Учебное пособие для учащихся профессионально-технических учебных заведений электронной техники, приборостроения и электротехнического производства. — Минск: Технопринт, 2001. — 134 с. В учебном пособии изложены основные понятия и определения в области конструирования электронной аппаратуры, системный метод в решении большинства задач разработчика аппаратуры, методы и принципы...
В двух частях. — Томск : Изд-во Томск. гос. ун-та систем упр. и радиоэлектроники, 2022. — 589 с. Изложена методология системотехнического проектирования технических средств, работа которых основана на принципах электроники и радиотехники. Соответствует актуальным требованиям Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Для студентов...
Томск : Изд-во Томск. гос. ун-та систем упр. и радиоэлектроники, 2020. — 250 с. Изложены основы методологии системо- и схемотехнического проектирования технических средств, работа которых основана на принципах электроники и радиотехники. Соответствует актуальным требованиям Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Для студентов бакалавриата,...
Новосибирск: Наука, 1965. — 144 с. Книга содержит рекомендации начинающим научным работникам и специалистам производства в изучении основных методических особенностей научного труда. Книга может быть полезна также для студентов, участвующих в научных кружках при кафедах вузов и в проблемных лабораториях.
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. — 307 p. Currently, user experience (UX) researchers are in an enviable situation. There are many more jobs than people suitably trained to fill them. Practitioners are swamped with work. This has obvious advantages—but it comes with its own share of problems. Not least of these problems is the difficulty of maintaining one’s own area of...
Third Edition, Icon Books, 2014. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848316925, ISBN13: 9781848316928. This beautifully illustrated guide to Walter Benjamin—the genius behind the famous essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction—traces his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history as well as his particular focus on the tension between Marxism and Zionism, and between...
Icon Books, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848312938, ISBN13: 9781848312937. Dubbed "The Elvis of Philosophy," Slavoj Zizeck is both a serious revolutionary and an absurdist prankster, published in academic journals and Abercrombie & Fitch catalogs. Besides his work on popular culture, Zizek is concerned with politics and ideology. Introducing Slavoj Zizek reveals a provocateur...
Icon Books, 2016. — 176 p. — ISBN13: 9781848319059. From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline. Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and exploring theoretical and practical approaches, this unique illustrated...
4th edition. — Icon Books, 2005. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848310099, ISBN13: 9781848310094. Why must we believe that God is dead? Can we accept that traditional morality is just a 'useful mistake'? Did the principle of 'the will to power' lead to the Holocaust? What are the limitations of scientific knowledge? Is human evolution complete or only beginning? It is difficult to...
Icon Books, 2013. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848314175, ISBN13: 9781848314177. This brand new graphic guide provides a comprehensive introduction to the schools of thought and key figures in continental philosophy. Christopher Kul-Want is the course director for the MA in Fine Art at Central St. Martins, London, and the author of the popular Graphic Guide Introducing Slavoj Zizek.
Icon Books Ltd, 2014. — 234 p. — ISBN13: 9781848317741. Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the finest achievements of humanity. Yet the religion followed by a fifth of humankind is too often seen in the West in terms of fundamentalism, bigotry and violence- a perception that couldn't be more...
Fourth Edition, Icon Books, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848312040, ISBN13: 9781848312043. Introducing Barthes brilliantly elucidates Roland Barthes’ application of semiotics to literature, popular culture, clothes, and fashion, and explains why his thinking in this area made him a key figure in the structuralist movement of the 1960s.
Icon Books Ltd, 2014. — 193 p. — ISBN13: 9781848311145. "Introducing Hinduism" offers a guide to the key philosophical, literary, mythological and cultural traditions of this extraordinarily diverse faith. It untangles the complexities of Hinduism's gods and goddesses, its caste system and its views on sex, everyday life and asceticism. This work answers questions including:...
Icon Books Ltd, 2015. — 174 p. — ISBN13: 9781848319769. INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century. Between the ending of the Second World War in 1945 and his death in 1980, Sartre was...
Icon Books Ltd, 2015. — 182 p. — ISBN13: 9781848319851. "Introducing Descartes" explains why he is usually called the father of modern philosophy. It is a clear and accessible guide to all the puzzling questions that Descartes asked about human beings and their place in the world. It gives a lucid account of Descartes' contributions to modern science, mathematics, and the...
Reprint, Icon Books, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311788, ISBN13: 9781848311787. Covering the transformative power of Romanticism on art, philosophy, literature, music, and politics, Introducing Romanticism provides an accessible overview of its many interlocking—and often contradictory—strands. It is the ideal introduction for both students and general readers.
Fourth Edition, Icon Books, 2012. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311753, ISBN13: 9781848311756. Nicolò Machiavelli's The Prince remains controversial in its electrifying frankness as a practical guide to power. Is it a how-to manual for dictators, or a subtle analysis of successful government? Introducing Machiavelli traces the colorful life of this paradoxical realist whose...
Reprint, Icon Books, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311818, ISBN13: 9781848311817. Covering the ground from Antonio Gramsci to Raymond Williams, postcolonial discourse to the politics of diaspora, feminism to queer theory, technoculture and the media to globalization, Introducing Cultural Studies serves as an insightful guide to the essential concepts of this fascinating area of...
Fourth Edition. — Icon Books, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848312032, ISBN13: 9781848312036. Introducing Political Philosophy explains the subject’s central concepts and presents the major political theorists from Plato to Michel Foucault. How did governments get started? Why should they be obeyed? Could we live without them? How much power should they have? Is freedom a right?...
Icon Books, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311699, ISBN13: 9781848311695. Aristotle was named the "master of those who know." He is a foundational thinker in almost every field of inquiry and for fifteen hundred years he remained the paradigm of knowledge itself. Even today, his contributions to, amongst many other areas, logic, metaphysics, rational psychology, political...
Reprint, Icon Books, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN13: 9781848311770, ISBN: 184831177X. Introducing Plato provides a clear account of Plato's theory of knowledge and explains how this directed his provocative views on politics, ethics, and individual liberty. Offering detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism, it also charts Plato's influence on modern...
Icon Books, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311214, ISBN13: 9781848311213. The term "feminism" came into English usage around the 1890s, but women's conscious struggle to resist discrimination and sexist oppression goes back much further. Introducing Feminism surveys the major developments that have affected women's lives from the seventeenth century to the present day. "Readers...
Revised edition. — Icon Books, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311869, ISBN13: 9781848311862. Introducing Evolution explores evolutionary theory from its origins to its reception across history and how it has been developed and refined. Drawing on the latest findings from genetics, ecology, and animal behavior, it unravels the central and often misunderstood concepts, notably...
Second Edition, Icon Books, 2006. — 176 p. — ISBN13: 9781848311152, ISBN: 184831115X. Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think....
4th Edition. — Icon Books, 2014. — 336 р. — ISBN10: 1848317816, ISBN13: 978-18483-1781-9. Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being. Introducing Genetics...
Icon Books, 2017. — 177 p. — ISBN10: 1848318626, ISBN13: 9781848319035. Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases and age, and evolve as a species. This non-fiction comic book introduces us to genetics, cell biology and the fascinating science of epigenetics, which is rapidly...
Icon Books, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311826, ISBN13: 9781848311824. Drawing on the insights of evolutionary biology and cognitive psychology, as well as data from anthropology, primatology, and archaeology, evolutionary psychologists are beginning to piece together the first truly scientific account of human nature. Introducing Evolutionary Psychology is the perfect...
Revised, Penguin Books / Icon Books, 2010. — 175 p. — ISBN10: 1848311745, ISBN13: 978-184831-174-9. Heidegger announced the end of philosophy and was vocal supporter of Nazism. Was he offering a deeply conservative mythology or a crucial deconstruction of philosophy as we have known it? Introducing Heidegger provides an accessible introduction to his notoriously abstruse...
Icon Books, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN 9781848311763, 1848311761. Brilliantly written and illustrated by William Rankin, Introducing Newton explains the extraordinary ideas of a man who sifted through the accumulated knowledge of centuries, tossed out mistaken beliefs, and single-handedly made enormous advances in mathematics, mechanics, and optics. It’s the Thought that Counts. On...
Icon Books, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311834, ISBN13: 9781848311831. Jacques Lacan's ideas are as influential in the field of psychoanalysis as those of Freud have ever been. Introducing Lacan guides the reader through Lacanian theory, exploring the central pillars of his thought and his bearing on literature, art, philosophy, and feminism.
Fourth Edition, Icon Books, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848312121, ISBN13: 9781848312128. Musician, poet, novelist and botanist, but above all, a philosopher who denied being one, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first to ask: What is the value of civilization?” His answer shocked Enlightenment contemporaries and still challenges us today. Introducing Rousseau guides us through a...
Icon Books, 2010. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311796, ISBN13: 9781848311794. Introducing the Enlightenment is the essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment—Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to the leading thinkers of the age, the men and women who believed that rational...
Fifth Edition, Icon Books, 2005. — 176 p. — ISBN13: 9781848310650, ISBN: 184831065X. As we find ourselves at the cusp of an economic downturn, there has been a clear reinvigoration of Keynesian economics as governments are attempting to stimulate the market through public funds. Forming his economic theories in the wake of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes argued that a...
Third Edition, Icon Books, 2006. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848311168, ISBN13: 9781848311169. Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of...
Icon Books, 2009. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848310552, ISBN13: 978-184831-765-9. Capitalism now dominates the globe, both in economics and ideology, shapes every aspect of our world and influences everything from laws, wars and government to interpersonal relationships. "Introducing Capitalism" tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and...
Fourth Edition, Icon Books, 2013. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848315082, ISBN13: 9781848315082. Our knowledge comes primarily from experience. But is experience really what it seems? Is it reliable? This graphic guide by popular Introducing series philosopher Dave Robinson introduces the concept of empiricism and what it could mean to accept a "common sense" view of the world we observe.
Icon Books, 2013. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848315155, ISBN13: 9781848315150. The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of Existentialism and a forerunner of postmodernism. Philosophy, in Kierkegaard's radical view, was of no use unless it permanently changed people's lives. This graphic guide introduces this complex and difficult figure in a witty, accessible, and...
First Trade Paper Edition, The Economist, 2015. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 1610395050, ISBN13: 9781610395052. Frugal innovation is a way that companies can create high-quality products with limited resources. Once the preserve of firms in poor markets, Western companies are now seeking ways to appeal to cost-conscious and environmentally-aware consumers at home. With an estimated...
Icon Books, 2014. — 220 p. — ISBN13: 9781848317789. Brand-new INTRODUCING guide to the subject that really makes the world go round. Economics was described by the English economist Lionel Robbins in 1935 as 'the science of scarcity' but these days economics is everywhere, and it's never been more popular - as bestselling books such as Freakanomics attest. But what is economics...
Icon Books, 2003. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1840468491, ISBN13: 9781840468496. What connects Marilyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This graphic guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's cultural condition over the last three decades....
Icon Books, 2015. — 180 p. — ISBN13: 9781848319813. Compact Introducing guide to the influential philosopher, sociologist and economist. Introducing Marx: A Graphic Guide explores the life of the most famous Socialist figure, from his early years to meeting Engels in 1842. It provides a readable, understandable biography of Karl Marx as well as a fundamental account of his...
Fourth Edition. — Icon Books, 2013. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848315090, ISBN13: 9781848315099. One of the most controversial figures in classical music, Richard Wagner's influence reaches as far as the film Apocalypse Now. Written by leading music critic Michael White, this graphic guide looks at Wagner's complex life, capturing his caprices, cruelties, and anti-semitism.
Icon Books, 2011. — 197 p. — ISBN13: 9781848312135, ISBN: 184831213X. INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature and crucial importance of the early stages of infantile development. Although she was a devoted Freudian, many...
Icon Books, 2014. — ISBN10: 1848317638, ISBN13: 978-184831-763-5. Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? This book provides a fundamental account of Karl Marx's original philosophy, its roots in 19th century European ideology, and his radical economic...
Fourth Edition. — Icon Books, 2005. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848310943, ISBN13: 9781848310940. Stephen Hawking is the world-famous physicist with a cameo in "The Simpsons on his CV", but outside his academic field his work is little understood. To the public he is a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling "A Brief History of Time", and yet...
Icon Books, 2017. — 186 p. — ISBN10: 1785780735, ISBN13: 9781785780738. Sociology is interested in the way citizens shape a society and the way a society shapes its citizens. Simply, it is the study of how society functions, or how it doesn’t. In the series’ inimitable style, Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide traces the origins of sociology from industrialization,...
4th edition. — Icon Books, 2003. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1840468505, ISBN13: 978-184831-757-4. Quantum theory is one of science's most thrilling, challenging and even mysterious areas. Scientists such as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger uncovered bizarre paradoxes in the early 20th century that seemed to destroy the fundamental assumptions of 'classical physics' -...
4th Edition. — Icon Books, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848312105, ISBN13: 9781848312104. How do psychoanalysts conceptualize the mind? Why was Sigmund Freud so interested in sex? How does analysis work? Introducing Psychoanalysis offers insights into the nature of psychoanalytic theory and original ways of describing therapeutic practice. In demystifying and explaining...
Icon Books, 2011. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1848312091, ISBN13: 9781848312098. Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought with his attempts to delimit human reason as an object of philosophical inquiry. The book centers on his seminal critiques of pure reason, practical reason, and judgment; explores his ideas; and explains the reasons for his undiminished importance...
Icon Books, 2015. — 192 p. — ISBN13: 9781848319790. INTRODUCING guide to the hugely influential German thinker. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is one of the greatest thinkers of all time. No other philosopher has had such a profound impact on the ideas and political events of the 20th century. Hegel's influential writings on philosophy, politics, history and art are parts of a...