Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Once 'green' was just a colour. Now we use it to talk about a way of looking at our world and thinking about the environment. But how green is our planet today? From nuclear power plants to Nemo the clownfish, from polar bears to pesticides, from Greenpeace to global warming, this book brings together many different stories that have made environmental history. Read it, and perhaps you too can…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: The three stories in this book are about ordinary people, people like you and me; but they find themselves in surprising situations. Lord Arthur Savile, a rich man with no enemies, finds out that he must do something terrible before he can marry. Poor young Hughie Erskine gives money to an old beggar but the beggar is not what he seems. And Lord Murchison falls in love with a mystery woman but…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: 'You said that you wanted danger, didn't you?' says McArdle, the editor of the Daily Gazette. And he sends his young reporter, Malone, on a strange journey into South America with the famous Professor Challenger. Challenger believes he can find a lost world full of dinosaurs in the middle of the Amazon forest. But this world is dangerous to reach, and, once the Professor and his small group of…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Life is hard and dangerous for both people and animals in the frozen Canadian North. For a wolf like White Fang it is a continuous fight to find food — a fight in which many animals die. When White Fang meets the people of the North — first Indians and then White Men — he learns to live with them like a dog. But some men are cruel to their dogs and others are kind. Will White Fang's life be any…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Marseille, France, 1815. It is Edmond Dantes' wedding day. But his enemies have other plans, and Edmond is arrested and sent to the terrible island prison of Chateau d'If. For fourteen long years he waits for the right moment to escape. And now Edmond is a rich man, with many disguises, and a new name. The Count of Monte Cristo begins his revenge...
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Over the years hunters, poachers, and war have killed many of the gorillas of central Africa. But there are still a few hundred living high in the mists of the Virunga Mountains. When Dian Fossey first saw a family of wild mountain gorillas in the Virungas she knew that she must help these wonderful animals. This true story tells of the twenty years she lived with them, watched them, wrote about…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: A 'Tall Tale' is a story that's hard to believe, and the five tall tales in this book all tell of ghosts. Some have dark secrets buried in the past, others bring messages for the living. Some are laughable, some are sad, and some are just evil. Sometimes there's a logical explanation for the strangest happenings, but often things cannot be explained by logic alone. Either way, you're sure to find…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Thomas Gradgrind believes that facts and money are more important than feelings and imagination. After Cissy Jupe a circus child is left alone in the world, Gradgrind takes her into his house, looking after her and teaching her facts with his own children Tom and Louisa. Some years later the Gradgrind family meets hard times. Louisa becomes a prisoner in a loveless marriage, and Tom has problems…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Let's go see the West, said Pa. 'The land is flat and the grass grows thick and high. Animals run freely and there are no settlers. Only Indians live there.' So, more than a hundred years ago, the Ingalls family went by covered wagon into Kansas — Indian Territory. This is the true story of how they lived in those exciting, difficult, and sometimes dangerous, times.
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: 'Why shouldn't we offer to take care of her? She could live with us at Mansfield.' In this way Mrs Norris persuades her sister, Lady Bertram, and Lady Bertram's husband, Sir Thomas, to ask their poor niece Fanny Price to live with them at Mansfield Park. At first Fanny is unhappy there. Then, after she makes friends with her young cousins, things improve. But what happens when the cousins are…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: The Moonstone is a beautiful yellow diamond that was stolen from the statue of a Moon god in India. When Franklin Blake brings it to Rachel Verinders house in Yorkshire for her birthday, it brings bad luck with it. How many people will the Moonstone hurt? How many must die before the diamonds revenge is complete?
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: 'All men are created equal...' When Thomas Jefferson wrote these words in June 1776, in the American Declaration of Independence, he started something that was very much bigger than he imagined. This book looks at the history around that Declaration, and at the Revolution that led to the birth of the United States of America.
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Adolf Verloc is a double agent, working for both the British police and a foreign country. He pretends to live a normal life, with his wife, Winnie, and has a shop in London, which, at night, becomes a meeting place for anarchists. One day Verloc is told to plant a bomb but the plan goes terribly wrong Does Verloc really love Winnie, or is she just part of his cover? Can Winnie ever forgive him?…
Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: Bring me something new and exciting. Bring me a BIG story! says Rosies editor at The Record newspaper. And, when she leaves the office, Rosie does find a story. A story that is bigger then she expects. A story that takes her across Europe, into a dangerous world of art and art thieves.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Шестиуровневый УМК для начальной школы, который интригует и привлекает внимание детей «сюрпризами» и увлекательными рассказами. Рассчитан на 60 — 90 часов. Забавные наборы «сюрпризов» от Uncle Harry, волшебные сундучки, закрытые на замки, и увлекательные вебсайты, вызывают интерес ребят и мотивируют их к изучению языка. Каждый рассказ учебного пособия написан в увлекательной форме и содержит…
Скачать книгу (размер 315 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 63) Аннотация: Шестиуровневый УМК для начальной школы, который интригует и привлекает внимание детей «сюрпризами» и увлекательными рассказами. Рассчитан на 60 — 90 часов. Забавные наборы «сюрпризов» от Uncle Harry, волшебные сундучки, закрытые на замки, и увлекательные вебсайты, вызывают интерес ребят и мотивируют их к изучению языка. Каждый рассказ учебного пособия написан в увлекательной форме и содержит…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it. In the 'rubaiyat' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: This Very Short Introduction looks deep into space and describes the worlds that make up our Solar System: terrestrial planets, giant planets, dwarf planets and various other objects such as satellites (moons), asteroids and Trans-Neptunian objects. It considers how our knowledge has advanced over the centuries, and how it has expanded at a growing rate in recent years. David A. Rothery gives an…
Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. Known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, the principle behind the electric generator and transformer, he has frequently been portrayed as the father of electrical engineering from whence much of his popular fame derives. This Very Short Introduction dispels the myth that Faraday was an experimental genius…
Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how they have developed, what goes on in them, and how they react to changing climates, tectonics and human activities. Examining what landscape is, and how we use a range of ideas and techniques to study it, Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles…