Always dunk your biscuit horizontally. Drinking beer is good for the environment. A wig is safer than a cycling helmet. Based on international scientific research but presented in a tongue-incheek style, "Curious Science" reveals startling truths guaranteed to change your life - or at least make you popular at dinner parties. Fascinating and often hilarious, it will open your eyes to the quirky science behind our everyday lives. You can discover the best time of day to be operated on, how kissing is good for hay fever, how to appear more intelligent effortlessly - plus many other tips for work and home, for eating and drinking and for a better love life.

У монографії на документальних матеріалах, в першу чергу епістолярної спадщини, аналізується приватне життя козацької старшини XVIII століття. Сюди входить сімейне життя: батьки - діти, жінка в козацько-старшинському соціумі, виховання і освіту дітей, дружні, патронолістські відносини, релігійні вірування і переживання, інтелектуальні інтереси.

In this study Dr Zukin combines the approaches of a political scientist and a sociologist to examine the distance between theory and practice in the lives of ordinary Yugoslavs living under socialist self-management. Going beyond previous work on socialist societies, she asks how Yugoslavs - as workers, as citizens and as a society - have benefited from the form of socialism that they have pioneered. She also considers the relevance of the official ideology of self-management, institutions like workers' councils and communes, and political and economic controls to post-industrial as well as industrializing societies. The book includes long passages from intensive, in-depth interviews with members of ten Belgrade families. The families, which are described in terms of their place in the Yugoslav social structure, indicate their political and socialist ideology through telling their life stories, interpreting their own place in social changes, and reacting to these changes and pressures. Participant-observation of local voters meetings provides an examination of give-and-take in Yugoslav grass-roots politics.