Retold by Joyce Hannam . ... Are men cleverer than women? Is a poor man cleverer than a rich man? And what about teachers? Are they always cleverer than their students? The people in these six well-known folk tales from around the world all want to be clever. But are some of them just stupid? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page glossaries the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for learners. Each reader is carefully graded to ensure each student reads from the ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. One day in the fall a woman calls at the New York office of Nat Marley, licensed private investigator, to ask him to find Patrick, her missing husband. Marley's enquiries take him to the financial district of Wall Street and an investment company whose returns are too good to be true. Then the police find a body in the trunk of a car – Patrick's car. Whose is the body and where is Patrick? Paperback-only ... |
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Теологичните вярвания на Маргарет Старбърд са дълбоко разклатени, когато прочита "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" ("Света кръв, свети Граал") - книга, която дръзва да издигне идеята, че Исус Христос е бил женен за Мария Магдалина и че техните наследници продължават неговата свята кръвна линия в Западна Европа. Шокирана от подобна ерес, тази римокатолическа изследователка се заема да я обори, но вместо това открива нови и убедителни доказателства за съществуването на съпруга на Исус - същата енигматична жена, която го е миропомазала със скъпоценното миро от нейния "алабастров съд". В провокативната ... |
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Illustrated by Fausto Biabchi. ... "I have got to do it, because she has given me a reason to do it which I will not say out loud. She must die, because if she doesn't die she'll deceive other men. I'll put out the light of this torch, and then I'll put out the light of her life." From the Book When Othello, the Moorish general of Venice, marries Desdemona, the daughter of a rich Venetian, he must prove that they are really in love. But his "honest" friend Iago has other plans, for power revenge. They travel to the island of Cyprus, and Iago works to set Othello against his new wife ... |
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Two dark comedies with ghost/mystery themes which are set around the period of the American War of Independence. Ichabod Crane is the hero of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Peculiar-looking and socially inept, this schoolmaster is a joke to the people of Sleepy Hollow as he tries to win the love of the beautiful daughter of a rich farmer." - The horseman's head still lies somewhere on the battlefield - the people of Sleepy Hollow said. – Every night, he rides back to the battlefield to look for it. One dark night, Ichabod Crane - the village schoolmasters - saw the Headless Horseman. Or did he?" From the book ... |
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Книга 1 от поредицата "Bulgarian Academic Monographs". ... The book is a comprehensive crystallogenetic overview on the morphology of minerals based on the authors’ original ideas. Current theories of crystal growth are briefly dealt with, attention being paid to the classical layer-by-layer and dislocation mechanisms. The modification of crystal forms of the most important rock-forming and ore-forming minerals, presented by their principal crystal habits, is checked by both observation in their natural occurrences and laboratory experiments. Crystal growth by accretion of clusters and/or submicroscopic ... |
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The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and farce. Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. Boccaccio makes the incredible believable, with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago. ... |
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Rila Monastery is the stateliest historical monument of the Bulgarian's spirit. It's intricate and expressive architectural ensemble has been a treasure-house of priceless aesthetical relics and at the same time a living center of the nascency and evolution of the most progressive cultural-and-historical processes through the centuries. Viewed against th background of the rich architectural structure and of Bulgaria's church construction, it is not a solitary summit, but beyond all questions the highest one among the peaks of the country's national architecture. A permanent object of patriotic pride and of ... |
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Award-winning readers series of original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Hundreds of dead fish, some unexplained deaths and a birdless town. Three newspaper reports from Finland attract interest from the British secret service. 'Foreign Executive' Ian Munro is sent to Lahti to investigate. But when his first contact is killed in front of him, Munro realises that someone knows why he is there... and that they will do anything to protect their secret. ... |
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Едва ли има нещо по-драматично и омагьосващо от това да станеш свидетел на сблъсъка на две цивилизации. Да проникнеш като с машина на времето в напълно запазена самобитна култура отпреди 1900-та година. Да видиш как, затворена до вчера екзотична азиатска страна като Япония, започва бурно да се модернизира по западен образец. Парламентарно управление, древни езически религиозни процесии и символически представления... какво общо може да има между тях? На пръв поглед нищо освен общата сцена, на която се разиграват, но дали наистина е така? ... |
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Unadapted short stories by Rudyard Kipling, O. Henry, William Wymark Jacobs, Virginia Woolf, Jack London and Gerald Durell. ... This collection brings together stories and extracts which explore the relationship people have with animals large and small, wild and tame, real and imaginary. From a fantastical children's fable to a complex psychological love story, readers are sure to find stories that will delight and entertain them. This book is both in British and American English. ... |
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by David Stuard Davies. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Faithfully supported by his chronicler, Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes pits his wits against "Napoleon of Crime" Professor Moriarty, assists European royalty threatened by disgrace, helps to solve the mysterious death of a young woman due to be married, and investigates intrigues that have defeated the detectives of Scotland Yard. Packed with excitement and mystery, this collection showcases the legendary sleuth at his very best. This "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition features an ... |
