Инфра-М Enhancing the effectiveness of regional economic policy in the field of support and development Аверин Александр Владимирович

Содержит профессионально ориентированные тексты и комплекс упражнений на английском языке для обучающихся разного уровня подготовки • Для обучающихся бакалавриата по направлению подготовки 09.03.01 «Информатика и вычислительная техника», 09.03.02 «Информационные системы и технологии», 09.03.03 «Прикладная информатика», 09.03.04 «Программная инженерия»

Сборник содержит увлекательный юмористические языковой материал для правильного восприятия сложных и неоднозначных построений английской речи. u003Cbru003E Пособие в занимательной форме развивает навыки творческого мышления, обеспечивает самоконтроль при решении лингвистических задач-тестов. u003Cbru003E Построенное по принципу интеллектуальной игры, пособие окажет неоценимую помощь всем, кто хотел бы овладеть тонкостями английской разговорной речи

The world’s tech giants are at the centre of controversies over fake news, free speech and hate speech on platforms where influence is bought and sold. Yet, at the outset, almost everyone thought the internet would be a positive, democratic force, a space where knowledge could be freely shared to enable everyone to make better-informed decisions. How did it all go so wrong? Noam Cohen reports on the tech libertarians of Silicon Valley, from the self-proclaimed geniuses Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and Mark Zuckerberg to the early pioneers at Stanford University, who have not only made the internet what it is today but reshaped society in the process. It is the story of how the greed, bias and prejudice of one neighbourhood is fracturing the Western world

In full color, with over 750 images to enhance and clarify the concepts, this thought-provoking resource is for graphic designers, professors, and students • This Third Edition, wholly revised and updated with essays on design thinking by seven industry leaders and a wealth of new images, provides designers, art directors, and students-regardless of experience-with a unique approach to thoughtful, convincing design. In full color with guidance on the rules of design and how to break them for the reader's benefit • Contributing essayists are Niklaus Troxler, Geray Gencer, Ashley Schofield, Brian D. Miller, Fons Hickman, Max Shangle, and Tad Crawford • The Elements of Graphic Design, Third Edition describes how to • - Employ white space as a significant component of design • - Define and reveal dominant images, words, and concepts • - Use scale, position, and color to guide readers through levels of importance • - Use type for maximum comprehension and value to the reader • Educator, author, and thirty-five-year design veteran Alex W

In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible stories of three women who raised three world-changing men • Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, each fighting their own battles, born into the beginning of the twentieth century and a deadly landscape of racial prejudice, Jim Crow, exploitation, unpoliced violence and open police vitriol • It was a society that would deny their sons' humanity from the beginning as it had denied theirs, but Berdis, Alberta and Louise were extraordinary women who instilled resilience, resistance and greatness in their sons

A Sherlock tie-in edition of Conan Doyle's first collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, with an introduction by show cocreator Mark GatissIn this new edition of Conan Doyle's first collection of short stories, Mark Gatiss explains how these gripping tales inspired and influenced the new series. This collection contains 12 short stories first published in the Strand magazine between 1891 and 1892, and then published as a collection in October 1892. It includes some of Conan Doyle's best tales of murder and mystery, such as "The Adventures of the Speckled Band," in which the strange last words of a dying woman "It was the band, the speckled band!" and an inexplicable whistling in the night are the only clues Sherlock Holmes has to prevent another murder; and "The Five Orange Pips," in which an untimely death and the discovery of the letter containing five orange pips lead to a cross-Atlantic conspiracy

An Artist’s Insights on Art Appreciation • Written by a practicing artist, this book decodes and maps the basic elements of visual art, leading the reader to a greater understanding and appreciation. Not an art history lesson per se, this illustrated guide is rather a tool kit to make the study of art and a visit to the museum truly rewarding. An entertaining and informative read, The Joy of Art offers the reader • A working art vocabulary to help you identify and explain what you’re looking at • Answers to many of the questions you may have about visual art in general • A summary of the basic criteria to consider when looking at art • Highlights of the primary art genres and an introduction to the artists who pursued them • Many visual examples of aesthetic considerations and practices • Interesting facts about your favorite artists and clues to why they made the choices they did • A few games to test your new skills • The Joy of Art contains 150 color photographs and many interesting insights from an artist-author who takes readers behind the curtain and into the studio to uncover what actually goes into making a work of art

A funny, heartfelt graphic memoir about living in foreign countries, and finding one's place both at home and abroad • In this delightful graphic novel, Lucie Arnoux chronicles her adventures around the world. Growing up in Marseille as a misfit with a passion for drawing, she decides to settle in London to pursue her dream career as a comics writer. Je Ne Sais Quoi shows us London through the eyes of a mischievous and clear-sighted young French woman, the joys and pains of being an outsider and, ultimately, how to live life to its fullest

This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century • Drawing on an astonishing cache of letters unearthed centuries after Datini's death, it reveals to us a shrewd, enterprising, anxious man, as he makes deals, furnishes his sumptuous house, buys silks for his outspoken young wife and broods on his legacy. It is an unequalled source of knowledge about the texture of daily life in the small, earthy, violent, striving world of fourteenth-century Tuscany

Have you ever been told you're too sensitive? Welcome to the club • Nearly 1 in 3 people have the genes to be more sensitive than others. But what if we said it doesn't have to be the insult it's always been framed as? • Highly sensitive people • · Have a heightened sense of empathy • · Tune into subtle details and make connections that others miss • · Are often wonderfully creative • Through fascinating research, expert storytelling and practical insight, this book will teach you how to unlock the potential in this undervalued strength and leverage it in your relationships, your work and your life • Shattering the myth that being sensitive is a weakness, Sensitive will change - once and for all - how the world sees sensitive people, and how they see themselves

В "Карте знаний" Вайолет Меллер прослеживает путешествие идей трех величайших ученых древности - Евклида, Галена и Птолемея - через семь городов и тысячи лет. Мы проследуем за ними от Александрии шестого века до Багдада девятого века, от мусульманской Кордовы до католического Толедо, от средневековой медицинской школы Салерно до Палермо, столицы яркого сочетания культур Сицилии, до Венеции, где печатные станки этого великого торгового города позволили еще шире распространить эти знания • Прослеживая хрупкие нити знаний из века в век, с востока на запад и с севера на юг, Меллер также раскрывает паутину связей между исламским миром и христианским миром, связей, которые одновременно сохраняли и трансформировали астрономию, математику и медицину от раннего Средневековья до эпохи Возрождения