Birds are a vital element in Finnish culture and literature. In early folklore and poetry, birds were symbols for human emotions, the soul and the art of poetry. The advent of modernist poetics changed...
Applied art and design have shaped Finland's culture and economy since the late 19th century. In the process they have become an integral aspect of the identity and international image of this country.
In Russian. Science - Trade - Culture - Industry - History. A comprehensive presentation of one of Europe’s northernmost countries, this book analyses Finland’s role as a member of the European Union and...
Dear Brother, Gracious Maecenas: Latin letters of the Gyldenstolpe Brothers (1661-1680) presents Latin letters exchanged between six sons of Michael Wexionius Gyldenstolpe, the first Professor of History...
Every Saturday night at 8.45 Finns gather in great numbers in front of the television for a gambling ritual. Money games are present in Finns? day-to-day life, and gambling is an important part of the...
The babushka, a Russian term for “grandmother” but also informally applied to any elderly woman, has held a special cultural value in Russia throughout history. However, there has been little research...
Finnish law is part of Nordic law, a family of systems which has not always been easy to locate in the families conventionally recognized in comparative law. Perhaps more interesting than the issue of...
This book tells the story of a gourmet restaurant in Helsinki, a restaurant whose kitchen many diners have pronounced to be the best in the city. Among the regular guests there have been prominent figures...
The transition to visual mobile communication is evident in the screens of mobile phones, which have transformed from small black-and-white displays portraying numbers and letter into big, phone-sized,...
Edited by Moshe Gammer
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Humaniora 352
This sequence to iDaghestan and the World of Islam/i, offers the English reading audience...
Suomen mestari 4 continues the popular textbook series, which is intended for adults and young Finnish language students. The object of learning in the book is the use of everyday language and more formal...
The Amos Anderson Art Museum has a small collection of old art that was mostly owned privately by the donor, Amos Anderson (18781961), who was a Finnish newspaper and publishing magnate and a friend of...
This book is the first general survey in English of the history of the Finnish church. It is based on recent research, but written in a clear and accessible style. It presents a continuous narrative of...
The Sea and coast are important for Finns. For many of us, the sea stirs an aching feeling similar to that raised by the forest and sauna. Many of us have a personal bond with...
The Orthodox Church is a minority church in Finland, but has succeeded in establishing its ancient traditions of Eastern Christianity as a valued part of the country's culture. This magnificently illustrated...
Imperial Russia collapsed in 1917 and from its ruins rose the Soviet Union. Now, yet another empire is in the making. “Changing Russia?” concisely describes more than one thousand years of history that...
This textbook is for foreign-language students who know the
basic structures of Finnish and wish to learn features of the
spoken language. The book's dialogues have been written according
to the spoken...
Ed. by Ben Hellman, Tomi Huttunen, Gennady Obatnin The volume is dedicated to Professor Pekka Pesonen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. It includes 38 articles, written by Professor Pesonen's...
The Kato hei book and CD are for foreign-language students who know the
basic structures of Finnish and wish to learn features of the
spoken language. The dialogues have been written according
to the...
This is a very comprehensive textbook for natural language studying. This book is made by Marjukka Kenttälä, who is much practiced of teaching Finnish for foreigners.
Business Russian for Beginners (with English comments). Parts I-II and III
The main aim of the book is to facilitate intercultural communication. It includes three parts, a multimedia CD and is designed...
You can learn the basics English with this audio book effectively and comfortably anywhere. By listening and repeating you quickly learn to understand and speak Finnish in everyday situations.
Abundant...
More than half a million Swedes - one in twenty - is of Finnish descent. This book explores Finnishness, multilingualism and identities of young people with Finnish background in Sweden. What does it mean...
Unhurried holidays amidst nature and sitting in the shoreline sauna have become significant parts of the Finnish lifestyle and identity. There are more holiday homes per capita in Finland than anywhere...
This study examines changes in Russian administration in historical perspective. While providing an overall conception of local administrative culture, the book's main focus is that of the executive branch...
Tämä teos avaa ensimmäistä kertaa ikkunoita pankin keittiön ja kabinettien suurelta yleisöltä suljettuun maailmaan. Kirjassa esitellään Yhdyspankki-Merita-Nordean tarjoamia aterioita resepteineen 1970-luvun...
E as in Estonia. Estonian for beginners. A1+A2+B1
A new version of the popular textbook. All in one - textbook, workbook, grammar appendix, and glossaries (Estonian-English/Russian/German/Finnish). Twenty...
Textbook "Hello, Russia" for Russian as a foreign language, textbook for the basic level of TBU,
level A2 according to the European Language Portfolio system.
Textbook "Hello, Russia" on Russian as a foreign language, textbook for the basic level of TEU,
level A1 according to the European Language Portfolio system.
The book contains theory and practical exercises with the methodology of their completion. The connection of assignments with the project development is described in the book. The authors present a pattern...
It is difficult to define exactly when the Viking Age occurred in Åland, the period is generally considered to comprise the ninth and tenth centuries AD and to have ended sometime during the eleventh century....
Storybook Helsinki and Beyond is a genre-bending book that delights the eye and tells a tale.
Hundreds of gorgeous, darkly colorful photos by young Romanian artist, Octavian Balea, are woven with the...
The book represents the collection of the modern Finnish jokes adapted (without simplification of the text of the original) to Russian language by Ilya Frank's method. Uniqueness of a method consists in...
Business Russian for Beginners (with English comments). Parts 1-2 in one book
The main aim of the book is to facilitate intercultural communication. It includes two parts and is designed for English speaking...
Helsinki, Daughter of the Baltic Sea, is an exceptional city in many ways. It is a modern metropolis with all the characteristics of a big city, thriving business and culture, and an international atmosphere,...