An ethnographic look, in a non-scholarly book, on the Itelmen people, the original inhabitants of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

The materials of the popular annual semiar that took place at the Russian Institute of Linguistics in 2003. Three chapters of this manual discuss the problems in computer lexicon, technology lexicon, various types of dictionaries, and others.

English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Russian

Over 20 000 entries! Over 200 000 translations. In 11 languages!

This monograph examines the development of relations between Persians and Arabs, as well as the genesis and current state of Iranian-Iraqi relations. The author traces the origins of Islamic civilization, the nature of Arab conquests, the historical destinies of Muslim peoples in the Middle Ages, and the course of modern and contemporary history in Iran and Iraq. The author analyzes the origins...

Series: Rossiia zabytaia i neizvesntnaia. Beloe dvizhenie

The book contains excerpts from several classic works on the Caucasus: articles on the war from the Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' Brokgauz i efron; chapters from V A Potto's 5 volume work on the Caucasus War and finally, Tbilisi in the 1830's, from the memoirs of F F Tornau.

In the series Militaria antiqua. The book examines the military-political history of the Bosporan Kingdom through the first three centuries AD. During this time, the former Roman province prospered as a client state of Rome. Its king led campaigns against and defeated the Scyths and consolidated power around the Black Sea, including such modern day cities such as Kerch.