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Скачать книгу (размер 498 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 99) Аннотация: Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses — if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she soon wishes…

Скачать книгу (размер 493 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 98) Аннотация: After dinner we turned the lights out and played hide-and-seek. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with... with this cold person — not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there — all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the house! We touched each other in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A complete intermediate course which develops essential language skills and introduces students to a wide range of exam tasks. Especially written and designed for young teenagers.

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: A complete intermediate course which develops essential language skills and introduces students to a wide range of exam tasks. Especially written and designed for young teenagers.

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) 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 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) 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 243 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 49) Аннотация: At the start of this play, the court room is full for today's trial. Two young men, Simon Clark and Dan Smith, stand up. The clerk asks, Are you guilty of the murder of Mary Jones? Not guilty! they reply. But perhaps they are guilty. The police found the murder weapon in their stolen car, and there was blood on Simon's face. If the court finds them guilty, they will go to prison for a very long…

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) 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.

Скачать книгу (размер 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) Аннотация: It's an interesting job, says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong — very wrong.

Скачать книгу (размер 162 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 33) Аннотация: The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange...

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: A new edition of the dictionary that explains more than 10,000 of the most frequently used idioms in English today. This new edition has hundreds of new idioms and examples taken from our corpus. It also has more notes on the origins of idioms, notes to help with difficult vocabulary, study pages, exercises and cartoons to aid learning and add interest.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: While Europe is certainly one of the richest and most educated areas of the world, some of the challenges faced by the old continent are staggering: low economic growth, structural difficulties in the labour market, and increasing international competition. Politicians and policymakers may advocate different means of overcoming the potential economic decline of Europe, but most agree that Europe…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Rachel Riley is the offspring of a depressingly unbroken home. Her mum and dad refuse to let her have a mobile phone, and have banned Ribena (too purple) and Eastenders (too common); her seven-year-old brother buys giant Des Lynam cut-outs and Will Young dolls from ebay and talks in Elvish; and the adopted dog eats her Pride and Prejudice boxed collection. It is time to change things. Rachel…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: I rejoice, said Doctor Johnson, to concur with the Common Reader. For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an engaging look through the lists to reveal what we have been reading — and why. John Sutherland shows that bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The expansion of executive powers amid the war on terrorism has brought the presidency to the center of heated public debate. Now, in The American Presidency, presidential authority Charles O. Jones provides invaluable background to the current controversy, in a compact, reliable guide to the office of the chief executive. This marvelously concise survey is packed with information about the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Is today's language at an all-time low? Edwin Battistella argues that it is wrong to think of slang, regional dialects and nonstandard grammar as simply breaking the rules of good English. Reexamining debates over relativism in language, Battistella argues that we should view language as made up of alternative forms of regularity and orderliness, which require informed engagement with usage.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. This schoolyard rhyme projects an invulnerability to verbal insults that sounds good but rings false. Indeed, the need for such a verse belies its own claims. For most of us, feeling insulted is a distressing-and distressingly common-experience. In Sticks and Stones, philosopher Jerome Neu probes the nature, purpose, and effects…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 737 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 734) Аннотация: Flora of North America Volume 27 is the first volume of three on the bryphytes (mosses, hornworts, and liverworts). Thirty-five authors treat the first half of the mosses, including 32 of the acrocarpous families, with introductory chapters on bryophyte morphology, the history of North America floristic bryology, and economic uses. The 84 species of sphagnum, of considerable economic importance,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 680) Аннотация: In this thorough and illuminating work, Michael Prestwich provides a comprehensive study of Plantagenet England, a dramatic and turbulent period which saw many changes. In politics it saw Simon de Montfort's challenge to the crown in Henry II's reign and it witnessed the deposition of Edward I. In contrast, it also saw the highly successful rules of Edward I and his grandson, Edward III.…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Twenty First Century Science BL is unique in having been extensively trialled over three years with more than 6,000 students in each year. BL is motivating, stimulating and relevant. The specifications and resources are the products of close collaboration between the University of York Science Education Group, the Nuffield Curriculum Centre, OCR, and Oxford University Press.