Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she`s been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible. He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever he the
ISBN: 978-0-380-78903-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: май 2011
Brighten your classroom and help children learn about our country! This unique alphabet set features 26 durable letter cards with beautiful color photos of American symbols and places, such as F for flag, S for Statue of Liberty, and W for White House. Display the cards together as an alphabet frieze or use them independently as letter cards. They also make great discussion prompts and springboards for social studies lessons! Includes a complete teaching guide.
ISBN: 978-0-439-42057-0
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: август 2011
Twice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy. Then, after a generation of relative peace, The Great War exploded worldwide. As the conflict engulfed Europe, the backed the Allies, while the found its own ally in Imperial Germany. The Confederate States, France, and England all fell. Russia self-destructed, and the Japanese, seeing that the cause was lost, retired to fight another day. The Great War has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around most of the world. But nowhere is the peace more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders. In the North, proud Canadian nationalists try to resist the colonial power of the...
ISBN: 978-0-345-40566-1
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Рабочая тетрадь" (Workbook) - вторая часть учебного комплекса "America the Beautiful" и предназначена для желающих начать изучение американского варианта английского языка с преподавателем или самостоятельно. Учебный комплекс рассчитан на курс интенсивного обучения по методу профессора Г.А.Китайгородской из 100-120 академических часов. Полученное при этом знание 2000-2500 слов охватывает практически всю тематику...
ISBN: 5-8715-1018-3
Издательство:
Школа Китайгородской
Дата выхода: январь 1999
American MORE! is a four-level course from a highly respected author team that`s bursting with features for lower secondary students. Each level of American MORE! contains 80-90 hours of class material. Key language for each unit is introduced in a photostory and put to use through the `Language Focus`. There is thorough coverage of grammar via a dedicated section in each unit. The `Learn MORE through English` pages introduce cross-curricular learning (CLIL) while the `Learn MORE about Culture` sections explore English speaking countries. Students learn to `Read MORE for pleasure` with the extra reading pages and the CD-ROM enables students to practise vocabulary, grammar and skills.
ISBN: 978-0-521-17109-0
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksI like to dissect girls. Did you know I`m utterly insane?Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, and reservations at every new restaurant in town. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare…With an introduction by Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis`s American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature.Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
This is the definitive thesaurus for middle school and high school students seeking to communicate more effectively by means of a broader vocabulary. No other book at this level offers as many synonyms, example sentences, or features. New to this edition is an informative Parts of Speech table.
The Quick And Easy Way to Learn Perfect American Business English! Are your English skills standing in the way of your success? Here`s the way to improve your English that`s quick and easy, and really works. This interactive course was designed for native speakers of other languages who want to learn American Business English correctly. Your video instructor uses everyday business situations in all of his examples. He helps you use English to navigate through a wide variety of typical business activities. Remember, when the `voice language` and the cultural `body language` of business situations become automatic, you`ll feel comfortable and prepared to do your very best work. Earn the professional respect you deserve by speaking...
ISBN: 5-93331-003-4
Издательство:
АФОН
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town. But the storm is about to break... Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange, Gaiman`s epic new novel sees him on the road to the heart of America.
ISBN: 9780747263746
Издательство:
Hodder
Дата выхода: май 2019
Seymour `Swede` Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father`s Newark glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant post-war America. But everything he loves is lost when the country begins to run amok in the turbulent 1960s. American Pastoral is the story of a fortunate American`s rise and fall - of a strong, confident master of social equilibrium overwhelmed by the forces of social disorder.
ISBN: 978-0-09-977181-4
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery O`Connor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias Wolff.
ISBN: 0-440-20423-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
From the Vanderbilts` Biltmore and the Rockefellers` Kykuit to the Duponts` museum-like Winterthur and William Randolph Hearst`s legendary San Simeon, American country houses evoke the grandeur of a vanished world of privilege, yet more often than not reflected their builders` insecurities about how they were expected to proclaim their wealth and position. Clive Aslet, known for his acclaimed study of English country houses, here offers a heavily illustrated history of their American cousins, drawing on the rich and often amusing writings of contemporaries to evoke the life the buildings served as well as the architectural features they boasted.
Dispatched on a trial run, NASA`s SuperAegis satellite has been created as the foundation of an international antimissle defense system. But moments after dispatch, it vanishes. Rear Admiral Jake Grafton fears something worse than a grave malfunction - he suspects USS America - the world`s most technically advanced nuclear submarine - is launched on its maiden voyage. Then shortly after steaming out of harbor, the unthinkable happens. Pirated by terrorists, America disappears beneath the roiling waves of the Atlantic, its Tomahawk warheads aimed directly at the United ingeniously calculated war has been waged - but the rouge enemy is far more insidious than Jake Grafton ever imagined. His mission: ferret out the core group responsible,...
ISBN: 978-0-312-98250-8
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this spectacular, thought-provoking epic of alternate history, Harry Turtledove has created an unparalleled vision of social upheaval, war, and cutthroat politics in a world very much like our own — but with dramatic differences. It is 1924 — a time of rebuilding, from the slow reconstruction of Washington’s most honored monuments to the reclamation of devastated cities in Europe and Canada. In the United States, the Socialist Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to the Powell House in Philadelphia. And it seems as if the Socialists can do no wrong, for the stock market soars and America enjoys prosperity unknown in a half century. But as old names like Custer and Roosevelt fade into history, a new...
ISBN: 978-0-345-44422-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Издания, представленные в серии «Простое чтение на английском языке», являются учебными пособиями по страноведению и истории, развивают познавательную активность и способствуют развитию у учащихся навыков аналитического мышления. Предназначены для учащихся 7—8 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка или школьников старших классов обычной средней школы. Также могут быть полезны...
ISBN: 978-5-17-054658-9
Издательство:
АСТ/Астрель
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2008
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent. Although Kafka`s first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished), can be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it is also infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness and sunniness, brought to life in this lyrical translation that returns to the original manuscript of the book.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118838-6
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy`s presidency. Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Peter Bondurant - Howard Hughes` right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa`s hitman. Kemper Boyd - employed by J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell, a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy`s drive against organised crime. The festering discount of the age that burns brightly in these men`s hearts will go into supernova as the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity, the Mob clamous for payback and the 1000 days ends in brutal quietus in 1963.
ISBN: 978-0-09-953782-3
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
American MORE! is a four-level course from a highly respected author team that`s bursting with features for lower secondary students. With dedicated reading, culture, grammar, vocabulary, skills and cross-curricular learning sections, plus a wide range of flexible components, you really do get more with American MORE! The Extra Practice Book contains material on life and culture topics, and extra practice exercises. The language corresponds to the units of the Student`s Book. It also includes a `pull-out and keep` mini-reader of `The Open Window` by Saki.
ISBN: 9780521171533
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
American MORE! is a four-level course from a highly respected author team that`s bursting with features for lower secondary students. Each level of American MORE! contains 80-90 hours of class material. With dedicated reading, culture, grammar, vocabulary, skills and cross-curricular learning sections, plus a wide range of flexible components, you really do get more with American MORE! The Workbook with Audio CD contains exercises for extra practice in reading, vocabulary, listening, grammar, and a `Writing for your Portfolio` section.
ISBN: 9780521171144
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
