Учитесь ли вы иностранному языку или говорите на нем в совершенстве, любите ли читать книги на языке автора, а не в переводе – вам в этот раздел! Успешным бизнесменам, топ-менеджерам и тем, кто хочет таковыми стать будет полезен Курс делового английского языка. Тем, кто уже владеет английским, повезло - они могут прямо сейчас, не дожидаяь перевода на русский, прочитать захватывающий роман Стивена Joyland и европейский бестселлер Inferno Дэна Брауна. Ну, а тем, кто решил провести свой отпуск во Франции, пригодится Русско-французский разговорник и словарь.
В сборник включены лучшие образцы новеллистического наследия мастеров американской и английской литературы XX века. Некоторые из них хорошо знакомы российскому читателю, другие мало известны у нас в стране.
ISBN: 5-8112-0087-0
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2002
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. Lost Face and The Red One are collections of great short stories. The Cruise of The Dazzler is an early adventure novel by London, set in his hometown San Francisco. The plot revolves around a young boy Joe Bronson who has trouble at home and at school. The arguments with his father lead him to run away and join the crew of the ship called Dazzler. Joe dreams of a sailor`s life full of excitement but he soon realizes that he joined the crew of pirates.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08170-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion.
ISBN: 978-1-907410-36-9
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Учебное пособие, составленное на материале рассказов английских и американских писателей, ставит своей целью развитие навыков чтения и устной речи. Пособие содержит материалы для аудирования. Пособие рассчитано на учащихся старших классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка, лицеистов и гимназистов, студентов, учащихся курсов и лиц, самостоятельно изучающих английский язык.
ISBN: 5-8346-0001-8
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. The God of His Fathers is a collection of short stories where with remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon. When God Laughs is a collection of short stories that explores themes of human nature, the struggle for survival, capitalism flaws, and abuse of workers in industrialized society.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08167-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Сборник содержит 7 адаптированных рассказов знаменитой английской писательницы XX века на английском языке. Текст каждого рассказа снабжен упражнениями, направленными на отработку лексики и грамматических структур. В конце сборника приводится словарь.
ISBN: 5-8112-2029-4
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: август 2006
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist. This short story collection includes Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green, Malvina of Brittany and Other Stories. "Malvina of Brittany" is a highly entertaining work that describes the life of Malvina, the Queen`s attendant. The book also includes such interesting stories like "Reginald Blake", "Financier and Cad", "An item of Fashionable Intelligence" and others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07976-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: август 2018
Reading Classics is series of 19th and 20th-century classics from the world of British and American literature edited by Paolo Bertinetti, Dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Turin. Reading Classics are aimed specifically at non-native speakers of English who wish to improve their language skills by analysing major novels, short stories and plays. Each volume guides the reader towards comprehension and appreciation of the literary work. Features: • extensive introduction putting the author and his/her work into context • in-depth bibliography providing a springboard for further study • detailed chronology giving a complete view of the author`s life and works • wide variety of activities encouraging...
ISBN: 978887754-153-6
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can`t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, revealing the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.
ISBN: 978-0-552-15174-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Wilbur Smith’s adventure tales are big, bold and unforgettable. In SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, the New York Times bestselling master storyteller takes us to a brutal paradise engulfed in the fires of civilization’s
ISBN: 978-0-312-94063-8
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Trade fairs and showrooms are an increasingly important marketing investment for all kinds of companies and the design of these temporary displays is a growing and constantly changing industry. Both showrooms and trade fair exhibitions serve to showcase and demonstrate a company`s new products and services and to convey their brand philosophy. Doing this effectively is not an easy task and best left to marketing and design specialists. Trade fairs are especially tricky as the design of the company`s booth is an increasingly powerful sales strategy. The importance of these professional shows is clearly reflected in the huge number and variety of these events held all over the world. With thousands of visitors seeing yours and thousand of...
ISBN: 978-3-937718-62-0
Издательство:
daab
Дата выхода: январь 2010
Can you tell Farkle from Fergus? Do you know why Puss In Boots piled on the pounds? This official handbook is packed with fun facts, character lowdowns, and awesome activities from all Shrek`s adventures, including the awesome new movie, "Shrek Forever After"! This is the ultimate book for every Shrek fan, young or old! If you love Shrek then you`ll love this book.
ISBN: 978-0-553-82233-5
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Ex-NYPD detective Dave Gurney is supposed to be retired. But people with problems keep knocking on his door. Like the police, for instance, who are baffled by a gruesome murder they just can`t seem to solve. A young bride has been killed in the middle of her own wedding reception. The prime suspect, her new husband`s Mexican gardener, is missing. As is the murder weapon, likely a machete, used to decapitate the bride. The police have drawn a blank. It`s as if the killer has vanished into thin air. But when Gurney begins his investigations, he finds that a baffling murder is just the latest of many sadistic crimes committed by an individual who`ll do anything to avoid capture.
ISBN: 978-0-14-104871-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Summer, 1954 - US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped murderess named Rachel Solando as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems, and neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumours of Ashecliffe`s radical approach to psychiatry? Rumours that hint of drug experimentation, surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing ...As the investigation deepens, the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped an island from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in...
ISBN: 978-0-553-82024-9
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Prentis, senior clerk in the `dead crimes` department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused. Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr Quinn, turns his investigation towards him - and his father. Gradually Prentis suspects that his father`s breakdown and Quinn`s menacing behavior are connected and the link is to be found in his father`s memoirs, Shuttlecock. `Excellent, profound` - Alan Hollinghurst, London Review of Books. `An astonishing study of forms of guilt, laced with a thread of detection, and puckering now and then into outrageous humor` - Sunday Times. `A superbly...
ISBN: 978-0-330-51825-3
Издательство:
Picador
Дата выхода: август 2011
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Mystic River" comes the tie-in edition to a haunting psychological thriller in which two U.S. Marshals hunt an escaped mental patient. Opening on October 22, the film from Paramount Pictures is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, and Ben Kingsley. Reissue.
ISBN: 9780061703256
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2009
In a high-tech company an important file is missing. What`s behind it? Espionage? Extortion? Bullying? All together? Or anything about it? Only one thing is: Walter Dessauer loses his job, if not quite the case detective Carsten Tsaraden quickly dissolves.
ISBN: 978-3-19-041669-1
Издательство:
Hueber
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Cette charmante comédie en un acte se déroule à Messine, lors d`une nuit noire. Un Sicilien jaloux veut épouser la jeune esclave grecque qu`il a affranchie, mais l`amour rôde déjà autour d`elle. Un beau gentilhomme français rêve de l`enlever et, grâce à la complicité de l`ingénieux Hali, son valet, il entre dans la place. Quels stratagèmes utiliser pour ravir la belle, tout à fait consentante? Toute l`action s`accompagne de chants et de danses qui entraînent le spectateur dans un tourbillon de couleurs et de musique. Une ode à la liberté et à l`amour dans une comédie-ballet fantaisiste et exotique qui invite à retrouver tout le...
ISBN: 978-2-266-19229-3
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: июль 2011