Illustrated edition of the first book in Harry Potter series.

The series ‘Reader for Extracurricular Reading’ is a collection of poems, fairy tales, stories and tales from the main list of extracurricular reading for students in grades 1-5 of a comprehensive school. All works are divided by genre and are intended for independent reading and reading at school. The texts of the works are printed without abbreviations. Color illustrations.

Marx held that the progression of society from capitalism to communism was 'historically inevitable'. In Russia in 1917, it seemed that Marx's theory was being born out in reality. But was the Russian Revolution really inevitable? This collection of fourteen contributions from the world's leading Russian scholars attempts to answer the question by looking back at the key turning points of the...

‘It seems to me that I can guess what the ancient chimes, our good old aunt, want to tell us with this discord. Being a Viennese symbol, they feel an inner need to become a Viennese symptom. And they show us not the time of the hour that has come, but time in general, time as such. They represent the epitome of discord, demonstrating the notice and its fallacy, the decree and its...

Funny short stories for small children.

s, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in...

Beautifully illustrated collection of short stories for children.

In Soviet Russia in 1927, a former member of nobility, Ippolit Vorobyaninov, works as a desk clerk, until his mother-in-law reveals on her deathbed that her family jewelry had been hidden from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve chairs from the family’s dining room set. Those chairs, along with all other personal property, had been expropriated by the government after the Russian Revolution. He...

Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save the lemur. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet: his younger self.