When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old his parents told him that he must leave school and come and work on the family farm as they could no longer afford to $80 a year tuition fees. This is the story of his refusal to give up on learning and reading. A story of passion, determination and remarkable achievements. Malawi is a country battling AIDS, drought and famine, and in 2002, a season of floods, followed by the most severe famine in fifty years, brought it to its knees. Like the majority of the population, William`s family were farmers. They were totally reliant of the maize crop. By the end of 2001, after many lean and difficult years, there was no more crop. They were running out of food - had nothing to sell - and had months...
ISBN: 978-0-00-731619-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
The Beautiful and Damned tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1910s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon`s fortune, and his courtship and relationship with his wife Gloria Gilbert. It describes his brief service in the Army during World War I, and the couple`s post-war partying life in New York, and his later alcoholism. Gloria and Anthony’s love story is much more than just a couple falling in love. Their story deals with the hardships of a relationship, especially when each character has a tendency to be selfish. Joanna Stolarek suggests, Fitzgerald draws on “Zelda, the object of the writer’s literary passion”.
When Tomas discovers a strange old tree at the bottom of his grandfather`s garden, he doesn`t think much of it. But he takes the funny fruit from the tree back into the house and gets the shock of his life when a tiny dragon hatches! The tree is a dragon fruit tree, and Tomas now has his very own dragon, Flicker!Когда Томас обнаруживает странное старое дерево в глубине сада своего деда, он не придает этому особого значения. Но он забирает забавный фрукт с дерева в дом и испытывает величайший шок в своей жизни, когда вылупляется крошечный...
Сборник арий в переложении для голоса, фортепиано, гитары. Тексты: Cats - "Memory". Evita - "Don`t Cry for Me Argentina". Notre Dame de Paris - "Bell", "Dance mon Esmeralda". The Phantom of the Opera - " The Phantom of the Opera".
ISBN: 5-40147-002-9
Издательство:
Гамма+
Дата выхода: январь 2003
"The Baker & McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook 2008" is second in the annual series established by the Firm in 2007. This year, the collection of articles on international arbitration is not limited to the European experience, but comprises reports from around the world. Leading lawyers of the Firm`s International Arbitration Practice Group, a subdivision of the Firm`s Global Dispute Resolution Practice Group, share their views on recent developments in national laws relating to arbitration, and address current trends and tendencies in the relevant judicial practice. Additionally, "Baker & McKenzie" has asked the contributors to report on a special topic: the attitude of national courts regarding the independence and...
ISBN: 978-5-466-00398-7
Издательство:
Волтерс Клувер
Дата выхода: март 2009
Jack Ryan finds being president doesn`t get easier. Pitfalls await him at every turn: there`s a revolution in Liberia, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and now, in Moscow, someone has tried to take out the chairman of the former KGB with a rocket-propelled grenade. Then, forces in China start moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions.
ISBN: 0-425-18096-4
Издательство:
Rem Distributors
Дата выхода: январь 1998
Thor has broken the sword Tyrfing so that it cannot strike at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds together earth, heaven and hell. But now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves in their war against the trolls, and only Scafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade Bolverk the ice-giant to make Tyrfing whole again. But Scafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard the changeling who has taken his place in the world of men.
ISBN: 978-0-575-07425-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion. All my life I`ll think you you, I promise I will. I won`t ever forget you. Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see one another again, but it is the butterfly lion which ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten.
ISBN: 978-0-00-675103-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
The King James Bible has often been called the Book of Books both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611 it has been the best selling book in the world, and many believe, had the greatest impact. The King James Bible has spread the Protestant faith. It has also been the greatest influence on the enrichment of the English language and its literature. It has been the Bible of wars from the British Civil War in the seventeenth century to the American Civil War two centuries later and it has been carried into battle in innumerable conflicts since then. Its influence on social movements - particularly involving women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - and politics was profound. It was crucial to the growth...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-0516-4
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Серия книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — это бессмертные произведения великих мастеров пера, написанные ими на их родном языке и наречии. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углубленно изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Неадаптированное издание на английском языке.
ISBN: 978-5-519-49425-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2016
Кто из нас не слышал о Шерлоке Холмсе? "Лучшие рассказы о Шерлоке Холмсе" - это сборник, включающий самые известные рассказы о приключениях детектива с Бейкер-стрит, составленный на основе читательских рейтингов и списка предпочтений самого А. Конан Дойла. Вместе с легендарным сыщиком читатель раскроет тайну пяти апельсиновых косточек, узнает о скандале в Богемии и станет участником многих других...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05518-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2017
Max and Maddy are on the trail of a criminal who`ll stop at nothing to sabotage Mr Helium`s trans-American hot-air balloon race. The prize is a gold balloon worth one million and one dollars, and all the money raised by the race is to go towards the Home for Children Whose Parents Have Disappeared in Balloons - so there`s a lot at stake! They take to the skies on board Mr Helium`s very own balloon in order to catch the cheat. But will the detectives become victim to the dastardly villain`s dangerous schemes and dirty tricks, or will they blow his plot sky-high?
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8048-5
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
"Pomona Britannica", originally published in 1812, celebrated the richness of food variations cultivated in England, with superb illustrations by George Brockham of 256 species of fifteen kinds of fruit. For this compact, enhanced reprint, we have been fortunate enough to obtain the use of a very rare original copy: the exquisite, limited edition, hand-colored volume that was first owned by Princess Elizabeth, daughter of George III. Each chapter of our publication focuses on one family of fruit and is accompanied by a contemporary text giving nutritional information about the fruits as well as cultural and historical analyses. Lovingly drawn on charcoal backgrounds, the mouth-watering cherries, apples, figs, and other divine fruits seem...
ISBN: 3-8228-4740-2
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student\`s ability. Rarotonga, in the beautiful Pacific Cook Islands, is the setting for a daring robbery. When master-thief Wolfgang Peters arrives on the island, Inspector Janet Hunter of the New Zealand Police is waiting for him. Will Peters manage to escape justice once again, or will Hunter and the Rarotongan police catch him? Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book.
ISBN: 978-0-521-73289-5
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This is the latest instalment in the most famous thriller series of them all. Bourne is back, and this time the stakes are higher than `s enemies are gathering force. Severus Domna, a secret and ancient cabal, has called forth its members from around the globe, with one objective: to vanquish the last person capable of destroying their bid to de-stabilize the world economy - Jason Bourne. But how can they possibly succeed where so many others have failed? By turning Bourne`s most trusted friend into his greatest - and most deadly - enemy. Now Bourne finds himself in a world where friend and foe go hand-in-hand. Bourne`s journey will lead him down a path of brutal murder and destruction - one from which there is no
1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.
ISBN: 978-0-552-77389-8
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
