробует е

Pianist, composer and sensitive romantic. Fryderyk Chopin – a truly international talent. And he was born and spent his childhood in Poland! It was here that he had loving parents and a home that resounded with music. It was in a country that did not exist on the map at that time that he experienced his first contacts with the keyboard and his first performances before the Warsaw audience....

Wie versetzt man sich in die eigene Kindheit zurück, wie stellt man die eigene Lebensgeschichte dar? In Kindheitsmuster entwickelt Christa Wolf eine neue Art des autobiographischen Schreibens. Sie erzählt von Nelly Jordan, die in den Jahren zwischen 1933 und 1947 heranwächst und Krieg und Flucht erlebt, aber auch von der erwachsenen Frau, die Jahrzehnte später an einem heißen Sommertag ihre nun...

The sugary, white Kremlin is the heart of Russia in the 2020s, which survived the Red, Gray and White Troubles, closed off from the outside world and plunged into sleep. its refined copy, but in fact it does not belong to anyone. Fifteen short stories from the collection 'Sugar Kremlin', written as if in completely different ways and about different things, add up to a picture of a ghostly,...

"Убить пересмешника" в атмосфере индейской резервации.Он находится на грани взросления. И получает жестокий удар: его мать подвергается жестокому насилию с расистским подтекстом. Это преступление полностью меняет его семью навсегда. Теперь ему предстоит с

In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into lorries. That same day the Romanian WorkersÆ Party was pleased to announce the successful deportation and di

This is Mahatma Ghandi, or, as his nickname suggests, a great spirit. Throughout his life, he proved that violence is the worst form of fighting for the equality of men and women. He worked for the poorest, for those despised solely because of the color of their skin, and for those who could not enjoy freedom. And all this with calm strength, unyielding perseverance, and a revolutionary...

Der morgendliche Blick durch die Vorhänge zeigt es: Wieder steht das Auto mit den unauffälligen Männern von der Stasi vor der Tür. Die Ich-Erzählerin, eine Schriftstellerin aus Ostberlin, weiß sich unter ständiger Beobachtung, in ihrer Wohnung, beim Telefonieren, auf dem Weg zu einer Lesung. Doch am Ende dieses Tages werden sich auch Lücken im System gezeigt haben, die Anlaß zu Hoffnung geben.

'War Alphabet' is one of the stories of the Russian-Ukrainian war. She started writing back in 2015, when Yevhen Stepanenko was fighting in the East of Ukraine as part of a medic unit, and his daughter Solya was waiting for her dad from the front in peaceful Kyiv. This is an honest and touching conversation about war and life for everyone: both children and adults.

The essays in this book provide interesting contributions to the ongoing debate concerning the representation of differing cultures, i.e., the ôimage of the Otherö in the early modern period . They deal with images, projections, and perceptions, based on

Theory of relativity, the most famous formula in the world and scientific achievements that earned him the Nobel Prize in 1921. This time, meet one of the most famous scientists of all time – Albert Einstein. It is hard to believe that he was not a model student and even had problems at school. Yes, this funny-looking, disheveled physicist who was proclaimed a man of the 20th century by Time...