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Macmillan Publishers
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A fast-paced, multi-level business English course. The course develops key language skills through activities that reflect the real world of modern business. It has been specifically designed for the in-company language training sector. |
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IELTS Foundation Second Edition retains all of the best elements of the original course and brings it up to date with new and fresh content. This includes clear links to exam sections and incorporates the changes that have been made to the IELTS exam. It is a 12-unit course aimed at training students within an IELTS band of 4-5.5 in the skills required to increase their score. Material using the Macmillan Collocations Dictionary encourages students to record and increase their vocabulary, making vocabulary development a central part of their studies. IELTS Foundation Teacher's Book provides a comprehensive teacher's guide to IELTS Foundation Student's Book and meet the needs of students training towards the IELTS band 4 — 5.5. |
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New Inside Out takes all the best elements of the original Inside Out series — including the emphasis on personalisation and meaning — and adds a host of brand-new features. Sue and Vaughan have gone back to the classroom to write this new edition, working with teachers and students to find out exactly what works in the real world. The result is one of the most relevant and exciting general English courses available. Key features A new, fully updated version of our classic general English course Retains all the character and personality users love from the original Inside Out series, whilst adding a range of great new features Every Student's Book comes with a multimedia CD-ROM with interactive practice and extension activities A brand-new Beginner level New components: DVD and DVD Teacher's Book, Interactive Whiteboard software New 'Useful phrases' and 'Vocabulary Extra' sections, and much more What's new? Multimedia CD-ROM included with every Student's Book — providing extra interactive practice, at home or in school Beginner level — New Inside Out now takes students from complete beginners to advanced users of English New topics engage students and bring the books up to date Expanded grammar sections offer comprehensive coverage of key language points, whilst the new 'Grammar Extra' sections recycle and review this language 'Useful Phrases' and 'Vocabulary Extra' sections provide real-world language The comprehensive, all-in-one Teacher's Book is the perfect companion to the course, providing teacher's notes, practical teaching tips, photocopiable activities and a CD containing editable tests. |
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I could travel round the world And know I'd never find A mummy even half as nice Or brilliant as mine! From playing games to making things and cuddling her baby tight, Little Bear's mum is great at everything — but best of all, she belongs to Little Bear. This touching celebration of the special relationship between mother and child is the perfect gift for mother's day. Now available as a chunky board book with a shiny foiled cover — just right for small hands. A warm and loving celebration of mummies. |
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Cute, cuddly, and with crinkly pages to touch and feel, this first cloth book about noises also has a soft strap, making it easy to attach to a cot or buggy, but soft enough to give to your baby. Bright, bold images and simple learning concepts make this an ideal first book. |
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Can you spot the Gruffalo and friends? Step inside the deep dark wood and keep your eyes peeled! A chunky, tabbed board book packed with things to spot and say! A brand new title in the My First Gruffalo pre-school and baby range — perfect for small paws. Publishing alongside My First Gruffalo: Who Lives Here? a lift-the-flap board book. |
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‘Sami was still holding the goldfish. “Swishy little fishy,” she whispered, over and over. Frankie stared at her with his big, bulging, glowing eyes. Suddenly a little light bulb went on . . . Frankie was a Big Fat Zombie Goldfish and somehow he’d hypnotized my best friend’s sister!’ Tom’s big brother is an Evil Scientist who wants to experiment on Tom's new goldfish, Frankie. Can Tom save his fish from being dunked in radioactive gunge? Er, no. In an act of desperation Tom zaps Frankie with a battery, bringing him back to life! But there’s something weird about the new Frankie – he’s now a zombie goldfish with hypnotic powers, and he wants revenge . . . Tom has a difficult choice to make — save his evil brother, or save his fishy friend? |
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William has caught football fever. His symptoms are so severe that his sister's afraid there's no cure. He eats, talks and dreams football, and he's driving his sister crazy! Then one day William's dream comes true and Dad takes him to a football club for the first time. The match kicks off and the tension builds. The score is nil-nil and William has the ball. Will he score and be hero for the day? And who'll be next to catch the football bug? |
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Following the phenomenal success of Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning third novel, The English Patient, expectations were almost insurmountable. The internationally acclaimed #1 bestseller had made Ondaatje the first Canadian novelist ever to win the Booker. Four years later, in 1996, a motion picture based on the book brought the story to a vast new audience. The film, starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, went on to win numerous prizes, among them nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Worldwide English-language sales of the book topped two million copies. But in April 2000, Anil’s Ghost was widely hailed as Ondaatje’s most powerful and engrossing novel to date. Winning a Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the Giller Prize, Anil’s Ghost became an international bestseller. “Nowhere has Ondaatje written more beautifully” said The New York Times Book Review. The setting is Sri Lanka. Steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition, the country has been ravaged in the late twentieth century by bloody civil war. As in The English Patient, Ondaatje’s latest novel follows a woman’s attempt to piece together the lost life of a victim of war. Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka but educated in England and the U.S., is sent by an international human rights group to participate in an investigation into suspected mass political murders in her homeland. Working with an archaeologist, she discovers a skeleton whose identity takes Anil on a fascinating journey that involves a riveting mystery. What follows, in a novel rich with character, emotion, and incident, is a story about love and loss, about family, identity and the unknown enemy. And it is a quest to unlock the hidden past – like a handful of soil analyzed by an archaeologist, the story becomes more diffuse the farther we reach into history. A universal tale of the casualties of war, unfolding as a detective story, the book gradually gives way to a more intricate exploration of its characters, a symphony of loss and loneliness haunted by a cast of solitary strangers and ghosts. The atrocities of a seemingly futile, muddled war are juxtaposed against the ancient, complex and ultimately redemptive culture and landscape of Sri Lanka. Anil’s Ghost is Michael Ondaatje's first novel to be set in the country of his birth. “There’s a tendency with us in England and North America to say it’s a book ‘about Sri Lanka.’ But it’s just my take on a few characters, a personal tunnelling into that … The book’s not just about Sri Lanka; it’s a story that’s very familiar in other parts of the world” – in Africa, in Yugoslavia, in South America, in Ireland. “I didn’t want it to be a political tract. I wanted it to be a human study of people in the midst of fear.” |
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«More delicious than Scone With the Wind! Hotter than The Wild Brunch! More chilling than The Texas Chainsaw Moussaka! Have you ever been tempted to fry someone's liver with fava beans and a nice chianti? Or to try 'what she's having' in When Harry Met Sally? And just what do the hobbits eat in «The Lord of the Rings»? Expanding on his popular DVD Dinners column in «The Times», food and film writer Feargus O'Sullivan takes us on a witty tour of weird and wonderful cinematic cuisine, providing a menu for more than a dozen different movie nights, from Musicals, Horror Movies and Gangster Flicks to Bond Films as well as more risque fare. Whatever kind of film you're into, Pulp Kitchen will satisfy your appetite. It is the only book for the food-loving film fan.» |
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Matthew Kneale brings his mastery of storytelling to our present morally ambiguous world. Set in lands ranging from England to China, South America, the Middle East, and Africa, these powerful stories follow ordinary people as they try to survive and make sense of their worlds. Kneale transports readers across continents in a nanosecond, reaching to the heart of faraway societies with rare perceptiveness. |
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The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife consumed by motherhood, his mother consumed by a New Age foundation, and his five-year-old son Robert understanding far more than he ought. Showcasing Edward St Aubyn’s ability to combine the most excruciating emotional pain with the driest comedy, Mother's Milk is a dazzling exploration of the troubled allegiances between parents and children, husbands and wives. Acerbically witty, disarmingly tender, it goes to the core of a family trapped in the remains of its ever-present past. 'So good — so fantastically well-written, profound and humane . . . it is heart-stopping' Observer 'The bravura quality of St Aubyn's performance is irresistible' Sunday Telegraph 'Wonderful caustic wit . . . Polished yet profound, it’s even better than his previous work, and that’s saying something’ Guardian 'Mother's Milk has the cerebral excitement and piercing funniness of St Aubyn at his brilliant best' Tatler. |
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Whenever I'm tired of being me I swing around like a chimpanzee. Are you tired of being you? Here's a whole bookful of things you can do! There are rhymes to make you wriggle and giggle, shrug and sigh, snap like a crocodile and slither like a snake. Julia Donaldson's verse jumps off the page and Nick Sharratt's snazzy illustrations add to the fun of Wriggle and Roar! Bright, bold and accessible, these rhymes are packed full of noises and actions, making them perfect for joining in. Look out for more poems from Julia Donaldson and Nick Sharratt in Shuffle and Squelch! |
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