Moving to another country is a major life event. People can learn a new language and pack their suitcases, but it is just one of many steps in a big and complicated journey. Another important dimension is a psychological preparation, which could help immigrants not to break under stress and pressure. In this book, readers can find dozens of real immigrant stories, descriptions of methods of...

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued...

The author offers his views and analysis of the revolutionary movements in the modern world (Syria, Iraq, Libya, Africa, Europe, etc.).

Full title: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting”.

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation. Recommendations for translators/interpreters.

The Green Armies were armed peasant groups which fought against all governments in the Russian Civil War of 1917–22. They fought to protect their communities from requisitions or reprisals carried out by third parties.

Monograph about peasant riots against Soviet state in Volga region in 1917-1922.

The work also reveals the socio-cultural aspect of the history of the medieval Russian North in XIII-XVII centuries: individual and collective practices of charity, feasts and brochings, as well as oral and written, urban and rural principles in the daily functioning of book culture and literacy.