The sequel to the book The Atlas Six. Six magicians were offered the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. And two paths lie before them. In this thrilling next instalment, the secret society of Alexandrians is unmasked. Its newest recruits realize the institute is capable of raw, world-changing power. It's also headed by a man with plans to change life as we know it - and these are already under way. But the cost of this knowledge is as high as the price of power, and each initiate must choose which faction to follow. Yet as events gather momentum and dangers multiply, which of their ... |
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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 ... |
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How to live in harmony with the planet and with each other? Which is the best way to meet the global challenges of today? Philosophers, political scientists, world leaders and many other people are looking for answers of these crucial questions. Every generation formulates its ideas, has its hopes and is searching for the next step of building a more just social order. According to the author of this book, society which implements the holistic model will find the way to peace and common prosperity! Every social problem is a result of application of a particular social model. If we aim that all members of society have the ... |
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The toxicity of heavy metals is a major threat to mankind. These metals possess no biological role, but they are harmful to the human body and its proper functioning. Their adverse effects manifest severe health risks. Heavy metals are well-known environmental pollutants contaminating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems as well as air. Released in the environment, they accumulate in plants and further in animals and via the food chain enter the human body. In each country diverse precautions are in action to protect the public health from these pollutants. Different standards adopted by EC are applied to control, prevent ... |
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Книга 7 от поредицата "Bulgarian Academic Monographs". ... This book is the second edition of a book with the same title, but in Bulgarian, published in 1963. Nikola Obrechkoff (1896 – 1963) was a world renowned specialist in the field of the geometry of polynomials. To him are due outstanding generalizations of the Descartes rule, Budan – Fourier theorem, and of several Laguerre’s theorems. In his last publication On some algebraic covariants and the zeros of polynomials he proposed a very promising new approach to the classicial item of the localization of the zeros of polynomials. Unfortunately, this ... |
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The book Contemporary Issues in Accounting. The Accounting Profession studies a wide spectrum of issues, encompassing: the impact of the fourth industrial revolution and the deployment of technological innovations such as Big data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and blockchain; sustainability reporting of companies and its expanding standardisation; and accountants' ethical behaviour in the technology-driven business environment. The analysis is focused on the new role and functions of the accounting experts within organisation and the skill set of the future accountants considered sustainable ... |
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Petar Beron worked at the Institute of Zoology and the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a biologist from 1963 to 2010. Specializating in acarology and biospeleology, he began exploring caves and cave fauna since 1955. He went on expeditions in New Guinea, Indonesia, Mexico, Cuba, China, Vietnam, on the Balkan Peninsula, in Corsica and South America. In his journeys, he discovered many new species of caves and animals. Author and co-author of many books and articles on speleology, zoogeography and acarology. The present publication contains data on 153 species not recorded so ... |
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Physicochemical accents. ... The book shows the possibilities of applying of the physicochemical petrological research methods for an in-depth study of the processes of wallrock alterations and obtaining new original data in metasomatic petrology. The author's investigation on mineral equilibria in the system K 2 О-Al 2 O 3 -SiO 2 -H 2 O-SO 3 is of particular importance for studying of the physicochemical conditions of mineral formation during the acid metasomatism of rocks. By investigating the mineral equilibria on this system, it is possible to develop a complete facies subdivision of secondary quartzes mineral ... |
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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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Danger and betrayal... Secrets and enchantment... Third and final book in the bestselling prequel series to The Mortal Instruments, set in Victorian London. A net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain needs one last item to complete his plan. He needs Tessa. But Jem and Will, the boys who lay equal claim to Tessa’s heart, will do anything to save her. Read all the sensational books in The Shadowhunter Chronicles: The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, The Bane Chronicles, The Dark Artifices, The Last Hours and The Shadowhunter&# ... |
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From Azzedine Alaïa, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, more than a century’s worth of fashion greats are celebrated in this new edition of Fashion Designers A - Z. An accessibly priced and updated volume features photographs of hundreds of garments selected from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) museum's permanent collection. Elegant gowns from the turn of the century, Mondrian-style minimalist chic, and everything inbetween. Each of these works of art is chosen not only for its beauty but also for exemplifyingthe unique philosophy, ... |
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Dida Kazakova graduated from the Medical Academy, Sofia, in 1979. She carried out her residency in the Helmholz Institute of Ophthalmology in Moscow. She was a Fellow of the European Glaucoma Society in Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, and in the University of Cologne, Germany. While a fellow in Cologne, she wrote her doctoral thesis on the topic of glaucoma surgery. She subsequently obtained her Habilitation in 2013. Assoc. Prof. D. Kazakova is a practicing ophthalmologist, surgeon and lecturer at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". ... |
