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  • BUSINESS LAW in Hungary
    • Kiadó: KJK-KERSZÖV Jogi és Üzleti Kiadó / members of the group: Közgazdasági és Jogi Kiadó, CompLEX, Novorg
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 500
    • Comprehensive, in-depth coverage of the essentials of Hungarian business ventures. This authoritative and regularly updated guide will provide you with the detailed information you need to cope with Hungary's constantly evolving business legislation. Commentary on Hungary's Civil Law, Labour Law and Social Security Law, Commercial Law, Taxing Law, Banking Law, Customs Services, Stock Exchange, International Civil Law and Foreign Exchange.
  • Book of Currencies
    • Kiadó: Pannonart Kiadó, Budapest
  • BALASSA Péter: Transfiguration of the Novel
    • Fordította: H. Paul Olchváry
    • Kiadó: AKADÉMIAI Kiadó Rt.
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 176
    • "This study has a twofold aim," reads the opening of this book: "to analyze Flaubert's novel as a turning point in the genre, while charting the methods and techniques of novelistic interpretation." Central to this study is the notion that L'Education sentimentale masterfully embodied what was to become a central feature of literary modernism, the displacement of the traditional hero and conventional novel-structure by time, by "the principle of pure succession" as grand ideals were perceived as vacuous in the wake of disillusioning historical experiences such as those of 1848. Flaubert emancipated the genre from "the shackles of convention," even while heeding - or appearing to heed - convention. Péter Balassa's study is both a brilliant analysis of Flaubert's novel and an uncompromising assessment of the opportunities and limitations of Marxist aesthetics as interpreted by a former teacher of his, György (Georg) Lukács. By facing off this theoretical paradigm with the achievements of modern literary scholarship - for example, Russian formalism, East European schools of linguistics, and French structuralism - Balassa proposes new methods of analysing works and of context analysis, in which Marxist-Lukácsian aesthetics is gradually relegated to the background. The philosophical-aesthetic paradigm that integrates these various modern critical approaches is German and Euro-American hermeneutics, which ultimately opens the door to the radical hermeneutics of the ‘open work' (a la Umberto Eco) and of the deconstructionists.
  • BOJTÁR Endre: Foreword to the Past. A Cultural History of the Baltic People
    • Fordította: Szilvia Rédey and Michael Webb
    • Kiadó: CEU Press
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 350
    • Over time at least four meanings have been attributed to the term 'Baltic' - drawing on thirty years of extensive research, Foreword to the Past is the first modern introduction to the enigma of the Baltic origins and the self-identification of the Baltic people. The book recounts the history of the Baltic people relying on archeological sources: provides an objective linguistic history and a description of the Baltic languages as well as an original and fresh insight into mythology in the ancient history of the Baltic peoples. With its numerous maps und figures this book is an unparalleled and original cultural exploration of the past of the Baltic people.
  • BÓLYAI János: MATHEMATICAL GEMS from the Bolyai Chest. János Bolyai’s Discoveries in Number Theory and Algebra as Recently Deciphered from His Manuscript by Elemér Kiss
    • Fordította: Anikó Csirmaz and Gábor Oláh
    • The author attempted to disclose the number theoretical and algebraic aspects of the interesting and yet unpublished results that form the considerable manuscript heritage of János Bolyai. The first three chapters discuss the main stages of the life of János Bolyai, the fate and present state of Appendix and the manuscript heritage, as well as the question of the nature of mathematical sources Bolyai had at disposal. From a historical point of view, documents of the heritage complete and rectify the literature on Bolyai, both domestic and foreign. The author quotes precise data from a wide range of sources to justify his statements. The following three chapters are the ones that convey most novel mathematical information: Number theoretic investigation of János Bolyai + Theory of prime numbers + Theory of algebraic equations.
  • FLEISSNER Péter, Nyíri János: Philosophy of Culture and the Politics of Electronic Networking
    • Kiadó: Áron Kiadó, Budapest, - StudienVerlag
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 350
    • Electronic networking has by now greatly modified communications and economic transactions, and is rapidly becoming a phenomenon to effect some fundamental cultural changes: transformations in education, research, economic performance, social organization, even personality structures. These changes are foreshadowed by, and will no doubt have further impact upon, developments in contemporary philosophy. Like every new technology, electronic networking adds new possibilities to traditional human behaviour. And by doing that it provokes the production of human fantasies: during the Russian revolution Lenin expected that the network of electric power plants, in combination with the power of the Soviets, would bring about communism; the French evolution perceived the optical telegraph as a tool for spreading the ideas of enlightenment and controlling their armies from Paris, a symbol for a new period in history. Dealing with electronic technologies does not only mean that human beings are empowered to speed up their communication and to link them person by person (this was the story of the telephone), or that the new feature offered by the digital networks is the creation of a virtual space where real human beings may meet and interact. All these developments are in no aspect neutral. They are heavily burdened with human interests, fantasies and desires, and as a medium they can induce specific types of human behaviour by their own laws and will shape human performance by their intrinsic features.
  • FORRAI Judit: Memoirs of the Beginnings of Conductive Pedagogy and András Pető
    • Fordította: Beatrix and Justin Price
    • Kiadó: Új Aranyhíd Kft / National Institute of Conductive Education, Birmingham
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 200
    • This book is a picture of a man who, in this ordinary world created something extraordinary. At the close of the twentieth century Conductive Education (CE), is emerging as a potent and dynamic new force for the benefit of children and adults with difficulties in controlling movement (motor disorders). So what is CE, where did it come from, what is its mainspring, its essence? Empirical investigation, theoretical enquiry and practical demonstration will play an essential role in elaborating such questions: Judit Forrai’s book takes us straight to the heart of the matter, to the life and work of András Peto himself and the creation of conductive pedagogy. This history suggests that the physician András Peto, used the 'movement therapy', combined with pedagogy, a healing that cut across hoary old dualisms of mind and body, emotion and intellect, teacher and learner, and health and education.At the core of investigation into András Peto’s life lies the irreplaceable personal record of men and women who knew him. Judit Forrai, a medical historian, then wove extracts from these reminiscences into the historical narrative and analysis that comprises the first half of this book. It is an insight into the unknow world of the physically disabled and a picture of the man, who disregarding conventionality, taught them to walk. The question must arise, how 'true' is the portrait of András Peto presented here? Readers will easily pick out some of the resulting inconsistencies for themselves. Was he indeed a 'polyhistor', was he really such a loss to German literature or was he a dabbler with a colossal ego, hero-worshipped by his young admirers? What did he feel about what he was doing and the life he led? Judit Forrai's investigation offers tantalising hints. So who was András Peto? He was an anomalous man whose heritage still proves productive in the very different world in which we live today.This book is about the world-famous András Peto, the founder of Conductive Education, who turned mere existence into life.
  • FRANK Tibor: Ethnicity, Propaganda, Myth-making. Studies on Hungarian Intellectual History
    • Fordította: FRANK Tibor
    • Kiadó: AKADÉMIAI Kiadó Rt.
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 300
    • Based upon extensive archival research in both Europe and the United States, the volume consists of well-documented historical case-studies in three large areas. The individual chapters reveal the overarching social psychological and political structures of the society that produced them. These patterns of the East-Central European mind are historically and psychologically rooted in the political culture and should be remembered accordingly. The book is intended as a reminder that repressive efforts could easily continue under democratic, open political and social structures in similar though different fashion than under previous, closed structures. The volume should help introduce the foreign reader into the historical creation of Hungarian identities and images.
  • GERŐ András, Pető Iván: Unfinished Socialism
    • Fordította: Eniko Koncz and James Patterson
    • Kiadó: CEU Press
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 250
    • This extraordinary book provides a snapshot of socialism throughout the Kádár regime in Hungary (1956-1989) and captures the reality of the world behind the ’iron curtain’ in a stunning, and often stark collection of photographs. Unfinished Socialism is a visually stunning anthropological study containing 450 photographs, many previously unpublished, which portray life in Hungary from every angle: from the May-day March to pop music and from the homeless to sport.
  • GÖMÖRI György, Wilmer Clive: The life and poetry of Miklós Radnóti. Essays
    • Kiadó: Columbia Univ. Press/ East European Monograph. Bradenton (USA)
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 167
    • This publication includes most of the papers given at the conference held in Cambridge, England, on December 5-6, 1994 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Miklós Radnóti, one of the great Hungarian poets of our century.
  • LÁSZLÓ János: Cognition and Representation in Literature. The Psychology of Literary Narratives
    • Kiadó: AKADÉMIAI Kiadó Rt.
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 250
    • This book is about the psychology of literary narratives and is written from a cognitivist perspective. Cognitive psychology is about the acquisition, organization and subsequent use of experience that living organisms, among these human beings, perform while coping with their environments. The present approach is in line with those ecological conceptions of cognitive psychology which make the cognitive processes dependent on the contexts where they take place, accommodate not only the cold, emotionless, analytical cognizing, but also the emotion-driven dynamics of, and place cognition into social and cultural context. The complexity of literary phenomena itself necessitates the adoption of this broader view. The book also presents the social-cognitive approach to literary comprehension which is interested in the knowledge the readers mobilize when reading literary narratives. Using a somewhat old-fashioned word, it is content-oriented in the sense that it aims at uncovering how readers interpret the content of the narrative. It can be conceived a kind of empirical hermeneutics or empirical constructionism, where the construction of the meaning of a literary narrative is mapped in terms of social kowledge or social representations. By this way the social-cognitive approach attempts to integrate the universalistic concepts of human cognitive functioning characteristic to each human mind with phenomena that are socio-culturally constructed and particular to each social or cultural setting.
  • MISZLIEVITZ Ferenc: Cognition and Representation in Literature. The Psychology of Literary Narratives
    • Kiadó: Savaria University Press, Szombathely
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 324
    • Wild East Party - Civil Society in Eastern Europe? - The Injuries of East Central Europe - Redefining the Boundaries of the Possible - Towards reconciliation in East Central Europe - The Unfinished Revolutions of 1989 - Central Europe - the Road to Europe - Praise for the N-th Road - Participation and Democracy - Redefining (European) Security - Integration and Disintegration in Europe - Traces of Civil Society in a New European Space -The Strange Death of Liberalism - A Conversation with Immanuel Wallerstein -The New Central Europe and the European Union - An Interview with István Borsody - Identity and Defense - Selected bibliography
  • R. VÁRKONYI Ágnes: Europica Varietas - Hungarica Varietas
    • Fordította: Éva Pálmai and Kálmán Ruttkay
    • Kiadó: AKADÉMIAI Kiadó Rt.
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 250
    • Europica Varietas - Hungarica Varietas contains essays written between 1980 and 1998 based on archival research done in Hungary and abroad. Varied as their topics may be, there is a key question common to them all, discussed at lenght in the last essay of the volume, i.e. the question of an undivided Europe. Examining the changes in Hungary during the 16th to 18th centuries, they deal with the diplomatic efforts made in order to force back the Ottoman power, the problems of codifying the freedom of worship and conscience (1568, 1705) and the formation of public opinion, in the context of the struggles carried on for reforming and stabilizing Europe. Presenting a number of key figures in Hungarian history such as Governor György Martinuzzi, Péter Pázmány Archbishop of Esztergom, Miklós Zrínyi Ban of Croatia, Prince Ferenc II. Rákóczi, the polymath Mátyás Bél, Queen Maria Theresa these writings point out at the same time what relations Charles V., Erasmus, Comenius, the Holy See, the League of the Rhine, the Imperial Diets, the Duke of Marlborough, the English Ambassador George Stepney, Queen Anne and Van Swieten, among others, had with the Kingdom of Hungary and Transylvania, and what views they held concerning these countries.
  • SAJÓ András: Limiting Government. An Introduction to Constitutionalism
    • Kiadó: CEU Press
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 288
    • Until the present decade, constitutionalism in Eastern Europe was considered to be an outmoded concept of the 19th century. Changes in the region, however, have brought back the fundamental question of the need to restrict government power through social self-binding. This book discusses the mechanisms of a restriction, including different forms of the separation of powers and constitutional review. It relates the theoretical and practical importance of the issue to the present world-wide discontent with majoritarian democracy and the growing disrepute of parliaments. Increasing executive efficiency is, however, a threat to fundamental rights, and the battlecry of efficiency is often only a means to new despotism and inefficiency. A careful re-evaluation of the concept of constitutionalism assists in the search for a useful balance between majoritarianism and rights, and in the avoidance of all forms of public tyranny. Written in non-technical language and using the most important English, American, French and German examples of constitutional history, the book also examines East European (in particular, Russian) and Latin American examples, in part to illustrate certain dead-ends in constitutional development.
  • TÓTH Endre, SZELÉNYI Károly: The Holy Crown of Hungary. Kings and Coronations
    • Fordította: Brian McLean
    • Kiadó: KOSSUTH Kiadó Rt.
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 80
    • The history of the Hungarian Holy Crown is one of the most disputed issues among Hungarian art historians, archaeologists, historians and insigniologists. Due to the eventful history of the ensign of monarchial dignity and the major coronation insignia, historians and researchers have always paid special attention to it. The photo album presents different opinions concerning the origin of the Hungarian crown, explains the symbolic meaning of its images, and outlines its history. In connection with the coronation ceremony, the other coronation insignia are also presented.
  • VARGA Csaba: Lectures on the Paradigms of Legal Thinking
    • Fordította: Emese Gáll and Csaba Varga
    • Kiadó: AKADÉMIAI Kiadó Rt.
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 250
    • This series of Lectures on the paradigms of legal thinking has been polished and refined for over two decades by the author, known for his achievements in legal philosophy and methodology. These, in their present form, introduce the reader to reasoning in law by leading him through the possibilities, boundaries and traps of assuming personal responsibility and impersonal pattern-followance alike that arose in the history of human thought and in the various legal cultures. He seeks to disclose the actual processes hidden by the veil of patterns followed in thinking, processes that we encounter both in our conceptual-logical quests for certainties and in the undertaking of fertilising ambiguity. When trying to identify definitions lurking behind the human construct of facts, notions, logic and thinking, or behind the practice of giving meanings, he discovers tradition in our presuppositions, and the world-view and moral stance in our tacit agreements. Recognising the importance of the role communication plays in shaping society, he desribes our existance and institutionalisations as self-regulating processes. Law being a wholly social venture, we not only take part in its oeuvre with our entire personality but are collectively responsible for its future.
  • VITÁNYI Iván: Social Democracy’s Visions of Future
    • Fordította: Vera Gánthy
    • Kiadó: NAPVILÁG Kiadó
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 150
    • Social democracy nowadays has the same dilemma as any other range of ideas or movements. Rules of pragmatism are not enough any more in politics and to understanding the world around us the future should be seen, to which the knowledge of the past is indispensable. A clear and exact image of the society, of its status, and the process of its development is necessary, and it cannot be obtained without dealing with everyday pragmatic questions as well as theoretical ones. One of these essential questions seems to be the settlement of the basic values considering the past on behalf of the future. The basic values accepted by social democrats, Christian democrats, people on the left wing, and peolpe who have affinity to social thinking are in the focus of Iván Vitányi’s book. The author is very much concerned with the problems of the present, he discusses the greatest social processes taking place in our days and having important effect on creating values: the changes of produce and work, the new forms of capitalism, the paradigms of the new era. Vitányi’s goal in his work is to give a general approach to his theme, but at the same time the current problems of East-Europe and those of Hungary are present throughout his essay.
  • VOIGT Vilmos: Suggestions. A Theory of Folklore
    • Kiadó: MUNDUS, Bp.
  • A SOCIETY TRANSFORMED Hungary in Time-Space Perspective, ANDORKA Rudolf, Kolosi Tamás, Rose Richard, Vukovich György
    • Kiadó: CEU Press
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 206
    • In the past half-century every Central and East European society has been twice subject to transformation. Initially, Hungary was transformed by Communist-style modernization, increasing industry, expanding secondary education and improving health. The second shock was the collapse of the Communist regime and the introduction of democratic institutions and a market economy. How much or how little impact has institutional change had on the lives of ordinary people?
  • INTELLECTUALS AND POLITICS IN CENTRAL EUROPE, Bozóki András
    • Kiadó: CEU Press
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 292
    • Discussing the role of intellectuals in the political transition of the late 1980s and early 1990s and their participation in the political life of the new democracies of Central Europe, this book presents original essays from authors who discuss the eight countries in the region.
  • SOCIAL REPORT 1998, Kolosi Tamás, György István, Vukovich György
    • Kiadó: Tárki, Budapest
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 560
    • The series of Hungarian Social Reports started in 1990, in a year of great importance for the Central and East-European transition countries. The aim was to review the essential social and economic changes in Hungary, having the chapters always based on analyses of a system of social indicators, and on the most important and most reliable currents of empirical survey research. The Hungarian economy and the society have overcome the most difficult challenges of transformation by 1998. A steady growth of the GDP is also predictable in the years to come.The most difficult parts of structural adjustment in the economy have been completed, and the social structure of the Hungarian economy now resembles that of the West-European economies. In this collection of studies you may read about the year 1998. Chaters: Social Indicators - Social Structure - Scholars, Soldiers, Priests and Civil Servants - Social Networks - Welfare Systems - Elections - Attitudes, expectations.
  • THE JEWISH BUDAPEST, Komoróczy Géza
    • Fordította: Vera Szabó
    • Kiadó: CEU Press
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 598
    • As a painting by Chagall unfolds layer upon layer when viewed carefully, so does this city in Jewish Budapest. Neither a guidebook nor a history in the traditional sense, this book is about the Jewish face of Budapest from medieval times to the present. To get the broadest possible perspective, this book is not only about the Hungarian capital as a Jewish city, but as befits a cosmopolitan metropolis, delves into its myriad elements. There was and is, as Jewish Budapest strikingly reveals, a Roman and a Greek Catholic Budapest, a Lutheran and a Calvinist Budapest, a German, a Serbian and a Gypsy Budapest. All these are brought into play as backdrop to the main narrative about the history of Jews in Buda, Óbuda and Pest. Past and present Jewish life as an organic part of the life of the Hungarian capital Budapest be it memory or living reality. Richly illustrated with wonderful evocative literary line drawings and photos, there is a lavish, multicoloured section of artwork that enhances the text. Here is a book at once personal and universal. It is about everyday Jewish life, the humor, the pathos, the human condition, which is the same or very similar anywhere in the Diaspora. Every image and incident, every happening is filtered through the strong sensibilities of the key citizens of the city throughout the past few centuries.
  • CONSERVING HUNGARY’S HERITAGE The National Parks and World Heritage Sites, Tardy János
    • Fordította: Balázs Dániel Harcz
    • Kiadás éve: 1999
    • Oldalszám: 170
    • Contents: Hungary in a nutshell: an introduction - The natural environment and the conservation of nature - Hungarian monuments, monument compounds and their protection - World Heritage sites - Proposed World Heritage sites - National parks.

 

 

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