For developmental writing courses at the paragraph to essay level. This comprehensive text/workbook focuses on the paragraph and introduces the essay by taking students step-by-step through the writing process-generating ideas, planning and focusing, drafting and revising, and polishing and proofreading. User-friendly for both students and instructors, it is filled with diverse exercises-many collaborative-that actively involve students in learning to write. Content includes self-contained chapters on patterns of paragraph development, a section on writing essays, a chapter on reading critically and writing from reading. The text also features timely reading selections and a separate, self-contained grammar section.

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Relying on newly available sources, a professor of Russian history at the University of London recounts the history of the Russia of Peter the Great and reconsiders the tsar's legacy as a modernizer and reformer in an illustrated, thematic account. UP. (view table of contents)

Native Russians speak out to discuss the history of their troubled homeland from its beginnings to the momentous upheaval of the Revolution in 1917, covering such topics as the Slavic people, serfdom, the nomadic Cossacks, and the Orthodox Church. (view table of contents)

Product Description: "New Perspectives on Muscovite History" offers new research and fresh thoughts on early Russian history from the 15th to the 17th century by 11 specialists from the USA, USSR, UK and Germany. Their subjects include the controversial issues of early Russian map-making, the expansion of Muscovy and its incorporation of Novgorod and Pskov, the time of troubles, developments in landholding and military service, and foreigners' accounts of Muscovy...read more