Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Red Dog was a Red Cloud kelpie, an Australian sheepdog. His life was full of excitement and adventure. He travelled all over Western Australia, and never really had an owner. But he had many, many friends, and he always knew where to go for a good meal. Louis de Bernieres collected these stories about the life of a real dog in Western Australia. They are all true stories — some are funny, some…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew, and today there is a flourishing literature in Catalan, Galician, and Basque as well as in Castilian-the language that has became known as…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Young readers will get a real sense of how towns and cities have developed all over the world. Find out about medieval towns and the extreme cities in the jungle and polar regions. What is suburban bliss and why are some of our cities dying? Read this book from start to finish for a riveting social history or dip in and out for some fascinating and often hilarious facts. The informal style of…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: A totally new edition of the world's most-trusted English course. Tried and tested all over the world, Headway is the course that teachers and learners rely on. Headway works in the classroom: — A realistic, well-supported syllabus. — A measured step-by-step approach. — Careful recycling at every opportunity. — Headway teaches real language in real contexts. — A solid foundation of grammar and…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Guy's Very Short Introduction to The Tudors is the most authoritative short introduction to this age in British history. It offers a compelling account of the political, religious and economic changes of the country under such leading monarchs as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. The work has been substantially…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: There's some bad weather out there, Captain MacWhirr said to himself just before he sailed his ship, the Nan-Shan, into the middle of the most terrible storm in the South China Sea. The typhoon brings out the best in some men on the ship, and the worst in others. Can MacWhirr bring the ship through the storm safely? And what will happen to all the poor Chinese workers travelling home down in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I saved his Life... I likewise taught him to say Master'. Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: A young woman arrives at a large country house. Her job is to look after the two children who live there, but she soon discovers that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. The longer she stays, the more she feels that the two children are in danger — or is it that the children are the danger, and the person in danger is herself?
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A six-level grammar practice series for primary pupils aged 6 to 12, now with three new levels.
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What — or who — is attacking these ships? Aronnax, Conseil, and the Canadian, Ned Land, find the answer to this question when they meet the strange Captain Nemo. After a long journey under the sea in Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, the doctor and his friends plan to leave…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Who will speak for the poor? Who will listen to slaves, and those who have no rights? Who will work for a future where everyone is equal? Who will give up his house, job and money to fight for people who are shut out by everyone else? I will, said Mohandas Gandhi. And he began to fight in a way the world had not seen before — not with weapons, and wild crowds, and words of hate, but with the…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: For me, Watson, life is not so interesting, says Holmes. I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days? Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in Norwood.…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: When Puddle was barely more than an egg, he couldn't wait to start duckling school.' So begins this story about feelings of excitement, anticipation, and understandable nervousness that surround an approaching first day at nursery school. Puddle, a little duckling, is like so many preschool children in desperately wanting to be grown-up enough to go to school and to have his own school bag. But…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: 'He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.' One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees — and thinks — a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: It is beautiful to look at, hard to reach, and terribly difficult to climb. Winds of 200 kilometres per hour or more scream across it day and night, while the temperature falls to-20 degreeC or lower. Every year, some who try to climb the highest mountain in the world do not return. But for a century people have been coming to climb Everest — some alone, some in groups, but all with a dream of…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 216 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1024) Аннотация: This eagerly anticipated text from one of the worlds' leading academics in this field takes a truly international approach to this fascinating subject, providing a balanced approach to both EU competition policy and US antitrust. The structure of the text allows flexibility for the teacher, so that they can teach from either a US, European approach or incorporate both. The text also includes…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: For thousand of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary. But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Amy and Matt are bored. They don't want to study for their exams they want to have a good time. So they drive to the marina at West Palm Beach, and Matt jumps onto one of the boats. 'We can go anywhere!' he jokes. But when the owners of the boat come back and find them, Amy and Matt are in deep trouble. Matt is a good swimmer and enjoys scuba-diving, but now he must dive for their lives.
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: The year is 1386 and the first flowers of spring are here. A number of pilgrims are going to Canterbury to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket, and they all tell stories on the way. Who should be the stronger in a marriage — the husband or the wife? And what happens when two men fall in love with the same woman? In these five stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we find different…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: For a child in the great city of Venice in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a traveller could die. One young boy listened, waited, and dreamed. Perhaps one day his father and uncle would return. Perhaps he too could travel with them to great…