Targeted at students with foundational Russian language skills, this book serves as both a reference grammar and a collection of related exercises. It aims to enhance understanding and proficiency through clear explanations and practical applications, making it a valuable resource for learners looking to deepen their grasp of the language.
Focusing on grammar and exercises, this volume serves as an essential resource for intermediate learners of Russian. It includes a comprehensive reference grammar, an answer key, and an index, making it a practical tool for study. Together with Basic Russian, it offers a complete overview of the fundamental aspects of Russian grammar.
Exploring the tumultuous journey of a bipolar patient, the narrative captures the extreme contrasts of mania and depression through Sarah Smyth's experiences. As she grapples with her condition, the challenges of diagnosis and the emotional turmoil unfold, revealing her struggle with denial and the urgent need for psychiatric help. This poignant exploration provides insight into the complexities of mental illness and the impact it has on one's life and creativity.
Everything we thought we knew about men's sexual desire is completely wrong. Groundbreaking new research reveals it is far from the high, simple sex drive they're stereotypically known for. Sarah Murray shatters our most damaging, long-held myths about men's sexuality and helps couples connect more intimately and authentically than ever before.
This book examines the phenomenon of Community Justice Centres, and their potential to transform the justice landscape by tackling the underlying causes of crime.
In this volume, researchers in the fields of language in society, sociolinguistics, language politics, diaspora and identity studies explore the contacts between languages and cultures in the post-Soviet world. The book presents a range of perspectives on the effects of migration and of re-drawing of borders among groups and individuals for whom the Russian language has had an instrumental or symbolic prominence. How do recent geopolitical shifts impact on the policies and practices of newly independent states? How have communities and individuals come to redefine their own identities and core values? How does a cultural context in which the power relations between cultural and linguistic groups have been reversed or recalibrated affect the attitudes of each group? How does the potential for transnational identities impact on the interplay between diasporic and homeland communities? How does migration influence linguistic and parenting practices? This collection of fers answers to these and many other questions through case studies from eleven regions in Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.