Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Secret agent Ian Munro is sent to the islands of the Caribbean to discover what two notorious terrorists are doing there. He tracks down the men and their beautiful female accomplice, and then follows them as they put their plan to dominate the world into action. How can he stop them? And what about the kidnapped boy and his nuclear scientist father? ... |
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Разказите в тази книга не са автобиографични, нито биографични. Могат просто да се четат като хроника за времето и мястото на своите герои. Действието се развива в България по време на комунизма, където авторът е живял през първите 32 години на живота си, както и в САЩ, където е живял в последното десетилетие на този век. Има и разкази - сънища. Те са една друга хроника... За автора Владимир Левчев е роден на 17.10.1957 г. в София. Завършва английска езикова гимназия (1976) и изкуствознание (1982). Редактор в издателство "Народна култура" (1982-1990), на забраненото независимо списание за литература и ... |
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The Tarot of Light and Shadow presents a new multi-layered way of working with the Tarot: using two decks to explore the Shadow and Light sides of any questions at once. Although some professional readers have used this idea with different packs, and to great effect, this is the first time two Tarot decks have been designed specifically to work together. In fact, they can be seen not as two separate decks but as one deck appearing in two dimensions. The principle of the two-deck system can be explained as follows: there are two sides to every question and two sides to every answer. Answers come both from within and ... |
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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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"What I wanted was to be one with her, with nothing coming between us." You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the form of hunger, lust, sudden infatuation or the secret longings of the heart. Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin, Ted Goosen and Philip Gabriel. ... |
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Enabling students to become confident and fluent readers, this four-level series takes students from elementary to upper-intermediate level. The "Effective Reading Student's Book" contains 12 topic-based units that build on the latest research into what makes a good reader. It includes specific vocabulary work and fluency development and each level comes with a complete short story from the "Macmillan Readers" series. ... |
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Изданието е съвместимо с настоящата учебна програма. Учебникът е одобрен със заповед № РД 09-1512/08.02.2017 г. ... Какво предлага учебникът Hello! New Edition?: Доказано успешни модели на обучение от предишното издание на едноименната езикова система. Добре балансирано учебно съдържание, което осигурява нужните часове за преговор и затвърдяване на знанията, работа над проекти, оценяване и самооценяване на постигнатите резултати. Ясно и последователно въвеждане на граматичния материал чрез таблици и градирани по трудност упражнения. Изграждане на устойчив лексикален запас. Употреба на езика в реални комуникативни ... |
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This quirkily illustrated twist on the popular Questions & Answers format takes a sideways look at the plight facing our beautiful planet and explains how kids can come to the rescue. Find out how many cans you need to recycle to power four hours of TV, why you should take a shower instead of a bath, and what you can do to help polar bears stay cool. ... |
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A dead body is dredged from the Thames, presumed to be the son of wealthy miser John Harmon, in Charles Dickens final novel, "Our Mutual Friend". Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library - a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition has an introduction by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley and original illustrations by Marcus Stone. John Harmon made his fortune collecting "dust", and on his death his estranged son is due to inherit his wealth on the condition that ... |
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The Japanese Bestseller. ... What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In "Before the Coffee Gets Cold", we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, ... |
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Over one million copies sold in Japan. ... A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. Our narrator's days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. And so begins a very bizarre week... Because how do ... |
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This will be your third descent into the world of the Unexpected. The surprises awaiting you here, are penned again by classical and modern authors. Again, you will try to guess the ending and again will fail, and to those of you who do succeed in this, we offer an apology on behalf of the Masters of the Genre. What happens when: Two spouses hate each other and go to the mountain? A princess is attacked by a mountain lion? A high life girl meets a low-class boy? Three messengers make haste with contradictory orders for the execution of a death sentence? What do two archeologists search for in an ancient catacomb? ... |
