International Trade Throughout History

As the economy, religion, civilization, medicine, technology, and similar fields have developed, the pattern of international trade has changed throughout history, as all of this has influenced it, and it still does today.

The book is primarily intended for students of international economics as supplementary literature for studying the development, role, and effects of international exchange, but it is also useful for anyone interested in this topic or engaged in it. The authors have addressed the economic and social environment and international trade up to the Middle Ages, during the Middle Ages and after, the contemporary socio-economic environment and international trade, and the connection between socio-economic development and the development of international trade.

International Trade Throughout History
Ljubo Jurčić, Vlatka Bilas, Sanja Franc
Alfa, Zagreb, 2015.

Once again, with his book, the famous Argentine writer and psychotherapist Jorge Bucay has confirmed the old truth that stories serve to lull children to sleep and awaken adults. Through stories, he connects people – all those who have gifted them to him, from any corner of the Earth and any century they lived in, with those who have received them and who should spread them further. However, Bucay’s stories are not just entertaining; they are meant to provoke thought, primarily serving as an impetus to reconsider our own lives and understand how we can live them better and happier. In this sense, they are a call for personal growth, but equally a call to develop relationships with those who surround us daily, as well as those we meet along the way, which is indeed Bucay’s main theme.

Stories for Reflection
Jorge Bucay
Fraktura, Zagreb, 2015.

The travelogues of Jerko Bakotin, ‘Brotherhood and Murder, Gajđin,’ are actually a kind of serial from Western Sahara, the Gaza Strip, Mongolia, Japan, and Kosovo. They were created over eight years, but the travels began even earlier, so the travelogues are stylistically very heterogeneous as different spaces imposed different perspectives on the author, and the author himself changed over the years. Jerko Bakotin does not hide his disappointment with the state of the world, and the dominant mood of these manuscripts is anti-colonial. The book is equipped with about sixty excellent photographs that accompany the text, bear witness, and, of course, remain silent, just like the world, about the things Bakotin speaks of freshly, consciously, and convincingly. Once a Gajđin, always a Gajđin, a tenant in the universe and the world until things change for the better and fairer, that could be the unspoken slogan of this book.

Brotherhood and Murder, Gajđin
Jerko Bakotin
Algoritam, Zagreb, 2016.