New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. — 444 p. Aksel Sandemose was a Danish-Norwegian writer whose works were mostly devoted to the theme of the repressions of society leading to violence. In his masterpiece, Sandemose portrays the fictional small Danish town of Jante, modelled upon his native town Nykøbing Mors in the 1930s where nobody was anonymous, a feature of life typical of...
Viking Penguin, 2014. — 512 p. — ISBN 978-0-698-17039-1. “Leroi reconstructs Aristotle’s studies of wildlife at the Kalloni lagoon on Lesbos more than 2,300 years ago. Entertainingly, he builds up the thesis that the great Greek philosopher was the world’s first systematic biologist.” —Financial Times Books of the Year “How Aristotle nearly beat Darwin to a theory of evolution....
М.: Просвещение, 1990. — 256 с. — (Библиотека учителя математики). Всего свыше 1700 задач, поделенных на шесть глав. I-IV - задачи по всем темам программы X-XI классов, внутри каждой главы 3-х уровней сложности: несложные упражнения по теме раздела; упражнения, направленные на выработку умений и навыков на высоком уровне программных требований; творческие задачи для...
Киев, 2021. — 105 с. В сборнике представлены 50 задач по первой части курса аналитической геометрии – выводу уравнений и построению фигур на плоскости. Раздел 1 содержит небольшие задачи для введения в предмет. В разделе 2 собраны объемные задачи с 4-7 подзадачами, которые чаще всего предлагаются студентам в контрольных и самостоятельных работах. Раздел 3 содержит задачи на...
Киев, 2021. — 54 с. В сборнике представлены 50 обыкновенных дифференциальных уравнений и систем с подробным решением. Сборник будет полезен студентам 2-го курса при изучении данного предмета, а также всем, кто изучает ОДУ самостоятельно или хочет на практике освежить полученные ранее знания.
Киев, 2021. — 117 с. В сборнике представлены 65 задач с подробным решением по теме «Исследование функций с помощью производной и построение графиков». Сборник будет полезен абитуриентам для подготовки к вступительным экзаменам по профильной математике, а также студентам младших курсов при изучении основ математического анализа.
Hachette Books, 2017. —272 p. — ISBN 978-0316306096. "Using his trademark wit and clear-eyed analysis, Dan Lyons has delivered a much-needed referendum on the current state of Silicon Valley. In wildly entertaining fashion, Disrupted explores the ways in which many technology companies have come to fool the public and themselves. Lyons has injected a dose of sanity into a world...
Springer, 2014. — p.232. — ISBN 978-981-4585-60-6 (eBook). This book is on the iterative learning control (ILC) with focus on the design and implementation. We approach the ILC design based on the frequency domain analysis and address the ILC implementation based on the sampled data methods. This is the first book of ILC from frequency domain and sampled data methodologies. The...
Springer, 2018. — 298 p. — ISBN 978-981-10-8267-2 (eBook). This book presents an in-depth discussion of iterative learning control (ILC) with passive incomplete information, highlighting the incomplete input and output data resulting from practical factors such as data dropout, transmission disorder, communication delay, etc.—a cutting-edge topic in connection with the...
The MIT Press, 2001. — 356 p. — ISBN 978-0262550420. Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth,...
Киев: Інтердрук, 2021. — 232 с. — ISBN 979-617-7431-23-6. Авторов книги не устраивает то, как сейчас обстоят дела в мире. И они задались вопросом: «Если не так как сейчас, то, как он может быть устроен?». Они поставили задачу представить себе Новую архитектуру Человечества, задать иные основания человеческого общежития и показать, как они могут быть воплощены в социальной...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. — 448 p. — ISBN-13 978-0865478008. We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication are familiar...
Вопросы экономики. — 2010. — №3. — С.4-23. Наличие сырьевых ресурсов предоставляет значительные возможности для развития. Вместе с тем в долгосрочном плане темпы экономического роста в странах, богатых природными ресурсами, как правило, оказываются ниже ожидаемых, поскольку сырьевая рента повышает макроэкономическую волатильность и снижает стимулы к улучшению качества...
Вопросы экономики. — 2008. — №4. — с. 61-74. В дискуссии о современной политической ситуации в России часто приводятся аргументы в пользу особого характера экономического и политического развития нашей страны. Авторы обсуждают новые результаты, полученные российскими и зарубежными экономистами, исследующими феномен так называемого «ресурсного проклятия». Выявленные в этих...
2nd edition. — Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2016. — 384 p. — ISBN-13 978-1626566743. John Perkins, a former economic hit man, shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else—to...
Avon Books, 1983. — 272 p. — ISBN-13 978-0380538683. The defection of Viktor Belenko took place on September 6, 1976 when Lieutenant Viktor Belenko of the Soviet Air Defence Forces flew his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25P “Foxbat” aircraft from near Vladivostok in the Far East of the Soviet Union to Hakodate Airport in Hokkaido Prefecture of Japan. Viktor Belenko moved to the US, was...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. — 276 p. — ISBN-13 978-0393313710. The elites — those who "control the international flow of money and information, preside over philanthropic foundations and institutions of higher learning, manage the instruments of cultural production and thus the terms of public debate...have lost faith in the values, or what remains of them, of the West" (p....
Threshold Editions/Mercury Ink, NY, 2015. — 382 p. — ISBN13: 978-1501115943. In Sold Out, Michelle Malkin and John Miano reveal the worst perpetrators screwing America’s high-skilled workers, how and why they’re doing it—and what we must do to stop them. In this book, they will name names and expose the lies of those who pretend to champion the middle class, while aiding and...
Rourke Educational Media, 2018. — 52 p. — ISBN: 978-1-68342-563-2. For kids ages 5 to 10. The book introduces young readers to careers in space exploration by exploring and connecting the opportunities to the study of science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Gives an overview of various jobs related to space exploration and points out how each position relates to STEAM...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2011. — 552 p. — ISBN13: 978-1611454277. This is a historical novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan, who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. It chronicles the lives of one Chinese family through the second half of the twentieth century, as seen by a noble and generous landowner, who had been killed and reincarnated as various farm animals in rural China. It is...
Indiana University Press, 2001. — 236 p. — ISBN: 0-253-33937-5. .. are dinosaurs social constructs? Do we really know anything about dinosaurs? Might not all of our beliefs about dinosaurs merely be figments of the paleontological imagination? A few years ago such questions would have seemed preposterous, even nonsensical. Now they must have a serious answer." At stake in the...
Flatiron Books, 2018. — 353 p. — eISBN 978250123817. “One of the most important books I’ve ever read, an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and...
Taylor Trade Publishing, 2013. — 145 p. — ISBN: 978-1-57979-808-3. Origins of Form is about the shape of things. What limits the height of a tree? Why is a large ship or office building more efficient than a small one? What is the similarity between a human rib cage and an airplane or a bison and a cantilevered bridge? How might we plan for things to improve as they are used...
PlutoBooks, London, 2013. — 249 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7453-3331-1; ISBN: 978-0-7453-3330-4; ISBN: 978-1-8496-4966-7; ISBN: 978-1-8496-4968-1; ISBN: 978-1-8496-4967-4. Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy. Yet the era of corporate globalisation has been defined by unprecedented levels of inequality and environmental...
PlutoPress, London, 2014. — 305 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7453-3279-6; ISBN: 978-0-7453-3278-9; ISBN: 978-1-8496-4909-4; ISBN: 978-1-8496-4911-7; ISBN: 978-1-8496-4910-0. The Conundrum of Russian Capitalism looks at the nature of Russian capitalism following the fall of the Soviet Union, showing how the system originated in the degenerated Soviet bureaucracy and the pressures of global...
3rd Edition. — The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018. — 882 p. — (IET professional applications of computing series 20). — ISBN: 978-1-78561-554-2 ; ISBN: 978-1-78561-555-9. Systems Modelling Language (SysML) is a tailored version of the unified modelling language (UML) that meets the needs of today's systems engineering professionals and engineers. It supports...
The Journal of Economic History Vol. 46, No. 2, The Tasks of Economic History (Jun., 1986), pp. 385-406 (22 pages) A famous article that has become a common starting point to discuss the concept of catching-up development. Abstract : A widely entertained hypothesis holds that, in comparisons among countries, productivity growth rates tend to vary inversely with productivity...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 327 p. — ISBN: 978-1-137-59779-3 | ISBN: 978-1-137-59780-9. This book sheds new light on the advancement of various industries in developing Asian countries through an application and re-examination of catch-up industrialization theory. With contributors presenting their own perspectives on the progression of a range of different industries in Asia,...
Routledge, 2015. — 469 p. — ISBN: 978-0-415-74323-5; ISBN: 978-1-315-76569-3. The volume provides a useful reference for those who want to know East Asian entrepreneurship and business systems. It also provides many excellent cases and illustrations on the growth of entrepreneurial firms and the rise of branded products in East Asia. Policy makers or scholars who are interested...
World Scientific Publishing, 2014. — 239 p. — ISBN: 978-9814508971. There is a lack of knowledge on how corporations in Asia develop strategies, organize their work processes and deal with competition. Western managers and business students need to know more about Asian corporations and their management styles. Learning about Asia, however, has always been a challenging task....
Ferguson, 2008. - 3551 pp. ISBN13: 978-1-4381-2982-2 (e-book) "Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance" - now in its 14th edition - remains the most comprehensive career reference in print. This unparalleled resource has been fully revised and updated to contain the most accurate and current career information available.This edition features: completely up-to-date...
Yale University Press, 2014. - 276 pp. ISBN: 978-0-300-18194-4 Vice is endemic to Western capitalism, according to this fascinating, wildly entertaining, often startling history of modern finance. Ian Klaus’s Forging Capitalism demonstrates how international financial affairs in the nineteenth century were conducted not only by gentlemen as a noble pursuit but also by connivers,...
Routledge, 2015. — 348 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-79274-6; ISBN: 978-1-315-71464-6. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, policymakers as well as academicians have been seeking to fathom why subsequent recoveries remain tenuous. Other outstanding issues that they have been trying to understand include: why do some economies grow faster than others? How should the exchange rate...
World Scientific Publishing, 2015. — 267 p. — ISBN: 978-9814596381. Confucian Culture and Democracy represents a comprehensive effort to examine the linkages between Confucian culture and democracy. Building on the empirical evidence from South Korea and Taiwan, and examining semi-democratic societies with extensive experiences in electoral politics like Singapore and Hong...
Dover Publications, 2018. — 464 р. — ISBN: 9780486828091. Dover unabridged and slightly corrected republication of the edition originally published by the North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, and Interscience Publishers, New York, 1960. In Part One of this comprehensive and frequently cited treatment, the authors develop Euclidean and Bolyai-Lobachevskian geometry on the...
University of California Press, 2012. — 335 p. — ISBN: 978-0-520-27291-0. Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The enormous population explosion over the past three decades has flooded the world's labor markets with millions of impoverished, desperate people. The revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture has dispossessed poor...
2019. — 83 p. This book is a must have for anyone starting the journey of breaking up the monolith, learning how to solve typical problems using Docker. The author's expertize in the subject matter is expressed throughout the book with clear hands on examples. His advice is invaluable. What is Docker? Getting Started with Docker Docker Troubleshooting Docker Commands Difference...
IGI Global, 2019. — 345 p. — ISBN: 9781522571896; ISBN: 9781522571902. Recently, the interest of various stakeholders (government, industry, academia, and citizens) in building smart cities has grown exponentially. Various, governments have a plan to initiate more than 1000 smart cities projects by 2025. One of the key challenges for the success of any smart city project is the...
IGI Global, 2017. — 369 p. — ISBN: 9781522507413; ISBN: 9781522507420. The research contained in the various chapters of this book provide a depth of technical insight into IoT cybersecurity, information leakage, trusted computing, data security and privacy, and several other salient and timely topics. This book is to provide frontier research to include cases that are timely...
IGI Global, 2019. — 393 p. — ISBN: 9781522557425; ISBN: 9781522557432. The Internet of Things is a technological revolution that represents the future of computing and communications. Even though efforts have been made to standardize Internet of Things devices and how they communicate with the web, a uniform architecture is not followed. This inconsistency directly impacts and...
RAND Corporation, 2009. - 227 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8330-4404-4. Since the end of the Cold War, there has been growing interest in improving the nation’s ability to employ various forms of “soft power” — capabilities that might allow the United States to effectively influence the attitudes and behavior of particular foreign audiences while minimizing or avoiding combat entirely. The...
2nd edition. — NY: Ferguson, 2007. — 209 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-8160-6539-4. This fun-filled series guides young readers through a multitude of career possibilities based on their specific interests and skills and links their talents to a wide variety of actual professions. Each book is filled with engaging text and playful illustrations that present a wide variety of career themes...
Infinity Science Press LLC, 2008. — 593 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7637-8290-0, ISBN: 978-1-934015-32-2. This book presents an updated treatment of the dynamics of particles and particle systems suitable for students preparing for advanced study of physics and closely related fields, such as astronomy and the applied engineering sciences. Compared to older books on this subject, the...
Morocco, 2019. — 240 p. — ISBN: 978-1-7941-9392-5. This book contains a unique collection of new inequalities that were specifically imagined by the author to challenge the boundaries of curiosity and imagination. The inequalities are extremely beautiful and sharp, and the book covers various topics from 3 and 4 variables inequalities, symmetric and non-symmetric inequalities...
The Mathematical Association of America, 1981. — 315 p. — (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions, No. 6) The purpose of this book is to put together in one place the basic elementary techniques for solving problems in MAXIMA minima other than the methods of calculus and linear programming. The emphasis is not on individual problems, but on methods that solve large classes of...
Zed Books Ltd., 2019. — 385 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78032-637-5. Why have so few companies or people been held responsible for the catastrophic effects of the global financial crisis? Why are there repeated controversies over the safety of some of the world's bestselling pharmaceuticals? Unpacking a range of high profile examples—from the 2016 US presidential elections to the scandals...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 191 p. — (Cambridge Philosophy Classics). — ISBN: 978-1-107-14202-2. Sour Grapes aims to subvert orthodox theories of rational choice through the study of forms of irrationality. Dr Elster begins with an analysis of the notation of rationality, to provide the background and terms for the subsequent discussions, which cover irrational...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 344 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-13295-5. Recently there has been a major revival of interest in the connections between evolutionary theory, especially that of Darwin, and moral reasoning and action. This wide-ranging and clearly written book traces the history of evolutionary ethics and takes readers through the arguments involved. Historical...
Routledge, 2019. — 175 p. — (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy). — ISBN: 978-0-429-19936-3. "Humanity and nature have been defended on many sides from the onslaught of science and technology, but in this book Frodeman expertly confronts what is arguably the greatest challenge of them all, transhumanism." – Steve Fuller, Author of Humanity 2.0, University of Warwick,...
Новосибирск: Институт вычислительных технологий СО РАН, 2020. — 636 с. Книга является систематическим учебником по курсу вычислительных методов и написана на основе лекций, читаемых автором на механико-математическом факультете Новосибирского государственного университета. Особенностью книги является изложение методов интервального анализа и результатов конструктивной...