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Biesty Stephen: Stephen Biesty's Ancient World: Rome, Egypt and Greece in Spectacular Cross-section

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Ancient World is the perfect subject for Stephen Biesty's illustrations — beautifully constructed, technologically advanced, and teeming with life. There are cross-sections, cut-aways and explosions, authoritative annotations, lists and explanations. Covers: Rome — including the Colosseum, the Forum, the Baths and chariot racing at the Circus Maximus; Egypt — including the Valley of the…

Derek Strange: Chatterbox 1: Pupil's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 310 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 62) Аннотация: Stimulating activities within a graded syllabus. — It follows a carefully graded syllabus which allows for recycling of language. — A complete comic-strip adventure story runs through each book, featuring ace detective Captain Shadow. This provides a memorable context for new language and maintains motivation. — It involves children in a variety of other fun activities, such as songs, rhymes,…

Wald Elijah: The Blues

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Praised as suave, soulful, ebullient (Tom Waits) and a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart of American culture. It is not an easy thing to pin down. As Howlin' Wolf once described it, When you ain't got no money…

Vanessa Reilly: Cookie and Friends B: Classbook

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: A three-level, story-based course with a rich package of teacher's resource materials. Cookie and Friends gives teachers everything they need to create lively, well-structured, and varied language classes while focussing on key areas of child development, such as motor-skills and personal awareness.

Valerie Thomas: Winnie's Amazing Pumpkin

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Winnie and Wilbur love their vegetables. They are regulars at the weekly farmers' market to stock up on their greens, but bringing them back home on a broomstick proves to be rather hazardous. So Winnie decides to grow her own and digs a vegetable patch in her garden. Not having the patience of a true gardener, she uses a little magic to speed up the growing process... only to end up with a…

Owen Laura: Winnie Goes Batty

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Those who know her, know that Winnie the Witch can be a little batty, to say the least. In 'Big Top Winnie' Winnie would love to have the grace of a high-wire walker, only to discover her talents are more suited to clowning around; in 'Winnie's Bubble Trouble' Winnie gets (literally) carried away in her attempt escape from doing the housework; in 'Winnie Digs Deep' Winnie hunts for priceless…

B. Jack Copeland: Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Code-breaking Computers

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: At last — the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers. This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, where it played an invaluable role cracking enemy codes. Until very recently, much about the Colossus machine was shrouded…

Oxford Colour Italian Dictionary

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: This is the reissued Oxford Colour Italian Dictionary. This dictionary is an effective and practical reference tool for students, adult learners, or travellers. It is especially user-friendly, with a clear colour design that makes it easy to find the word you are looking for quickly. It also has usage notes, giving you help with tricky and frequently occurring words, verb lists and grammar notes.…

Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: 'The first and greatest of English detective novels' of T.S.Eliot. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no…

A Dictionary of Accounting: 4 Edition

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: This best-selling dictionary includes more than 3,700 entries covering all aspects of accounting, including financial accounting, financial reporting, management accounting, direct taxation, indirect taxation, auditing, corporate finance, and accounting bodies and institutions. It boasts feature entries on key areas (e.g. Bankruptcy Law and the FTSE share indexes), and its international coverage…

Lucia Tomas: Super Me 1: Fun Book

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: This activities book is part of a two-level English course for children aged 6-8 that takes an aural/oral approach to learning English. The language arises naturally from the original chants, songs, and stories. Games, puzzles, cutting and pasting activities, and mini-projects are presented in a lively and colourful way. The action centres around a family, the children's imaginary friend, their…

Cross Gillian: The Great Elephant Chase

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Tad and Cissie are on the run with Khush the elephant. Clammy-fingered, steely-eyed Hannibal Jackson will do anything to capture the animal. Maybe even kill... Staying ahead means being faster and smarter-but how do you hide an elephant? Especially one with a mind of its own.

Stalker Peter: A Guide to Countries of the World: 3 Edition

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Featuring more than 200 maps, this invaluable handbook provides a wealth of information on every country in the world. Organized alphabetically, each entry offers a brief history and outlines contemporary social, economic, political and religious issues. For each country there is a map and a quick-reference fact box containing data and statistics including languages, population, GDP, capital…

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: 'I am Heathcliff — he's always, always in my mind...' Discovered on the streets of Liverpool, Heathcliff is rescued by Mr Earnshaw and taken to the remote Yorkshire farmhouse of Wuthering Heights. Earnshaw's daughter Catherine rapidly forms a passionate attachment to him, but when Catherine's brother takes over the Heights, Heathcliff is lowered to the position of a barely-tolerated farmhand.…

George Garnett: The Norman Conquest

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history, cataclysmically transforming a disparate collection of small nations into a European state. But what actually happened? How was the invasion viewed by those who witnessed it? And how has its legacy been seen by generations since? This fascinating Very…

James Henry: Daisy Miller and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a success de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here 'Pandora', 'The Patagonia', and 'Four Meetings' it describes a confrontation between different values in a changing world. Is the new independent American girl enchanting in her spontaneity,…

Irwin Janet: At Home with Spanish (7-9)

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Spanish contains progressive activities for your child to do at home to practise their Spanish words and sentences. Each activity is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old learning and practising Spanish, the pages are clear, in two colour to make each language stand out clearly, and fun. It is an easy way to boost confidence learning a language — children can work their own way…

Wright Anthony: British Politics: A Very Short Introduction

Скачать книгу (размер 616 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 122) Аннотация: Tony Wright's Very Short Introduction to British Politics is an interpretative essay on the British political system, rather than merely an abbreviated textbook on how it currently works. He identifies key characteristics and ideas of the British tradition, and investigates what makes British politics distinctive, while emphasizing throughout the book how these characteristics are reflected in…

Family and Friends 3: Teacher's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills.