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Stalin's Commandos

Ukrainian Partisan Forces on the Eastern Front

By: Alexander Gogun

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Stalin's Commandos

Ukrainian Partisan Forces on the Eastern Front

By: Alexander Gogun

At the height of World War II, a large number of Soviet partisans fought on the Eastern Front against the Axis occupation. In this book, Alexander Gogun looks at the forces operating in Ukraine. The Nazi atrocities were often matched by partisan brutality. The author examines the indiscriminate use of scorched-earth tactics by the partisans, the destruction of their own villages, partisan-generated Nazi reprisals against civilians, and the daily incidents of robbery, drunkenness, rape and bloody internal conflicts that were reported to be widespread amongst the red partisans. Gogun also analyses allegations of the use of bacteriological weapons and even instances of cannibalism. He shows that all these practices were not a product of the culture of warfare nor a spontaneous 'people's response' to the unremitting brutality of Nazi rule but a specific feature of Stalin's total war strategy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857738054

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Explaining Russian Foreign Policy Behavior

Theory and Practice

By: Alexander Sergunin

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Explaining Russian Foreign Policy Behavior

Theory and Practice

By: Alexander Sergunin

This book aims to explain the reasons behind Russia's international conduct in the post-Soviet era, examining Russian foreign policy discourse with a particular focus on the major foreign policy schools of Atlanticism, Eurasianism, derzhavniki, realpolitik, geopolitics, neo-Marxism, radical nationalism, and post-positivism. The Russian post-Soviet threat perceptions and national security doctrines are studied. The author critically assesses the evolution of Russian foreign policy decision-making over the last 25 years and analyzes the roles of various governmental agencies, interest groups and subnational actors. Concluding that a foreign policy consensus is gradually emerging in contemporary Russia, Sergunin argues that the Russian foreign policy discourse aims not only at the formulation of an international strategy but also at the search for a new national identity.Alexander Sergunin argues that Russia's current domestic situation, defined by numerous socio-economic, inter-ethnic, demographic, environmental, and other problems, dictates the need to abandon superpower ambitions and to rather set modest foreign policy goals.

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Columbia University Press

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3838267826

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The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45

A Documentary Reader

By: Alexander Hill

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The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45

A Documentary Reader

By: Alexander Hill

This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the ‘Great Patriotic War’ of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45. Despite the historical significance of the war, few Soviet documents have been published in English. This work provides translations of a range of extracts from Soviet documents relating to the titanic struggle on the Eastern Front during World War II, with commentary. This is the only single-volume work in English to use documentary evidence to look at the Soviet war effort from military, political, economic and diplomatic perspectives. The book should not only facilitate a deeper study of the Soviet war effort, but also allow more balanced study of what is widely known in the West as the ‘Eastern Front’. This book will be of much interest to students and scholars of military history, Soviet history, and World War II history.

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Routledge

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113576526X

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Agents of Terror

Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police

By: Alexander Vatlin

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Agents of Terror

Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police

By: Alexander Vatlin

During Stalin's Great Terror, more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they did not commit. Who carried out these purges, and what motivated them? Alexander Vatlin opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrators using detailed evidence from one Moscow suburb. Spurred by ambition or fear, local secret police rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting "enemies of the people"-even when it meant fabricating evidence. Vatlin confronts head-on issues of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299310809

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Empire of Knowledge

The Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1917 - 1970

By: Alexander Vucinich

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Empire of Knowledge

The Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1917 - 1970

By: Alexander Vucinich

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

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0520347269

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The Recognition Theorem for Graded Lie Algebras in Prime Characteristic

By: Georgia Benkart,Thomas Bradford Gregory,Alexander Premet

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The Recognition Theorem for Graded Lie Algebras in Prime Characteristic

By: Georgia Benkart,Thomas Bradford Gregory,Alexander Premet

Volume 197, number 920 (second of 5 numbers).

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821842269

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Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory

By: Katherine Crosswhite,Alexander Jun

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Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory

By: Katherine Crosswhite,Alexander Jun

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415937590

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Carbon Cycle in the Russian Arctic Seas

By: Alexander Vetrov,Evgeny Romankevich

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Carbon Cycle in the Russian Arctic Seas

By: Alexander Vetrov,Evgeny Romankevich

This study analyzes carbon-cycle conditions controlling the state of the Arctic ecosystem and their seasonal variations. Territory covered includes the Barents, White, Kara, Laptev, East-Siberian and Chukchi Seas, considering inter-correlations between sources of organic carbon, their fluxes, recycling and burial in bottom sediments. All biological communities (phythoplankton, macrophythobenthos, microphythobentos, bacterioplankton, zooplankton and zoobenthos) are taken into account regarding their participation in the carbon cycle.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662062089

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Dynamic Light Scattering Imaging

Foundations of Non-Invasive Blood Flow Imaging

By: Anton Sdobnov,Evgenii Zherebtsov,Alexander Bykov,Igor Meglinski

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Dynamic Light Scattering Imaging

Foundations of Non-Invasive Blood Flow Imaging

By: Anton Sdobnov,Evgenii Zherebtsov,Alexander Bykov,Igor Meglinski

This book examines Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) and its derivatives Laser Doppler Flowmetry (LDF), Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS), Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging (LSCI), and Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) for characterizing particle motion in turbid mediums like suspensions and solutions. It focuses on non-invasive blood flow imaging in biological tissues, detailing technological advancements, practical applications, and inherent challenges. Essential for professionals in biomedical optics and medical fields, as well as physics and engineering students, the book highlights its use in brain, skin, and micro-circulation studies, providing key insights and practical guidance. Key Features: • Presents a deep dive into DLS and its derivative techniques. • Emphasizes practical applications, including brain blood flow monitoring, skin perfusion measurements, and micro-circulation characterization. • Delivers insights into the challenges and limitations associated with DLS-based blood flow imaging.

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CRC Press

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1040144403

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Space Weather Monitoring by Ground-Based Means

PC Index

By: Oleg Troshichev,Alexander Janzhura

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Space Weather Monitoring by Ground-Based Means

PC Index

By: Oleg Troshichev,Alexander Janzhura

This book demonstrates that the method, based on the ground polar cap magnetic observations is a reliable diagnosis of the solar wind energy coming into the magnetosphere Method for the uninterruptive monitoring of the magnetosphere state (i.e. space weather). It shows that the solar wind energy pumping power, can be described by the PC growth rate, thus, the magnetospheric substorms features are predetermined by the PC dynamics. Furthermore, it goes on to show that the beginning and ending of magnetic storms is predictable. The magnetic storm start only if the solar energy input into the magnetosphere exceeds a certain level and stops when the energy input turns out to be below this level.

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3642168035

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Multistability in Physical and Living Systems

Characterization and Applications

By: Alexander N. Pisarchik,Alexander E. Hramov

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Multistability in Physical and Living Systems

Characterization and Applications

By: Alexander N. Pisarchik,Alexander E. Hramov

This book starts with an introduction to the basic concepts of multistability, then illustrates how multistability arises in different systems and explains the main mechanisms of multistability emergence. A special attention is given to noise which can convert a multistable deterministic system to a monostable stochastic one. Furthermore, the most important applications of multistability in different areas of science, engineering and technology are given attention throughout the book, including electronic circuits, lasers, secure communication, and human perception. The book aims to provide a first approach to multistability for readers, who are interested in understanding its fundamental concepts and applications in several fields. This book will be useful not only to researchers and engineers focusing on interdisciplinary studies, but also to graduate students and technicians. Both theoreticians and experimentalists will rely on it, in fields ranging from mathematics and laser physics to neuroscience and astronomy. The book is intended to fill a gap in the literature, to stimulate new discussions and bring some fundamental issues to a deeper level of understanding of the mechanisms underlying self-organization of matter and world complexity.

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Springer Nature

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303098396X

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Biophysics of DNA

By: Alexander Vologodskii

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Biophysics of DNA

By: Alexander Vologodskii

This book surveys the last sixty years of research in the rapidly advancing field of DNA biophysics, addressing key questions and facilitating further research.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107034930

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The Most Detailed Travel Guide around Irkutsk. All the attractions with the route of movement & addresses

By: Alexander Katashevtsev

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The Most Detailed Travel Guide around Irkutsk. All the attractions with the route of movement & addresses

By: Alexander Katashevtsev

The book tells about the spiritual capital of Siberia. It was created by the author on the basis of literary sources on the history of the city, as well as on various topical publications in the press and on electronic resources. The book is intended for tourists and citizens who wants to get acquainted with the most interesting sights of Irkutsk in a short time, following the optimal circular route proposed by a guide with ten years of qualification.

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Litres

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5045011103

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Einstein and Soviet Ideology

By: Alexander Vucinich

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Einstein and Soviet Ideology

By: Alexander Vucinich

This book traces the historical trajectory of one of the most momentous confrontations in the intellectual life of the Soviet Union—the conflict between Einstein's theory of relativity and official Soviet ideology embodied in dialectical materialism. It describes how Soviet attitudes toward Einstein's theory of relativity changed again and again during the eras of Soviet history: pre-Stalin, Stalin, post-Stalin, and perestroika.

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Stanford University Press

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080474209X

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Longwave Instabilities and Patterns in Fluids

By: Sergey Shklyaev,Alexander Nepomnyashchy

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Longwave Instabilities and Patterns in Fluids

By: Sergey Shklyaev,Alexander Nepomnyashchy

This book summarizes the main advances in the field of nonlinear evolution and pattern formation caused by longwave instabilities in fluids. It will allow readers to master the multiscale asymptotic methods and become familiar with applications of these methods in a variety of physical problems. Longwave instabilities are inherent to a variety of systems in fluid dynamics, geophysics, electrodynamics, biophysics, and many others. The techniques of the derivation of longwave amplitude equations, as well as the analysis of numerous nonlinear equations, are discussed throughout. This book will be of value to researchers and graduate students in applied mathematics, physics, and engineering, in particular within the fields of fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer theory, and nonlinear dynamics.

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Springer

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1493975900

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Summary of Red Notice

by Bill Browders - A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice - A Comprehensive Summary

By: Alexander Cooper

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Summary of Red Notice

by Bill Browders - A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice - A Comprehensive Summary

By: Alexander Cooper

Summary of Red Notice - A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice - A Comprehensive Summary Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s fight for Justice by Bill Browder draws readers into the unfamiliar territory of the former Soviet Union. The author pulls back and starts with his own life story before gradually building to the climax in the second chapter, which builds suspense and intrigue quickly. What follows is a stunning exposé of corruption, torture, and assassination set against the cutthroat world of international finance. Here is a Preview of What You Will Get: ⁃ A Full Book Summary ⁃ An Analysis ⁃ Fun quizzes ⁃ Quiz Answers ⁃ Etc Get a copy of this summary and learn about the book.

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Breaking and Dissipation of Ocean Surface Waves

By: Alexander Babanin

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Breaking and Dissipation of Ocean Surface Waves

By: Alexander Babanin

Wave breaking represents one of the most interesting and challenging problems for fluid mechanics and physical oceanography. Over the last fifteen years our understanding has undergone a dramatic leap forward, and wave breaking has emerged as a process whose physics is clarified and quantified. Ocean wave breaking plays the primary role in the air-sea exchange of momentum, mass and heat, and it is of significant importance for ocean remote sensing, coastal and ocean engineering, navigation and other practical applications. This book outlines the state of the art in our understanding of wave breaking and presents the main outstanding problems. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in this topic, including researchers, modellers, forecasters, engineers and graduate students in physical oceanography, meteorology and ocean engineering.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139502727

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When Daddy Was a Little Boy

By: Alexander Raskin

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When Daddy Was a Little Boy

By: Alexander Raskin

It is often hard for children to think of their Daddy as a ‘little boy’. Sasha discovered that her Daddy was once upon a time a little boy when she fell ill and her Daddy told her a story about himself when he was her age. Sasha was fascinated by this discovery. So, whenever she would fall sick, she would ask her Daddy to tell her a story about himself ‘when he was a little boy’, and, each time her Daddy would tell her a new story of funny things that ever happened to actual little boys like him or to other little daddies that he knew. After all, all daddies were ‘little boys’ once. When Daddy was a little boy is a timeless collection of tales that happened to a Daddy when he was a ‘little boy’.

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Ponytale Books

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9380637853

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Penalty Strike

The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45

By: Alexander V. Pyl'cyn

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Penalty Strike

The Memoirs of a Red Army Penal Company Commander, 1943-45

By: Alexander V. Pyl'cyn

Extremely rare (possibly the only) book-length account of a Soviet penal unit in World War II Gritty, intense style conveys the brutality of war on the Eastern Front Composed of convicts--soldiers who conducted "unauthorized retreats," former Soviet POWs deemed untrustworthy, and Gulag prisoners--the Red Army's penal units received the most difficult, dangerous assignments, such as breaking through the enemy's defenses. So punishing was life in these units that officers in regular formations threatened to send recalcitrant troops to penal battalions. Alexander Pyl'cyn led his penal unit through the Soviets' massive offensive in the summer of 1944, the Vistula-Oder operation into eastern Germany, and the bitter assault on Berlin in 1945. He survived the war, but 80 percent of his men did not.

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Stackpole Books

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1461751454

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Differential Topology, Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras, and Applications

D.B. Fuchs' 60th anniversary collection

By: Alexander Astashkevich,Serge Tabachnikov

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Differential Topology, Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras, and Applications

D.B. Fuchs' 60th anniversary collection

By: Alexander Astashkevich,Serge Tabachnikov

This volume presents contributions by leading experts in the field. The articles are dedicated to D.B. Fuchs on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Contributors to the book were directly influenced by Professor Fuchs, and include his students, friends, and professional colleagues. In addition to their research, they offer personal reminicences about Professor Fuchs, giving insight into the history of Russian mathematics.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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082182032X

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9780821820322

Science in Russian Culture, 1861-1917

By: Alexander Vucinich

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Science in Russian Culture, 1861-1917

By: Alexander Vucinich

A Stanford University Press classic.

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Stanford University Press

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0804707383

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Immunocomputing

Principles and Applications

By: Alexander O. Tarakanov,Victor A. Skormin,S.P. Sokolova

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Immunocomputing

Principles and Applications

By: Alexander O. Tarakanov,Victor A. Skormin,S.P. Sokolova

Overview This book introduces immunocomputing (Ie) as a new computing approach that replicates the principles of information processing by proteins and immune networks. It establishes a rigorous mathematical basis for IC, consistent with recent findings in immunology, and it presents various applications of IC to specific computationally intensive real-life problems. The hardware implementation aspects of the IC concept in an immunocomputer as a new kind of computing medium and its potential connections with modem biological microchips (biochips) and future biomolecular computers (biocomputers) are also discussed. All biological systems at the cellular and biomolecular levels are sophisticated mechanisms honed to perfection by millions of years of evolution, and their exploration provides inspiration for various novel concepts in science and engineering. Of these systems, however, only two types, the neural system and the immune system of the vertebrates, possess the extraordinary capabilities of "intellectual" information processing, which include memory, the ability to learn, to recognize, and to make decisions with respect to unknown situations. The potential of the natural neural system as a biological prototype of a computing scheme has already been utilized intensively in computer science through the mathematical and software models of artificial neural networks (ANN) and their hardware implementation in neural computers (see, e.g., Haykin, 1999; Wasserman, 1990).

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475738072

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The Red Army and the Second World War

By: Alexander Hill

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The Red Army and the Second World War

By: Alexander Hill

In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the industrialisation of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s through to the end of the Great Patriotic War in May 1945. Setting military strategy and operations within a broader context that includes national mobilisation on a staggering scale, the book presents a comprehensive account of the origins and course of the war from the perspective of this key Allied power. Drawing on the latest archival research and a wealth of eyewitness testimony, Hill portrays the Red Army at war from the perspective of senior leaders and men and women at the front line to reveal how the Red Army triumphed over the forces of Nazi Germany and her allies on the Eastern Front, and why it did so at such great cost.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316720519

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Nonlinear Dynamics of Chaotic and Stochastic Systems

Tutorial and Modern Developments

By: Vadim S. Anishchenko,Vladimir Astakhov,Alexander Neiman,Tatjana Vadivasova,Lutz Schimansky-Geier

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Nonlinear Dynamics of Chaotic and Stochastic Systems

Tutorial and Modern Developments

By: Vadim S. Anishchenko,Vladimir Astakhov,Alexander Neiman,Tatjana Vadivasova,Lutz Schimansky-Geier

Contains both an exhaustive introduction to the subject as well as a detailed discussion of fundamental problems and research results. Despite the unified presentation of the subject, care has been taken to present the material in largely self-contained chapters.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540424199

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Light Scattering Reviews 2

By: Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

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Light Scattering Reviews 2

By: Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

This book is to continue the Light Scattering Reviews series devoted to modern knowledge and milestones in both experimental and theoretical techniques related to light scattering and radiative transport problems. It gives a valuable picture of recent developments in the area of remote sensing and radiative transfer. The work has capabilities to further facilitate studes in light scattering media optics and be of importance for researchers across various scientific fields including astronomy, meterology and geophysics.

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3540684352

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Nonlinear Dynamics Of Interacting Populations

By: Alexander D Bazykin,Alexander I Khibnik,Bernd Krauskopf

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Nonlinear Dynamics Of Interacting Populations

By: Alexander D Bazykin,Alexander I Khibnik,Bernd Krauskopf

This book contains a systematic study of ecological communities of two or three interacting populations. Starting from the Lotka-Volterra system, various regulating factors are considered, such as rates of birth and death, predation and competition. The different factors can have a stabilizing or a destabilizing effect on the community, and their interplay leads to increasingly complicated behavior. Studying and understanding this path to greater dynamical complexity of ecological systems constitutes the backbone of this book. On the mathematical side, the tool of choice is the qualitative theory of dynamical systems — most importantly bifurcation theory, which describes the dependence of a system on the parameters. This approach allows one to find general patterns of behavior that are expected to be observed in ecological models. Of special interest is the reaction of a given model to disturbances of its present state, as well as to changes in the external conditions. This leads to the general idea of “dangerous boundaries” in the state and parameter space of an ecological system. The study of these boundaries allows one to analyze and predict qualitative and often sudden changes of the dynamics — a much-needed tool, given the increasing antropogenic load on the biosphere.As a spin-off from this approach, the book can be used as a guided tour of bifurcation theory from the viewpoint of application. The interested reader will find a wealth of intriguing examples of how known bifurcations occur in applications. The book can in fact be seen as bridging the gap between mathematical biology and bifurcation theory.

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World Scientific

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9814502294

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9789814502290

Molecular Dynamics of Additives in Polymers

By: Alexander Kovarski

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Molecular Dynamics of Additives in Polymers

By: Alexander Kovarski

This volume focuses on the dynamical behaviour of low-molecular additives in solid polymer matrixes. It covers: types and models of molecular motion in condensed media; dependence of motional frequency on particle structure and size, temperature, volume and stress; and polymer properties and polymeric structures. Extensive analysis of common regularities of rotational and translational dynamics of molecules introduced into polymers are given. The book also includes experimental techniques for molecular mobility evaluation, and features detailed data on rotational dynamics of additives. It should be of interest to specialists in various fields of polymer physical chemistry and materials science.

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CRC Press

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1466563745

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Holding-Together Regionalism: Twenty Years of Post-Soviet Integration

By: Alexander Libman,E. Vinokurov

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Holding-Together Regionalism: Twenty Years of Post-Soviet Integration

By: Alexander Libman,E. Vinokurov

An in-depth analysis of one of the most important and complex issues of the post-Soviet era, namely the (re-)integration of this highly interconnected region. The book considers the evolution of 'holding-together' groups since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, looking at intergovernmental interaction and informal economic and social ties.

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1137271132

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The Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

By: Alexander Mikaberidze

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The Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

By: Alexander Mikaberidze

The Russian Officer Corps of The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1795–1815 features more than 800 detailed biographies of the commanders of that era. Foreword by Professor Donald H. Horward, Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, Florida State University Based upon years of research in Russian archives, historian Alexander Mikaberidze’s biographies include the subject’s place of birth, family history, educational background, a detailed description of his military service, his awards and promotions, wounds, transfers, commands, and other related information, including the date and place of his death and internment, if known. In addition, an introductory chapter presents in meticulous detail the organization of the Russian military, how it was trained, the educational and cultural background of the officer corps, its awards and their history and meaning, and much more. This outstanding overview is supported and enhanced by three dozen charts, tables, and graphics that illustrate the rich history of the Russian officer corps. This study also includes an annotated bibliography to help guide students of the period through the available Russian sources. Stunning in its scope and depth of coverage, The Russian Officer Corps is essential reading for historians, scholars, genealogists, hobbyists, war gamers, and anyone working or studying late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century European history. Every student of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as every academic library, will find this impressive reference work of this momentous period of history absolutely indispensable.

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Savas Beatie

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161121002X

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9781611210026

Bulk Nanostructured Materials

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Ruslan Z. Valiev,Alexander P. Zhilyaev,Terence G. Langdon

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Bulk Nanostructured Materials

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Ruslan Z. Valiev,Alexander P. Zhilyaev,Terence G. Langdon

This book presents the most recent results in the area of bulk nanostructured materials and new trends in their severe plastic deformation (SPD) processing, where these techniques are now emerging from the domain of laboratory-scale research into the commercial production of various bulk nanomaterials. Special emphasis is placed on an analysis of the effect of nanostructures in materials fabricated by SPD on mechanical properties (strength and ductility, fatigue strength and life, superplasticity) and functional behavior (shape memory effects, magnetic and electric properties), as well as the numerous examples of their innovative applications. There is a high innovation potential for industrial applications of bulk nanomaterials for structural use (materials with extreme strength) as well as for functional applications such as nanomagnets, materials for hydrogen storage, thermoelectric materials, superconductors, catalysts, and biomedical implants.

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Plant Energetics

By: Octavian S. Ksenzhek,Alexander G. Volkov

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Plant Energetics

By: Octavian S. Ksenzhek,Alexander G. Volkov

Emphasizing the physical and technological aspects of plant energetics, this comprehensive book covers a significant interdisciplinary research area for a broad range of investigators. Plant Energetics presentsthe thermodynamics of energy processes in plants, their interconnection and arrangement, and the estimation of intrinsic energy needs of the plant connected with performing various physiological functions. The book also demonstrates the role of electrical and electrochemical processes in the plants life cycle. Plant Energetics incorporates such diverse themes as thermodynamics, biophysics, and bioelectrochemistry with applications in horticulture and ecology. It also discusses the roles and mechanisms of both quantum and thermophysical processes of theconversion of solar energy by plants, including photosynthesis and long distance transport. Comprehensive details of value to basic and applied researchers dealing with photosynthesis, agriculture, horticulture, bioenergetics, biophysics, photobiology, and plant physiology make Plant Energetics an informative, one-stop resource that willsave time and energy in your search for the latest information. - Plant Energetics incorporates such diverse themes as thermodynamics, biophysics, and bioelectrochemistry with applications in horticulture and ecology. It also discusses the roles and mechanisms of both quantum and thermophysical processes of the conversion of solar energy by plants, including photosynthesis and long-distance transport - Extensive details of value to basic and applied researchers dealing with photosynthesis, agriculture, horticulture, bioenergetics, biophysics, photobiology, and plant physiology make Plant Energetics an informative, one-stop resource that will save you time and energy in your search for the latest information

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0080514014

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The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War

By: Robert Jackson Alexander

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The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War

By: Robert Jackson Alexander

Re-examines the role of the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War, from their participation in the military to the management of substantial segments of the Spanish economy.

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A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia

By: Alexander N. Yakovlev

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A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia

By: Alexander N. Yakovlev

He unhesitatingly names those individuals who bear responsibility for these catastrophic deaths, bringing into sharper focus than ever before the facts, the perpetrators, and the events of the Soviet Union's years of terror."--BOOK JACKET.

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Violence on the Russian & American Media Screen and Youth Audience

By: Alexander Fedorov

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Violence on the Russian & American Media Screen and Youth Audience

By: Alexander Fedorov

The comparison of the Russian and American experience regarding media violence, standards for rating Russian media programs, and a course of study on media violence for students will have a significant impact upon Russian society, will raise Russian societal and governmental attention to the infringement of the Rights of the Child on the Russian screen, will help to mobilize Russian society against unnecessary violence in the media, will raise the level of responsibility expected of those who disseminate violence on the television, cinema, video, PC-games, etc., and will decrease the atmosphere of Russian social indifference to this problem. This publication was prepared (in part) under a grant funded by the United States Information Agency and administered by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. The statements and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessarily those of the Wilson Center. The final phase of research for this book was supported in part under a grant funded by the United States Information Agency and administered by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. The statements and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessarily those of the Wilson Center. The initial phase of research for this book was supported by Open Society Institute (1998, grant No.???809), ECHO Program (Central European University, Budapest, Senior Visiting Grant, 1998, October), Russian Science Foundation for Humanities (RGNF, 1999-2000, grant N 99-06-00008a, and partly published in "Russian Foundation for Humanity Journal." 2001. N 1, pp.131-145). Another short publications: "Media I Skole og Samfunn"/Norway, 2001. N21, p.41, 2000. N 1, pp.16-23. 1999. N 5, pp.37-39; "News from The UNESCO International Clearinghouse on children and Violence on the Screen." 2000. N 2, p.5; "The International Research Forum on Children and Media"/Australia. 2000. N 9, p.5.

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Interfacial Phenomena and Convection

By: Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy,Manuel G. Velarde,Pierre Colinet

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Interfacial Phenomena and Convection

By: Alexander A. Nepomnyashchy,Manuel G. Velarde,Pierre Colinet

Interfacial phenomena driven by heat or mass transfer are widespread in science and various branches of engineering. Research in this area has become quite active in recent years, attributable in part, at least, to the entry of physicists and their sophisticated experimental techniques into the field. Until now, however, the field has lacked a readable account of the recent developments. Interfacial Phenomena and Convection remedies this problem by furnishing a self-contained monograph that examines a rich variety of phenomena in which interfaces pay a crucial role. From a unified perspective that embraces physical chemistry, fluid mechanics, and applied mathematics, the authors study recent developments related to the Marangoni effect, including patterned convection and instabilities, oscillatory/wavy phenomena, and turbulent phenomena. They examine Bénard layers subjected to transverse and longitudinal thermal gradients and phenomena involving surface tension gradients as the driving forces, including falling films, drops, and liquid bridges. It is only in the past two or three decades that researchers have performed suitable, clear-cut experiments involving interfacial phenomena, and the stage is now set for a virtual explosion of the field. Interfacial Phenomena and Convection will bring you quickly up to date on the advances realized and prepare you to both use the results and to make further advances.

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Optically Anomalous Crystals

By: Alexander Shtukenberg,Yurii Punin,Bart Kahr

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Optically Anomalous Crystals

By: Alexander Shtukenberg,Yurii Punin,Bart Kahr

This book begins with an historical introduction covering the contributions of many distinguished crystallographers. From this follows a tutorial in crystal optics. Further chapters discuss the two main mechanisms of optical dissymmetry, the piezo-optic effect and the kinetic ordering of atoms. The book treats the literature comprehensively, but uses illustrations from the authors’ laboratories as the subjects of detailed analyses.

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1402053533

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Particle Physics on the Eve of Lhc - Proceedings of the 13th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics

By: Alexander I. Studenikin

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Particle Physics on the Eve of Lhc - Proceedings of the 13th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics

By: Alexander I. Studenikin

This proceedings volume is devoted to a wide variety of items, both in theory and experiment, of particle physics such as tests of the Standard Model and beyond, physics at the future accelerators, neutrino and astroparticle physics, heavy quark physics, non-perturbative QCD, quantum gravity effects and cosmology. It is important that the papers in this volume reveal the present status and new developments in the above-mentioned items on the eve of a new era that starts with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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9812837590

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Particle Physics at the Year of Astronomy

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, Moscow, Russia, 19-25 August 2009

By: Alexander I. Studenikin

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Particle Physics at the Year of Astronomy

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, Moscow, Russia, 19-25 August 2009

By: Alexander I. Studenikin

These proceedings are devoted to a wide variety of both theoretical and experimental areas in particle physics. The topics include physics at accelerators and studies of Standard Model and Beyond, neutrino and astroparticle physics, cosmology, CP Violation and rare decays, hadron physics, and new developments in quantum field theory. The papers of the volume reveal the present status and new development in the above mentioned items. In particular, the first results on measurement of LHC pp collision events are also reported.

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LIFE. SCIENCE. FUTURE

By: Alexander Bolonkin

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LIFE. SCIENCE. FUTURE

By: Alexander Bolonkin

This is book about life, researches, ideas, innovations of Dr. Sci., professor Alexander Bolonkin. He worked in Soviet aviation, rocket and space industries and lectured in main Moscow Universities in the former USSR. In 1972 professor Bolonkin was arrested by the notorious Soviet Secret Police (KGB) because he had been discovered reading forbidden political literature about freedom and democracy and had been monitored listening to "Voice of America". For more than 15 years, the vicious YGB torturers in various special prisons, concentration camps, and in exile in utterly miserable Siberia. In 1988 the Soviet authority allowed him to leave the USSR. Following his arrival in the United States in 1988, he lectured at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and worked as a Senior Researcher at NASA and the US Air Force Research Laboratories. Bolonkin is the author of more than 180 scientific articles and books and has 17 inventions to his credit.

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