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The concept of civilizations plays an important role in the current scientific literature. Some authors select a particular number of civilizations. For other authors it is an open question how many civilizations exist: the answer depends on the criteria applied. The paper discusses the concept of the borderland civilization that relates to the countries (space) and people (cultural communities living in this space), situated "between" the two "key cultural groupings" (in Samuel Huntington's sense) and inevitably combines some features from both of them. The author argues that, firstly, the population on today's Polish‐Lithuanian‐Belarusian border constitutes a particular borderland civilization where the local identity dominates over national or ethnic identities. Although other identities might be in use here, the population of this borderland region primarily considers itself as "local" where multi‐ethnic, multi‐cultural and multi‐religious communities have existed for centuries. Secondly, the current Belarus itself can be viewed as a case of a borderland subcivilization: throughout its history it has been constantly influenced by Latin (Western) and Byzantine (Eastern) civilizations that resulted in Belarusian cultural pluralism, high level of religious and ethnic tolerance, and local self‐identification of the population. Therefore, there is no "choice" for Belarus to belong to one "pure" civilization: it is destined to exist in the borderland. From this approach, current Belarus is not "civilization outskirts": it is a sub‐civilization with all the attributes such as culture, values, ideas of history, and supra‐national socio‐cultural community of people.

This book has been inspired by Dennis Meadows's (et al.) The Limits to Growth, published 41 years ago, in 1972. It forewarned the general public about the exhaustion of strategic resources of the planet as known at that time, unless economic and population expansions were halted. This resulted in the world becoming aware of the crisis of civilization. Measures were taken to reduce the consumption of the strategic resources, including the promotion of recycling resources used. Efforts were made internationally to introduce the practice of climate and environmental protection, to little avail

A majority of these articles first appeared in the Forum. cf. Publishers's note. ; The answer of India, by D. G. Mukerji.--The answer of Africa, by W. E. B. DuBois.--The answer of the middle ages by R. A. Cram.--The age of Pericles, by P. Shorey.--The answer of China, by C.-F. Liu.--Ancient Egypt, by M. Maeterlinck.--The answer of ancient America, by H. Spinden.--Women and modern civilization, by R. Traquair.--America's democracy of bad manners by Elizabeth R. Pennell. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This book considers the fundamental scientific and philosophical problems of the origins of life, consciousness, language, and civilization. It is a continuation of ""Physics and Logic of Life,"" published by Nova Science Publishers in 2012. Whereas the previous book discussed fundamental aspects of biology, the current volume aims to analyze connections between the biological and the societal worlds, and to clarify basic principles of the genesis of social structures. The physical basis and logic of life are discussed briefly in the first two chapters; then the discussion turns to the fundame

Preface -- Living systems as causally closed semiotic structures -- Morphogenesis and evolution at macroscopic scales -- Organizational invariance of psyche and semiotic origins of sociogenesis -- Second natural digital system : human language -- Human-constrained geographical evolution of plants and the origin of agriculture -- Evolution of human civilization towards globalization -- Cosmos and the growth of civilizations -- Epilogue. Semiosis of creation : the fugal wisdom as anticipation of the third recursive digital system -- Addendum 1. Metaphysics of game and meta-game (Gogol's "Gamblers") -- Addendum 2. Mussorgsky and his creative analysis of social instability -- Index

A design to publish such a book as Serbs in European Civilization, was outlined in the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts long before the topic has gained its political up-to-dateness. That is the reason why it is neither for one-time use nor is it a result of day-to-day politics. It is rather an attempt to look into the contribution of Serbs to European civilization from various angles and through the achievements of several scientific disciplines.

The article reviews the social theory of Harry Redner with particular reference to his view of the relationship between high literacy (book culture) and civilization. The question is posed whether, alongside book culture, an axial-type metaphysical culture is also key to the definition of civilization.