В продължение на десет години Ерик Уайнър е чуждестранен кореспондент на Националното обществено радио на САЩ. Работил е в Ню Делхи, Йерусалим и Токио, правил е репортажи в повече от 40 страни. Бил е кореспондент за НОР в Ню Йорк, Маями, във Вашингтон, окръг Колумбия, бил е репортер на "Ню Йорк Таймс". Автор е на книгите "География на блаженството: Един мърморко търси най-щастливите места на света" и "Човекът търси Бог: Моят флирт с божественото". Дали швейцарците са по-щастливи, защото живеят в най-демократичната страна на света? Дали жителите на Катар, потънали в петродолари, намират ... |
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Учебно помагало по физическа и икономическа география за 9. клас за училищата с преподаване на английски език. В общата част, съобразно спецификата на курса, ударението пада върху общите понятия, които се означават с термини, в регионалната част - върху единичните понятия, които се означават с географски имена. При това е избрана адекватна методика за тяхното усвояване - приоритет се дава на учебната работа с географската карта. В методически план особено внимание се обръща на формирането на пространствени представи, които са важна съставна част от географската култура на учениците. Застъпен е и игровият елемент, с ... |
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Десет карти, разкриващи бъдещето на нашия свят. Вижте защо следващата бежанска криза в Европа е по-близо, отколкото си мислим, заради проблемите в Сахел; защо Източното Средиземноморие е една от най-взривоопасните точки през XXI век и защо земната атмосфера предстои да се превърне в следващото световно бойно поле."Интересно и достъпно изследване на силите, оформящи нашето бъдеще на Земята и отвъд нея." Ед Хюсеин, автор на Ислямът. Световна история "Книгите на Маршъл са отлично четиво за всеки, който се опитва да разбере света и наблюдава с изумление променящите се съюзи. Маршъл предлага изключителен ... |
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A mason with a dream. 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can use his talents to create and build a cathedral like no other. A monk with a burning mission. Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, is resourceful, but with money scarce he knows that for his town to survive it must find a way to thrive, and so he makes the decision to build within it the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. A world of high ideals and savage cruelty. As Tom and Philip meet so begins an epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute ... |
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When Buck is smuggled from his beloved home in the Santa Clara Valley and forced to work as a sled-dog in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon, he must forget the long, lazy Californian days and face a life of constant toil and danger under the whip of cruel or inept masters, where survival itself must be fought for. But with his primal instincts stirred, how long can Buck resist the call of the wild? Set at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush, The Call of the Wild is one of the greatest evocations of the natural world, and perhaps the best example of London's famously urgent and vivid style. Contains: Extra material ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Strange things are going on at the Paris Opera House; a mysterious phantom - a skeleton in dinner dress - is wreaking havoc amongst the singers and backstage staff. But when new managers take over and dismiss the rumours of the Opera Ghost, the terror really begins. Who is the curious figure stalking the stage at night? How can he be in so many places at once, entering and leaving locked rooms at will? And what is his connection to the beautiful and talented young soloist, Christine? "The Phantom of the Opera" is perhaps best known for its many ... |
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It was then that Erda, the great mother goddess, uttered an onerous prophesy: only a man of free will could wear the Ring and direct its might. The Rheingold brought damnation to all others and they all, dwarf or giant, mortal or god, would fall victim and the Ring would vanquish them... But if a man of free will were to don it, all would be freed and the gods would perish. Peter Stanimirov is a Bulgarian artist. His name associate with comics magazine "Rainbow", with "Pleiades Publishing House" and book covers of Stephen King and Dean Koontz, with the boom of books games at Bulgaria, with his ... |
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Pack your suitcase for a magical adventure! At the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, each suitcase transports you to a different world. All you have to do is step inside. Flick is now a badge-wearing member of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency so when an urgent summons arrives at Strangeworlds from Pirate Queen Nyfe, she and Strangeworlds Society guardian Jonathan immediately pack their bags for an adventure to Queen Nyfe's world: The Break, a place of magic and piracy. Nyfe's world is falling apart. The Break is used to having ships vanish without a trace, but there has been a sudden increase that can't be ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... One of the first great spy novels, "The Riddle of the Sands" is set during the long, suspicious years leading up to the First World War. In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the boredom of his life in London. He accepts an invitation from a college friend, Davies, a shyly intrepid yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic, and there, amidst the sunshine and bright blue seas, they discover a German plot to invade England... Like much contemporary British ... |
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Pack your suitcase for the final magical adventure at the Strangeworlds Travel Agency! Flick and Jonathan have faced countless dangers in their roles as part of the Strangeworlds Society and come out alive on the other side. But what do they really know about the Society they are risking their lives for? Why does it exist? Who is Strangeworlds there to protect? And what in the worlds is happening to the multiverse now? With worlds everywhere under threat of collapse and mysteries abounding, it's up to Flick and Jonathan to discover the answers to these questions. And only if they can uncover the secrets of ... |
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Meet Tom Sawyer, a boy with a good heart who's always in trouble with everyone: at home, in school and in church. With his best friends, Joe, Ben and Huckleberry, Tom lives an exciting outdoor life. But he begins to grow up when pretty Becky Thatcher comes to town, and when something terrible happens in this quiet town near the Mississippi. Nouns: Pronouns, Connectives, Adjectives, Prepositions. Verbs: Present Perfect Simple; Past Continuous; Present Simple Passive; will for future reference, promises & predictions; would like for offers & requests; need for necessity & obligation; could for ability; mustn't for ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Controversial and sexually charged, The Taming of the Shrew is possibly William Shakespeare's first play, and certainly among the most performed. Petruchio's courtship of the unwilling shrew Katherina poses the question: is it an examination of brute male domination or a passionate love story with a powerful moral message? To read it is to gain unique insight into a portrait of a marriage as created by a true master. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition is illustrated throughout by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert (1817 - 1897), and ... |
