Illustrated Annotated Russian Reader. Reader includes funny short stories by Daniil Kharms. It is intended for basic-intermediate level (A2-B1) and focuses on the verbs of motion. The reader includes 13 short stories and two poems accompanied by numerous exercises on the use of verbs, prefixes, and word formation. Additionally, the reader includes marginal glosses, historical-cultural and...

The course presented in the book is aimed at developing oral language skills and is intended for those who have just recently begun to learn Russian. of the first lessons. The material of the allowance is compiled in accordance with the requirements for attaining an elementary level of language proficiency (A1) and is calculated approximately for the academic iCal chasov. Audio materials are...

Rita always knew she was related to mermaids. This summer, she finally got into the underwater world, ready to fulfill the ancient prediction. After all, she - Carrying the pearl.

A girl sails on a raft on the endless ocean. She wants to get to the horizon. Once in the middle of the ocean, she finds the index: Happy Island She goes to this island, but it turns out that there are many other islands in the ocean, and the inhabitants of each of them consider their island to be the best in the world, and life on it is the happiest. Will she find her own happy island?

The third book in the series. Polly and her puffin friend, Neil, have wonderful adventures by the sea.

This story is a fairy tale by the famous Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren is dedicated to a strange girl, but there is an absolutely incredible girl. For almost half a century, children and adults have been enthusiastically following the amazing adventures of Peppi Longstocking. This fearless inventor is akin to another bright character - Tom Sawyer.

You will have a fascinating walk with the Author through the Parisian catacombs and through cities that are rapidly changing their appearance. You will find out whether genius is inherited, how the best ideas are born and how masterpieces perish. You have many amazing discoveries ahead: a real writer and a real princess, a real smart woman and genuine heroes of her time, not invented stories...

Dynastic Memory, Healing and Salvation in Komnenian Constantinople. This book is about the Christ Pantokrator, an imposing monumental complex serving monastic, dynastic, medical and social purposes in Constantinople, founded by Emperor John II Komnenos and Empress Piroska-Eirene in 1118. Now called the Zeyrek Mosque, the second largest Byzantine religious edifice after Hagia Sophia still...

Market Society in the Visegrad States. Karl Polanyi’s “substantivist” critique of market society has found new popularity in the era of neoliberal globalization. The author reclaims this polymath for contemporary anthropology, especially economic anthropology, in the context of Central Europe, where Polanyi (1886–1964) grew up. The Polanyian approach illuminates both the communist era, in...

Miksa Fenyo (1877–1972) a Hungarian writer and intellectual served as member of parliament and briefly was a member of the Hungarian cabinet. He was targeted by the Hungarian fascists and Hitler and had to go into hiding in 1944 after Hungary was occupied by its German allies. This memoir is his diary of the ten months in which he was in hiding. Written by an erudite, well-informed man who,...

The Polish American Congress is an umbrella organization that represents approximately ten million Americans of Polish descent. It was founded in 1944 with the aim of representing the interests of the Polish nation in the view of the Soviet plans to subjugate Poland and at the same time of promoting the Polish American ethnic group in the United States. It is the largest and longest-lasting...