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Alpha Books, publisher of the Complete Idiot's Guides, is a member of Penguin Group. It began as a division of Macmillan. Pearson Education acquired Macmillan General Reference (MGR) from Simon & Schuster in 1998 and retained the line while the rest of MGR was sold to IDG Books. [1] Alpha moved from Pearson Education to Penguin Group in 2003 ...
Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968-1973).
Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Random House, is an American publisher best known for its Complete Idiot's Guides series. It began as a division of Macmillan. Pearson Education acquired Macmillan General Reference (MGR) from Simon & Schuster in 1998 and retained Complete Idiot's Guides while the rest of MGR was sold to IDG Books. [1]
Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature.She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English.
Initially an old variant of the Bulgarian alphabet, [2] it was used in Kievan Rus' from the 10th century onward to write what would become the modern Russian language. The modern Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters: twenty consonants ( б , в , г , д , ж , з , к , л , м , н , п , р , с , т , ф , х , ц , ч , ш , щ ), ten ...
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica wrote: [4]. Literary Russian as spoken by educated people throughout the empire is the Moscow dialect... The Moscow dialect really covers a very small area, not even the whole of the government of Moscow, but political causes have made it the language of the governing classes and hence of literature.
For Dummies is an extensive series of instructional reference books which are intended to present non-intimidating guides for readers new to the various topics covered. The series has been a worldwide success with editions in numerous languages.
B Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration Isaak Babel (1894–1940) Red Cavalry The Odessa Tales Red Cavalry poster, 1919 Red Cavalry poster, 1920 Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009) The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004) A Week Like Any Other Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950) The Malachite Box Commemorative coin featuring Bazhov Bazhov ...