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Скачать книгу (размер 2 023 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 398) Аннотация: The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in western Belorussia that would number more than 1,200 Jews by 1944-the largest armed rescue operation of Jews by Jews in World War II. Tec reveals…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 636 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 322) Аннотация: Examines how formulaic language (lexical chunks) is used in a variety of real-life situations. Presents a framework for examining the existence and function of formulaic language and tests it extensively against language data within a wide variety of language samples. Formulaic language is a fast-growing area of applied linguistic research, and the author is a key figure in this field.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained…
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Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers — now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: It starts with the phone call, late at night. The mysterious boy says he is dying. Dusty doesn't want to get involved — but the boy seems to have a link to the one person who's most important to her. Soon she has been drawn in — and now she has to deal with the other people who are looking for the boy — the violent man and his two sons, and the police too... Yet throughout all this, Dusty senses…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers — now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: «Frankenstein» was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron wrote one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy, who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from relics of the dead, with horrific consequences. «Frankenstein» confronts some of the most feared innovations…
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