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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Children are fascinated by traditions in different cultures and religions and this anthology celebrates the diversity of festivals around the world. Taking the reader through the year, there are poems about the lion dance in Singapore, the fishing festival in Nigeria, the doll festival in Japan and many more, as well as celebrations much loved in the UK. Useful footnotes give extra details about…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Presents a text that encourages very young children to walk and talk like the animals — including waddling like a penguin, stomping like a rhino, and jumping and wiggling to the monkey bop. On the accompanying CD, it is narrated over a calypso melody and punctuated with boisterous animal noises.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Presents a funny text that encourages very young children to walk and talk like the animals — including waddling like a penguin, stomping like a rhino and jiving and jiggling and jumping and wiggling to the monkey bop. It is entertaining with of scope for interaction and play.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Why do we measure time in the way that we do? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? This book explores time measurement and the organisation of time into hours, days, months and years using a range of examples, from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter.

Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', has now become a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are opening up debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists,…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: ARRROOO! Poor Little Lost Cowboy. He's strayed away from his mummy, and cannot find her anywhere. As he searches for her he bumps into a cactus, bumps his bottom, and finally bumps himself into a hole. Ouch! At last he meets a kindly toad who gives him some very sound advice — stay put, and your mummy will find you. Caroline has a strong sales track record: her previous book for OUP, Hungry Hen…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Over 600 concise articles, arranged in alphabetical order, which explain and illustrate points of grammar, usage, vocabulary, idiom, style, and pronunciation. For this new edition, the whole book has been thoroughly revised and, in places, reorganized and rewritten.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Read at Home is a new series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 12 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 4 levels, and contain built-in progression and vocabulary repetition throughout.…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: On a restaurant on a boat, in faraway Hong Kong, lives a little mouse. This enchanting story tells of his adventures when, one New Year's night, he magics a carved wooden dragon into life and together they fly through midnight skies, over lands you and I only dream of...

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic and linguistic culture, whose expansion overseas led them to cross the Atlantic for the first time in European history. Highlighting the latest archaeological…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Dodder, Baldmoney, Cloudberry, and Sneezewort are the last four gnomes in Britain and were first introduced to us in the Carnegie Medal-winning book, The Little Grey Men. In this charming book their story continues and we find them tucked up in their cosy home, next to the Folly, for winter. But when they're awakened from their sleep with the terrible news that the Folly is drying up, they must…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Contains illustrations and diagrams which explain business concepts such as decision-making. This dictionary features notes which help to build vocabulary, and explain the difference between words that are often confused and give information on aspects of business. The accompanying CD-ROM provides exercises to prepare for Business English exams.

Скачать книгу (размер 90 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 19) Аннотация: Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Charlie is always trying to find unusual things to capture on camera and takes a chance photograph in the dark of something swimming in the river. He thinks he knows what it was, but no one believes him. When the photo's displayed at school, new boy Peter seems fascinated. It seems bizarre. But Peter's weird? When he looks at people in a particular way, odd things seem to happen. As Peter becomes…

Скачать книгу (размер 815 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 161) Аннотация: Comprehensive, challenging, and effective, this title features the best of American Headway, for upper-intermediate to advanced students.

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Comprehensive, challenging, and effective — the best of American Headway for upper-intermediate to advanced students.

Скачать книгу (размер 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 170) Аннотация: A guide to British and American business correspondence.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians and journalists over the last two and a half millennia? Why do we still read, re-write, and stage these…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are the works, such as the Last Supper fresco, or the monumental marble statue of David. But who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable images, and how would their original beholders have viewed these objects? Was the Renaissance only about great masters and masterpieces, or were mistresses also…