The authors of a number of books and numerous articles on synergetics, E. N. Knyazeva and S. P. Kurdyumov, in their book consider a whole range of concepts and representations of synergetics, features of models of ultrafast processes of the emergence, self-organization and evolution of structures in nonlinear dissipative environments, as well as broad prospects for the application of synergetics in cognitive psychology and epistemology, social management, demography, education and future research.