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In recent years, a remarkable flourishing of works on the postwar history of social science and humanities disciplines led to the growing configuration of a field of “Cold War social science” research. Yet in spite of its thematic diversity, and with few exceptions, the geography of the field remains overwhelmingly North American and Western European. This volume brings in the perspective of...

Annual statistical yearbook for the Russian Federation. Contains detailed demographic data for Russia related to administrative and territorial breakdown, population size, age and sex structure, spatial distribution, fertility/mortality, marriage/divorce and migration.

In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm-two of the most complex, delightful, and...

Forget about the boring pages of textbooks. Witty and tricky problems for ingenuity and fascinating puzzles, secrets of encrypted correspondence and amazing tricks with numbers, intricate tricks of mathematical gymnastics and even short stories with a mathematical secret await you. The great popularizer of science Yakov Isidorovich Perelman will help you understand: mathematics is entertaining...

«Мир, полный демонов» — последняя книга Карла Сагана, астронома, астрофизика и выдающегося популяризатора науки, вышедшая уже после его смерти. Эта книга, посвященная одной из его любимых тем — человеческому разуму и борьбе с псевдонаучной глупостью, — своего рода итог всей его работы. Мифы об Атлантиде и Лемурии, лица на Марсе и встречи с инопланетянами, магия и реинкарнация, ясновидение и...