Mass literature of XX century (from Verbitskaia and Artsybashev to Akunin and Marinina). Development and reflection of social problems.

A Guide to critical and creative thought. The Art of Thinking introduces students to the principles and techniques of critical thinking, taking them step-by-step through the problem-solving process. Emphasizing creative and active thought processes, the author asserts that good thinking and problem-solving is based on learnable strategies. The book's four parts, Be Aware, Be Creative, Be...

A collection of essays devoted to narrating and comprehension of historic processes.

The author is a well-known literary critic and his book represents a cycle of the sketches showing the dramatic nature of creative destiny of the largest Russian writers, whose peak creativity was during the Soviet era. The author includes examples of their best writings. He includes discussions of Mayakovsky, Babel, Mandelshtam, Akhmatova, Sholokov, Pasternak and others. The book is written...

The dictionary includes words and idioms received the new meanings, the new stylistic accent connected with the Soviet reality or became frequent used in language within 1985-1992. Could be also read as a nostalgic piece of nonfiction.

THE LANGUAGE OF THE RUSSIAN EMIGRANT PRESS (1919-1939). The book reflects results of the research based on a material of the richest foreign archives. It is addressed to experts in the field of language of press, language and culture of Russian abroad and to everyone who is interested in history of the first wave of Russian emigration.

The first volume in the collected works of Mikhail Gorbachev, architect of perestroika.

Great contemporary models of knitted dresses, with schemes and detailed description - for everyday, for special occasions and for a cold weather.

Special edition for the preparation for the college entrance exam. Contains the full course of Russian History.

How to avoid success? How be unsuccessful forever? The book answers these and some other questions with wisdom and irony. Great self-help guidebook from famous M. Norbekov.