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In this six-volume work, Daisaku Ikeda, a Buddhist philosopher and president of the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai International (SGI), examines and expands on the Lotus Sutra, a highly valued sutra in the Mahayana tradition. Together with representatives of the Soka Gakkai Study Department, he shares observations and insights on each of the Lotus Sutra’s twenty-eight chapters as interpreted by the 13th century Japanese Buddhist teacher Nichiren and the Sutra’s capacity to empower contemporary society.

Key words: Sutra, The Lotus Sutra, religion, Shakyamuni, Buddhism, Nichiren, Buddhist philosophy, humanism, dignity of life.

This annotated reference book Museums of the Euroasian Association Universities, prepared by the Scientific and Methodological Center of University Museums of the EAU and The Earth Science Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University, contains information about 222 museums of Russia and CIS countries (members of the Euroasian Universities Association).

The reference book also gives additional information on 50 university museums which collaborate with the Scientific and Methodological Center of University Museums, but are not members of the EAU yet. Provided information can be helpful in the coordination of educational, scientific and exhibitory, scientific and fund, and research work as well as in inter-museum communication.

The book is intended for employees of higher educational establishments and museums, teachers of secondary schools and other educational and cultural institutions of Russia and neighboring states.

Books in the ‘Rereading the Classics’ series give a modern analysis of the works that form part of school literature curricula. This is the first attempt to provide a detailed insight into the spiritual, moral and religious aspects of the art of 19th and 20th century Russian writers. The series is offered as the basis of modern knowledge about Russian literature, which is necessary to high school students to pass school-leaving examinations and to gain admission to any institution of higher learning.

The book contains the analysis of Gogol’s main works – the comedy ‘The Inspector General’ and the poem ‘Dead Souls’. It considers in detail the fate of the second volume and reveals features of Gogol's poetics, covering those aspects of the writer's biography and creativity that were rarely addressed by pre-revolutionary and Soviet literary critique: his book ‘Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends’, ‘A Trip to Jerusalem, “Trips to Optina Pustyn”. The author recreates the spiritual and moral appearance of Gogol as a writer and a person.

The book is addressed to high school students, applicants, students, teachers of literature, philologists and all those who are interested in Russian literature.

Books in the ‘Rereading the Classics’ series give a modern analysis of the works that form part of school literature curricula. This is the first attempt to provide a detailed insight into the spiritual, moral and religious aspects of the art of 19th and 20th century Russian writers. The series is offered as the basis of modern knowledge about Russian literature, which is necessary to high school students to pass school-leaving examinations and to gain admission to any institution of higher learning.

The manual analyzes the works by the greatest masters of 1960s-1990s Russian military prose who became an organic part of the current school curricula — K. Simonov, Yu. Bondarev, V. Astafyev, K. Vorobiev, G. Baklanov, V. Bogomolov. The reader will undoubtedly find it useful to get acquainted with the analysis of the short stories and novelettes by V. Nekrasov, A. Platonov, M. Sholokhov, with the process of approximating through the artistic word toward the full truth about man at war, about his courage, sorrow of loss and nobleness. Russian military prose will appear here as a very dynamic system of texts with complex interrelations, volatile narrative structures and vivid creative individualities. The book shows the interaction between war prose and the overall literary process of the 60s – 90s.

For teachers of schools, lyceums and gymnasiums, students, high school students, applicants, philologists and a wide range of readers.

Two well-known and highly acclaimed specialists in the international educational community - Dr D. Ikeda, a creator and head of the Soka educational system (Japan), and V. Sadovnichy, Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, participate in dialogues on the role and place of universities in the globalizing world.

This central question in the dialogues is in the process of being scientifically formulated rather than being studied on an advanced level. From this point of view, this book is an important step forward in understanding and developing the essence of the question that is in all respects complex and admitting of numerous approaches to its solution.

The founder and head of the Soka educational system (Japan), Dr D. Ikeda and V.A. Sadovnichy, Rector of the Moscow State University named, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, continue the dialogue on education and upbringing, which has been continuing for the past 15 years.

The first part of the book repeats the 2004 edition. Its main theme is the role and place of universities in the globalizing world. The second and new part of the dialogue can be tentatively called ‘The Future. Loss of Certainty ... ‘. Reflections on this subject form the essence of the ‘conversation about the main thing’.

This book is the first Russian monograph devoted to nanochemistry, a new and rapidly developing area of science associated with obtaining and studying the physico-chemical properties of particles measuring several nanometers in size. Such particles may have a high reactivity over a wide range of temperatures. By using various elements as examples the book shows that research in the field of nanochemistry opens up new possibilities for synthesizing substances and nanomaterials with hitherto unknown properties. The main attention is paid to the specifics of obtaining and transforming atoms, clusters and metal nanoparticles chemically. Its special sections are devoted to carbon and works on the cryochemistry of atoms and metal nanoparticles. Several chapters examine dimensional effects in chemistry and prospects for developing nanochemistry.

The monograph is of interest for those who would like to get acquainted with the new area, which closely intertwines ideas of chemistry, physics, materials science, and, more recently, biology and medicine. The book will be useful to scientists and teachers who develop specific areas of nanoscience, students and postgraduate students who would like to dedicate themselves to this new and promising 21st century science.

The book contains the columns and reports by Yuilia Kalinina, a columnist for the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper which she wrote in 1999–2009. The articles incorportated in the collection reflect major events of the past decade that were hotly discussed by Russian society and left their mark on the history of the ‘Zero’ years. Those events appear here as they were portrayed in the newspapers of the time. This makes it possible to trace their chronology and at the same time to see them unfold through the eyes of contemporaries who perceived the events as actually happening in real life rather history.

The book is intended for university students and teachers of journalism as well as all those who are interested in modern Russian publicistic writing.

This book is a collection of all the dialogues that were conducted between Academician A. Logunov, a Soviet Russian prominent physicist and a former rector of the Moscow State University, and D. Ikeda, a Japanese philosopher and the founder of Soka University, for a quarter of a century, in two different – Soviet and Russian – periods. In their dialogue ‘Science and Religion’, the scholars attempt to find common ground between Buddhist philosophy and advanced scientific views and discuss problems of modern civilization and mankind’s spiritual growth. In the dialogue ‘The Third Rainbow Bridge’ where they compare national peculiarities and socio-economic differences of the two countries, they are engaged in the search for humanistic views, which are common for all people in order to promote development of beneficial relations between countries and peoples.

The essay presents the history of science in the Arkhangelsk North from the 18th century to the present day. Each chapter is devoted to the history of the emergence and activities of one of the academic scientific organizations in the Arkhangelsk province and the Arkhangelsk region. Arkhangelsk scientists pay particular attention to the exploration of polar seas and Novaya Zemlya and continuation of the Lomonosov traditions today.

This publication includes materials of the annual conference of scholars and practitioners in the field of state studies, which was organized by the Department of Constitutional Law, the Faculty of Law, Moscow State University. and is dedicated to the memory of famous scientists who have worked at the department.

For students, graduate students, teachers and staff members of law school and universities, and those who are involved in the practical work of central and local government bodies.

The book presents important historical and artistic material that is little known to the Russian reader. It consists of two chapters, name and subject indexes and illustrations.

The first chapter is devoted to the ancient monuments of the famous cities located near Naples (Cuma, Paestum, Capua, Puteoli, Phlegraean Fields and Capri, Pompeii, Herculaneum,). The second chapter deals about Naples and its richest museums, the history of its centuries-old culture from antiquity to modern times. A special section highlights the theme of Naples as a city of music.

For students of the humanities and a wide range of readers.

The monograph deals with the theoretical aspects of non-state financial supervision. The author attempts to elaborate the theoretical conclusions she made earlier and to introduce them into the practical plane of the current Russian legislation.

For students and teachers of law schools and experts in the field of financial law.

The book consists of three parts. The first part sets forth the humanistic goals of the system of teaching methods, which the author created based on emotions and images and has successfully been using in additional education for twenty years.

The second part contains creative works by the author's pupils (poems and prose) which reflect in a vivid and new way the view of the world and the emotions of the generation that embarks on its professional career in the early 21st century priding themselves on belonging to Russian national culture and having an open mind on the achievements of world culture.

In her third part which analyzes her pupils’ creative writings the author builds a conceptual basis for the humanistic aspect of modern education and upbringing.

The monograph is the first attempt to summarize and systematize the philological views of the outstanding Russian émigré scholar Peter Mikhailovich Bitsilli. It analyzes in detail the scholar’s linguocultural and sociolinguistic concept, his views on the nature of poetic speech, the formation and existence of the norm in the language, the main stages of the history of Russian literary language development.

The book is of interest both for philologists and for a wide range of readers who are interested in the history of Russian science and the fate of Russian émigrés.

This multi-authored monograph is dedicated to the application of neuro-computer and some related models in different spheres of social and humanitarian knowledge (political studies, sociology, administration, business ethics, economics) and also fundamental problems of the neuro-computer paradigm development.

The book can be useful for the specialists in various fields of neuro-computing, political forecasting, administration sociology, organization management and state administration as well as for everyone interested in the perspectives of development and application of the neural network technologies, neuro-computers and neuro-modelling, including post-graduates and students of technical, biological and social science specialties.

The manual examines such major non-metallic minerals as apatites, phosphorites, sodium, potassium and potassium-magnesium salts, sulfur, boron, asbestos, etc, as well as piezo-optical raw materials, precious and ornamental stones, various rocks as construction materials. It gives major geological-industrial and genetic types of deposits as illustrated by numerous Russian and foreign industrial facilities.

It describes typomorphic deposits of the above chemical elements, minerals, crystals and cryptocrystalline rock substances; their geological structure, the size and composition of ore bodies and considers their genesis, and in some cases the mining and technical conditions, the methods and scales of their development, the quality of the raw materials, its processing and use. The geological description of some deposits is given for the first time.

For students, undergraduates and post-graduate students of geological departments and faculties of universities.