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Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: A six-level grammar practice series for primary pupils aged 6 to 12, now with three new levels.

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What — or who — is attacking these ships? Aronnax, Conseil, and the Canadian, Ned Land, find the answer to this question when they meet the strange Captain Nemo. After a long journey under the sea in Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, the doctor and his friends plan to leave…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Who will speak for the poor? Who will listen to slaves, and those who have no rights? Who will work for a future where everyone is equal? Who will give up his house, job and money to fight for people who are shut out by everyone else? I will, said Mohandas Gandhi. And he began to fight in a way the world had not seen before — not with weapons, and wild crowds, and words of hate, but with the…

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: For me, Watson, life is not so interesting, says Holmes. I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days? Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in Norwood.…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: When Puddle was barely more than an egg, he couldn't wait to start duckling school.' So begins this story about feelings of excitement, anticipation, and understandable nervousness that surround an approaching first day at nursery school. Puddle, a little duckling, is like so many preschool children in desperately wanting to be grown-up enough to go to school and to have his own school bag. But…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: 'He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.' One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees — and thinks — a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: It is beautiful to look at, hard to reach, and terribly difficult to climb. Winds of 200 kilometres per hour or more scream across it day and night, while the temperature falls to-20 degreeC or lower. Every year, some who try to climb the highest mountain in the world do not return. But for a century people have been coming to climb Everest — some alone, some in groups, but all with a dream of…

Скачать книгу (размер 5 216 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1024) Аннотация: This eagerly anticipated text from one of the worlds' leading academics in this field takes a truly international approach to this fascinating subject, providing a balanced approach to both EU competition policy and US antitrust. The structure of the text allows flexibility for the teacher, so that they can teach from either a US, European approach or incorporate both. The text also includes…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: For thousand of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary. But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Amy and Matt are bored. They don't want to study for their exams they want to have a good time. So they drive to the marina at West Palm Beach, and Matt jumps onto one of the boats. 'We can go anywhere!' he jokes. But when the owners of the boat come back and find them, Amy and Matt are in deep trouble. Matt is a good swimmer and enjoys scuba-diving, but now he must dive for their lives.

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: The year is 1386 and the first flowers of spring are here. A number of pilgrims are going to Canterbury to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket, and they all tell stories on the way. Who should be the stronger in a marriage — the husband or the wife? And what happens when two men fall in love with the same woman? In these five stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we find different…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: For a child in the great city of Venice in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a traveller could die. One young boy listened, waited, and dreamed. Perhaps one day his father and uncle would return. Perhaps he too could travel with them to great…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Anna is a new student at Oxford University. When she arrives in Oxford, she meets Selim, and they become good friends. But Selim is not English, and living in a different country is not easy for him. Anna tries to help but she knows that her father isn't going to like it. Selim and Anna have each other. But is that enough? And can they find true happiness together?

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Chris leaves his home in a small town in Australia to go and study at the University of Sydney. He needs to find somewhere to live. But it's not easy to find a house to share in a big city. Every house has its problems, and not all of Chris's housemates are easy to live with. In fact, some of them are very difficult people! Can Chris find the house that he needs with housemates that he can live…

Скачать книгу (размер 106 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 22) Аннотация: Wobble Bear is learning to talk and his mum is trying to teach him about colours. But the only colour he will say is 'yellow'. Yellow to the pink soap, yellow to the red towel, yellow to his green pyjamas ...until finally he gets it right and says yellow to the harvest moon at bedtime. Parents and toddlers everywhere will love watching Wobble Bear learn and will relate to all his little triumphs…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The power of words in politics is well known, and Lend Me Your Ears, the fourth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, brings together both words of wisdom and things that might have been better left unsaid. This unique reference book not only charts the most influential political events of recent times via the things people said about them — including an international…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: In No Turning Back, Paul Addison takes the long view, charting the vastly changing character of British society since the end of the Second World War. As he shows, in this period a series of peaceful revolutions has completely transformed the country so that, with the advantage of a longer perspective, the comparative peace and growing prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century appear…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: When Pollyanna's farther dies, she goes to live with her Aunt, Miss Polly Harrington. Miss Harrington likes doing good, but she doesn't like children very much! Pollyanna always tries to find the good in everything. She soon makes many different people in her new home feel happier. But is Miss Polly's life going to change for better or worse after her niece arrives? And what happens to Pollyanna…

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: 'Are you scared, Gordon?' asks Heather. Four friends talk of ghosts in a hotel in Scotland. That night Gordon sees and hears something strange in his room. But is it really the ghost of Lord McCoy? These six stories tell of ghosts — friendly, sad, and bad — from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, America — and Egypt!

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Fay loves making The Friends Hour for Studio Five, but her boss — Jason — is always angry with her. One day, a young man — Simon Jones — phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend — Wing — stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends?