From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine.

Ever since Ukraine’s violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation reigns, more than two million people have been displaced, and Ukrainians fight one another on a second front—the crucial war against corruption.

With In Wartime, Tim Judah lays bare the events that have turned neighbors against one another and mired Europe’s second-largest country in a conflict seemingly without end.

In Lviv, Ukraine’s western cultural capital, mothers tend the graves of sons killed on the other side of the country. On the Maidan, the square where the protests that deposed President Yanukovych began, pamphleteers, recruiters, buskers, and mascots compete for attention. In Donetsk, civilians who cheered Russia’s President Putin find their hopes crushed as they realize they have been trapped in the twilight zone of a frozen conflict.

Judah talks to everyone from politicians to poets, pensioners, and historians. Listening to their clashing explanations, he interweaves their stories to create a sweeping, tragic portrait of a country fighting a war of independence from Russia—twenty-five years after the collapse of the USSR.

The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Nadīm that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in the later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance.

Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamic science, then discusses their shortcomings and proposes an alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a template for tracing the progress of science in Islamic civilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality of Islamic scientific thought. He details the innovations (including new mathematical tools) made by the Islamic astronomers from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and offers evidence that Copernicus could have known of and drawn on their work. Rather than viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science from the often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion, Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself and the complex social, economic, and intellectual conditions that made it possible.

Первый том планируемого к изданию четырехтомника доктора исторических наук О. Ю. Пленкова посвящен социальной истории Третьего Рейха.

За двенадцать лет существования нацистского государства были достигнуты высокие темпы роста в промышленности и сельском хозяйстве, ликвидирована безработица, введены существенные налоговые льготы, что позволило создать весьма благоприятные условия жизни для населения Германии.

Но почему не удалось достичь полного социального благополучия? Почему позитивные при декларировании принципы в момент их реализации дали обратный эффект? Действительно ли за годы нацистского режима произошла модернизация немецкого общества? Как удалось Гитлеру путем улучшения условий жизни склонить немецкую общественность к принятию и оправданию насильственных действий против своих мнимых или настоящих противников?

Используя огромное количество опубликованных (в первую очередь, в Германии) источников и архивных материалов, автор пытается ответить на все эти вопросы.

In Putin’s Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler’s unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia’s dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.

With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin’s fabled New Year’s Eve speech planned across all eleven time zones.

After taking over from Yeltsin in 1999, and then being elected president in a landslide, Putin traveled to almost two dozen countries and a quarter of Russia’s eighty-nine regions to connect with ordinary Russians. His travels inspired the idea of a rousing New Year’s Eve address delivered every hour at midnight throughout Russia’s eleven time zones. The idea was beautiful, but quickly abandoned as an impossible feat. He correctly intuited, however, that the success of his presidency would rest on how the country’s outback citizens viewed their place on the world stage.

Today more than ever, Putin is even more determined to present Russia as a formidable nation. We need to understand why Russia has for centuries been an adversary of the West. Its size, nuclear arsenal, arms industry, and scientific community (including cyber-experts), guarantees its influence.

Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly acclaimed book.

What factors cause someone to say yes? And which techniques most effectively use these factors to bring about such compliance? In his bestselling book, Robert Cialdini, former salesperson, fundraiser, and advertiser, and current professor of social psychology, examines the science and practice of persuasion and compliance. Praised for its enjoyable writing, practical suggestions, and scientifically documented content, prior editions have been widely read by business professionals, fundraisers, and those interested in psychology. The new edition includes:

twice as many first hand accounts of how the book’s principles apply to business and personal lives;

updated coverage of popular culture and new technology; and

more on how compliance principles work in many cultures.

Опубликовано в журнале: «НЛО» 2007, №87

The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Nadīm that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in the later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance.

Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamic science, then discusses their shortcomings and proposes an alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a template for tracing the progress of science in Islamic civilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality of Islamic scientific thought. He details the innovations (including new mathematical tools) made by the Islamic astronomers from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and offers evidence that Copernicus could have known of and drawn on their work. Rather than viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science from the often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion, Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself and the complex social, economic, and intellectual conditions that made it possible.

Что делают в России международные террористы? Ответ на этот вопрос дается через рассмотрение организации «Аль-Каида» как международной сетевой структуры, спекулирующей исламскими идеями для реализации нового мирового проекта. В книге подвергаются анализу организационные и идейные корни ваххабизма – одного из экстремистских направлений ислама, источника исламистского террора. Автор показывает, как идеи религиозных экстремистов – ваххабитов находят почву на российской земле, называет исполнителей и организаторов террористических актов, прогремевших в последние годы во всем мире.

Иллюстрации, используемые в книге, взяты из исламистских источников в Интернете, а также из видеоролика, который был показан на телеканале Си-би-эс.

Что делают в России международные террористы? Ответ на этот вопрос дается через рассмотрение организации «Аль-Каида» как международной сетевой структуры, спекулирующей исламскими идеями для реализации нового мирового проекта. В книге подвергаются анализу организационные и идейные корни ваххабизма – одного из экстремистских направлений ислама, источника исламистского террора. Автор показывает, как идеи религиозных экстремистов – ваххабитов находят почву на российской земле, называет исполнителей и организаторов террористических актов, прогремевших в последние годы во всем мире.

Иллюстрации, используемые в книге, взяты из исламистских источников в Интернете, а также из видеоролика, который был показан на телеканале Си-би-эс.

In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than forty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and been the target of much public and political controversy. For the first time, a US high-tech spy who worked at Pine Gap for 18 years speaks out to give an insider’s account of what happens behind those locked gates in the middle of the Australian desert.

Author David Rosenberg details his career with an American intelligence agency during a tumultuous period in history that covered the terms of three American Presidents, four Australian Prime Ministers, the end of the Cold War, a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan, two wars in Iraq, genocide in Rwanda, as well as the ‘War against Terror’ and the emergence of North Korea as a nuclear-armed nation. This is a fascinating glimpse inside the top-secret world of military surveillance.

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From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine.

Ever since Ukraine’s violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation reigns, more than two million people have been displaced, and Ukrainians fight one another on a second front—the crucial war against corruption.

With In Wartime, Tim Judah lays bare the events that have turned neighbors against one another and mired Europe’s second-largest country in a conflict seemingly without end.

In Lviv, Ukraine’s western cultural capital, mothers tend the graves of sons killed on the other side of the country. On the Maidan, the square where the protests that deposed President Yanukovych began, pamphleteers, recruiters, buskers, and mascots compete for attention. In Donetsk, civilians who cheered Russia’s President Putin find their hopes crushed as they realize they have been trapped in the twilight zone of a frozen conflict.

Judah talks to everyone from politicians to poets, pensioners, and historians. Listening to their clashing explanations, he interweaves their stories to create a sweeping, tragic portrait of a country fighting a war of independence from Russia—twenty-five years after the collapse of the USSR.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state

In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people,” who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.

Demand for recognition of one’s identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been increasingly challenged by narrower forms of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender, which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicized Islam, the fractious “identity liberalism” of college campuses, and the emergence of white nationalism. Populist nationalism, said to be rooted in economic motivation, actually springs from the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic means. The demand for identity cannot be transcended; we must begin to shape identity in a way that supports rather than undermines democracy.

Identity is an urgent and necessary book―a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict.

In Putin’s Footsteps is Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler’s unique combination of travelogue, current affairs, and history, showing how Russia’s dimensions have shaped its identity and culture through the decades.

With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev’s great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union since 1993, Nina Khrushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler offer a poignant exploration of the largest country on earth through their recreation of Vladimir Putin’s fabled New Year’s Eve speech planned across all eleven time zones.

After taking over from Yeltsin in 1999, and then being elected president in a landslide, Putin traveled to almost two dozen countries and a quarter of Russia’s eighty-nine regions to connect with ordinary Russians. His travels inspired the idea of a rousing New Year’s Eve address delivered every hour at midnight throughout Russia’s eleven time zones. The idea was beautiful, but quickly abandoned as an impossible feat. He correctly intuited, however, that the success of his presidency would rest on how the country’s outback citizens viewed their place on the world stage.

Today more than ever, Putin is even more determined to present Russia as a formidable nation. We need to understand why Russia has for centuries been an adversary of the West. Its size, nuclear arsenal, arms industry, and scientific community (including cyber-experts), guarantees its influence.

Эта книга о самом поразительном человеке в современной истории бизнеса – Стиве Джобсе – великом предпринимателе эпохи высоких технологий, известном своим индивидуализмом, инакомыслием и бунтарским характером. Авторы подробно описали головокружительный взлет молодого человека, очень рано добившегося успеха, и последовавшее за этим стремительное падение, во время которого Стив был изгнан не только из Apple, но и из компьютерной индустрии вообще.

Эта книга приобрела скандальную известность еще на этапе ее подготовки к печати. Получив экземпляр рукописи для ознакомления, компания запретила продавать во всех магазинах Apple книги издательства Wiley&Son. Такая реакция не повлияла на желание издательства опубликовать это произведение.

Книга будет интересна тем, кто хочет узнать, как происходило формирование, становление и развитие современной эры цифровых технологий под влиянием самой значимой фигуры современности – человека, кардинально изменившего три отрасли – индустрию кино, музыки и компьютеров, – Стивена Джобса.

Here is the captivating story of humankind’s enduring quest to build a better language-and overcome the curse of Babel. Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon. But few people have heard of Babm, Blissymbolics, Loglan (not to be confused with Lojban), and the nearly nine hundred other invented languages that represent the hard work, high hopes, and full-blown delusions of so many misguided souls over the centuries. With intelligence and humor, Arika Okrent has written a truly original and enlightening book for all word freaks, grammar geeks, and plain old language lovers.

Paulos speaks mainly of the dangers of mathematical innumeracy; that is, the common misconceptions of the layperson in regards to numbers, exploring the relationship between math and the human mind. Paulos discusses innumeracy with quirky anecdotes, scenarios and facts, encouraging readers in the end to look at their world in a more quantitative way.

Topics include probability and coincidence, the birthday problem, innumeracy in pseudoscience, and statistics and trade-offs in society.

Андрей Кузин – культовая фигура российского Интернета. Десять лет назад он, начав с нуля, создал популярнейший сайт 3DNews. А теперь он большую часть своего рабочего времени проводит в деловых поездках по США, Европе и Юго-Восточной Азии. Вы мечтали заглянуть на компьютерные фабрики Тайваня или Малайзии? Эта книга дает вам такой шанс!

Андрей Кузин – культовая фигура российского Интернета. Десять лет назад он, начав с нуля, создал популярнейший сайт 3DNews. А теперь он большую часть своего рабочего времени проводит в деловых поездках по США, Европе и Юго-Восточной Азии. Вы мечтали заглянуть на компьютерные фабрики Тайваня или Малайзии? Эта книга дает вам такой шанс!

STĀSTI PAR DABU

Anatolijs TOMIĻINS

INTERESANTI PAR ASTRONOMIJU

IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RĪGA 1973

Т о ми л и н Анатолий Николаевич ЗАНИМАТЕЛЬНО ОБ АСТРОНОМИИ Издательство «Молодая 1вардия» Москва 1970

Издательство «Лиесма» Рига 1973

Серия «Рассказы о природе» На латышском языке С русского перевел Р. Гринберг Рисунки Кованова Г. и Ковыиева В. Обложка А. Липнна

Mēģiniet šodien atrast kaut ko aizraujošāku par astronomijas atklājumiem. Tie seko cits citam un ir viens par otru sensacionālāki.

Astronomija ir kļuvusi aktuāla. Bet tikai pirms 20 gadiem tā skolās bija fakultatīvs priekšmets.

Toties pirms 300 gadiem, nezinādami astronomiju, jūs riskējāt nesaprast pat parastu labāko aprindu sarunu. Tik |oti šī saruna bija piesātināta ne vien ar senās zinātnes terminiem, bet arī ar tās inte­resēm.

Vel divus gadsimtus agrāk aizraušanās ar zvaig­znēm jums varēja beigties ar … sārtu.

Sī ir grāmata par astronomiju un nedaudz par astronautiku, par labiem astronomiem un dažiem astronomijas instrumentiem un metodēm. Vārdu sa­kot, par nelielu apgabalu gigantiskā zemē, kuras nosaukuma pamatā ir sengrieķu vārds «acrnip» — zvaigzne.

No krievu valodas tulkojis R. Grinbergs Ilustrējuši G. Kovanovs un V. Koviņevs Vāku zīmējis A. Lipins

STĀSTI PAR DABU

Anatolijs TOMIĻINS

INTERESANTI PAR ASTRONOMIJU

IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RĪGA 1973

Томилин Анатолий Николаевич ЗАНИМАТЕЛЬНО ОБ АСТРОНОМИИ Издательство «Молодая 1вардия» Москва 1970

Издательство «Лиесма» Рига 1973

Серия «Рассказы о природе» На латышском языке С русского перевел Р. Гринберг Рисунки Кованова Г. и Ковинева В. Обложка А. Липина

Mēģiniet šodien atrast kaut ko aizraujošāku par astronomijas atklājumiem. Tie seko cits citam un ir viens par otru sensacionālāki.

Astronomija ir kļuvusi aktuāla. Bet tikai pirms 20 gadiem tā skolās bija fakultatīvs priekšmets.

Toties pirms 300 gadiem, nezinādami astronomiju, jūs riskējāt nesaprast pat parastu labāko aprindu sarunu. Tik |oti šī saruna bija piesātināta ne vien ar senās zinātnes terminiem, bet arī ar tās inte­resēm.

Vel divus gadsimtus agrāk aizraušanās ar zvaig­znēm jums varēja beigties ar … sārtu.

Sī ir grāmata par astronomiju un nedaudz par astronautiku, par labiem astronomiem un dažiem astronomijas instrumentiem un metodēm. Vārdu sa­kot, par nelielu apgabalu gigantiskā zemē, kuras nosaukuma pamatā ir sengrieķu vārds «acrnip» — zvaigzne.

No krievu valodas tulkojis R. Grinbergs Ilustrējuši G. Kovanovs un V. Koviņevs Vāku zīmējis A. Lipins

The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations—the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the foundations of Islamic scientific thought were laid well before Greek sources were formally translated into Arabic in the ninth century. Drawing on an account by the tenth-century intellectual historian Ibn al-Nadīm that is ignored by most modern scholars, Saliba suggests that early translations from mainly Persian and Greek sources outlining elementary scientific ideas for the use of government departments were the impetus for the development of the Islamic scientific tradition. He argues further that there was an organic relationship between the Islamic scientific thought that developed in the later centuries and the science that came into being in Europe during the Renaissance.

Saliba outlines the conventional accounts of Islamic science, then discusses their shortcomings and proposes an alternate narrative. Using astronomy as a template for tracing the progress of science in Islamic civilization, Saliba demonstrates the originality of Islamic scientific thought. He details the innovations (including new mathematical tools) made by the Islamic astronomers from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, and offers evidence that Copernicus could have known of and drawn on their work. Rather than viewing the rise and fall of Islamic science from the often-narrated perspectives of politics and religion, Saliba focuses on the scientific production itself and the complex social, economic, and intellectual conditions that made it possible.