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Michael Dibdin: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. For fifty years after Dr Watson's death, a packet of papers, written by the doctor himself, lay hidden in a locked box. The papers…

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Oxford Bookworms Library 4: The Scarlet Letter

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only…

Miskin Ruth: More Phonics Flashcards

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The starting point of Ruth Miskin's popular Read Write Inc phonic teaching programme. Speed Sound Flashcards introduce the sounds and the corresponding graphemes (letters), to enable children to decode words easily so they are ready to read the storybooks. Follows on from Read Write Inc Flashcards Set 1. Introduce the sounds and corresponding letters with pictures and short phrases to help…

Machiavelli Niccolo: The Prince

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: 'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand…

Erich Segal: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: Love Story

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. This is a love story you won't forget. Oliver Barrett meets Jenny Cavilleri. He plays sports, she plays music. He's rich, and she's…

Gilian Cross: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: On the Edge

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. When Tug wakes up, he is not in his own bedroom at home. The door is locked and there are bars across the window. Loud music hammers…

Cross Gillian: Wolf

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Cassy lives with her granny, until the night that she hears strange footsteps coming into their flat. The next morning, she is packed off to her mum's — a squat in London that her beautiful, simple mother shares with a couple of actors. Cassy does her best to throw herself into her mother's life, even agreeing to take part in their travelling show called 'Wolf'. But she can't ever get rid of the…

Diane Mowat: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: A Pair of Ghostly Hands and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what do you do? You get up, of course, and go and turn the…

M.R. James: Oxford Bookworms Library 4: The Unquiet Grave: Short Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don't try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among…

Dandelion Pink: The Quakers

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their origins and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. Emerging from the social unrest of the English civil war, the Quakers have gone on to have an influence way beyond their numbers: be it their continued stance against war or their pioneering work against slavery. At the same time, Quakers maintain a distinctive worship…

Penelope Lively: Oxford Bookworms Library 4: The Whispering Knights

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. 'I don't know that you have done anything wrong', Miss Hepplewhite said. 'But it is possible that you have done something rather…

Mary Shelley: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: Frankenstein

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him — even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to…

John M. Anderson: The Grammar of Names

Скачать книгу (размер 1 982 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 390) Аннотация: This book is the first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names. Drawing on work in onomastics, philosophy, and linguistics, John Anderson examines the distribution and subcategorization of names within a framework of syntactic categories, and considers how the morphosyntactic behaviour of names connects to their semantic roles. He argues that names occur in two basic…

Michael Harrison: The Oxford Treasury of Christmas Poems

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: This is a lovely anthology of poems for the whole Christmas season. There are traditional carols and songs, and modern poems about children's experiences of Christmas: food and families, presents and celebrations, and the snow and ice of winter. The collection is both reflective and joyful and includes contributions from Eleanor Farjeon, Roger McGough, Judith Nicholls, U.A. Fanthorpe and Gareth…

Tim Vicary: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: Skyjack!

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is…

Colin Dexter: Oxford Bookworms Library 5: The Dead of Jericho

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. Chief Inspector Morse is drinking a pint of beer. He is thinking about an attractive woman who lives not far away. The woman he is…

Tim Vicary: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: Justice

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Terrorists blow up the Queen's coach outside Parliament. The Queen escapes, but five people are killed, and forty others badly hurt — ordinary, innocent people, like Alan Cole, the Queen's coachman, who loses his leg in the bombing. And for Alan and his daughter Jane there is more terror to come, in the search for the truth behind the bombing. Will the terrorists be caught and brought to justice?…

Michael D. Coogan: The Old Testament

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: «Eminent biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan offers here a wide-ranging and stimulating exploration of the Old Testament, illuminating its importance as history, literature, and sacred text. Coogan explains the differences between the Bible of Jewish tradition (the «Hebrew Bible») and the Old Testament of Christianity, and also examines the different contents of the Bibles used by Roman Catholics,…

Harry Gilbert: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: The Star Zoo

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far…

Robert Louis Stevenson: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: Kidnapped

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: «'I ran to the side of the ship. «Help, help! Murder!» I screamed, and my uncle slowly turned to look at me. I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then something hit my head; I saw a great flash of fire, and fell to the ground...' And so begin David Balfour's adventures. He is kidnapped, taken to sea, and meets many dangers. He also meets a friend, Alan Breck. But…