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

Miki Knezevic

Miki Knezevic is a writer and lives in Madison, WI. She is a professional author who writes both fiction and non-fiction: articles, short stories, textbooks, a novel. She recently published her first novel, Behind God's Back, which is now available on Amazon.com.

Combining studies in English, teaching and writing, she joined a college colleague, Brenda Wegmann, to write textbooks in English as a Second Language (ESL). They have been writing ESL textbooks for over 25 years for Random House and McGraw-Hill. Their series, Interactions/Mosaic, has been successful and sells worldwide. Miki and Brenda do the reading books in the Mosaic series. She also has taken courses in Journalism and fiction writing. Miki Knezevic has written articles for Parade magazine, The Wisconsin State Journal, Madison Magazine and Serb World.

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Recently she has finished a historical novel called Behind God's Back. The story takes place in Europe between 1912 and 1962. A strong female character, Desa Jovanovic, medical doctor, faces World War I, World War II and the Communist era. Fighting for the lives of her patients and her family takes patience and courage; Desa's life and the lives of those she loves are in danger of extinction many times in during these difficult years. How Desa, her family, and friends survive these terrible historical occurrences, or don't, make for exciting and emotional reading.

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Nemanja Bjelica

Nemanja Bjelica (rođen 9. maja 1988. u Beogradu) je srpski košarkaš. Trenutno nastupa za Minesotu timbervulvse, a takođe je i standardan član košarkaške reprezentacije Srbije.

Primarna pozicija mu je krilo ali može da igra i po potrebi na pozicijama plejmejkera i krilnog centra. Godine 2009. bio je izabran za najboljeg sportistu Sportskog društva Crvene zvezde. Draftovan je 2010. godine u drugoj rundi NBA drafta. Proglašen je za najkorisnijeg igrača Evrolige 2015. godine, a ujedno je bio i član najbolje petorke ovog takmičenja.

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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.