Десет карти, разкриващи всичко, което трябва да знаете за световната политика. Ревизирано и допълнено издание. ... Всички лидери са ограничени от географията. Решенията им зависят от планини, реки, морета и бетон. За да следвате световните събития, наистина трябва да разбирате хората, идеите и движенията, но ако не познавате географията, никога няма да видите цялата картина. Ако сте се питали защо Путин е толкова обсебен от Крим, защо САЩ са били предопределени да станат световна свръхсила или защо китайската мощ продължава да се разраства, тук ще намерите отговорите на тези въпроси. Пленници на географията разглежда ... |
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Практически тестове за обновения формат на изпита First Certificate, всяка от които включва по 4 комплекта изпитни материали. Номерацията им показва поредността им на издаване и не е обвързана с ниво на владеене на езика. "Cambridge First Certificate in English for updated exam - Комплект 3" съдържа: Учебник Комплект 2 CD Self-study Pack (Учебник с отговори + Комплект 2 CDs) ... |
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Защо нациите успяват или се провалят. В Принципи за справяне в променящия се световен ред легендарният инвеститор Рей Далио , автор на международния бестселър Принципи , разглежда най-бурните икономически и политически периоди в опит да покаже защо бъдещето вероятно ще бъде коренно различно от всичко познато и да предложи практически насоки за успешно справяне в новите условия. Преди няколко години Далио забелязва припокриването на политически и икономически условия, с каквито не се е сблъсквал по-рано. Те включват: огромни дългове и нулеви или почти нулеви лихвени проценти, което води до мащабно печатане на пари в ... |
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Based on the story of Joseph Conrad . Text adaptation by Tim Herdon. ... "There's some bad weather out there", Captain MacWhirr said to himself just before he sailed his ship, the Nan-Shan, into the middle of the most terrible storm in the South China Sea. The typhoon brings out the best in some men on the ship, and the worst in others. Can MacWhirr bring the ship through the storm safely? And what will happen to all the poor Chinese workers travelling home down in the ship's hold? Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building ... |
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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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Since his stories began to appear in magazines such as Weird Tales in the 1920s and 30s, H. P. Lovecraft and his vivid imagination have been entertaining generations of readers with tales that both drew upon and pushed the boundaries of the genres of horror and science fiction. Lovecraft's influence has been immense: countless writers - from Stephen King to Neil Gaiman - and filmmakers such as Guillermo del Toro have acknowledged the way in which Lovecraft has inspired them. Filled with suspense, amazing creatures and sensationally scary scenarios, this chronologically ordered collection of his short stories ... |
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"Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles" are non-fiction graded readers from the "Oxford Bookworms Library" available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. You can drink it, and you can cook with it. You can even make buildings, dresses, and hats out of it. You can give it to somebody as a present, or you can buy it for yourself. And of course you can eat it. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, chocolates with gold on the outside - everybody ... |
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The Sunday Times bestseller. ... 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. The world of the dinosaurs has fascinated on book and screen for decades - from early science fiction classics like The Lost World, to Godzilla terrorizing the streets of Tokyo, and the monsters of Jurassic Park. But what if we got it wrong? In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, top ... |
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"Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles" are non-fiction graded readers from the "Oxford Bookworms Library" available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. What are the most beautiful, the most interesting, the most wonderful things in the world? The Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal - everyone has their favourites. And there are natural wonders too - Mount Everest, Niagara Falls, and the Northern Lights, for example. Here is one ... |
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"Smart and kind and wise". Katherine Rundell ... That year she found the power to be extraordinary. With a grandmother from China and another from Ghana, fifteen-year-old Wing Jones is often caught between worlds. But when tragedy strikes, Wing discovers a talent for running she never knew she had. Wing's speed could bring her family everything it needs. It could also stop Wing getting the one thing she wants. "I loved "Wing Jones". And it makes you want to pull on your shoes and start running." Katherine Rundell "In her darkest time, Wing finds her own strength. I fell in love ... |
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Petar Beron worked at the Institute of Zoology and the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a biologist from 1963 to 2010. Specializating in acarology and biospeleology, he began exploring caves and cave fauna since 1955. He went on expeditions in New Guinea, Indonesia, Mexico, Cuba, China, Vietnam, on the Balkan Peninsula, in Corsica and South America. In his journeys, he discovered many new species of caves and animals. Author and co-author of many books and articles on speleology, zoogeography and acarology. The present publication contains data on 153 species not recorded so ... |
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Половин век под земята е увлекателен разказ за пътя на автора от пещерняк любител до професионалист със съществен принос към българската спелеология. Тези страници са изпълнени с паметни открития, опасни прониквания и неуморни изследвания на впечатляващи пещери по цялото земно кълбо. Историята вплита в себе си разкази за емблематични събития като експеримента за престой под земята в продължение на 62 дни и спускането в световноизвестните пещерни кладенци Епос и Проватина в Гърция. Изпълнени с емоции са разказите за проучването на редица пещерни райони и пещери в България, Албания, Гърция, Виетнам, Иран, Куба, Китай, ... |
