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Burrows Phillip: Orca (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) 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.

Naomi S. Baron: Always on: Language in an Online and Mobile World

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies — including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebooks, blogs, and wikis — are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways we might suppose. Baron draws on a decade of research to provide an eye-opening look at language in an online and mobile world. She reveals for…

Daniel Defoe: Oxford Bookworms Library 2: Robinson Crusoe

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…

Vicary Tim: Skyjack! (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 284 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 57) Аннотация: When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well — too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead — if the hijackers can find out who he is! And there isn't much time. One man lies dead on the runway. In a few minutes the hijackers will…

Ford Martyn: Five Short Plays

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter so much. What if you dream of travelling to other countries, but your friends just laugh? Do you stay at home with them? Or do you decide to be more adventurous? Perhaps you hear that someone has bought…

Schroeder Mark: Being for: Evaluating the Semantic Program of Expressivism

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Expressivism — the sophisticated contemporary incarnation of the noncognitivist research program of Ayer, Stevenson, and Hare — is no longer the province of metaethicists alone. Its comprehensive view about the nature of both normative language and normative thought has also recently been applied to many topics elsewhere in philosophy — including logic, probability, mental and linguistic content,…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Oxford Bookworms Library 2: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

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…

Woolf Virginia: The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: I shall never forget the day I wrote The Mark on the Wall — all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. The Unwritten Novel was the great discovery, however. That — again in one second — showed me how I could embody all my deposit of experience in a shape that fitted it... I saw, branching out of the tunnel I made, when I discovered that method of approach, Jacob's…

Simon Blackburn: The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: This best-selling dictionary is written by one of the most famous philosophers of our time, and it is widely recognized as the best dictionary of its kind. Comprehensive and authoritative, it covers every aspect of philosophy from Aristotle to Zen. With clear and concise definitions, it provides lively and accessible coverage of not only Western philosophical traditions, but also themes from…

Sewell Anna: Black Beauty

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) 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. From his simple beginnings under the shady trees in the meadow, Black Beauty's life takes many twists and turns — from a riding horse on a country estate to a cab horse on the busy streets of London. Over time…

Stone Rex: Flight of the Winged Serpent

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father he's looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he and his friend, Tom, discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints, it takes them to another world... a world of dinosaurs. The boys return to the land of the dinosaurs and set off to explore around the beach and the lagoon. They spot a Quetzalcoatus, the…

John Escott: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: As the Inspector Said and Other Stories

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) 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. The murder plan seems so neat, so clever. How can it possibly fail? And when Sonia's stupid, boring little husband is dead, she will be…

Jussi M. Hanhimaki: The United Nations

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: «The United Nations has been called everything from «the best hope of mankind» to «irrelevant» and obsolete. With this much-needed introduction to the UN, Jussi Hanhimaki engages the current debate over the organizations effectiveness as he provides a clear understanding of how it was originally conceived, how it has come to its present form, and how it must confront new challenges in a rapidly…

Ukiah Nick: Oxford Take Off in Russian (+ CD-ROM)

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Oxford Take Off in Russian makes learning or brushing up on your Russian quick, easy, and fun. Follow an integrated course including activities and dialogues with native speakers so you can feel confident in day-to-day conversation. Advance from beginner to intermediate level in one integrated book and audio course. This complete language-learning kit contains everything you need to speak, read,…

Wildsmith Brian: Brian Wildsmith's Animal Gallery

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Discover a lepe of leopards, a company of parrots, and a stream of minnows in this glorious visual introduction to the animal kingdom sumptuously illustrated by internationally acclaimed picture-book artist, Brian Wildsmith. This beautiful book will delight young animal lovers. Through evocative paintings, children are brought face to face with wildlife from around the world. Brian Wildsmith has…

Charles Dickens: Oxford Bookworms Library 3: A Christmas Carol

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) 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. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says — just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters…

Pocket Oxford Thesaurus

Скачать книгу (размер 4 726 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 928) Аннотация: • A hardback thesaurus, ideal for home, work, or school, with over 230,000 syonyms and antonyms • Features all the words you need for everyday use, with synonyms given in order of usefulness • New usage notes on commonly confused words help you to avoid common pitfalls • Centre section includes new and updated lists of nouns, such as types of birds, bread, and butterflies, to help you expand your…