Folklore

In December 2009, the St. Petersburg Mint of Goznak celebrates its 285th anniversary. The release of a book is dedicated to this event, which tells in a popu...

The collection includes articles by Russian and Bulgarian scientists on kinship relations - one of the key semantic categories of language and traditional cu...

Five Point Someone: What not to do at IIT!is a 2004 novel written by Chetan Bhagat, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Indian Institu...

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space S...

The poems, rhymes, teasers, jokes, jokes, tongue twisters, proverbs and ditties presented in this book are well known to many residents of Russia. Although t...

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors...

A science fiction superfan finds himself on his very own space adventure when he’s randomly selected to join an alien confederacy in this hilarious middle...

In the next volume of the collected works of A.A. Potebnya (1835-1891) included his classic studies on Slavic folklore, beliefs and rituals, in particular, t...

The reader is invited to read the translation of the tenth book of the Shatapatha Brahmins, the most important monument of ancient Indian religious thought o...