Эта книга посвящена эпохе 60-х, которая, по мнению авторов, Петра Вайля и Александра Гениса, началась в 1961 году XXII съездом Коммунистической партии, принявшим программу построения коммунизма, а закончилась в 68-м оккупацией Чехословакии, воспринятой в СССР как окончательный крах всех надежд. Такие хронологические рамки позволяют выделить особый период в советской истории, период эклектичный, противоречивый, парадоксальный, но объединенный многими общими тенденциями. В эти годы советская цивилизация развилась в наиболее характерную для себя модель, а специфика советского человека выразилась самым полным, самым ярким образом. В эти же переломные годы произошли и коренные изменения в идеологии советского общества. Книга “60-е. Мир советского человека” вошла в список “лучших книг нон-фикшн всех времен”, составленный экспертами журнала “Афиша”.

Эти не только древние, но и интересные рецепты не потеряли актуальности и в нынешнее время. Правда, хочу заметить, что не все из них безопасны. Особенно те, где используется ртуть и соли тяжеых металлов ( в частности это касается раздела "Парфюмерия" ) Так что думайте Сами.

The "new soviet person" the Bolsheviks were committed to creating was to be a creature willing and eager to subordinate his or her own interests to those of society. Both men and women would play a full role in the construction of socialism, but the model of the "new women" had an additional feature--she also had to reproduce the population. This book explores the ways in which the "new woman," in her various incarnations, was presented to female citizens of the 1920s to the end of the Stalin era in the pages of popular women's magazines, Rabotnitsa (The Woman Worker) and Krest'yanka (The Peasant Woman).

The human species is relatively new to the planet in geologic terms. With origins reaching back only a few million years, the rise of humans from primate ancestors is a remarkable evolutionary success story. Early Humans traces the beginnings of the human species, its success and adaptability, and the development of such innovations as human language and culture. In exploring human origins, provocative questions arise concerning the human species: how are we different from each other, is there a biological basis for race, and what does the future hold for human evolution?

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"Handbook of Classical Mythology" offers newcomers and long-time enthusiasts new ways to navigate the world of Greek and Roman myths. Written by a foremost mythologist, the book begins by exploring the sources and landscapes from which the myths emerged. It then provides a richly detailed timeline of mythic episodes from the creation of the cosmos to the end of the Heroic Age--"plus" an illustrated mythological dictionary listing every significant character, place, event, and object. Whether exploring the world that gave rise to ancient mythology or researching a specific piece of the whole, the handbook is the best introduction available to the extraordinary cast of these tales (gods, nymphs, satyrs, monsters, heroes) and the natural and supernatural stages upon which their fates are played out.

The upheaval that occurred in musicology during the last two decades of the twentieth century has created a new urgency for the study of popular music alongside the development of new critical and theoretical models. A relativistic outlook has replaced the universal perspective of modernism (the international ambitions of the 12-note style); the grand narrative of the evolution and dissolution of tonality has been challenged, and emphasis has shifted to cultural context, reception and subject position. Together, these have conspired to eat away at the status of canonical composers and categories of high and low in music. A need has arisen, also, to recognize and address the emergence of crossovers, mixed and new genres, to engage in debates concerning the vexed problem of what constitutes authenticity in music and to offer a critique of musical practice as the product of free, individual expression.

There is a schizophrenic quality to American life in the 1960s. Perhaps the term ‘‘manic’’ decade would be appropriate. Few other eras in U.S. history have begun with more optimistic promise and ended in more pessimistic despair. When John F. Kennedy entered the White House in January 1961, the United States was the hope of the world, the repository of morality and power, and the president pretended to have the will to exercise that virtue and might in support of freedom, democracy, capitalism, and progress. Ten years later, American power abroad seemed wasted, even dissipated, in the jungles of Indochina, and critics at home cast doubt on whether the United States really was the ‘‘land of the free and the home of the brave.’’ The assassination of President John F. Kennedy marked the beginning of the change, but it was followed by other assassinations, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the youth rebellion, campus protest, and repeated riots in American cities, all of which blamed the country’s problems on its existing institutions. Americans had long held the view that the United States was a democratic, egalitarian nation, but protests from African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and women brought that conviction into doubt. The idea that the Constitution protected the average citizen from abuses of government power came into question over Vietnam and the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Finally, Americans had long prided themselves on being the world’s only hope for downtrodden, oppressed people, but as the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, the image of the United States as a global bully became much more common. In Historical Dictionary of the 1960s, I have tried to take an encyclopedic look at the decade. Readers should know that I wrote all of the unsigned entries. An asterisk following a term indicates that it is a main entry. In addition to biographies of prominent individuals, I have included a variety of political, military, social, cultural, religious, economic, and diplomatic topics that made the 1960s a very unique decade in U.S. history. I wish to express my gratitude to the other contributors and to my editors at the Greenwood Publishing Group, who have been most patient and understanding. The staff of the Newton Gresham Library at Sam Houston State University has been particularly helpful.

Inorganic polymers are a group of compounds containing non-carbon elements as the principle backbone, where the variation in the side groups attached to the inorganic backbones yields polymers with a great range of properties. These polymers can be tailored for a variety of applications, including ceramic precursors, electronic materials, nonlinear optical materials, and biomedical materials. For the first time, this book offers a cohesive treatment, with a focus on metal-containing inorganic polymers.

Americans cannot live with judicial review, but they cannot live without it. There is something characteristically American about turning the most divisive political questions - like freedom of religion, same-sex marriage, affirmative action, and abortion - into legal questions with the hope that courts can answer them. In Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism Ronald C. Den Otter addresses how judicial review can be improved to strike the appropriate balance between legislative and judicial power under conditions of moral pluralism. His defense of judicial review is predicated on the imperative of ensuring that the reasons that the state offers on behalf of its most important laws are consistent with the freedom and equality of all persons. Den Otter ties this defense to a theory of constitutional adjudication based on John Rawls's idea of public reason and argues that a law that is not sufficiently publicly justified is unconstitutional, thus addressing when courts should invalidate laws and when they should uphold them even in the midst of reasonable disagreement about the correct outcome in particular constitutional controversies.

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This unique book, drawing on the author’s lifetime experience, critically evaluates the extensive literature on the field of Metal-Catalysed Reactions of Hydrocarbons. Emphasis is placed on reaction mechanisms involving hydrogenation, hydrogenolysis, skeletal and positional isomerisation, and exchange reactions. The motivation for fundamental research in heterogeneous catalysis is to identify the physicochemical characteristics of active centres for the reaction being studied, to learn how these may be modified or manipulated to improve the desired behavior of the catalyst, and to recognize and control those aspects of the catalyst's structure that limit its overall performance. By restricting the subject of the book to hydrocarbons, Bond has progressively developed the subject matter to include areas of importance both to researchers and to those working in the industry.

Metallurgy Fundamentals provides instruction and information on the basic principles of metallurgy. A knowledge of these principles is invaluable to any person who plans to deal with metals as a future vocation. Metallurgy Fundamentals emphasizes the practical aspects of metallurgy. It explores the behavior of metals subjected to metallurgical processes. It explains why certain material properties are desired and how these properties are attained. Metallurgy Fundamentals describes common industrial processes, so that you can confidently discuss the processing of metals with others in the field. These processes are explained in dear, simple terms for easier understanding. Metallurgy Fundamentals speaks to the reader in down-ta-earth language, rather than highly theoretical terms. In many cases, diagrams are used instead of lengthy word descriptions and practical examples are given instead of abstract theories. A section on nonferrous metallurgy has been added for this edition of Metallurgy Fundamentals. This new section discusses the processes used to create nonferrous metals and their alloys. Aluminum, copper, magnesium, zinc, and other nonferrous metals are discussed. Metallurgy Fundamentals is written for those who want to learn the "basics," for those who want to explore the behavior of metals, and for those who want a broad knowledge of the entire field of metallurgy.