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Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Strategic Reading is a three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary-building, and critical-thinking skills. The Student's Book contains 16 thematic units with a selection of engaging topics that motivate learners to relate the reading to their own experiences. Three inviting reading passages in each unit, all adapted from authentic sources, allow students to explore the theme in…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Strategic Reading is a three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary-building, and critical-thinking skills. The Teacher's Manual provides clear step-by-step notes on how to use the Student's Book in class. It includes an overview of the series, a model lesson plan, and detailed vocabulary and teaching suggestions for each unit. The Teacher's Manual offers optional warm-up and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 277) Аннотация: Professor Evans helps the reader to visualise the stage action of Romeo and Juliet, a vital element in the play's significance and useful to students approaching it for the first time. The history of the play in the theatre is accompanied by illustrations of notable productions from the eighteenth century onwards. A lucid commentary alerts the reader to the difficulties of language, thought and…

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: A new section of the Introduction to this updated edition considers important professional theater productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years. The Reading List has been revised and augmented to reflect the scope of the revised edition.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: To Shakespeare's contemporaries, Richard II was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the time, how to cope with an unjust ruler. But over the last century or so, the play came to be regarded as the poetic fall of a tragic hero. The Introduction to this edition provides a full context for both the Shakespearean and the modern views of King Richard's fall.…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Original stories at seven levels from starter to advanced, written specially for learners of English. With gripping plots and a range of genres to satisfy every taste, Cambridge English Readers offer high-quality original fiction that students will love! The highest quality of writing and storytelling is combined with the greatest sensitivity to the learner's language level, to ensure an…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 080 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 213) Аннотация: Charles Edelman focuses on the play's sexual politics and recent scholarship devoted to the position of Jews in Shakespeare's time in this new edition. He surveys the international scope of theatrical interpretations of The Merchant in the 1980s and 1990s as well as different ways of tackling the troubling figure of Shylock.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A missing woman and a dead body welcome Inspector Jenny Logan to her new job with the Edinburgh police. Logan questions the husband of the dead woman and a local doctor about the murder, but can she believe what they say? Then, a piece of jewellery leads Logan to the killer.

Скачать книгу (размер 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 188) Аннотация: Much Ado has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which the most famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: This second edition of the Companion offers students up-to-date factual and interpretative material about the principal theatres, playwrights and plays of the most important period of English drama, from 1580-1642. Three wide-ranging chapters on theatres, dramaturgy and the social, cultural and political conditions of the drama are followed by chapters describing and illustrating various…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 236) Аннотация: Scott McMillin has added a new section on key events in scholarship and theater since the 1980s (including international, political, feminist and postcolonial analysis) to this updated edition of Shakespeare's Othello. The influence of historicism and cultural materialism are also taken into account, and a complete description of performances of the play on stage, film and television considers…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Sam is like any other teenage girl except that she was born deaf. She meets Jim, falls in love and feels happier than ever before. Then one day Jim's jealous ex-girlfriend reveals a secret. Sam is left wondering if she really knows Jim at all. For their love to grow Jim must show her that their worlds are not too different.

Скачать книгу (размер 3 104 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 610) Аннотация: Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models have begun to dominate the field of macroeconomic theory and policy-making. These models describe the evolution of macroeconomic activity as a recursive sequence of outcomes based upon the optimal decision rules of rational households, firms and policy-makers. Whilst posing a micro-founded dynamic optimisation problem for agents under…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: One of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays, this edition of The Taming of the Shrew considers its reception in the light of the hostility and embarrassment it often arouses, taking account of both scholarly defences and modern feminist criticism of the play. For this updated edition Ann Thompson has added new sections to the Introduction which describe the 'deeply problematic'…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 661 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 327) Аннотация: In the last few decades exchange rate economics has seen a number of developments, with substantial contributions to both the theory and empirics of exchange rate determination. Important developments in econometrics and the increasingly large availability of high-quality data have also been responsible for stimulating the large amount of empirical work on exchange rates in this period.…

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Offering plenty of practice for vocabulary learners, these small and easy-to-carry books are ideal for busy people to use outside the classroom. All the words have been chosen using the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure that students learn the most widely used vocabulary. Includes regular tests and helpful word lists.

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Offering plenty of practice for vocabulary learners, these small and easy-to-carry books are ideal for busy people to use outside the classroom. All the words have been chosen using the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure that students learn the most widely used vocabulary. Includes regular tests and helpful word lists.

Скачать книгу (размер 310 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 62) Аннотация: Modern, original fiction for learners of English. A hurricane is tearing across the Atlantic from the west coast of Africa towards America. As the hurricane passes through the Caribbean, it destroys everything in its path. In Florida, a man is out in a fishing boat, unaware of the approaching disaster. His daughter, Ikemi, and her boyfriend must confront the hurricane in a desperate attempt to…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Hundreds of dead fish, some unexplained deaths and a birdless town. Three newspaper reports from Finland attract interest from the British secret service. 'Foreign Executive' Ian Munro is sent to Lahti to investigate. But when his first contact is killed in front of him, Munro realises that someone knows why he is there and that they will do…

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Billy Marr, a local misfit, claims he has murdered someone in an Edinburgh park. Inspector Logan and Sergeant Grant don't believe him — Billy has lied many times in the past about crimes he hasn't committed. But then a young woman is found dead in the park. Soon there is another body. Perhaps Billy is not so innocent after all.