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Stone Rex: Assault of the Friendly Fiends

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Jamie and Tom are off on another adventure in Dino World and with their little dinosaur friend, Wanna, they set off for Misty Mountains. They spot a group of turkey-sized dinosaurs on the mountainside — they look really cute. But when the dinos chase after a passing lizard the boys realize they're not so sweet after all. They're carnivores and they want Jamie and Tom for their next meal! As they…

Alexander Pushkin: Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: ''The people are silent'' So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and…

Cross Gillian: Calling a Dead Man

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: John Cox is dead, killed in an explosion while at work. His younger sister Hayley can't believe he's gone. Determined to see the place of his death, she flies to Moscow with John's fiancee, Annie-but the site they're shown isn't where John died. Suddenly it seems that there's more to his death than a tragic accident. Using a tracking system to locate John's mobile phone, Hayley and Annie find the…

Godson Mark: Relationship Marketing

Скачать книгу (размер 1 901 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 374) Аннотация: Relationship Marketing has been written in a highly accessible way to ensure clear understanding and ignite the reader's interest. The author presents a critical overview of the subject to enable students to engage with issues, and discuss and debate points raised in the text. A wealth of case studies are included throughout allowing students to see how the theory may be transferred through to…

Shavick Andrea: True Lives: Roald Dahl

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At school, Roald Dahl looked forward most to those special days when the local chocolate company sent every pupil a large box of chocolate bars for testing. Years later he wrote a children's book inspired by the chocolate testing. It was one of the first of a string of incredibly funny, rude and amazing stories, which millions of children have read and enjoyed.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works

Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: This major new edition, originally commissioned for the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode, brings together a unique combination of Shelley's poetry and prose — the lyric poems, plays, longer poems, criticism, and essays — to give the essence of his work and thinking. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in…

Foster John: Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar

Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: 'Twinkle twinkle chocolate bar Your dad drives a rusty car Press the starter Pull the choke Off he goes in a cloud of smoke'. Anon Here is a collection of poems and rhymes for very young children. With themes ranging from pets, magic and weather to favourite foods, families and toys, there are poems for every occasion. And the mix of cautionary verse, nonsense rhymes, lullabies, lyrical poems and…

Lindop Christine: Red Roses (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 121 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 25) Аннотация: Who is the man with the roses in his hand? thinks Anna. I want to meet him. Who is the girl with the guitar? thinks Will. I like her. I want to meet her. But they do not meet. There are lots of men! says Anna's friend Vicki, but Anna cannot forget Will. And then one rainy day...

Smith Nigel: Black Peoples of the Americas

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Part of a series aimed at average and above-average ability Key Stage 3 National Curriculum pupils, this historical study of Blacks in the Americas covers the supplementary unit, using an investigatory approach.

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: The new Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in which he defended himself against hostile criticism, and includes all 24 original illustrations by George Cruikshank. Stephen Gill's groundbreaking Introduction gives a fascinating new account of the novel. He also…

Potter Michael: Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Wittgenstein's philosophical career began in 1911 when he went to Cambridge to work with Russell. He compiled the Notes on Logic two years later as a kind of summary of the work he had done so far. Russell thought that they were as good as anything that has ever been done in logic, but he had Wittgenstein himself to explain them to him. Without the benefit of Wittgenstein's explanations, most…

Grant Neil: Eric the Red

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Eric the Red was wild and hot-headed, even for a Viking. His quick temper was always getting him into trouble. But he learned quickly, and in time became a great warrior and a fearless adventurer. He discovered a new land — Greenland — and founded a new nation.

Thomas Valerie: Winnie's Flying Carpet (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Winnie's sisters have given her a flying carpet but Winnie is struggling to find something nice to say about it in her thank-you letter as the carpet has been more than a little wayward. Winnie decides to give the carpet one last chance but then disaster strikes. The carpet swoops off with poor Wilbur as its unwilling passenger. Winnie tries to catch it but the carpet is too fast for her and it…

Oxford Thesaurus of English

Скачать книгу (размер 5 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1072) Аннотация: Developed using evidence from the Oxford English Corpus, this fully revised text offers more up-to-date and complete coverage of synonyms and antonyms than any other A-Z thesaurus. Increased coverage now includes hundreds of new phrases and idioms, and newly selected examples of real English showing how words are used, and helping to guide you to the right meaning. New features include the Word…

Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It is also one of the world's greatest historical adventure stories, and its heroes have become symbols for the spirit of youth, daring, and comradeship. The action takes place in the 1620s at the court of Louis XIII, where the musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with their companion, the headstrong…

Scott John: Oxford Dictionary of Sociology

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Wide-ranging and authoritative, this sociology dictionary is the most informative of its kind. Compiled by a team of experts, under the editorship of Gordon Marshall and John Scott, it contains over 2,500 entries. With terms taken from sociology and the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science, it provides widespread coverage of all aspects of…

Fyodor Dostoevsky: White Nights: A Gentle Creature, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic fantasies disguises profound loneliness and estrangement from living life. A Gentle Creature and The Dream of a Ridiculous Man show how withdrawal from…

Marlowe Christopher: Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian…