ISSN 2559-9798

Editor-in-Chief: Andreas Wilmes 

Guest Editors: George A. Dunn and Chris Fleming 

Vol.  IV (Issue 2/2020, December - published in September)

Pages 1-176

DOI: 10.22618/TP.PJCV.20204.2 

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ISSN 2559-9798

Editor-in-Chief: Andreas Wilmes 

Guest Editor: Alexander Leveringhaus 

Vol.  V (Issue 1/2021, May)

Pages 1-148

DOI: 10.22618/TP.PJCV.20215.1

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Edited by Claudiu Mesaroş

Online ISBN 978-615-80340-3-6

Volume 2 (published online 2016 - with the permission of JATE Press)

Pages 1-156

ISBN 978-963-315-148-8 (published by JATE Press)

Original publication date: 2013, Szeged


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ISSN 2559-9798

Editor-in-Chief: Andreas Wilmes 

Guest Editor: Joan-Antoine Mallet 

Vol.  V (Issue 2/2021, July)

Pages 1-114

DOI: 10.22618/TP.PJCV.20215.2

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Softcover ISBN 978-615-80340-2-9
Online ISBN 978-615-80340-1-2
Volume 1 (September 2015)
Pages 1-176
Edited by Claudiu Mesaroş and Claudiu Călin

Steven Umbrello

ISBN 978-615-6405-37-1                                           Paperback, €44.00

ISBN 978-615-6405-36-4                                         Hardcover, €97.00

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BOOK DESCRIPTION 

Autonomous weapons systems, often referred to as ‘killer robots’, have been a hallmark of popular imagination for decades. However, with the inexorable advance of artificial intelligence systems (AI) and robotics, killer robots are quickly becoming a reality. These lethal technologies can learn, adapt, and potentially make life and death decisions on the battlefield with little-to-no human involvement. This naturally leads to not only legal but ethical concerns as to whether we can meaningful control such machines, and if so, then how. Such concerns are made even more poignant by the ever-present fear that something may go wrong, and the machine may carry out some action(s) violating the ethics or laws of war. 

Researchers, policymakers, and designers are caught in the quagmire of how to approach these highly controversial systems and to figure out what exactly it means to have meaningful human control over them, if at all. 

In Designed for Death, Dr Steven Umbrello aims to not only produce a realistic but also an optimistic guide for how, with human values in mind, we can begin to design killer robots. Drawing on the value sensitive design (VSD) approach to technology innovation, Umbrello argues that context is king and that a middle path for designing killer robots is possible if we consider both ethics and design as fundamentally linked. Umbrello moves beyond the binary debates of whether or not to prohibit killer robots and instead offers a more nuanced perspective of which types of killer robots may be both legally and ethically acceptable, when they would be acceptable, and how to design for them.

Ed. Angela Repanovici, Manolis Koukourakis, Tereza Khecyoyan

ISBN 978-615-80996-4-6                                           Paperback, €23.00
eISBN 978-615-80996-5-3                                            Hardcover, €80.00
DOI: 10.22618/TP.PCMS.20181                                    eBook, €23.00

September 2018
Pages:  I-156

DESCRIPTION:

A book may be seen as a symbol, a product, or even a miracle. It used to represent (and still represents) the most important element of the spiritual connection between generations, between different professions, between education and multicultural systems. The book is the oldest economic model developed by libraries, an investment in a product which gives benefit to as many people as possible.  In 2012, The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) had the initiative of organizing an annual meeting which would disseminate the vision of library leaders on the importance of the book. The meeting would gather all the categories involved in the book industry: writers, publishers, editors, professors, librarians. The goal was to create a platform for discussions on how to promote the book as a crucial element for culture and education enhancement. The power of information and its dissemination was discussed within the first edition, while keeping the book as a central element in all debates. After this first edition, the Summit of the book was organized yearly in different locations throughout the world: Singapore (2013), France (2014), Egypt (2015) and Ireland (2016). The event had a powerful international impact and in 2017 the 6th summit was hosted in Brasov (Romania) at the “Transilvania” University.  This volume is the collection of the most valuable contributions to the 6th Summit of the Book where experts presented their best practices and expertise in the history and technology of the book, knowledge support, and book dissemination.

Volume 2
Edited by Boris Stojkovski

ISBN 978-615-81689-3-9                                           Paperback, €32.00

eISBN 978-615-81793-5-5                                         Hardcover, €99.00

DOI: 10.22618/TP.HMWR.2020VTA2                        eBook, €32.00

Volume 2 (November 2020)

In colour, pp. 289

BOOK DESCRIPTION 

Travelling is one of the most fascinating phenomena that has inspired writers and scholars from Antiquity to our postmodern age. The father of history, Herodotus, was also a traveller, whose Histories can easily be considered a travel account. The first volume of this book is dedicated to the period starting from Herodotus himself until the end of the Middle Ages with focus on the Balkans, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic world, and South-Eastern Europe. Research on travellers who connected civilizations; manuscript and literary traditions; musicology; geography; flora and fauna as reflected in travel accounts, are all part of this thought-provoking collected volume dedicated to detailed aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the end of the sixteenth century. 

The second volume of this book is dedicated to the period between Early Modernity and today, including modern receptions of travelling in historiography and literature. South-Eastern Europe and Serbia; the Chinese, Ottoman, and British perception of travelling; pilgrimages to the Holy land and other sacred sites; Serbian, Arabic, and English literature; legal history and travelling, and other engaging topics are all part of the second volume dedicated to aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the contemporary era.

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Edited by Maria Sinaci and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner

ISBN 978-615-80996-0-8                                           Paperback, €27.00

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DOI: 10.22618/TP.AEBIO.20181                                eBook, €27.00

Volume 1 (May 2018)

Pages: 1-192

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

Pastor Fritz Jahr used the term bioethics as early as 1927. It was not until the early 1970s that the term was rediscovered in the United States. Since then, the relevance of this emergent academic field of studies has permanently been growing, as the age of biotechnological and medical innovations has only just begun. Enormous progress can be expected in various areas relevant to bioethical discourses in the coming decades and centuries. In the past years, the invention of CRISPR/Cas9 has radically changed the possibilities concerning genetic modifications, even germline modifications have turned into a practical option. These developments need to be investigated by academics from various disciplines, which is the reason why the conference series on Bioethics in the New Age of Science was initialized. The present volume consists in selected papers from the first International Conference on Bioethics in the New Age of Science, which took place on the 4th and 5th of May 2017 at the “Vasile Goldis” West University of Arad, Romania.

Edited by Fotis Mavromatakis and Kyriakos Siderakis

ISBN 978-615-80340-7-4
Volume 3 (December 2016)
Pages 1-389

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Edited by János Fehér

ISBN 978-615-80340-4-3

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Ed. Maria Sinaci, Cristian Măduţ

ISBN 978-615-80996-6-0 (print) 
ISBN 978-615-80996-7-7 (eBook)