After receiving many favorable comments and having interesting discussions regarding the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference "Advanced Composite Materials Engineering" COMAT 2012, and the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference "Computational Mechanics and Virtual Engineering" COMEC 2013, we are pleased to present these Proceedings of the 5th International Conference "Advanced Composite Materials Engineering" and the 3rd International Conference "Research & Innovation in Engineering" COMAT 2014. This conference was organized with the important support of Transilvania...

What a great joy to have this delicious book You know, we all have warmhearted memories of the delightful food from our childhood, but mom's unforgettable chocolate birthday cake is absolutely indomitable All you need to feel better is just a lovely creamy chocolate cake. And chocolate liqueurs make you feel like you are in Venice (or Venezia in original). By the way, the photographs from Venice and from many other places are a splendid addition to this wonderful book. My beloved wife Sophia, who is the greatest cook under the Sun, wrote this book with love and dedication, and reading it...

Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) elucidated the idea of a separation between the objective reality and the subjective reality, or, in other words, between the exterior world and the interior world. The pre-Cartesian philosophy and literature did not show much interest in this separation between interior and exterior, or between subjective and objective. For example, Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) gives the impression to see a harmony between the exterior objects (real forms), feelings and rational thinking (potential form). But before him Plato (circa 428 BC - 347 BC) does not see a harmony between...

Well, many readers said that they like these books, because a picture is worth a thousand words, therefore here we have a treasure of over 200,000 words in this petite book. It is well known that if people want to know who they are and what they want, they need to know who those before them were, and what those old people wanted and did - this book will certainly help to fulfill this need. When I am writing these books, I always have in mind what Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) said: an investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Going from very old places, which were the most advanced at...

There are so many fine-looking places in the United States, Europe and Japan, that it is really hard to decide which one to choose. Therefore I chose a combination of known and less known places, including Paris, Berkeley, Nara, Pompeii, Boston and Hiroshima, to bring a fresh kaleidoscopic documentary. Do you know where there is a continuously replenished collection of folded paper cranes? Or a full concert carillon with 61 pieces? Or the statue of the author of "Le Cid" and "Horace"? The answers to these questions and other hundreds of useful facts are in this book. There is also an Addendum...

Always there is something beautiful and interesting to discover in America and Japan, therefore I wrote this book to present some of these fascinating discoveries, as a photographic documentary. Do you remember whose motto is "Sicut patribus sit Deus nobis"? Or who was President of the United States for just 6.5 months? Or in what park are the deer free? Or where there is this announcement: "Ressentez dans notre patisserie l'ambiance chaleureuse de chez soi"? The answers to these questions and other hundreds of useful facts are in this book. There is also an Addendum - For future generations,...