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.
What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With Troublesome Words, journalist and bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage and spelling that has been an indispensable companion to those who work with the written word for over twenty years. So if you want to discover whether you should care about split infinitives, are cursed with an uncontrollable outbreak of commas or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say `an historic day`, this superb book is the place to find out.
ISBN: 978-0-14-104039-4
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter`s day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reasons for his interest in the case as Hakan`s son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months earlier, at Hakan`s 75th birthday party, Kurt noticed that the old man appeared uneasy and seemed eager to talk about a controversial incident from his past career that remained shrouded in mystery. Could this be connected to his disappearance? When Hakan`s wife Louise also goes missing, Wallander is determined to uncover the truth. His search...
ISBN: 978-0-09-954842-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: май 2012
In the first of the four cases in "Trouble is My Business", LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who’s ‘got her hooks into a rich man’s pup’. Before too long Marlowe’s up to his neck in corpses and cops and he’s taken pity on the girl. There’s nothing like making trouble of your business … The four novellas collected here are quintessential Raymond Chandler: slick, crystal-clear writing that pins the reader to the seat and won’t let go until the last page is turned.
What happens after the `happy ever after`? When Robin asked Tilly to marry him, it was the happiest moment of her life. Ten years on, the sparkle has faded - household bills, household chores, two small children and a boisterous dog have seen to that - but Tilly is convinced their love can survive even the attentions of interfering in-laws and a glamorous ex-girlfriend. When dramatic news ignites the simmering undercurrents into a full-blown crisis, Tilly is forced to face the fact that her marriage is under threat. Can she and Robin find a way to recapture the love, lust and sense of fun that filled their early years together? Can Tilly find the strength to overcome the obstacles in the path of true happiness? And when temptation arises...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-2676-6
Издательство:
Pocket Books
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Une anthologie poétique c`est une invitation à butiner dans un jardin fleuri pour faire sa provision de miel. Le lecteur y entend le rêveur sacré (Hugo), écoute les mots d`amour et d`humour, ressent la joie et la tristesse, l`espoir et l`angoisse, le bonheur et la mélancolie. Il prend le temps de savourer de mystérieuses correspondances. Et puis - pourquoi pas? - il peut aussi s`essayer lui-même à la cuisine poétique car les recettes ne manquent pas: ici comment faire un sonnet, là un rondeau ou une villanelle. Une anthologie ce n`est qu`un bouquet, comme le dit son étymologie: elle doit éveiller les sens en donnant accès à l`infinie variété des couleurs...
ISBN: 978-2-266-19227-9
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Helps you find the right word: useful for giving variety to the written expression. This title includes 125,000 synonyms clearly grouped by meaning. It features various linguistic registers: literary, poetic, formal, familiar and slang, old-fashioned, and more.
ISBN: 978-2-84902-619-9
Издательство:
Le Robert
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Mark Jackson is on holiday in Turkey. He visits the old city of Troy and finds a yellow stone. I know this stone, he thinks. It comes from from ... Suddenly Mark goes back in time. He can see a beautiful city, soldiers and a big wooden horse.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8071-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Teach your baby all about trucks with touch and feel textures. Stroke and touch the textures together with your baby and help them discover all about trucks. Broom broom! Let their little hands roam and feel how chunky the truck`s big wheels are. They`ll learn as you play. Twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny textures in a chunky package is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.
ISBN: 978-1-4053-2911-8
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: август 2011
Terry Pratchett`s extraordinary, and extraordinarily funny, book, Truckers, available for the first time in an edition beautifully illustrated by Mark Beech.Imagine that all around you, hidden from sight, there are thousands of tiny people.They are four inches tall, brave, stubborn and resourceful.They are the nomes.The nomes in this story live under the floorboards of a large Department Store and have never been Outside. In fact, they don`t even believe in Outside. But new nomes arrive, from - where else? - and they bring with them terrifying news: the Store is closing down and Everything Must Go . . .The fantastically funny first book of the nomes, from the author of the bestselling Discworld series.
based tabloid reporter Hope Spencer has come to Gospel hoping for inspiration. Well, she gets has never met anyone quite like the resident of Gospel. From the Dean sisters with their color-coordinated hair to the toilet-tossing the murder victim whose body had been found in her house years before. She discovers that really is stranger than fiction - even tabloid fiction! And then there is local sheriff Dylan Taber. He is no made-up character from one of her stories. Dylan is all too soon Hope is forced to face the awful truth - she`s been too long without a man. But once she gets wind of a Hollywood actress somehow mixed up Dylan`s life, Hope realizes that if they are to have a furture together, he has some true confessing to do.
ISBN: 978-0-380-81438-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is part of a five-level course for young adult and adult learners, specifically designed for international students. The course balances presentation, practice and production, ensuring the students feel prepared and ready to communicate in English. It carefully distinguishes between receptive and productive activities, because students can understand more difficult material than they can produce. The course aims to surround international students with the voice of the native speaker, supplying the rich listening practice they need. It tightly connects social language and grammar so that grammar is not taught in isolation, but with meaning and purpose. The course also aims to achieve real communication in the classroom through a...
True to Life is a five-level course for adults. To ensure a high level of motivation, the course focuses on contemporary themes, language and learning styles that are relevant to adult learners. The Starter level provides between 40 and 60 hours of class work. The other levels provide between 72 and 96 hours of class work, depending on the various options used. The range of extra materials - photocopiable worksheets, tests and videos - create a comprehensive and flexible teaching package. The ready-made lessons can be used as they stand, saving teacher time, or adapted using the optional activities suggested in the Teacher`s Book.
ISBN: 978-0-521-42146-1
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
True to Life is a five-level course for adults. To ensure a high level of motivation, the course focuses on contemporary themes, language and learning styles that are relevant to adult learners. The Starter level provides between 40 and 60 hours of class work. The other levels provide between 72 and 96 hours of class work, depending on the various options used. The range of extra materials - photocopiable worksheets, tests and videos - create a comprehensive and flexible teaching package. The ready-made lessons can be used as they stand, saving teacher time, or adapted using the optional activities suggested in the Teacher`s Book.
ISBN: 0521421454
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2005
True to Life is a five-level course for adults. To ensure a high level of motivation, the course focuses on contemporary themes, language and learning styles that are relevant to adult learners. The Starter level provides between 40 and 60 hours of class work. The other levels provide between 72 and 96 hours of class work, depending on the various options used. The range of extra materials - photocopiable worksheets, tests and videos - create a comprehensive and flexible teaching package. The ready-made lessons can be used as they stand, saving teacher time, or adapted using the optional activities suggested in the Teacher`s Book.
ISBN: 978-0-521-42141-6
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A fictionalised account of Hemingway`s time spent living and hunting in Kenya. The single draft, written in 1953, was discovered and edited by his son Patrick, and is published to commemorate the centenary of the writer`s birth.
ISBN: 0-09-928212-7
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This is part of a five-level course for young adult and adult learners, specifically designed for international students. The course balances presentation, practice and production, ensuring the students feel prepared and ready to communicate in English. It carefully distinguishes between receptive and productive activities, because students can understand more difficult material than they can produce. The course aims to surround international students with the voice of the native speaker, supplying the rich listening practice they need. It tightly connects social language and grammar so that grammar is not taught in isolation, but with meaning and purpose. The course also aims to achieve real communication in the classroom through a...
True to Life is a five-level course designed especially for adult learners of English. The course takes learners from complete beginner to upper-intermediate level. True to Life is built around topics, language, tasks, and approaches to learning which adult learners will find relevant, stimulating and enjoyable.
ISBN: 0-521-57481-1
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
True to Life is a five-level course for adults. To ensure a high level of motivation, the course focuses on contemporary themes, language and learning styles that are relevant to adult learners. The Starter level provides between 40 and 60 hours of class work. The other levels provide between 72 and 96 hours of class work, depending on the various options used. The range of extra materials - photocopiable worksheets, tests and videos - create a comprehensive and flexible teaching package. The ready-made lessons can be used as they stand, saving teacher time, or adapted using the optional activities suggested in the Teacher`s Book.
ISBN: 0-521-45630-4
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The GREEN APPLE series is composed of illustrated graded readers. The readers are graded into three levels - Starter, Step 1 and Step 2 - according to structural and lexical criteria, as well as by choice of subject matter. Features: • introduction about the author and his/her times • wide variety of interesting activities to promote understanding of the text, as well as all four language skills, lexis and sociocultural awareness and knowledge • activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams • informative and fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text • a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities •...
ISBN: 978887754-982-2
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This is part of a five-level course for young adult and adult learners, specifically designed for international students. The course balances presentation, practice and production, ensuring the students feel prepared and ready to communicate in English. It carefully distinguishes between receptive and productive activities, because students can understand more difficult material than they can produce. The course aims to surround international students with the voice of the native speaker, supplying the rich listening practice they need. It tightly connects social language and grammar so that grammar is not taught in isolation, but with meaning and purpose. The course also aims to achieve real communication in the classroom through a...