The purpose of this self-study guide, which includes sixteen lessons, is to help the reader quickly and effectively master the Georgian language without resorting to the help of a tutor. The book covers the entire volume of grammatical and lexical material necessary for studying the language at the initial levels A1 and A2. The authors tried to present the grammatical material in the most...

The purpose of this self-study guide, which includes 16 lessons, is to help the reader quickly and effectively master the English language. The book presents the most important information about correct pronunciation, basic grammar topics, rules for constructing an English sentence, and also provides texts for reading. The material is presented in the most understandable and accessible way and...

Revolutions do not happen unexpectedly, empires do not perish out of the blue. The main lesson we can learn from the 1917 revolution is an understanding of why the emperor and his entourage, in a situation that required radical internal reforms, not only did not dare to carry out these reforms, but, on the contrary, tried with all their might to reverse the country's development,...

Hapless cosmonaut Ijon Tichy has been sent back to earth to attend the Eighth Futurological Congress in smog-bound, overpopulated Costa Rica, holed up with an assortment of scientists in a luxury hotel (fully equipped with tear gas sprinklers in case things get out of hand). But when an unfortunate incident occurs involving a revolution and hallucinogenic drugs in the water supply, Tichy finds...

One of the world's most beloved science fiction writers, Stanislaw Lem was famed for his wryly comic, outlandish imaginings of the relationship between humans and technology. In this playful cosmic fantasia, two 'constructors' compete to dream up ever-more ingenious inventions in a universe beyond reality.

Written as the memoir of a mathematician who participates in the government project (code name: His Master’s Voice) attempting to decode what seems to be a message from outer space, this classic novel shows scientists grappling with fundamental questions about the nature of reality, the confines of knowledge, the limitations of the human mind, and the ethics of military-sponsored scientific...

A collection of exercises on English grammar

With the cold calculation of a surgeon, the inquisitiveness of a discoverer and the imagination of an artist, Vladimir Sorokin dissects reality, bringing to light the main contradictions and philosophical dilemmas of modern society. How do new myths appear and old ones change, what influence does classical literature and, more broadly, culture have on our lives, where are the boundaries between...

Comrades, who is the last? A cult novel by one of the brightest and most scandalous contemporary writers. People of different social classes, different political views, different beliefs and preferences will meet in a multi-kilometer queue. Vladimir Sorokin's novel 'The Queue' has something that is characteristic of all the great works of world literature: over time, it not only did not lose...

The collection ‘Monoclone’ includes twelve stories, complex and multifaceted, like life itself: in them truth is intertwined with fiction, pornographic with lyrical, realistic with absurdist, sincere with shocking. Sorokin's stories, like his great prose, are truly polyphonic: his characters are living people, endowed with their own voice and subconscious, into the study of the depths of which...