Books in the Spectrum Slovakia series

This practice-oriented and up-to-date monograph provides a sourcebook and reference guide to key trends and issues of sustainable spatial development and to the different approaches applied in European countries. The authors explore landscape consideration practice in European countries, with a special focus on Slovakia.

The fundamental determinant of the success of inclusive education is the quality and permanent interaction of its components. Key components are discussed from the aspect of pedagogy, psychology, special education, therapeutic education, social pedagogy, history, philosophy, psychology, law, medicine in its transdisciplinary correlation.

The book presents a biography of Alexander Dubcek, the icon of the "Czechoslovak Spring" in 1968. It aims to explain his decisions and intellectual development in the context of the turbulent development of the 20th century Central Europe. The text deals with his rise to power, forced isolation and his attempt for a political comeback after 1989.

The book is a philosophical and historical reflection of education and the science of education (Ger. Padagogik) as an academic as well as scientific discipline in the countries of Central, Southern and South-Eastern Europe.

The presented text is an attempt to sketch the basic contours of selected issues in the cognitive research of aesthetic experience. The core themes of the book are methodological problems of the unification of philosophical and cognitive-scientific approaches to beauty and aesthetic experience, and cognitive aesthetic of music perception.

The book shows the various aspects of understanding cognitive characteristics of aesthetic experience. The authors examine the distinction between ordinary and aesthetic experience and propose with their analysis an introduction to the current cognitive research of aesthetic experience.

Insufficient supply of oxygen, i.e. hypoxia, typically occurs in a broad range of solid tumours due to aberrant vasculature. This book summarizes the current state of knowledge on hypoxia-regulated pathways and their biological consequences and describes promising approaches to clinical application of this knowledge.

Nur selten erlitt eine mittelalterliche Frauengestalt seitens der Schriftsteller und Historiker soviel Unrecht und ging mit solch schlechtem Ruf wie Königin Barbara von Cilli in die Geschichte ein. In der Literatur wird Barbara seit mehreren Jahrhunderten systematisch geschmäht. Die ersten Werke, die ein negatives Bild über sie verbreiteten, entstanden schon in der Zeit ihres Todes oder sogar noch während ihres Lebens, und sie ging als Schwarze Königin oder Deutsche Messalina ins historische Bewusstsein ein. Die Autorin hat auf überraschende Weise den Ursprung der negativen Legende über Barbara von Cilli sowie ihre Urheber entdeckt. Auf Grund einer detaillierten Analyse der bis jetzt unbekannten historischen Quellen verfolgt sie die Art und Weise, wie sich das negative Bild in der damaligen Literatur und später auch im historischen Schrifttum verbreitete. Die Autorin arbeitete mit bisher nicht veröffentlichten Quellen, was ihr ermöglichte, viele Fehler und Ungenauigkeiten, die seit Jahren in der Fachliteratur im Zusammenhang mit der Königin Barbara erscheinen, zu korrigieren. Das Ergebnis bietet nicht nur Einblick in die Lebensgeschichte der Barbara von Cilli, sondern auch in die gesellschaftliche Stellung einer mittelalterlichen Königin im Allgemeinen.

Language and culture relate to each other. It is important to refine teaching processes to enable language learners to use target languages effectively. This book shows that language and culture should be viewed in their interrelationship as they have a significant impact on the naturalness and appropriateness of discourse.

The book attempts to outline the fundamental contours of the possible research of emotionality by the means of analysis of the cognitive aspects of an aesthetic experience. The study presents the results of an impressive methodological combination of philosophical (phenomenological) and current cognitive scientific research.

The volume presents the views of ten authors from four PostCommunist Central and East European countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Latvia) on the impact of emerging technologies on human condition. They analyse the topic from anthropological, ethical, philosophical, ontological, empirical and legal perspectives.

The book essentially discusses whether philosophy can integrate the plethora of various empirical and neuroscientific approaches to the study of beauty or whether it should preserve its traditional a priori basis. In fact, is it possible to unite philosophy and cognitive-scientific analyses of aesthetic perception and assessment?

The book presents psychological interpretations of the specific reactions of individuals in the perception of attractive human faces. Based on research, the authors formulate evolutionary interpretations of why and how symmetry, averageness, sexually dimorphic characters, personality characteristics, etc. increase the attractiveness of the face.