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Malovic and Selnow examine the evolution of the press-government relationship from the Tito era to the present. With Croatia the focus, they examine how the press has attempted to transform itself from a passive, self-censoring institution into a more aggressive one. The role of radio, the Internet, unions, and the public are explored. ... Read more

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The Culture of Lies is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. It shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugresic's acerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life.

With a diverse and unusual perspective, she writes about memory, soap operas, the destruction of everyday life, kitsch, the conformity of intellectuals, propaganda and censorship, the strategies of human manipulation and the walls of Europe which, she argues, never really did fall.

Shot through with irony and sadness, satirical protest and bitter melancholy, The Culture of Lies is a gesture of intellectual resistance by a writer branded 'a traitor' and 'a witch' in Croatia. ... Read more

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Excellent writing,insightful and thought provoking
This well-written book gives keen insight to events surrounding the dissolution of Yugoslavia while providing a view into the collective mind of former Yugoslavians. This book also makes one wonder about how nationalism is used, for better or worse, in other countries as a political vehicle to motivate its people to support specific ideals.While I agree with Ugresic's criticism of nationalism and the role it plays in post-Yugoslavian times, I also wonder if it is just a collective defense-mechanism, a means for survival when collective identity is being shattered. It is a fascinating read, well-written, and illuminating on many different levels.

Sadly accurate
Dubravka Ugresic is perhaps less well-known in the English-speaking world than the other Croatian "dissident" writer Slavenka Drakulic, which is unfortunate. Both Ugresic's essays and especially fiction are far superior to that of Drakulic. "Culture of Lies" includes theauthor's observations of Croatian society and politics of the last tenyears, both of which have been none too kind to her (indeed, whileachieving great acclaim in other European countries, she was branded a"traitor" and worse by Croatian politicians and the pro-regimepress for her uncompromising criticism of Croatian nationalism, etc.). Inthis book, Ugresic shows the many ways in which nationalism imbued alllevels of society in Croatia, making people increasingly hostile todifferent views and people who were/are "different." Herparticular area of interest is the way this was reflected in the behaviorof intellectuals, who-at least one would like to think-are not supposed tobe as susceptible to the appeal of God-and-country patriotism andnationalistic kitsch. Her description of an incident in a Zagreb tram, inwhich a young man accosts and beats an old destitute drunken man, isparticularly vivid and sadly indicative. In fact, this whole section of thebook, called "Souvenirs from Paradise" is an excellent collectionof impressions and observations of the underside of Croatian life. Despitethe recent sweeping political changes in Croatia, many of the negativeaspects of society in this country as described by Ugresic are still here,and they will haunt this country for some time to come.

Excilent help to understand how wars could be started
It tells truth of thousends of people manipulated with mass media on Balkans. If you want an expert book on how wars started in ex-yugoslavia you should read this one.

Ironic, melancholic, bitter humanism
Although it has taken the English translation of this collection of essays a few years to come into print (it was first published in Dutch),this is a highly relevant, illuminating, and moving book. Most of the essays werewritten between '92 and '94, with more recent postscripts. With rareclarity and complexity of thought, gift of articulation, emotional courageand absence of pretence or squeamishness, Ugresic has carried out a highlyaccessible investigation into the Yugoslav war, the demise of communistEurope, the East-West polarity, the ambiguities of exile. With referencesto other East European writers and thinkers (Milan Kundera, MiroslavKrleja, Danilo Kis, Josiph Brodsky), she explores the tyranny of the newconstructs of national identity in the Balkan states, the enforcedcollective amnesia of the former Yugoslavs, the many traumas of theirhistory, as well as the common psycho-cultural lanscape of the 'Easternblock'. There are many deeply moving episodes and revealing insights here,delivered in the familiar 'Central European' style of ironic, melancholic,bitter humanism. Vaguely reminiscent of Milan Kundera, only better becauseof the lack of smugness and the final doubting humility of someone who hasfeltintense pain and articulated the nature of this pain. ... Read more

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"The Culture of Lies" shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic ideology permeates every pore of life. Ugresic's acerbic and penetrating essays cover everything from politics to daily routine, from public to private life. With a diverse and unusual perspective, she writes about memory, soap operas, aggression against people's own 'brothers', the conformity of intellectuals, propaganda and censorship, the strategies of human manipulation and the walls of Europe, which, she argues, never really did fall. Shot through with sarcasm and satire, "The Culture of Lies", written in the tradition of Milan Kundera and Karl Kraus, is a gesture of intellectual resistance by a writer brandished 'a traitor' and 'a witch' in Croatia. This is one of the most intelligent and lucid accounts of an appalling episode in history. ... Read more

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Media Events That Shaped The New Croatia reviews the public affairs aspects of how a 1996 UN Mission to Serbia/Croatia used Special Event Media planning to win the peace in a little known corner of the world called Vukovar. U.S. Ambassador Jacques Klein called Temple Black while he was stationed at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia in February '96 asking if he would be interested in serving as a UN Spokesman to help bring Serbia & Croatia together. Only the Americans and British seemed truly engaged in the mission. The other countries in the contact group didn't seem all that interested and their troops were clearly just interested in the money they could make from the deployment. They worked very long days, 7 days-a-week, trying to make progress and in the end, we were successful in bringing Vukovar into the new Croatia. ... Read more

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The Mediterranean is the world?s number one tourist destination and the biggest tourism region in the world. In the last 10 years Croatia and Turkey became two of the most popular Mediterranean destinations. To achieve continuous and sustainable development of tourism, three interrelated aspects should be taken into consideration: economic, social, and environmental. The main question is; in what ways tourism is contributing to the sustainable development of the local community? Moreover, how would involvement of the local population in the planning process lead to more sustainabletourism? Case studies of Dubrovnik from Croatia andAlanya from Turkey are studied in the book in orderto answer these questions. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The cinema of Croatia does not have as long a tradition as in some other Central European countries: the serious beginning of Croatian cinema starts with the rise of the Yugoslavian film industry in the 1940s. Three Croatian feature films were nominated for the Foreign Language Film Academy Award, several of them gained awards at major festivals, and the Croatian contribution in the field of animation is particularly important. Although motion pictures appeared in Croatia relatively early, for most of the 20th Century film was almost exclusively the domain of a few dedicated amateur enthusiasts, most notably Josip Karaman in Split and, later, Oktavijan Miletić in Zagreb. Croatia lacked the political, economic and cultural infrastructure to support its own cinema industry. The most serious effort in that direction before World War II was the series of educational films produced by Škola narodnog zdravlja. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radio 101 - Independent radio station, with alternative and latest music and breaking news in Croatia. It broadcasts from Zagreb (Croatian capital) and has a regional license for the audience of about 1 200 000 people. It is one of the most popular radio stations in Zagreb and in Croatia. It started broadcasting in 1984 using the frequency of 101 MHz (hence the name). In 1996 Radio 101 came to national prominence as a vocal critic to the ruling party (Croatian Democratic Union) who was retaliated against by having their broadcasting license revoked in favor of a novelty radio station. In response to this, around 120,000 people protested on the main square in Zagreb and helped keep Radio 101 on the air. This was also part of a larger series of events in Zagreb known as the Zagreb Crisis. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Supetar, Postira, Bol, Croatia, Croatian Bol Ladies Open, Croatia Rediviva: Ča, Kaj, Što - Baštinski Dani, Mirca, Splitska, Bol Airport, Milna, Mrduja, Nerežišća, Zlatni Rat, Donji Humac, Blaca Hermitage, Sutivan, Bobovišća Na Moru. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Bra -Archaeological findings date the existence of human communities on the island back to the palaeolithic (in the Kopaina cave between Supetar and Donji Humac). Nevertheless, there are no traces of human habitation from the neolithic. In the Bronze Age and Iron Age, Illyrian tribes populated the inner parts of the island. Numerous villages existed at that time (but none of them survived). In the 4th century BC Greek colonisation spread over many Adriatic islands and along the shore, but none of them on Bra. Nevertheless, Greeks visited the island and also traded with the Illyric tribes; Greek artifacts were found in the bay of Vija near Loia. Bra lay on the crossroads of several trade routes from Salona (today Solin) to Issa (today Vis) and the Po River. Supetar harbourIn the year 9 AD, the Romans finally conquered Dalmatia after long fights against the native tribes. Salona became the capital of the new province and, probably because of its proximity to Salona, no bigger villages or towns were founded on the island. Signs of Roman habitation can be found all over the islands, but they usually remain single Roman villas, cisterns, and especially early quarries between krip and Splitska. Splitska also became the most important harbour to carry stone to Salona and the whole of Dalmatia. Diocletian's Palace, which later became Split, was largely built with limestone that was quarried on Bra. Also agriculture, especially wine and olives, began in the same era. After the destruction of S...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=226332 ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Forest Ecology and Management, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The paper investigates the ameliorative properties of pine cultures in their site conditions on the island of Rab. Pines, as allochthonous and pioneer species, were used to afforest degraded and devastated areas on the island because of their important role in the process of progressive vegetation succession. Twelve sample plots were established in the forest pine cultures. They encompassed various pine cultures (maritime pine, Aleppo pine and black pine) in diverse parent substrates (limestone, reddish-brown quartz sand, Flysch) and different soil types (eutric cambisol, cambisol on limestone, red soil and rendzina). To process the data, the following multivariate analyses were used: Two Way Indicator Species Analysis (TWINSPAN), Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) and Indicator Species Analysis. The research results showed differences among the forest cultures of black pine, Aleppo pine and maritime pine. A relationship was found between the quantitative environmental variables (slope, pH, humus, the C/N ratio, age and the quantity of leaf litter) and the vegetation. As well as the relationship of the species towards qualitative variables (type of pine culture, parent substrate, soil type, exposition). ... Read more