Helping Around the World: Activity Book
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: Read and discover all about helping around the world... Who helps refugees? What do animal charities do?
Luciano Floridi: Information
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: We live an information-soaked existence — information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet. Some say we suffer from 'infoglut'. But what is information? The concept of 'information' is a profound one, rooted in mathematics, central to whole branches of science, yet with implications on every aspect of our everyday lives: DNA provides the information…
Manfred B. Steger: Neoliberalism
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, 'neoliberalism' has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto Pinochet, and Junichiro Koizumi. In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm stretching from the Anglo-American heartlands of capitalism to…
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Heat and Dust
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Heat and dust — these simple, terrible words describe the Indian summer. Year after year, endlessly, it is the same. And everyone who experiences this heat and dust is changed for ever. We often say, in these modern times, that sexual relationships have changed, for better or for worse. But in this book we see that things have not changed. Whether we look back sixty years, or a hundred and sixty,…
Sheryl Webster: What Small Rabbit Heard
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Toddlers and parents everywhere will recognize Small Rabbit's lack of enthusiasm as the story opens. He just doesn't want to go for a walk and he comes up with all sorts of excuses to stay indoors. But Big Rabbit is having none of it. She bundles him into his coat and out they go, with Small Rabbit shivering and grumbling as he shuffles along. Perhaps it's because he's too far behind Big Rabbit,…
Oxenden Clive: New English File: Beginner. Student's Book
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Fun, motivating lessons that work. The perfect balance of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and skills to help your students use English really effectively. A complete package for teachers and students. The Teacher's Book gives you the support you need, and all the components work together for more effective learning.
Oxford Learners Pocket Thesaurus
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: A handy, pocket-size thesaurus which helps students find synonyms and opposites for over 5,000 key words.
Johnson W.J.: Dictionary of Hinduism
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This authoritative dictionary covers all aspects of Hinduism, including practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred sites, languages, and religious texts — everything from Tantra to temples, from bhakti to Divali. The most wide-ranging dictionary of its kind, it features almost 2,800 clear, concise, up-to-date, and fully cross-referenced entries, including many biographical entries for key…
Welshman John: Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 'We were dumped at a roundabout with our labels on. People pulled and tugged at the children they wanted. It was a bit like a cattle market... people just waded in. I went with a lady and her daughter — she was like a second Mum'. Alexander King, evacuated aged eleven Based on the stories of thirteen children and adults, Churchill's Children tells the often moving story of the evacuation of…
Marie-Louise Jensen: Daughter of Fire and Ice
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Following an attack on her family, fifteen-year-old Thora is enslaved by a brutish Viking chieftain, Bjorn Svanson. A healer and a midwife, Thora is valuable. She also has visions of the future... and in one she foresees Svanson's death. When her prediction becomes reality, Thora recognizes that another of Svanson's slaves is a man she has seen before-a man from recurrent visions who is destined…
Bate Jonathan: English Literature
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Sweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth…
Weber Thomas: Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Hitler claimed that his years as a soldier in the First World War were the most formative years of his life. However, for the six decades since his death in the ruins of Berlin, Hitler's time as a soldier on the Western Front has, remarkably, remained a blank spot. Until now, all that we knew about Hitler's life in these years and the regiment in which he served came from his own account in Mein…
Butler Christopher: Modernism
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and…
James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: The year is 1757. The English and the French are at war in North America. Two sisters Cora and Alice want to visit their father, General Munro. They begin their dangerous journey with the handsome English officer, Duncan Heyward and the Indian guide, Magua. On the way they meet friends and enemies, and many adventures. Some people will be heroes and some people will die. And what will happen to…
Knowles Elizabeth: How to Read a Word
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Language is not fixed, but evolves over time, and exploring the routes taken by the words can lead us on fascinating journeys. How to Read a Word, written by the noted lexicographer Elizabeth Knowles, shows us how to explore the origins, associations, and evolution of words, focusing in particular on two points: what questions can be asked about a word? And how can they be answered? How to Read a…
Leaving No Footprint: Stories from Asia
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Your grandmother is old, says Mr Li to his daughter. She has eaten more salt than you have eaten rice. Mr Li is cross with his daughter when she does not show respect to her grandmother, but Mr Li himself is not always patient with his old mother. She has lived a long time, and the future holds no promise for her. So she holds on to the past... Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in…
Astrid Lindgren: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Ronia lives with her father, a robber chieftain, and his band of men in their fortress on the top of a mountain. On the night Ronia was born, a bolt of lightning split the stronghold in two, leaving a huge chasm — Hell's Gap — in between. Soon Ronia is old enough to explore the forest around her, but she must beware of the grey dwarfs and wild harpies that live there. One day she meets Birk, the…
Platt Richard: Two Cyclists Invented the Aeroplane?!
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Find out about the four legged friends of the Aztecs, bloomers and the bike revolution and how the Wright brothers got it right! Read this book from start to finish for a social history of transport or dip in and out for fascinating and often hilarious facts. The informal style of writing is supported by wonderful illustrations and photographs throughout; this is a book that will engage and…
Brooke Rebecca: Candy for Breakfast
Скачать книгу (размер 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 28) Аннотация: Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.
A Cup of Kindness: Stories from Scotland
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities…