Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish professional reputation was always going to be a fascinating experience. With his career still in its formative years, the panache with which Hercule Poirot could solve even the most puzzling mystery is obvious. Chronicled by his friend Captain Hastings, these eighteen early cases - from theft and robbery to kidnapping and murder - were all guaranteed to test Poirot's soon-to-be-famous
ISBN: 978-0-00-712113-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Учебное пособие, составленное на основе двух рассказов Агаты Кристи, предназначено для изучающих английский язык на среднем уровне. Пособие может быть использовано как в аудитории, так и для самостоятельных занятий.
ISBN: 5-8346-0274-6
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: январь 2004
Kingsolver`s national bestseller paints an intimate portrait of a crisis-ridden family amid the larger backdrop of an African nation in chaos. Examine how the tragedy of the Price family mirrors the political unrest in the Congo, how the novel views religion and marriage, and how Kingsolver reconciles the demands of art with her belief that writing should support a political cause.
What`s your poison? Fethering residents, Jude and Carole, get more than they bargained for when a lunchtime meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified and when a series of disasters start to befall his business, it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor. Left with a bad taste in their mouths - and not just from the food - the two amateur lady detectives wonder if it might just be more than a run of bad luck, which is forcing their favourite pub into bankruptcy. When Ray, a young man with the mental age of a five year old, is found in the kitchen of the pub with a knife through his heart - Carole and Jude swing into action. There`s a killer on the loose in Fethering...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44849-9
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: август 2011
What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child? Lots of noise! Children will chant the rhythmic words. They`ll make the sounds the animals make. And they`ll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book- look at the last page! Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle are two of the most respected names in children`s education and children`s illustrations. This collaboration, their first since the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See (published more than thirty years ago and still a best-seller) shows two masters at their best. A Redbook Children`s Picture Book Award winner The rollicking companion to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See.
A new title in the fantastic "First Reading" series, aimed at children who are beginning to read. Wrap up warm to explore the world of polar bears, where young children can discover how polar bears keep warm, catch their prey and survive in the dangerous icy wastes of the Arctic Circle. Developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a senior lecturer in education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. A great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership.
ISBN: 978-0-7460-9896-7
Издательство:
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Renko, Volovoi read, as if familiarizing himself with a problem. Chief Investigator, dismissed, expelled from the Party, Psychiatric rehabiliation. You see, I have the same file as the captain has, assigned to labour in the eastern section of the Russian Republic, Siberia. Arkady Renko is exiled on Polar Star, a Soviet factory ship which trawls the freezing waters from Siberia to Alaska: current status seaman (second class), his movements shadowed by those who know his past. Then, Renko is given a chance to reclaim his freedom - by investigating a lonely and very mysterious `Polar Star is not merely the work of our best writer of suspense, but one of our best writers, period` - New York Times. ` reader will be kept guessing to the end` -...
ISBN: 978-0-330-44925-0
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Bill Martin`s playful story combining animals, colours and sounds, beautifully illustrated by Eric Carle, now appears in a chunky board-book format. A simple rhythmic text introduces the reader to a menagerie of wild animals from a roaring lion to a fluting flamingo and a trumpeting elephant.
ISBN: 978-0-14-138351-4
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Polar Shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred many times in the past. At its weakest, it disorients birds and animals and damages electrical equipment. At its worst, it causes massive eruptions, earthquakes and climatic changes. At its very worst, it would mean the obliteration of all living Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift, but then his work disappeared, or so it was thought. Now, the charismatic leader of an anti-globalization group plans to use it to give the world`s industrialized nations a small jolt, before reversing the shift back again
ISBN: 978-0-425-21133-5
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: август 2011
What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child? Lots of noise! Children will chant the rhythmic words. They`ll make the sounds the animals make. And they`ll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book - look at the last page! Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle are two of the most respected names in children`s education and children`s illustrations. This collaboration, their first since the classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (published more than thirty years ago and still a best-seller) shows two masters at their best. A Redbook Children`s Picture Book Award winner. The rollicking companion to Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
ISBN: 978-1-4272-0728-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Stimulating, succinct and accessible, this highly successful text offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of politics, written from an international perspective. Including a new chapter on the mass media and political communication it contains substantial new material on developments such as the `War on Terror` and state transformation.
Роман Элинор Портер «Поллианна» учит детей и взрослых позитивному мышлению через игру«в радость» (англ. The Glad Game). Эта книга на английском языке вошла в серию книг зарубежной классики. «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — коллекция, которая собрана из бессмертных произведений великих мастеров пера, написанных ими на их родном языке. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углублённо изучать...
ISBN: 978-5-519-49094-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2015
All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world’s largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefree lifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, and only one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared. Springs are failing for the first time in generations. And now there is a crisis on the...
ISBN: 978-0-345-47567-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Poodle loves to doodle everywhere - walls, doors, floors, no surface is safe! The naughty poodle is soon in trouble. But could her al fresco drawing skills actually come in useful? This entertaining story for beginner readers has simple rhyming text, stylish illustrations and parents notes on phonics at the back of the book.
This novel brought its 24-year-old author critical and public acclaim nearly overnight. Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St. Petersburg`s slums between a middle-aged writer and a much younger seamstress. Compact and easy to read, it represents an excellent introduction to Dostoyevsky`s work.
Denver Jones is a hotshot twenty-something attorney working in Carolyn Henderson is to a powerful and very married Senator in Washington with whom she is having an affair. And Annabelle Maestro - daughter of two movie stars - has carved out a career for herself in New York, with the help of her cocaine addicted boyfriend, as the madame of choice for discerning famous men. Then there is Bobby Santangelo Stanislopolous, the Kennedyesque son of Lucky Santangelo. Back in the day he went to high school with Denver, Carolyn and Annabelle. When Annabelle`s mother is found shot to death in her Beverly Hills mansion, the friends are thrown together, and secrets from the past have a way of coming back to haunt
ISBN: 978-1-84739-308-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
