From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award. ... A welcome return to Ghastly-Gorm Hall and the irresisteble Ada Goth' Bookseller. Preparations are under way for the Full-Moon Fete and the Great Ghastly-Gorm Bake off. Celebrity cooks are arriving at the hall for the big event and, true to form, Maltravers, the indoor gamekeeper, is acting suspiciously. Elsewhere at Ghastly-Gorm Ada's wardrobe-dwelling lady's maid Marylebone has received a marriage proposal. Ada vows to aid the course of true love and find out what Maltravers is up to but, amidst all this activity, everyone, including her father, ... |
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It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and a book inscribed in large, friendly letters: Don't panic. The book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the weekend has only just begun... Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with physics and twists time, but most importantly ... |
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An essential companion to the Harry Potter books, "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" is a collection of fairytales from the wizarding world, via the enchanted pen of J.K. Rowling. Rich with allusions and symbols from the Harry Potter stories, and enhanced with fascinating commentary from beloved sage Professor Albus Dumbledore, this is a Hogwarts Library book to treasure and enjoy for years to come. All of the gorgeous, grim and gothic detail of the Bard's five bewitching tales has been brought to life by Chris Riddell, thrice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal. Much loved by generations of witches and ... |
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Програма за изцеление по естествен път. Два дни преди Коледа енергичният по природа Крис е диагностициран с рак на дебелото черво в напреднал стадий. Преди да се усети, се озовава в операционната, където отстраняват тумор с размерите на топка за голф и една трета от дебелото му черво. За да се предотврати рецидив, лекарите му назначават задължителен курс химиотерапия от 9 до 12 месеца. След първата порция подходяща храна в болницата получава ясен знак, че най-вероятно начинът на хранене и отговорното отношение към собственото тяло са пътят към излекуването. Това прозрение се разминава със съветите на официалната ... |
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The official TED guide to public speaking. This is not just the most insightful book ever written on public speaking it's also a brilliant, profound look at how to communicate - Adam Grant, author of Originals. In TED Talks Chris Anderson, Head of TED, reveals the inside secrets of how to give a first-class presentation. Where books like Talk Like TED and TED Talks Storytelling whetted the appetite, here is the official TED guide to public speaking from the man who put TED talks on the world's stage. 'Nobody in the world better understands the art and science of public speaking than Chris Anderson. He is ... |
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How to work less and achieve more? Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey is a practical guide to managing your attention - the most powerful resource you have to become more creative, get stuff done, and live a more meaningful life. In Hyperfocus, you will learn: how working fewer hours can increase our productivity; how we get more done by making our work harder, not easier; how we do our best creative work when we're the most tired. Our attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today and we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little. In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey provides profound insights into how ... |
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Building the Next Era of the Internet. A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet - and how that affects us all - from technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon. The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of a creative, entrepreneurial internet doesn't have to die ... |
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Blockchain, Crypto and the Future of the Internet. The promise of the internet has been stolen. Over the last decade, a handful of giant companies like Facebook and Google have seized control of the web - sapping its dynamism and taking its profits for themselves. But there is a way to take it back. Here, a leading Silicon Valley investor argues that blockchains - the radically free and democratic new type of software design that underpins web3 - could return financial and decision-making power to the internet's users. For the first time, we won't just read and write on the internet - we will own it, too." ... |
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Finding productivity in anxious times. A toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies, How to Calm Your Mind reveals the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, through calm. Productivity advice works - and we need it now more than ever - but it's just as important that we also develop our capacity for calm. By finding calm and overcoming anxiety, we don’t just feel more comfortable in our own skin, we invest in the missing piece that leads our efforts to become sustainable over time. We build a deeper, more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day, and have greater mental ... |
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Книгата за учителя осигурява на преподавателите подробни насоки за всеки урок, както и допълнителни материали. Всичко това намалява много от времето на учителя за подготовка на часа. С книгата преподавателите получават: подробни насоки към всеки урок; отговорите на всички упражнения от учебника; допълнителни материали, сред които тестове за проверка на напредъка, комуникативни упражнения и работни листове за четене, които учителят може да ксерокопира; приложен безплатен DVD диск, който включва необходимите видеоматериали за задачите от разделите "Real World" в учебника и цялото съдържание на книга за ... |
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A former FBI hostage negotiator's fiel-tested tools for talking anyone into (or out of) just about anything. A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - ... |
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Уроците в "face2face - Second Edition" се фокусират към говоримия английски език в ежедневни ситуации, който често е трудност за учащите да разбират в реалната среда. Освен с внимание към обучението и развитието на езиковите умения, учебният материал е съобразен с базата от милиарди писмени и разговорни думи на "Cambridge Learner Corpus". Използваната лексика във всеки урок е съпоставена и с базата на "English Vocabulary Profile", която предлага надеждна информация за това кои думи и фрази са известни и към кое ниво от Общата европейска езикова рамка (CEF) могат да бъдат въведени. С внимание ... |
