Ruslan Russian 3 is a continuation of the Ruslan course to advanced level. The action takes place in Irkutsk and around Lake Baikal. Lyudmila and Ruslan go to visit Uncle Kolya, a pensioner in Irkutsk. Lyudmila meets up with her former husband Igor Abramovich, who is director of a factory in Baikalsk, Vadim is shooting a documentary film about pollution in the lake, and Ivan is helping Peter to test a new English cream for mosquitos.

This is a 10 lesson course incorporating the necessary con...

From an acclaimed Harvard professor and one of Time’s most influential people, this paradigm-shifting book shows how almost everything we think we know about aging is wrong, offers a front-row seat to the amazing global effort to slow, stop, and reverse aging, and calls readers to consider a future where aging can be treated.

For decades, experts have believed that we are at the mercy of our genes, and that natural damage to our genes—the kind that inevitably happens as we...

Harrogate began as a tiny hamlet in the Royal Forest of Knaresborough and owes its rise to prominence almost entirely to the exploitation of its mineral springs. Doctors recommended their patients to drink the sulphur-laden water and the first English 'watering place' distinguished by the name 'spa' became a fashionable retreat for the nobility and gentry. In the Season, in addition to the many private carriages of the well-to-do, no less than 19 coaches ran daily from all parts of the land. ...

The method that's helped thousands across the world learn Japanese successfully!

New Contemporary Chinese, a complete textbook series, is tailored for adult learners of the Chinese language. The series includes four volumes, with each volume consisting of a Textbook, an Exercise Book and the corresponding Teacher's Book, Supplementary Reading Materials, Testing Materials, Character Writing Workbook, and multimedia teaching resources. Volume 1 and Volume 2 each contains a Character Book. New Contemporary Chinese aims to develop the learners' comprehensive abilities of list...

The Hague, multi-ethnic and multilingual city par excellence, is a veritable linguistic goldmine. For all that, nobody knows how many languages are spoken there. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade decided to find out by seeking out its speakers and interviewing them about their native languages. Doing so not only taught her a great deal about all the languages she encountered – ranging from Russian to Finnish and Frisian, and a wide variety of languages in between – but also made her discover ...

When Jessa and Bird join forces to break up their best friends’ toxic relationship, they start to fall for each other in this swoony ’90s romance from bestselling author Amber Smith and Sam Gellar, perfect for fans of She Gets the Girl.

Bird and Jessa don’t have much in common. Bird is an aspiring poet, still finding herself after a transformative summer away at writing camp. Jessa lives for the discovery of new music, using it to block out the dysfunction waiting for...

A wonderful collection of all 210 tales and popular legends collected by the Grimm brothers over a century ago.

Becoming a Reader argues that, whatever our individual differences of personality and background, there is a regular sequence of attitudes we go through as we mature, which affect how we experience fiction, from the five-year-old child absorbed in the world of fantasy play, through the seventeen year old critical seeker of the truth, to the middle-aged reader recognizing their own experiences in fictional characters. Becoming a Reader argues that this sequence of responses can be worked out a...

Contextos: Curso Intermediário de Português is an engaging and motivating course that takes learners from the intermediate to advanced level. The course takes learners from the intermediate-low to advanced-low according to the ACTFL proficiency guidelines and from A2 to B2 according to the CEFR.