Modern, original fiction for learners of English. Brad and his girlfriend Gina love the movies and go every Saturday night. They want to get married but haven`t got much money. Then one day, Brad gets an idea from a movie about how to make a lot of money - an idea that involves murder. But Brad`s plan doesn`t go quite as he hoped and he discovers that real life doesn`t always have a happy ending.
ISBN: 0-521-78813-7
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
It`s superstar Justin Bieber`s illustrated life story - his amazing journey from life as an ordinary kid in Canada to his rise to stardom as a worldwide singing sensation. Kids will take a behind-the-scenes tour of his personal life and career. They`ll discover what Justin is up to, on stage and off. Packed with gorgeous photos, personal facts about Justin`s favorite things, cool quotations, and test-yourself quizzes, Justin Bieber Unleashed! is the book for everybody who has Bieber Fever! Kids will find out about what it was like for Justin growing get the scoop on his romantic and learn all about the story behind his music. Here`s how Justin uploaded videos of himself singing on was discovered by So Def signed a record deal with Island...
With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered...
ISBN: 978-0-307-27526-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father`s dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down. Their parallel odysseys are enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerising dramas. Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghostlike pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since WWII. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle. Murakami`s new novel is at once a classic tale of quest, but it is also a...
ISBN: 978-0-09-949409-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm.
ISBN: 978-0-09-950136-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011
They had only one thing in Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant - two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. The marvellous story, spanning 60 years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save - and finally destroy - each other.
ISBN: 978-0-330-51302-9
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern I guess it started the night our dad blew up the British Carter and Sadie Kane`s dad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes horribly wrong. An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone and unleashes Set, the evil god of Set imprisons in a golden coffin and Carter and Sadie must run for their lives. To save their dad, they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-west and discover the truth about their family`s connection to the House of Life: an Egyptian temple of magic that has existed for thousands of years. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt are far from dead and buried. And so, unfortunately, are their
ISBN: 978-0-14-132550-7
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed on the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister, Sadie, have been in big trouble. As descendants of the magical House of Life, they command certain powers. But now a terrifying enemy - Apophis, the giant snake of chaos - is rising. If Carter and Sadie don`t destroy him, the world will end in five days` time. And in order to battle the forces of chaos, they must revive the sun god Ra - a feat no magician has ever achieved. Because first they must search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its Can the Kanes destroy Apophis before he swallows the sun and plunges...
ISBN: 978-0-14-133566-7
Издательство:
Puffin
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
They had only one thing in William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant. Two men, born on the same day, on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune. A memorable story, spanning sixty years, of two powerful men linked by an all-consuming hatred, brought together by fate to save - and finally destroy - each other. Формат издания: 13 см х 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-330-50968-8
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the early twentieth century, most famous for his criticism of rationalism and industrialization. "Kangaroo" is writer`s eighth novel, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda in 1922. This book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of the political situation in Sydney.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07205-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
A lively story with irresistible illustrations, this book is a delight to share with very young children. It can also be enjoyed by children who are beginning to read for themselves. The simple rhyming text helps to develop essential language and early reading skills, and there are guidance notes for parents at the back of the book.
How we know that a cat is a cat is a nice philosophical poser, and has been since the time of Plato. Why we should all agree on calling the animal a cat is equally interesting, yet it throws up the problem that lies at the heart of all modern philosophy: how much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability, and how much on our linguistic resources? Where, and how, do these two questions meet? Having decided against a systematic treatment of his subject, Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, from which flow an abundance of "stories" or fables, often with animals as protagonists, to expound a clear critique of Kant, Heidegger...
ISBN: 0-09-927695-X
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Kaplan`s SAT Score-Raising Math Dictionary Second Edition takes a fun approach to strengthening math skills and provides everything students need to help them increase their math scores including: New! Updated layout and design including new illustrations throughout, and alphabetized tabs to make navigating the book fast and easy 200 frequently tested SAT math terms and concepts and their definitions to ensure that students know what questions they are being asked to solve on test day. A sample math problem illustrating each concept and term. A fun, sample math sentence for each entry, to help students understand the math term in context Handy, targeted test preparation for busy students who are always on the go.
ISBN: 978-1-4195-5287-8
Издательство:
Kaplan Publishing
Дата выхода: август 2011
Dostoevsky`s last and greatest novel, "The Karamazov Brothers" (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons - the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha - are all at some level involved. Bound up with this intense family drama is Dostoevsky`s exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, the question of human freedom, the collective nature of guilt, the disatrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic: the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the authors most cherisehd causes and beliefs are presented with a note of irreverence,...
ISBN: 978-0-19-953637-5
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
