The book by the master of Russian Popcornular science literature Boris Anastasyevich Kordemsky is a collection of mathematical miniatures: various entertaining problems, mathematical games, puzzles, trick jokes. It has been published several times both in our country and abroad. For many years it has been and remains a reference book for many generations of teachers and students. Anyone who is...

They confess their love to us, wiping their saliva on our dress suit and leaving traces of dirty paws on a white shirt. And one of the most interesting ideas for expressing our feelings when we are not at home is to make a nest of pants, socks, tights and sweaty T-shirts. Nature endowed them with paws, teeth and a sense of smell, although sometimes they mainly consist of only one nose. They...

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.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 'family.' But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him...

This textbook is intended for the formation and development of translation knowledge and skills of students studying at the military department at MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia under the program to train reserve sergeants of the VGUS 914 (558).

The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and eventually comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness. A classic piece filled with comedy, its humour lies in its honest depiction of manners, education, marriage and money during the Regency era...

Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action—the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain...

Francis Scott Fitzgerald became the mouthpiece of ideas and the spokesman of the mental mood of youth of the 1920s. Through the lips of the hero of the novel published here - 'On This Side of Paradise' (1920) - he announced that a generation had come for whom 'all the gods died, all wars died out, all faith was undermined.' Fitzgerald was the first to inform the world about the beginning of the...

Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece of the German experience during World War I. I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. This is the testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the...

The fifth book in the Harry Potter series!