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This collection of articles is devoted to the prominent researcher in the field of journalism E.P. Prokhorov. Here are some sketches for his new book and a complete bibliography of his publications for more than a half of a century of his scientific activity. The important place in this book was taken by his colleagues and disciples scientific articles on the subjects of the history, theory and sociology of journalism, connected with Prokhorov’s diverse research interests. A special attention was given to memoirs about Evgenii Pavlovich as well as to the materials from family archive.

The collection, compiled by the author as a final one, includes the articles of the outstanding historian of Russian literature A.I. Zhuravleva. It is dedicated to her most important topics: the creative work of A.N. Ostrovsky, A.P. Grigorieva, M.Yu. Lermontov, the evolution of the poetics of literature and its place in culture. The works were written and published from the 1970s through the 2000s, some co-authored with the poet V.N. Nekrasov.

The monograph is devoted to the analysis of public relations as a communication system regulating social activity. Communication processes in public relations are considered from the point of view of synergetics. The author analyzes the interrelation of mass and corporate communications in public relations. This work also covers the potential of public relations communication technologies in relation to the information society, as well as the place and role of the public relations system in the modern media system.

The book is intended for students, post-graduate students and teachers of advertising and public relations departments, professional communicators, as well as for those who are interested in the mechanisms of influence of public relations.

The publication is devoted to a turning point in the history of Russia – the socio-political crisis between the 1850s and 1860s, the most important event of which was the abolition of serfdom (1861). The book includes official notes, drafts, and reports, intelligence data on the public sentiments, extracts from legislative acts, publicist materials and proclamations. This book contains diaries and memoirs of people of different social and political views, including major state figures (P. Valuyev, N. Milyutin, S. Lanskiy, V. Cherkassky), writers and scientists (L.N. Tolstoy, A. Engelhardt, A. Koshelev, P. Semenov-Tian-Shansky). Finally, it presents the most important rescripts and public speeches of Alexander II.

The collection of articles is devoted to problems of Russia's economic development in the context of globalization and new trends in international competition and competition policy. The book gives a wide coverage of modern views on competition. It summarizes the first results of the application of competition law and competition policy basing on information and analytical materials of the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy and Support of Entrepreneurship and the editorial board of the journal ‘Competition and the Market’ (St. Petersburg)

The textbook is based on the lecture notes of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences O.B.Lupanov on the course "Introduction to Mathematical Logic", read by him in the first year of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1982-2006. The manual covers the following issues: functions of logic algebra, functions of multivalued logic, propositional calculus, logic and predicate calculus, logical networks, finite automata, algorithms and computable functions.

For undergraduate and graduate students.

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 for high school students to pass school-leaving examinations and to gain admission to any institution of higher learning. Konstantin Batiushkov is a poet without whom one cannot fully understand Pushkin. The modern school Literature curriculum on considers him a philosopher poet who combines the features of sentimentalism and romanticism. The author reveals the beneficial influence of Russian sentimentalism, whose role had been belittled for many years. He shows the development process of Batiushkov's romantic historical elegy. The book reveals the religious foundations of his philosophical poetry for the first time. It gives an uncensored description of his attitude to the French revolution and its ideologists, paying particular attention to analysis of the poet's works studied in school.

This is the first literary book about Batyushkov addressed to school, lyceum and gymnasium teachers, students and university entrants. It may also be interesting for philologists and everyone who loves Russian poetry.

The gymnasium was created at the same time with the Moscow University. It could not have happened otherwise, because a university without a gymnasium at the beginning of its activity would be, as M.B. Lomonosov called it, ‘like a seedless arable land’. The brochure of Professor Petr Illarionovich Strakhov (1792 — 1856) was published in the present form for the 100th anniversary of the first Russian university. We reproduce the 1855 edition, as one of the interesting monuments of the history of Russian education and science.

The tutorial contains main trends in invertebrate paleontology: systematic, evolution, taxonomy, nomenclature, mode of life and conditions of existence, taphonomy, stratigraphic and rockforming significance. The systematic part gives characteristics of the most important geology groups. The definition of taxa is accompanied by comparison charts and keys. Descriptions are illustrated by pictures and 34 paleontological tables. There is also a dictionary of terms and generic names. The tutorial is intended for students of geological departments of universities and natural-science institutes. It can be used in educational process in paleontological and geological schools as well as by everyone interested in paleontology.

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 for high school students to pass school-leaving examinations and to gain admission to any institution of higher learning. This book is the first monographic study of the famous modern prose writer and publicist's works. The fact that Georgi Vladimov is a ‘living classic’ is not contested by anybody. But what book sparkled this belief? Some will say it was the ‘The General and His Army’ — the best Russian novel that received the Booker Prize in 1995. Others will remember ‘Three Minutes of Silence’ — the last book before the author was forced into silence and exile. Some will say that it was ‘Faithful Ruslan’, because it made the author leave the ranks of Soviet writers, and in the end the USSR as well. Many, however, felt his first novel, ‘The Great Ore,’ already conveyed the mastership of the writer.

For school, lyceums and gymnasium teachers, high school and college students, university entrants, philology specialists.

Criminal and Financial Threats to the Implementation of Socio-Economic Reforms and Projects in Russia

The work analyzes the materials of the All-Russian study ‘Youth of Russia: Three Life Situations’ (‘Youth-97’), conducted in March 1997 by the Center for Sociological Research of the N.N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology with the RAS, American colleagues from Columbia University and the University of Duke.

The book is addressed to professionals and Philosophy students, sociologists, political scientists, as well as the widest range of readers who are interested in the problems of modern Russia.

The textbook includes the main sections of the general physics course taught to students of the Chemical Faculty of Moscow University: "Mechanics", "Electricity", "Vibrations and Waves", "Optics". When presenting the material, the authors distinguish definitions of physical concepts and formulations of laws. The sections "Vibrations and Waves" and "Optics" consistently implement a unified approach to mechanical and electromagnetic oscillatory and wave processes. At the same time, special attention is paid to issues of greatest interest to future chemists, in particular molecular vibrations, optical phenomena used in modern experimental research methods (refractometry, spectroscopy, polarization techniques, etc.).

The publication is intended for students of chemical faculties of universities, and can also be useful for a wide range of students of physical and chemical specialties of universities of natural science profile.

The first book of the new four-book textbook (more than 3,400 problems with solutions in total) includes about 1,000 tasks and is devoted to working out the main directions of research on the topics: "Identities, inequalities and their application in mathematical analysis", "Real numbers and their purpose", "Numerical sequences", "Limit and limitation of functions of a real installation".

The book uses basic theoretical information, the main emphasis is on the systematization of techniques and methods for solving problems. Presentation of methods accompanied by analysis of examples and tasks of different types for independent solution.

For undergraduate students of universities studying in mathematical and engineering-technological specialties, and young teachers.

The second book of the new manual-problem of four books (more than 3,400 problems with solutions in total) includes more than 800 problems and is devoted to developing the skills of the main types of research on the topic "Functions of one real variable: differential calculus, indefinite integral."

The book provides the necessary theoretical information, the main focus is on systematization of techniques and methods for solving problems. The presentation of the methods is accompanied analysis of examples and tasks for independent solution.

For junior university students studying in mathematics and engineering and technology, and young teachers.