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Скачать книгу (размер 7 664 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1504) Аннотация: Completely updated to include all the latest vocabulary, this fourth edition of the Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary contains coverage of over 175,000 words and phrases, and 240,000 translations. It includes a comphrensive correspondence guide with sample letters, emails, and CVs, plus fun and informative cultural notes on life and living in the Spanish-speaking world. This new edition also…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: Condemned by Victorian critics as immoral, but regarded today as a novel of outstanding social insight, No Name shows William Wilkie Collins at the height of his literary powers. It is the story of two sisters, Magdalen and Norah, who discover after the deaths of their dearly beloved parents that their parents were not married at the time of their births. Disinherited and ousted from their…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady (1875) is a fascinating example of Collins' later fiction. Valeria Valerie Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name incorrectly in the marriage register; this slip is followed by a gradual disclosure of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads to another set of…

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet and our species in the future, and looks at both the probability of these events happening and our chances of survival. Coverage extends from discussion of the likely consequences of the current global warming to the inevitable…

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 615 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 514) Аннотация: One hundred years ago Sigmund Freud published The Interpretations of Dreams, a book that, like Darwin's The Origin of Species, revolutionized our understanding of human nature. Now this groundbreaking new translation--the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899--brings us a more readable, more accurate, and more coherent picture of Freud's masterpiece. The first edition…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 472 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 290) Аннотация: This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine as he grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood, and learns to know himself better. At Princeton he becomes a literary aesthete and makes friends with other aspiring writers. As he moves out into the world and tries to find his true direction he falls in love with a succession of beautiful young women. Youthful exuberance and immaturity…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Twelfth Night is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in the modern theatre, and this edition places particular emphasis on its theatrical qualities throughout. Peopled with lovers misled either by disguises or their own natures, it combines lyrical melancholy with broad comedy. The introduction analyses its many views of love and the juxtaposition of joy and melancholy, while the…

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Скачать книгу (размер 937 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 185) Аннотация: This innovative workbook and DVD pack provides a hands-on introduction to the study of language used by learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). The DVD features six adult ESL learners and two native speakers of English doing individual and pairwork language tasks. Linked exercises in the book guide the reader through an analysis of the language used by the ESL learners, with full…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills.

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Merry Wives of Windsor was almost certainly required at short notice for a court occasion in 1597: Shakespeare threw into it all the creative energy that went into his Henry IV plays. Falstaff is here, with Pistol, Mistress Quickly, and Justice Shallow, in a spirited and warm-hearted 'citizen comedy'. Boisterous action is combined with situational irony and rich characterization. In his…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Will Shakespeare dreamed of becoming an actor and a playwright. At nineteen he left his home town of Stratford and headed for London, following his dream. He became an actor, part owner of the Globe theatre — and the greatest playwright of all time. 400 years on, his plays are even more popular. They are performed in theatres all over the world. Other titles in the series: Amelia Earhart,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: Organizing Words presents a series of essays on some 220 widely used — and much debated — terms in the social sciences, and organization studies. Each essay explores the meanings and uses of the word; and also the controversies they have sparked. The book aims to be a first port of call for students, researchers and scholars who wish to familiarize themselves with these key ideas and use them in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: This book reviews interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and morphology. It focuses on the fundamental questions at the centre of this research, for example whether language processing proceeds in a serial or a parallel manner; which areas of the brain support the processing of syntactic and morphological information; whether there are neurophysiological correlates of language…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works — of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings. He focuses both on the syntactic and morphosyntactic devices that languages use, and on the conceptual structures that correspond to particular aspects of linguistic form. He seeks…