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Constantine H.: Paris Metro Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck-Caulaincourt. Some of these stories actually take place in the metro itself, but most are to be…

Burda Michael: Macroeconomics: A European Text

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: This text provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary macroeconomics, within a European and global context. The authors balance the theoretical aspects with up-to-date policy examples throughout, allowing the reader to relate the concepts to their own economic environment.

Constantine H.: Rome Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini in the twentieth and contemporary new writers such as Melania Mazzucco and Igiaba Scego, offer the delight of discovering and exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of…

Foster: EU Law

Скачать книгу (размер 2 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 522) Аннотация: Nigel Foster provides a concise and clear explanation of EU Law, offering an accessible entry point to the subject, without compromising on depth or quality of analysis. Foster on EU Law offers an incisive account of the institutions and procedures of the EU alongside focused analysis of key substantive areas such as free movement of goods and services, plus a separate new chapter on competition…

Hardy T.: Under the Greenwood Tree

Скачать книгу (размер 1 044 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 206) Аннотация: This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy placed this tale among his Novels of Character and Environment, a group which is held to include his most characteristic work. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects…

Jackson: Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era

Скачать книгу (размер 2 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 540) Аннотация: Constitutional law in the United States and around the world now operates within an increasingly transnational legal environment of international treaties, customary international law, supranational infrastructures of human rights and trade law, and growing comparative judicial awareness. This new environment is reflected in increasing cross-national references in constitutional court decisions…

Le Sueur A.: Public Law

Скачать книгу (размер 4 726 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 928) Аннотация: Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials offers a fresh approach to the study of constitutional and administrative law. Three of the subject's foremost scholars provide you with clear and insightful commentary on the key institutions, legal principles and conventions, and blend this with a carefully selected and diverse range of materials and case studies. You'll acquire both a thorough knowledge…

Gude Kathy: New Matrix: Intermediate. Student's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: New and improved edition of the challenging secondary course that prepares students for school-leaving exams.

Gude Kathy: New Matrix: Intermediate. Workbook

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: New and improved edition of the challenging secondary course that prepares students for school-leaving exams.

Bathelt Harald: The Relational Economy: Geographies of Knowing and Learning

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what ways are local clusters and global exchange relations intertwined and co-constituted? What are the impacts of global changes in technology,…

Romer S.: French Decadent Tales

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: 'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siecle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. While 'Decadence' was a European movement, its epicentre was the…

Gude Kathy: New Matrix: Pre-intermediate. Workbook

Скачать книгу (размер 356 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 71) Аннотация: New and improved edition of the challenging secondary course that prepares students for school-leaving exams.

Edwards John: Sociolinguistics

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: This Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language: language in its sociocultural context. The field ranges from micro-analyses to broadly-based policy and planning undertakings. As such, this book draws from sociolinguistics, the sociology of language, and psycholinguistics. The relationship between language and identity — whether of an individual or a group — is a strong thread…

Gude Kathy: New Matrix: Upper-intermediate. Workbook

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: New and improved edition of the challenging secondary course that prepares students for school-leaving exams.

Sterritt David: The Beats

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Beat Generation writers revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time — particularly those involving sex, race, and class — in such provocative works as Jack Kerouac's On…

Kenneth J. Falconer: Fractals

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Many are familiar with the beauty and ubiquity of fractal forms within nature. Unlike the study of smooth forms such as spheres, fractal geometry describes more familiar shapes and patterns, such as the complex contours of coastlines, the outlines of clouds, and the branching of trees. In this Very Short Introduction, Kenneth Falconer looks at the roots of the 'fractal revolution' that occurred…

A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Thoroughly revised and updated to include the latest research in the field, A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation provides over 9,000 A to Z entries on scientific and social aspects of the environment — its key thinkers, treaties, movements, organizations, concepts, and theories. Covering subjects such as sustainable development, biodiversity, and environmental ethics, it is at the cutting…

Christian B. Miller: Moral Character: An Empirical Theory

Скачать книгу (размер 1 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 366) Аннотация: Christian Miller presents a new account of moral character. Most of our friends, colleagues, and even family members are not virtuous people. They do not have virtues such as compassion, honesty, or courage. But at the same time, they are not vicious people either. They do not have vices such as cruelty, dishonesty, or cowardice. Instead most people today have characters which do not qualify as…