A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Natasha Pavlovich

Natasha Pavlovich is a Serbian-American entrepreneur; an accomplished Hollywood actress, International Beauty Queen, Aviatrix, Future Astronaut, and soon to be published author. She is a descendent of Grand Duke Pavle Radenović of Bosnia (late 14th Century). She was born to Serbian parents and spent her early years in former Yugoslavia before immigrating to America to join relatives in Chicago, Illinois.

Her childhood interests in acting led to a move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. She was accepted into the prestigious Hollywood Professional School, and  graduated with honors at age sixteen. Ms. Pavlovich earned a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. Simultaneously, she attended twelve years of acting school under the direction of legendary Hollywood acting coach, Sal Dano.

While Natasha's beauty earned her international titles, she wasn't always cast in glamorous roles. Hollywood heavyweights took notice of this powerhouse of an actresses  talents, her chameleon like ability to transform into various looks, languages, comedies, and dramas, and speak roles  in Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Czechoslovakian, Serbian, Arabic, and French, in  more than 50 prime time, network television productions. She has worked alongside Academy Аward winning actors, directors, and producers and appeared on hit shows such as: Nip/Tuck, J.A.G, Vegas, Judging Amy, Monk, The Son of the Pink Panther movie, and many others. Natasha also had a recurring role on the popular Serbian television series, Gorki Plodovi, (Bitter Fruit), filmed in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Tatjana Aleksic

Tatjana Aleksic received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University in 2007 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2007. She is the editor of Mythistory and Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans (2007). Additional publications include articles on nationalism, gender, language, and myth and translations into Serbian of short fiction, haiku, and medical textbooks.  She is the recipient of research awards from the University of Michigan (2008), Serbian Ministry for the Diaspora (2008), and a Rutgers University Dean’s fellowship (2002-2004).

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The Presence of Transcendence

Essays on Facing the Other through Holiness, History and Text

by Bogoljub Sijakovic

The essays collected in this book venture into various domains of philosophy, such as ontology and epistemology, anthropology and ethics, philosophy of history and history of philosophy, philosophy of religion and theory of the mystical, poetics and hermeneutics. The problems here thematized, which are brought to us primarily by the tradition of Hellenism and Christianity as well as life itself, are both traditional and contemporary: self-knowledge and knowledge of God, transcendence and paradoxy, theodicy and anthropodicy, sacrifice, violence, holiness, responsibility, decision-making, evil, guilt, repentance, forgiveness, memory, as well as: wisdom, suffering, good, the other, freedom, fate, history, the Balkans, war, rationality, and also: reading, dialogue, poetry, metaphysic of light.