Set against the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, tracing their rise and fall over three generations. Theirs is a sweeping history of heroism and duty, desire and compromise, tragedy and heartbreak, a story that lasts until the darkening eve of World War One, when all is set to fall apart. Rich, epic and...

The young companion of a capricious elderly American woman becomes the wife of the imposing English aristocrat Maximilian de Winter, tormented by secret sadness, and arrives with him at his Manderley family estate. In a huge gloomy mansion, the people, the walls, and, it seems, the air itself remind the new owner of her deceased predecessor, the beautiful and sophisticated Rebecca de Winter....

'It's hard to be a god.' Perhaps the most famous of the works of the Strugatsky brothers. One of the most famous stories of Russian fiction. A fascinating, full of drama story of the life, love and adventures of 'Don Rumata' from the kingdom of Arkanar on a distant planet - a knight with two swords, under whose name hides a resident from the planet Earth of the XXII century Anton.

Igor Rabiner has been writing about the NHL since the 1990s and is familiar with all of our heroes. On the eve of the Olympics, Bomboraora releases his book in two volumes about the fantastic fates of Russian stars that still dominate the NHL. The heroes of the first book were Alexander Ovechkin from the Washington Capitals, Evgeni Malkin from the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nikita Kucherov from '...

The beginner's Russian language course is comprised of two parts (1.1 & 1.2). It is designed for an average of 80-120 hours of classroom instruction. Each part includes a textbook, a workbook (with keys to the exercises), and an audio component. QR-codes with links to the appropriate audio recordings are placed in the text of the books.

The beginner's Russian language course is comprised of two parts (1.1 & 1.2). It is designed for an average of 80-120 hours of classroom instruction. Each part includes a textbook, a workbook (with keys to the exercises), and an audio component. QR-codes with links to the appropriate audio recordings are placed in the text of the books.

The twenty-four stories in Amanat, translated into English from Kazakh and Russian, comprise a groundbreaking survey of women's writing in the Central Asian country over its thirty years of independence, paying homage to the rich but largely unrecorded oral storytelling tradition of the region. Contemplating nostalgia, politics, and intergenerational history in a time altered by modernity,...

In the manual, the most important issues of speech culture related to the normative nature of speech, its melodiousness, and expressiveness are explained in an entertaining way. Numerous live examples will help you learn the lexical, grammatical, stylistic and orthographic norms of the Russian language without difficulty, that is, learn to write in Russian not only correctly, but also...

The book contains a systematized presentation of the rules of Russian spelling and punctuation with detailed explanations and analysis of difficult cases. For each topic, exercises are offered for practicing and consolidating the skills of competent writing, structured according to the method from simple to complex. The orthographic dictionary concludes the manual. The manual is addressed to...

Kumon Basic Skills Workbooks ensure that children master pencil-control skills with ease so that they love learning independently. Everything in our Basic Skills Workbooks—from the sturdy paper to the engaging content—is designed with the best interests of your child in mind

In the difficult post-war years, a new Seryozha family is born - the boy has a father.

With two cases in tow, the Hardy boys look to Turner mill for clues. Determined to learn the secret of the old mill, Frank and Joe employ a clever ruse to gain entrance, only to find themselves trapped. How the young detectives extricate themselves from this dangerous situation and unravel mysteries will keep readers tense with suspense!