Editor: Phoebe Gloeckner. Series editor: Bill Kartalopoulos. ... "I love comics. Comics is (Comics are?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language," writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to "The Best American Comics 2018". This year's collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today. "The Best American Comics 2018" includes: Gabrielle Bell; Tara Booth; Geof Darrow; Guy Delisle; Emil Ferris; Julia ... |
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Editor: Roxane Gay, author of "Difficult women". ... "I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed", writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to "The Best American Short Stories 2018", "but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world." The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a ... |
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Editor: N. K. Jemisin. Series editor: John Joseph Adams. ... Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest ... |
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This edition is English. For the American edition, click here. ... Accompanying celebrated academic, Katherine Solomon, to a lecture she's been invited to give in Prague, Robert Langdon's world spirals out of control when she disappears without trace from their hotel room. Far from home and well out of his comfort zone, Langdon must pit his wits against forces unknown to recover the woman he loves. But Prague is an old and dangerous city, steeped in folklore and mystery. For over two thousand years, the tides of history have washed back and forth over it, leaving behind echoes of everything that has gone before. ... |
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This edition is American. For the English edition, click here. ... Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon - a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and threatens to disrupt centuries of established belief. But a brutal murder catapults the trip into chaos, and Katherine suddenly disappears along with her manuscript. Langdon finds himself targeted by a powerful ... |
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Изданието е на американски английски (American English). За изданието на британски английски (British English) кликнете тук. ... По романа на Томас Харди - Кметът на Кастърбридж. Адаптация на класическата история на Майкъл Хенчард, който се издига над бедния си произход и става успешен бизнесмен. Но тогава, ужасна тайна от миналото му го застига и Хенчард трябва да плати цената. Открийте удоволствието от четенето на английски книги с поредицата Cambridge Experience Readers. Разделени в 7 нива и съобразени с особеностите на езика на тийнейджърите, книжките от поредицата разкриват на четящите един нов начин за ... |
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Eight stories by the famous American journalist and writer, Ambrose Bierce: "Owl Creek Bridge" - A man is hanged on a bridge. But then the rope breaks... "Beyond the Wall" - A pretty girl lives on the other side of the wall. What is her secret message? "An Adventure at Brownville" - Two young women are staying in the town of Brownville. Then one of them dies mysteriously. "The Damned Thing" - A man dies. What is the strange animal or "thing" that kills him? "One of the Missing" - A young soldiers's tragic experience of the American Civil War. "The ... |
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Изданието е на американски английски (American English). За изданието на британски английски (British English) кликнете тук. ... Приключенията на близнаците Анди и Мери продължават. Този път двамата са заедно с баща си в красивите Йоркширски планини във Великобритания. След като открива заключена врата в изоставена мина, Мери става любопитна. Какво е скрито в мината? И кой ги наблюдава през бинокъла? ... |
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Изданието е на американски английски (American English). За изданието на британски английски (British English) кликнете тук. ... Лъчо и Ева работят заедно по проект по история. Първата стъпка е да направят схема на всичките си идеи. Но Лъчо има собствена идея и схемата му започва да расте. Тя отвежда двамата до приключение, което включва древна кражба на злато в изгубен град в джунглите на Колумбия. ... |
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The aim of this book is to give UNWE students of Economics and Business, as well as those doing a degree in Administration and Management, the opportunity to improve their command of English for examination and career purposes. Through text and task the book acquaints students with a variety of settings to which they will be exposed academically and professionally - from the environment of higher education, through the framework of British and American government, to economic and business concepts. The book is divided into fourteen units, each focusing on a particular topic with a range of basic and specific vocabulary. ... |
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Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy. Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Jazz Age, as ... |
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"The Wild West. The Tall Tale of Rex Rodeo" is a Level 5 reader. Its fun and informative subject matter will capture a child's interest in reading and learning English while reinforcing the basic structures and vocabulary found in most primary courses. Activities pages and picture dictionary can be found at the back of each reader. The book can be used as supplementary reading material with any primary course. The "Macmillan Children's Readers" series offers simplified English reading. The series is divided into six levels. The series brings children real and imaginary stories to arouse their ... |
