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This is a series of 4 lessons based on an interview with social anthropologist Maria Tendriakova. The topics of the lessons are: Women in Russia, Problems of equality, The Russian Orthodox Church, Nationalities in Russia.

Authors: Shannon Donnally Quinn, Victoria Thorstensson, Darya Vassina, Nina Familiant, Benjamin Rifkin, Dianna Murphy

New version created by: Shannon Donnally Quinn and Isabella Palange with help from Lidia Gault

The present book is the first digital edition Português para principiantes, a time-tested text which can be used in conjunction with a variety of approaches to the teaching of beginning Portuguese. This material provides students with a good foundation in Brazilian Portuguese which can serve personal, academic, or professional goals.

This digital edition is a thorough re-working of Severino J. Albuquerque and Mary H. Schil’s 1993 revision of Claude E. Leroy’s textbook, first published as Português Para Principiantes in two volumes by the University of Wisconsin Extension Division in 1964.

This book is no longer being actively maintained. For more up-to-date information about using pressbooks, please visit the UW-Madison Knowledge Base

This book teaches the basics of getting started with Pressbooks, and is no longer being actively maintained. Many of the lessons here have grown out of topics covered at Pressbooks users group meetings from 2016 through 2017. To subscribe to upcoming announcements about future group meetings, please send an email to learnuwsupport@doit.wisc.edu.

A collection of essays originally published on Mujeres Talk and Latinx Talk that includes essential Latinx ideas, perspectives, and practices to promote environmental sustainability written by a variety of researchers, writers, and poets.

The Process of Science Companion is composed of the following books: Science Communication, and Data Analysis, Statistics, and Experimental Design. These resources provide support for students doing independent research.

This is a series of 5 capstone lessons based on 5 interviews. Topics of the lesson are: Sergei Khrushchev (about the historical legacy of his father, Nikita Khrushchev), Sergei Enikolopov (crime), Viktor Loshak (journalism), Evgenii Aksenov (business), and Aleksandr Asmolov (education).

Authors: Nina Familiant, Shannon Donnally Quinn, Benjamin Rifkin

New version created by: Shannon Donnally Quinn with help from Lidia Gault

This is a series of 9 lessons based on films “Solovky Power” and “The Children of Ivan Kuzmich” and interviews by filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya. Topics of the lessons are: The director of the films, About the camp, Heroes, Life in the camp and after, About the film Solovky Power, The country and Stalinism, School 110, Parents and children, Adult life.

Authors: Victoria Thorstensson, Shannon Donnally Quinn, Benjamin Rifkin, Dianna Murphy

New version created by: Shannon Donnally Quinn and Isabella Palange with help from Lidia Gault

Use of excerpts from the films Solovky Power and Children of Ivan Kuzmich in the RAILS lessons is courtesy of Goldfilms.

This is a series of 5 lessons based on an interview with historian Aleksandr Logunov. The topics of the lessons are: Historical figures, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Khrushchev and the Cold War, Khrushchev and the Thaw.

Authors: Shannon Donnally Quinn, Darya Vassina, Nina Familiant, Benjamin Rifkin, Dianna Murphy

New version created by: Shannon Donnally Quinn and Isabella Palange with help from Lidia Gault

This is a series of 3 lessons based on an interview with actor, director, and writer Veniamin Smekhov. The topics of the lessons are: The Taganka Theater, Vladimir Vysotsky, and Censorship.

Lesson authors: Shannon Donnally Quinn, Victoria Thorstensson, Benjamin Rifkin, Dianna Murphy

New version created by: Shannon Donnally Quinn with help from Lidia Gault and Isabella Palange

Cover photo by Dmitry Ruzov – http://ruzovdmitry.livejournal.com/208077.html, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69108888