In fun style, or the justification of lies Oleg Dark Publication date: August 9, 2001 There is nothing easier than scribbling a portrait on three or four pages, because there is no need for finishing or completeness. The newspaper "Gallant Mercury" against La Bruyère (1693) Whatever the aesthetes may say, literature is a function of society (in an almost mathematical sense).

Krupp - King Steel, everyone knows this. Although here it was not without advertising. After both world wars, the British experienced a trophy Kryopov ship's armor in search of secrets - and they were surprised to convince that their own was better. MANAM engines for submarines were better for MAN, and Krupp had to switch to their production. And in general, the first cast steel in Germany was not swelled by Krupp, but by Jacob Mayer. But Zharinov writes the history of ideas, not technology.

The Truth and Hype of Hypnosis Michael Nash Scientific American Over the past half century, the hypnotist has smoothly moved from the circus arena to the scientific laboratory. After much debate, numerous researchers of this rather exotic practice eventually recognized it as a scientific phenomenon.

Bykov-quickly: look-12 Dmitry Bykov Publication date: August 9, 2001 Nina Berberova's 100th anniversary was celebrated more than modestly : small notes in the so-called high-quality press (mostly of a rather compilative nature, with a brief overview of the well-known ), almost nothing on television, not a single anniversary reissue, not even a collection of works - which Berberova has the status of a classic she probably deserved the second row; the main thing is that the author of the most

The rule of law and civil society as sacred cows Victor Militarev Publication date: August 9, 2001 Against the background of the dominance of ferocious state-legal positivism in Soviet science, the widespread spontaneous reception by post-Soviet state science of the natural law approach in its liberal version to a number of topics, especially everything related to human rights, civil society and the rule of law, looks a little strange.

Natalya Struchkova: “This art exists outside of ordinary life...” (The conversation is conducted by Kirill Kutalov-Postoll) Publication date: August 9, 2001 K.K.-P. - Tell me , how did you get on the Internet? N.S. - I got onto the Internet by accident, thanks to my acquaintance with Maxim Kononenko, who invited me to the Paragraph company. Before that, I worked as a designer in many places, but as an offline designer. And at Paragraph I started working on the Internet.

Russian aluminum of Ukraine "SibAl" Ukrainian "UkrAl" Dmitry Staritsky Publication date: August 9, 2001 And the aluminum industry of Ukraine was inherited from the USSR and completely shared the fate of the entire industry in the past decade, despite the republic gaining political independence in 1991.

Rebellion of the Periphery Alexey Bessudnov Publication date: August 10, 2001 The social theory of the "Third World" is often perceived as something nationally - at best continentally - limited. Meanwhile, many concepts that have appeared on the periphery quite justifiably claim to be global in nature. The left-radical sociology that emerged in Latin America in the 60s can only with great stretch be defined as specifically Latin American.

Ferdinand Tönnies was the first sociologist to divide communities of people into “formal” and “informal”. He believed that informal communities emerged from formal ones as a result of people engaging in commerce . Most likely, Tennis confused cause with effect here: relatively speaking, first the monarch appears - and then the profile of the monarch appears on the coins.

In person Conversation about the metamorphoses of civil society Gleb Pavlovsky Publication date: August 9, 2001 1. Lynch or Gandhi? Russian Journal: The idea of ​​"Civil Society" is often viewed with suspicion today. Does it exist in reality, as a social fact, or is it someone’s invention? Gleb Pavlovsky: Civil society is, of course, a fiction, like any theoretical concept. The fiction is quite old.