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Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: It is sometimes said that the Bible is one of the most unread books in the world, yet has been a major force in the development of Western culture and continues to exert an enormous influence over many people's lives. This Very Short Introduction looks at the importance accorded to the Bible by different communities and cultures and attempts to explain why it has generated such a rich variety of…

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: One page. One lesson. One focus. Everything you look for in an English course, made simple.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection printed here. The shape of the cycle was governed by subject matter of enduring spiritual significance, both to its contemporary audience and in later literary and artistic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive! The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the march of the Ten Thousand. The exploits of this famous army of Greek mercenaries in modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq were described by one of their leaders, the Athenian historian and…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A full-colour, six-level supplementary series to develop reading and writing skills in the primary classroom.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A full-colour, six-level supplementary series to develop reading and writing skills in the primary classroom.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: An excellent companion to the Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, the Little Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs consists of over 2,000 proverbs and sayings from around the English-speaking world. Phrases are organized by subject and draw on the very latest Oxford dictionaries research.

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: A full-colour, six-level supplementary series to develop reading and writing skills in the primary classroom.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Man of Feeling (1771) is the foremost novel of sentiment in which the hero, Harley demonstrates his sensiblity in a series of episodes as he is tested against an uncaring world. This edition reprints Brian Vickerss authoritative text with a new introduction and notes discussing the work in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment and European sentimentalism.

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who still has, a profound influence on Western thought. He was a controversial figure who was exposed and engaged in conflict. This Very Short Introduction looks at Aquinas in a historical context, and explores the Church and culture into which Aquinas…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The Oxford Beginner's French Dictionary is a brand new guide to learning French. Designed specifically for English-speaking adult learners who are either learning from scratch or refreshing lost language skills, it offers an easy to use dictionary, extra help with vocabulary, and essential information on living and interacting in the French-speaking world. The dictionary is exceptionally easy to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: If any man or woman should ask what I wish this romance... to be called, it is the Romance of the Rose, in which the whole art of love is contained. Guillaume de Lorris's own introduction to his allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair gives no indication of the eventual scale and scope of the work, which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why do some people seem good at empathising, and others at controlling? We have something deep and consistent within us that determines the choices we make and the situations we bring about. But why should members of the same species differ so markedly in their natures? What is the best personality to have; a bold one or a shy one, an aggressive…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Things at school have been looking up for Dinah, Harvey and Lloyd since their defeat of the villainous Demon Headmaster. The pupils are acting normally, and their new headmaster seems perfectly ordinary. Then the arrival of a new computer game, Octopus Dare, with its competition to find the Junior Computer Brain of the Year, sends ripples of excitement through the school. Only Harvey and his…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use the victory! Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans over the following sixteen years. Livy describes the bloody siege of the Spanish city of Saguntum, Rome's ally, which sparked the war, and the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Making plan with Scarlet to deal with post-break-up trauma. We are going to channel anger into something positive and have new mission statement: 1. Not to moon about over exes but to embrace single life. 2. To stay away from all men (Sad Ed excepted as he is not actual man. He tried to disagree on this but was outnumbered). 3. To remain true to our friends, forsaking all others. 4. To remember…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region of Karelia, that straddles the border of eastern Finland and north-west Russia, developed an oral poetry that was to…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: I need more tragedy in my life. Why is life never like it is in books? Nothing Jacqueline Wilson ever happens to me: I am not adopted, my mum is not tattooed, I am not likely to move to the middle of a council estate or be put into care. My parents are not alcoholics, drug addicts or closet transvestites. Even my name is pants. In other words, my life is earth-shatteringly NORMAL. This cannot go…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ever been before A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats — this is the setting for Kafka's story about a man seeking both acceptance in the village and access to the castle. Kafka breaks new ground in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the 'searching power and reflective richness' of Eliot's fiction. Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss reflect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. In this…