Fables et légendes du Japon (Fables and Legends from Japan) – Livre bilingue français/anglais (Bilingual French/English Book)
Traducteur et éditeur (Translator and editor): Nicolae Sfetcu Le livre comprend une collection de légendes et de fables japonaise recueillies par le missionnaire Claude Ferrand au Japon. La mythologie japonaise embrasse les traditions shintoïstes et bouddhistes ainsi que la religion … Read More
Death – Cultural, philosophical and religious aspects
About death, grief, mourning, life after death and immortality. Why should we die like humans to survive as a species. “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. … Read More
Bucharest Tourist Guide (Ghid turistic București)
Bilingual English/Romanian Guide (Ghid bilingv engleză/română) Bucharest offers some excellent attractions, and during the recent years has cultivated a sophisticated, trendy, and modern sensibility that many have come to expect from a European capital. Perhaps the most prominent landmark is … Read More
Poems from Titan Park
From the daily cycling trips in Titan Park, Bucharest, appeared this small volume of poems, illustrated with the most beautiful pictures I made during these walks. At midnight starts my working day. The computer, a coffee, a discreet jazz music, … Read More
Solaris, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – Psychological and philosophical aspects
About the main psychological and philosophical aspects detached from the film Solaris directed by Andrei Tarkovski, as well as the cinema techniques used by the director to convey his messages to the spectator. In the “Introduction” I briefly present the … Read More
Anthology of the Best French Short Stories for Children
Editor and Translator: Nicolae Sfetcu The stories for children of this anthology were selected with love and attention specifically to meet the requirements of each child, parent, grandparent, teacher, or educator … Whether it’s a love story, a story of … Read More
The Mystery of the Golden Stars – An adventure in the European Union (Misterul stelelor aurii – O aventură în Uniunea Europeană)
Bilingual English/Romanian Edition (Ediția bilingvă engleză/română) This book invites you to tour Brussels, the city that hosts the European Union’s headquarters, discovering what the European Union is, how it works and how it may be relevant to you. You follow … Read More
ABC Short Stories – Children Book
Jules Lemaître loved children. He had himself, when he was a professor at Grenoble, a daughter, Madeleine, who died after a month and he never consoled. Later he became a multiple and delicious godfather. Everyone knows the charming stories written … Read More
Arts
Authenticity in art
Authenticity in art means a genuine, unadulterated art. Authentication is the separation of the genuine from the false, the separation of the unadulterated from the forged. Authenticity in art is close to the concepts of “real,” “originality”. Usually, the meaning of authenticity remains unclear unless it is known … Read More
Education
Book printing
Printing is a set of techniques allowing the reproduction in large quantities, on material support, of writings and illustrations, in order to allow mass distribution. Generally, flat supports are used and the most used material is paper or textile. These … Read More
Science
Social, Psychological, and Philosophical Reflections on Pandemics and Beyond
Abraham Rudnick Introduction Societies are measured in part in relation to how they rise to the occasion of collective crises and learn from them. For example, both Taiwan and Canada (specifically Toronto) were similarly directly impacted by the Severe Acute Respiratory … Read More
Business
Book printing
Printing is a set of techniques allowing the reproduction in large quantities, on material support, of writings and illustrations, in order to allow mass distribution. Generally, flat supports are used and the most used material is paper or textile. These … Read More
Health
Social, Psychological, and Philosophical Reflections on Pandemics and Beyond
Abraham Rudnick Introduction Societies are measured in part in relation to how they rise to the occasion of collective crises and learn from them. For example, both Taiwan and Canada (specifically Toronto) were similarly directly impacted by the Severe Acute Respiratory … Read More
Society
Modal logic
In mathematical logic, modal logic is a type of formal logic that extends propositional logic, first-order logic, or higher-order logic with modalities. A specific modality of the qualities of truth. For example, a proposition like “it’s raining” can be preceded … Read More
Computers
A Brief Timeline in Internet Development
There is no doubt about it—the Internet has changed the world we live in. Never before has it been so easy to access information; communicate with people all over the globe; and share articles, videos, photos, and all manner of … Read More
Recreation
Video gaming for the elderly
On December 10 2020, Barbara Rawlings of Dorset, UK celebrated her 106th birthday. Congratulating her on national radio, the BBC’s Graham Norton remarked: “It does seem a little cruel that you’ve stayed alive for 106 years…. For this.” We all … Read More
World
European Union on artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is developing fast. It will change our lives by improving healthcare (e.g. making diagnosis more precise, enabling better prevention of diseases), increasing the efficiency of farming, contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation, improving the efficiency of production … Read More
An application for COVID-19 was installed on all smartphones
An application for COVID-19 was installed in both Android and iOS mobile phones in their settings, following the update of the operating systems. On Android devices, go to “Settings” then “Google”, and you will find there the application “COVID-19 exposure … Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the book market
One of the most important economic effects of the current COVID-19 pandemic is the awareness of the importance of supply chains for all products that eventually reach consumers. Supplying both the components needed to manufacture a product and the finished … Read More
Localized marketing / Localized content / Localized translation
Professional translators know the meaning of the term “localized translation”. It is a translation that must be adapted to the target audience to which the translated text is addressed. For example, a company that makes computer processors used my translation … Read More
COVID epidemic and Plato’s cave
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc worldwide, socially and economically. The epidemic may have led to physical isolation, but also an unprecedented avalanche of knowledge through fake news, misinformation and conspiracy theories. We have become increasingly dependent on social media for information, … Read More