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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.

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.

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.

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.

Collection of scientific papers in 12 volumes.

For students, graduate students and researchers.

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.

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

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

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

The 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.

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

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

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

The 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.

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.

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.

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.