учебная и научная литература

A fundamental revolution in higher education is being sparked by the ubiquity of mobile devices. The opportunity is ripe for institutions, instructors, and instructional designers to take advantage of mobile technology to enhance the learning experie…

What role can the ordinary citizen perform in news reporting? This question goes to the heart of current debates about citizen journalism, one of the most challenging issues confronting the news media today. In this timely and provocative book, Stuar…

An insightful examination of the changing relationship between Asia and the United States In this lucidly written and thought-provoking book, author Simon Tay highlights the accelerating trends that point to Asia increasingly forging its own path, in…

Media power in the global era has to do with how people understand the world, their place in it, and their relation to the others who populate it. Making connections with distant places and people is the work of cosmopolitan imagination, which involv…

Praise for Rebuilding Shattered Lives, Second Edition «In this new edition of Rebuilding Shattered Lives, Dr. Chu distills the wisdom he has gained from many years spent building and directing an extraordinary therapeutic community in a major teachin…

Praise for The Learning Self «In this age of self-help, the 'self' is a term thrown around with abandon. For educators, the notion of self-directed learning is a key concept. Yet the notion of self is deeply problematic, even contentious. The world h…

This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the technologies that help us find information on the web. Search engines and web navigation tools have become ubiquitous in our day to day use of the web as an information source, a tool…

В книге проведено исследование комплекса общественных отношений между участниками гражданского оборота по поводу иностранной валюты, системы норм международного и национального законодательства, регулирующих указанные отношения, правоприменительной п…

Учебник подготовлен ведущими учеными, профессорами, докторами юридических наук на основе международных документов, Конституции РФ, УК РФ, другого федерального законодательства, научной литературы, судебной практики последних лет. Законодательство при…

В монографии на основании многолетних полевых и экспериментальных наблюдений в Индоокеанской и Атлантической частях Антарктики впервые рассмотрен комплекс наиболее важных структурно-функциональных характеристик самого массового представителя антаркти…

Praise for Big Questions,Worthy Dreams «The things at stake in this tenth anniversary edition are even more profound and urgent than they were the first time around. This is not a little story about young people. It is a big story about humanity and …

В учебнике раскрываются основные положения ландшафтно-экологического подхода к территориальному планированию, который подразумевает приоритет естественных границ пространственных элементов, глубокий анализ латеральных связей между ними, учет их функц…

Звенигородская биологическая станция имени С.Н. Скадовского (ЗБС) является важным полигоном для проведения научных исследований, а также для подготовки студентов биологического факультета МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова. Книга включает обзор исследований д…

Explores and analyzes past and current technologies and trends in multimedia communication Digital natives—those persons born in the digital age—have an ever-widening range of wireless-enabled devices at their disposal. They are the drivers of multim…

Given the myriad of complex problems facing higher education, it is difficult to imagine that an administrator at any level of the institution could be effective without engaging in servant leadership. Higher education is a service industry and, cons…

This book clearly articulates the foundations of an educational vision that is distinctively supported by eportfolio use, drawing on work in philosophy, sociology, higher and adult education, and elearning research. It is academically rigorous and ac…