Crime, and the issues that relate to it, arouse compelling curiosity and fervent debate. In the human psyche, crimes and their underlying motives often capture equal measures of fascination and revulsion. In the media, criminals are both condemned and granted celebrity. Accordingly, the readings and resources offered in Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources are designed to demonstrate the development, diversity, and duality of attitudes and arguments related to crime and punishment.

В справочник вошло 2350 биографий не только военных, но и государственных и партийных деятелей, руководителей промышленности и транспорта, ученых, писателей, журналистов, передовиков производства, лауреатов Сталинских премий, актеров, кинооператоров и многих других. В справочник вошли все командующие фронтами, армиями и корпусами, все дважды Герои Советского Союза, а также наиболее известные герои войны, партизаны и подпольщики, юные герои и т. д. Книга адресована всем, кто интересуется историей Великой Отечественной войны и СССР.

Издание включает в себя около 1000 аналитических статей, посвященных персоналиям, фундаментальным понятиям и базовым текстам философии XX века. Системно освещаются философская антропология, постмодернизм, постпозитивизм, философская герменевтика, неомарксизм, постструктурализм, современные версии психоанализа и др. Книга адресована специалистам в области философии, культурологии, социологии, лингвистики, психологии, а также аспирантам и студентам гуманитарных специальностей.

Итак, вы хотите улучшить свою память. Работа по улучшению памяти приносит свои плоды людям самых разных возрастных категорий - от студентов высших учебных заведений, готовящихся к сдаче экзаменов, до беззаботных пенсионеров, которые хотят запомнить имена всех персонажей любимого сериала. Улучшить память может практически каждый человек, независимо от того, где он работает и чем занимается. О способах, используемых для улучшения памяти, и идет речь в этой книге.

Welcome to the International Directory of Business Biographies (IDBB). This four-volume set covers more than 600 prominent business people from around the world and is intended for reference use by management students, librarians, educators, historians, and others who seek information about the people leading the world’s biggest and most influential companies. The articles, all of which include bylines, were written by a team of journalists, academics, librarians, and independent scholars.

Amidst the triumphs, turmoils, mergers, acquisitions, and lately the dramatic scandals and collapses of Big Business in America during the early years of the 21st century, small business just keeps on going and going. Thus, the third edition of Encyclopedia of Small Business has been prepared for and is dedicated to the largely silent majority of companies that, together, weave the extremely varied multi-colored fabric of American commercial life.

This second volume of Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns (EMMC) profiles 474 of the most notable advertising and marketing initiatives of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. EMMC covers campaigns that were important for their innovation, for their effectiveness in selling products or services, or for the significance of their companies

Business is the backbone of American society and is one of the keys to making our system work as well as it has for over two hundred years. Yet as a body of knowledge, business is much younger, and in its brief history, there have been few attempts to present the discipline of business in a single place. The major purpose of the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, Second Edition is to summarize the body of knowledge that we know as business in one place and in language appropriate to the layperson.

The Encyclopedia of American Industries (EAI) is a major business reference tool that provides detailed, comprehensive information on a wide range of industries in every realm of American business. Volume one provides separate coverage of 459 manufacturing industries. Volume two presents 545 essays covering the vast array of service and other non-manufacturing industries in the United States.

Company Profiles for Students (CPFS) has been designed specifically to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students taking courses in economics, business, and history. Part of Gale’s successful line of business products for students, CPFS provides information on both the current operations and performance of 280 contemporary public and private U.S.-based and significant foreign-owned companies, in addition to the historical events, people, and strategies that shaped them.