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In the 1930s Grigory Barkhin became particularly interested in theatre architecture, and this culminated in the publication in 1947 of a two-volume work, Architecture of the Theatre. This was the most

A quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia once again looms large over world affairs, from Ukraine to Syria to the 2016 U.S. election. Yet how power works in present-day Russia—how V

Russia has always been a mysterious country to the rest of the world. But what better way to discover Russian mentality than by reading Russian books? Considering the country’s controversial political

Who is Mr Lukashenka? Do Belarusians support him out of fear and/or because they are blinkered, or there are other factors that help to explain his longevity as a national leader?The book seeks answer

In this fascinating study of unfinished nation-building in Belarus, Grigory Ioffe draws on his two dozen research trips to the country to trace Belarus's history, geography, political situation, socie

Based on the author’s many years of lectures and tutorials at Novosibirsk State University and the University of Manchester, Physics of Continuous Media: Problems and Solutions in Electromagnetism, Fl

Ioffe (geography, Radford U.) complains that most Western understandings of Belarus are characterized by a combination of ignorance and cliche (e.g. "an authoritarian cesspool," "a bastard of Europe,"

Over forty years of teaching experience are distilled into this text. The guiding principle is the wide use of the concept of intermediate asymptotics, which enables the natural introduction of the modeling of real bodies by continua. Beginning with a detailed explanation of the continuum approximation for the mathematical modeling of the motion and equilibrium of real bodies, the author continues with a general survey of the necessary methods and tools for analyzing models. Next, specific idealized approximations are presented, including ideal incompressible fluids, elastic bodies and Newtonian viscous fluids. The author not only presents general concepts but also devotes chapters to examining significant problems, including turbulence, wave-propagation, defects and cracks, fatigue and fracture. Each of these applications reveals essential information about the particular approximation. The author's tried and tested approach reveals insights that will be valued by every teacher and st

This book provides an in-depth look at the potential of modern computerized contrast delivery systems. The characteristics of bolus injection techniques are described and illustrated with comparative

There are fundamental relations between three vast areas of physics: particle physics, cosmology and condensed matter physics. The fundamental links between the first two areas, in other words, betwe