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  • Languages in Contactby Uriel Weinreich; Ronald I. Kim; William Labov

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 149.00

    The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact. Yet until now, few linguists have been aware that its main themes were first laid out in Weinreich?s Columbia University doctoral dissertation of 1951, Research Problems in Bilingualism with... more...

  • Russian For Dummiesby Andrew Kaufman; Serafima Gettys

    Wiley 2012; US$ 24.99

    The fast and easy way to learn to speak Russian With Russia in line to host the World Cup in 2018, the Winter Olympics in 2014, as well as a Formula 1 Grand Prix, interest in Russia is on the rise. Russian For Dummies is an excellent resource for students, tourists, and businesspeople looking for an introduction to this popular and complex language.... more...

  • "das Wort will Fleisch werden"by Simon Wortmann

    J.B. Metzler'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH 2011; US$ 76.04

    Hauptbeschreibung Ästhetik des Performativen bei Heine und Nietzsche. Die Studie untersucht die narrativen Strategien, mit denen beide im Medium der jeweils eigenen Schreibart Körperlichkeit präsentieren und vergleicht diese miteinander. So werden die Spuren entschlüsselt, die das "Wort, das Fleisch werden will" (Heine), in ihren Texten hinterlässt.... more...

  • Gogol Three Playsby Nikolai Gogol; Stephen Mulrine

    A&C Black 1999; US$ 12.99

    This collection contains Gogol’s three completed plays. The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that... more...

  • From Sarajevo With Sorrowby Goran Simic; Amela Simic

    Biblioasis 2005; US$ 13.95

    From Sarajevo, with Sorrow restores all that is offensive, despairing and necessary to our understanding of war by capturing the poems? original power and humanity. This collection contains both previously unpublished poems, written ?under the candlelight? of the siege, and new poems returning to the sniper?s alleys and bunkers of Sarajevo. This... more...

  • Bride of Iceby Marina Tsvetaeva; Elaine Feinstein

    Carcanet 2011; US$ 21.80

    When Elaine Feinstein first read the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva in Russian in the 1960s, the encounter transformed her. 'What drew me to her initially,' she writes, 'was the intensity of her emotions, and the honesty with which she exposed them.' Her translations, first published to great acclaim in 1971, introduced Tsvetaeva to English readers. It... more...

  • Translator Self-Training--Russianby Morry Sofer

    Taylor Trade Publishing 2011; US$ 9.99

    Designed to improve translation skills in Russian. more...

  • Slavic Prosodyby Christina Y. Bethin

    Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 65.00

    Slavic Prosody is about the Slavic languages and how they have changed over time. more...

  • Three Sistersby Anton Chekhov; Paul Schmidt

    Theatre Communications Group 1993; US$ 13.95

    This refreshingly clear and colloquial adaptation was the basis for the Wooster Group's acclaimed production Brace Up! more...

  • The Dancer from Khivaby Bibish

    Atlantic Books Ltd 2009; US$ 13.11

    In a narrative that flows like a late-night confession, Bibish recounts her story... Born into an impoverished family in a deeply religious village, Bibish was named 'Hadjarbibi' in honour of her grandfather's hadj, his pilgrimage to Mecca. But her holy name could not protect her when, at the age of eight, she was brutally abused, and left for dead... more...