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Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Скачать книгу (размер 10 499 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 2060) Аннотация: This internationally acclaimed dictionary is widely used as a key reference tool by language professionals. With over 300,000 words and phrases, and half a million translations, and packed full of grammatical and usage information for both languages, it is the most authoritative Spanish bilingual dictionary available. Developed through consultation with academic advisors, its editors have used…

Wildsmith Brian: The Easter Story

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Once, a long time ago, a little donkey was brought to Jesus. The story of Easter is told here through the eyes of the donkey that carried Jesus into the city of Jerusalem. He watches the Last Supper, he sees Jesus brought before Pontius Pilate, he is there when Jesus is crucified, and he witnesses the joy of the resurrection. Every year, as these events are remembered, this beautiful retelling…

Little Oxf Dictionary and Thesaurus

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: Tired of flipping back and forth between a dictionary and a thesaurus, searching for just the right word? This second edition of the Little Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus, combines (joins, unifies, links, connects, integrates, merges, etc.) two superb language resources, allowing users to find both definitions and synonyms under the same entry quickly and easily. Available in the US for the…

Marx Karl: Capital

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. Millions of readers this century have treated Capital as a sacred text,…

Shakespeare William: Anthony and Cleopatra

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Shakespeare William: The Taming of the Shrew

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew. It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in 1594 as The Taming of the Shrew through several eighteenth-century versions to modern-dress productions and transformations into ballet, musical, film, and opera. Introducing this new edition, H.J. Oliver pays…

Oxford Popular School Dictionary

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: The Popular School dictionary has over 40, 000 words and phrases, with simple meanings and example phrases show how words are used. It includes words from the curriculum, international vocabulary and new words from ICT. It is ideal for quick word look-up at home.

Marie-Louise Jensen: Between Two Seas

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Travel to Skagen and find him. Give him my letter. Seek a better life, Marianne! Promise! Bound by a vow made to her dying mother, Marianne sells her few belongings and leaves Grimsby. Her destination? Denmark, where she will search for her father, Lars Christensen-the golden-haired fisherman her mother fell in love with many years before. The journey will be long-and dangerous for a young girl…

Marie-Louise Jensen: The Lady in the Tower

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Spring 1540 I am afraid. You are in grave danger. Mother, will you run away with me if I can free you? The servants call it the Lady Tower: the isolated part of the castle where Eleanor's mother is imprisoned after a terrible accusation. For four years Eleanor's only comfort has been their secret notes to one another. A chance discovery reveals a plot to murder her mother. Now Eleanor must free…

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell: North and South

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret`s ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill owner, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social…

Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus

Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: Featuring a dictionary and thesaurus combined, the Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus provides the essential language reference help you need in a single portable volume. The second edition of this reference book has been completely redesigned so that it is easier to use. The thesaurus entry for a word now immediately follows the dictionary entry, so that you do not need to hunt around the…

Lindop Christine: Doors to a Wider Place

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: When it came to football, Billy was different. Black hands grab the ball. Black feet kick the ball. Black hopes rise up with the ball to the sickly white sky. No one can stop him now. He forgets about the river, and the people of his blood... But who can forget their own past? Billy finds that the ties which hold him to the people of his blood are strong indeed... The stories in this volume of…

Vicary Tim: Death in the Freezer

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Ellen Shore's family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first. And when they are adults, Al still comes first. He begins a rock band and makes records. Soon he is rich and famous — very rich, but he gives nothing to his sister Ellen. She has a…

West Clare: Dancing with Strangers

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Sometimes I think this search is hopeless. So much has happened since I last saw my friends. Perhaps they have died or the rebels have taken them away. But I know I have to find Laker. I know she needs me. In a country torn by war, it is easy to stop hoping. All Atita has is an old photograph. She does not even know if she will recognize Laker after all these years... The stories in this volume…

Bassett Jennifer: Changing Their Skies

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. They offered him a place... a place with a scholarship. Aloo could not believe it at first. He read the letter again and again. Aloo is very happy, but soon he finds that it is not so easy. He will need money to live on, money for his plane ticket... And then there is Mother... The stories in this volume of World Stories come from…

Darvill Timothy: Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: This is the most wide-ranging, comprehensive, and up-to-date dictionary of archaeology available. Over 4,000 A-Z entries explain the terms encountered in academic and popular archaeological literature, in lectures, and on television. Topics covered include artifacts, techniques, terminology, people, sites, and periods, and specialist areas such as industrial and maritime archaeology. This second…

Cross Gillian: Wolf

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Cassy lives with her granny, until the night that she hears strange footsteps coming into their flat. The next morning, she is packed off to her mum's — a squat in London that her beautiful, simple mother shares with a couple of actors. Cassy does her best to throw herself into her mother's life, even agreeing to take part in their travelling show called 'Wolf'. But she can't ever get rid of the…

Hannam Joyce: Ariadne's Story

Скачать книгу (размер 310 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 62) Аннотация: 'When he went home to Athens, the great prince Theseus left me on the island of Naxos. But why did he leave me? Everyone says that he was tired of me. But when we met, I was the princess of Crete and the most beautiful woman in the Aegean Sea.' Ariadne's story is one woman's tale of secret love, adventure and of escape — both from danger and from a life that she wanted to leave far behind her —…

Rivers Susan: English Time 1: Student Book

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Packed with pictures, stories, and activities, English Time is a six-level communicative course that develops students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, while they have fun!