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
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
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
American Gods, the extraordinary, highly acclaimed epic novel from storytelling genius and international bestseller Neil Gaiman, comes vividly to life in a major new TV series on Amazon Prime Video starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning and Gillian Anderson.`Gaiman is a treasure-house of story and we are lucky to have him` Stephen King.If you are to survive, you must believe.Shadow Moon has served his time. But hours before his release from prison, his beloved wife is killed in a freak accident. Dazed, he boards a plane home where he meets the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who professes both to know Shadow and to be king of America.Together they embark on a profoundly strange road trip across the USA, encountering a kaleidoscopic...
Harry Turtledove’s acclaimed alternate history series began with a single question: What if the South had won the Civil War? Now, seventy years have passed since the first War Between the States. The North American continent is locked in a battle of politics, economies, and moralities. In a world that has already felt the soul-shattering blow of the Great War, North America is the powder keg that could ignite another global conflict — complete with a new generation of killing machines. “Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!” In 1934, the chant echoes across the Confederate States of America, a country born of bloodshed and passion, stretching from Mexico to Virginia. But while people use the word to greet each other in the streets, the...
ISBN: 978-0-345-44424-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
The twentieth century has been called `the American Century`. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us the lives of the twelve men, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, who presided over America`s imperial fortunes - the good, the bad and the truly awful. How did these American Caesars reach the White House? What were the challenges they faced when they got there and how did they meet them? And who were these men in their private lives? Compulsively readable, packed with unforgettable characters as well as stories, lessons and revelations, "American Caears" is essential reading for our...
ISBN: 978-0-09-952041-2
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"Грамматический справочник" (Grammar Book) - третья часть учебного комплекса "America the Beautiful". В нем описаны те грамматические явления, которые представлены в "Книге для студента" (Student Book) и "Рабочей тетради" (Workbook) - двух предыдущих частях курса американского варианта английского языка. В Справочнике содержатся сведения об основных положениях базовой нормативной грамматики, о некоторых отступлениях от нормы,...
ISBN: 5-87151-020-5
Издательство:
Школа Китайгородской
Дата выхода: январь 1999
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well-educated, intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom. He is twenty-six years old and living his own American Dream.
ISBN: 978-0-307-27863-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
How much did the Dutch pay for Manhattan Island in 1614? Where is the world`s blue jeans headquarters? Who can you meet in the `Malibu Colony`, near Los Angeles? New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New Orleans are America`s most distinctive and exciting cities. Similar in some ways and yet completely different in others, they fascinate everyone who visits them. Open this book and find out why.
ISBN: 978885300-996-8
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It is the early 1970s; Nixon is in the White House and Corey Sifter, the young son of working-class parents, is befriended by the powerful Metarey family, whose patriarch is a kingmaker in the world of New York state politics. Corey becomes a yard-boy on the Metarey`s grand estate, and soon, through the family`s generosity, a student at a private boarding school. Before long, he is a confidant of the Metareys and an aide to the great New York Senator Henry Bonwiller as he runs for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. But as the Bonwiller presidential campaign gains momentum a crime is committed, and Corey is forced to reconcile his part in a complex tangle of morality, politics, gratitude, love and loyalty. Set...
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9891-6
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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: 978-0-521-17126-7
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Feel the heat...as cult superstar Nick Angel claws his way from Midwest boyhood poverty to riches, power and fame in the heart of New York City. Feel the heat...as his path collides with the beautiful Lauren Roberts, an innocent learning fast about the ways of the world. About men. About money. And about never having to be alone..."American Star"...a fantastic love story - as only Jackie can tell it!
A brilliant debut thriller from new talent Oliver Stark. The American Devil is stalking New York`s streets. Will a cop and a psychiatrist be able to stop him? Detective Tom Harper, one of the New York Police Department`s star homicide detectives, is on administrative leave for striking a superior officer when the city is left reeling by a series of brutal murders. Young socialites are being targeted by one of the most gruesome killers New York has ever seen and the top brass know that Harper is the only detective who has a chance of stopping the newly dubbed `American Devil` before he strikes again. With Harper already living on the edge, they have no choice but to appoint psychiatrist, and new profiler, Denise Levene, to oversee his...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-7113-6
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
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 Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange, Gaiman`s epic new novel sees him on the road to the heart of America.
"America in Close-Up" is a study of contemporary America which looks at a variety of aspects of life in the United States. Each unit of the book has three parts; Part A offers a clear and detailed account of some aspect of American society and in Part B the subject is explored further through interviews, articles and photographs taken from contemporary newspapers and journals such as "Time" and "Newsweek", which give an insight into the way Americans see themselves and show the contrasting views held by people in the different strata of society. The factual information in Part A provides the historical and cultural context for students to understand the issues discussed in the texts in Part B which range from immigration and race...
American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture, Third Edition, by Maryanne Kearny Datesman, JoAnn Crandall, and Edward N. Kearny, focuses on the traditional values that have attracted people to the United States for well over 200 years and traces the effects of these values on American life. Chapter themes include diversity, the family, education, government and politics, religion, business, and recreation. Cross-cultural activities --- from discussion topics to writing projects --- encourage high-intermediate to advanced students to compare their own values with those discussed in the readings. New to the Third Edition: *Expanded pre-reading exercises preview the chapter content and Academic Word List vocabulary. *Improve Your...
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: 9780521171465
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. "American Supernatural Tales" celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation`s brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and - of course - Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good addition to "Penguin Classics".
