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. Pilot Don Radcliffe returns to Australia hoping to rescue a failed marriage and to spend more time with his daughter, Judy. But a routine cargo flight in an old DC4 airplane turns into tragedy when the plane crashes in the Australian Outback killing the co-pilot. Don and Judy's chances of survival seem slim as they struggle against sabotage, unscrupulous businessmen and the inhospitable landscape. ... |
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Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly, and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Tess's relationships with two very different men, her struggle against the social mores of ... |
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Because the missing pieces matter. ... Angie considers herself unremarkable. She likes history and science, running hard, grilled cheese with burned edges. But today, everything will change. A photo in an old box, in a drawer. Of her teenage mother with a boy she's never seen before - and yet Angie knows instantly that it's her father. The father who died before she was born. But Angie begins to understand that there are things she has not been told. Things that Angie now needs to know, more than anything. And so she sets off in search of her father's story. Her mother's story. And her own story. Because, ... |
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Set in the valley of the Mesta, one of the oldest inhabited river valleys in Europe and a nexus for wild plant gatherers, Elixir is an unforgettable exploration of the deep connections between people, plants and place. Over several seasons, Kassabova spends time with the people of this magical region. She meets women and men who work in a long lineage of foragers, healers and mystics. She learns about wild plants and the ancient practice of herbalism, and experiences a symbiotic system where nature and culture have blended for thousands of years. Through her captivating encounters we come to feel the devastating weight ... |
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Юбилеен сборник в чест на проф. Румяна Стоилова. ... С този сборник ние засвидетелстваме своето дълбоко уважение към колегата, учения, приятеля и гражданина проф. Румяна Стоилова и изразяваме нашето признание за значимата ѝ роля за развитието на българската социология и утвърждаването на нейния международен авторитет. По повод юбилея на проф. Стоилова учени от България и чужбина дискутират важни проблеми от развитието на съвременните общества и социологическата наука: предизвикателствата на глобализацията и постсоциалистическата трансформация; взаимовръзката между интеграция, девиантност и социално изключване; ... |
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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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Book Twelve of "The Wheel of Time" ... The final volume of "The Wheel of Time", A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson , New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan's editor his wife, Harriet McDougal, to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so The Gathering Storm is the first of three novels that will cover the outline left by Robert Jordan, chronicling Tarmon Gai'don and Rand al'Thor's ... |
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Adventurous, magical and brilliantly funny sequel to "The House at the Edge of Magic". Nine and her friends have broken the curse on their marvellous, magical House, and are free to travel the worlds once more! Their first stop: The Wizarding Hopscotch Championships. There's only one problem: the House is nervous about travelling - and gets the hiccups! Bouncing from world to world with every "HIC!", they finally land at the championships, only for Flabberghast to have an unfortunate run-in with square number nine, and find himself faced with the terrible Tower at the End of Time. But maybe here ... |
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Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. That is, until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus's apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. Now Magnus and Alec will have to drop everything to follow the thieves to Shanghai. And Magnus has been stabbed with a strange magical weapon that is changing the very nature of his powers. Fortunately, they have backup in the form of Clary, Jace, Isabelle and Simon. In Shanghai, they learn that a much darker threat awaits them. Magnus's magic is growing unstable, and if they can't stop the demons flooding into the city, they might have ... |
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Последната теория на Стивън Хокинг . ... Какво е имало преди Големия взрив? Как се е случило така, че нашата Вселена е годна за живот? Има ли други вселени и скрити измерения на пространството? Могат ли физичните закони да еволюират? В своята книга За произхода на времето теоретичният физик Томас Хертог разисква тези и много други интригуващи въпроси за нашия свят, за които учените продължават да спорят. Хертог е най-близкият сътрудник, с когото Стивън Хокинг работи през последните 20 години от живота си, и заедно с него той започва да изгражда една съвсем различна гледна точка за историята на Вселената, произхода на ... |
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"Колелото на Времето се върти и вековете идват и си отиват..." Колелото на Времето плени цяло поколение читатели и се превърна в международен бестселър. Сега Робърт Джордан ни носи вълнуващия единадесети том в този разтърсващ фентъзи епос. Самата тъкан на реалността изтънява и всички знамения сочат, че Тармон Гай-дон, Последната битка, е неизбежна. Ранд ал-Тор трябва да се подготви да се опълчи на Тъмния. Но преди това трябва да сключи примирие със сеанчанските армии, чиито сили подкопават мощта му. И все пак сеанчанците са само едно от препятствията по пътя му. Перин е сключил своето отчаяно примирие със ... |
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Любов. Кръв. Измяна. Разплата. Мрак заплашва да погълне ловците на сенки в разтърсващата пета книга от поредицата "Реликвите на смъртните". ... Историята за ловците на сенки продължава - още по-динамична, напрегната и завладяваща... Демонът Лилит е унищожен и Джейс е свободен. Ала когато пристигат, ловците на сенки откриват единствено кръв и натрошени стъкла. Изчезнало е не само момчето, което Кпеъри обича, но и онова, което ненавижда - брат ѝ Себастиан, който е твърдо решен да подчини ловците на сенки. Магията на Кпейва не може да намери никое от момчетата, ала Джейс не е в състояние да стои далеч от ... |
