Poker Games Guide – Texas Hold ’em Poker
This book is an introduction to the poker game, emphasizing on the Texas Hold ’em Poker, the betting structure, poker variants, poker strategy and specific poker tournaments. The popularity of poker (mainly the no-limit Texas hold’em) reached an unprecedented peak … Read More
Big Data Ethics in Research
The main problems faced by scientists in working with Big Data sets, highlighting the main ethical issues, taking into account the legislation of the European Union. After a brief Introduction to Big Data, the Technology section presents specific research applications. … Read More
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
Fables and Legends from Japan
Translator and editor: Nicolae Sfetcu The book includes a collection of Japanese legends and fables collected by the missionary Claudius Ferrand in Japan. Japanese mythology (Nihon shinwa) is the set of legends and myths of Japan. The main Japanese myths, … 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
Londres: Affaires, Voyager, Culture (London: Business, Travel, Culture)
Guide touristique bilingue anglais/français (Bilingual English/French Tourist Guide) Londres, seule ville à avoir organisé trois fois les Jeux olympiques (1908, 1948, 2012), est dynamique et très diverse sur le plan culturel. Elle joue un rôle important dans l’art et dans … Read More
Climate Change – Global Warming
A brutal and catastrophic warming could put humanity in short-term risk, a climate hypothesis that was first presented as highly speculative and subject to more science fiction than a serious prospective, before taking consistency by the scientists from the Rio … Read More
Last Thoughts
by Henri Poincaré Translated by Nicolae Sfetcu Henri Poincaré is a mathematician, physicist, philosopher and engineer, born April 29, 1854 in Nancy and died July 17, 1912 in Paris. He has carried out works of major importance in optics and … Read More
Arts
XII. LAST FRIEND
One day last summer, about the month of June, Claire and her mother were working in the living room, while I was perched in my usual place, on the shoulder of the girl, where I played with her coiffure and … Read More
Education
Book publishing
(Printer working an early Gutenberg letterpress from the 15th century. (1877 engraving)) Publishing consists in presenting, reproducing, then legally marketing the intellectual production of an author. Publishing, in the broad sense, covers all forms of content production: literary, scientific, musical … Read More
Science
Discourse on science
Epistemology The term “epistemology” replaces that of philosophy of science at the start of the 20th century. It is a neologism constructed by James Frederick Ferrier, in his work Institutes of metaphysics (1854). The word is composed on the Greek … Read More
Business
Book publishing
(Printer working an early Gutenberg letterpress from the 15th century. (1877 engraving)) Publishing consists in presenting, reproducing, then legally marketing the intellectual production of an author. Publishing, in the broad sense, covers all forms of content production: literary, scientific, musical … Read More
Health
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
Society
The development of Confucianism until its official recognition
The main disciples of the master are called the Twelve Philosophers and revered in Confucian temples. When Confucianism becomes official doctrine for the recruitment of civil servants under the previous Han, we can already distinguish different currents. Thereafter, two thousand … Read More
Computers
Web Applications
On the server The web is used as a technical platform to allow the manipulation of applications hosted on web servers. In such applications, programs and data reside on a web server – unlike conventional applications which reside on the … Read More
Recreation
European Union: Promoting a new culture of data protection – EU Annual Management Plan 2019
The EDPS Strategy 2015-2019, “Leading by example” – adopted at the beginning of the current EDPS mandate in 2015 – sets out how we seek to promote a new culture of data protection in the European institutions and bodies. Our … Read More
World
African philosophy
(Colossal statues of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, Egypt, date from around 1400 BC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abu_Simbel_Main_Temple_(2346939149).jpg) If it must be said that the expression “African philosophy” posed a problem of the same ilk as that declared with the expression “Chinese philosophy”. … 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