That is life'. How many times each of us heard, and he repeated these words, lamenting the injustice of fate, the impossibility of changing anything in it. The heroes of the stories collected in this book are well aware of what losses, disappointments, an

In the series 'Exclusive reading in English' you will find the best classics in English, you can get acquainted with the most popular works of world literature in the original language. Despite everything, Katniss and Pete manage to survive in the ruthless Hunger Games. However, the daring trick with poisonous berries, which allowed both of them to return home, does not pass without a trace....

In the series 'Exclusive reading in English' you will find the best classics in English, you can get acquainted with popular works of world literature in the original language. In punishment for rebelling against their capital, the Capitol, the twelve Districts of the Panem State must each year provide one boy and one girl to participate in the Hunger Games: a deadly battle until the last...

Psy-sciences (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, criminology, special education, etc.) have been connected to politics in different ways since the early twentieth century. Here, in twenty-two essays, scholars address a variety of these intersections from a historical perspective. The chapters include such diverse topics as the cultural history of psychoanalysis, the complicated...

The thirteen papers in this collection address three aspects of higher education, primarily in Europe but also in the United States. These aspects are competition, collaboration, and complementarity, both on the level of policy and on the practical level of impact on students and staff. Competition, especially for funding, occurs between and within institutions. Collaboration, more than a basic...

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's a Fractional Persian-half, his mom's side-and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home, and he's sure things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his...

The collection 'Normal History' includes articles and essays by Vladimir Sorokin, written and published in the 2010s. In non-fiction prose, the author does not change his favorite topics: food and drink as manifestations of a national character, Moscow an

Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?

The books include 60 supplementary tasks for the lessons of Russian. Each can be completed within 5 minutes. Level: A2-B1

Lyudmila Ulitskaya's novel Daniel Stein, Translator is a literary sensation of recent years. Huge print runs (and this is about writing a complex, far from fiction), controversy, finally, the Big Book award. Daniel Stein (the hero has a specific prototype), with a risk to his life (he is a Jew himself) saves during World War II about three hundred prisoners of the ghetto. At the end of the war,...