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Russian-English Dictionary
of Idioms
Sophia Lubensky
This is the most innovative,
comprehensive and scholarly bilingual
dictionary of Russian idioms available
today. It includes close to 14,000
idioms, set expressions and sayings
found in contemporary colloquial
Russian, and in the literature from the
19th century to the present. The
Russian idioms are provided with many
English equivalents. Illustrative examples
are cited to show how the idioms are
used in context. Each entry also contains
a grammatical description of the idiom,
a definition – an innovative feature for a
bilingual dictionary – and stylistic and
usage information.
Sophia Lubensky is Professor of Russian,
Emerita, at the Department of Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures, SUNY.
November 1376 pp. 229x152mm.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-16227-1 £50.00
Russian Full Circle
A First-Year Russian Textbook
Donna Oliver with Edie Furniss
Russian Full Circle is a fresh approach to
the Russian textbook. Deliberately
‘bare-bones’ in its design, this textbook
allows instructors to deliver in one
academic year a full first-year Russian
language curriculum. It consists of ten
lessons that cover all major grammar
topics and provide an ample amount of
essential vocabulary on a variety of
themes. A rich ancillary website will
provide cultural content and
supplemental audiovisual materials.
Donna Oliver is professor of Russian at
Beloit College. Edie Furniss is a
doctoral student in applied linguistics at
Pennsylvania State University.
October 384 pp. 254x203mm.
105 colour + 46 b/w illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-18283-5 £55.00
Yale French Studies,
Volume 124
Walter Benjamin’s Hypothetical
French Trauerspiel
Edited by Hall Bjørnstad
and Katherine Ibbett
In the summer of 1927, Walter
Benjamin wrote about a possible future
project on what he called French
Trauerspiel, or mourning drama. In this
volume of Yale French Studies, an
international team of leading scholars of
early modern Europe takes its cue from
that lapsed project to reread the 17thcentury
French tragic canon as
Trauerspiel.
Hall Bjørnstad is assistant professor of
French at Indiana University. Katherine
Ibbett is reader in early modern studies
at University College, London.
Yale French Studies Series
February 192 pp. 234x156mm.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19420-3 £20.00
Translation rights: Yale French Studies
Back in Print:
Sun Chief
The Autobiography of a Hopi
Indian, Second Edition
Don C. Talayesva
Edited by Leo W. Simmons
Forewords by Matthew Sakiestewa
Gilbert and Robert V. Hine
First published in 1942, Sun Chief is the
autobiography of Hopi Chief Don
Talayesva and offers a unique insider
view on Hopi society. In a new
Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
situates the book within contemporary
Hopi studies, exploring how scholars
have used the book since its publication
more than seventy years ago.
Don C. Talayesva (1890–1985) spent
the first nine years of his life raised in the
village of Old Oraibi, followed by nearly
ten years of training at government
schools before returning home. Leo W.
Simmons was a Yale anthropologist who
recorded Talayesva’s autobiography.
Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert is assistant
professor of American Indian studies and
history at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and enrolled with
the Hopi tribe.
September 448 pp. 210x140mm.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-19103-5 £14.99*
The Courage to Be
Third Edition
Paul Tillich • With a new
introduction by Harvey Cox
First published more than fifty years ago,
The Courage to Be has become a classic of
20th-century religious and philosophical
thought. Christian existentialist thinker
Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of
modern man and points a way to the
conquest of the problem of anxiety.
This edition includes a new foreword that
situates the book within the theological
conversation from which it first
emerged and conveys its continued
relevance in the current century.
‘The brilliance, the wealth of
illustration, and the aptness of
personal application ... make the
reading of these chapters an exciting
experience.’ – W. Norman Pittenger,
New York Times Book Review
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) was a worldrenowned
philosopher and theologian.
Harvey Cox is Hollis Research Professor
of Divinity at Harvard University.
The Terry Lectures Series
February 256 pp. 210x140mm.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-18879-0 £10.99*
Rights sold: Arabic and Italian
A Common Faith
Second Edition
John Dewey • With an introduction
by Thomas Alexander
In A Common Faith, eminent American
philosopher John Dewey calls for the
‘emancipation of the true religious
quality’ from the heritage of dogmatism
and supernaturalism that he believes
characterises historical religions. He
describes how the depth of religious
experience and the creative role of faith
in the resources of experience to generate
meaning and value can be cultivated
without making cognitive claims that
compete with or contend with scientific
ones. What Dewey advocates is ‘faith in
the common’ as the ground of meaning.
In a new introduction, Thomas
Alexander contextualises the text for
students and scholars.
John Dewey (1859–1952) was an
American philosopher, psychologist and
educational reformer. Thomas
Alexander is professor of philosophy at
Southern Indiana University.
The Terry Lectures Series
September 128 pp. 210x140mm.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-18611-6 £9.99
Rights sold: French and Japanese