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Because advances made by science and technology far outstripped improvements in human nature, utopian dreams of perfect societies in the twentieth century quickly metamorphosed into dystopian nightmares, which undermined individual identity and threatened the integrity of the family. Armed with technological and scientific tools, totalizing social systems found in literature abolish the distinction between public and private life and thus penetrate and corrupt the very core of all utopian blueprints and visions: the education of future generations. At the heart of the family, mothers as parents transmit their diverse cultural traditions while socializing their children and thus compete with ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Data Processing, IDP 2016, held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2016. The 11 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on machine learning theory with applications; intelligent data processing in life and social sciences; morphological and technological approaches to image analysis.
As a basic text or as a companion source of current authentic spoken and written commercial Russian, Contemporary Business Russian is essential for the more proficient student who is interested in mastering the form and content of practical business communication. Lively dialogues, real business documents, and carefully designed exercises and assignments present the vocabulary, syntax, and structures needed for effective business transactions. All students of Russian will welcome the activities that will enable them to construct a wide variety of complex sentences. The product of more than fifty years of combined teaching experience in Russian, this book will continue to be used as a reference long after its service in the classroom.
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How Divine Images Became Art tells the story of the parallel ‘discovery’ of Russian medieval art and of the Italian ‘primitives’ at the beginning of the twentieth century. While these two developments are well-known, they are usually studied in isolation. Tarasov’s study has the great merit of showing the connection between the art world in Russia and the West, and its impact in the cultural history of the continent in the pre-war period. Drawing on a profound familiarity with Russian sources, some of which are little known to Western scholars, and on equally expert knowledge of Western material and scholarship, Oleg Tarasov presents a fresh perspective on early twentieth-century R...