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Hermann Luke: J: M. W. Turner

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures — people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of…

Joyce Hannam: Oxford Bookworms Library 2: The Death of Karen Silkwood

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) 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 the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death. Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her…

Ashton Rosemary: George Eliot

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Cannon John: George III

Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures — people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of…

Reg Wright: Oxford Bookworms Library 2: Ear-rings from Frankfurt

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) 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. Richard Walton is in trouble again. He has lost his job, and he has borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer — again. And now he has…

Slater Michael: Charles Dickens

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Harriss Gerald: Shaping the Nation: England 1360-1461

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: The Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses... A succession of dramatic social and political events reshaped England in the period 1360 to 1461. In his lucid and penetrating account of this formative period, Gerald Harriss draws on the research of the last thirty years to illuminate late medieval society at its peak, from the triumphalism of Edward III in…

Arnold Bennett: Oxford Bookworms Library 2: Stories from the Five Towns

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Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus of Current English

Скачать книгу (размер 2 574 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 506) Аннотация: A dictionary and thesaurus in one handy volume. Find what you need quickly — clear and easy to understand. Choose the right word with synonyms arranged in order of usefulness. Build your vocabulary with up-to-date coverage of contemporary English.

Downes Kerry: Christopher Wren

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Oxford Paperback Dictionary and Thesaurus

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Parry Jonathan: Benjamin Disraeli

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Adrian J. Desmond: Charles Darwin

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Clapham Andrew: Human Rights

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. An appeal to human rights in the face of injustice can be a heartfelt and morally justified demand for some, while for others it remains merely an empty slogan. Taking an international perspective and focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, health and discrimination, this…

Edith Nesbit: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: The Railway Children

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. 'We have to leave our house in London', Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a…

Sutherland John: Bestsellers

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: I rejoice, said Doctor Johnson, to concur with the Common Reader. For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an engaging look through the lists to reveal what we have been reading — and why. John Sutherland shows that bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest…

Judith Dean: Oxford Bookworms Library 1: Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

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…

Edgar Allan Poe: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: Tales of Mystery and Imagination

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. The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night... is it a…

Raymond Chandler: Oxford Bookworms Library 4: The Big Sleep

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. General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He's an old, sick man, close to death,…

Ruthven Malise: Fundamentalism

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Malise Ruthven tackles the polemic and stereotypes surrounding this complex phenomenon — one that eludes sim today, a conclusion impossible to ignore since the events in New York on September 11 2001. But what does 'fundamentalism' really mean? Since it was coined by American Protestant evangelicals in the 1920s, the use of the term 'fundamentalist' has expanded to include a diverse range of…