EUROPE a continent with a global mission

Continentsq like human beingsq have their biographies. This book gives a new interpretation of the biographi of Europe that is based on the perspective of spiritual science. Well-known events from European history receive a deeper meaning when they are placed in the context of  a development process that comprises the childhood, youth and adulthood of Europe.In these phases of development, spiritual impulses have worked that shaped the consciousness of the Eoropeans and defined the mission of Europe in the world.

Spiritual leaders of Bulgaria

Authors: Boyan Obretenov, Tekla Alexieva, Buyan Filchev, Hristo Hadjitanev, Krassimira Despotova
First edition: 1997
The enlightened personalities, who made Bulgaria a land of the spirit.
An illustrated chronicle of the most dramatic moments in the nation`s intellectual history.
The emergence, the maturity and the reincarnations of the bulgarian national genius.
Bulgaria`s giant`s of the spirit brought to life

Boris Georgiev of Varna

The author examines the life and art of Boris Georgiev of Varna using a wealth of sources. The significance and meaning of Georgiev`s art are placed in close relationship to the facts of his life and his personal fate. The artist saw art as a mission, as an inalienable need of the human soul, as a substantiation values. This study centers arround important works that earned him international renown.
These works are presented with complete catalogue data are annotated whenever possible. The result of more than years of research in arhives, galleries and private collections in Bulgaria and abroad, this book owes its realization to the cooperation of many persons who highly value the artist`s talent and works, and to THE SUPPORT OF Boris Georgiev`s adopted daughter, Ms. Virginia Giacometti, and of the publisher, Mr Dimitar Zlatarev.
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TANBUR BULGHARY

HISTORY, CONSTRUCTION, INTERPRETATION
Sheet music and compact disc

Book for the Bulgarian Tamboura takes you to the roots of the Bulgarian people`s musical tradition, and follows the journey of an extraordinary instrument to different parts of the world under a variety of names. In Bulgarians` family and civic life it has also been kniwn under different names, but the melodious word bulgaria suits it best.

• In this book you will find everything there is to know about the construction of the Bulgarian tamboura, its varieties, and its interpretation and application specifics, with many examples and illustrations in the CD.
• You will be able to learn the ornaments that are typical ot Bulgarian folk music.
• You will master the specific tamboura technique, favourable for instrumentalists with a taste for improvisation.
• You will find sheet music which can be used for the guitar, too, to the benefit of Bulgarian folk music fans.

Rulers of Bulgaria

The book presents through original illustrations and essays, the most prominent leaders in the history of Bulgarian statehood from the time of Khan Kubrat and Khan Asparoukh to date. It features 30 figures: Khans, Princes, Tsars and Statesmen, who have had an undisputable imfluence on Bulgaria`s and its future. Following the genealogy of Bulgarian rulers, it is like a holl of fame in which medieval monarchs are presented along with the more controversial figures of contemporary history.

THE MASTER Peter Deunov

This volume is the first comprehensive illustrated biographi of Peter Deunov, one of the major spiritual leaders of the 20-th centuryq founder of the White Brotherhood in Bulgaria, whit followers all over the world. The teaching of Peter Deunov, the prophet with the spiritual name of Beinsa Deuno, the White Brotherhood`s values and ideals are another powerful emanation of the eternal Christian spirit of love, wisdom and truth.

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments

THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS is designed to provide informative reading and to delight the eye with its overview of musical instruments from around the globe, from the earliest inventions of ancient and primitive societies to the most modern means of musical expression.
The arrangement of the instruments according to geographical region, following the scientific classification system, allows the reader to quickly learn about their origins and evolution, their construction and playing techniques, their cultural significance and symbolism. Over 1000 original illustrations, created especially for this volume, reveal in full color the visual beauty of the world’s musical instruments with breathtaking attention to detail. Diagrams graphically demonstrate how families of instruments compare in size and physical structure, how sounds are produced in instruments with varying methods of tone production, and how music-making devices have evolved over time in various cultures across the globe.

THE WONDERS OF ARCHITECTURE

THE WONDERS OF ARCHITECTURE is a magnificent pop-up journey through the history of the art of building construction, featuring amazing three-dimensional replications of famous buildings from ancient to modern times.

Accompanied by text, each spread focuses on the great eras of world architectural history: ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman architecture; Latin American and Eastern architecture, Gothic architecture; the Renaissance; Neoclassicism; Modern and Contemporary architecture.

Aesthetics of Modern Art

Content:
BOOK ONE - Image Metamorphoses
Introduction
Chapter one - Art for art`s sake
Chapter two - The individualism of modern art
Chapter three - From nature to abstraction

BOOK TWO - Form and Symbol
Chapter four - Form and symbol in modern art
Chapter five - In search of absolute purity

RULERS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Apparently well known but actually less so, the Ottoman Empire is represented in the portraits of its 36 rulers. Who were the sultans, and what sort of personalities were those who created the empire? What were their strong sides, what did they look like, and how happen that the all-powerful rulers of South-Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, North Africa and South-West Asia sometimes became tools in the hands of their subordinates?

This is an unprejudiced account of the lives of personalities carrying the burden of power, an actual history of the Ottoman Empire - pathetic and proud, cruel and honest, with its ups and downs, a history in which the fates of many peoples were intertwined.

The Bulgarian edition is published in cooperation with Boyut Publishers, Istanbul, and is based
on their 4-volume "Osmanli tarihi" encyclopaedia.