'Wild Animal Tales' is a collection of fairy tales, where you can recognize each animal as a friend, neighbor, and sometimes yourself. In fantastic situations that develop around the characters of fairy tales, there is much more real, real life than it might seem at first glance. Wit, brilliant imagination, the ability to create stunning linguistic games - all these talents of Lyudmila...

A reprint of one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Published under the editorship of the expert of the Nabokov Foundation Andrei Babikov, correcting errors noticed and preserving some of the features of Nabokov's spelling, transliteration and punctuation. Now it is a classic of world literature, a novel that no connoisseur of fine and clever prose. The book entered the lists of the...

Douglas Adams’s mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Elementary level. This book will help with the following: to learn how to read and write in Russian; to acquire the most important elements of basic grammar; to expand vocabulary to 900 words including 350 international words. This book will allow: to orientate oneself in the city, including reading a map; to communicate with people in the most typical situations at work, in the street, at a...

A textbook of the Russian language for foreigners in three parts for adult students (all forms of education, including the system of pre-university training). The second part prepares for the basic level test (A2). Recommended by the Expert Commission of the State System for Testing Foreign Citizens in the Russian Language. Colored illustrations, tables. Audio materials are available by QR code...

The journal for the Union of Russian Writers. Each monthly issues includes new fiction, poetry and diffferent topics.

The manual is built on the basis of texts of the epistolary genre: letters and short messages. The authors have selected discussion topics for discussion in the group, directly related to the content of the letters and addressing the personal experience of students. The system of tasks proposed by the authors is aimed at updating and expanding the vocabulary, improving communication skills,...

This book is the fifth edition of the textbook 'Types of the Russian verb: meaning and use.' In it, for the first time, an attempt is made to rationally take into account the experience of practical teaching of verb types to foreigners, accumulated by methodological science over the past four decades. For the first time, the theory of teaching the types of the Russian verb to foreigners is...

On September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. The next day, hundreds of white men from the Delta, along with US Army troops, converged on the area 'with blood in their eyes.' What happened next was one of the deadliest incidents of racial violence in the...

This is the extraordinary story of Spain, from early tribalism and Roman rule to the Moorish conquest, Spain's eighteenth-century revival under the Bourbons, the Peninsular War and revolution in Spanish America right up to the catastrophic civil war and Franco's totalitarian regime. A key theme from Columbus's first voyage in 1492 was Spain's trans-oceanic empire which was central to the...