Author: Thomas R. Beyer Jr.
Publisher: Barrons Educational Services
ISBN: 9780764137679
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A great companion for international travelers to Russia, this handy, pocket-size bilingual At a Glance phrasebook is designed for tourists and business travelers who lack time to learn Russian but need common words and phrases to help them get around in an Russia. The phrasebook holds more than 1500 expressions that travelers need for making themselves understood in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other places they're likely to visit. The book also contains an additional 2,000-word bilingual dictionary, plus travel tips, driving tips, simplified maps of major cities, and more. Barron's publishes At a Glance phrasebooks in nine different languages.

Author: Thomas R. Beyer
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780764112515
Category : Russian language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This take-along companion for international business and vacation travelers contain more than 1,500 Russian expressions with translations that help travelers get around in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other travel sites. This newly revised edition features updated city maps, information on transportation, and more.

Author: Lewis Bagby
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271042257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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Author: Steven Cassedy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400864550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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To the Other Shore tells the story of a small but influential group of Jewish intellectuals who immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire between 1881 and the early 1920s--the era of "mass immigration." This pioneer group of Jewish intellectuals, many of whom were raised in Orthodox homes, abandoned their Jewish identity, absorbed the radical political theories circulating in nineteenth-century Russia, and brought those theories with them to America. When they became leaders in the labor movement in the United States and wrote for the Yiddish, Russian, and English-language radical press, they generally retained the secularized Russian cultural identity they had adopted in their homeland, together with their commitment to socialist theories. This group includes Abraham Cahan, longtime editor of The Jewish Daily Forward and one of the most influential Jews in America during the first half of this century; Morris Hillquit, a founding figure of the American socialist movement; Michael Zametkin and his wife, Adella Kean, both journalists and labor activists in the early decades of this century; and Chaim Zhitlovsky, one of the most important Yiddish writers in modern times. These immigrants were part of the generation of Jewish intellectuals that preceded the better-known New York Intellectuals of the late 1920s and 1930s--the group chronicled in Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers. In To the Other Shore, Steven Cassedy offers a broad, clear-eyed portrait of the early Jewish emigré intellectuals in America and the Russian cultural and political doctrines that inspired them. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author: Geoffrey Drage
Publisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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Author: Lauren G. Leighton
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111398404
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Author: Victor Erlich
Publisher: Slavica Pub
ISBN: 9780936586069
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Henry Russell
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426302596
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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With more than 115 years exploring the globe with its writers, photographers, and research expeditions, National Geographic is uniquely positioned to introduce young readers to everything they need to know about the countries of the world. This book reviews its vast national history, from the Tsars to the Soviet Union to today's Russian Federation. It explores its richly diverse topography - coniferous forests, semideserts, steppes, tundra - with an array of climates to match. It explores its population and fascinating culture, from the Bolshoi Ballet to Tolstoy and Pushkin. A special website directory offers report writers authenticated sources for flags, national anthems, time differences, current weather and climate, and currency conversion.

Author: Robert Herrick
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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"One Woman's Life" is the interesting story about a family's new life after moving into a new home, and the impact the move has on them. The Ridge family moved into 212 West Laurence Avenue, Chicago. Daughter Milly Ridge is however disappointed with the new place which she considers drab and uninviting. She sets off to make new friends and improve her social status...

Author: José Manuel Prieto
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802199380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as "a thrilling discovery ... a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog ... [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts." J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues alone to a small village on the Black Sea. Letters from V. begin to arrive, and as J. hunts the butterfly, he seeks a way to lure V. back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, wrote The Tennessean, is "an amazing jewel of a story ... that winks with wit [and] wears its astonishing craftsmanship lightly." "An aesthetically blissful reading experience ... Nabokov's spirit, alive and kind, has touched [Prieto] with its butterfly wings." -- Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice Literary Supplement "...Nocturnal Butterflies is an impressive performance by a writer whose gifts are clearly abundant." -- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "A beautiful, lavish, seedy, poetic, and magical book.... Pure pleasure for the literary mind." -- Chris Kridler, The Baltimore Sun