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John Sloan: Oscar Wilde (Authors in Context)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr: Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when mass culture and communication promoted the…

Hardy Thomas: Jude the Obscure

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul? Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but he is rebuffed, and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead, and their refusal to marry when free to do so confirms their rejection of and by the world around them. The…

Prue Sally: The Truth Sayer

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Nian is a boy with a destiny. Taken from his home and family to live in the House of Truth, he must practise his skills of mind-reading, weather lore and manipulation of matter. Once he has achieved mastery, he will become one of the elect, a Lord of Truth. There's only one problem. Nian doesn't want to become a Lord of Truth. He just wants to get away. But his only means of escape is to step…

Rudyard Kipling: War Stories and Poems

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: A unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War.

Alison Allen-Gray: Unique

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Dominic has always been a disappointment to his ambitious father, but he has never understood why. Then he discovers that he had an older brother who died before he was born. Where his brother was a brilliant academic and scientist, Dominic prefers to 'waste' his time painting. His father cannot forgive him for it. Dominic decides to try to find out about his brother, but he discovers more than…

Saunders Mark: Oxford English: An International Approach: Workbook 1

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: This is a lively and exciting resource which includes writing frames, grammar and vocabulary development and language practice exercises. Each workbook is closely linked to the student books and so provides opportunities for students to gain a deeper understanding of the main content while developing all of the four language skills, reading and writing, listening and speaking. Packed with…

Compact Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus

Скачать книгу (размер 5 705 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1120) Аннотация: The Compact Oxford Dictionary & Thesaurus is the ultimate one-stop reference, containing both a dictionary and a thesaurus in one handy reference volume. The dictionary and thesaurus texts have an integrated design which has been tried and tested with users to speed up browsing and look-up. The dictionary has excellent coverage of everyday English, containing over 90,000 words, phrases and…

James Henry: The Golden Bowl

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of the Prince's marriage they had discovered, in a Bloomsbury antique shop, a golden bowl with a secret flaw. When the golden bowl is broken, Maggie must leave…

Pickering W.R.: AS and A Level Biology: Through Diagrams

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: The Oxford Revision Guides series builds on the fact that pictures are easier to memorize than words. Each topic is summarized on a single page using annotated diagrams and concise notes with a full index for easy reference. Expert authors have taken the content of the AS and A Level specifications and presented them in a refreshingly clear and concise format. Simple illustrations are used to…

Oxford Dictionaries: Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Скачать книгу (размер 5 542 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1088) Аннотация: Authoritative and up-to-date, this fourth edition of the Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary covers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 130,000 translations of contemporary Spanish and English. Hundreds of new words from Spanish and English have been added from computing and technology to health and lifestyle, based on findings from the Oxford Languages Tracker. Includes excellent coverage of both…

Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale of a man of great strength, whose heroic quest for immortality is dashed through one moment of…

The Nicomachean Ethics

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Happiness, then, is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world. In the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle's guiding question is: what is the best thing for a human being? His answer is happiness, but he means, not something we feel, but rather a specially good kind of life. Happiness is made up of activities in which we use the best human capacities, both ones that contribute to our…

Human Resource Management

Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: This textbook provides an introduction to the main human resource management issues which are relevant to contemporary business organizations. Using HRM in practice as its starting point, the text demonstrates, though the use of up to date case studies and examples, the realities of HR within organizations. With a strong emphasis placed on linking theory and practice, the reader is then…

Oxenden Clive: American English File 4: Student Book

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Four-skills American English course with a communicative methodology, engaging texts, and a strong pronunciation syllabus — designed to get students speaking.

Lewis Gordon: Grammar for Young Learners

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Helps teachers of young learners introduce and practise grammar in a fun and motivating way. Steers a middle course between grammar-based and communicative approaches to teaching: meaning is the main focus of all language teaching and grammar is an intrinsic part of making meaning explicit.

Lansford Lewis: Tech Talk Intermediate: Workbook

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: A course for adult learners in the technical, industrial, and scientific sectors, who need English for everyday workplace communication.

Hollett Vicki: Tech Talk Intermediate: Teacher's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A course for adult learners in the technical, industrial, and scientific sectors, who need English for everyday workplace communication.

Hutchinson Tom: Hotline New Intermediate (Student`s Book)

Скачать книгу (размер 636 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 126) Аннотация: A four-level teenage course combining exciting new material with all the features that made the original Hotline so popular. — The unique loopback structure ensures constant revision and a realistic pace to the syllabus. A new photocopiable end-of-unit test for each unit consolidates the revision process. The grammar-based syllabus presents new structures using a problem-solving approach. This…

Hollett Vicki: Tech Talk Intermediate: Student's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: A course for adult learners in the technical, industrial, and scientific sectors, who need English for everyday workplace communication.

Oh, Boris!

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: On the day that Miss Cluck says there is going to be a new animal in the class, everyone is very excited. In fact, there are squeals of delight. Nobody expects the new animal to be a bear. So, when Boris takes his first hairy, scary, grizzly steps into the classroom, Leticia the rabbit, Fergus the fox cub, Maxwell the mole, and the little mice...scream! Of course, Boris doesn't mean to be scary.…