Books

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.

The manual deals with L. Tolstoy’s identity as a writer and a man and gives a detailed analysis of ‘War and Peace’ on a wide range of issues. The author sheds new light on such traditional topics as the spiritual quest of Pierre Bezukhov and Andrei Bolkonsky as he dwells heavily on their religious meaning. Students will find answers to questions about Kutuzov and Napoleon, Tolstoy's views on history, the original genre of ‘War and Peace’, etc.

The book is addressed to high school students, applicants, college students, teachers, philologists, linguists and specialists, all those interested in Russian literature.

The main purpose of the textbook is to provide students with sufficient knowledge in the field of soft power and public diplomacy, the main aspects of the practical implementation of this foreign policy resource. The paper highlights theoretical issues, as well as historical and modern processes of functioning of the institutions of soft power and public diplomacy of the leading geopolitical actors of the modern world: the United States, Great Britain, Germany, China, Russia, etc. This course of lectures is the first example of educational literature in Russia devoted to the phenomenon of soft power and public diplomacy in world politics.

For students of higher educational institutions of humanities, engaged in the study of international relations and global governance.

The book may also be of interest to a wider audience interested in current issues of global political development.

The books in the "Rereading the Classics" series contain a modern analysis of the works included in school literature programs. Spiritual, moral and religious aspects in theworks of Russian writers of the XIX–XX centuries are covered in details for the first time. The series is offered as a base of modern knowledge on Russian literature, which is necessary for passing school exams and entering any university.

This manual discusses the traditional "plots" and problems of the novel: Raskolnikov's theory, the essence of the crime, what is the hero's punishment.

Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the last episode of the "Epilogue", which refers to the "resurrection" of Raskolnikov - so far it has not been discussed enough in criticism and science.

For teachers of schools, lyceums and gymnasiums, students, high school students, applicants, specialists in philology, as well as a wide range of readers.

The monograph presents an analysis of D. I. Mendeleev’s philosophical and sociopolitical legacy, devoted to reflections on Russia, its history, development paths and place in the world community, on the trends of the historical process in the context of which Russian society is developing, on the Russian state and its politics.

The monograph is recommended for specialists, teachers, postgraduates, undergraduates, students and anyone who is interested in the philosophical and sociopolitical legacy of D. I. Mendeleev, the history of Russian thought, science and Russian culture.

Keyword: D. I. Mendeleev, Russian socio-political thought, Russian studies, Russian philosophy, national identity, Russian state, history of Russia, science and education

The presented manual is a collection of practical activities for developing academic writing skills. The materials on which the content of the textbook is based have been selected from the universally acclaimed sources (“Bailey's Academic Writing”, “Extended Writing and Research Skills”, “The Academic Phrase Bank”), and are optimally structured for academic needs. This publication is intended for students, graduate students, researchers, and everyone who aims to form, consolidate, and expand their knowledge in academic writing. It can also be successfully used to prepare a draft of the final qualifying work in English (Project Proposal).

The study guide consists of five sections, organized logically and systematically so that students could work either under the guidance of a teacher or independently. Each part focuses on a specific aspect of academic writing. Thus, the first part ("The Writing Process") offers an overview of the academic style's main features. The second section of the manual ("Literature Review") aims at developing students' skills in reviewing scientific literature. The "Main Body" section is dedicated to the project's principal part (Project Proposal). It proves to be especially useful for future graduates, giving them a clear understanding of each part of the project's goals and providing them with the materials, taken from real works, as a writing model. According to the international standard, the basic principles of citing sources are detailed in a separate chapter of the manual ("Citing the Sources"). The final part of the proposed publication ("Presenting the Research") aims to develop academic speech skills, which will be useful not only for university graduates but also for researchers who intend to integrate into the international academic community successfully.

Reader “Dozen Lessons From British History” highights the most important periods in the history of Britain, stresses the role of particular monarchs, public leaders in political, economic, social, cultural and legal reforms. The reader helps to acquire background knowledge and cross-cultural cometence for better understanding of spoken and written English and further studies in law, history, political and social sciences.

Key words: William the Conqueror, Henry I, Henry II, King John, Edward I, Henry VII Tudor, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, the Stuarts, Charles I, Charles II, James II, Glorious Revolution, Robert Walpole, The Victorian Era, Disraeli, British Empire, World War I, World War II, Margaret Thatcher’s policies.

The book “English Grammar in Tests” includes tests to train and control students' comprehension of the most essential grammar points. The book is intended mainly for intermediate students and consists of two parts. In Part I the tests are arranged by topic in a sequence that matches the one found in the self-study and reference book “English Grammar in Use” by Raymond Murphy.

Part II offers a comprehensive review of the grammar material presented in Part I. “English Grammar in Tests” can be used to prepare both for international exams such as PET, FCE, CAE, CPE and TOEFL, and for the Unified State Exam in Russia.

“English-in-Law” is a textbook presenting interesting material with a major focus on legal English. It combines incentive ideas from the field of law with the strongly task-based approach. It can be used both in class and for self-study by students of law, philosophy, sociology, political sciences, etc. Its assignments and tasks help learners of English to acquire and develop useful skills of reading, writing, speaking as well as communicative and cross-cultural competences.

Key words: law, aims of law, morality, self-interest, lawyers, positive law, international law, common law, statute law, public law, parliament, government, state.

The textbook is an attempt to combine the academic traditions of Russian science with modern Western methods of teaching ancient languages. Entertaining texts that tell about the adventures of fictional characters and at the same time introduce the daily life of the ancient Romans, combined with a variety of exercises, facilitate the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar of the Latin language.

A large book of examples is based on the description of the Python programming language (https://docs.python.org/) and many materials from various Internet sources. The main purpose of the book is to form an idea of the language based on its description and examples of its application.

The book can be used as a teaching aid.

The monograph contains an accessible presentation of the theory of three-dimensional manifolds, which plays a huge role in modern mathematics and mathematical physics. The main emphasis is on algorithmic problems of three-dimensional computer geometry. The publication clearly describes the spectacular and unexpected applications of computers in topology and geometry. The book teaches the competent use of computers to form (and sometimes prove) geometric hypotheses and test them. The application of computer geometry methods to problems of Hamiltonian geometry and physics is shown.

For specialists in computer geometry, for mathematicians, geometricians and topologists. The book can also be used as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students involved in the creation of modern geometric type algorithms.

The textbook corresponds to the first-year programme of the discipline "Mathematical Analysis". In the book, the author sought to give a complete, consistent, mathematically rigorous and at the same time maximally compact presentation of all the main definitions, formulations and proofs included in the programme of this course.

The author also sought to make the course as self-sufficient as possible, so it includes some information from other sections of mathematics: set theory, algebra, general topology. The book also includes additional paragraphs that are not included in the standard programmes of the course.

For students of universities and higher education institutions with in-depth study of mathematics. It may be useful for graduate students, teachers and researchers.

The book contains the material of lectures on analytical geometry at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

This publication is both a textbook and a problem book on the courses of analytical geometry, the basics of higher algebra and linear algebra, created based on the materials of lectures and seminars that the authors have read and conducted for several years for 1st-year students of the Faculty of Space Research of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The publication covers all topics necessary for future researchers with a good mathematical background. Each section is equipped with an impressive set of tasks, the solution of which will provide a good understanding of the subject.

For university and university students with advanced study of mathematics.

The textbook treats the key issues of the theory and practice of functional stylistics in the space of intercultural communication: it examines the main parameters of modern innovations in language and culture; principles of interaction between cultures; text analysis from the standpoint of a synergetic approach within the framework of intercultural communication. The section "Workshop on Communicative-Functional Stylistics" in English contributes to the professionalization of the theoretical course. It contains a system of problem-based and creative tasks aimed at developing independent thinking, forming the skills and abilities of successful intercultural communication based on understanding the subtleties and hidden meanings of a foreign-language text.

For undergraduate and graduate students majoring in "Linguistics", profile: "Communicative Codes in the Modern Intercultural Space", as well as postgraduate students, teachers of the humanities profile of higher educational institutions specializing in foreign languages, linguistics, intercultural communication.

The book is a scientific interdisciplinary monograph on modern forms of symbolic, ritual behavior including the form that uses the virtual Internet space. The research involving modern factual material is based on theoretical generalization of the methodological approaches. views by Z. Freud, J. Piaget, L. Vygotsky, K. Levy– Strauss, J. Lacan, J.G. Mead, as well as on the analysis of the social role of K.I. Chukovsky’s book ‘From 2 to 5’ and the book-induced process of collecting and recounting ‘children's utterances’ in Soviet society.

In general, the publication will allow the reader to form a clear idea about the method of social psychoanalysis.

Anton Ažbe (1862–1905) was a Slovenian artist and educator who, through his work, incorporated Slovenian art in the European cultural context and exerted serious influence on the fine arts in several European countries. The book examines Ažbe’s life, work and pedagogical activity based of the materials and research hitherto unknown to the Russian reader. It shows for the first time all the preserved and attributed works of this artist and teacher and also expands and clarifies the available information about Ažbe’s Russian students – Bilibin, Grabar, Dobuzhinsky, Kandinsky, Petrov-Vodkin, etc.

The book contains the text of a monograph first published in 1991, the author made stylistic and other changes, and also presents two additional chapters prepared in 2023. In the monograph, argumentation is interpreted as human activity in the interrelation of its various aspects: logical-epistemological, pragmatic, ethical, emotional. In the additional chapters, the correlation of argumentative and manipulative influences is considered.

Keywords: argumentation, theory of argumentation, rhetoric, discussion, protection from manipulation, argumentation, philosophical text

The textbook, the 1st edition of which was published in 1984, covers a significant part of the course "Elements of Mathematical Cybernetics", taught at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University for more than 40 years, as well as part of the material provided for by the mandatory part of the candidate's exam program in some specialties. The manual discusses the main classes of discrete control systems (contact circuits, formulas, circuits of functional elements). The simplest synthesis methods, the Shannon method, the asymptotically best synthesis methods, and the cascade method are described. Examples of the application of the principle of local coding are given.

The monograph presents the principles of operation of robotic networks on the example of the Global Network of Robot Telescopes MASTER (Mobile Astronomical System of Robot Telescopes). The first chapter tells a brief history of the appearance of robotic optical telescopes in the world. The next four chapters are devoted to the principles of operation of individual robotic observatories and their interaction as part of a network united by a common goal and management. The next six chapters of the book are devoted to the most striking astrophysical discoveries made by the MASTER network in the study of extreme processes in the Universe.

In real time, it is possible to observe the formation or collision of relativistic stars and relativistic processes occurring near them. After the discovery of the polarization of its own optical radiation, the MASTER network became the world leader in early observations of gamma-ray bursts — the most powerful electromagnetic explosions in the universe. Its robots independently produced the first in the history of astronomy localization of the source of gravitational waves with optical accuracy. The MASTER network is a leader in the operational search for extragalactic sources of high-energy neutrinos. At the same time, its telescopes constantly carry out a regular survey of the sky and have discovered thousands of explosions in the universe and even potentially dangerous asteroids and comets. All the largest telescopes in the world have observed objects discovered by the MASTER system.

The fundamental model of level-based development of affective-behavioural complexes (ABC) is presented in the edition. The practical issues of the ABCs’ assessment and their correction in children with affective disorders and autistic spectrum disorders are analyzed in the book.

The model has been developed based on the data of systematic observation of 439 children’s development with behavioural disorders, emotional disturbances, autistic spectrum disorders, psychotic states. The unique authorial method of observation with therapeutic actions is described. It allows to analyse qualitatively and quantitatively recordings of children’s behaviour and emotions and their development. The book contains many photos of key affective patterns of human behavior and drawings made by children during their psychotherapeutic sessions with the author.

This textbook introduces readers to the history of lean manufacturing, its principles, and key tools. Lean manufacturing is a concept for effectively managing enterprise operations. This methodology has now gained widespread acceptance and recognition worldwide. Many Russian manufacturing companies are implementing lean manufacturing approaches and are interested in hiring specialists in this field. Particular attention is paid to the practical aspects of implementing this management method at manufacturing facilities.

This textbook provides a consistent presentation of the fundamental concepts of modern biological anthropology—the science of humans as a biological species, their origins, and biological variability across time and space. Humans are also studied as a biosocial phenomenon, as the manifestations of their biological nature are largely mediated by the social environment. The textbook is organized according to the main sections of biological anthropology: human evolution, population anthropology, developmental anthropology, and constitutional anthropology.

The issues of anthropogenesis, anthropological differentiation, ontogenesis, and human constitution are examined with due consideration of the most recent data. The book contains reference and educational material.

This is the first textbook in both Russian and foreign literature to provide complete information on the achievements of modern experimental embryology based on research in molecular genetics including mechanisms underlying individual development, embryonic induction and animals cloning. The book also shows individual scientists’ contribution to ontogeny; special attention is paid to Russian researchers, their priority developments and the scientific schools they have founded.

The textbook has been written based on a course of lectures read by the author at the biology faculties of Moscow and Novosibirsk universities.

For students and postgraduates studying biology, genetics, embryology, molecular biology and researchers who study the problems of ontogeny.

This two-volume textbook prepares secondary school students for the Unified State Exam in biology, as well as for the additional university entrance exam in biology. Particular attention is paid to covering those sections of the school biology curriculum that pose the greatest difficulties for students. At the same time, the presentation is quite accessible to both schoolchildren and applicants.

This textbook is intended for university applicants majoring in Fundamental and Applied Biology.

This monograph presents a biogeographic overview of 31 mountain biomes (orobiomes). The orobiomes are depicted on the scientific reference map "Biomes of Russia" (2015; 2018). The biogeographic characteristics of 35 biomes in the lowland part of the country were previously published in the book "Biodiversity of Biomes in Russia.

Lowland Biomes" (2020). For each orobiome, its position in the natural structure of the region is briefly described, along with altitudinal spectra and data on flora (vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens), vegetation, fauna (mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians), animal populations for the entire biome, and its geographic variations. The monograph reflects the relationship between the ecological conditions of orobiomes and their altitudinal zones with the quantitative characteristics of ecosystem biodiversity, their current status, and the state of their study. Information on specially protected areas (SPAs) is also provided.

The monograph provides a unified scientific basis for summarizing existing information and gaining further knowledge about the biodiversity of biomes at the species and ecosystem levels, which is important for both the theory and practice of monitoring and improving the country's environmental protection network.

This textbook presents the fundamental concepts of modern biophysics regarding the physical and physicochemical mechanisms of interactions underlying biological processes. It examines the kinetics and thermodynamics of biological processes, the intramolecular dynamics of proteins, and the biophysics of membrane processes.

This book is a fundamental textbook (in two volumes) on biophysics, which presents the basics of modern biophysical science.

The first volume sets forth the theoretical foundations of biophysics. It places special emphasis on the problems of mathematical modeling of biological processes at different levels of living matter organization. It considers physical features, dynamic and electronic properties of the structural unit of living matter – the macromolecule as well as physicochemical mechanisms of energy transformation in biostructures.

The second volume (Chapters 15–30) deals with the physicochemical mechanisms of major processes that occur in organisms. It discusses in detail the issues of biological membrane structure and functioning, bioelectrogenesis, muscle contraction, reception, electron transfer and energy transformation in biomembranes. It considers the mechanisms of primary phases of photobiological processes including photosynthesis, sense of vision, photochemical reactions in biopolymers.

For students, postgraduates and multi-discipline specialists who are interested in the physicochemical foundations of life processes.

The book is devoted to philanthropists’ and art patrons’ contribution to the development of Moscow University in the pre-revolutionary period (1755–1917). It presents various forms of assistance to the university from financing the construction of buildings, dormitories, donations of collections and books to creating charitable societies and establishing scholarships for ‘necessitous’ students. The narrative includes many well-known and lesser-known figures whose support has contributed to the transformation of Moscow University into Russia’s leading scientific and educational institution.

For professional historians, culturologists and a wide range of readers.

The book is devoted to the issues of modern multidimensional calculus of variations. The central place in it is occupied by the presentation of the original methods developed by the author for the explicit finding of multidimensional extremals of functionals and the study of their topological properties. The book is unique in that it presents a solution to the spectral multidimensional Plateau problem in a form accessible to a wide range of specialists.

For mathematicians specializing in topology, global calculus of variations, functional analysis, theory of differential equations, Lie groups and algebras. It can serve as the basis for special courses and special seminars.

This textbook provides a summary of the theoretical part of the course "Microalgae Biotechnology," developed for students of the Faculty of Biology at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The course reflects the current state of biotechnology, based on the cultivation of phototrophic microorganisms for the production of a wide range of bioproducts and the recycling of various wastes. The book summarizes both global practices in industrial microalgae cultivation and the authors' 25 years of experience. It covers the physicochemical and biological principles of industrial microalgae cultivation and their processing into bioproducts, as well as the use of microalgae cultures for environmental protection and achieving sustainable development goals.

The textbook is focused on revealing the essence of culture through the meaningful variety of its forms. The authors considered their main goal to involve the reader in the exciting world of multiplicity of cultural meanings. Various stages of the history of culture are analyzed by modern methods of humanitarian knowledge.

The publication is intended for students of humanitarian faculties studying the history of culture as a general educational discipline, as well as for all those interested in the patterns of development of world culture.

This textbook covers both traditional fungal biotechnologies, such as the production of organic acids, ethanol, food products and alcoholic beverages, yeast biomass and fruiting bodies of edible mushroom species, a number of enzymes, vitamins, and antibiotics, as well as new areas of mycobiotechnology, particularly the production of composite materials, nanoparticles, biofuels, and biologically active substances for medicine.

The textbook, the first edition of which was published in 2001, can be used for the course "Ecology and Geochemical Activity of Microorganisms", as well as various disciplines of the ecological profile. The main emphasis is on the central concept of the ecology of microorganisms - the microbial community, its structure and patterns of functioning. The publication briefly presents traditional issues of general microbiology: the organization of the prokaryotic cell, the physiology and metabolism of microorganisms, biodiversity and the characteristics of individual groups, which are considered primarily from the standpoint of ecology. The publication is intended for students studying in the areas of "Biology", "Fundamental and Applied Biology", as well as for a wide range of natural scientists.

The manual outlines the main ideas of the special theory of relativity. It is shown how their consistent use makes it possible to formulate relativistic dynamics, electromagnetic field theory and relativistic quantum mechanics. In this regard, the book will be useful when studying the relevant sections of theoretical physics.

It is intended for students and postgraduates of physical specialties of universities, as well as for anyone interested in the theory of relativity.

The textbook reveals ideas about the subject and structure of the science of journalism. The basis is the characteristic of the essence of mass information activity. Such fundamental issues as the social role of the media, the peculiarities of the functioning of this social institution based on the requirements of the information order in a democratic society are outlined. A special place is given to the freedom of the media and journalistic activity, ensuring information security through the optimal functioning of various social types of media, counting on their effective performance of the role of the "fourth power".

For students of higher educational institutions.

The book by Y. V. Yanushevskaya, Ph. D. (Philosophy), a specialist in axiology, is composed of diff erent genres of philosophical prose. In a relaxed manner or with scientifi c rigor, the author presents her view on the essence of emotional, lyrical, poetic and artistic value – for the fi rst time giving them an independent, substantial status and linking creative imagination and artistry with virtuality.

The experience of thinking about value is inscribed in the cultural context of the information society; correlated with the idea and the crisis of classical humanism; comprehended in connection with the most pressing issues of our time. What is the future of aesthetics as a relation to the world? Will artistic knowledge continue in a technocratic society? What is the basis of a holistic valueoriented development of individual? How does the idea of theosis correlate with the doctrine of postman? According to A. Badiou, the turn of the XIX and XX century was the ”era of poets”; so why are these days the era without poets?

”Will the world save beauty?” – the main question of the book, intended for a wide range of readers interested in philosophy, poetology, modern poetry and art.

Correspondence between Grand Duke Alexander Nikolaevich (future Alexander II), the 19-year-old heir apparent to the Russian throne, and his father Emperor Nicholas I during the former’s 1837 tour of Russia is an interesting historical document. The content of the letters allows the reader to take a fuller and, most importantly, a more vivid look at both personalities - the young heir apparent and the autocratic monarch, to see the Russia of the1830s, its cities and towns with their inhabitants of every class and rank.

For specialists in history and all those who are interested in Russian history.

This publication is the first, which has no analogues in Russian, educational and methodical manual for working with video materials of children with mental development disorders. The author's long-term experience of using video recordings in research, diagnosis and psychotherapy of children is summarized. The history, theory and practice of organizing video recordings of psychological observations and therapeutic classes are considered. The technique of analyzing video recordings of children's behavior and emotions in interaction with a specialist in the method of assessing the development of affective-behavioral complexes in the light of domestic traditions of pathopsychology and taking into account the achievements of ethology and psychoanalysis is revealed. The manual is illustrated with frames from the author's scientific and practical work, therapeutic classes, video materials, a detailed analysis of which is carried out within the framework of several training courses taught at the Faculty of Psychology of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The manual is a methodological supplement to the book "Affective-behavioral complexes: observation, assessment and development", and also provides the necessary educational and practical material for the courses "Mental development disorders in children", "Emotional and personality disorders in childhood", "Clinical and psychological studies of early development", a workshop on pediatric clinical psychology.

For students, specialists working with children, researchers of child development and parents, as well as for a wide range of readers interested in issues of mental development in norm and pathology and modern methods of its diagnosis and correction

The new volume of the oldest academic yearbook opens with an article by R.M. Shukurov, where he proposes an attempt to give a general description of the Byzantine culture in its attitude to multilingualism and readiness to master foreign languages. New article by academician of RAS S.P. Karpov, written on the material of the Italian archives, is dedicated to the slave trade in Venetian Tanya. Other topics that attracted the attention of the authors of the volume include various aspects of the interaction of Christianity and paganism in the late Roman Empire, the limits of jurisdiction of church departments of the East and the West, the role of Byzantine gold in the value system of greedy to him nomadic barbarians.

The art criticism articles, which traditionally occupy a prominent place in the publication, this time are mainly devoted to the history of the manuscript book and the evolution of the decoration of Byzantine churches, and are side by side with similar studies by historians and archaeologists. In this work, S.V. and A.A. Bliznyuk, D.A. Chernoglazova and A.V. Zakharova demonstrate the fruitful cooperation of specialists of different qualifications.

For professionals and a wide range of readers interested in the history of Byzantium and its centuries-old bonds with other world.

The book presents all the examination problems and Chemistry Olympiad problems off ered at the MSU entrance examinations for the fi ve years. For each problem the detailed solution or answer is given. The book is intended for pretenders, entering the University in chemical, biological, and medical specialty, as well as for high school students and teachers of chemistry.

The articles summarize the work performed in various laboratories of the Department of Higher Nervous Activity at Lomonosov Moscow State University and dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Leonid G. Voronin, an outstanding Russian physiologist, founder and organizer of the department, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences who initiated these researches.

The collection considers his concepts about new methodological approaches to the analysis of cognitive activity and animal thinking in organizing complex behavioral forms, about the possibility of modeling and correcting pathological states by using inverse immunoregulation, about the neurophysiological and neurochemical mechanisms of learning and memory, the principles and patterns of processing various visual information in humans and animals as well as phylogenetic aspects of higher nervous activity.

The book presents sections on modern approaches to selection of edible cultivated mushrooms, which are based on the methods of traditional genetic analysis and modern molecular biology. The publication contains materials from some sections of the courses "Genetics of Fungi" and "Modern Problems of Mycology", read by the author at the Department of Mycology and Algology of the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov.

The book is meant for researchers, and will also be useful for undergraduate and graduate students of universities studying in the direction of "Biology" in the profile of the programme "Mycology".

The textbook examines factors and general patterns of geographical distribution of soils, principles of pedogeographical zoning. It characterizes the soil cover of Russia and neighboring countries and describes conditions of soil formation, genetic features of the most widespread soils and regional features of the soil cover structure and specificity of economic use of soils. The book outlines the world history of soil mapping, gives a brief overview of the soil cover in the world’s pedological and bioclimatic belts and regions and analyzes the land resources of Russia and the world, ways of soil cover rational use and protection.

For students of university faculties of soil, biology and soil and geography and natural sciences and the geographical faculties of teacher-training colleges, faculties of agrochemistry and soil science in agricultural universities.

This publication reflects current understanding of the composition of Russia's soil cover, its regional characteristics, and an analysis of the factors determining its differentiation. The textbook emphasizes the geography of soil-forming processes against a backdrop of brief information about the nature of major regions. The first part of the book presents the main theories of soil geography and provides an overview of small-scale soil maps. The second part describes the soil cover of the country's regions, addresses issues of the genesis and evolution of soils in specific areas, and discusses anthropogenic changes to soils using the new classification of soils in Russia.

The textbook ‘Geography of Russian Soils’ is a revised edition of the 1987 book ‘Geography of USSR Soils’ in line with new material and ideas. It contains a regional description of Russia’s soil cover based on the geography of soil-forming processes and provides brief information about the physicogeographical features of its major regions. The first part of the book describes the main theories of soil geography and gives an overview of small-scale soil maps. The second part deals with the genesis and evolution of soils typical of specific regions and discusses anthropogenic changes in soils and some aspects of soil classification. Thus, the textbook reflects modern ideas about the composition of Russia’s soil cover, causes of its formation and factors that determine its differentiation.

For undergraduate and postgraduate students of geography, pedology, specialists in environmental protection, forestry and agriculture.

This textbook (its first edition was in 2000, the second one – in 2004) covers all major questions of oil and gas geology and geochemistry – hydrocarbon origin, migration and accumulation, the composition of gas, oil and its derivatives and their distribution conditions in the earth's crust. Hydrocarbon formation is considered as a pervasive process and a natural outcome of the development of the earth's crust. Particular attention is paid to the role of fluid dynamic processes in the formation of oil- and gas-bearing structures in sedimentary basins. Typification of sedimentary basins is based on modern geodynamics using the latest ideas about the structure of the earth's crust and the nonlinear processes of tectogenesis and lithogenesis. The book highlights the role oil and gas play in the economy, fuel and energy balance of the world and the country.

For university students studying in the specialty ‘Geology and geochemistry of fossil fuels.’

This book is based on lectures in natural science courses taught at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

This textbook provides a more thorough presentation of kinematics and statics than is typically provided by mechanics, raises contemporary geometric issues, and leads to their investigation. It examines a number of topics not previously addressed in either Russian or international textbooks. The textbook is provided with numerous illustrations, exercises, and problems.

The book represents the country’s first literary account of the life and work of all the thirty German chancellors from the creator of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck to early 21st century chancellors Gerhard Schroeder and Angela Merkel. Drawing on a wide range of literature, the author, a well-known Germanist, gives a portrait of the chancellors against a broad historical background revealing the foundations, essence and purpose of their policies. The liveliness of the presentation and the striking characteristics of the German Chancellors distinguish this work written in the best traditions of the historical and biographical genre.

For professional historians, university lecturers, teachers, students and all those who are interested in German history.

This manual examines the structure of the Earth's underground hydrosphere and the forms of water within it, the physical properties and components of the chemical composition of groundwater, the fundamentals of its movement, and the patterns of its regime and balance. It characterizes the conditions of groundwater formation in various hydrogeological structures and their characteristics in the permafrost zone, examines the main types of mineral, thermal, and industrial waters, and provides an overview of the main methods of field hydrogeological research.

The textbook reveals the main content of the global history course: methodological issues, characteristics of the most important stages of human development from the prehistoric era to the beginning of modernization. The book highlights the key global historical processes of each era and examines the specifics of their occurrence in different regions of the world.

The manual is intended for students of higher educational institutions.

The monograph presents the results of the study of dialectical thinking, carried out by the author. The book is written from the perspective of a structured approach. In this case, dialectical thinking is viewed as a process of operating with opposites. The structural model of dialectical thinking is presented. An experimental study of the dialectical thinking of preschool children shows that it is involved in the development of understanding of emotions, including mixed ones. Also, dialectical thinking allows to solve three types of problems: to create a creative product, to understand developmental processes and to transform contradictory situations.

The book is addressed to specialists in the fi eld of preschool education, graduate students and students and everyone interested in the development of dialectical thinking.

This book, dedicated to the analysis of L. S. Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory, presents a series of conversations discussing key issues for understanding cultural-historical psychology. The authors strive to clearly demonstrate the effectiveness and originality of cultural-historical psychology's solutions to complex issues.

They also devote special attention to the practical application of cultural-historical theory in teaching. This publication is intended for teachers working in preschool education, students specializing in developmental psychology, educational psychology, and pedagogy, as well as anyone interested in child development.

This monograph is devoted to the specifics of dynamic sorption preconcentration of substances in the chemical analysis of various samples, and methods for the highly sensitive determination of organic and inorganic components of solutions, including preconcentration. The book includes a discussion of the theoretical foundations of sorption dynamics from the perspective of analytical chemistry.

The authors' own developments are also separately considered: new sorbents for preconcentrating elemental ions under dynamic conditions, unconventional methods for preconcentrating noble and heavy metals, organic substances, as well as methods for sorption-spectrometric and sorption-liquid chromatographic determination of trace components.

A detailed summary of the compulsory course of ordinary differential equations, which has been read by the author for many years for students of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University, is presented. The textbook introduces readers to the geometric interpretation of the first-order equation, with the first integrals, special points and limit cycles of autonomous systems, with the theory of linear equations and systems, including constant and periodic coefficients, with the questions of the existence, uniqueness and continuability of solutions, their continuity and differentiability by parameter, Lyapunov stability, as well as with questions of the existence and uniqueness of the solution of the Cauchy problem for a partial differential equation of the first order.

Precise definitions are given, statements are carefully formulated and proved, the most important methods of solving problems are strictly justified. All the necessary theoretical information, related concepts and facts from related branches of mathematics are given. The tasks for independent solution are proposed, allowing to penetrate deeper into the read material. For students and postgraduates studying the classical theory of ordinary differential equations.

The publication contains a unique work - the first theatre reference book in Russia containing materials on the history of Russian theatre and dramatic literature of the mid- to second half of the 18th century, and also being a source of information on the activities of thirty-six graduates and employees of Moscow University - playwrights, translators and publishers of works for the stage, organizers of student theatres, actors, singers, who made a great contribution to the development of Russian artistic culture of their time. The book contains an edition of the text of the "Dramatic Dictionary" in modern spelling and comments on each dictionary entry. Illustrative material is taken from open sources.

The publication is intended for students, postgraduates and young researchers studying the history of Russian stage art and the history of Moscow University in the second half of the 18th century.

This book contains a broad analysis of Old Russian literary monuments dedicated to Russian literature of the 11th — early 18th centuries. The collection is based on the work of the department of ancient Slavic literature in the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and teachers of Moscow State University.

The book is meant for school teachers, high school students, university entrants, college students, as well as to all lovers of ancient literature.

This book contains a broad analysis of Old Russian literary monuments dedicated to Russian literature of the 11th — early 18th centuries. The collection is based on the work of the department of ancient Slavic literature in the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and teachers of Moscow State University.

The book is meant for school teachers, high school students, university entrants, college students, as well as to all lovers of ancient literature.

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.

The handbook contains information on the most important phenomena of Russian history: revolutions and reforms, wars and peace treaties, public systems and political organizations, government bodies and state leaders, literary works and geographical discoveries, outstanding writers and scientists. The handbook was compiled on the basis of many years of teaching experience obtained by the author in the All-Russian Extramural School and in the School of a Young Entrepreneur at the Economics Faculty of the Moscow State University.

Information from this book is useful for studying the history of Russia and for those who are preparing for state or university entrance exams.

The textbook consists of two parts: the first and second half of the XIX century. Various areas of journalism, the content of literary, journalistic and satirical magazines, newspapers, illegal printing are considered. The journalistic activity of A.S.Pushkin, V.G.Belinsky, A.I.Herzen, N.A.Nekrasov, M.N.Katkov, F.M. is shown.Dostoevsky, M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, A.P. Chekhov, V.G.Korolenko, A.M. Gorky and other prominent literary figures of the XIX century.

For students of faculties and departments of journalism of higher educational institutions.

The proposed textbook systematically examines the history of Russian journalism at the beginning of the XX century. When describing the press of this period,  magazines and newspapers, typological groups of publications, the author used the research of historians of Russian journalism, periodical press materials of the early 1900s, diaries and memoirs of public figures, writers and journalists. The textbook is supplemented with a textbook, which presents the most interesting publications of the studied period.

For students of journalism faculties and departments and anyone interested in the extraordinarily dramatic history of the press of the early XX century.

The book describes the concepts of history of nineteenth-century Russian literature from Pushkin to Bunin. The author refers to such best-known works as ‘Eugene Onegin’, ‘Dead Souls’, ‘War and Peace’, ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ and others, and establishes continuity and connection between them, which allows to illuminate the traditional problems of creativity of the great writers. The main attention is paid to the problem of an integral worldview of Russian classics. It shows how this problem was posed by Pushkin, how Gogol tried to solve it and how it was solved in the religious and philosophical novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

For students, teachers of universities, teachers, as well as for a wide range of readers interested in Russian literature.

This lecture course examines the most important problems of the first period of contemporary history of the largest countries of Europe and America. The main attention in the history of these countries during the period between the First and Second World Wars is paid to an analysis of those sharp discussions that are currently taking place in Russian journalism and historiography concerning the historical process in this complex and contradictory period of the twentieth century.

For students, graduate students and all interested in the problems of contemporary history.

The first volume of the monograph by the famous Russian scientist, politician, TV presenter V. A. Nikonov provides a broad palette of world and national history from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second World War. Politics, economics, culture, society, international relations, personalities of outstanding figures from all over the world are presented in an exciting form, accessible to any educated reader. Particular attention is paid to the heroic deeds and tragedies of our people, the fates of people who made the USSR a superpower.

The publication is designed for everyone who wants to know the past in order to understand the present and see the future.

The second volume of the monograph by the famous Russian scientist, politician, TV presenter V. A. Nikonov is dedicated to the dramatic events of world and national history from the end of World War II to the present day. Politics, economics, culture, society, international relations, personalities of outstanding figures from all over the world are presented in an exciting form, accessible to any educated reader. A special section is devoted to the geopolitical transformation caused by the beginning of the Special Military Operation in February 2022.

The publication is designed for everyone who wants to know the past in order to understand the present and see the future.

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The "catalog" includes books published by the Moscow University Press in 2001-2010. It is a continuation of the "Catalog", which included books for 1989-2000.

For a wide range of researchers, libraries, bookselling organizations.

The book introduces the methods of stationary and non-stationary non-relativistic collision theory and serves to develop skills for their practical application in problems of modern physics. Special emphasis is placed on the methods and concepts used in the theory of collisions involving composite systems. The material is divided into lectures, at the end of each lecture exercises are given, selected so that the student, subject to consistent assimilation of the material, can do them independently.

The book will also be useful for graduate students and researchers specializing in atomic physics, nuclear and particle physics.

The book outlines the most important questions of the grammar of the Russian language, which are included in the program of the basic and advanced stages of teaching foreign students. Russian Russian as a foreign language departments of Lomonosov Moscow State University, summarizing the long-term practical experience, describes the grammatical structure of the Russian language in a functional and communicative aspect.

The book outlines the most important questions of Russian grammar included in the curricula of the basic and advanced stages of teaching foreign students. The work summarizes long-term practical experience of the Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) departments and provides a description of the grammatical structure of the Russian language in the functional and communicative aspects. For Russian and foreign teachers of RFL, students of philological faculties studying in the department of Russian as a foreign language, or receiving specialization in RFL.

The book will be useful to foreign students as it contains necessary explanations on the basic issues of practical grammar.

This textbook examines the topic of intercultural communication from the perspective of a new polycode (polymodal) paradigm of knowledge generation. The cognitive mechanisms of verbal and nonverbal communication are explored as effective polycode tools for intercultural communication, utilizing not only verbal but also other semiotic codes and channels involving such types of knowledge as visual, auditory, kinetic, tactile, olfactory, chromatic, proxemic, chronemic, synesthetic, and others. This enables the study of communication processes in their semiotic integrity.

This book presents the basic (lecture and seminar) and specialized (lecture) courses in complex analysis (the theory of functions of a complex variable), based on the author's experience of over 30 years of work at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University. These annual courses are typically taught in parallel, so their close coordination is essential.

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.

The textbook of outstanding Russian psychologists Professor M. A. Gulina and academician Yu. P. Zinchenko contains information on key issues of methodology, theory and modern practice of psychological counseling.

The publication is intended for students studying in the enlarged groups of specialties and areas of training "Psychological sciences", "Education and Pedagogical Sciences", "Social sphere", as well as for teachers of psychology faculties of higher educational institutions and consulting practitioners.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of physics and psychology. A combined analysis of experiments in quantum physics and the functioning of the human psyche reveals that our understanding of the world is based on an object-based model of reality, formed at the subconscious level. Through the consistent process of data acquisition in the mind, the experience of "the flow of time" arises, which, coupled with the need to correlate objects within this model, generates a spatiotemporal representation of the surrounding world.

This publication is intended специалистов и студентов в области физики и психологии.

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.

This manual is a guide to prepare for a test in literary theory. The following aspects are covered: metrics and rhythm, rhyme, strophic structure, and phonetic organization. The manual is supplied with a bibliography designed to expand students' knowledge.

This textbook is designed to introduce students to the possibilities for experimentally studying the genesis and phenomenology of pathological conditions offered by the physiological characteristics of the Krushinsky-Molodkina rat strain. This strain, created through many years of selection, is currently maintained through controlled inbreeding and offers a unique opportunity to study a number of specific model pathologies, in particular audiogenic epilepsy and audiogenic catalepsy.

This textbook will be useful for accompanying classes taught as part of the "Extensive Workshop on Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology" course at the Faculty of Biology at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

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 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.

The third book of the new manual-problem of four books (more than 3400 tasks with solutions) includes more than 800 tasks and is dedicated to working out skills of the main types of research on the topic "Functions of one real variable: research and plotting, a certain integral and its applications.

The book provides the necessary theoretical information, the main emphasis is on the systematization of techniques and methods for solving problems. The presentation of methods is accompanied by an analysis of examples and tasks of various types for independent decision.

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

The fourth and final book of the new four-book problem book (more than 3,400 problems with solutions in total) includes more than 700 problems and is devoted to developing the skills of the main types of research on the topic "Differential calculus of functions of several real variables".

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

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

This lecture course, covering one of the core disciplines of the general course "Modern Russian Language," is devoted to theoretical issues of lexical semantics. To identify the specific features of the Russian-language worldview, based on an analysis of the Russian lexicon, facts from other languages ​​are drawn upon. The methodology utilizes an explanatory presentation strategy, driven by the controversial nature of many issues in modern linguistic semantics. Particular attention is paid to componential and conceptual methods of word analysis, as well as to such basic concepts of modern linguistics as "lexical function," "prototype," "frame," "concept," and "discourse."

The textbook is an expanded presentation of the course of lectures that the author has given in recent years to 3rd-year students of the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University, and contains the main classical and modern sections of the theory of partial differential equations, as well as information from functional analysis, the theory of generalized functions and function spaces. In addition, it includes material devoted to the proof of Kovalevskaya's theorem, a mixed problem for the equation of oscillations of an inhomogeneous string, the Cauchy problem for the wave equation and the theory of symmetric hyperbolic systems. The book presents the main facts related to the Laplace equation, the heat equation and the wave equation.

The textbook is intended for students studying in the fields of "Mathematics", "Applied Mathematics", "Mathematics and Computer Science", "Fundamental Mathematics and Mechanics".

The textbook is based on a course of lectures given over 10 years at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University and is devoted to the presentation of methods for studying differential equations (mainly nonlinear partial differential equations), usually called group equations". These methods make it possible to identify equations that are most accessible for research: analysis, integration, reduction to simpler ones, etc.

The textbook is intended for undergraduate and graduate students of physics and mathematics specialties at universities, as well as for researchers interested in mastering the methods of group analysis of differential equations.

The textbook, the first edition of which was published in 1984, aims to provide the most concise introduction to the subject, including both its physical foundations and differential-geometric aspects. The publication covers a number of topics in an unconventional way: kinematics, general theorems of dynamics, derivation of the Lagrange equations, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Some of the material goes beyond the university course: elements of the theory of linear and quadratic integrals in velocities, application of variational principles, a new proof of the Darboux theorem on canonical coordinates. The textbook includes problems illustrating and supplementing the theoretical material, and provides methodological instructions for them.

The publication is intended for students of higher educational institutions studying in the fields of "Mechanics and Mathematical Modeling", "Applied Mathematics", "Fundamental Mathematics and Mechanics", for postgraduate students of the mechanical, mathematical and physical faculties of universities, and for university teachers.

The textbook contains lectures on the entire development of soil science from the time of ancient agricultural civilizations to the present day. It examines the history of knowledge about soils and methods of studying them, adding details of the general history of science and society. It shows the connection of pedology with related natural and human sciences, with the history of studying and developing land resources. The book pays particular attention to the methodology of soil science as a natural history science and to the roles of outstanding scientists. It analyzes the formation and development of soil science in different countries, international cooperation of pedologists and the role of scientific societies in the history of soil science. The concluding chapters cover the present period of soil science development, its tasks in overcoming the anthropogenic degradation of the soil mantle of the Earth, which is an indispensable component of the biosphere and the most important natural resource for the further development of human civilization.

For college and graduate students specializing in soil science, agronomy, agrochemistry, ecology and other related sciences.

The cycle of lectures by Professor Vladislav Alekseyevich Zaytsev is based on many years of experience in reading special courses on Russian poetry, as well as the general course on the history of Russian literature of the second half of the 20th century. The author reveals the diverse artistic values, essential features and peculiarities of Russian poetry of this period, shows the complex interaction of its main branches, their rapprochement and reunion at the end of the century.

For students and postgraduates of philological faculties, as well as for all who are interested in the history of Russian literature.

The textbook, the first edition of which was published in 1984, aims to provide the most concise introduction to the subject, including both its physical foundations and differential-geometric aspects. The publication covers a number of topics in an unconventional way: kinematics, general theorems of dynamics, derivation of the Lagrange equations, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Some of the material goes beyond the university course: elements of the theory of linear and quadratic integrals in velocities, application of variational principles, a new proof of the Darboux theorem on canonical coordinates. The textbook includes problems illustrating and supplementing the theoretical material, and provides methodological instructions for them.

The publication is intended for students of higher educational institutions studying in the fields of "Mechanics and Mathematical Modeling", "Applied Mathematics", "Fundamental Mathematics and Mechanics", for postgraduate students of the mechanical, mathematical and physical faculties of universities, and for university teachers.

The manual contains a systematic statement of four important sections of the general course of the mathematical analysis: the theory of numerical series, the theory of functional sequences and series, the theory of series of Fourier and the main data on Fourier’s integral. The statement is most approached to a lecture course.

The book is intended for bachelors which profoundly study mathematics.

Keywords: a series, sequence, convergence, uniform convergence, operations with convergent series, summation of divergent series, double and repeated series, infi nite products, power series, Fourier’s series on orthonormalized systems, Fourier’s trigonometrical series, Fourier’s integral

The book covers little-known phenomena of Leonardo da Vinci's work - his work in the field of scenography, musical practice, and research into the psychological foundations of visual activity. The leading theme of the book is a historical-semiotic study of the principles of creating iconic ensembles introduced into art by the Italian artistic tradition and, to a decisive extent, by the great master Leonardo da Vinci. The research is based on the methodology of comprehensive historical analysis of textual and iconographic material, fragments and drawings from Leonardo’s notebooks (codes). Illustrations are based on open sources and photographs of the author. Drawings from Leonardo's codices are based on digitized manuscripts available in the public domain.

The publication is addressed to students, graduate students and art experts, as well as to a wide range of readers interested in theory and history of art, artistic culture of Renaissance Italy.

The book is devoted to the application of the theory of linear non-stationary systems to the problems of stabilization of stationary movements of a satellite near the center of mass under the action of magnetic moments of various nature. An original rigorous analytical approach to the study of linear non-stationary systems of a special class is proposed. Solutions to a number of specific stabilization tasks based on this approach are presented.

The book will be useful for graduate students and students of Moscow State University, as well as teachers and researchers dealing with issues of dynamics and management.

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 textbook considers the features of A. Fet's lyrics, which stand at the junction of the Pushkin era traditions and the contemporaries' future aspirations to symbolism. The author gives a large amount of material from the history of romance, elegies, and anthological poetry. The main aim of the author is to show Fet's innovative essence, his individual contribution to the development of Russian and world lyric poetry.

For high school students, university entrants, college students, teachers, philologists, and for all lovers of poetry.

The textbook on literary editing summarizes the experience of practical classes with students and lectures delivered by the author at the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The purpose of the book is to help comprehend the editorial work on the text from the standpoint of modern philological concepts and practical tasks of the editor of mass media. 

For teachers and students of journalism faculties, editors of mass media materials, practical journalists.

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.

The author of this book sees his task in viewing Gorky's 1920s-1930s works in the context of Russian literature of the period and commparing it with the artistic discoveries of his great contemporaries, primarily V. Nabokov and B. Pasternak. A separate chapter is devoted to the writer's artistic world, the originality of his realism, the concept of personality, the hero and the anti-hero. The main attention is paid to the analysis of works that are part of the program for those entering the humanitarian faculties of universities.

The book is addressed primarily to high school students and university entrants. However, high school, gymnasium, lyceum teachers and philologists who study the history of the Russian 20th century literature will find it an interesting read.

This textbook was prepared in accordance with the curriculum for teaching third-year students theoretical and experimental skills as part of the "Modern Methods of Biochemistry" practical course at the Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The manual is devoted to the basic for the formation of mathematical thinking theme — the same equations and inequalities. The book formulates and proves the most important algebraic, trigonometric, logarithmic, hyperbolic, etc. numerical and functional identity equations and inequalities used in solving a wide range of mathematical problems, showing relationships between them. The manual contains 300 tasks of different types with solutions from the introductory assignments and samples of the Unified State Exam in which various identities and inequalities are used to perform transformations and construct necessary assessments. The book may become study support for Math lessons in high school and expand the outlook of the students. It may also be useful for homework assignments.

Recommended for high school students of physical, mathematical and regular schools to prepare for the higher level USE on Mathematics, olympiads and Lomonosov Moscow State University entrance exams.

The present fundamental tutorial is aimed at getting the applicants ready for the entrance examination in mathematics required for entering a number of MSU faculties. The book can also be of use to high school pupils and mathematics teachers.

The textbook "Mathematics for Students of the Natural Sciences at Moscow State University" is based on a lecture course on higher mathematics that has been taught for several years to first-year students of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine and the Faculty of Psychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The textbook consists of two parts and an appendix. The "Linear Algebra" section examines matrices, determinants, systems of linear equations, as well as linear spaces, linear operators, bilinear and quadratic forms.

The "Mathematical Analysis" section covers the following topics: limits of sequences and functions, differential and integral calculus of functions of one variable, numerical and functional series. The appendix provides examples of the application of mathematical analysis methods in probability theory.

The textbook summarizes knowledge about the triaxial ellipsoid geometry and its map projections, both existing and new. A new conceptual apparatus for describing cylindrical, conical and azimuth projections is reported. A classification of the triaxial ellipsoid projections is presented. The distortions of the projections were evaluated. The authors set the task of deriving new or adaptation of existing map projections of the triaxial ellipsoid, which would allow to make compilation both global and regional maps of celestial bodies. The textbook is intended to study the discipline “Mathematical cartography”. It can be also used as a manual by students in related specialties, graduate students and researchers.

This textbook examines recognition systems and describes approaches to pattern recognition from a mathematical perspective at the theoretical level. Visual pattern recognition is based on defining an image as a finite (non-empty) set of points on a plane (for a two-dimensional case), which can be used to represent real black-and-white and colour images. Three-dimensional image reconstruction from flat projections is also considered—a model of stereo perception (with a solution within the model to the problem of determining corresponding points on projections). A description of the use of image codes for cryptography is included.

This textbook is devoted to a fundamental topic for developing mathematical thinking: identical equalities and inequalities. It formulates and proves the most important algebraic, trigonometric, logarithmic, hyperbolic and other numerical and functional identical equalities and inequalities used in solving a wide range of mathematical problems. Examples of different types of problems (more than 430 problems) are provided, in which identities and inequalities are used to perform transformations and construct the necessary estimates.

This book will serve as an informational and reference accompaniment for lectures and seminars on mathematical analysis and algebra, will broaden students' horizons, and will be useful for homework assignments. The manual contains the necessary theoretical material and problems with solutions.

The publication is devoted to theoretical and practical aspects of the subject of ‘Differentiation of One-Variable Function’, which is studied in the first and partially second terms in the first-year-course of mathematical analysis. It is based on the authors’ experience of reading lectures and conducting practical classes at the faculty of computational mathematics and cybernetics, Moscow State University.

The manual contains three chapters, the first of which is devoted to general theoretical aspects. This chapter contains basic concepts and facts related to the differentiation of functions, as well as some examples of the use of derivatives for solving various problems. The second chapter outlines the general scheme for investigating the function and constructing its graph, and gives recommendations on how to solve problems on finding the maximum (minimum) value of a function on a given set. It also shows some examples of the study of functions and the construction of their graphs, as well as an example of solving an applied problem for finding the maximum value of a function. The third chapter contains tasks (with solutions) for all the sections under consideration. Some of them are analyzed in the manual text while the others are designed to be solved on one’s own. For the second group of tasks, the answers and solutions are given at the end of the book in the corresponding section. The purpose of this manual is to help the student to learn the theoretical part and acquire practical skills in solving problems on the subject of ‘Differentiating a one-variable function’.

For university students. The publication can be useful for teachers who give lectures and conduct practical classes in mathematical analysis and all those who wish to study these subjects on their own or learn more about them.

This manual contains seminar notes on partial differential equations, taught by the author to third-year students in the Mechanics and Mathematics.

Faculty of Moscow State University. It provides the necessary minimum theoretical material, as well as an extensive list of problems. Solutions are provided for all problems (except those for which the answer is completely obvious).

This textbook examines the psychological aspects of media functioning: the perception and impact of mass information, the psychological factors that determine professional success in mass communications, and the psychological principles of media creativity.

The educational publication, which has been steadily produced since 2015, examines general theoretical issues of classification and indication of media systems, historical stages of development and formation of the domestic media system; characterizes the legal field in which it functions. The book examines various segments of the Russian media system: print media, television, radio, online media, social media, news agencies, the film industry, advertising and public relations. The technological, economic, organizational, structural and content aspects of each segment are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the media audience. The textbook contains a large amount of statistical material.

For teachers and students of journalism faculties, researchers, media workers.

This monograph is devoted to issues of intercultural communication, translation, and linguistic education in a digital society. The authors demonstrate how the development of information technology not only provides numerous new opportunities for the mass exchange of information of a wide variety of types and content, but also changes the nature of intercultural communication and translation activities, introducing significant adjustments to the principles and methods of linguistic education.

The textbook discusses the causes of organizational changes, the tasks of change management managers, methods for diagnosing organizations and identifying areas of need for changes. The main theoretical approaches and models of change management, methods of their planning and sequence of actions for their implementation, as well as a wide range of problems associated with changes are presented: the perception of changes by personnel, the reasons for resistance to changes and methods of overcoming it, the formation of change management teams, strategies for their implementation. The features of changes in the organizational structure, culture of the organization, ways of radical changes and management of changes in a crisis are considered.

For Master's degree students studying in management specialties.

The textbook covers the main issues of the petrology of metamorphic and metasomatic rocks and impactites and analyzes the main types and factors of metamorphic processes. Based on the physicochemical analysis of mineral parageneses, it describes the most important mineral associations that arise under metamorphism and provides the formational analysis of metamorphic rocks.

For students and postgraduates of geological and geochemical specialties.

This monograph examines the interrelationships between metaphysics, creativity, philosophy, and science from a historical perspective and at the present stage of their development. Plato's theory of creativity is reconstructed. It is argued that creativity, as a fundamental metaphysical paradigm, is replacing the worldview of global evolutionism. The semantic structure and elements of innovative epistemology are revealed. An information-synergetic model of the scientist's consciousness and personality is proposed. The problem of training scientific personnel within the context of contemporary philosophy teaching is analyzed.

) The training manual is intended for practical and laboratory work on the course "Technology: cooking, nutrition lessons". Contains recommendations for performing laboratory work, solving practical problems. The tasks for laboratory work focused on the development of practical skills of cooking proper nutrition are given. Instruction cards are attached to each variant of laboratory work tasks. The manual has been developed in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard (FGOS) for students of grades 5-9 of a secondary school as an additional educational program on the subject "Technology".

This textbook examines various methods for exploring oil and gas fields and demonstrates the potential for integrating them to effectively conduct oil and gas exploration. It consists of four parts. The first part describes the theoretical basic criteria for oil and gas potential, as well as the objectives and stages of oil and gas exploration. The second and third parts present the fundamental principles and examples of the application of geophysical and geological methods in oil and gas exploration. The final, fourth part examines the general principles of integrating methods to solve various problems in oil and gas exploration.

The textbook is the result of generalizing the experience of teaching the university course "Working on a Computer and Programming" for students of the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the school course "Computer Science" in classes at the Mechanics and Mathematics Department based at School No. 54 in Moscow and in the mathematics classes of the University Gymnasium. The book collects and systematizes the problems offered for independent solution during seminars, laboratory work, tests and exams.

The book is intended for senior school students with in-depth study of mathematics and computer science, students of higher educational institutions mastering programming methods and the C language, as well as to help teachers conduct practical classes.

The textbook is a generalization of the teaching experience of the university course "Computer work and programming" for students of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University named after M. V. L. Omonosov and the school course "Computer Science" in the classes at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at the 54th school of Moscow and in the mathematical classes of the University Gymnasium. The book collects and systematizes the tasks proposed for independent solution during seminars, laboratory work, on tests and exams.

The book is intended for high school students with an in-depth study of mathematics and computer science, students of higher educational institutions who master programming methods and the C language, as well as to help teachers conduct practical classes.

The book presents modern fast direct and iterative methods for solving systems of linear algebraic equations with a large number of unknowns and sparse ill-conditioned matrices. Such systems arise in the grid method for solving boundary and initial-boundary value problems for partial differential equations. The main part of the book is devoted to the construction, justification and algorithmic implementation of methods, as well as the construction of various types of preconditioners, the use of which allows to increase the efficiency of iterative methods. At the end of each chapter, information is provided that complements its content and allows the reader to navigate through a structured list of cited publications. The book contains three appendices, one of which is a summary of information from linear algebra used in various chapters. The book includes a large number of algorithms implementing these methods, and a detailed subject index.

The book will be useful to specialists who use existing effective grid methods to solve differential equations, and to researchers engaged in the development of new methods. It will be useful for university students and postgraduates specializing in numerical methods and applied mathematics.

Keywords: direct methods, iterative methods, convergence, preconditioning, grid equations, systems of linear equations, sparse matrices

Mineragraphy is closely related to mineralogy and the study of minerals. Using the mineragraphic method, microscopic grains of ore minerals and their interactions with each other and with host rocks are determined. Furthermore, by studying ores in reflected light, it is possible to identify tiny inclusions and patterns of micro-aggregation.

This textbook includes material on the basics and necessary skills for using a microscope and determining the mineral composition of ores in reflected light. It covers the main approaches to assessing the genesis of ore deposits.

The book examines anthrax, a particularly dangerous disease common to humans and animals, whose causative agent, B. anthracis, is a part of the Bacillus cereus complex. The author off ers a modern perspective on the pathogen and its closest relatives, diving into a sea of information about atypical strains to pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding this world hidden from human eyes. The book contains wide range of illustrations, including drawings by Robert Koch, which have been published in Russia for the fi rst time, as well as unique clinical cases.

The book contains about a thousand tasks that can be used in the study of algebra in both regular and specialized physics and mathematics classes and in preparation for the Unified State Exam and other exams and mathematical Olympiads up to the highest level. It can serve as an addition to the well-known problem books used in secondary and higher school.

It contains collections of problems on the main topics studied at school: algebraic and trigonometric equations and systems, solving algebraic and trigonometric inequalities, proving inequalities, complex numbers. The issues that go beyond the scope of the school curriculum, but accessible to the understanding of schoolchildren, are considered. The necessary theoretical information is presented in the form of task cycles.

The book contains both easy and difficult problems that were offered at mathematical Olympiads at one time or contain non-trivial facts from theory that go beyond the scope of the program. Some tasks are left without instructions and solutions, teachers can use them for training exams and Olympiads.

The book is of interest to both schoolchildren and students, teachers and all lovers of mathematics.

This manual covers the material of a two-semester course. The first part of the manual is devoted to the fundamental phenomena in space and high-energy physics. It examines such fundamental phenomena as cascades in a homogeneous medium, a layered detector, neutron wander, and the motion of charged particles in a dipole magnetic field. The second part addresses detector modeling and particle detection.

Typical detectors and experimental setups are discussed: a scintillation spectrometer, a SONG spectrometer, and the recording and processing of data on charged particles and Cherenkov light from extensive air showers (EAS).

The book (the first and second editions were published by the Higher School Publishing House in 1996 and 2002, respectively) completes the line of textbooks on ‘Molecular Biology’ (‘Molecular Biology: The Structure of the Ribosome and the Protein Biosynthesis’- 1986, ‘Molecular Biology. Structure and Biosynthesis of Nucleic Acids’ - 1989). It examines major elements of protein structure and functioning, all levels of structure organization of these biopolymers and discusses the specifics of functioning of the most important protein types – transport and fibrillar enzymes. The book briefly considers the properties of amino acids and peptides, post-translational modification reactions.

The textbook summarizes major modern techniques and methods of working with carriers of microorganisms’ genetic information – DNA and RNA molecules that are isolated from experimental samples in biochemical, molecular biological, genetic engineering and environmental studies in microbiology.

This is the first textbook to present generalized materials on molecular methods of working with mixed cultures of microorganisms and techniques for analyzing microbial communities.

It is intended for students studying in biological specialties, postgraduate students, teachers and researchers who are interested in molecular biology and genetic engineering methods and their application in the study of physiology and ecology of microorganisms.

This textbook consists of six chapters examining modern advances in the molecular toxicology of superecotoxicants in addressing biosystem safety issues. The monographic approach to systematizing these advances is intended to foster a systematic understanding, including the dangers of low doses (concentrations) of these substances and methods for assessing and preventing the risks they pose to environmental and public health. Sixty-five figures (diagrams) and one photo facilitate understanding of the material.

These are discussed in the context of global trends in the development of a methodological framework for monitoring and protecting environmental and public health, taking into account the concept of socially acceptable risks. Special attention is given to the prospects for applying the latest advances in molecular toxicology to the development of this framework.

This book analyzes the molecular mechanisms of information processing in the human brain. The basic research methods are functional magnetic resonance imaging and NMR spectroscopy.

Kinetic models of synaptic contact function are analyzed. Using supercomputer technologies, the molecular mechanisms of action of key enzymes in synaptic systems are deciphered. The possibilities of controlling neuronal processes with external fields and chemical agents that improve cognitive function are discussed.

Based on lecture and seminar materials, the manual presents the historical period of the 19th – 20th century development of Russian medicine illustrating it with the examples of Moscow hospitals. It speaks in detail about the history of six major Moscow clinics, which were named in honor of great Russian physicians, graduates of the medical faculty of Moscow University. At the end of each chapter it gives some background information about the scientists (N.V. Sklifosovsky, N.I. Pirogov, A.A. Ostroumov, S.P. Botkin, G.A. Zakharyin, E.M. Tareev).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 textbook contains a systematic presentation of the main pathopsychological patterns of mental development disorders in children. A number of general patterns of abnormal development are identified. The role of various factors in the occurrence of asynchronies in the development of pathopsychological neoplasms is shown, an original classification of types of mental dysontogenesis is presented, and their psychological structure is described. The manual can be useful for defectologists, child psychiatrists, neurologists, teachers and educators of special children's institutions.

The monograph presents both the fundamentals of nonlinear acoustics and its recently developed sections. Among them are intense wave beams, excitation of waves and currents, acoustic resonators, nonlinearities with features, selectively absorbing and dispersing media, strongly nonlinear waves. New mathematical models, approximate analytical methods and exact solutions are described. Applications to hydroacoustics, mechanics of shock waves, medicine are indicated. The book contains monographic material, but is also useful as a textbook.

For students, postgraduates and scientific and technical workers involved in the physics of nonlinear waves, acoustics, mathematical modeling, and the general theory of nonlinear waves.

The textbook “Inorganic Medicinal Chemistry” is devoted to describing new interdisciplinary trend as a part of medicinal chemistry and the use and development of metal-based drugs.

The textbook systematically describes the course of inorganic chemistry (chemistry of elements) in accordance with the standard program of the discipline "Inorganic Chemistry" for chemical faculties of state universities on the basis of a long-period version of the Periodic system of Mendeleev. Structural data, the basics of the valence bond method, the theory of the crystal field, molecular orbitals, the modern version of the polarization theory, the Gillepsi method are widely used. The book reflects many years of experience in teaching inorganic chemistry at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of Chemical Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

For students of chemical faculties of universities, it will be useful for graduate students, teachers and anyone interested in inorganic chemistry or working in this field.

This book is a textbook that examines the fundamental phenomena of visual perception and the molecular mechanisms that support them. It provides a particularly detailed presentation of the structure and key functions of the visual pigment rhodopsin molecule in health and disease. This textbook provides the opportunity to learn how to apply fundamental knowledge of the fundamentals of primary visual processes to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of visual pathologies.

Key micro- and macroeconomic concepts are presented within the framework of a fundamentally new approach to constructing economic theory. This approach is based on the distinction between pure theory and the complex of "realistic" economic disciplines, which includes classical macroeconomics. Pure theory, built on the deductive method, is intended to form a unique intellectual model of the economic system and reveal the nature of the interrelations between its main elements. However, between the conclusions of pure theory and practice there lies a "zone of uncertainty," which the complex of applied economic and non-economic sciences aims to reduce. This work allows the reader to understand the opportunities and limitations associated with the heterogeneous nature of modern economics and related social disciplines. The main text of each chapter uses minimal mathematical apparatus, while many chapters are accompanied by mathematical appendices. The textbook includes questions and assignments for independent study, bibliographies and commentaries, and a subject index.

The textbook is prepared in accordance with the programme of the Additional Entrance Examination at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Social Science. The textbook is adressed to the applicants praparing to enter Humanities Faculties of universities. 

The publication may also be used by high school students in their preparation for the final exam in Social Science.

The proposed determinant based on modern ideas about the systematics of lichens makes it possible to make up for the lack of knowledge of these organisms in swamp ecosystems. The first sections provide brief information about the biology, ecology, practical significance of lichens, and methods of study necessary for the identification of species. In the main part, various keys are given for determining lichens (genera, lichen species, taking into account their substrate confinement and in the absence of fruit bodies); diagnoses of 107 genera are given, before which keys are given for determining the species of these genera, as well as diagnoses of 345 species. After the name of the species, its synonyms are given, and after the diagnosis of the species, the types of swamps and the substrates on which these taxa occur in swamps are indicated. 

The determinant is designed for botanists, geographers, employees of specially protected natural areas, students, postgraduates, as well as nature lovers interested in lichens.

This textbook examines the characteristics of wave pattern formation on seismic profiles, without which interpretation errors can occur: the shape of the reflected pulse, the relationship between horizontal and vertical scales, distortion of the waveforms on time sections, the identification of noise waves in seismoacoustic data, and more. Definitions of seismic complexes and seismic facies are provided. Seismic data analysis is proposed for the study of various geological objects, and their mapping features are discussed.

The textbook discusses the composition and structure of the underground hydrosphere, types of groundwater and conditions of their formation, the principles of hydrogeological zoning and the main types of hydrogeological areas problems of use and protection of groundwater: fresh mineral therapeutic, industrial and thermal power, as well as methods of field hydrogeological work, widely used in various types of research and surveys.

For students studying in the direction of "Geology", it can be used when reading the course "Hydrogeology" ("General Hydrogeology") to students of the specialties "Hydrology" and "Geoecology" of geographical faculties of universities, as well as for students studying in the specialty "Prospecting and exploration of groundwater and engineering geological surveys" of technical universities.

The manual includes materials for self-preparation to the examination in the course “Introduction to Globalistics”. The book outlines the subject field of global studies, and topical issues of Globalistics as an integrative science. The manual covers the basic categories of Globalistics: global issues, global processes and systems, globalization, sustainable development.

This textbook is intended for students in the humanities and contains materials on two branches of natural science: physics and chemistry. The publication presents examples of the application of the laws in physics and chemistry to various aspects of our lives, and provides numerous historical facts. The textbook preserves the teaching methods of physics and chemistry courses at classical universities.

The physical foundations of low-energy neutron scattering methods for studying the structure and dynamics of matter in a condensed state are described. The textbook is written on the basis of courses of lectures given by the authors at the Faculty of Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The book consists of three parts. The first part contains a consistent presentation of the principles of the theory of low-energy neutron scattering. The second part is devoted to the methods of obtaining and forming neutron beams, as well as their registration. The third part is devoted to basic experimental methods of neutronography, describes the principles of the device of experimental installations and measurements, as well as methods of interpretation of experimental data based on the theory described in the first part.

For students, postgraduates and researchers working or beginning to work in the field of research of physical, chemical and biological systems at the microscopic level.

The textbook is an introduction to methods of implementing computational algorithms for parallel computers. The main goal is to teach the reader to independently develop the most effective programs for such computers. The issues of parallelization of specific algorithms are considered using numerous examples. For students, postgraduates, researchers, programmers and anyone who wants to learn how to develop programs for parallel computers.

As part of the curriculum, this textbook provides a fairly general, complete basic understanding of the basic (including classical) physiological concepts and principles used in the study of the blood coagulation system. The application of modern biochemical approaches to solving the problem of physiological regulation of the blood coagulation system makes it possible to understand the mechanisms of interaction between the processes of coagulation and anticoagulation.

The textbook consists of two parts, the first of which covers modern theoretical concepts of the physiological foundations of blood clotting processes occurring in the body, their relationship with the function of the body's anticoagulation system. The second part is devoted to the practical application of the theoretical knowledge on hemostasis and includes the implementation of tasks in the direction of professional activity of students who study primary and plasma hemostasis, humoral agents of the anticoagulation system of the blood, the relationship of the coagulation and insulin systems of the body. This is the most important difference between this textbook and other books on the physiology and biochemistry of blood clotting.

The textbook examines the current state of the hemostasis system and introduces readers to blood research methods used in physiological and biochemical laboratories and medical practice.

It is intended for students and teachers of biological and medical universities, researchers, doctors.

The textbook provides a complete course in basic physical geochemistry. It considers the subject and methods of physical geochemistry as a science of the physicochemical regularities of mineral, rock and ore formation and gives general points of the thermodynamics of equilibrium natural systems, which are a special type of systems with completely mobile components. It derives main thermodynamic relationships that characterize natural processes and shows their application. The book gives a detailed description of the questions of theory, topology, methods for constructing diagrams used in geochemistry, petrology, and the theory of mineral deposits.
For students, graduate students and all specialists involved in the study of physical and chemical regularities of natural processes.

The textbook consistently examines all the main features of academic writing, the difficulties that arise when mastering it, and the possible mistakes that lie in wait for researchers in the course of scientific work. The examination of the main types of academic texts, stages of academic work, rules for editing and presenting scientific research is accompanied by rich illustrative material and practical tasks. The textbook is intended for university students studying in the field of "Philosophy", as well as for a wide range of readers interested in the problems of academic writing and the presentation of scientific work.

In the book-aid written by the well-known teacher of Russian language and Literature Sergej Leonidovich Shtilman the idea of so-called slow reading (co-authorship of the reader and writer) is formed. Unpredictable discoveries in analysis of literary works studied at school and, besides, the topics (e.g. body language, «symbolic» names) that are rarely discussed by the literature specialists and critics are provided.

This book is addressed to the teachers of Russian language and Literature, the enrollees and the high school students willing to penetrate into the mysteries of Russian classics.

The textbook describes the morphological and anatomical structure of fossil higher plants, provides information on their geological and geographical distribution and gives characteristics of the divisions, classes and genera of fossil spore and seed plants. It also describes the main methods of paleobotanical research and, in addition, studies the paleofloristic zoning of land for different geological epochs.
For students and magistrands of geology, biology and geography at universities and colleges; it can be used by teachers in the following specialties: ‘Paleontology’, ‘Geological Survey’ and ‘Prospecting for Minerals’.

The textbook (its first edition was published in 1997) presents a picture of the organic world of the past as it came into existence 3.8 billion years ago. It outlines general provisions and basic concepts of paleontology including the history of paleontology, types of fossil preservation, evolution patterns; habitat, organisms’ conditions and life in marine and terrestrial environments; bionomics of the World Ocean; biomineralization and fossilization; the role of organisms in sedimentation and rock formation; importance of paleontology for geological and biological sciences. The systematic part of the book contains a description of 30 types, 58 classes and 132 orders of the five kingdoms (bacteria, cyanobionts, plants, fungi and animals), and 6 major mammal families for vertebrates. The final part deals with the evolution of the organic world from the Archeozoic era to the present day and examines in detail the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic periods. All the sections are accompanied by a set of tasks, exercises and a variety of illustrative material including four fly-leave illustrations, 335 drawings (often composite), 33 tables and 26 diagrams.
For students and teachers of geology, geography and biology at universities and colleges as well as for museum workers and all lovers of paleontology.

The textbook outlines general provisions and a brief history of paleoecology and examines its methods and major areas of research. The main attention is paid to paleoautoecology (reconstruction of organisms’ way of life and conditions of existence and identification of physiological and behavioral phenomena) and the paleosinecology of marine animals (biocenotic analysis of modern and ancient biocenoses, interrelationship between organisms in communities, paleobiocenoses in time and space, the ecosystem analysis of modern marine ecosystems and ancient paleoecosystems, their evolution in time and space). The textbook is intended for university and college students, undergraduates and postgraduate students of geological specialties. It can also be useful for researchers in the field of paleontology, ecology, paleobiogeography and paleogeography.

This textbook states the general principles and brief history of paleoecology, considers methods and main directions of researching. The attention is mostly placed on paleoautoecology (reconstruction of living activities and environment of organisms, cleaning up physiological and behavior phenomenon) and paleosynecology of sea animals (paleobiocenotic analysis of ancient biocenosis, relationship of organisms in associations, paleobiocenosis in time and in space; ecosystem analysis of the actual sea ecosystems and paleoecosystems, their evolution in time and in space).

This textbook is intended for students, magistrants, postgraduates of geological professions, also it may be useful for the scientists in the fields of paleontology, ecology, paleobiogeography and paleogeography.

Key words: paleoecology, paleobiocenosis, paleoecosystems.

The collection enables the reader to inherit the legacy of His Holiness Patriarch Nikon, a genius churchman and statesman. His ideas express the strategy of the Russian patriarchate and Russian statehood affirming the principle of symphony of the moral and secular authorities and illuminating the path of the Slavic and Russian and, more broadly, Orthodox identity. The first section of this publication includes the following creations by Patriarch Nikon: ‘The Missive about the Establishment of the Monastery of the Blessed Virgin of Iveron and Holy New Confessor and Hieromartyr Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia and a Wondermaker, on the Holy Island, and the Transfer of the Relics of the Holy Righteous Man Jacob, Previously Called Josif of Borovichi’, ‘The Tale of the Life-Giving Cross’, ‘Missives to the Holy Order and Junior Deacons’, “An Account of the Plague’, ‘Missives to the Valdai Iveron Monastery’, ‘Missives to the Kiy-Ostrovsky Monastery of the Cross’, ‘Spiritual Lessons for the Christian’, ‘Replies of the Humble Nikon by the Mercy of God Patriarch... ‘

The booklet was prepared for the 300th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail V. Lomonosov, a poet, scientist and polymath. It includes the names of famous writers, journalists, publishers, who were closely associated with the history of Moscow University in Mokhovaya street, Moscow, over the period from the foundation of the university in 1755 to 1917. It is intended for graduates, students and teachers as well as for all those who are interested in the history of Russian literature, journalism and culture.

The textbook provides a systematic overview of English writing and punctuation. The work examines the key stages of their evolution: their genesis, the main stages of development, and the current state. The material is presented in a condensed form, accompanied by a glossary and comments. Theoretical provisions and historical data are supported by practical examples and illustrative material. Each section contains the author’s methodological complex for consolidating the material.

The manual is intended for students, postgraduates and teachers of philological specialties, and will also be useful to anyone interested in the history of writing and punctuation of the English language.

This manual is based on a course of lectures given by the authors to students of the Department of Space Physics of the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University. The course systematically presents general issues of plasma physics, various approaches and methods of theoretical description of plasma processes in outer space. The course includes issues of ionization and recombination processes in plasma, single-particle approximation, kinetic description of plasma, magnetohydrodynamics, waves, instabilities, nonlinear phenomena and turbulence in plasma. The mechanisms of acceleration of charged particles in space are also considered.

The manual is intended for university students studying in the fields of "Fundamental and Applied Physics", "Physics". It can also be used by graduate students studying in the field of "Space Physics, Astronomy" and specialists in the field of space physics.

This book offers solutions to virtually all plane geometry problems posed in the mathematics entrance exams for the Mechanics and Mathematics, Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, and Physics departments of Lomonosov Moscow State University from 1970 to 2024.

The content of lecture course, which the author has been reading to the students in entomology of Lomonosov Moscow State University for many years, is presented in this tutorial. Sexual, parental, feeding and protective behavior of solitary insects is described as well as their migrations, homing, cannibalism, development of behavior in ontogenesis and its genetic me cha nisms. For every type of behavior specifi c forms, scope of changeability, factors of its determination and the role of education in behavioral changeability are given. Modern hypotheses on the formation of diff erent behavioral chara cte ri stics of insects of a big number of orders are discussed.

The tutorial is intended for students and post-graduates of higher edu ca tio nal es tablishments as well as research scientists and a wide range of nature lovers.

This study guide examines the growing role of the Islamic factor in modern political processes. The paper analyzes the existing theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of political Islam, its stages of development and transformation; political and legal ideology and basic concepts of the Islamic state. The authors present the typology of modern Islamist concepts. Islamic radicalism is considered as a factor of destabilization of the global political situation. The authors also investigate the growth of a number of religious organizations and the activity of extremist Islamic movements in various countries of the world and propose a set of measures to counteract Islamism. Urgent problems of modern political Islam are explored in connection with social processes. 

The study guide is designed for students, graduate students, researchers, as well as for everyone interested in contemporary problems of political developments in Muslim states.

This monograph covers the fundamental problems of legal theory and philosophy. The author focuses on the methodology of legal cognition from the perspective of fundamental jurisprudence. It is shown that methodological pluralism in theoretical legal sciences is determined by their dialogic nature and the presence of an ideological component. The propositions of neo-Kantian philosophy on issues of ethics, law, and the state are examined. The dogmatic component of legal theory is analyzed.

The textbook defines the concept and subject of mining law, characterizes the content of subsoil legislation, examines the right of ownership of subsoil, the resources contained in it, extracted minerals, and the structure of the state subsoil fund. It sets out the procedures for granting access to subsoil, the procedure for using subsoil, the specifics of the legal regime of subsoil plots of federal and local significance, the system of payments and taxes, control methods, and legal liability for subsoil use.

Intended for university students studying at the directions "Geology", "Prospecting and Exploration of Minerals", "Natural Resource Management", students of master's programmes of the corresponding profile.

This manual contains descriptions of algorithms proposed for implementation on a computer by students of the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Moscow State University in classes on "Computer Practical Training". For all algorithms, the necessary theoretical justification, corresponding calculation relationships and recommendations for their practical implementation on a computer are provided.

For students and postgraduates studying and applying methods of computational mathematics, and teachers conducting practical classes.

The textbook in the form of a workshop is intended for practical exercises in the disciplines "Mapping of extraterrestrial objects", read for master degree students of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The first part of the manual is devoted to small bodies of the Solar system, which are characterized by a variety of shapes. The manual proposes various technologies for their mapping. It can also be used as a reference manual for students in related specialties, graduate students and scientific employees.

This textbook describes the methods of light and electron microscopy, which are essential for students majoring in cell biology and histology. It discusses the design of the most commonly used light and electron microscopes in biology, as well as basic methods of microtechnics, cytochemistry, and immunocytochemistry. The textbook includes sections on modern microscopy methods, which have only become widely used in recent years but are already defining key areas of development in biology.

The fourth edition of ‘Practical Course in General Chemistry’ prepared by the author's team under the guidance of Professor S.F. Dunaev presents a wide range of practical tasks and tests that fully correspond to the course curricula of general and inorganic chemistry for non-chemical specialties at Moscow State University and other classical universities. The distinctive feature of this training manual is that it provides a wide representation of the chemistry of the elements. It envisages the use of modern equipment and modern methods of calculation and report in order to perform its tasks and tests. Every college and university and secondary specialized educational institution that teaches general and inorganic chemistry can use this training manual.

This textbook has been developed based on many years of experience in teaching theoretical and practical foundations of cardiovascular physiology at the Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. It describes modern methods of experimental study of the heart and blood vessels using isolated preparations, individual cells, as well as at the level of the whole organism. The manual is intended for use by students of the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University studying in the areas of "Biology" and "Fundamental and Applied Biology" when studying the specialized course "Practical Physiology of Visceral Systems". 

In addition, the manual will be useful for teachers and students of other specialties in biology and medicine in in-depth study of the material of physiology courses in the areas of "Bioengineering and Bioinformatics", "General Medicine", "Veterinary Medicine".

The manual, included in the UMK course "Technology: cooking, nutrition lessons" for students of grades 5-9, includes practical and laboratory work with technological maps for their implementation.

In the process of completing tasks, students will master practical skills such as workplace organization, safety regulations, the ability to use modern kitchen equipment, preparing a diet, choosing healthy quality products, proper storage and preparation of ingredients. Students will learn the technology of cooking and decoration of dishes, as well as the rules of serving and etiquette.

This monograph is a scientific report prepared by a team of scientists from Lomonosov Moscow State University (led by Academician V. A. Sadovnichy) for the 50th anniversary of the first report to the Club of Rome, "The Limits to Growth." The report reflects the views of Russian scientists on the fundamental changes occurring in the world in recent decades. The analysis of these changes is based on mathematical modeling of global socio-natural processes and the identification of patterns of global dynamics over a historical period of several thousand years.

The monograph presents a modeling methodology and specific mathematical models created using an integrated approach (including world-system, macrohistorical, and evolutionary approaches) to mathematical modeling, as well as a systems view of society, in which changes in one subsystem entail transformations in others. The changes that have led the world to its current state are analyzed; the main vectors of global transformations are identified; a forecast for the development of the main subsystems of society and the world as a whole (from the short term to the ultra-long term – up to 100 years) is presented; various development scenarios are presented, and recommendations for the transition to the most favorable scenario are provided.

The book contains examples and problems that allow us to master the methods of functional analysis without using the theory of measure and the Lebesgue integral. The manual is aimed at students specializing in applied mathematics. The reader needs to have prior knowledge of the basics of mathematical analysis and linear algebra.

The book contains scholarly works produced by the School of System Studies in the political economy of international relations and led by A.A. Kokoshin, A.N. Gromyko, A.A. Sidorov. The school was formed at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, based on the Department of international organizations and world political processes and the Center for security and development problems. The articles were prepared as part of the scientific project ‘Methodology of Systemic Analysis of the Practice of Applying ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft Power’ for
Foreign Policy Purposes’ This project was supported by a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for leading research schools of the Russian Federation (NSH-2427.2014.6). The collection contains articles on military, politico-diplomatic and financial-economic instruments as well as ‘soft power’ tools. The publication is addressed to students, postgraduate students and university and college teachers in the field of ‘International Affairs’ and ‘Political Science’, as well as to all whose who are interested in global policy problems.

The book contains scholarly works produced by the School of System Studies in the political economy of international relations and led by A.A. Kokoshin, A.N. Gromyko, A.A. Sidorov. The school was formed at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, based on the Department of international organizations and world political processes and the Center for security and development problems. The articles were prepared as part of the scientific project ‘Methodology of Systemic Analysis of the Practice of Applying ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft Power’ for Foreign Policy Purposes’ This project was supported by a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for leading research schools of the Russian Federation (NSH-2427.2014.6). The collection contains articles on military, politico-diplomatic and financial-economic instruments as well as ‘soft power’ tools. The publication is addressed to students, postgraduate students and university and college teachers in the field of ‘International Affairs’ and ‘Political Science’, as well as to all whose who are interested in global policy problems.

The monograph contains studies by international scientists who carry out research on the psychological aspects of COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on our lives. Special attention is given to the experience of providing psychological support in different regions of Russia and abroad. The book presents research-based recommendations for psychological guidance, as well as psychological training of medical workers and neuropsychological diagnosing and rehabilitation of COVID-19 patients.

The monograph will be of interest to specialists in psychology and to everyone interested in managing the consequences of COVID-19 pandemic.

The edition of selected works by A. A. Bodalev, the founder of the direction "Psychology of communication", reveals the features of perception and understanding of a person by a person, objective and subjective conditions that allow a person to reach the peak of his development (acme) as an individual, personality and professional during his life. The problems of interpersonal communication and factors that determine and influence the success of the formation of a person as an object and subject of communication from the standpoint of the socio-psychological approach are covered. The book is addressed to specialists working in various fields of human studies, and to all those interested in the problems of personality and communication.

The present monograph publishes the works by psychologists from Moscow University, the institution that has accumulated considerable material in the field of sports psychology, including both theoretical fi ndings and their practical application. “Sports Psychology” is a result of long-term work carried out by many researches. The book reflects recent tendencies as well as modern methods applied in the field of sports psychology. It presents the results of experimental studies carried out at Moscow University.

The book will be of interest not only to scientists and specialists in this field, but also to a wider audience interested in modern trends in sports psychology.

The book of selected works by P. Ya. Galperin is the most complete collection of his publications and speeches covering a wide range of fundamental and applied problems of psychology. The publication introduces the teaching of P. Ya. Galperin about orientation activity as a function of the psyche, ideas about its development in philo-, anthropo- and ontogenesis, the theory of gradual formation of mental actions and concepts, the concept of different types of orientation activity.

Of particular interest is the planned-stage formation as a method of studying mental processes, creative thinking and the problem of the relationship between learning and development.

The poetic collection ‘Bird Alphabet’ will help the younger generation to get to know the world of wildlife and will teach them how to love, understand and protect it.

The book ‘Vasily Terkin’ by A. Tvardovsky played an outstanding role during the Great Patriotic War and became, to put it in the words of a front-line soldier, an encyclopedia of the soldier's life which found place for humor that brightened up the endless trench warfare, and the harshest truth, ‘no matter how bitter it was.’ The long-time researcher of the great Russian poet’s life and work tells the story behind this ‘Book about a Soldier’, its complex fate and amazing artistic originality that is still to be fully appreciated.
For teachers of secondary and higher schools, their students, applicants and all lovers of Russian literature.

The book is dedicated to the ‘The Tale of Igor's Campaign’, one of the most famous and mysterious Russian literary monuments. Having been published in 1800 only once according to the manuscript that later burnt in the Moscow fire of 1812, ‘The Tale ...’ has constantly attracted the attention of researchers and writers and generated new interpretations for more than two centuries now. The manual examines the authenticity of the ancient Russian ‘poem’, the creation of a twelfth-century nameless scribe or an eighteenth-century mystification, and the problem of the genre nature of the work, the reflection of history in ‘The Tale ...’, obscure (‘dark’) passages and Christian elements in its text. The book is largely an overview of various modern scholarly interpretations of the monument.
For teachers of schools, lyceums and gymnasiums, students, high school students, applicants, philologists and a wide range of readers.

This original study of A.P. Chekhov's comedy ‘The Cherry Orchard’ is based on a detailed examination of exclusively primary sources — Chekhov's correspondence, memoirs and testimonies of his family and friends, a narrow and confidential social circle. In his first part - ‘The Cherry Orchard’ - ‘Anton Chekhov's Dreams’ - the author attempts to trace the accumulation of creative material, to substantiate and understand the primary sources from which the author derived his idea of writing the play, to analyze the most important circumstances of the writer's life that impacted his creative process. The second part - ‘The Cherry Orchard’ - ‘Mystification of Life’ – is in fact a scientific study of the play itself. The author presents and proves a number of hypotheses and psychological motives for the behavior of the play’s main characters, offers an original explanation of the factual aspect of the play, draws up complete and at times paradoxical psychological portraits of his characters. The third part of the book - ‘The Undisclosed Secrets of the Cherry Orchard’ (The Talk that Never Happened’ - gives the reader an opportunity to fantasize about the play and to reflect on the motives and circumstances that are not subject to scientific discussion and are merely the author’s assumptions and hypotheses.
For teachers and students of secondary and higher schools, applicants and everyone who wants to broaden their understanding of Chekhov's art outside the standard interpretation of this author that has been elaborated in the scientific and journalistic literature.

This book is the first one to analyze all of A.А. Fet’s lyrical poems which are included in the Education Standard for secondary schools and in the sysllabus for MSU applicants: ‘The cat is singing, his eyes screwed up ...’, ‘As a wavy cloud ...’, ‘Whispers, timid breathing ...’, ‘This morning, this joy ...’, ‘The night was shining, Moonlight had filled the garden...’ and others. Each of the 14 chapters offers a review of one of these poems. The author analyses the motive organization, figurative structure, vocabulary, features of their sound patterns, metrics and rhythms of Fet’s texts.
For teachers of schools, gymnasiums and lyceums, high school students, university entrants, students and teachers of philology and all admirers of Russian literary classics.

The commentary on the tragedy is based on the interlinear translation of the variant of the text, which was published in the First Folio (1623). The text of the word-for-word translation is compared with the 20th century Soviet translations, which were marked by censorship and aesthetic restrictions so inherent in Soviet literary criticism. The guidebook aims to bring the reader closer to the understanding of Shakespeare's phraseology, the idioms and jokes of his comic characters that live in Verona but speak the language of Elizabethan London.

Andrei Platonov’s novella ‘The Pit Foundation’, one of the most unusual events in Russian literature, is almost journalistically saturated with the realities of that time and is a striking documentary source of Russia’s 20th century dramatic history. The guide to ‘The Pit Foundation’ provides an easy-to-understand and fascinating account about the factual underpinnings of this complex allegorical work; the philosophical subtext of the novella, the literary parallels of its plot, composition and main characters.

For teachers of schools, lyceums and gymnasiums; students, high school students, university entrants, specialists in philology and a wide range of readers.

‘Chevengur’ occupies a central place in Andrei Platonov’s work. The guidebook offers an artistic story behind the novel against the backdrop of the 1920s socio-political situation; it provides a complete philological analysis of the work, showing its links with the historical and cultural context (mythological, religious, philosophical, political and scientific reminiscences including those related to the works of 19th and 20th century Russian literature). It examines the linguostylistic features of Platonov’s text – its specific collocational characteristics and connotational nuances.
For teachers, philologists, students, applicants, high school students and a wide range of readers.

According to V.G. Belinsky, ‘Eugene Onegin’ ‘is Pushkin’s most intimate work, the most beloved child of his imagination.’ There have been numerous researchers’ commentaries on Pushkin's novel in verse. The author of this book takes into account literary scholars’ commentaries and interpretations. At the same time, the reader will find here a lot of new material that has escaped the attention of its previous researchers. The ‘slow reading’ method allows the reader to get rather extensive ideas about the genre of Pushkin’s novel in verse, the nature of its main characters and their relationship with each other. In elucidating the text of ‘Eugene Onegin’ the author successfully brings Pushkin's speech closer to the modern idiom without leaving any of the novel’s realities unexplained. To facilitate the reader's understanding of the Pushkin novel in verse, the book contains a glossary of mythological and art historian terms used in ‘Eugene Onegin.’

For school and university teachers, their students, applicants and all lovers of Russian literature.

By proving that in Russia existed a language situation characterized by the presence of two opposing normed language phenomena from the time of the origin of writing and up until the modern time, Professor M. M. Remneva traces the history of the evolution of the Russian (East Slavonic, Old Russian) literary language based on the material of four hundred 11th-17th century monuments and analyzes its grammatical system in comparison with the language system that was reflected in the Old Church Slavonic texts.

For teachers, graduate students, students and all those who are interested in the history of the language.

A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?

In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today. Children born into disadvantage are, by the time they start kindergarten, already at risk of dropping out of school, teen pregnancy, crime, and a lifetime of low-wage work. This is bad for all those born into disadvantage and bad for American society.

Current social and education policies directed toward children focus on improving cognition, yet success in life requires more than smarts. Heckman calls for a refocus of social policy toward early childhood interventions designed to enhance both cognitive abilities and such non-cognitive skills as confidence and perseverance. This new focus on preschool intervention would emphasize improving the early environments of disadvantaged children and increasing the quality of parenting while respecting the primacy of the family and America's cultural diversity.

Heckman shows that acting early has much greater positive economic and social impact than later interventions — which range from reduced pupil-teacher ratios to adult literacy programs to expenditures on police — that draw the most attention in the public policy debate. At a time when state and local budgets for early interventions are being cut, Heckman issues an urgent call for action and offers some practical steps for how to design and pay for new programs.

The debate that follows delves deeply into some of the most fraught questions of our time: the sources of inequality, the role of schools in solving social problems, and how to invest public resources most effectively. Mike Rose, Geoffrey Canada, Charles Murray, Carol Dweck, Annette Lareau, and other prominent experts participate.

The textbook has been prepared on the basis of special courses taught at the Department of Accelerator Physics and Radiation Medicine for 20 years. The main material for the book was the textbooks of the cycle "Library of Medical Physics" for the basic courses of the department, published in 2017-2019. The textbook consists of three sections: theoretical chapters, nuclear physics in medicine, clinical dosimetry and quality assurance.

The textbook is intended for students of physical, physico-technical, chemical, radiobiological specialties studying in the specialty " Physics of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles", "Medical physics". It will also be useful for students of other physical, chemical, biological and medical specialties preparing to work in radiological departments of oncological institutions. The publication is also aimed at students studying under the program of additional professional retraining of medical physicists, as well as medical specialists working in radiology, radiation therapy and diagnostics, nuclear medicine.

This monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of using very-long-baseline radio interferometers (VLBI) in astrometry and geodesy. It covers VLBI theory, methods for reducing astrometric observations, and analysis of the results in detail.

A common view is that folktales are for children. In general, this is not the case, let alone for Russian folktales. This becomes more obvious when we take a closer look at the rather violent content of these stories. Thus the challenge of this work is an attempt to reestablish the reality of these stories, intended primarily for the adult reader, by offering them accompanied by a philosophical analysis, as well as with questions inviting the amateur of tales to meditate further on the content of these narrations. Since one of the consequences of the infantilization of these stories is precisely that they tend to lose their function, which consists in making the listener reflect on the world, on humanity, on psychology, on himself etc. The allegories or metaphors they contain constitute in fact a kind of narrative philosophy, taking the form of fables or parables, all of which are meant to feed our thoughts. Of course, without excluding children.

The book is devoted to the construction of various versions of the theories of elastic thin bodies using the method of orthogonal polynomials. It deals with selected issues of classical and micropolar continuum mechanics and eigenvalue problems of tensor objects of any even rank with some applications to mechanics. Formulas expressing explicitly complete systems of orthonormal proper tensor objects are derived. Classifications of materials are given.

For researchers, undergraduates and postgraduates specializing in the fields of deformable solid mechanics and mechanics of thin structures.

This monograph reveals the multifaceted and complex relationship between Mussolini's regime and civil society. It identifies the characteristics of the Italian model of totalitarianism, the main forms and methods of total government control over citizens' lives. Particular attention is paid to the evolution of Italian mass consciousness and the problem of consensus—the emergence, essence, and collapse of the contradictory form of "consent" that was widespread in the 1930s among a significant portion of society with the ideological and political postulates and activities of Mussolini's regime.

The edition abstracts of oral and poster presentations of participants of the Resonance Nanophotonics Educational Workshop (ReNEW) conference, which was held from July 8 to 12, 2024, at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

This book offers a new reading of Alexander Pushkin’s ‘The Captain's Daughter’. The well-known literary critic Yu.M. Lotman rightly remarked: What’s happening with ‘The Captain's Daughter’ is the same as what happened to such works as Cervantes’s ‘Don Quixote’: the novel being too serious even for an adult reader, it has been transferred to the category of children’s books.’ The manual is addressed to high school students, applicants, students and teachers.

The experimental tasks included in the textbook are based on lecture materials read to students and are aimed at strengthening the theoretical knowledge gained. The publication can be useful for self-preparation of students of natural sciences faculties of universities and medical universities for classes in the physiology of the central nervous system, and can also be used to organize practical classes by university teachers of biological, medical, psychological, veterinary profile.

The manual presents experimental tests for practical consolidation of the fundamental lecture course in the physiology of man and animals, which was read at the biological, psychological and medical faculties, Moscow State University. Compared with the first edition (published by Moscow University Press in 1975), the manual includes a new section - problems in general pathophysiology. The manual describes both classical and advanced techniques using modern electronic equipment. The description of the tests is given in a format that generally corresponds to the rules for the design of scientific publications in the specialized literature.

For students, post-graduate students and teachers of biological, medical-biological, psychological and veterinary specialties.

The textbook aims to describe the way the system of linguistic education was formed in the Russian grammar studies of the 1820–1850s. Their authors' approaches to theoretical and practical issues of learning Russian are extended with the analysis of their contemporaries' reviews of the grammar textbooks. Tables, diagrams, follow-up questions, literature lists as well as tasks for the analysis of scientific and linguistic texts will allow readers to process the information in a more productive way. The addenda provide the basic information about the biography and studies of the prominent modern linguists and philosophers as well as Russian philologists of the XVIII–XX centuries mentioned in the book.

The textbook is intended to be used in the course on the history of Russian linguistics or alike.

The textbook "Russian Literature and journalism of the XVIII century" is already the 5th edition. The content of the book covers the period from Peter the Great's transformations to the last decade of the XVIII century, when sentimentalism was established in Russia as a literary trend. The author analyzes the artistic and journalistic works and journalistic activities of famous writers of the XVIII century, introducing the reader to a wide range of names — from Feofan Prokopovich to N.M. Karamzin.

The publication is intended for students, postgraduates and university teachers.

The famous teacher and scientist, academician, Professor Y.M. Sokolov (1889-1941) considers the artistic properties of Russian folklore, its features as a phenomenon of traditional Russian culture. All types of folklore are covered. The history of collecting and studying folklore in Russia is presented. The book is characterized by brevity and clarity of presentation, written in excellent language. Time has highlighted the scientific merits of the book. And to this day the surviving copies of the first (1938) and second (1941) editions are in use by the higher school. The book was also published in English. In the process of preparing for the third edition, comments were made on certain outdated provisions.

For students, postgraduates, teachers and anyone interested in Russian folklore.

The textbook “Russian language and speech culture” is intended for students of the Faculty of History of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. It can also be used (in whole or in part) in other humanities faculties, as well as in branches of the Moscow State University. The manual covers all the main topics of the course (including the question of the norms and styles of the modern Russian language) and significantly expands the topics related to the history of the Russian language and its place among other Slavic languages. The manual includes fragments of popular scientific texts of modern philologists who discuss the state of the Russian language today. These materials will allow students to engage in a discussion about the current state of the language and to understand the active processes taking place in it as a new stage of its systemic historical development.

The book is devoted to the description of species, hybrids and varieties of representatives of the genus Rowan (Sorbus L.), which have been grown and observed for several decades in the open ground collection of the Botanical Garden of Biology Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

 A detailed description of cultivated varieties and natural species with an indication of their origin and biological properties is given. Data on reproduction, agricultural technology, decorative and food use of rowan trees are presented. Attention is paid to the history of selection work and rowan cultivation in our country. Data on winter hardiness based on long-term observations of rowans under the climate conditions of the Central zone of European Russia are presented.

The publication will be useful for specialists in the fields of botany, fruit growing and landscape design, and also for students and a wide range of amateur gardeners.

The book contains about 700 problems for finding extremes for the finite-dimensional case, for problems of classical calculus of variations, optimal control and convex programming. It contains elements of functional analysis, differential calculus and convex analysis.

The book contains the theory necessary for solving problems and examples. The basis for solving all problems is a single principle that goes back to Lagrangian. Some of the tasks are given with solutions. There are a large number of difficult tasks that can be used as term papers and theses.

For university students majoring in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, as well as for graduate students and researchers.

The monograph summarizes and systematizes the results on the fundamental problem of plasma physics related to the study of physical processes occurring in low-temperature non-stationary multicomponent gas-discharge plasma created by microwave and transverse discharges in high-speed flows of chemically active mixtures. This new field of plasma physics includes both fundamental research of the mechanisms and kinetics of atomic-molecular transformations in plasma, as well as applied aspects of optimization of plasma-chemical processes in supersonic air and air-hydrocarbon flows.

For researchers, graduate students and students specializing in the field of aerodynamics, plasma physics, chemical and physical kinetics.

This textbook for second- and third-year students corresponds to the "Particle and Nuclear Physics" section of the general physics curriculum for universities. It contains the basic concepts of particle and nuclear physics and problems to reinforce the material covered. The material presented can be used in seminars and for independent study.

This book presents the fundamentals of the discipline "Semiotics of Art" as a science exploring the semiotic nature of art. It provides a systematic exposition of the key concepts, terms, and categories of semiotics as empirical and theoretical knowledge, exploring the properties, structures, and types of signs. It analyzes the sign systems represented in social semiotics. The primary focus is on describing the sign systems of the arts—both non-applied (music, dance, image) and applied (architecture, costume, design). It substantiates the historical concept of the interaction between language and the sign systems of the arts. General historical features of the development of semiotics as a field of humanities knowledge are outlined. The textbook includes a glossary of terms used in the course, illustrations, and musical notation examples. All illustrations, except photographs taken by the author, are taken from open sources.

The book contains interviews of 2015-2021 with the Doctor of Philology Igor Alekseevich Pilshchikov, and a transcript of his report "Russian Quantitative Formalism of the 1910s-1930s as a precursor of Digital Humanities" with subsequent discussion (online seminar "Current methods of philological research", IRLI RAS, September 15, 2021). The discussions are devoted to the place of philology in the modern digital world, the creation and maintenance of scientific electronic libraries, digital archives and databases, Russian formal school as a precursor of modern quantitative formalism in literature research. A wider range of topics is also touched upon: from the student life of the 1980s and the philological environment of the 1990s to a variety of specific historical, literary and research issues.

The Septuagint, being the fi rst written biblical translation, was also the early testimony of understanding of the sacred text. It was not inferior by age to the scrolls of Qumran and earlier than the New Testament books, as well as than the written form of aramaic targums. The whole literature of Judaeo-Hellenism is associated with it. For the early Greek Christian communities it was the fi rst form of Scriptura Sacra. Opposition of angels and demons, idea of creation of the Universe «ex nihilo» were perceived by the European thought through the Septuagint. The study of this textual witness now seems to be more and more important and, from other side, more and more complicated, due to the scale and the depth of sources, and also due to the crisis of understanding.

This textbook is based on a course of lectures given at the Baku branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 2018, the lectures were given by Professor M.V. Sazhin, and in 2019, by Professor V.E. Zharov. Both authors are recognized experts in astrometry and astrophysics, winners of Russian and international scientific awards. The main goal of the textbook is to teach students the fundamentals of astronomy and astrophysics.

The book presents the fundamentals of astrometry, celestial mechanics, and gravimetry. It covers time scales, astronomical databases, and astronomical constants in detail, as well as the design of telescopes for various ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to hard gamma rays. The structure of the solar system is described taking into account recent discoveries using space research methods.

Electromagnetic processes in astrophysics, the internal structure of stars and the physical processes within them, and galaxies are discussed. A basic introduction to modern cosmology is provided.

The publication covers the current state of geometric approximation theory, its new directions and the results corresponding to these directions. Classical questions related to direct and inverse theorems for Chebyshev sets and their generalizations are discussed. Structural and approximative characteristics of general and specific approximating sets are studied, as well as the properties of stability, uniqueness and existence of elements of best approximations and continuous selections from operators of best and almost best approximation. Most problems are considered in the class of asymmetrically normed spaces. The book is intended for students, postgraduates and researchers working in the field of approximation theory and related areas.

The manual highlights theoretical and practical issues of the morphology of the modern Russian language. The material is presented in the volume provided by the mandatory program for students of philological faculties of universities. New studies on the categories of gender, number, case, type, time, etc. are involved. The manual is written on the basis of a lecture course given by the author at Moscow State University. 

For students of philology, graduate students, teachers of schools with a humanitarian orientation.

Based on a detailed analysis of models and concepts developed in the history of world social thought in the 19th–21st centuries, this textbook examines the philosophical, political and historical aspects of the theory of social and political dynamics. Particular attention is paid to the ideas and concepts of Russian scientists and the analysis of real historical (and, above all, transitional) processes in Russia.

The textbook is intended for university students studying in the fields of "Philosophy" and "Political Science."

This book is a continuation of the work of G. V. Osipov "Sociology and Social Myth-Making". It shows the inconsistency of social myths that were widespread in the Soviet period. Today the myths of neoliberals and their practice have led to the destruction of the economy and culture of Russia, have caused enormous damage to its national security. The author convincingly proves that only by displacing social myth-making, on the basis of scientific data, including and above all sociology, can one consciously and effectively radically reform Russian reality and foresee the consequences of practical activities. It is stated in the book that reforms, during the implementation of which a person degrades, are reactionary: the main goal of reform should be spiritual, social and physical development of a person.

Meant for sociologists, philosophers, political scientists, specialists in other humanities, deputies of representative bodies at all levels, employees of the state apparatus, party functionaries.

This textbook explores the specifics of the sociological approach to understanding the city and urbanization, examines the history of this research field, and characterizes the current state of this field of sociological knowledge.

It presents in detail the concepts of A. Lefebvre, M. Castells, D. Harvey, R. Sennett, S. Sassen, J. Therborn, and E. Soya, which are of greatest significance to contemporary sociological theory.

The monograph examines the scientific status of sociology, acutely debated by representatives of various sociological schools. The milestones of the development of sociological science in Russia and in the USSR are investigated. The author offers his understanding of the theory and structure of sociology, its role and place in the system of social sciences and humanities.

The history of our country has proved the destructiveness of myth-making as the basis of social reconstruction. The monograph presents significant tools of sociological science for overcoming social myth-making.

The conclusions of the book are closely related to the ideas of the work "Social myth-making and social practice", published by the publishing house "Norma" in 2000.

The monograph is intended for sociologists, philosophers, economists, political scientists and readers interested in the problems of studying modern life

This textbook is based on the results of sociological studies of demographic behaviour conducted in Russian regions from 1970 to 2024. Population sociology provides a scientific explanation for changes caused by the social consequences of population decline, which is due to the spread of low-childhood lifestyles.

This textbook covers a wide range of topics related to the sociological analysis of religion. Special attention is paid to the formation and development of the sociology of religion in Russia, a clear definition of the subject area of the sociology of religion in the system of sociological knowledge. The social aspects of the leading religious doctrines are highlighted in detail, and the anti-systemic activities of totalitarian sects and religious cults are substantiated. An important place is occupied by the analysis of the process of politicization of religion and the problems of building a confessional youth policy.

Textbook. 2nd edition. The textbook discusses the principles and methodology of comparative historical linguistics, presents the history of the Proto-Slavic language, contains information about the territory of settlement of the ancient Slavs and their contacts with native speakers of other languages. A special section is devoted to the history of the sound system of the Proto-Slavic language and the later phonetic transformations.

The book is intended for students and postgraduates of philological faculties as a textbook for the course "Comparative grammar of Slavic languages" and as a textbook for the course "Introduction to Slavic Philology".

The textbook, created by one of the prominent scientists in the field of Slavic linguistics, includes the following sections: philological introduction; phonetics; texts from Old Slavic monuments intended for practical classes and containing all the basic data that are studied in the course of the Old Slavic language; dictionary; essays on morphology.

3rd edition, revised and supplemented. CD-ROM. 

The textbook by M.L. Remneva, based on modern scientific concepts, gives a detailed description of the system of the Old Slavic language of the IX-XI centuries, analyzes the process of its formation starting from the initial characteristics of the Indo-European language, traces the fate of specific phenomena of the Old Slavic language in the history of national Slavic languages. 

CD-ROM. In this edition, the book is supplemented with an electronic hypertext course prepared on its basis (authors M.L. Remneva and O.V. Dedova), as well as texts and a dictionary (compiled by V.S. Savelyev).

The illustrated terminological dictionary of structural geology is intended for students and undergraduates studying in the field of "Geology", as well as for geologists engaged in structural research. The dictionary contains 340 terms, which are arranged in alphabetical order. Almost all terms are accompanied by illustrations, for most of them there is an English translation.

The universal psychological features of the interpretation of the idea of fate as an ancient phenomenon of everyday consciousness are revealed. The main variants of interpretation of the predestination of the course and outcome of individual life and ways of acquaintance with them are presented. Archetypal reactions to the predestined or apparent are determined. The reasons for the unfading faith in fate, which testify to the psychological reality of mythical representations, are characterized.

The book is addressed to fellow humanitarians and a wide range.

The textbook summarizes the materials of educational and methodological developments of the basic course "Sociology of Religion", taught at the Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University for undergraduate students of the educational program in the field of Religious Studies. The publication presents both classical scientific views on a wide range of problems of the sociology of religion in historical, conceptual, methodological aspects, and the author's solution of those problems that constitute the main subject field of the sociology of religion. The appendices contain a number of cases representing examples of sociological research conducted by the staff of the department under the guidance of the author of the textbook — Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Professor of Moscow University I. N. Yablokov. For undergraduate students taking courses in sociology of religion, philosophy of religion and religious studies, as well as for all interested- engaged in the study of religion.

The scientific and auxiliary work was carried out by the Candidate of Philos. M. S. Kiselev, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies.

The monograph is devoted to the scientific, methodological and experimental foundations of soil engineering - an innovative direction in geoecology, soil science and landscape engineering, which allows using models of the physical organization of soils to design and create soil objects (constructozems) optimal in their characteristics using natural and synthetic materials — soil conditioners. In the theoretical part of the work, edaphic factors, processes and models of the natural structural and functional organization of soils are analyzed, which form the fundamental basis of technological modeling to identify optimal parameters of soil structures at the design stage. In practice, the proposed variants of soil structures have demonstrated high efficiency in conditions of irrigation farming and land scaping in the arid climate of the Persian Gulf countries (UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan), as well as greening and landscaping of urban areas with high anthropogenic load on the example of a metropolitan city. 

For specialists in the field of soil science, environmental engineering, landscape architecture, organizations working in the field of agriculture, recultivation, landscaping and integrated land improvement, students, postgraduates of universities in the specialties "Ecology" and "Soil Science".

This book is based on special courses “Pattern Recognition”, “Intelligent Systems” taught at the Department of Mathematical Theory of Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

This book is based on special courses “Data bases theory”, “Intelligent Systems” taught at the Department of Mathematical Theory of Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

This book is based on special courses “Computer solver of mathematical problems”, “Intelligent Systems” taught at the Department of Mathematical Theory of Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

This book is based on special courses “The theory of automata”, “Intelligизд. — Мос ква : Издательство Московского университета, 2026. — 305, [3] с. : ил. — (Классический универ си тетс кий учебник).ent Systems” taught at the Department of Mathematical Theory of Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The textbook corresponds to the program of the courses "Functional Analysis", "Operator Theory", "Analysis III", which are taught at universities and pedagogical universities. The book presents the basic set-theoretic concepts, presents the general theory of metric, topological, linear topological and normalized spaces, the general theory of measure, measurable functions and the Lebesgue integral. The theory of operators in Hilbert space, the spectral theory of self-adjoint operators, traces of operators, applications of methods of the theory of analytic functions in the spectral theory of non-self-adjoint operators, the theory of the Fourier transform and generalized functions are considered in detail.

For students of universities, pedagogical universities and universities with advanced study of mathematics. It can be useful for graduate students and researchers.

The book by V. T. Tretyakov, Dean of the Higher School of Television at Lomonosov Moscow State University, author of the popular textbook "How to Become a Famous Journalist", is devoted to the description of the television theory created by him, which has no analogues in the world - not to mention Russian ones - or even precedents for constructing a conceptual theory of television (excluding its technical issues). This is also an entertaining textbook. Each lecture is concluded with test questions and practical tasks that allow you to better assimilate the material. The book includes a "Dictionary of Television Terms and Concepts" compiled by the author, as well as subject-thematic and name indexes.

The publication is intended for university students studying at the programmes "Television", "Journalism".

As a result of the training, students will learn about the requirements for the organization of the workplace, the quality and storage of products, and learn how to determine the nutritional value of products. In addition, students will get acquainted with modern kitchen equipment, safety equipment, master the technology of cooking and decorating healthy dishes, as well as the basics of serving and etiquette. The textbook has been developed in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard of Basic General Education as an additional educational program on the subject "Technology". It is included in the UMK for grades 5-9 in the course "Technology: cooking, nutrition lessons".

This course aims at providing comprehensive preparation for the State Exam and the International Exam in the Spanish language. The course contains two full practice tests in the format of the State Exam and one full test in the format of DELE "Escolar". This course is followed by the CD-disk with authentic materials and documents, regulating the structure and the content of examinational materials for the State Exam (Exam Specifi cation and Codifi cation of the Spanish Language) and contains the State Exam demo test 2013 as well.

This course is designed for teachers and teacher consultants, who manage the preparation of senior pupils to the State Exam and for all the students, who are going to prepare for the State Exam individually or with the help of a teacher, using all the tips and typical test items that allow them to evaluate the level of their preparedness.

The book is based on the courses of lectures that are read annually for graduate students of the Department of Theory of Functions and Functional Analysis of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University in preparation for the candidate's minimum. The book contains 19 chapters devoted to various topics from the theory of functions of a real variable, functional analysis and the theory of functions of a complex variable.

The book is intended for students and postgraduates specializing in the theory of functions and functional analysis, as well as for a wide range of mathematicians and physicists using the theory of functions and functional analysis in their research.

The training manual is intended for students and teachers of the Master's degree and is focused on the training of managerial personnel for the field of education, competent in data analytics and evidence-based development of education.

In the context of the development of information systems and services for the analysis of educational data and data on education, the request for training of personnel competent in the formation of managerial decisions based on data, the construction of individual educational trajectories of students based on the analysis of educational results is being updated. The textbook reveals the logic and content of the master's degree program "Data-based education management", organizational and didactic principles of its implementation, competence model, evaluation tools, educational management cases on the example of data sets.

This textbook continues the traditions of Russian Spanish studies and provides information on the grammar, word formation, vocabulary, and pragmatics of the Spanish language, taking into account the theoretical principles contained in the academic works of leading Russian and Spanish-speaking philologists and linguists.

The textbook summarizes, systematizes and deepens knowledge of grammar, word formation, vocabulary and stylistics of the Russian language.

The book is intended for foreign students — students, undergraduates, postgraduates of philological faculties of Russian universities, studying Russian in accordance with the requirements of the State Educational Standard (III certification level: general knowledge, professional module "Philology"). The textbook can also be used by teachers of the Russian language abroad.

The purpose of this manual is to develop practical skills of oral, written and oral-written translation, ‘at sight' translation, abstracting and annotating of the scientific text on economics. It will be of interest for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students of economics, students of the program Translating in the Sphere of Professional Communication, apprentice translators and for all those who aim to master economic translation on their own.

This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, subsidy agreement No. 075-15-2021-1060 dated 09.28.2021

The monograph provides an overview of fundamental and clinical research on the influence of genetic polymorphisms on the effectiveness of anticancer drugs, and also describes the results of a comparative analysis of the level of representation of pharmacogenetic information in clinical recommendations and instructions for the medical use of anticancer drugs in Russia and other countries of the world. A number of problems have been identified and options for the development of pharmacogenetics and personalized medicine in the Russian Federation have been proposed.

The book is intended for researchers and practicing doctors of various specialties, for students of medical and biological universities.

This textbook covers topics in hydrodynamics, physical and chemical kinetics, shock wave propagation in liquids and solids, detonation theory, and applications of explosion physics related to the processing of materials by explosions, cavitation, and cumulation. Particular attention is paid to traditional and modern experimental methods of research, visualization, and recording of fast processes, as well as the use of explosions to obtain extreme states of matter.

This textbook examines the specifics and consequences of the technological expansion of the subject during anthropotechnological evolution. It explores the sociocultural context of the information society, which is associated with the spread of a postmodern worldview. It analyzes the human consequences of everyday technologies such as television, computers, and smartphones. It assesses the opportunities and risks of adapting to information society technologies, the scale and speed of which have led to the deformation of stable models of identification.

This textbook is intended for students studying the author's courses "Sociocultural and Clinical-Psychological Aspects of Information Technology" and "Current Issues in Philosophy," postgraduate students specializing in the humanities, teachers of philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, and sociology, as well as readers interested in the state of contemporary society and culture and the problems associated with the widespread introduction of information technology into human life.

The textbook highlights the main problems of the theory and history of philosophy of law. Much attention is paid to the methodology of philosophical and legal research, the status of the philosophy of law as a scientific and educational discipline. Axiology and ontology of state and law, issues of legal culture and legal awareness are examined in detail. Theoretical provisions are based on a wide social science material on various branches of knowledge.

For students, graduate students and teachers of legal, philosophical, political science and other humanitarian universities and faculties.

The textbook characterizes organogenic elements (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur) that are part of both the living matter of bioproducts — higher plants, phyto-, zooplankton and bacteria, and combustible fossils. The main part is devoted to the description of the properties and composition of combustible minerals: natural gas, oil and naphthides, peat, brown, hard coals, anthracites, sapropelites, oil shales, as well as their secondary changes in deposits in the zones of hypergenesis and catagenesis. An idea of analytical methods for studying their properties and composition is given. The connection of the molecular composition of living matter with the composition of caustobiolites — chemophossils and their precursors for the geological and geochemical interpretation of analytical data is traced. Examples of material and material-genetic classifications of caustobiolites are described. The review of modern methods of interpretation of data on the molecular composition of oil and organic matter of rocks is presented. The abiogenic and organic concepts of the origin of oil and the arguments of proponents of biogenic hypotheses and sedimentary-migration theory of the origin of oil are considered.

The textbook is intended for students, undergraduates and postgraduates studying in the specialty 1.6.11 "Geology, prospecting, exploration and exploitation of oil and gas fields" at geological faculties of universities.

This textbook presents the theoretical foundations of the chemistry, physical chemistry, and physics of macromolecular compounds from the perspective of the synthesis-structure-properties relationship. It explains how macromolecules are formed and their molecular characteristics are determined. It examines the structure of an isolated macromolecule, macromolecules in dispersed and condensed states, and their relationship with molecular characteristics. It also discusses the fundamental properties of polymers in solution and in the bulk, as well as the reasons for the unique properties of polymers that distinguish them from other materials.

This textbook presents information on the fundamental properties of nucleic acids and presents modern methods for their study and application. The purpose of this textbook is to introduce undergraduate and graduate students specializing in the chemistry of natural compounds to the most important areas of nucleic acid chemistry: the structure and properties of their individual components, the synthesis of natural and modified oligonucleotides, the basic techniques for sequencing nucleotides in DNA and RNA, the study of their spatial structure, chemical approaches to the study of nucleic acid-protein complexes, and diagnostic methods for diseases associated with genomic damage.

The book presents modern ideas about the physico-chemical properties and reactivity characteristics of various classes of organic sulfur compounds containing sulfur atoms in various degrees of oxidation. The main purpose of the textbook is to deepen the basic theoretical concepts and skills of predicting the direction of chemical reactions of sulfur-containing organic derivatives. The similarity and difference of chemical properties of organosulfur compounds and structurally similar derivatives of carbon and oxygen are analyzed.

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been actively developing, penetrating into all spheres of human activity, revolutionizing them and bringing significant progress to solving numerous problems. The publication contains texts in English that give an idea of AI key areas, as well as exercises in various formats, appendixes and a dictionary for practicing vocabulary on this topic. 

This Textbook is intended for students studying English at the Lomonosov Moscow State University CMC Faculty, as well as at the IT departments of other universities.

This manual is intended for students of the Faculty of Biology and the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine of Moscow State University for their successful mastery of the practical course "Special Histology". The manual contains a presentation of theoretical information on each topic studied in a minimal volume, so it is recommended as additional educational material that does not replace textbooks and atlases. Preparations are considered on separate topics, each of which corresponds to the study of a certain organ system. To facilitate memorization of the material, a brief description of the preparations is given with an emphasis on those distinctive features that are clearly visible under a light microscope at standard coloring. The list of questions at the end of each section is compiled to help students prepare for the test and exam in the course "Special Histology".

The manual can be recommended for reviewing basic material before mastering such disciplines as "Splanchnology", "Pathological Histology", "Pathological Anatomy" and the special course "Epithelial, Muscular and Nerve Tissue".

The manual is devoted to the description of a variety of techniques and successful experience in organizing nature research with children in kindergartens, summer camps, in a specialized environmental laboratory, at educational holidays and science festivals. A special section is devoted to family activities in which both children and their parents are involved in research activities.

For a wide range of readers: teachers, volunteers working with children, parents.

This brochure was written based on a lecture for schoolchildren, which the author gave at the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Moscow State University on March 25, 2017 as part of the “University Saturday” project, carried out with the support of the Moscow Department of Education. The presentation of the material significantly complements the content of the lecture and calculates It is intended for a wide range of readers interested in mathematics: high school students, junior students, high school teachers and university professors.

The material of the tutorial corresponds to the programme of the course "Numerical Methods" recommended by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. It contains the main provisions of the theory, a large number of detailed examples that are the basis for computer solutions of practical and educational problems of varying levels of complexity - from home exercises to term papers and theses. Exercises for independent work are included. A book of this type has no analogues either in our country or abroad.

For students of universities, pedagogical universities, universities with advanced study of mathematics, as well as for students of technical universities, postgraduate students and teachers, engineers and researchers using numerical methods in their practical activities.

The publication is devoted to the presentation of physically and geometrically nonlinear quasi-static boundary value problems of solid mechanics and their implementation by the finite element method. The book combines educational material and new results obtained by the authors. For composite materials, the asymptotic two-scale method is used. Numerical modeling of the consolidation process, effective properties of rocky soils, dispersed composite and rubber-cord layer is described.

The book is intended for researchers, graduate students and students, as well as engineers and researchers in applied fields of knowledge who use asymptotic and numerical methods in their activities.

This book is written as a guidance for literature teachers and senior high school pupils of gymnasiums and lyceums majoring in humanities to help them preparing for compositions on masterpieces of the Russian literature. These are namely Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin; Mikhail Lermontov’s poem Death of the Poet and his novel A Hero of Our Time; Ivan Turgenev’s short novel Asya and his novel Fathers and Sons', Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov, What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky; Poor Folk and main novels by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Nikolai Nekrasov’s poem Poet and Citizen and finally the Russian novel itself in its national and authentic form, and certain novels of such contemporary heritors of the literary classic of the XIX century as Vasily Belov and Alexander Potemkin.

The book is intended for the teachers of secondary schools, gymnasiums and lyceums, school leavers, students and lecturers at the Departments of Philology as well as everyone who admires Russian literary classic and values it.

This textbook provides an overview of the state environmental management system, the Institute of Environmental Assessment in general, and the requirements of the Russian Federation's environmental legislation in particular. The material in this textbook helps students develop practical competencies and fundamental scientific knowledge in the field of environmental protection.

This monograph presents the scientific and methodological foundations of the environmental quality management system, analyzes the structure and effectiveness of the legal mechanism for environmental protection, and explores the role of standards, environmental control, and environmental legal liability in environmental protection.

The book is accompanied by a concise glossary of environmental legal terminology.

The textbook presents the philosophical foundations of strategy theory, the methodology of strategy development and implementation, regional and industry strategizing, the financial foundations of strategizing, strategic leadership and strategic management. The textbook is written based on the strategizing methodology of a scientist-practitioner, a world-famous strategist, a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor, Dr. Sci. (Economics), Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation Vladimir Lvovich Kvint. The presented theoretical provisions embody advanced international experience, reflect the results of the authors' research and 18 years of experience in teaching strategic disciplines at Moscow State University, and the real strategies they have developed at various levels in Russia and abroad.

For students studying in the fields of "Management", "Economics", "Human Resources Management", as well as for students of relevant advanced training courses, leaders of companies, federal departments, regions and municipalities.

This textbook introduces students to the main categories and trends in the development of economic policy areas: monetary, fiscal, foreign trade and social. The material is based on theories of macroeconomics, foreign trade, the public sector and extensive foreign experience. The authors relied on an analysis of modern trends in economic policy, taking into account its response to the global economic crises of 2007-2009 and 2020. The textbook allows students to develop an understanding of how decisions are made in the field of economic policy and what tools are used within the framework of its main directions in developed countries and countries with emerging markets.

The content of the textbook is based on the lecture series "Economic Policy", which the authors have been giving since 2011 for students of the Moscow School of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The textbook can be used by teachers of relevant subjects in the field of macroeconomics and national economy management and senior students of universities.

We talk about the basic concepts of statistics, understanding by it, as is customary in the school course, descriptive statistics. The main attention is paid to statistical variables and operations on them (linear transformations, summation, mixing). In the final section, using the example of the history of the discovery of argon, we talk about the role of statistics in natural science.

Reform theory is a relatively new branch of economic theory that studies the processes of targeted change in economic institutions. This monograph outlines the range of relevant problems and presents some of the most important results of reform theory. It develops a view of reform as a process of constructing an institutional trajectory that satisfies certain requirements, and proposes methods for constructing promising trajectories. Different reform strategies are compared, the problems of transplanting economic institutions are considered, institutional dysfunctions, the mechanisms of formation and evolution of institutional traps, and the causes of transformational decline are explored.

The processes of price stabilization, privatization, and labor market reform are examined, and the impact of democratization on economic growth is studied. Particular emphasis is placed on examining models describing the transformation of institutions in Russia and other former socialist countries.

This textbook is a revised and expanded edition of the text published in 2011 (Moscow: Academic Project). Since the first edition, the textbook has been an integral part of the educational process at the Faculty of Philosophy of Lomonosov Moscow State University and has shown a very high degree of suitability for the training of both students of philosophical specializations and applicants for academic degrees in relevant areas.

The materials of this textbook are the result of many years of research and teaching work of the author at the Department of Aesthetics of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. The text contains historical and theoretical expositions of classical aesthetic issues.

The publication will be useful for a wide range of readers interested in the theory and history of aesthetics.