Based on the story of Jules Verne . Text adaptation by Merinda Wilson . ... In Hamburg, Germany, Professor Otto Lidenbrock comes home with an old Icelandic book. In it there is a message about a journey to the centre of the Earth. Can Lidenbrock and Axel and their Icelandic guide, Hans, find the centre of the Earth? And can they all get home alive after their many underground adventures? 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 ... |
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Картонената табелка от "Simetro" е прекрасен начин да се мотивирате всеки ден - подходяща е за дома, офиса или любимото заведение; за вас, за подарък или просто така. На гърба на табелката има специално място за надписване, което я превръща в оригинална поздравителна картичка. Към нея е прикрепена и връвчица, с която може да се закача на най-различни места. Табелката е с размери 22 x 12 cm. ... |
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Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry. Edited by Katerina Stoykova . ... "The Season of Delicate Hunger" brings us more than thirty Bulgarian poets whom the translators and editor successfully make us feel we need to listen to. The anthology is a valuable introduction to a wide variety of voices most of us have never heard before. The book comes as a gift both to international understanding and to American literature." J. Kates, Editor of "In The Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era" ... |
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From the author of "Small Great Things" and "A Spark of Light" comes a "powerful" novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives. Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein. She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: Prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. ... |
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Двуезично издание на български и английски език. ... Казват, че кръстопътят е благословия и проклятие. Там се срещат както пътищата, така и ветровете, които носят семе и живот, но и разрушения. Наистина кръстопътят не е защитено място, а цел или спирка на завоеватели. Но пък на него пускат корени и оцеляват само най-устойчивите, съчетали най-силните гени. На такъв чуден кръстопът се намира малката слънчева България. Времето е оставило дълбоки пластове в днешните ѝ земи, много култури са споили роденото тук и донесеното от другаде. В бури и затишия на това място се е родила поразителната смес, дала живот на безчет ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Supernatural hounds, a family curse, a mysterious cipher and the return of a deadly enemy. Sherlock Holmes will have to utilize every skill he has to solve the two classic mysteries collected here. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" sees Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the misty wilds of Dartmoor to confront a devilish apparition, while in The Valley of Fear the pair investigate a gruesome murder that may be the work of the dastardly Professor Moriarty himself. In this "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition, Sherlock scholar David ... |
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The use of airborne weapons in combat characterizes armed conflict since the end of the 19th Century, and especially since the start of the 20th Century. Today the significance of airborne weaponry has grown to the point where it plays a decisive role in the outcome of armed and political crises. This book is dedicated to 100-anniversary from the first control humans` flight, aims to clarify the genesis of air power, uncover its essence, and trace the evolution in this term during certain stages of its currency.Official historiography, memoirs,and scientific papers form the base for research. Subject of the study is air ... |
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Abridged, introduced and annotated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, ... |
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Based on the story of Gaston Leroux . Retold by Jennifer Bassett . ... It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers... But who has actually seen him? Finalist of The Language Learner Literature Award 2004. Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written ... |
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An abridged edition with an afterword by Marcus Clapham. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas is the ultimate novel of retribution. Based on a true story, it recounts the story of Edouard Dantes, his betrayal and imprisonment in the sinister Chateau d'If. Years later, Paris is intrigued by the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, who bursts onto the Paris social scene with his millions. He encounters the three principal betrayers of Dantes who have prospered in the post-Napoleonic boom and, one by one, their lives fall apart. The book was a huge, popular ... |
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The book at hand, Living in Two Worlds - Bulgarian Czechs in the Village of Voyvodovo, explores the Czech Protestant community that once lived in the north-western region of Bulgaria in the first half of the XX century. The authors examine various aspects of this vibrant Czech community in Bulgaria, such as their religiosity, kinship, language, and architecture, thus providing valuable insight into the nature of this rather unique group. The book shows how the Czech village of Voyvodovo, founded in 1900 by migrants from the village of Svatá Helena (in what is today Romanian Banat), developed into a rather distinct ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Now a major motion picture with a hugely star studded cast, featuring the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland, Emma Thompson, Antonio Banderas and Selena Gomez. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Doctor Dolittle is one of the most delightful and fascinating characters in children's literature. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Story of Doctor Dolittle is ... |
