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When Thérèse Raquin marries her sickly cousin Camille, her future looks as if it will be both dull and loveless. This all changes, however, with the arrival of Camille's friend Laurent. Laurent and Therese soon begin a love affair, an affair so passionate it can only result in tragedy. |
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A mini-guide to London, including its history, places to visit, travelling and shopping, London at night and information and advice. |
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Tips for IELTS is packed with all the information you need to know about the four skills tested in the IELTS exam: hints on how to tackle specific types of questions; strategies on how to increase your speed and accuracy; what common mistakes to avoid; and useful language to be aware of and to use. There are also tips on how to make the best use of the book and how to test yourself as you prepare for the exam. This is the sort of book you will want to carry with you and use for quick reference for revising and checking what you know. A must-have for all IELTS exam candidates! Teachers will find it useful as a tool to develop strategies for increasing speed and accuracy and for discussing exam techniques. |
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Книги для чтения серии Macmillan Readers — это сборники рассказов, написанных специально для серии, и адаптированные произведения классической и современной художественной литературы. Human Interest & Romance. It is 1940, Malaysia and the Japanese Army invades.Jean Paget is sent to a women's prisoner-of-war camp. Joe Harmon, an Australian prisoner risks his life to obtain food and medicine for the women. |
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Three short stories with unexpected endings from this internationally popular thriller writer. |
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Way Ahead Readers are an enjoyable way to consolidate and develop the reading skills acquired through the Way Ahead course books. There are three Readers at each level, and these are carefully graded to ensure that children not only practise reading at an appropriate level of difficulty, but also gain confidence in approaching new texts. Readers 1С, 2C and 3C are presented as plays. While they can be used in exactly the same way as the other Readers, children can also act them out in groups, or as part of a presentation for parents. |
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Way Ahead is a six-level course using imaginative and appealing child-centered activities to provide an equal balance of communication and grammar. Key Features Reading, writing, listening and speaking skills are dealt with systematically New language is regularly recycled and revised The strong grammar syllabus is clearly presented and practiced, with the Grammar Practice Books providing additional recycling of new grammatical structures There is a wide variety of fun and exciting child-centered activities which reinforce language work Topics are relevant and appealing to children's interests There is comprehensive and systematic revision throughout the course 'Reading for Pleasure' sections in each unit are cross curricular and introduce children to the idea of free reading at an early level. The Way Ahead Readers provide additional reading practice. |
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Way Ahead Readers are an enjoyable way to consolidate and develop the reading skills acquired through the Way Ahead course books. There are three Readers at each level, and these are carefully graded to ensure that children not only practise reading at an appropriate level of difficulty, but also gain confidence in approaching new texts. Readers 1С, 2C and 3C are presented as plays. While they can be used in exactly the same way as the other Readers, children can also act them out in groups, or as part of a presentation for parents. |
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Way Ahead — шестиуровневый курс английского языка для детей младшего и среднего школьного возраста. Основу курса составляют разнообразные задания, направленные на формирование языковых навыков и речевых умений учащихся. Содержание упражнений и типы заданий составлены с учетом интересов ребенка, его возрастных (физических и психологических) особенностей. Материал учебника позволяет учителю научить учащихся понимать иноязычную речь на слух, говорить читать и писать на английском языке, а также приобщить детей к новому социальному опыту с использованием иностранного языка. |
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Way Ahead получил высокую оценку Федерального Экспертного Совета МО РФ и допущен к использованию в школах (классах) с углубленным изучением английского языка в качестве учебного пособия (Письмо Министерства образования РФ № 13-58-2130/17 от 03.07.02, Вестник Образования России №4/2003, с. 72, 74). Way Ahead имеет целый ряд достоинств: сбалансированное обучение всем видам речевой деятельности, обучение грамматике на визуальной основе по образцу, отработка не только отдельных звуков, но и ритма и интонации иноязычной речи, учет принципа посильности и доступности при формировании языковых навы& ков и развитии всех видов речевой деятельности. Достоинством УМК является его многокомплектность и профессионально-методическая оснащенность. |
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Way in to English is an introductory workbook for children who are beginning to learn English. Way in to English introduces the English alphabet and provides practice in letter recognition; phonics and spelling; handwriting. Way in to English is supported by an audio cassette which includes alphabet letter names, phonic sounds of the letters, pronunciation of vocabulary words, songs and rhymes. |
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A tongue-in-cheek story of the adventures of a Los Angeles private detective. A beautiful blonde woman hires Lenny Samuel to find her missing sister. Before long the stage also contains gunmen, dead bodies, world-weary policemen and jewel thieves. And all the while, Lenny dodges the bullets, speeding cars and flying fists. |
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The New York State Library looms as a silent sanctuary of knowledge: a hundred-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles, and spiral staircases. But for Dr Stephen Swain and his eight-year-old daughter Holly it is a place of nightmare. Because, for just one night, this historic building is to become the venue for a horrifying contest, a contest in which Swain must compete, whether he likes it or not. The rules of the challenge are simple: seven contestants will enter, but only one will leave. With his daughter in his arms, Stephen Swain is plunged into a terrifying fight for survival. The stakes are high, the odds are brutal. He can choose to run, to hide, or to fight — but if he wants to live, he needs to win. For, in this particular contest, unless you leave as victor, you do not leave at all. |
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Maid-of-honour at her best friend Hollys wedding, Jen takes an instant dislike to best man Cal. But when Holly and Marks wedding plans hit a major snag that only Jen and Cal can repair, the two find themselves having to put aside their mutual dislike for one another in order for the wedding to go ahead. |
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A collection of 20 amusing stories from around the world. This book features stories from the past and from the present, and includes both classic tales and those less familiar. |
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It is Christmas Eve in Wichita, Kansas and snowing steadily. But family get-togethers are the last thing on Charlie Arglist`s mind, and home is the last place he needs to be. For Charlie has to get out of town. This book tells about double-cross, black humour and, very possibly, the last twenty-four hours in Charlie Arglist`s life. |
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This is a fully annotated translation of the most complete text of Bulgakov's exuberant comic masterpiece. A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita has become an astonishing publishing phenomenon in Russia and has been translated into more than twenty languages, and made into plays and films. Mikhail Bulgakov's novel is now considered one of the seminal works of twentieth-century Russian literature. In this imaginative extravaganza the devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. Together they succeed in comically befuddling a population which denies the devil's existence, even as it is confronted with the diabolic results of a magic act gone wrong. This visit to the world capital of atheism has several aims, one of which concerns the fate of the Master, a writer who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate, and is now in a mental hospital. By turns acidly satiric, fantastic and ironically philosophical, this work constantly surprises and entertains, as the action switches back and forth between the Moscow of the 1930s and first century Jerusalem. The commentary and afterword provide new insight into the mysterious subtexts of the novel, and here The Master and Margarita is revealed in all its complexity. |
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So much has how been said and written about the life and career of Michael Jackson that it has become almost impossible to disentangle the man from the myth. Recent revelations are only the latest installments of a saga that began decades ago. This book is the fruit of over 30 years of research and hundreds of exclusive interviews with a remarkable level of access to the very closest circles of the Jackson family — including Michael himself. Cutting through tabloid rumors, J. Randy Taraborrelli traces the real story behind the Michael Jackson we see and hear today, from his drilling as a child star through the blooming of his talent to his ever-changing personal appearance and bizarre publicity stunts. This major biography includes the behind-the-scenes story to many of the landmarks in Jackson's life: his legal and commercial battles, his marriages to Lisa Marie Presley and Debbie Rowe, his passions and addictions, his children. Objective and revealing, it carries the hallmarks of all of Taraborrelli's best-sellers: impeccable research, brilliant storytelling and definitive documentation. |
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It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car and driven away – never to be seen again. His embittered first wife Fiona is convinced he is still alive. His second wife, Crystal – a former stripper forty years his junior – is just as sure he is dead. Enter private investigator Kinsey Malone, hired by Fiona to find out just what has happened to the man they loved. Enter also Tommy Hevener, an attractive flame-haired twenty-something who has set his romantic sights on Kinsey. And Tommy is a man with a very interesting past . . . 'Grafton is a delight to read, her books being highly literatre, with believable plots and three-dimensionally drawn characters' Irish Times |
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