After numerous intellectual recognitions of the first six books of poetry "I am an eternal child of spring," "Life's Enigma," "Everyone wants to be HAPPY," "My Life, My Love," "I am the gardener of love," and "Amaretta di Saronno," followed by an acclaimed seventh prose book "A Russian rediscovers America," it is a great pleasure to introduce this irresistible eighth book of poetry, written by the esteemed poet Adolf P. Shvedchikov, who was nominated for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. This book is based on Dr. Shvedchikov's collection of poems, and on their translations in Russian. The...

With an established reputation given by eight books, the first six books of poetry "I am an eternal child of spring," "Life's Enigma," "Everyone wants to be HAPPY," "My Life, My Love," "I am the gardener of love," and "Amaretta di Saronno," followed by a praised seventh prose book "A Russian rediscovers America," and the eighth, again a prodigious poetry book, "Parade of life," it is a great event to present this sublime ninth book, again of poetry, written by the leading poet Dr. Adolf P. Shvedchikov, who was nominated for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. This book is based on Dr....

After many years of literature teaching and writing, Prof. Georgeta Potanga presents this fascinating novel about astonishing and little known events from the mid-20th century in Eastern Europe, where Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Hitler and many others had great influence and interests. Based on real events, the author brings to life, with great talent, the vivacious atmosphere of those very difficult times. It is a novel made of shadows and light. The personages, under the Demiurge, succeed to step over the black stones of the physical universe, full feeling their destiny, with a profound...

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...

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...

Philosophy (in Greek means love of wisdom), mostly considered as a noble academic discipline, means the study of the fundamental principles and ideas of knowledge, truth, real world, proper behavior, values, and existence, based on logical reasoning. Some important personalities give their own interpretations: Protagoras (490 BC - 420 BC) - "Man is the measure of all things"; Socrates (470 BC - 399 BC) - "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance"; Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) - "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"; Rene Descartes (1596...