«Удивительный Волшебник Оз» для тех, кто учит английский язык или просто любит читать книги в оригинале. Суть наших книг – частичный перевод текста на русский язык и его комментарии от преподавателя английского языка Романа Зинзера. Оригинальный текст, рекомендуемый уровень знания английского языка – не ниже Pre-Intermediate.
Journalists have failed to respond adequately to the challenge of the Internet, with far-reaching consequences for the future of journalism and democracy. This is the compelling argument set forth in this timely new text, drawing on the most extensive ethnographic fieldwork in American newsrooms since the 1970s. David Ryfe argues that journalists are unable or unwilling to innovate for a variety o…
В этой книге содержатся два важнейших труда великого тибетского ученого, йогина, историка Джецуна Таранатхи (1575–1634): «Источник амриты: Наставления для трех типов личностей, вступающих на путь Дхармы» (ламрим) и «Руководство по семи пунктам тренировки ума Махаяны» (лоджонг). Следуя примеру Атиши, основоположнику жанра «ламрим», Таранатха объясняет поэтапный подход к развитию понимания и практик…
Explore the practices and cutting-edge research on the new and exciting topic of paradata Paradata are measurements related to the process of collecting survey data. Improving Surveys with Paradata: Analytic Uses of Process Information is the most accessible and comprehensive contribution to this up-and-coming area in survey methodology. Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, I…
The Agency by Design guide to implementing maker-centered teaching and learning Maker-Centered Learning provides both a theoretical framework and practical resources for the educators, curriculum developers, librarians, administrators, and parents navigating this burgeoning field. Written by the expert team from the Agency by Design initiative at Harvard's Project Zero, this book Identifies a set …
An innovative history and critical account mapping the ways artists and their works have engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism over the past ninety years. Focuses on artists whose work expresses the concept of revolutionary social transformation Provides a strong historical narrative that adds structure and clarity Features a cogent an…
Qualitative Research Methods is a comprehensive, all-inclusive resource for the theory and practice of qualitative/ethnographic research methodology. Serves as a “how-to” guide for qualitative/ethnographic research, detailing how to design a project, conduct interviews and focus groups, interpret and analyze data, and represent it in a compelling manner Demonstrates how qualitative data can be sys…
This new edition of the bestselling Reverse Osmosis is the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the process of reverse osmosis in industrial applications, a technology that is becoming increasingly more important as more and more companies choose to “go green.” This book covers all of the processes and equipment necessary to design, operate, and troubleshoot reverse osmosis systems, from …
Long recognised as a classic in the USA, «The Tower and the Bridge» is now at last available in German translation. In his preface to the German edition, Jorg Schlaich writes. «This book is essential reading and a pleasure for the „structural engineering artist“, in whose structures the connection between form and force flow is visible and which are distinguished by the ideals of efficiency, cost-…
К концу XX века мегаполисы с их бешеным ритмом, высокой плотностью населения и дорожными пробками превратились в некомфортные для проживания каменные джунгли. Горожане стали переселяться в предместья, что только повысило нагрузку на транспортную и коммунальную инфраструктуры. Проблема приняла столь широкий размах, что вынудила администрации многих городов заняться решением глобальных проблем в сфе…
«О благодеяниях» - произведение римского философа–стоика, поэта и государственного деятеля Луция Аннея Сенеки (4 до н.э. - 65).*** Это философский трактат из семи книг. В акте добровольного благодеяния автор видит единственную надежную основу взаимоотношений между людьми. Для человека всякое благодеяние есть добродетельный поступок, награда за который — в нем самом, даже если за благодеяние не пла…
В илюстрированное издание сочинений Вольтера вошли такие известные его произведения, как философская повесть «Кандид, или Оптимизм», трагедия «Танкред», философское сочинение «Диалоги Эвгемера», рассказ «Индийское приключение». Вольтер (1694—1778) — великий французский писатель, поэт, драматург, философ-просветитель XVIII века, историк, публицист. Творческое наследие Вольтера составляет пятьдесят …
This second edition of the informative and influential The Essential Department Chair offers academic chairs and department heads the information they need to excel in their roles. This book is about the «how» of academic administration: for instance, how do you cultivate a potential donor for much-needed departmental resources? How do you persuade your department members to work together more har…
This issue contains a collection of papers presented at the 71st Conference on Glass Problems, October 19-20, 2010 at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Topics include glass melting; glass science, defects; safety; refractories; recycling; controls; and raw materials.
The numerical simulation of manufacturing processes and of their mechanical consequences is of growing interest in industry. However, such simulations need the modeling of couplings between several physical phenomena such as heat transfer, material transformations and solid or fluid mechanics, as well as to be adapted to numerical methodologies. This book gathers a state of the art on how to simul…