Survival Russian, Expanded Second Edition
Each column is well and wittily written in English... Each contains upwards of 25 Russian phrases discussed and grounded in their cultural and linguistic contexts... I read Survival Russian from cover to cover; willingly putting it down only for vitally and/or professionally necessary distractions... Every column I read provided me with valuable and/or amusing new phrases or insights. --Lydia Razran Stone, SlavFile (Slavic Division of American Translators Association)...a manual of sorts for daily life in Russia... a 'pocket encyclopedia'... I read this fine book with great interest... --Elena Denisova-Schmidt, Slavic and East European Journal