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Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers — now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed…

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episodes in that story — from the very origins of life four million years ago to the extraordinary diversity of species around the globe today. Beginning with an explanation of the controversies surrounding the birth of life itself, each following chapter…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers — now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This book explores Nelson Mandela's personal development as well as his public activism, from his childhood as a member of the Thembu royal house through his emergence in the 1950s as a nationalist celebrity, his martyrdom in prison and, finally, his contemporary canonization as a transnational icon of liberal democracy. Though primarily a political biography which will concern itself with…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: What does the future hold in store for the human race? Aliens from distant galaxies, telepathic horror, interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose, collision with an asteroid — the unknown lies around every corner, and the universe is a big place. These nine science-fiction stories offer possibilities that are fantastic, humorous, alarming, but always thought-provoking. This collection…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Once, a long time ago, a little donkey was brought to Jesus. The story of Easter is told here through the eyes of the donkey that carried Jesus into the city of Jerusalem. He watches the Last Supper, he sees Jesus brought before Pontius Pilate, he is there when Jesus is crucified, and he witnesses the joy of the resurrection. Every year, as these events are remembered, this beautiful retelling…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: This is the most wide-ranging, comprehensive, and up-to-date dictionary of archaeology available. Over 4,000 A-Z entries explain the terms encountered in academic and popular archaeological literature, in lectures, and on television. Topics covered include artifacts, techniques, terminology, people, sites, and periods, and specialist areas such as industrial and maritime archaeology. This second…

Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: What does it feel like to be a child? Learning how to negotiate with the unpredictable adult world, learning how to pick a path through life's traps and hazards, learning when the time has come to put away childish things. The writers of these short stories show us the world as seen from the far side of the child-adult divide, a gap that is sometimes small, and sometimes an unbridgeable chasm.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 542) Аннотация: 'Such a strange book! Imagine a novel with a little swarthy governess for heroine, and a middle-aged ruffian for hero.' Sharpe's London Magazine (June 1855) Jane Eyre is an orphan grown up under the harsh regime first of her aunt and then as a pupil at Lowood Institution. She leaves to become a governess to the daughter of the mysterious Mr Rochester; gradually their relationship deepens, but…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Deception is usually frowned on as morally unacceptable, but is it always wrong? Can hiding or distorting the truth sometimes have good effects, adding to the sum of human happiness? These ten stories are full of secrets and lies, from a light-hearted bit of fun to dark and desperate deceit; but whether harmless or evil, deception can sometimes lead to quite unexpected complications.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: 'My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts. Praised in their day as a…

Скачать книгу (размер 718 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 142) Аннотация: What sad, appalling, and surprising things people do in the name of love and for the sake of love. These short stories give us love won and love lost, love revenged, love thrown away, love in triumph, love in despair. It might be love between men and women, children and parents, even humans and cats; but whichever it is, love is a force to be reckoned with. This collection contains stories by…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals. But people are a great danger to animals too. They take their land, and cut down the trees where animals have their homes. They pollute the rivers and seas, and kill big animals for their skins or for…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London. But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with great shops and theatres, and quiet little villages. You can visit old castles and beautiful churches — or go to festivals with music twenty-four hours a day. You can have an English afternoon tea, walk on long…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Do you believe in ghosts? Jerry doesn't. He's a nineteen-year-old American, who just wants a good holiday with his friend, Brad. They are travelling round the north of England by bicycle. But strange things begin to happen in the small hotel where they are staying. First, Brad seems to think that he has been there before. And then a girl called Ellen appears... The first of these three original…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers — this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes — this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell. Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 'Other works may excel this in depth of thought and knowledge of human nature: other books may rival it in originality and size; but, for hopeless and incurable vivacity, nothing yet discovered can surpass it.' (Jerome, Preface to Three Men in a Boat). Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London's…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: - Exciting and skilful adaptations of a range of modern novels — New, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the revised Programme of Study for Key Stage 3. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening, close text analysis and the structure of playscripts, and act as a springboard for personal writing — Insights into the plays themselves by their popular authors and adapters…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: In English-speaking countries around the world people celebrate Easter, Valentine's Day, Christmas, and other special days. Some celebrations are new, like Remembrance Day and Mother's Day; others, like the summer solstice, go back thousands of years. What happens on these special days? What do people eat, where do they go, what do they do? Why is there a special day for eating pancakes? Who is…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This new selection of Gandhi`s writings taken from his books, articles, letters and interviews sets out his views on religion, politics, society, non-violence and civil disobedience. Judith M. Brown`s excellent introduction and notes examines his philosophy and the political context in which he wrote.