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Do you have any links to books/pdfs for Russian? Not like literature but more learning Russian.

I have so many books and links, my friend, that I am not posting most since they are on my laptop and I would have to upload >1 GB of books. But I hope that the following is more than enough.

The New Penguin Russian Course (my rec for beginners!!)

60 Lessons in Russian

10,000 Russian Words by Frequency

A Basic Modern Russian Grammar

A Comprehensive Russian Grammar

A Reference Grammar of Russian

Assimil Russian (with audio)

Big Silver Book of Russian Verbs

Colloquial Russian (with audio)

Colloquial Russian II

DLI Basic Russian

DLI Intermediate Russian

DLI Intermediate-Advanced

DLI Russian Binder I

DLI Russian Binder II

DLI Russian Phase I

DLI Russian Phase II

DLI Russian Phase III

DLI Advanced Russian

Essential Russian Grammar

FSI Russian Fast Course

How to Pronounce Russian Correctly

Hugo’s Russian in 3 Months (with audio)

Intermediate Russian: Grammar and Workbook

In-Flight Russian

Just Listen n’ Learn Russian (with audio)

Linguaphone Russian (with audio)

Living Language Russian: Beginner-Intermediate

Michel Thomas Russian (with audio)

Oxford Russian Verbs & Grammar

Peace Corps Russian Language Lessons

Peace Corps Russian Language Competencies

Peace Corps Workbook

Pimsleur Russian (with audio)

Routledge Modern Russian Grammar

Russian 

Russian - A Self-Teaching Guide

Russian For Dummies

Russian Grammar

Russian in Exercises 

Russian Phrasebook

Russian Pronunciation

Russian Verbs of Motion

Say it Right in Russian

Schaum’s Outline of Russian Grammar

Teach Yourself Russian 1962

Teach Yourself Russian 1996

Teach Yourself Russian 2000

Teach Yourself Russian 2003

If you want to know which ones I like, here is a link to it. I can post, if you want, other specific Russian books if I have them, like stories and such, at a later date.

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The Palais Garnier Opera House in Paris. Home of The Phantom of the Opera.

If you dropped a water balloon on a bed of nails, you’d expect it to burst spectacularly. And you’d be right – some of the time. Under the right conditions, though, you’d see what a high-speed camera caught in the animation above: a pancake-shaped bounce with nary a leak. Physically, this is a scaled-up version of what happens to a water droplet when it hits a superhydrophobic surface. 

Water repellent superhydrophobic surfaces are covered in microscale roughness, much like a bed of tiny nails. When the balloon (or droplet) hits, it deforms into the gaps between posts. In the case of the water balloon, its rubbery exterior pulls back against that deformation. (For the droplet, the same effect is provided by surface tension.) That tension pulls the deformed parts of the balloon back up, causing the whole balloon to rebound off the nails in a pancake-like shape. For more, check out this video on the student balloon project or the original water droplet research. (Image credits: T. Hecksher et al., Y. Liu et al.; via The New York Times; submitted by Justin B.)

Remarkable Japanese Timber Structures

House of Japanese Cedar by Suga Shotaro / Suga Atelier 

Center Pompidou-Metz by Shigeru Ban Architects Europe

Kitazawa Kenchiku Factor by Fumiko Misawa + Masahiro Inayama

Sea-Folk Museum by Naito Architect & Associates

Church Sun-pu by Taira Nishizawa

Sumika Pavilion by Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Final Wooden House by Sou Fujimoto Architects

Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum by Kengo Kuma and Associates 

Woods Of Net by Takaharu + Yui Tezuka / Tezuka Architects 

Mokuzai Kaikan by Tomohiko Yamanashi / Nikken Sekkei + Takeyuki Katsuya / NSD    

Every midnight I decide to change my entire life

“Don’t give up on something you can’t go a day without thinking about.”

— These are currently my words to live by.