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«Мастер из Мулена» Жан Хей ‘Master of the Moulins’ Jean Hay and the French Art Around 1500: Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

The first Russian language monograph on the Master of Moulins, one of the most mysterious painters in the Northern Renaissance. After heated scientific discussions, which began in the 19th century, it has been finally agreed to accept the view that this anonymous master was Jean Hey. The painter worked in the late 15th century, believed to be the least studied periods in French art history. This is a transitional period from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, innovative solutions and unprecedentedly strong international artistic ties. The book provides an insight into the features of French court culture and political history under Charles VIII, king of France (1483–1498) and reflects the latest trends in contemporary art study.

«Политическое завещание» Ленина: реальность истории и мифы политики Lenin's "Political Testament" The reality of history and Myths of Politics

The monograph is devoted to the last articles, letters and notes of V.I. Lenin, known as his "Political Testament", which had a significant impact on the political development of Soviet society. The analysis of available sources leads the author to the conclusion that not all the texts included in the "Testament" belong to Lenin (in particular, the "Letter to the Congress" and the notes "On the question of nationalities or on "autonomization""). The work is based on a source analysis conducted in organic connection with the study of the internal party struggle of those years. 

For specialists-historians, as well as a wide range of politically active and interested in history readers.

«Цветные миры». Американская литература в поисках национальной самобытности Colored Worlds. American Literature in Search of National Identity

«The Worlds of Color»: The Quest for National Identity in American Literature The problem under investigation In the research is the cultural identity quest and assertion in the course of emergence and evolution of the American literary tradition. The transformation of the European background shared by non-European racial and ethnic groups in the New World is in the focus of attention. The key moments of the process as reflected in literary texts are under consideration: the conversion of Africans and Native Americans, the nascence of the double consciousness, the debates over separatism, assimilation and integration, the controversy between the patriotic and eurocentrist viewpoints, the making of new and re-making of old concepts (the primitive, the New World utopia, the American Eden, etc.) integrating the “worlds of color” in multicultural American kaleidoscope.

The book is addressed to the university and college professors, students, scholars in American literature, culture and history.

Адат и Шариат в российской правовой системе: Исторические судьбы юридического плюрализма на Северном Кавказе Adat and Shari’a in the Russian Legal System: Historical Destinies of Legal Pluralism in the North Caucasus

The monograph considers the historical destinies of legal pluralism in the North Caucasus from the 19th century up to the present day. It offers a systematic exposition of the main problems of Adat and Muslim law application in the processes of the Russian legal systems dynamics over the past two centuries. The general theoretical propositions of the monograph are based on the results of specific historical and legal studies of Adat and Sharia institutionalization in the North Caucasus in different periods of Russian statehood development. The author makes an attempt in his book to reduce to the common denominator ideas that characterize the regulatory and regulatory continuity of Adat and Muslim law among the peoples of the North Caucasus in the past and the present at all levels of historical and legal interpretation of the problem.

For teachers, postgraduate and senior students at humanitarian universities and faculties, as well as for all those interested in this subject.

Академик А.Н. Несмеянов — ректор Московского университета и президент Академии наук СССР Academician A.N. Nesmeyanov: Rector of Moscow University and President of the USSR Academy of Sciences

The monograph is an analytical study of Academician A.N. Nesmeyanov’s activities as Rector of the Moscow State University (1947–1951) and President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1951–1961). ‘The Nesmeyanov epoch covers the time of the construction of the new complex of the Moscow University on Lenin Hills and the implementation of profound changes in the system of the USSR Academy of Sciences. It also saw the university and the Academy actively engage in international scientific collaboration worldwide. That was a very strenuous period when the country was consequently headed by Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev, who had their own views on education, science, culture and Nesmeyanov himself.

In spite of the contradictory position of the authorities, he succeeded in solving numerous problems facing the Moscow University and the Academy of Sciences and went down in our history as a bright personality, outstanding scientist, public figure and citizen.

Академик И.Г. Петровский — ректор МГУ Academician I.G. Petrovsky: Rector of Moscow University

The book is an analytical study of Academician I.G. Petrovsky’s activities as Rector of Moscow State University. He held this post for 22 years in the period between May 18, 1951 and January 15, 1973. This covers a third of the Soviet period in Russian history. The time of Petrovsky’s rectorship is the heyday of the Moscow University as a major scientific educational and cultural center of world renown. Based on a detailed investigation of a large amount of documentary, factual and statistical material, most of which was unavailable for scientific research before, the book analyses the functions of the MSU Rector as a civil servant (in terms of management sociology) and their implementation by specific people in the 1920s – 40s. All of this enables us to link the dynamic development of Moscow University more organically and directly with the scale of Petrovsky’s personality as an inividual, scientist, state and public figure of a high civil and moral standing.

Академик Р.В. Хохлов – ректор Московского университета Academician R.V. Khokhlov - Rector of Moscow University

The book about academician, Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Rector of Moscow State University R.V. Khokhlov is based on his interviews, reports, articles, as well as a large number of memoirs of his students, colleagues, friends and relatives.

Аналитика и технология виноградных дистиллятов Analytics and Technology of Grape Distillates

This book considers major issues directly related to the monitoring of the chemical composition of cognac distillates and brandy by using capillary electrophoresis and gas chromatography. It also discusses technological aspects and a number of new approaches to the processing of additional materials in the technology of brandy and cognac. The author examines the specifics of quantitative analysis of the monitored brandy and cognac parameters.

This monograph is intended for specialists in analytical chemistry and the technology of winemaking.

Аналитическая химия в Московском университете Analytical Chemistry at Moscow University

The topic of the book is analytical chemistry as a science and applied chemical analysis at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The central place is occupied by the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry, its scientific achievements, pedagogical activity and its people. Studies at other departments and faculties of the university are also considered. Attention is paid to the training of highly qualified personnel, university graduates who have proved themselves in analytical chemistry. 

The list of books on analytical chemistry written by the university staff is given, the awards received by the staff are named.

Англо-саксонская модель военной разведки. История и современность Anglo-Saxon Model of Military Intelligence. History and Present

This monograph is another study published under the auspices of the Faculty of World Politics of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov and devoted to the questions of the formation and development of the Anglo-Saxon model, or concept, military intelligence, poorly studied in the framework of Russian political science and military history. The monograph is a continuation of a series of studies affecting the history of the formation of a conglomerate of Anglo-Saxon states, their inherent features of state and military construction, the establishment of special relations between them, joint planning and conducting coalition wars, etc.

The emphasis in this work is on the disclosure of specific issues of the emergence of ideas in the Anglo-Saxon states, and then the formation of a model of military intelligence, its formation through testing in numerous wars and military conflicts of various sizes, the disclosure of the features of the historically established priority of information work in intelligence, problems of relationships with counterintelligence and competing civilian intelligence agencies.

The monograph is intended for students studying problems world politics and international law, experts in the field of international and military security, as well as for everyone interested in the problems of international relations.

Англосаксонский менталитет сквозь призму английского языка Anglo-Saxon Mentality Viewed in the Light of the English Language

The book describes the Anglo-Saxon mentality through the prism of the English language. Despite being a serious scientific study into the key concepts of the English language that make up its specifics and reflect the special features of English national character, the book is written in a lively and interesting fashion and contains a large number of both cultural and linguistic illustrations of English life and behavior. Another merit of the book is that it provides a large amount of not only culturological and linguistic information, but also draws heavily from related fields – psychology, linguogeography, philosophy and art history.

The book can be successfully used at faculties of foreign languages, cultural studies, regional studies, philology, history, psychology, journalism, etc. It will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, university and high school teachers and a wide range of people interested in the issues of the British mentality and national character.

Антиповедение Antibehavior

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.

Астрономические роботизированные сети и оперативная многоканальная астрофизика (на примере Глобальной сети МАСТЕР) Astronomical robotic networks and operational multichannel astrophysics (using the example of the Global MASTER Network)

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.

Благотворители и меценаты в истории Московского университета Philanthropists and Patrons of Art in the History of Moscow University

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.

Богатству Севера наукой  прирастать Science Will Generate More Wealth for The North

The book reveals the history of the development of science and higher education in Russia and the current problems they are facing. It investigates the specific features of these processes in the European North in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and highlights the role the Lomonosov Pomor State University and the scientific activities of its professors, teachers and researchers in developing this strategically important region of Russia. It also analyzes key problems and tendencies in the university’s scientific research work and scientific and teaching staff training and certification.

The publication is intended for heads of higher educational institutions and research centers, university teachers, researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, all those interested in the history and contemporary problems of science and higher education.

Божественные атрибуты Divine attributes

The work is devoted to the logical and philosophical analysis of attributes ascribed to various philosophical and religious concepts of such entity as God.

For philosophers, religion scholars and those who are interested in the problems of theology and metaphysics.

Большой Каспий: строение и история развития The Great Caspian Region: Its Structure and History of Development

The monograph is based on the author's long-term (1960–2012) field research carried out on all the Caspian Sea coasts. It represents one of the first complex investigations of the Great Caspian Sea history of the last 3 million years including such aspects as the evolution of its water basins, facial and palaeogeographical variability, and faunal changes.

В поисках града Тьмутаракани In Search of the City of Tmutarakan

The book includes an original interpretation of the Old Russian epic poem ‘The Tale of Igor's Campaign’ in terms of Christian religion revealing its hidden and perhaps the only possible implications. This is a writer's interpretation of the epic poem not solely as a historical monument, as it often tends to be interpreted, but also as a creation of the spirit, a work of art expressing the concept of Russian life. The poem is presented as part of the overall development of artistic thought, against a broad background of much more recent Russian literature.

This book is not just about an ancient Russian epic poem, but also about man’s spiritual nature in general, not only about the past but also about the present, about the nature of artistic creativity and the peculiarity of Russian literature that explores the tragedy of a single human life and the spiritual path of the whole people.

В.И. Вернадский - создатель учения о ноосфере V.I. Vernadsky: A Creator of the Noosphere Concept

The monograph deals with V.I. Vernadsky’s teachings about the noosphere. It analyzes the process of Vernadsky’s formation of his noospheric views in the course of his academic, scientific and organizational and socio-political activities.

For specialists, university lecturers, undergraduate and postgraduate students and a wide range of readers who are interested in the problems of the noosphere and Vernadsky's heritage.

Вариационные методы в топологии Variational methods in topology

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.

Венчание с Россией. Переписка великого князя Александра Николаевича с императором Николаем I. 1837 год Wedded to Russia. Correspondence between Grand Duke Alexander Nikolaevich and Emperor Nicholas I. 1837

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.

Вероятностно-статистические методы декомпозиции волатильности хаотических процессов Probabilistic and Statistical Methods of Decomposition of the Volatility of Chaotic Processes

The book describes probabilistic mathematical models of chaotic processes and methods for their statistical analysis. The focus is put on the special class of mathematical models of stochastic chaotic processes – subordinated Wiener processes (processes of Brownian motion with random time). To explain the choice of these models the authors use an asymptotic approach based on limit theorems for compound doubly stochastic Poisson processes (compound Cox processes) which can be regarded as the best mathematical models of non- homogeneous (or non-stationary) chaotic flows on time micro-scales. This approach leads to the distributions of increments of the processes on time macro-scales havivng the form of mixtures of normal distributions and makes it possible not only to find formal probabilistic models of chaotic stochastic processes, but also to give a reasonable theoretical explanation of their adequacy based on mild assumptions concerning the inner structure of the characteristics under investigation. The book proposes a new multivariate interpretation of the volatility of these processes by representing the distributions (logarithms) of increments of financial index evolution processes or those of plasma turbulence as mixtures of normal distribution. For the statistical analysis of chaotic processes it proposes a method of moving separation of mixtures (MSM method) enabling spontaneous decomposition of process volatility into dynamic and diffusive components. Much attention is paid to the analytical and asymptotic properties of mixtures of normal distributions. Systematic consideration is given to statistical procedures for such numerical separation of mixtures as the EM algorithm and its modifications, grid separation methods. The author discusses questions of optimal implementation of these methods and considers examples of CPC method application to analyze the impact of information interventions in financial markets and the data obtained in plasma turbulence experiments.

For postgraduate students and university professors who are interested in the modern state of research in the field of probabilistic and statistical modeling of chaotic stochastic processes as well as scientists, engineers, specialists in the application of mathematical methods and applied statistics for analyzing characteristics of financial markets and plasma turbulence.

Владимир Федорович Лугинин. 1834-1911 гг. Vladimir Fedorovich Luginin. 1834–1911

The book is devoted to the life and scientific biography of Vladimir Fedorovich Luginin. Recent findings in more than 20 Russian and foreign archives have added a lot to the well-known image of Luginin, a prominent scientist, philanthropist, founder of the Russian cooperative movement. The new documents testify to the deep involvement of Luginin, his brother and father in preparing and implementing the Russian peasant reform and participating in zemstvo construction in his native Vetluga district of the Kostroma province. Based on the analysis of the archival sources the book provides a chronological account of the main character’s merits in developing the cooperative movement at home, in creating Russia's first loan and savings partnership, in disseminating this experience throughout the country in the capacity of a member of the Committee on Rural Loan and Savings Industrial partnerships and its St. Petersburg branch.

The book provides a detailed analysis of Luginin’s scientific and pedagogical activities, its directions, motives and priorities and shows the man’s mediating role in the process of rapprochement between Russian and Western European science and culture. For the first time Luginin is presented in his close family environment and in cooperation with his numerous Russian and foreign colleagues, friends and pupils.

Luginin’s diverse activities, we hope, will expand the potential readership of his biography. Its material will be of interest to social historians and historians of science, economists, sociologists, cooperators, school and university teachers of natural sciences, chemists, librarians and museum workers.

Военная мощь Исламской Республики Иран The Military Power of the Islamic Republic of Iran

The authors examine unique features of modern military construction in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) by drawing on a wide range of Russian and foreign sources. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of IRI military might and gives an assessment of the overall defense potential and its elements: the economic, scientific and technical aspects of its defense capabilities, military potential as well as its armed forces’ moral and political potential. The article briefly describes the population of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its ethnic, religious and social structure as well as the Iranians’ national and psychological characteristics. Attention is paid to the analysis of the Iranian military doctrine, its socio-political and military-technical aspects and main elements. It considers the history and current state of the Iranian armed forces, specific features of the structure and order of the functioning of the armed forces management system as a key element without which the armed forces will be unable to carry out its mission.

The book is intended for Orientalists, political scientists, students studying questions of modern international relations in general and Near and Middle Eastern problems in particular as well as a wide range of readers who are interested in the issues of the internal, foreign and military policies of oriental countries and, primarily, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Вопросы биографии и научного творчества М.М. Бахтина Issues Pertaining to М.М. Bakhtin’s Biography and Scientific Work

This is what might be called a peculiar kind of biography of M. M. Bakhtin, an outstanding literary critic and thinker. The book covers the period of his life from the late 1930s to the early 1940s. It gives an account of how he wrote his book on Francois Rabelais and submitted it as a dissertation for a doctoral degree, and interprets certain aspects of his theory of carnival. It also investigates Bakhtin’s correspondence with B.V. Zalessky, V.V. Kozhinov, and V.N. Turbin. The archival materials form the documentary basis of the book.

For all who are interested in the problems of literary criticism and the fate of 20st century culture.

Выдающийся отечественный военный теоретик и военачальник Александр Андреевич Свечин. О его жизни, идеях, трудах и наследии для настоящего и будущего Alexander Andreevich Svechin, an Outstanding Russian Military Theoretician and Military Leader. About his life, ideas, works and heritage for the present and the future

The fundamental historical and political work by A.A. Kokoshin, an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the sixth Secretary of Russia’s Security Council is dedicated to the biography and creative work of Alexander Andreevich Svechin, an outstanding national military leader, military theoretician and political scientist.

The book analyzes his methodology of research into the relationship between politics, military strategy, operational art and tactics; his views on the correlation between defense and offensive in military strategy; formulas for strategic leadership and Svechin’s insightful observations on the future war (WWII).

The book is intended for specialists in the field of politico-military and military strategic problems and for all those who are interested in national military history. It can be used for educational purposes in civil and military educational institutions.

Высшая нервная деятельность: вчера и сегодня. Сборник научных трудов, посвященных 100-летию со дня рождения Леонида Григорьевича Воронина Higher Nervous Activity: Yesterday and Today. Collection of scientific papers dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Leonid Grigorievich Voronin

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.

Вычислительная математика и структура алгоритмов Computational Mathematics and Algorithm Structure: Ten Lectures

The book presents lectures read by the author in various educational institutions, institutes and at scientific conferences. All of them are devoted to the problems of efficient problem solving on parallel architecture computing systems. Particular attention is paid to the study of the informational structure of algorithms and its impact on the development of effectively implemented programs. The book discusses the specific features of mathematical education in relation to the requirements of parallel computations.

For students, graduate students and researchers specializing in the study of algorithm structure, large-scale problem-solving and creation of parallel computing systems software.

Вячеслав Петрович Волгин Vyacheslav Petrovich Volgin

The monograph is dedicated to the academician Vyacheslav Petrovich Volgin, a historian and rector of the Moscow University. A graduate of the Faculty of History and Philology, a revolutionary and a publicist after the October Revolution, he became directly involved in university reforms and often initiated them. He had to run MSU in a most difficult period of its history when the entire system of higher education was being overhauled and there was a search for the best version of university restructuring as educational curricula were being revised to train specialists for the young socialist state. Most of the illustrations have been published for the first time.

The book is addressed to the widest possible circle of readers.

Г.Н. Голубев. Научные работы. Страницы жизни. Путешествия. Воспоминания G.N. Golubev. Scientific Works. Pages of Life. Travels. Memoirs.

Th is book has been written for memory of Genady Nikolaevich Golubev, professor of faculty of geography of Moscow State University. It includes selected papers written by G.N. Golubev, memories by his colleagues, friends and family members, biographic facts, photos taken during his numerous journeys. Th ese materials show uncommonly colorful and intensive life of the scientist who devoted his life to exploration of global ecological problems. G.N. Golubev had been a profound researcher, eff ectual director of science and internationally recognized practitioner in global environmental policy. Due to his works, a new discipline «Geoecology» has already occupied a solid position among other courses of Russian universities. His mission in the UNEP (1981—1989) and other international environmental organizations strengthened the prestige of Russian geographical sciences on international level.

Гарантии избирательных прав граждан: вопросы теории и практики Guarantees of Citizens’ Electoral Rights: Issues of Theory and Practice

The present monograph considers guarantees of citizens’ electoral rights as a scientific category of Russia’s constitutional law, which forms the basis for developing hypotheses, concepts, laws and theories of voting rights. After selecting this category as the center of the ‘conceptual grid’ the author studies it through the prism of the legal system and the mechanism of legal regulation.

The construction of structural and functional conceptual legal lines using the category of guarantees of citizens' electoral rights is accompanied by examples from federal normative legal acts, regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation constituents, law enforcement acts of courts and election commissions, existing as of the first half of 2013.

The book makes much use of the historical-legal method of research and also analyses the constitutional and legal foundations of the existing Russian legislation which guarantees citizens’ right to vote. It examines current problems in this area and suggests ways of resolving them.

For specialists in electoral law, employees of government agencies, local self-government bodies, school and university students of law and a wide range of readers who are interested in the recognition, implementation and protection of citizens’ electoral rights.

Гарантирующий подход и L-аппроксимация в задачах оценивания параметров БИНС при стендовых испытаниях Guaranteed Approach and l 1-Norm Approximation in the Problems of SDINS Parameter Estimation under Bench Testing

The book investigates two problems of estimating the parameters of strapdown inertial navigation systems (SDINS) and gives a detailed description of their solutions by using the methods of non-smooth optimization.

The first part of the book considers the application of the guaranteed approach to the bench calibration scheme of the SDINS accelerometer blocks. It also describes an optimal experiment plan and develops an iterative algorithm of SDINS bench calibration that improves calibration accuracy. The second part is devoted to l 1-Norm Approximation (the least modules method) in navigational estimation problems. Particular attention is paid to the problem of detecting salutatory variations in the bias of zeros of the SDINS sensors under bench testing.

Both parts present simulation results illustrating the effectiveness of the proposed methods and the features of their use in solving specific problems.

The book is intended for specialists in navigation and assessment.

Генезис просадочности лессовых пород Genesis of Loessial Rock Subsidence

The monograph describes subsidence as a specific property of loessial rocks, its genetic types, hypotheses that have been advanced in this field, some experimental evidence that was obtained both in the course of laboratory modeling and in the study of processes in virgin rock. It considers logical and graphic models of subsidence formation of loess rocks of different genesis and formulates the main provisions of particular and general theories of loess subsidence formation.

For geologists, geologic engineers, geographers, soil scientists as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students of geology and engineering geology.

Германские канцлеры от Бисмарка до Меркель German Chancellors from Bismarck to Merkel

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.

Глобальные исследования и эволюционный подход Global Research and Evolutionary Approach

The monograph deals with the problems of globalization of science, new directions in the development of global studies and globalistics stimulated by using the evolutionary approach. Evolutionary globalistics focuses on studying the development and co-evolution of global processes and systems and their systemic-synergetic phenomenon – global development.

The concept of evolutionary globalistics is disclosed in the context of universal (global) evolutionism and the prospect of transitioning to new, safer forms of civilization development and its interaction with the nature of the Earth and the Cosmos. The book forecasts a possible unfolding of future global processes – a transition to sustainable development and the making of the sphere of the mind (the noosphere). Particular attention is paid to the methods and approaches used in globalistics, as well as the spatial and temporal expansion of global research. It investigates the evolution of globalistics itself including the development of such study areas as political and legal globalistics and informational globalistics. It also subdivides globalistics into temporal sections – paleoglobalistics, neoglobalistics, futuroglobalistics and nooglobalistics and the spatial one – cosmoglobalistics.

For specialists, teachers, postgraduate students and a wide range of readers who are interested in the problems of evolutionary globalistics.

Глобальный эволюционизм: идеи, проблемы, гипотезы Global Evolutionism: Ideas, Problems, Hypotheses

Global evolutionism underpins the modern general scientific picture of the world and the form of knowledge about global evolution in which self-organization of material systems is the main permanent process of progressive development in the observable Universe. The book proposes an original interpretation of global evolution, reveals the content of the concept of planetary and universal evolution as well as the basic principles and methods to study them. Considerable attention is paid to the forms of dark matter and their impact on evolution, the anthropic cosmological principle and the prospects for interaction between human civilization and the Universe. The monograph discusses problems of global process evolution, especially their socio-natural development in the context of future general planetary transition to sustainable development and the formation of the noosphere.

The monograph was prepared at the Faculty of Global Processes, Lomonosov Moscow State University, in the Center for Global Processes and Sustainable Development of the Russian Trade and Economic University and at the Department of Social Sciences and Technology of the National Research Technological University MISIS.

Городская семья ХVIII в. Семейно-правовые акты купцов и разночинцев Москвы The 18th Century Town Family. Family Law Acts Concerning Moscow Merchants and Commoners

The publication includes more than 380 family law documents discovered in the 18th century archives and related to representatives of Moscow unprivileged classes. Among them are testaments, church records of baptism, marriage and divorce and other civil states concerning merchants, the minor and the major orders, clerks, all kind of commoners (‘raznochintsy’): retired soldiers, doctors, pharmacists, etc.), including members of the corporation of foreign merchants and the local guild merchants and their descendants as well as foreigners at large. The large array of family-law documents now being introduced into scientific research contains unique information about the division of family property, marital obligations, accession to heirship and inheritance, conjugal relations, parent- child relations, child-rearing, care for the old and the disabled, spiritual salvation and charity. They reflect the ways of domestic life and its material and spiritual values.

For historians and a wide range of readers.

Государственное наградное право State Award Law

The monograph deals with the theoretical basis of state awards as an interdisciplinary legal institution in which the norms of constitutional law have a priority. The book analyzes two aspects of Russia’s modern state award system - the federal state award system (the award system of the Russian Federation) and the state award system in the RF constituents. This work analyses in detail the state and other awards of the Russian Federation and examines general and characteristic features of state and other awards in the constituents of the Russian Federation.

The publication is intended for special courses in ‘State Awards’, ‘Russian Award Law’ and others under similar names, and can be used as additional educational material in the study of courses in the RF constitutional law and the RF administrative law with regard to the powers of the state executive bodies.

For undergraduate and postgraduate students, law school and faculty teachers as well as all those interested in RF state awards.

The normative legal acts of the Russian Federation and the RF constituents cited in the book are given as of January 1, 2014.

Гуманитарная миссия современной глобализирующейся коммуникативистики Humanitarian Mission of Modern Globalizing Communication Science

The book introduces new theoretical concepts and trends of foreign communication science. It is based on the analysis of the fundamental research by prominent representatives of this globalizing science, which studies the humanitarian aspects of media development.

For teachers and students of journalism faculties, specialists in various fields of information activities and for a wide range of readers who are interested in the role of communication factors in the socio-cultural life of the modern world.

Гуманитарное образование. Ответ на вызов времени Humanitarian Education. An Answer to Modern Challenges

The book consists of two parts. In the first part, the author reflects on the value of Russia's cultural heritage in terms of an individual’s development in modern information society and formulates original proposals on a whole range of topical issues of education in the humanities. The content of the second part is based on the author’s numerous publications that expound the new theory of early effective development of child’s intelligence and cognitive-emotional sphere.

The scientific and practical outcomes of O.S. Fomicheva’s works have gained wide international recognition. The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics has awarded her with a commemorative medal ‘For creating and developing a new scientific discipline – cognitonics; for highly innovative research and significant contribution to deepening knowledge in this field.’

For a wide range of readers.

Дайсаку Икеда и Россия. Встреча длиной в 30 лет. Daisaku Ikeda and Russia. The Meeting that Lasted 30 Years

The book by V.I. Tropin, a Moscow State University Vice-Rector for International Relations in the 1970s – 1980s, deals with the visits of Daisaku Ikeda, a famous Buddhist public figure, peace fighter, President of the Soca Gakkai International Society, to the USSR and Russia. The materials about D. Ikeda’s meetings with our country’s state and public figures, writers and scientists and Moscow University rectors RV. Khokhlov, A.A. Logunov, V.A. Sadovnichiy are supplemented by the author’s impressions of his personal contacts with this outstanding Japanese philosopher and enlightener. One of the sections of the book is devoted to the problem of the USSR disintegration that preoccupied D. Ikeda.

Деградация почв: причины, следствия, пути снижения и ликвидации Soil Degradation: Causes, Effects, Ways To Reduce and Eliminate it

The work summarizes the results of our own research and that of other scientific institutions on arable land degradation in Russia. Under the guidance of the author, the book developed and presented the following:

  • Methodology for assessing agroecological and landscape and land improvement factors of agrolandscape degradation in Russia’s Non-Black zone to determine main directions for soil fertility restoration and increased productivity of agrocenoses;
  • Characteristics of degradation processes and major agroecological and landscape and land reclamation factors of agricultural land degradation;
  • Various complexes of successive crop cultivation measures to restore the productivity of degraded arable and natural forage lands.

The presented data and analysis can be used by central and regional authorities, the agro-industrial complex’s information and consulting centers and by scientists, undergraduate and postgraduates students of classical and agricultural universities, academies and other higher educational institutions.

Деятельностная теория учения Activity theory of learning

The book describes activity theory of learning, developed in close connection with the P.Ya. Galperin’s Theory of stage-by-stage formation of mental actions and concepts. Based on the generalization of a huge number of experimental data, the author shows the high effi ciency of the Activity theory of learning as a psychological basis for managing the learning process.

The book is designed for specialists in the fi eld of psychology, pedagogy, teacher’s trainers. It can be useful for teachers of secondary and high schools, as well as all those interested in the problems of managing the process of learning.

Дороже золота русский чернозем Russian Black Earth is More Expensive than Gold

The social and political essays by Dokuchaev, an outstanding scientist, founder of soil science, are comparatively little known to the readership, but they are full of civic spirit and are applicable to our days. Dokuchaev's main concern is the preservation of the fertility of Russian ‘chernozem’ – Black Earth, which, to use his words, is ‘more expensive than gold.’

The scientist thought like a statesman: he put a lot of effort into developing natural science and agronomy in Russia, organizing academic and scientific-social institutions, improving university and agricultural education; he made an invaluable contribution to practice by organizing combined expeditions to combat drought in the country’s steppe regions. Dokuchaev’s thoughts and deeds are still relevant today and may continue to serve as a guide to action if we are to revive domestic land use on a proper scientific basis.

Жизненный путь почвоведа The Life Path of A Pedologist

The renowned soil scientist G.V. Dobrovolsky tells us about his long personal and professional journey. Almost all his life except for the war years (1939–1946) is closely connected with Lomonosov Moscow State University. He passed his student and post-graduate years here and later began his scientifi c and pedagogic work as a research fellow, assistant, assistant professor, head of chair, dean of Biology and Soil Department and then dean of the Department of Soil Science founded upon his initiative. Many years of expeditions and business trips to different regions of Russia and other countries, meetings and cooperation with interesting people have brought about new knowledge and impressions that are presented in this book.

The book will be interesting for soil scientists, biologists, geographers, geologists, specialists in environmental protection and rational use of land resources.

Журналистика для здоровья нации: медиакоммуникации и человеческое развитие Journalism for the Health of the Nation. Media Communication and Human Development

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.

Записки о становлении факультета фундаментальной медицины МГУ Notes on the Formation of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine

The author’s notes, based on personal experience as well as conversations with heads, teachers and graduates, allowed him to draw the story of the first years of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine of the Moscow State University. The notes give the main features of classical university medical education at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. This historical and artistic publication is devoted to the 20th anniversary of the Faculty.

Записки ректора Московского университета Notes of the Rector of Moscow University

The memoirs of Galkin, the 39th rector of the Moscow State University, the long-time head of the department of the New and Modern History of the Historical Faculty, cover the author’s almost-a-century-long life, which is inseparable from the history of this country and the history of the Moscow State University.

For historians, students, or anyone interested in the history of Moscow State University.

Затаенное имя. Тайнопись в «Слове о полку Игореве» Secret Name. Cryptograms in the ‘The Tale of Igor's Campaign’

The book is devoted to a long-standing problem: the search for the name of the author of the Tale. The researcher tried to approach the solution of this problem by finding and reading the cryptograms — one of the well-known and widely spread methods of Old Russian authors to leave their names hidden.

Из истории российской фотографии From the History of Russian Photography

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.

Избранные университетские лекции Selected University Lectures

The book is specially prepared for students and teachers of Moscow State University. It contains selected university lectures by Bogolyubov, complete with several of his famous reports, most of which were read or published at Moscow State University.

The materials are arranged in three parts:

  • I. Mathematical problems of nonlinear and statistical mechanics;
  • II. General problems of the theory of condensed matter;
  • III. New methods of the quantum theory of many bodies and quantum field theory.

The lectures and reports are meant for a wide audience of students, post-graduate students, researchers and teachers of Math, Mechanics and Physics. In the References sections, the readers will find the main events and activities of Bogolyubov as well as a list of his scientific works that were included in the most complete Collection of his scientific works released in 2005–2009 by the Science publishing house (series ‘Classics of Science’, 12 volumes).

For students, graduate students, researchers and teachers specializing in theoretical and mathematical physics, as well as the history of mechanics and physics.

Инженерно-геологические структуры Земли Engineering-geological Structure of the Earth

The monograph introduces the concept of ‘engineering-geological structure’, the classification of the logical and actual sets of engineering-geological structures of the globe, and their paragenetic series. It describes the regularities of the spatial distribution of engineering-geological super-, mega-, macro- and mesostructures of the Earth and its continents. For engineering geologists, hydrogeologists, permafrost scientists, geologists.

The book will be useful for students, graduate students and doctoral students of geological specialties in universities.

Институт социального партнерства как фактор развития малого бизнеса в России Institute of Social Partnership as a Factor of Small Business Development in Russia

The monograph explores the development of Russian small business and the institutionalization of social partnership in this area. It reveals the peculiarities of studying small business as an object of economic and sociological analysis and the role of the institution of social partnership in the development of small business. The book also analyzes the dynamics, factors and prospects of small business development in Russia and the features of the social partnership institutionalization process in small business.

For students, graduate students, undergraduates, scientists and practitioners interested in the development of social partnership and small business in Russia.

Интернет: заметки научного сотрудника The Internet: Notes of a Research Assistant

Anatoly Alekseyevich Klyosov was a professor of the Chemical Faculty with Moscow State University from 1979 to 1982, then, until the late 1980s — Professor and Head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Biochemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and for 12 years after that — Professor of Biochemistry, Harvard University. His area of scientific interests include: enzymatic catalysis; development of cellulose biotechnology; development and industrial production of polymer composite materials; antigenogenesis of cancerous tumors; development of a new anticancer agent and creation of a new type of drug against alcoholism (both drugs undergo clinical trials). The title of the book is symbolic. In the early 1980s, a 35-year-old professor Anatoly Klesov was the first Soviet Internet user and the author of the first article about it in the Soviet press. Many of the materials published in the book are devoted to events of his life and activities in the scientific field.

Исторические очерки о медицинском образовании в Московском университете Historical Essays on Medical Education at Moscow University

In the form of essays, the authors of the book tried to convey to the reader the main historical milestones in the development of medical education at Moscow University. They give a brief overview of the development of university medical education and the historical origins of the first medical journals and societies. The annexes list professors of the Medical Faculty before 1930, as well as the names of the papers and the names of best students from 1837 to 1915. For comparison, it lists theses subjects and the names of the best students of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine of the first twelve issues (1998-2010).

The book can be interesting and useful to anyone who is interested in the history of university medicine.

The publication is dedicated to the 300th anniversary of M.V. Lomonosov

История математического образования в России History of Mathematical Education in Russia

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.

История русской литературы (вторая половина XIX в.) The History of Russian Literature (Second Half of the 19th Century)

This book takes a new point of view on Russian 19th century literature. It does not contain detailed biographical information nor a review of individual writer’s entire oeuvre. The author sacrificed this for the sake of creating an integral picture of Russian literature in the development of its basic ideas and meanings. The unity of literature is formed by linking writers — their consent and controversy, which is given special attention in the manual, allowing to show literature as a forum. The work analyzes best works such as ‘War and Peace’, ‘The Brothers Karamazov’, ‘A Dreary Story ‘, etc.

For students of humanitarian universities and faculties where Russian literature is studied, and everyone interested in the work of Russian writers and poets.

Как иметь дело с англичанами. Несентиментальное путешествие Having Business with the English. An Unsentimental Journey

This book is for those who are learning English; for those who are interested in the culture of England; for those who deal with problems of intercultural communication and regional studies; for those who are going on a trip to England; for those who want to learn how to communicate with the English and understand the features of their character and behavior.

Как это делалось. О тех, кто создавал современную науку How it was done. About those who created modern science

The book you are holding in your hands is about pioneers in the field of biochemistry and bioenergetics. Academician Vladimir Petrovich Skulachev shares his memories of teachers, students and colleagues, who proposed the name "bioenergetics" for a new section of biology.

Каппадокийская школа в истории христианской мысли Cappadocian School in the History of Christian thought

This textbook includes a course of lectures delivered by the author at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Moscow State University in 2008–2009. It contains a review and interpretation of the basic philosophical ideas of outstanding theologians of the 4th century from Cappadocia — the saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and Gregory of Nyssa. The joint literary activity of these Ancient Church teachers gives reason to speak of the Cappadocian school as a special phenomenon in the history of patristics ‘golden age’. Having received education in Athens, the great Cappadocians linked the achievements of Christian theological thought with the tradition of ancient philosophizing as seeking answers to the most profound questions a human can ask.

The manual highlights the social and literary activities of the Cappadocian school, carried out in the paradigm of an acute ideological confrontation with the Arianism, which in the middle of the 4th century received official support of the Roman Empire. Representatives of the Cappadocian school became the ideological inspirers of the Novocenean movement and laid the foundations of the ‘Cappadocian synthesis’, selectively applying in their theological constructs the methods of Platonic idealistic dialectics.

For teachers, students and graduate students of philosophical faculties.

Карл Маркс и современная пресса Karl Marx and the Modern Press

The book by the doctor of historical sciences S.M. Gurevich examines of the works and skill of Karl Marx. It reveals the characteristics of his journalistic activities, reveals important aspects of his creative method. The author explores the possibility of using the experience of Marx as the publicist in modern journalism.

For students and teachers of journalism faculties, publicists and all who are interested in journalistic theory and practice.

Карнозин Carnosine

The monograph is devoted to carnosine dipeptide, discovered at the beginning of the 20th century by V. Gulevich. It considers the chemical properties, distribution in tissues and metabolism of carnosine. Moreover, it describes studies of its biological role as a specific hydrophilic antioxidant in excitable tissues. The protective role of carnosine in the work of neurons and muscle cells under unfavorable conditions has been analyzed in detail. Particular attention is paid to the metabolism of carnosine in neurodegenerative diseases. The work gives grounds for the possibility of using carnosine and its derivatives for diseases of the nervous, endocrine and immune systems.

The book is addressed to scientific workers: biologists and physicians, as well as for students and specialists undergoing advanced training in the field of natural science.

Качество жизни российских граждан и его влияние на их политические и экономические предпочтения (по результатам социологического исследования) Quality of Life of Russian Citizens and Its Impact on Their Political and Economic Preferences (Based on the Results of a Sociological Survey)

The brochure gives a comparative analysis of the pre-election programs of presidential candidates of 2012 elections. It identifies their distinctive features that determine qualitative differences in the political, economic and social ways of development of Russian society and the state for each of the candidates in case of their victory correspondingly. The authors conducted a comparative analysis of objective and perceived quality of life among voters for different candidates based on the results of a sociological survey. Their findings include significant differences in these parameters, which have predetermined the voting patterns. Moreover, the authors identified the social characteristics of such citizens and made conclusions about the state and future development of the social base for supporting the development of Russia, based on presidential candidates’ programmes.

For teachers, students, sociology researchers, and political scientists, as well as for practicing politicians and public administration employees.

Качество юридического образования. По результатам социологических исследований на юридическом факультете МГУ имени М. В. Ломоносова. Настольная книга декана и преподавателя The quality of legal education: according to the results of sociological studies at the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Handbook of Dean and Teacher

This book presents the results of sociological studies of various aspects of the educational process at the Facultyof Law of Moscow State University for the period from 2008 to 2017. The subject of these studies is the qualitative characteristics of higher legal education. The purpose of the work is to identify the problems existing in the educational process and develop appropriate recommendations for their solution based on the identification of factors affecting the quality of legal education and the effectiveness of educational work with students. Sociological methods for collecting empirical information such as a survey (questionnaire, interviews, interviews of experts) and analysis of documents were used as tools.

The publication is intended for heads of universities and faculties, teachers, employees of university administrations, providing the development of both professional and personal competencies of future lawyers interested in improving the quality of the educational process and the effectiveness of educational work.

Квантовая теория. Т.10. Введение в теорию квантовых полей Quantum Theory. Vol.10. Introduction to the Theory of Quantum Fields

Collection of scientific papers in 12 volumes.

For students, graduate students and researchers.

Кинетически-согласованные схемы в газовой динамике Kinetically Consistent Schemes in Gas Dynamics

The monograph presents a new approach to the construction of computational algorithms in gas dynamics. The algorithms are based on discrete models for one-particle distribution function. The book describes possibilities of interpreting the resulting system of finite difference equations as a model for the description of viscous gas flow and their application for modeling modern problems of gas dynamics on high performance multiprocessor computer systems.

For specialists in mathematical modeling, gas dynamics and applied mathematics, postgraduate students, students studying and using methods of mathematical modeling, computational experimenting.

Кириллические издания. XVI век - 1641 год. Находки археографических экспедиций 1971-1993 гг., поступившие в библиотеку МГУ Cyrillic Publications. 17th Century — 1641. Findings of Archeographic Expeditions of 1971–1993, From the Moscow State University Library

The book contains the results of a study of 375 Cyrillic publications of the 16th (66 copies) and 17th (309 copies) centuries, of which 363 are collected by archeographic expeditions of the Moscow University. They are included in the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts’ 16 territorial collections of the Old Believers' books in the Moscow State University Scientific Library. The descriptions of books give as much historical information about each of the copy as possible.The book has 10 indexes (some annotated) summarizing the information of descriptions and making it easily accessible to specialists of any profile.

For historians, bibliographers, researches of culture and history of the Church, ethnographers and ethnographers, as well as all lovers of Russian antiquities.

Книга памяти профессора Е.П. Прохорова. Научные статьи. Воспоминания Professor E.P. Prokhorov Memorial Book: Scientific Articles. Memories

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

Книжечка о человеке
Кое-что из былого и дум. О русской литературе XIX века. Something from the Past and Thoughts. On Russian Literature of the 19th Century

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

Конкурентная Россия Competitive Russia

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

Краткая история академической гимназии, бывшей при Императорском Московском университете A Brief History of the Academic Gymnasium at the Imperial Moscow University

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

Криминальные и финансовые угрозы реализации социально-экономических реформ и проектов в России Criminal and Financial Threats to the Implementation of Socio-economic Reforms and Projects in Russia (economic and legal review)

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

Культурные миры молодых россиян: три жизненные ситуации Cultural Worlds of Young Russians: Three Life Philosophies

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

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

Личность и поступок.
Ломоносов и журналистика Lomonosov and Journalism

The monograph deals with M. Lomonosov's activity in the field of journalism. Lomonosov was the author of the first journalist code of rights and duties; he was an employee and editor of the only Russian newspaper in those years, ‘St. Petersburg Vedomosti.’ His ode, in essence, represented detailed art and journalistic speeches on the most important issues of Russia's domestic and foreign policy. Lomonosov made sure that the Moscow University, created under his project, was given the privilege of maintaining its own printing facility, where the first issue of the newspaper Moskovskye Vedomosti was published in 1756. He also contributed a lot for the development of Russian scientific periodicals.

The book is addressed to students of journalism faculties and everyone interested in the history of Russian culture.

Мальбранш и картезианство Malebranche and Cartesianism

The monograph analyzes the views of one of the greatest metaphysicians of Western European philosophy of the 17th century. It investigates the main components of Malebranche's philosophical system, e.g. the theory of occasional reasons, the epistemological doctrine of ‘seeing all things in God’, physics, anthropology, ethics, and the concept of religion. The author examines Malebranche's ideas in view of the general history of the Cartesian school. He also gives a brief characteristic of later philosophers' views on Malebranch's ideas.

For college students, postgraduates, and those interested in the history of philosophy.

Математика и миф сквозь призму геометрии Mathematics and Myth through the Prism of Geometry

The graphic material which is offered to the reader is an attempt to ‘photograph from within’ the peculiar world of modern mathematics. A.T. Fomenko, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a Moscow University professor, has long been known to be also a very original artist. This book includes a collection of illustrations he has drawn over many years.

Математика и опыт Mathematics and Experience

In his book the author makes an attempt to draw a large-scale comparison of various approaches toward the relationship between mathematics and experience that have developed mainly as part of prioriism and empiricism. The comparison is performed by examining it from a purely theoretical perspective and considering various historical and philosophical situations. The author explores possible alternative approaches that go beyond the aprioriism-empiricism dilemma in interpreting the relationship between mathematics, experience and experiential knowledge.

The book is of interest for mathematicians, philosophers, specialists and teachers of the history and philosophy of science, undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematical and natural-science specialties.

Математика и реальность. Труды Московского семинара по философии математики Mathematics and Reality. Proceedings of the Moscow Seminar on Philosophy of Mathematics

The new thematic volume of the proceedings of the Moscow Seminar on the Philosophy of Mathematics was prepared following the results of the Third All-Russian Conference ‘The Philosophy of Mathematics: Topical Problems’, held September 27-28, 2013 at the Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University with the priority theme of the 2013 conference being ‘Mathematics and Reality’.

For philosophers and historians of mathematics and physics, philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, psychologists, lecturers conducting postgraduate courses in the history and philosophy of science, post-graduate students and students of mathematical and natural sciences specialties.

Медиа Польши на рубеже XX-XXI веков Polish Media at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

he key features of journalism development in the Republic of Poland since 1989 till the present day are analyzed in the monograph. Associated with sociopolitical changes, a wide review of printed and audiovisual media in the last twenty-five years is given for the first time; the influence of scientific-and-technological progress and digital technologies on the information complex of the country at the turn of XX—XXI centuries is shown. Special attention is paid to the role of the world media corporate groups and their impact on the media transformation and development of a new media model in the Republic of Poland.

The monograph can be useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers of journalism faculties and departments and to anyone who is interested in the development of modern journalism.

Медиатизация медиа Mediatization of the media

The term “mediatization” is generally used to characterize those changes that culture and society undergo under the influence of the media. The present research uses this term to assess the transformations of the media themselves from the industrial viewpoint. To speak about the mediatization of the media means to look at the Russian mediatic environment bearing in mind the industrial conflict between the media — the conflict that results from the clash between the Internet, that is freely developing, digital milieu and the media system that is deliberately organized and institutionally framed.

Меняясь сам, изменял мир к лучшему. Памяти Г.В. Барабашева By Changing Himself He Changed the World for the Better. In Memory of G.V. Barabashev

Materials of the scientific conference dedicated to the memory of G.V. Barabashev (Moscow, 2004). The collection contains articles devoted to the topical problems of constitutional and municipal law as well as memoirs about Georgy V. Barabashev, a famous scientist in the field of state studies.

For students, postgraduates, teachers of law universities and a wide range of readers who are interested in state and legal subjects.

Местное самоуправление в системе государственных и общественных отношений Local Self-Government in the System of State and Public Relations

The monograph is devoted to the study of local government in Russia. It examines the ideological and scientific-theoretical foundations of local self-government, its historical forms and institutions. Particular attention is paid to the aspects and subjects of interaction between local government, state and civil society at the present stage of Russian statehood development.

For students, graduate students and teachers of law. It will be interesting and useful to central and local government officials, all those who are interested in finding out how to organize the management of society’s affairs in the most effective way.

Метеорология и климатология Meteorology and Climatology

The tutorial book is based on 5th (2001) edition of "Meteorology and climatology" by Prof. S.P. Chromov and Prof. M.A. Petrossiants, which has been rewritten and contributed by Prof. Petrossiants. A selection of the papers presented before was extemally reviewed and, along with additional articles, represent the contemporary understanding of atmosphere circulation processes, resent problems of anthropogenic effect on global climat and various aspects of climate change in the future and the past, atmospheric radiation, temperature and precipitation regime etc.

For students, graduate students and scientists specializing in the field of meteorology and climatology.

Методы Монте-Карло для параллельных вычислений Monte Carlo Methods for Parallel Computing

The book outlines methods for solving problems using statistical modeling. The algorithms under consideration are intended for use in parallel computing on computer systems of various architectures. The authors consistently describe methods for obtaining independent streams of pseudo-random numbers and random vectors with a given distribution law, methods for approximate calculation of high-dimensional integrals and numerical solution of some classes of differential equations in ordinary and partial derivatives and simulation modeling methods.

The book is designed for those students who are introduced to elements of computational mathematics and parallel programming as well as researchers who apply numerical modeling to solve applied problems.

Методы решения сеточных уравнений Methods of solving grid equations

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

Мифы и реальность Древней Греции Myths and Reality of Ancient Greece

The subject matter of this book is the main historical and cultural monuments of ancient Greek pre-literate and written periods; mythology is compared with archeology and is also seen as a historical monument; the book traces the evolution of culture from the depths of savagery to the heights of the intellect.

The book is intended for a wide range of readers, but contains material that may also be of interest to specialists.

Моделирование нелинейной динамики глобальных процессов Modeling of Nonlinear Dynamics of Global Processes

The monograph examines global processes in inanimate nature, the organic world and social life from the perspective of nonlinear dynamics. It discusses the modern picture of the world and the place nonlinear science occupies in it, classifies global processes and characterizes models of global evolution processes of the Earth, life and society as well as the world economy and politics.

For a wide range of specialists in the field of Earth sciences, life, society and global process modeling.

The book will also be useful to graduate students and university students whose future profession is related to global studies and mathematical modeling of processes of a different nature as well as to all those who are interested in global research.

Модернизация государственного управления: институты и интересы Modernization of Public Administration: Institutions and Interests

The book presents a mechanism for modernizing public administration, which includes priority goals of national economic and social development in its political agenda. It shows the role of such mechanisms as the political market, lobbyism and accountability. Much attention is paid to the institutional design of reforms. The author presents factors that determine both the success and failure of institutional construction in public administration.

The book will be of interest to specialists in the field of public administration, students of management, economics and political science and all those who are interested in the problems of political development.

Мозговой штурм Brainstorm

The author talks with Russian scientists about the origins of our problems and modernization prospects and about ways to involve young people in building ‘a knowledge economy’. His essays introduce readers to the unique scientific centers of the past and today many of which still operate under cover of strict secrecy. Among the heroes of the book are Nobel laureates and ‘fringe scholars’, 18th century inventors who did not get any recognition and ordinary residents of restricted-access cities.

Московские клиники. Избранные главы Moscow Clinics. Selected Chapters

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).

For students, interns, graduate students, doctors and all those who are interested in the history of the national health care system.

Московский университет и советский атомный проект Moscow University and the Soviet Atomic Project

The book tells a story about the involvement of MSU-related scientists and specialists – its graduates, teachers and staff members – in creating Soviet nuclear weapons and our country’s nuclear industry. It contains many previously classified materials and fills in the blank pages in the history of Moscow University.

Мудрость Сутры Лотоса. Диалог с учениками. Том 1 The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra: a discussion. Volume I

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.

Мудрость Сутры Лотоса. Диалог с учениками. Том 3 The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra: a discussion. Volume III

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.

Мудрость Сутры Лотоса. Диалог с учениками. Том 4 The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra: a discussion. Volume IV

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.

Мудрость Сутры Лотоса. Диалог с учениками. Том 5 The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra: a discussion. Volume V.

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.

Мудрость Сутры Лотоса. Диалог с учениками. Том 6 The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra: a discussion. Volume VI.

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.

На рубеже веков. Диалоги об образовании и воспитании At the Turn of the Century. Dialogues about Education and Upbringing

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

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

На рубеже веков. Разговор о главном At the Turn of the Century. Talking about the Main Thing

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

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

Нанохимия Nanochemistry

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.

Настоящее прошлое. Нулевые годы в заметках обозревателя «МК» The Present Past. The Zero Years in the Notes of the 'MK' Observer

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

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

Наука и религия. Диалоги Science and Religion. Dialogues

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

Наука на Архангельском Севере Science in the Arkhangelsk North

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

Национальный вопрос и государственное строительство: проблемы России и опыт зарубежных стран The Nationalities Question and State Construction: the Problems of Russia and the Experience of Foreign Countries

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

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

Неаполь и его окрестности. Века. Люди. Искусство Naples and its Environs. Centuries. People. Art

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

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

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

Негосударственный финансовый контроль Non-State Financial Supervision

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

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

Незаданные вопросы гуманитарного образования Unsolved Issues of Liberal Arts Education

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

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

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

Нейрокомпьютерная парадигма и общество Neurocomputer Paradigm and Society

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

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

Нигилизм или консерватизм? Русская интеллигенция в истории политики и мысли Nihilism or Conservatism? Russian Intelligentsia in the History of Politics and Thought

The book includes a study of ‘Political Culture of the 19th and early 20th century Russian intelligentsia. An Experience of Conceptual Analysis’ and other works of different periods written by Professor A.A. Shirinyants, head of the history of socio-political studies department of the Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University. It is devoted to the problems of history, phenomenology and ideology of the 19th and early 20th century Russian intelligentsia.

For political scientists, philosophers, anyone who is interested in the history of socio-political thought in Russia.

Новая Италианская грамматика New Italian Grammar

This edition publishes a unique work — the fi rst grammar of the Italyan language, published in Russia in Russian. The historical signifi cance of this grammar is that it was written by a student of the fi rst set of Moscow University, Egor Bulatnitsky, and printed in 1759 in the printing house of the Moscow University. Grammar laid the tradition of writing educational grammars at Moscow University and became a milestone in the development of the scientifi c and methodological school of teaching foreign languages.

The publication contains comments on the grammar text and an article about the history of teaching the Italian language in Moscow and Moscow University (the second half of the XVIII — early XIX centuries).

The publication is intended for a wide range of readers interested in the history of Moscow University.

Новый миллениум для России: путь в будущее The New Millennium for Russia: A Road to the Future

The work is the eighth book of the ‘Theoretical Political Science: The World of Russia and Russia in the World’ series following the publication of ‘The Philosophy of Power’, 1993; ‘Russia: the Experience of National and State Ideology’, 1994; ‘Philosophy of Politics’, 1994; ‘Political Anthropology’, 1995; ‘Reforms and Counter-Reforms in Russia’, 1996; Russian Statehood: Origins, Traditions, Perspectives’, 1997; Russian Civilization: Content, Boundaries, Opportunities’, 2000). In discussing the eternal Russian problem of disharmonious components of the social order (values, power, people, economic and political systems), the author makes serious generalizations regarding the conditions for optimizing generative, socially-changing resources, voluntary discipline and cooperation in achieving ideals.

For social scientists and a wide readership.

О политической науке. Избранные произведения About Political Science. Selected Works

This publication contains the selected works of Fedor M. Burlatsky, a famous scholar and author, one of the founders of modern Russian political science, a professor emeritus of the Faculty of Political Science, Lomonosov Moscow State University, which he wrote for more than half a century of his creative activity. The book deals with the formation of political science in the USSR and modern Russia, the current problems of political science research including the formation of political systems, institutions and processes. The author pays special attention to the phenomenon of political leadership.

For students, graduate students, teachers, researchers, all those who are interested in political science.

Обратные задачи Штурма - Лиувилля с нераспадающимися краевыми условиями Inverse Sturm-Liouville Problems with Self-Adjoint Non-Separated Boundary Conditions

The present monograph provides the first systematic analysis of inverse Sturm-Liouville problems with self-adjoint non-separated boundary conditions. The work summarizes and complements the results, which the author obtained and published in journal articles.

The book consists of three chapters. The first chapter proves the earliest theorems on the uniqueness of solutions of inverse Sturm-Liouville problems with self-adjoint non-separated boundary conditions; to prove their point the authors used the method of mapping of solution spaces. The second chapter presents the author’s theorems on the uniqueness, solvability and stability of solutions for the Sturm-Liouville problem with self-adjoint non-separated boundary conditions, and a pencil of differential operators. Appropriate examples and counterexamples are also given. In contrast to the first part, the basic method for solving inverse problems is the one of auxiliary problems rather than one of mapping solution spaces. The third chapter presents the results of reconstructing the boundary conditions for the Sturm-Liouville problem with the known differential equation.

Океанические скарноиды Oceanic Skarnoids

The book, consisting of 12 chapters, presents the author’s improved Concept of the oceanic skarnoids which he recently published in the book ‘The New Paradigm minerageny’ (2010). Chapter 1 deals with databases, and parameters fields of ocean skarnoids, including such ‘key’ depostits as Uludag, Felbertal, Tyrnyauz, Yaogansyan, Shichzhuyuan, Srkytoye, Kiyalyh Uzen, Bayan. Chapter 2 is devoted to mineral resources bases of tungsten, molybdenum and tin in leading countries (China, Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia). Chapters 3, 4 and 5 contain descriptions of 100 deposits of oceanic skarnoids. Chapter 6 speaks about the basic geological features, genesis models, field types, geological features and search criteria of major stratiform deposits of the oceanic skarnoid class. The history and the priorities of the concept of ocean skarnoids are given in Chapter 7. Chapters 8 and 9 contain information about the domestic and foreign ore provinces of oceanic skarnoids. Chapter 10 examines deposits with affinity for the skarnoid W, Mo, Sn deposits: 1) Skarnoid Fe, Cu deposits; 2) W, Au deposits of Muruntau Olimpiada, Kumtor and others. Chapter 11 is devoted to the issues of further developing the Concept of Oceanic skarnoids including the genesis and sources of ore material, elaborate search features and criteria as well as deep-water drilling in the Gulf of California in the Pescadero and Farallon pull-apart basins. Chapter 12 covers prospects and some projects for identifying the largest deposits of the ocean skarnoid class.
For geologist-surveyors and specialists in the field of regional geology and minerals, for students and postgraduates.

Организация и рынок: противоборство или согласие
Основы математической теории пограничного слоя Fundamentals of the Mathematical Theory of the Boundary Layer

The book contains the first presentation of the theory of the boundary layer from the standpoint of the theory of differential equations. It presents a new approach to the concepts of the asymptotic series and the pseudo-analytic function. The boundary layer is represented as a pseudoanalytic function. The new approach based on the method of regularization of singular perturbations made it possible to formulate a criterion for the correctness of the mathematical description of the boundary layer and to develop a regular theory for singularly perturbed problems. The book is intended for mathematicians, specialists in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, physicists, applied mathematicians and engineers who have to deal with problems describing the motion of a viscous flow and with rigid systems of differential equations.

От Москвы до Нью-Йорка. Моя жизнь в науке и политике From Moscow to New York. My Life in Science and Politics

The author of this book, Mikhail Mikhailovich Novikov, is the last freely elected rector of Moscow University (1919–1920), a prominent biologist, a deputy of the Fourth State Duma. In 1922, the Soviet government expelled him among other famous scientists and public figures from Russia. The book was first published in the United States where M.M. Novikov lived from 1949. The author gives an account of his scientific and social activities in Russia and in emigration.
For all those who are interested in the history of Russian science, education and social life in the late 19th – mid 20th centuries.

От СССР к России. Авторитарная трансформация рубежа XX-XXI веков From the USSR to Russia. Authoritarian Transformation at the Turn of the 21st century

In his monograph, Krotkov Vladimir Olegovich, candidate of political sciences, analyzes the metamorphoses that took place in the socio-economic and political spheres in 1985-2009 that were transformational in nature. The scientific work examines the whole twenty-five-year period of our country’s historical transformation as part of the three – Soviet, post-Soviet and neo-post-Soviet – main stages, which had their own chronological framework and were characterized by its own specificity and internal logic of development. Relying on the overall characteristics he had formulated, the author proposed his own definition of the political regime, which made it possible to reveal its types, subtypes and, what can heuristically be called as its polycratic and monocratic forms, which received the researcher’s special attention. On the basis of a multifactorial political analysis, he identified and revealed the specific features of the political regime within the framework of the three stages of Russia’s historical transformation, enabling him to draw a general conclusion about the functioning of the authoritarian political regime of both one-party and various personality subtypes throughout the 25-year long transitional period. The monograph is intended for both specialists in the field of political science and for a wide range of readers.

Ответственность за изнасилование по уголовному законодательству Российской Федерации и различных зарубежных государств Responsibility for Rape under the Criminal Legislation of the Russian Federation and Various Foreign States

From the standpoint of comparative studies, the monograph investigates controversial issues related to the qualification of rape, which arise both in the theory of criminal law and in law enforcement practice. The author offers specific recommendations on improving the relevant norms of Russian criminal law; he examines the criminal laws of 36 foreign states. The work also analyzes criminal cases of rape and the results of polling law enforcement officers.
For teachers, graduate students and students of law schools and faculties as well as scientific and practical workers.

Отечественная наука и научная политика в конце ХХ в.: тенденции и особенности развития (1985 - 1999) Domestic Science and Science Policy in the Late Twentieth Century: Trends and Features of Development (1985–1999)

The late 20th century clearly saw scientific achievements and advanced technologies radically change world civilization and form the basis of a postindustrial society. These patterns directly affected the USSR and newly revived Russia. Moreover, both countries (the former at the end and the latter at the beginning its existence) faced serious problems related to the ineffective system of organizing, managing and supporting scientific and technological progress, mechanisms for reproducing and making rational use of its science resources, and introducing its achievements in the economy. Prepared by a team of specialists from the Institute of Statistical Studies and the Economics of Knowledge, State University – Higher School of Economics under the leadership of professor LM. Gokhberg, Doctor of economic sciences, this monograph is devoted to the study of key problems that faced the state and the scientific community in the field of science development in 1985-1999 and the mechanisms for their solution. The authors analyze the most significant institutional changes that occurred during the period in various sectors of Russian science, evaluate the evolution of the conceptual foundations of the state scientific and technical policy and the main results of its implementation. The work also contains a brief overview of the scientific and technological development of the USSR and the Russian Federation in the late 20th century in comparison with that of foreign countries and the description of several major scientific, scientific and technological achievements made by domestic scientists. The edition is supplied with a detailed scholarly apparatus and is addressed to teachers and students engaged in the study of the history of science in the USSR and Russia at the end of the 20th century, and to all those who are interested in our country’s modern history.

Открывая Грушина. Том.1 Discovering Grushin. Volume 1

The book is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding Russian philosopher and sociologist Boris A. Grushin and includes the articles he wrote over the years and his essays on the history of Russian sociology, journalism as well as the works that have not previously seen the light of the day for various reasons. In particular, this edition publishes for the first time the beginning of his manuscript ‘The Gorbachev Epoch’ from a series called ‘Four Lives of Russia in the Mirror of Opinion Polls. Essays on the Mass Consciousness of Russians under Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin in 4 Books.’ Part of the book is made up of the first ‘Grushin Readings in Mokhovaya’ which took place on February 11, 2010, at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. It also includes the articles Boris Grushin’s friends, colleagues and students specially wrote for this edition. Photographs of different years, cartoons and caricatures from his personal archives will supplement the reader's ideas about the multifaceted personality of this scientist and publicist.
For sociologists, philosophers, historians, social scientists, journalists and a wide range of readers who are interested in his heritage. The editing and publishing work was carried out at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
For the design of the book the materials from N. G. Kartseva’s personal archive were used.

Открывая Грушина. Том.2 Discovering Grushin. Vol. 2

The book continues the series "Discovering Grushin" dedicated to the outstanding Russian philosopher and sociologist Boris Grushin (1929–2007).

Открывая Грушина. Том.3 Discovering Grushin. Volume 3

The book continues the ‘Discovering Grushin’ series, dedicated to the memory of the outstanding domestic philosopher and sociologist Boris A. Grushin (1929-2007). The third volume of the series contains the materials of the ‘Second Grushin Readings in Mokhovaya’, which took place in February 2011 at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the thoughts of Professor Grushin’s students, colleagues and followers. The articles and materials published in the collection present the well-known researcher’s multifaceted personality and acquaint the reader with not only his scientific but also his pedagogical heritage. This publication also includes Grushin’s hitherto unpublished earlier texts as well as the notes of the lectures he read at the Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University.
For sociologists, philosophers, historians, social scientists, journalists, teachers of the sociology of journalism and mass communications, students as well as for a wide range of readers who are interested in his heritage. The editing and publishing work was carried out at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
For the design of the book the materials from N. G. Kartseva’s personal archive were used.

Очерки из истории отечественной журналистики 1870-х гг.
Очерки русской культуры XIX в. Том 4. Общественная мысль Essays on 19th Century Russian Culture. Volume 4. Social Thought

Volume 4 continues the six-volume edition, prepared by scientists of the Faculty of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University, together with other research specialists. The volume is devoted to the study of social thought in Russia. One series of essays reflects the development of social thought in the nineteenth century, the other – deals with the most important problems that have stirred the minds throughout the century.

Очерки русской культуры XIX в. Том 5. Художественная литература. Русский язык Essays on 19th Century Russian Culture. Volume 5. Fiction. Russian Language

Volume 5 continues the six-volume edition, prepared by scientists of the Faculty of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University, together with other research specialists. This volume is devoted to the problems of the development of Russian literature and language in the context of 19th Century culture.

Очерки русской культуры XIX в. Том 6. Художественная культура Essays on 19th Century Russian Culture. Volume 6. Artistic Culture

Volume 6 ends up the six-volume edition, prepared by scientists of the Faculty of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University, together with other research specialists. This volume is devoted to the one hundred years of development of Russian art and culture – painting, architecture, music and theater.

Очерки русской культуры. Конец XIX – начало XX века. Том 1. Essays on Late 19th Century-Early 20th Century Russian Culture. Volume 1

The first volume of the two-volume edition ‘Essays on Russian culture. Social and Cultural Environment. The Late 19th Century – the Early 20th Century’ was prepared by scholars of the historical faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University in collaboration with researchers from Moscow academic institutions and universities of other cities. The book is a continuation of the six-volume edition of ‘Essays of 19th Century Russian Culture.’ This volume is devoted to the study of the socio-cultural environment, the components of which included the city, the village and the mansion.
For historians, students and teachers, as well as all those who are interested in Russian culture.

Параллельные вычисления в задачах глобальной оптимизации Parallel Computations in Global Optimization Problems

This paper is devoted to the analysis of complex multi-extremal models of decision-making, which is traditional for Professor R.G. Strongin’s world-renown scientific school in this field. The work contains the necessary theoretical apparatus for constructing and analyzing parallel methods based on the information-statistical approach to constructing optimization methods, the characteristic theory of convergence and the effectiveness of methods for finding the extremum, and the methodology for reducing the complexity of models under examination. It gives a description of computational schemes of optimization methods, their theoretical justification and examples of practical application. It provides a brief depiction of the software that realizes, in the form of complete software systems, the proposed methods for searching for globally optimal solutions and has found its application in solving complex applied problems and in the learning process as a medium for performing laboratory work and research. The book is intended for a wide range of students, graduate students and professionals who want to study and practically use parallel methods of global optimization for solving computationally labor-intensive applied problems. The Academic Council of the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (CMC), Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University recommends this monograph for use in the educational process. The monograph was prepared as part of the project of the Presidential Commission on Modernization and Technological Development of the Russian Economy ‘Creating a System for Training Highly Qualified Personnel in the Field of Supercomputer Technologies and Specialized Software.’

Париж. Века и люди Paris. Centuries and People

The book is a chronological narrative about France’s major cultural monuments in conjunction with the history of Paris and its environs including Versailles. Particular attention is given to architectural works as most impressive historical monuments as well as sculpture, painting, historical chronicles and memoirs including those of D'Artagnan. The book is written in such a way that behind the historical monuments one can see their contemporaries - people with their unique psychology and intellect.
For a wide range of readers who are interested in history and love art.

Перспективы геоэкологии после Рио+20 Perspectives of Geoecology After Rio+20

The Youth Scientific School ‘Perspectives of Geoecology After Rio + 20’ was held at the Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University, on September 12-14, 2012. The aim of the school was to give young scientists and senior students an opportunity to present their research outcomes and discuss them in a broader context of the global environmental policy. The collection contains abstracts of speeches, which were made by the school’s participants. The collection opens with the notes of five public lectures delivered at the school inauguration ceremony by leading specialists from Moscow University and Russian Academy of Sciences institutes.

Поведение насекомых Behavior of Insects

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.

Политические представления и ценности россиян Russians’ Political Views and Values

The monograph presents a comprehensive political and psychological analysis of political views, values both at the theoretical and methodological level, and based on the results of empirical research. The indicated phenomena are considered from different points of view: at the level of individual and mass political consciousness, in terms of generational, politico-cultural and political-ideological dimensions. The book provides a detailed picture of the systems of modern Russian citizens’ political ideas and values and reveals the socialization context of their formation. This publication is intended for specialists in the field of political science, sociology, psychology, students and post-graduate students studying political psychology and political sociology and for all those who are interested in this topic.

Политический регион. Опыт операционализации и концептуализации понятия Political Region. The Experience Of Operationalization and Conceptualization of the Concept

Issues of political regionalistics are becoming increasingly important in domestic political science. The monograph analyzes extensive material that gives an idea of the categorical definition of a political region, the sources and factors that contribute to the formation and development of a constituent’s political subjectivity in Russia as well as the relationship between the center and the region. Of great interest is the description of the main features and attributes of a political region with an emphasis on the institutionalization of political activity and the formation of federal relations and regional elite.
For experts in the field of regional policies, representatives of government bodies, teachers, students and all those who are interested in the scientific understanding of political and territorial phenomena and processes.

Поэты «Латинской Антологии» Poets of ‘The Latin Anthology’

‘The Latin Anthology’ is a late antique collection of small poems compiled in early 6th century Roman Africa, introducing over twenty authors. This book acquaints Russian readers with this specific literary monument. This is the first separate edition of well-thought out and stylistically balanced translations of vandal school poetry.

Правительственный конституционализм в России XVIII - начала XX века: традиции изучения Governmental Constitutionalism in 18th – early 20th Century Russia: Traditions of Study

The book is devoted to the acts of governmental constitutionalism in Russia in the 18th and early 20th centuries: ‘Conditions of the Supreme Privy Council’ (1730), ‘Introduction to the Code of State Laws’ by M.M. Speransky (1809), ‘October 17, 1905 Manifesto’ and ‘April 23, 1906 Fundamental State Laws’. The author summarizes the study of this problem in Soviet historiography. His main attention is focused on the reasons why these acts came into being and what was their political and legal content.
For all those who are interested in the history of Russian constitutionalism.

Правовое регулирование безналичных расчетов в предпринимательской деятельности на территории Российской Федерации Legal Regulation of Non-Cash Payments in Entrepreneurial Activities in the Russian Federation

The paper outlines issues of legal regulation of non-cash settlement relations and examines the organizational models of non-cash settlements, ways to improve the fulfillment of non-cash settlement obligations, etc. Legal acts are presented as of April 1, 2006.
For students, postgraduates, teachers of law schools and banking practitioners.

Правовой статус налогоплатильщика-физического лица The Legal Status of a Taxpayer as a Physical Person

The monograph explores the problems of the legal status of a taxpayer as an individual by taking into account its historical development and comparing it with the experience of taxation of individuals in foreign countries. Based on the research by leading scientists in the field of financial law, the book identifies the essence of the legal status of a taxpayer, singles out the characteristics of a physical person as a taxpayer and considers a taxpayer’s duties and rights in terms of fulfilling their obligation to pay taxes, tax control, prosecution for tax law violation and appeal against illegal actions of taxation bodies and their officials.
For students, postgraduate students, teachers, researchers, practitioners and those who are interested in problems of tax legislation.

Пресса ГУЛАГа. Списки Е.П. Пешковой. GULAG Press. E.P. Peshkova’s Lists

The book contains two studies united under the Gulag theme. The first one entitled ‘The Gulag Press’ examines closed periodicals which the General Directorate of Camps published in 1918-1955 for distribution among political prisoners. The history of the camp press is presented in the context of the general trends in the development of Soviet journalism at that period. The second study is called ‘E.P. Peshkova’s Lists‘ and deals with a unique phenomenon - the activities of “The Assistance to Political Prisoners’ Foundation which existed from 1922 to mid-1938.

Применение «жесткой» и «мягкой силы» во внешнеполитических целях. Теория и практика. Сборник научных трудов  школы системных исследований в области политэкономии международных отношений The Use of ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft Power’ for Foreign Policy Purposes. Theory and Practice

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.

Принципы параллельного программирования Principles of Parallel Programming

In the age of development of multi-core processor architecture, the topic of parallel programming assumes great importance for engineers and designers of computer systems. The book ‘Principles of Parallel Programming’ written by renowned researchers and scholars Calvin Lin (Department of Informatics at the University of Texas, Austin) and Lawrence Snyder (Department of Computer Science and Computer Science, University of Washington, Seattle), deals with the fundamental principles of parallel computing. The book explains various phenomena and provides examples of the cases when these phenomena contribute to the success of parallel programming, or, on the contrary, create certain difficulties. The publication is intended for senior university students, for students studying for their master's degree and professionals who want to learn parallel programming. The book contains valuable reliable and information that will continue to be relevant despite the hardware and software evolution.

Пропионовокислые бактерии Propionic Acid Bacteria

The monograph summarizes the results of the author's research over many years and the information contained in the literature on the unique life form of propionic acid bacteria. The author tells about the complexity of scientific research, original approaches to the study of propionic acid bacteria and the great contribution to this area of microbiology by domestic researchers who have discovered amazing facts of general biological significance. She presents the data on the ultrastructural organization of propionic acid bacteria, their biochemistry, physiology, ecology as well as new data on the genetics of these bacteria, which are important for understanding the evolution of the world of living beings.
For microbiologists, biochemists, biotechnologists.

Прорыв. Как открылись ворота страны. 30-летию начала реформ в Китае посвящается
Протестные движения в странах Центральной и Юго-Восточной Европы. Конец 1960-х - 1980-е гг. Хрестоматия. Protest Movements in Central and South-Eastern Europe. From the Late 1960s to the 1980s

The book contains unique documentary material, which has not been introduced before. The main purpose of the manual is to get the reader directly acquainted with the primary sources in the history of the opposition and dissident movements in six Central and South-East European countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia) in the late 1960s-1980s. The book reproduces concrete documentary evidence of the intensive search in the regional countries’ opposition environment for ideological concepts and models alternative to the established regime as well as programs of political and social transformations. The documents published systematically reflect the evolution and structure of the opposition movements in the region, helping readers to navigate in their wide spectrum, which makes it possible to fix the key points of the history of each of the six countries and to compare protest movement models with those in other parts of the world.
For researchers, teachers, postgraduate students, students and a wide range of readers.

Психологические факторы развития и стагнации демократических реформ Psychological Factors of Development and Stagnation of Democratic Reforms

The book is a psychological study of socio-political processes in Russia in 1985-2013 through the prism of the traditional Russian mentality. In fact, this is the first book in Russian psychological literature to pose the question of how an individual lived and thought in a specific historical period, and to touch upon a number of socio-psychological problems that seem self-evident to everyone and yet traditionally escape from academic science’s reflection and critical analysis.
The publication is intended for psychologists, sociologists, political scientists and a wide range of readers, it can also be of interest to state, public and political figures of all levels.

Психология аномального развития ребенка в 2-х томах The Psychology of Abnormal Child Development in Two Volumes

This is the first anthology to be published in our country providing the necessary theoretical material for the course ‘The Psychology of the Abnormal Child’ which was read for many years at the Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University, and other related courses (‘Emotional Disorders in Childhood’ and a hands-on workshop on ‘The Psychology of an Abnormal Child’). The specific feature of this book lies in the fact that it has been compiled by practicing psychologists who are directly involved in working with children in a clinic or a children’s consultation office. The numerous cases that different authors describe in their articles make theoretical constructions or conclusions clear and understandable helping to recognize deviations in child development and map out ways to correct them. The domestic psychological literature knows no other publication like this in the width and variety of theoretical concepts presented in the textbook and in the extent of the book’s coverage of clinical manifestations of abnormal child development. The reader is designed both for students who are beginning to study psychology, and for working doctors, psychologists, teachers and caregivers.

Психология спорта Sports psychology

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.

Психология: предмет и метод. Избранные психологические труды Psychology: subject and method. Selected psychological works

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.

Равные условия для всех детей: стратегия, которая работает Giving Kids a Fair Chance. A strategy that works

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.

Радиовещание и телевидение Франции. Radio and Television in France

The monograph traces the main stages of the development of French radio and television broadcasting. The book examines the process of formation of the French audiovisual system against the backdrop of the country's internal social and political life, important international events, 20th century scientific and technological progress and the introduction of digital technologies in the early 21st century. The work focuses on the specifics of French radio and television functioning during the establishment of a state TV and radio monopoly in France. It examines in detail the legislation in the field of audiovisual media and its impact on the transformation of the French radio and TV broadcasting system.
For students, post-graduate students and teachers of faculties and departments of journalism, practical journalists, political scientists and media historians.

Радиожурналистика Radio Journalism

The textbook deals with the history, specific features and public functions of radio broadcasting, its place in the mass media system, the structure of its expressive means, radio broadcasting program genres and forms, questions of the methodology of the radio journalist's work both when broadcasting live and recording programs for future broadcasts as well as the typology of radio broadcasting organizations that has been established in Russia and abroad. It provides the first ever summary of foreign experience, international broadcasting experience and forms and methods of radio audiences surveys.
For students of journalism and television practitioners.

Развиваем мышление с русскими сказками Developing Thinking with Russian Tales

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.

Реклама в СМИ. История, технология, классификация Advertising in the Media. History, Technology, Classification

Advertising and the media have been inextricably linked for several centuries. The monograph analyzes the current areas of research in advertising in mass media, the development of media advertising and those technological areas that are important for the survival of the advertising market and media business. The author considers typological features of media advertising and offers her model of advertising classification. The book is of scientific and practical interest and is addressed to teachers, graduate students, university students and a wide range of specialists working in the field of advertising and mass media.

Реклама: искусство слова. Рекомендации для составителей рекламных текстов Advertising: the Art of the Word. Recommendations for Compilers Who Advertise Texts

The manual introduces the principles of stylistically correct and effective construction of advertising texts, requirements for their composition, language and style and specific features of their linguistic impact.
For mass media staff, advertising agents and writers of text ads.

Ректор Московского университета академик А.А. Логунов и его время Moscow University Rector Logunov and His Time

The book, which MSU professor emeritus V.Tropin wrote to mark the 80th birthday of academician A. A. Logunov, is devoted to the latter’s activities as Moscow university rector.
For all those who are interested in the history of Moscow University.

Ректоры Московского университета (1755–2017) Moscow University Rectors (1755–2017)

Evgeny Evgenievich Shiryaev, a Moscow University alumnus, who worked for many years at the Geological Faculty, has created a unique portrait gallery. Today, these portraits decorate the Rectors’ office-museum in the MSU building in Mokhovaya Street. Unfortunately, the portrait gallery is incomplete since the images of some of its rectors are unavailable now, however some background information about these rectors’ lives and activity still survives and is now on display at the museum.

Речевая коммуникация в бизнесе Speech Communication in Business

The monograph explores a wide range of business communication issues. In modern information society, the sine qua non condition for successful commercial activity is the ability to create an effective system of business communications both within the organization and in the external environment. The monograph answers the questions about the ways of optimizing communication processes and teaching students to discern their mistakes and eliminate them.

For students, specialists in the field of business communications, businesspersons and all those who are interested in the questions of speech communication in business.

Решетка замкнутых классов самодвойственных функций трёхзначной логики The Lattice of Closed Classes of Self-Dual Functions of Three-Valued Logic

The book describes the lattice of closed classes of three-valued logic that are embedded in the precomplete class of self-dual functions. Unlike the linear class, this is the first precomplete class of which we have been able to obtain a description. With the help of this description, various properties of closed classes of self-dual functions are proved. In particular, all closed classes have been shown to have a (finite or infinite) basis, all finitely generated and predicate-decomposable classes have been identified, and the powers of the sublattices and sublattices for each closed class have been found.
For students, graduate students and researchers specializing in the field of discrete mathematics.

Риторика романа Владимира Набокова «Дар». Фигура мысли. Rhetoric of Vladimir Nabokov's Novel ‘Gift’. A Figure of Thought

The book presents a profound conceptual structure of Vladimir Nabokov's novel ‘Gift’. Guided by the desire to give a textually substantiated analysis of the novel’s content, the author chose the quotational style of presentation. The book is addressed to students, specialists of philology and all those who are interested in the work of Vladimir Nabokov.

Роль морских льдов в динамике рельефа береговой зоны The Role of Sea Ice in the Dynamics of the Topographical Features of the Coastal Zone

The monograph deals with the activity of sea ice as an agent of active and passive topographical feature formation. The zoning of the coastal shelf zone was carried out according to the types of ice formations and their impact on the sea coast and the floor. The monograph provides a description of the morphology and morphometry of the exarational and other forms of the relief, the formation of which is associated with the dynamics and seasonal presence of sea ice. An attempt was made to correlate the intensity of ice impacts and the safety of the forms of ice grinding. The book assesses the impact of climate change and ice cover on the dynamics of Arctic coasts. The monograph is intended for a wide range of readers: from scientists and professionals - oceanologists, geomorphologists, engineers engaged in the design of hydraulic structures in the offshore shelf zone of the freezing seas, to students and postgraduates studying the physical essence and geography of natural processes in the Arctic, Caspian and other natural regions.

Романтическая муза Пушкина Pushkin’s Romantic Muse

This book singles out four periods in the development of Pushkin's romanticism placing an emphasis on the history of its development in his lyric poetry, on lyrical romanticism as a moving phenomenon, on the dynamics of images, style, and aesthetic coloring of his works. Although being aware of the constant original values of Pushkin's romanticism, the author also considers both the changing opinions and forms of creativity corresponding to the poet’s nature, his mental make-up, in other words, this book studies the works of a Genius. It is addressed to specialists in philology and everyone who loves Pushkin.

Российский оборонно-промышленный комплекс: история, современное состояние, перспективы The Russian Defense Industry Complex: History, Current State, Prospects

The monograph deals with the formation and development of the Russian defense industry complex (DIC). The historical approach promotes an in-depth analysis of the current state and prospects for modernizing the defense industry. The dynamics and direction of the DIC structural transformations testify to the synchrony of this process with the changes now under way in the structure of state management. The work is intended for managers and specialists of the defense industry complex.

Российское земство и европейские традиции местного самоуправления (формирование представительства в местном самоуправлении России и Европы второй половины XIX – начале ХХ века) Russian Zemstvo and European Traditions of Local Self-Government. Formation of Representation in Local Self-Government of Russia and Europe in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

The work analyses the role the European traditions of local self-government play in the practice of preparing and implementing zemstvo reforms in Russia in the second half of 19th and the early 20th centuries. The emphasis is placed on examining the issues related to the formation of representative bodies in municipalities, the role of election qualification mechanisms in regulating the composition of municipal assemblies. The monograph is designed for professionals - historians, political scientists, anyone who is interested in the history of local government.

Россия, католичество и польский вопрос Russia, Catholicism and the Polish Question

The world-famous Polish philosopher, a historian of ideas, law, literature and culture, traces the centuries-old contacts between Russia and Poland and sums up his studies of the interconnections between the two Slavic peoples. In particular, he examines the issue of religious relations - a possible union of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. The dramatic pages of the Polish insurgency are reproduced through the prism of the contradictory perception of the January 1863 Uprising by the Russian social, political and artistic thought.
For philosophers, Slavists, religious scholars and everyone who is interested in the history of modern thought. Translated from the Polish edition: Andrzej Walicki. Rosja, katolicyzm i sprawa polska. Warszawa: Prószyński i S-ka, 2002.

Руководство по психологии здоровья Handbook of Health Psychology

In contemporary practice health psychology is an independent trend in psychological science, a universally recognized specialization giving rise to master theses and PhD dissertations, as well as to publications in more than a dozen scientific journals in the field. The present tutorial embraces both well-established and modern research models and data. Section 1 is devoted to theoretical and methodological bases of health psychology; section 2 studies destructive psychological factors affecting health; section 3 discusses health psychology approaches with respect to primary, secondary and tertiary prevention.

For psychology students who specialize in social psychology, clinical psychology, personality psychology, health psychology, as well as for anyone interested in the problems of modern health psychology and methods of changing health-risk behaviors.

Рукописная традиция французского «Жития Святого Этьена де Мюре» The French Manuscript Tradition of ‘The Life of Saint Stephen of Muret’

The book presents a scientific edition of the full text of the medieval French hagiographic monument ‘The Life of Saint Stephen of Muret’ that has been preserved in four 14th -15th century copies and their translations into Russian. The work includes a study of the linguistic features of these manuscripts and the establishment of the manuscript tradition of the work.
For specialists in the history of the French language and literature and a wide range of readers who are interested in medieval culture, hagiographic literature and medieval church history.

Русская православная церковь и новая религиозная ситуация в России.
Русский символизм
Рябины в коллекции Ботанического сада МГУ Rowan trees in the collection of the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University

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.

Сборник статей по искусствознанию, филологии, истории

This collection of articles dedicated to Professor A.P.Lobodanov, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Lomonosov Moscow State University, on the occasion of his 60th birthday includes articles on history of art, history and philology. The articles on history of art feature different arts – music, theatre, visual arts. The articles on philology and linguistics contain both general theoretic and narrow topics. The works on history and philosophy embrace a long period of time – from Antiquity to Modern times. The authors are professors, teachers and postgraduate students of the Faculty of Arts at Lomonosov Moscow State University, leading researchers of the State Art Institute, Professor A.P.Lobodanov's colleagues from Universities of Tomsk, Izhevsk, Riga, Barcelona, New York.

Септуагинта: древнегреческий текст Ветхого Завета в истории религиозной мысли Septuaginta: the Greek Old Testament in the History of Religious Mind

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.

Сергей Михайлович Бонди: К 120-летию со дня рождения. Статьи. Письма. Воспоминания современников.

Sergei Mikhailovich Bondy (1891–1983) is a renowned Pushkin scholar, textual critic, historian of the Russian literature of the XIXth century, con noisseur of music and theatre, classic of the Russian literary studies. The first section of this book includes S. M. Bondy's little known articles dedicated to the poets: Baratynsky, Trediakovsky, Sumarokov, Lomonosov. The second section consists of the earlier unpublished Bondy's letters to composer M. F. Gnesin as well as Bondy's article «About the Musical Reading of M. F. Gne sin». One may also read firstly published Bondy's statements about Vs. Meyer hold; D. Bonch-Bruevich's letters to Bondy and comments to S. M. Bondy's work on Complete Academic Collected Works by Pushkin. The third section comprises letters that Sergei Mikhailovich wrote to his friends-scientists M. A. Tsyavlovsky and T. U. Tsyavlovsky, A. Slonimsky and S. Bobrov. Bondy friends' and followers' memoirs about him terminate the book. It also contains rare photo graphs from the Bondy family archive.

Сергей Михайлович Бонди. К 120-летию со дня рождения. Избранное

Mikhailovich Bondy (1891–1983) is a renowned Pushkin scholar, textual critic, historian of the Russian literature of the XIXth century, con noisseur of music and theatre, classic of the Russian literary studies. This book comprises five most signifi cant works of the scientist dedicated to A. S. Pushkin. These works, written and published in diff erent periods of time, make a priceless contribution to the treasury of the Russian philology. Key words: Pushkin, poetry, literature, art, philology, philological studies, versification, innovations, realism, artistism.

Словотворчество Велимира Хлебникова
Современная  цивилизация. Вызовы и альтернативы
Современная финансовая политика Российской Федерации
Современный мир и его истоки
Содержательность художественных форм
Социальная философия. Деятельностный подход к анализу человека, общества, истории. Часть 1
Социология и социальное мифотворчество Sociology and Social myth-making

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

Справедливость равенства и равенство справедливости
Субрегиональные ресурсы и инструменты интенсивного развития территориальных экономических систем современной России
Судьба: психология мифа Fate: psychology of myth

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.

Телевидение в поисках телевидения
Теоретико-методологические основы глобалистики
Теория и история искусства. Вып.1. Ломоносов и искусство

This collected volume includes the articles by professors, teachers and postgraduate students of the Faculty on actual problems of history and theory of art. 

Intended for specialists, students in humanities and a wide range of readers.

Теория и практика конструирования почв Theory and practice of soil design

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".

Теория познания. Симвология. Теория символических форм
Территориальные пределы местного самоуправления в РФ
Территория государства. Правовые и геополитические проблемы
Технологическое прогнозирование и планирование: российский и зарубежный опыт, перспективы для отечественного оборонно-промышленного комплекса

The monograph provides a detailed review of the main advanced forecasting principles and gives examples of how they are successfully used for the development of high-technology indus­ tries (including the defense industry) in the leading foreign countries. Special attention is paid to current Russian forecasting practice in technological development and planning of the state defense order. The emphasis is placed on the key features of technological forecasting in the in ­ terests of national defense and security. The book is designed for responsible executives and professional staff members involved in the development of advanced weaponry, military and special purpose equipm ent, as well as in the modernization of the domestic military-industrial complex.

Товарный маркетинг
Традиции и инновации в профессиональном образовании
Трансформация дискурса в люксовом и премиальном брендинге Transformation of discourse in luxury and premium branding

The monograph examines the influence of social trends and the digital economy on the transformation of communication between luxury groups and haute couture houses, occurring in synergy with the evolution of management models. Attention is paid to the impact of an inclusive culture on human resource management, the concept of sustainable development and "responsible investments" on the image and reputation of actors in the field under study. The directions of the evolution of network discourse, the emergence of new heroes, the cooperation of luxury groups with leading companies in the field of digital technologies, new formats of intercultural communication are investigated. The monograph gives an idea of the sphere of luxury and premium brands as influential media transmitters of values to society and at the same time responding to social impulses.

Труды Московского математического общества. Том 56
Университет для России University for Russia

The book, written by specialists in the history of Russian education, is devoted to the formation of the university system in Russia. Based on a rich range of sources, the authors, using the example of the oldest Moscow University in Russia, show how during the reign of Nicholas I in the second quarter of the XIX century, a national model of a classical university was created using European experience. Its distinctive feature is the fundamental nature of education, inseparable from upbringing, the special role of the teacher, a great participation in determining the educational strategy of the state. The book is written in a bright literary language, richly illustrated, addressed to a wide range of readers.

Университет Ломоносовых. Круг основателей. Клятвы Воробьевых гор. Эпоха И.Г. Петровского Lomonosov University. The circle of founders. The oaths of the Sparrow Hills. The Epoch of I. G. Petrovsky

Vladimir Dimov's new book is dedicated to Moscow State University, outstanding representatives of politics, science and culture who came out of the walls of the first university of Russia, its teachers and students. 

The first part of the book is written in the genre of free essays about the birth of the Russian elite, the great Russian educator and scientist M.V. Lomonosov, statesman and military reformer G.A. Potemkin.

In the second part, the special historical mission of the university is widely presented - truth and freedom have always been close here, and the main subject - freedom of thought - created a special flavor of intra-university life.

The third part of the book is an essay and memoirs of a former student and graduate student about his studies and life at the historical, philosophical and economic faculties, about the era of Rector I.G. Petrovsky at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, his teachers and friends.

Федерализм. Энциклопедия
Фельяны. У истоков французского либерализма
Феномен художественности: от Пушкина до Чехова
Филология: вечная и молодая. Сборник статей к юбилею профессора М.Л. Ремневой Philology: Ever Lasting & Young

The collection contains the articles devoted to the anniversary of Prof. Remnyova and reveals the modern state of philological science at the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. All the authors represent the new specializations and subdivisions of the Philological Faculty as well as its international projects.

Философия истории
Философия наивности
Философия. Истории философии во Франции (проблема закономерностей в развитии интеллектуальной культуры)
Формирование системы университетского образования. Том 1
Формирование системы университетского образования. Том 2
Формирование системы университетского образования. Том 3
Формирование системы университетского образования. Том 4. Часть 1
Формирование системы университетского образования. Том 4. Часть 2
Франкофония: культура повседневности Francophonie: Culture of Everyday Life

This tutorial is devoted to the theoretical and practical questions, related to the culture of everyday life of France and countries of Francophonie. It consists of 5 sections:

  1. Culture of everyday life as a scientific problem; 
  2. Culture of France and culture of everyday life; 
  3. Francophonie and regions of France: cultures of everyday life; 
  4. France and Russia: literary and historical aspects of everyday life; 
  5. Everyday culture in the practice of teaching of the French language.

Intended for students, post-graduates and everyone interested in the culture of France and Francophonie.

Франкофонные исследования Francophonie studies

The monograph is devoted to the study of francophonie — a unique multifaceted phenomenon that has linguistic and cultural components. It aims to show the ways of studying francophonie and to clarify the dynamics of its development in the context of current theoretical problems. It also aspires to identify the features of francophonie research as a scientific direction and a promising academic discipline.

The monograph is a multidisciplinary research and is written for a wide range of readers — students, master degree students, and postgraduate students, teachers and researchers and everyone who is interested in the French language, the cultures of France and French-speaking countries.

Keywords: Francophonie, International Organization of Francophonie, francophonie studies, France, francophone countries, French language, culture, spatial variation, area.

Франкоязычный мир. Взаимодействие и контакты

Le recueil est consacre aux contacts et infl uences qui caracterisent le monde francophone au sein de la culture mondiale. Il comprend 5 parties: Сarrefours des cultures: nord, sud, est, ouest. Carrefours de l'histoire: epoque de 1812. France: aspects de la culture. Francophonie: langue et cultures. France et Russie. Le recueil est destine aux etudiants, aux ecoliers et a tous ceux qui s'interessent a la culture de la France et de la Russie.

Франция и франкофония: язык, общество, культура France and Francophonie: Language, Society, Culture

The monograph is devoted to the study of the language, society and culture of France in the context of the Francophonie. The author considers the theoretical and practical aspects of the unity/variance of language and culture, the development of national and cultural identity, the anthropology of space, everyday culture and its reflection in the language, linguistic and cultural politics as well as some terminological issues.

The book has an interdisciplinary nature and is intended for a wide range of readers: philologists, historians, specialists in area studies, culturologists, sociologists and representatives of other disciplines, researchers and lecturers, doctoral students, under- and post-graduate students, and everyone studying French and interested in the culture of France and Francophonie.

Французский либерализм в прошлом и настоящем
Человек и природа. Первые шаги Human and nature. First steps

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.

Чубушники в коллекции Ботанического сада МГУ Chubushniki in the collection of the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University

The book is devoted to the description of species, hybrids and varieties of representatives of the genus Chubushnik (Philadelphus L.), which have been grown and observed for several decades in the collection of the open ground of the REC — Botanical Garden of Peter I of the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University. A detailed description of cultivated varieties and natural species is given, indicating their origin, biological properties, data on reproduction, agricultural technology and decorative use are given. Special attention is paid to the history of breeding work and achievements of domestic scientists. Based on long-term observations, data on the hardiness and phenology of plants of this genus in the climate of the Middle zone of European Russia are presented. 

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

Шестнадцать шедевров русской литературы Sixteen Chef-d’oeuvres of the Russian Literature

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.

Эволюция денежных систем Причерноморья и Балкан в XIII-XV вв. The evolution of the monetary systems of the Black Sea region and the Balkans in the XIII-XV centuries.

The states of the Balkans and the Black Sea region minted different coins and had different traditions in maintaining the currency system. The comparative study of these coins was necessary to demonstrate that changes affecting the currencies were determined by the genesis of the worldwide economic system and have appeared because the medieval financial approaches were universal. One thing was common for those dissimilar currencies: specie existed for the use of the authorities and of the subjects concurrently. Published and unpublished documents together with quantitative data obtained during the numismatic analysis allowed to find and to describe dates and circumstances of dozens reforms in the Byzantine and Tartar states, to reconstruct the ideology of medieval financiers. The first and the second gave us also names of the coins, their parameters, values, rates and cross-rates, different characteristics of the monetary fund as a whole. They were calculated with the use of original methods developed for the numismatic study based on the probability theory and reflecting the statistical nature of the numismatic material. The results accumulated in this book are not merely the description of the evolution of the financial systems in the region, they are the tool necessary for the research of the economic history of the Levant in the Middle Ages.

Энциклопедия Московского университета. Экономический факультет
Эпопея в русской литературе
Я не могу убить собаку: популярное пособие по бизнес-терминологии
Язык СМИ и политика Media language and politics

The collective monograph, written by well-known Russian linguists, presents a broad picture of the functioning of the language of the media, comprehensively analyzes the influence of politics on the language of the media. This problem is central to the language of the media, since politics is the main content in the activities of the media, and is considered in semiotic, functional-stylistic, ethical and rhetorical aspects. The language of print and electronic media (newspapers, magazines, television, radio) is studied in detail. The language of foreign media is also considered in a comparative aspect. The monograph shows the current state of the media language and its influence on the development of the literary language.

The monograph is of interest to students, postgraduates and teachers of journalism and philology faculties, as well as to a wide range of readers, for those who care about the purity and expressiveness of Russian speech.