About ~50% of all written text in Russian consists of the same 100 frequent, short, basic words.This book contains the 200 most frequently used words, with over 2000 example sentences.An ideal starting point for beginners, or intermediate students looking for sentences to practice.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our March 2025 issue (#222) contains:Fiction"From Enceladus, with Love" by Ryan Cole"Pollen" by Anna Burdenko"Mindtrips" by Tlotlo Tsamaase"Those Uncaring Waves" by Yukimi Ogawa"Hook and Line" by Koji A. Dae"The Sound of the Star" by Ren Zeyu"Funerary Habits of Low Entro...

Who controls the horde?The barriers around the city have fallen and hundreds of thousands of eaters are loose. Slaughtering. Feeding. Their numbers growing as those who escape immediate death are infected.A desperate plea for help takes Alex and Micah out into the eater-ravaged countryside, where hordes are everywhere and those not in hiding are dead.Hounded by eaters and waylaid by the angry, the desperate, and the terrified, their difficult journe...

This book explains all of the stages involved in developing medical devices; from concept to medical approval including system engineering, bioinstrumentation design, signal processing, electronics, software and ICT with Cloud and e-Health development.Medical Instrument Design and Development offers a comprehensive theoretical background with extensive use of diagrams, graphics and tables (around 400 throughout the book). The book explains how the theory is translated into industri...

Fashion generates over a trillion dollars in sales annually and has the priceless ability to beguile its customers around the world. Fashion Entrepreneurship: The Creation of the Global Fashion Business provides the first authoritative history of the global fashion industry, from its emergence to the present day, with a focus on the entrepreneurs at the nucleus of many of the world’s influential brands. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built and developed their...

This treasured classic by one of America's best-loved writers concludes the adventures and misadventures of the March family first introduced in Little Women and continued in Little Men. Jo's Boys is entertaining, surprising, and an overall joy to listen to.Set ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that "wilderness of boys" that once resided at Plumfield, the New England boarding school still presided over by Jo a...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our June 2026 issue (#237) contains:Fiction* "Up the Line to Death" by Carrie Vaughn* "The Potential Side Effects of Roleplay Stimulation Therapy" by Claire Jia-Wen* "The Floating Republic" by Rebecca Campbell* "Three Cases from the Cosmic Psychiatric Clinic" by Pan Haitian* "A Li...

Stories from the lives of St. Francis Xavier, St. Patrick, St. John Bosco, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Rose of Lima, Bl. Margaret of Castello, etc. Includes the raising of persons who had died, descriptions of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory by temporarily dead persons and an analysis of contemporary "after death" experiences. Many pictures of the saints and their miracles. Fascinating. Formerly published by TAN under the title "Raised from the Dea...

A deeply emotional graphic memoir of a young woman’s struggles with self-esteem and body image issues.All Marie-Noëlle wants is to be thin and beautiful. She wishes that her thighs were slimmer, that her stomach lay flatter. Maybe then her parents wouldn’t make fun of her eating habits at family dinners, the girls at school wouldn’t call her ugly, and the boy she likes would ask her out. This all-too-relatable memoir follows Marie-Noëlle from childhood to her twent...

Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for one another. As Sam uses the children’s adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of the relations between parents and children, husbands and wives, The Man Who Loved Children is acknowledged as a contemporary classic.

Every now and then as the Lord permits, he brings into existence men and women who embody joy not only beneath the surface, but as the essence of their being and their defining trait. When we think of these men and women, we cannot distinguish that joy as separate from who they are. Joy, nourished by the wellspring of Christian love, is their embodiment, their modus operandi, the indelible sign that the spirit of the Lord is upon them.Philip Neri was one of these men.Love...

Fascinating account of the apparently minor chance encounter between German and British cavalry, supported by artillery, in the opening stages of the First World War as the German army wheeled through Belgium and Northern France. The engagement was a tenacious struggle and L Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery won three VCs and the honour title "Nery" during this clash.Illustrated with 4 sketches and 4 photographs.