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A Study of Dragons of Eastern Europe

Author : Ronesa Aveela
Publisher : Spirits & Creatures Series
ISBN 13 : 9781949397994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book A Study of Dragons of Eastern Europe written by Ronesa Aveela and published by Spirits & Creatures Series. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered if dragons were real? Author Ronesa Aveela grew up in Bulgaria, terrified by tales of dragons capturing beautiful girls for their brides. Her grandmother armed her with protective herbs and performed rituals passed down from generation to generation. Dragons, the third book in the series, takes you across Eastern Europe to discover folkloric beliefs, fairy tales, customs, and rituals about the dragons who once lived in the land, and still do within the hearts of many. You'll learn historical facts, discover intriguing and horrifying stories, and enjoy beautiful illustrations to gain a complete experience of these magnificent creatures. Here are a few topics you can expect to find within the book's pages: * Learn about how dragons or the idea of dragons developed. Did they ever exist in some form in the past? * Explore the lives of dragons: their purpose, how they live, how to defeat or appease them. * Discover the stories, facts, and fiction behind several popular dragon slayers. Dragons is an enlightening nonfiction cultural study in the Spirits and Creatures series. If you like impeccable research, chilling stories, and clever humor, then you'll love Ronesa Aveela's educational folklore series. Explore the pages of Dragons today to discover a world of wonders.

A Study of Dragons of Eastern Europe

Author : Ronesa Aveela
Publisher : Bendideia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1949397025
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book A Study of Dragons of Eastern Europe written by Ronesa Aveela and published by Bendideia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-24 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered if dragons were real? Author Ronesa Aveela grew up in Bulgaria, terrified by tales of dragons capturing beautiful girls for their brides. Her grandmother armed her with protective herbs and performed rituals passed down from generation to generation. Dragons, the third book in the series, takes you across Eastern Europe to discover folkloric beliefs, fairy tales, customs, and rituals about the dragons who once lived in the land, and still do within the hearts of many. You’ll learn historical facts, discover intriguing and horrifying stories, and enjoy beautiful illustrations to gain a complete experience of these magnificent creatures. Here are a few topics you can expect to find within the book’s pages: *Learn about how dragons or the idea of dragons developed. Did they ever exist in some form in the past? *Explore the lives of dragons: their purpose, how they live, how to defeat or appease them. *Discover the stories, facts, and fiction behind several popular dragon slayers. Dragons is an enlightening nonfiction cultural study in the Spirits and Creatures series. If you like impeccable research, chilling stories, and clever humor, then you’ll love Ronesa Aveela’s educational folklore series. Explore the pages of Dragons today to discover a world of wonders.

Dragon Tales from Eastern Europe

Author : Ronesa Aveela
Publisher : Bendideia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1949397041
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Dragon Tales from Eastern Europe written by Ronesa Aveela and published by Bendideia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time ... dragons lived in castles and captured beautiful princesses. The majestic dragon is a popular fairy-tale character. This collection of old tales made new introduces you to the creatures from Eastern Europe, many unknown to the Western world. These tales may have been told "once upon a time," but they remain cherished treasures to those who passed them down generation after generation. If you enjoy this book and would like to learn more about dragons, check out our nonfiction book on the subject: A Study of Dragons of Eastern Europe.

Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods

Author : T.D. Kokoszka
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803412860
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods by : T.D. Kokoszka

Download or read book Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods written by T.D. Kokoszka and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from both families, he found it hard to learn very much about them. He knew that Polish people would whack one another with palm leaves around Easter, and he knew that his great-grandmother purportedly believed in forest spirits known as borowy. However, it wasn't until he was in his teens that he became vaguely aware of an ancient people known as the Slavs who gave rise to the Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Slovene, and Czech languages. It quickly became clear to him that this was a family of cultures currently under-represented in popular culture, and even in western scholarship. Not simply a regurgitation of scholarship from the Soviet period - and presenting new analyses by using previously neglected resources - Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods offers one of the most painstaking scholarly reconstructions of Slavic paganism. These new resources include not only an overview of folklore from many different Slavic countries but also comparisons with Ossetian culture and Mordvin culture, as well as a series of Slavic folktales that Kokoszka analyzes in depth, often making the case that the narratives involved are mythological and shockingly ancient. Readers will recognize many European folktale types and possibly learn to look at these folktales differently after reading this book.

A Study of Dragons, East and West

Author : Qiguang Zhao
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study of Dragons, East and West written by Qiguang Zhao and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few symbols saturate human civilization so broadly and thoroughly as those of the ubiquitous and enigmatic dragon. This compelling book examines, compares, and analyzes the appearance and symbolization of the Eastern and Western dragons and treats them as the crystallization of human cultures. It shows that Chinese dragons resemble one another but suggest different ideas in different contexts, while Western dragons have different appearances but often denote a single concept. As one of the most notable achievements of dragonology, this book offers astonishing new insights into dragons as zoological «fact», psychological archetypes, and ideological symbols.

Dragon Village Firebird

Author : Ronesa Aveela
Publisher : Bendideia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1949397106
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Dragon Village Firebird written by Ronesa Aveela and published by Bendideia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desperate plea from a conch begs Theo for help. Can he prevent a catastrophe without losing his own life? It’s been a year since he returned from the mystical land of Dragon Village, and he’s had no word from his dragon father, Zmey. Was the promise to teach Theo about his powers a lie? Has his father abandoned him? Then, Theo discovers that a new menace terrorizes Dragon Village. This time, Theo’s home in the human world is threatened, too. He must learn about his powers on his own and find a way back to defeat his new foe. If Theo fails, the entire world is doomed.

Spirits & Creatures Series Collection

Author : Ronesa Aveela
Publisher : Bendideia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 194939719X
Total Pages : 997 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (493 download)

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Book Synopsis Spirits & Creatures Series Collection by : Ronesa Aveela

Download or read book Spirits & Creatures Series Collection written by Ronesa Aveela and published by Bendideia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spirits and Creatures series takes an in-depth look at spirits and creatures across Eastern Europe. Author Ronesa Aveela grew up in Bulgaria where many of these entities were part of the tales and beliefs her grandmother told to her. This series will look at the origins of these beings, and popular ways people believed you could appease or defeat them. Illustrations, stories, music, and videos add to the details of these fascinating beings. This collection contains the first three books of the series, plus a book of additional dragon tales: *A Study of Household Spirits of Eastern Europe *A Study of Rusalki – Slavic Mermaids of Eastern Europe *A Study of Dragons of Eastern Europe *Dragon Tales from Eastern Europe Although the books have extensive research, they are meant for a non-academic audience.

Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits

Author : Oto Luthar
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633861527
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Of Red Dragons and Evil Spirits written by Oto Luthar and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of well-researched essays assesses the uses and misuses of history 25 years after the collapse of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. As opposed to the revival of national histories that seemed to be the prevailing historiographical approach of the 1990s, the last decade has seen a particular set of narratives equating Nazism and Communism. This provides opportunities to exonerate wartime collaboration, casting the nation as victim even when its government was allied with Germany. While the Jewish Holocaust is acknowledged, its meaning and significance are obfuscated. In their comparative analysis the authors are also interested in new practices of ‘Europeanness’. Therefore their presentations of Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian post-communist memory politics move beyond the common national myths in order to provide a new insight into transnational interactions and exchanges in Europe in general. The juxtaposition of these politics, the processes in other parts of Europe, the modes of remembering shaped by displacement and the transnational enable a close encounter with the divergences and assess the potential of the formation of common, European memory practices.

Europeanization, Varieties of Capitalism and Economic Performance in Central and Eastern Europe

Author : L. Cernat
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230501680
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Europeanization, Varieties of Capitalism and Economic Performance in Central and Eastern Europe by : L. Cernat

Download or read book Europeanization, Varieties of Capitalism and Economic Performance in Central and Eastern Europe written by L. Cernat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By combining insights from Europeanization, globalization, varieties of capitalism, and policy transfer literature, this book reconceptualizes the dynamics taking place during the EU enlargement process and makes a major contribution to the understanding of the relationships between institutional transformation and economic performance.

Dragonology

Author : Ernest Drake
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763623296
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Dragonology written by Ernest Drake and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2003-10-13 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to dragonology that includes spells for catching dragons, their natural history, and descriptions of legendary dragons and dragonslayers.

Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe

Author : Anastasiya Astapova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000214699
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe written by Anastasiya Astapova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of state-of-the-art essays explores conspiracy cultures in post-socialist Eastern Europe, ranging from the nineteenth century to contemporary manifestations. Conspiracy theories about Freemasons, Communists and Jews, about the Chernobyl disaster, and about George Soros and the globalist elite have been particularly influential in Eastern Europe, but they have also been among the most prominent worldwide. This volume explores such conspiracy theories in the context of local Eastern European histories and discourses. The chapters identify four major factors that have influenced cultures of conspiracy in Eastern Europe: nationalism (including ethnocentrism and antisemitism), the socialist past, the transition period, and globalization. The research focuses on the impact of imperial legacies, nation-building, and the Cold War in the creation of conspiracy theories in Eastern Europe; the effects of the fall of the Iron Curtain and conspiracism in a new democratic setting; and manifestations of viral conspiracy theories in contemporary Eastern Europe and their worldwide circulation with the global rise of populism. Bringing together a diverse landscape of Eastern European conspiracism that is a result of repeated exchange with the "West," the book includes case studies that examine the history, legacy, and impact of conspiracy cultures of Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, the former Yugoslav countries, and the former Soviet Union. The book will appeal to scholars and students of conspiracy theories, as well as those in the areas of political science, area studies, media studies, cultural studies, psychology, philosophy, and history, among others. Politicians, educators, and journalists will find this book a useful resource in countering disinformation in and about the region.

Backwardness and Modernization: Poland and Eastern Europe in the 16th-20th Centuries

Author : Jacek Kochanowicz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351125788
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Backwardness and Modernization: Poland and Eastern Europe in the 16th-20th Centuries written by Jacek Kochanowicz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this book is the economic backwardness of Poland and Eastern Europe in the modern era. The studies in the first part analyse various aspects of the region's economic and social history in the period from the 16th to the 20th centuries, such as the nature of peasant economics, the character of economic evolution, and the ambiguity of social and economic relations between Poland and "the West". The second part deals with the change following the fall of state socialism. Papers in this part argue that, for understanding the present, it is necessary to take into consideration historical legacies. It is also important to look at the process of this recent change comparatively, both within Eastern Europe and comparing this region with other parts of the world. Professor Kochanowicz's contention in these essays is that the so-called transformation has had to cope not only with the effects of state socialism, but also with a much longer legacy of backwardness.

The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945

Author : Harold B. Segel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231114042
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 by : Harold B. Segel

Download or read book The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945 written by Harold B. Segel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron Curtain concealed from western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Marked by not only geographical proximity but also by the shared experience of communism and its collapse, the countries of Eastern Europe--Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and the former states of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany--share literatures that reveal many common themes when examined together. Compiled by a leading scholar, the guide includes an overview of literary trends in historical context; a listing of some 700 authors by country; and an A-to-Z section of articles on the most influential writers.

Multinationals and Transition

Author : J. Manea
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230511813
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Multinationals and Transition written by J. Manea and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book refocuses thinking on how multinational enterprises (MNEs) can achieve a sustained contribution to European transition economies as these countries move from the processes of transformation into pursuit of more sustained development. The authors apply key aspects of recent work on the strategic aims and nature of the contemporary MNE to the transition economy context, and find that the generation and application of technology has particular relevance to the success of MNEs in Central and Eastern Europe. The book is based on the results of two new wide-ranging surveys and includes a thorough review of current literature.

The Changing Landscape in Eastern Europe

Author : Richard E. Quandt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195146697
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis The Changing Landscape in Eastern Europe by : Richard E. Quandt

Download or read book The Changing Landscape in Eastern Europe written by Richard E. Quandt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the effect philanthropy can have in transferring technology in transitional societies that are turning themselves upside down. It further demonstrates that retraining of people and changing their "mindset" are as important as the technology itself.

China After Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia?

Author : Barrett L. McCormick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315285835
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis China After Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia? by : Barrett L. McCormick

Download or read book China After Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia? written by Barrett L. McCormick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine specialists from four continents address the following questions: is China moving toward the type of developmental state and sophisticated economic powerhouse associated with the East Asian miracle? does China's Leninist political system and the heritage of a state-run-heavy-industrial sector present too great a burden for successful transformation? and what is the likelihood that China's party-state will ultimately collapse in a fashion similar to the Leninist governments of Europe? The findings and analyses should prove interesting to followers of China, East Asia as a whole, and the European postcommunist transition.

Inside Chinese Organizations

Author : Kai-Alexander Schlevogt
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1581120451
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Inside Chinese Organizations written by Kai-Alexander Schlevogt and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empirical study was undertaken (a) to examine the characteristics, influencing factors, and effectiveness of a distinctive Chinese management model adopted by the newly founded private enterprises in mainland China, as well as (b) to test the "fit" notion in contingency theory. The study was based on a random sample of 124 standardized personal interviews with CEOs of Chinese industrial and service companies in Beijing and Shanghai. The standardized questionnaire mainly contained the Aston structure scales (Pugh and Hickson 1976) and Khandwalla's (1977) management schedules. Besides, three case examples were studied including one state-owned bank and two private enterprises. Using AMOS structural equation modeling, size, mass-technology and uncertainty, as well as CEO need for achievement, environmental constraints and selected Chinese characteristics, were specified as influencing factors of "bureaucracy" and managerial practices, which included strategic orientation, leadership style, decision-making, communication and subcontracting. Another model analyzed the influence of various key success factors on organizational effectiveness. The findings provided support for the re-adoption of a distinctive Chinese management model in private companies, characterized by autocratic leadership, low formalization, "Chinese entrepreneurship" and network-based "webs". Private enterprises also tended to readopt and emphasize traditional Chinese family-related values. The distinctiveness of this model was, ceteris paribus, due to this emphasis on familism, which had a direct impact on organizational design and an indirect influence through its negative association with company size, which in turn significantly covaried with organizational design. This family-based ownership model was positively associated with organizational effectiveness. As regards contingency theory, the "traditional" fit hypotheses could not be rejected. In addition, less effective companies were not necessarily in "misfit". "Appropriate" structure, together with an optimizing planning style and firm age, were positively associated with performance. Managerial recommendations were codified in a CHINA(c) strategy framework for high effectiveness.