Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does not know. In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. Famously beginning by comparing the world to a watch, whose design is self-evident, he goes on to provide examples from biology, anatomy, and astronomy in order to…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Give me the money, says the robber to the Los Angeles security guard. The guard looks at the gun and hands over the money. The robber has long blond hair and rides a motorcycle — and a girl with long blond hair arrives at Kenny's motel — on a motorcycle. Is she the robber?
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. From Floppy having no bone (0) through…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. After the death of her parents, Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle's house on the Yorkshire Moors. But the house is an unhappy one. A tragedy happened there years before, and Mary's uncle has never recovered.…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) 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. Nick Lortz is sitting outside a café in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «Notes from the Underground» (1864) is one of the most profound works of nineteenth-century literature. A probing, speculative book, often regarded as a forerunner of the Existentialist movement, it examines the important political and philosophical questions that were current in Russia and Europe at the time. «The Gambler» (1866), set in the fictional town of Roulettenberg, explores the…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: It is the year 2030, and an e-mail message arrives at New York Cafe: I want to help people and make them happy! But not everybody is happy about the e-mail, and soon the police and the President are very interested in the New York Cafe.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women. The Kill (La Curee) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things — about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness. From the hedges around…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The four Walker children never meant to go to sea. They had promised their mother to stay safely in the harbour, and to be home on Friday in time for tea. But there they are in someone else's boat, drifting out to sea in a thick fog. When the fog lifts, they can turn round and sail back to the harbour. But then comes the wind and the storm, driving them out even further across the cold North…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in secret with the birds and fairies in the middle of London, but as the children for whom he invented the stories grew older, so too did Peter, reappearing in Neverland, where he was aided in his epic battles with Red Indians and pirates by the…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: When Tonya and her friends decide to sail around the world they want to see exciting things and visit exciting places. But one day, they meet an orca — a killer whale — one of the most dangerous animals in the sea. And life gets a little too exciting.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: I long to study the purely national, natural character of an Irishwoman When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father's Irish estate as punishment for gambling debts and dissipated living, he adopts the persona of knight errant and goes off in search of adventure. On the wild west coast of Connaught he finds remnants of a romantic Gaelic past a dilapidated castle, a Catholic…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: At home we started with an innocent life. Walking home from village dances across pale wet fields, looking at birds on the moonlit lake, playing a tune across the water in the early morning with no other sound in the clear cold air. Innocence and experience, loss and longing, humour and sadness run hand in hand through these stories. The stories in this volume of World Stories are by Irish…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. From Gran picking an apple to Chip and…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) 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. In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files — the Omega Files. There are strange,…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Every day someone steals money from people near the shops. We must stop this, says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many suspects — who is the robber?
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds. So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France. It is a brilliantly witty parody of the medieval romances, and a fitting monument to the court society of the Italian Renaissance which gave them birth. This unabridged…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «William Blake (1757-1827) was a poet of striking originality, whose poetic world of myth and mysticism continues to fascinate. By turns a haunting lyricist, an apocalyptic visionary, and an unorthodox thinker, Blake was for years ignored or derided. Sustained by his belief in the artistic imagination, he drafted poetry, prose visions, and epigrams, and manufactured beautiful illustrated volumes…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Sally is always running — and she has her phone with her all the time: at home, on the train, at work, at lunchtime, and at the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has a different phone... and it changes her life.