Описание: Featuring 234 color plates, and more than 950 color maps, this book helps identify East Asia`s bird species. It covers major islands including Japan and Taiwan, as well as the Asian continent from Kamchatka to the Korean Peninsula.
Описание: Accessible to students and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes recent enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history, giving equal weight to each time period discussed.
Описание: Travels with NPR host David Greene along the Trans-Siberian Railroad capture an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.
Автор: Graham Loren R. Название: Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete? ISBN: 0262019795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262019798 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 5409.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
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An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern.
When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and oil. In Lonely Ideas, Loren Graham investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by failure to commercialize and implement.
For three centuries, Graham shows, Russia has been adept at developing technical ideas but abysmal at benefiting from them. From the seventeenth-century arms industry through twentieth-century Nobel-awarded work in lasers, Russia has failed to sustain its technological inventiveness. Graham identifies a range of conditions that nurture technological innovation: a society that values inventiveness and practicality; an economic system that provides investment opportunities; a legal system that protects intellectual property; a political system that encourages innovation and success. Graham finds Russia lacking on all counts. He explains that Russia's failure to sustain technology, and its recurrent attempts to force modernization, reflect its political and social evolution and even its resistance to democratic principles.
But Graham points to new connections between Western companies and Russian researchers, new research institutions, a national focus on nanotechnology, and the establishment of Skolkovo, "a new technology city." Today, he argues, Russia has the best chance in its history to break its pattern of technological failure.
Автор: Donaldson Robert H Название: Foreign Policy of Russia ISBN: 0765642018 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780765642011 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5051.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Now fully updated, this widely respected text traces the lineage and development of Russian foreign policy with the insight that comes from historical perspective. The fifth edition incorporates new and fully updated coverage of issues including relations with the major powers and with other post-communist states, international security issues including arms control issues and grounds for sanctions and intervention, and domestic and regional issues related to natural resource politics, human rights, Islamism and terrorism.perspective. Chronologically organized chapters highlight the continuities of Russias behavior in the world since tsarist times as well as the major sources of change and variability over the revolutionary period, wartime alliances and cold war, dtente, the Soviet collapse, and the first post-communist decades.
The fifth edition incorporates new and fully updated coverage of issues including relations with the major powers and with other post-communist states, international security issues including arms control issues and grounds for sanctions and intervention, and domestic and regional issues related to natural resource politics, human rights, Islamism and terrorism. New coauthor Vidya Nadkarni strengthens the books coverage of issues related to Asia. The basic framework used in the book is a modified realism that stresses the balance of power and the importance of national interest, and identifies several factors (both internal and external) that condition Russian policy.
The interpretations are original and based on a mix of primary and secondary sources.
Автор: Simanowski Roberto Название: Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies ISBN: 0231177267 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231177269 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Data Love considers the changes big data has brought to the human condition from a philosophical standpoint. Roberto Simanowski explores our entanglements with algorithmic analysis and data mining, as we contribute to the amassing of ever more data about our lives, leading to the statistical evaluation and individual profiling of our selves.
Автор: Steven Rosefielde Название: Russia in the 21st Century ISBN: 0521545293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521545297 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book demonstrates Russia`s intention to re-emerge as a full-fledged superpower before 2010 that would challenge America and China and potentially threaten a new arms race. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this goal is within the Kremlin`s grasp, but the cost to the Russian people and global security would be immense.
Автор: Franklin, M.I. Название: Digital Dilemmas ISBN: 0199982708 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199982707 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4830.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Digital Dilemmas is a groundbreaking ethnographic, mixed method approach to understanding dynamics of power and resistance as they are played out around the future of the internet.
Автор: Heretz Название: Russia on the Eve of Modernity ISBN: 0521169569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521169561 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Pioneering history of the ordinary Russians who continued to live in a pre-modern, non-Western culture in late Imperial Russia. Leonid Heretz offers an overview of traditional Russian understandings of the world, illuminating key themes ranging from peasant monarchism to apocalyptic responses to intrusions from the modern world.
Автор: Mohamed Zayani Название: Networked Publics and Digital Contention ISBN: 0190239778 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190239770 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4750.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book brings into focus the relationship between Internet development, youth activism, cyber resistance, and political participation.
Описание: The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed.
But isn't the sole purpose of the smartphone to give us such quick access to people and information that we'll be free to do other things? Isn't technology supposed to make our lives easier? In Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always being rushed is the result of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set rather than the machines that help us set them. Indeed, being busy and having action-packed lives has become valorized by our productivity driven culture.
Wajcman offers a bracing historical perspective, exploring the commodification of clock time, and how the speed of the industrial age became identified with progress. She also delves into the ways time-use differs for diverse groups in modern societies, showing how changes in work patterns, family arrangements, and parenting all affect time stress. Bringing together empirical research on time use and theoretical debates about dramatic digital developments, this accessible and engaging book will leave readers better versed in how to use technology to navigate life's fast lane.
Описание: Routledge is proud to publish the first full-scale anthropometric history of Imperial Russia; Mirinov mobilizes an immense volume of archival material to chart chart how the standard of living in Russia changed over slightly more than two centuries.
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