Russian At a Glance [Paperback]

Thomas R. Beyer Jr. (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764112511 | ISBN-13: 978-0764112515 | Publication Date: January 1, 2001 | Edition: 2

This language phrasebook presents more than 1,500 Russian expressions with translations to help English-speaking travelers get around in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other travel sites. The newly revised edition has been improved with more attractive and useful city maps, availability of ATMs, faxes, and other modern facilities in far-away cities and towns, and much more.

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Language Notes

Text: English, Russian

About the Author

Thomas R. Beyer, Ph.D., is Professor of Russian and Chairman of the Russian Dept. at Middlebury College, VT. He has published extensively in literary and scholarly journals on the Russian language and on Russian literature. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; 2 edition (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764112511
• ISBN-13: 978-0764112515
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,834,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thomas R. Beyer Jr was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York where he attended Xaverian HS. he is a graduate of Georgetown University (1969) and the University of Kansas (1974). For the past 35 years he has been a Professor of Russian at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of over a dozen books to learn Russian, several translations of the Russian writer Andrei Bely. Considered an expert on Russian writers in emigration in Germany and the United States, Professor Beyer has lectured extensively in Russia, Germany and the United States. For the past few years he has offered seminars on the works of Dan Brown designed to permit students and readers separate fact from fiction.