Скачать книгу (размер 4 165 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 818) Аннотация: This is the reissued Colour Oxford English Dictionary. The Colour Oxford English Dictionary offers the most accurate and up-to-date coverage of essential, everyday vocabulary, with 90,000 words, phrases, and definitions based on evidence from the Oxford English Corpus, a unique databank comprising hundreds of millions of words of English. Definitions are easy to understand, given in a clear,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizably different without the formative influence of Ancient Greek models. Ancient Greek civilization was defined by the city — in Greek, the polis, from which we derive politics. It is above all this feature…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Children's literature takes many forms — works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups — and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl,…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Winnie is full of mad-cap schemes and plans to put her magic to good use. Wilbur is her long-suffering best friend, and everyone's favourite moggy. Join them both in this fantastic gift edition. From Winnie's knicker shop, where spiders sew up the lacy trims, to the time Winnie cooked some lovely turkey tonsil titbits, giggles are guaranteed! Perfect for young readers who are ready to enjoy…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Miss Cluck is taking her class camping. There are various mishaps along the way — the little mice find it difficult to keep up, then Maxwell drops his Teddy in the stream while they play pooh-sticks. Each time, Boris comes to the rescue — earning him praise from Miss Cluck and his classmates. Eventually the animals find a lovely spot for their tepee and they spend the afternoon decorating it…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This book explores how domestic courts contribute to the maintenance of the rule of international law by providing judicial control over the exercises of public powers that may conflict with international law. The main focus of the book will be on judicial control of exercise of public powers by states. Key cases that will be reviewed in this book, and that will provide empirical material for the…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: What are angels? Where were they first encountered? Can we distinguish angels from gods, fairies, ghosts, and aliens? And why do they remain so popular? This Very Short Introduction outlines some of the more prominent stories and speculations about angels in Judaism, Islam, Christianity and post-Christian spiritualities. It reflects on the way that angels have been portrayed in art, whether as…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 472) Аннотация: The second edition of Understanding Strategic Management continues to build upon the strengths of the first edition with its excellent writing style, ability to convey complex information in a clear manner, the use of analysis, relevant up-to-date case material and coverage of different perspectives in strategic management. With an emphasis on providing students with the essential tools of…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods have been repeatedly discarded and rediscovered ever since they were new. An interest in music of the past has been characteristic of a part of the musical world since the early 19th century. The revival of Gregorian chant in the early 19th century; the Cecilian movement in later 19th-century Germany seeking to immortalize Palestrina's…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Cytopathology provides a broad-ranging overview of the microscopic study of normal and abnormal cells, which embraces the latest imaging and visualization methods to study the structure of cells. The full colour presentation features over 400 figures. Written with the needs of the biomedical scientist centre-stage, it provides a firm grounding in normal cell structure, and the abnormal features…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Charles Bravo died from the poison antimony. He took three days to die, and the doctors could do nothing to help him. There were three people who had reasons for wanting Charles Bravo dead — Florence Bravo herself, Charles Bravo's new young wife; Dr James Gully, Florence's former lover; and Mrs Jane Cox, Florence's friend and companion. But the enquiry into the death in 1876 could not decide who…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: It is widely believed that people have privileged and authoritative access to their own thoughts, and many theories have been proposed to explain this supposed fact. The Opacity of Mind challenges the consensus view and subjects the theories in question to critical scrutiny, while showing that they are not protected against the findings of cognitive science by belonging to a separate explanatory…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This stimulating Very Short Introduction throws open the doors on a remarkably diverse musical genre, with a world-wide reach that goes far beyond America's shores to discuss folk music of every possible kind and in every corner of the globe. Written by award-winning ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin this is the first compact introduction to folk music that offers a truly global perspective. Slobin…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: The bride wore a long white dress, with flowers in her hair. After the wedding, there was a party, and people gave presents to the bride and groom. This wedding was nearly two thousand years ago, in Rome. Some things don't change. But some things do. Today you can have a wedding on a mountain, or under the sea, or Elvis can sing for you. And different things happen in different places. Little…
Скачать книгу (размер 254 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 51) Аннотация: The bride wore a long white dress, with flowers in her hair. After the wedding, there was a party, and people gave presents to the bride and groom. This wedding was nearly two thousand years ago, in Rome. Some things don't change. But some things do. Today you can have a wedding on a mountain, or under the sea, or Elvis can sing for you. And different things happen in different places. Little…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and historical literature. It has also been argued that science fiction narratives are the most engaged, socially relevant, and responsive to the modern…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Enjoy the tale of the princess who slept for a hundred years...
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Good luck in Malaysia, bad news in New Zealand, a chicken and a jug of cider in Britain, a goat and a pumpkin in India, fun and games in a cyber cafe in Nigeria... The countries change, but people's lives are always strange and wonderful in any place. Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories are by Shahana Chaudhury, Mary McCluskey, Nandita…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Michael Faraday's celebrated series of lectures, The Chemical History of a Candle, turned into one of the most successful science books ever published and was a classic work of Victorian popular science. They also reflect how Faraday, the bookbinder's apprentice turned scientist, was a remarkable communicator of science. First published in 1861 they have remained continuously in print ever since.…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Enjoy the tale of the princesses who had holes in their shoes every morning. What did they do every night?