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This book presents updated and expanded biographical information about one of the outstanding physical chemists, Professor Evgeny Ivanovich Shpital'sky (September 28, 1879–November 23, 1931), a professor at Moscow University and Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. This book draws on materials from federal, regional, and departmental archives (the State Archives of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Economics, the Russian State Archive in Samara, the Central State Archive of Moscow, the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Central Archives of the Federal Security Service of Russia, and the Archives of Lomonosov Moscow State University), as well as materials from the personal archives of E. I. Shpital'sky's relatives and the memoirs of his colleagues and students.

These materials illustrate his contribution to chemical science and the development of the chemical industry in our country, and also shed some light on the tragic end of his life. A significant portion of the documents are being published for the first time.

This collection is the second issue of the ‘Journalism for the Health of the Nation’ series, which is the result of a major scientific, educational and publishing project of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. It focuses on the analysis of journalistic practice in public health issues coverage. It covers almost all types and types of media. Among the authors are doctors, teachers, psychologists, researchers, and journalists, which provides and interdisciplinary approach.

This collection reveals data on media content researches carried out by teachers, researchers and students of the Faculty of Journalism of the Moscow State University. Its appendix covers extensive historical, reference, statistical, documentary material and journalistic texts, thus having a high value even separate from the book.

The manual is meant for teachers and secondary school pupils, college and university undergraduate students studying Ecology. The materials of the manual can be used to assess the students’ knowledge as well as to facilitate their preparation for contests in Ecology.

The manual provides tasks on the five sections of Ecology: General ecology (Bioecology), Social ecology and Human ecology, Natural resources and their use (Environmental management), Environmental pollution (Applied ecology), and Environmental protection. The tasks are formulated as tests of different levels of complexity and various kinds (free-answer and alternative questions).

When writing the manual its authors applied their experience of teaching Ecology and developing the base of the tasks for different levels of the All-Russian contest on Ecology and ‘Lomonosov’ contest on Ecology at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

This book is a collection of problems in number theory and related areas of mathematics, designed to provide a systematic understanding of them.

It covers both classical problems that have given rise to new research areas, as well as Olympiad-style problems. Solutions or brief instructions are provided for many of the problems.

Popov’s book presents essays on the history of photography written using documentary materials. You will find information about photographic societies in Russia, lithographs and lithographic institutions that produced photographic forms, photographers of Russian emperors and many other materials that will help clarify some facts from the history of Russian photography and help researchers in the authentication of photographs. The publication uses photographs from the Russian State Library of Arts and the author’s personal archive.

The book is addressed to graduates and teachers of Moscow State University. It is meant for a wide range of readers interested in problems of national history, culture, literature and journalism.

The textbook is based on a course of lectures given by the author at the Faculty of Biology and the Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The article examines the metabolic features characteristic of atherosclerosis, obesity, hypertension, osteoporosis and neurodegenerative diseases. It describes the role of mutations, lifestyle and chronic inflammation that occurs in aging cells in their pathogenesis.

The publication is intended for university students studying in the following areas: Biology"; "Fundamental and Applied Biology", "Bioengineering and Bioinformatics", "General Medicine", "Pharmacy".

The publication contains a collection of selected works: the books "Numerical Methods of Algebra. Theory and Algorithms", "Roundoff Errors and Stability in Direct Methods of Linear Algebra", "Computational Foundations of Linear Algebra"; lectures "Computational Mathematics and the Structure of Algorithms"; three articles, including the first publication by V. V. Voevodin, devoted to calculating the roots of algebraic polynomials and two articles, the results of which have become widely known in the world, but the articles themselves were published in rotary-print collections and therefore are not accessible to the general reader and are a bibliographic rarity.

The book can be recommended as an additional source for undergraduate and graduate students of universities and colleges who are beginning to study works on computational algebra. It will be useful for young specialists and teachers of this discipline, researchers in related fields of knowledge, as well as historians of science.

The first edition of this book was prepared for the 250th anniversary of Moscow University in 2005. The book presents publications of the first university newspaper “Moskovskie Vedomosti” (Moscow Gazette), published from 1756 to 1917, which contain a significant part of the history of Moscow University. In the second half of the 18th century. it was the only newspaper in Moscow. “Moskovskie Vedomosti” (Moscow Gazette) was prepared by professors and students of Moscow University, printed at the university printing house, and sold in the university bookstore. Gazetny Lane in Moscow is named so because the printing house, where the latest issues of the newspaper Moskovskie Vedomosti were distributed to subscribers, was located there at the beginning of the 19th century.

The book is addressed to everyone who is interested in the history of higher education in Russia and the history of Moscow University.

The textbook discusses the theoretical and substantive provisions of engineering geology and its scientific directions. Its structure consists of five parts. The first of them describes the theoretical foundations, content, structure and tasks of engineering geology, its position in the system of geological knowledge. The second, third and fourth parts set out the fundamental
positions, structure and content of three scientific areas of engineering geology: soil science, engineering geodynamics and regional engineering geology, respectively. In the final, fifth, part, the general provisions of the methodology of engineering-geological research, their implementation in
the system of engineering-geological surveys for construction are considered.

For students and postgraduates of classical, geological exploration and mining universities, as well as specialists related to the study of engineering and geological conditions and solving environmental problems.

The peculiarity of this textbook on data Analysis is that the main attention is paid to those examples that, although using the correct theoretical models and methods, contain one or more widespread errors leading to incorrect conclusions. The necessary concepts for understanding the error are described in detail, the correct solution is shown, and alternative approaches to analyzing the situation based on data mining methods are presented.

The manual reveals the use of MS Excel, STATISTICA, Genehunter, FuzzyXl software products for various data analysis tasks: hypothesis testing, dependency search, trend highlighting, forecasting, and object clustering.

The textbook is recommended for sociologists, marketers, political scientists, specialists in finance, economics, management, public administration.

Zvenigorod Biostation is an outstanding department of Moscow University with a rich history. The biostation is of great importance for the formation of modern areas of biology and for students' knowledge of biological processes in a continuously changing natural environment. Generations of Russian scientists have preserved the biostation as a golden scientific and cultural foundation. Associate Professor K. N. Blagosklonov (1910-1985), having collected archival materials and information from employees, using his memories, briefly described the history of the biostation in the XX century. The first edition was published by the publishing house of Moscow State University in 1987. limited edition.

This reissue, provided with illustrations, including from the archive of K. N. Blagosklonov, and detailed comments, will provide an opportunity to introduce interesting materials to a wide range of readers.

The book studies the history of mathematical education in the Russian Empire.

The book is addressed to researchers in the history of mathematics and the history of education, teachers of mathematics of higher and secondary educational institutions, students of mathematical specialties and all who are concerned about the fate of Russian mathematical education.

The textbook examines the history of international relations as a process of shaping the world state system, reveals the driving forces of events and phenomena, global trends that have had a significant impact on the foreign policy of the leading powers. This approach, in the author's view, allows students to get a holistic view of history, to see a close connection between its main stages, to understand the origins of the foreign policy of states, the nature of wars, conflicts, revolutions, motives for rulers who confronted countries that have cooperated with other states.

The textbook meets the requirements of the latest edition of the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Professional Education and the curricula of the History of International Relations course, which set the task of teaching future specialists to think independently.