Edited by Maria Micle and Claudiu Mesaroş

Online ISBN 978-615-80340-6-7
Volume 4 (September 2016)
Pages 1-349


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Edited by Claudiu Mesaroş

Online ISBN 978-615-80340-5-0

Volume 3 (May 2016)

Pages 1-61

 You can read this book in open access

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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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

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.

Edited by Maria Micle and Gheorghe Clitan

ISBN 978-615-81689-4-6                                           Paperback, €25.00            

eISBN 978-615-81793-6-2                                         Hardcover, €75.00

DOI: 10.22618/TP.PCMS.20216                                   eBook, €25.00

Volume 6 (February 2021)

pp. 360

BOOK DESCRIPTION 

The multiple facets of this volume belong to five large themes. The first theme, that of persuasion and manipulation, is studied here through electoral campaigns (i.e., mental filters used in voting manipulation, the mechanisms of vote mobilisation, manipulation and storytelling models). The institutionalization of education represents the second theme, approached here through specific interdisciplinary instruments: the intersection of higher education with public learning, the answers of the knowledge society to the issues of contemporary work problems, the institutional relationships used to solve educational problems specific to childhood and adolescence, as well as the role of media competencies in professional development. The third theme is related to the inheritance and transmission of cultural identity, instrumentalized through issues such as: the duty of intergenerational justice with regard to cultural heritage, education and vocational training in library science, the social inclusion role of public and digital libraries. The collective and cultural identity of communities represents the fourth large theme, being approached through a triple perspective: the philosophical background of restoring the political dignity of communities, the communication space as a point of a needle towards the community space, and the communicational issue of the European capital of culture programmes. Lastly, the fifth theme belongs to practical and applied philosophy, specifically philosophical counselling, debating issues such as: the identification of the communicational background for this type of counselling, the secular approach to the problem of evil from a philosophical counselling perspective, the discussion of Platon’s attitude towards suicide and of frank speech in the Epicurean school, the socio-anthropological perspective of immortality, as well as the formal approach of the relationship between real and imaginary.

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