A convenient reference for writers, students, and businesspeople;anyone who needs the right word at the right time. Poetry, prose, and a nine-letter pizza toping . . . When you're looking for a word, pull it out of one of our Pockets.

This is a remarkably handy Russian dictionary, containing a surprising amount of information, including over 70,000 entries.

Based on American rather than British English, this is among the first Russian dictionaries revised for the post-Soviet era. Includes new political terminology, new Russian institutions, new countries and republics and new city names. Contains 26,000 entries in the English-Russian section and 40,000 words in the Russian-English section. Irregularities in Russian declensions and conjugations appear at the beginning of each entry.

A dictionary for business people, lawyers, students, translators, and diplomats, focusing on modern business and legal terminology, especially in art. Contains some 20,000 entries in Russian/English and English/Russian sections, with pronunciation guides for each entry, grammatical indications of gender and adjectives, and examples of proper usage. Paper edition (unseen), $35.00. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR