During the last few years, the name of Perperikon, situated in the Balkan Peninsula in the southern part of Bulgaria at some 20 km to the northeast of the town of Kardzhali, in the wilderness of the Eastern Rodop Mountains made quite a stir. In the year 2000 "AD, this has been still c small rocky summit, densely overgrown with thorny shrubs and blackberries. Here and there one could see masonry walls and deeply hewn crevices in the living rock left by ancient cultures, long ago extinct. Once, archaeological excavations were carried out on this hill, but the pits were long ago abandoned and overgrown with weeds. A ... |
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The Award - Winning Sunday Times №1 Bestseller. ... 97 - hour weeks. Life and death decisions. A constant tsunami of bodily fluids. And the hospital parking meter earns more that you. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless night and missed weekends, Adam Kay's diaries provide a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few thing you didn't - about life on and off the hospital. "So funny and important it should be given out on prescription." ... |
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A psycholinguistic analysis of editorials concerning 9/11. ... "Life and Death in a Time of Terror" is a psycholinguistic study of how 270 editorials from five different newspapers sought to make sense of an initially incomprehensible set of events: the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, DC and a United Airlines jet flying over a field somewhere in rural Pennsylvania. What made this a pressing task in 2001 was that not only did these attacks produce some 3000 deaths (many as horrible as can possibly be imagined), the destruction of two of America's largest ... |
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Fourth Revised Edition for the Entrance Tests at Medical University of Varna. ... A Handbook of Biology and Chemistry Test Items is specifically intended for applicants, interested in the programmes of Medicine and Dental Medicine taught in English language at MU-Varna. It is an essential tool for proper preparation for the entrance tests in Biology and Chemistry. In the Handbook you will find examination questions in two parts - Chemistry and Biology. Each part contains 5 sections (Multiple Choice Questions, Gap-Filling Questions, Matching Questions, True / False Questions and Definitions and Explanations). The keys ... |
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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. Paul Morris's happy life in Italy changes when his wife dies suddenly. He develops a relationship with Sandra, a friend at work, but everything is not as it seems. How can Sandra afford such an expensive car? And why does she keep making mysterious phone calls? Soon Paul is involved in international crime and a thrilling car chase across Europe. ... |
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Now a major motion picture. ... Charlie's not the biggest geek in high school. Shy, introspective, intelligent, yet socially awkward, Charlie is a wallflower, standing on the threshold of his life whilst watching everyone else live theirs. As Charlie tries to navigate his way through uncharted territory - the world of first dates and mix tapes, family dramas and new friends - he realises that he can't stay on the sidelines forever. There comes a time when you have to see what life looks like from the dance floor. A modern classic and now a major motion picture, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a ... |
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This book surveys the major linguistic and social changes which shaped the English language. It begins with the Proto-Indo-European common ancestor, goes through Old English and Middle English providing illustrations of the changes with authentic texts, and finishes with Early Modern English. The text is written for advanced non-native students of English who are curious to find out how from some obscure Germanic dialects spoken in an abandoned Roman colony on the edge of Europe a new global language evolved. ... |
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From the Big Bang to Black Holes. The phenomenal international bestseller. Updated editition. ... Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece which begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time - from the Big Bang to black holes, via spiral galaxies and string theory. To this day a A Brief History Of Time remains a staple of the scientific canon, and its ... |
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"In finite games, like football or chess, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is clear. The winners and losers are easily identified. In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go, the rules are changeable, and there is no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers in an infinite game - there is only ahead and behind. The more I started to understand the difference between finite and infinite games, the more I began to see infinite games all around us. I started to see that many of the struggles that organizations face exist simply because their ... |
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Andrei Danchev (1933 - 1996) was a Bulgarian linguist, Anglicist and Americanist who worked for the Department of English and American Studies at Sofia University. Danchev was the author of a widely accepted system for the Bulgarian transcription of English names and, together with M. Holman, E. Dimova and M. Savova, also an English-oriented system for the Romanization of Bulgarian known as the Danchev System. ... |
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Трийсет години след като сложи точката в продължението на култовата книга-игра "Варварският бог", Богдан Русев с псевдоним ( Робърт Блонд ) се завръща в света на Алкирия, за да разкаже една нова история. История, която безмилостно развенчава митовете за властта и наследството на миналото, за да разкрие бруталната истина под тях. Всичко започва оттам, където свършва последният епизод от "Принцът на Алкирия". Но този път нищо не е на игра. Време е да пораснем. В далечното южно кралство Алкирия (което според някои не е никакво кралство, а марионетна провинция на Империята) току-що е предотвратен ... |
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Люелин е малко зайче с големи чувства. Той не обичаше да се страхува. Да бъде тъжен, ядосан, самотен или засрамен. Затова му хрумна брилянтна идея: натъпка всяко едно от тези чувства в буркан и ги скри там, където повече нямаше да го безпокоят. Когато се забърка в неприятности, Люелин реши, че е нужно да остави въодушевлението настрана. А когато радостта бе последвана от разочарование, той реши да се отърве и от тях. Но какво се случи, когато емоциите му отказаха да стоят вече затворени в буркани? Илюстрации: Дебора Марсеро . ... |
