Boost! Speaking 1 is part of a 4-level series for junior learners, that develops functional speaking skills like clarification, explanation, description and persuasion.
ISBN: 978-962-00-5917-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Acentury ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call - or Skype - home the moment their flight has landed, and that`s just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy communication, immigrants everywhere stay in intimate contact with their native countries, creating powerful cross-border networks. In Borderless Economics, Robert Guest, The Economist`s Business Editor, travels through dozens of countries and 44 American states, observing how these networks create wealth, spread ideas and foster innovation. He shows how: * Brainy Indians in America collaborate with brainy Indians in India to build $70 fridges and $300 houses * Young Chinese study in the West and then return home (where...
A tale of intrigue, deception, murder and retribution, "Boris Godunov" charts the rise and fall of an ambitious prince who cannot avoid facing the consequences of his dark past. Based on the historical figure of the nobleman Boris Godunov, who seized power from Ivan the Terrible`s successor in sixteenth-century Russia, and partly inspired by Shakespeare`s "Macbeth", Alexander Pushkin`s 1825 play showcases the author`s mastery of verse and dramatic form. Also included in this volume are Pushkin`s celebrated four Little Tragedies: "Mozart and Salieri", "The Miserly Knight", "The Stone Guest" and "A Feast During the Plague".
ISBN: 978-1-84749-147-3
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
``The people are silent`` So ends Pushkin`s great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris`s reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin`s dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin`s own unique, condensed transformations of Western European themes and traditions. The fearful amorality of A Scene from Faust is followed by the four Little Tragedies which confront greed, envy, lust, and blasphemy, while Rusalka is a tragedy of a different kind - a lyric fairytale of...
ISBN: 978-0-19-955404-1
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
Miss Cluck is taking her class camping. There are various mishaps along the way - the little mice find it difficult to keep up, then Maxwell drops his Teddy in the stream while they play pooh-sticks. Each time, Boris comes to the rescue - earning him praise from Miss Cluck and his classmates. Eventually the animals find a lovely spot for their tepee and they spend the afternoon decorating it before setting off to gather berries for supper. when they get back to their lovely tepee, they discover `Someone had scribbled on the sides. Someone had drawn a moustache on Miss Cluck`s face. Someone had pulled down the And someone was going to be in BIG trouble!` The culprits are two naughty wolf cubs and they laugh in the face of Miss Cluck`s...
In the Ichidian Universe, the League and its ruthless assassins continue to keep rule. But at what cost? Welcome back to the a whole new world. Devyn Kell spent his life in service to the League until he learned of the double dealing and backstabbing that was costing innocent people their lives. Refusing to play those politics, he became a Runner--someone who makes sure planets get the weapons, medicine and supplies they need to survive. May the gods have mercy on any who get in his way, because he definitely won`t. Alix Garran is a woman on the run from a past she can`t escape. Signing on to work for Devyn as a System`s Engineer, she finds a cause she can fight for--and a man she can respect. But as Alix`s past catches up to her, and...
ISBN: 978-0-312-94232-8
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
THE POWERFUL NEW BESTSELLER FROM ONE OF THE NATION`S FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS Harry always knew he would go back on day! Eighteen years ago when he was a boy, he had made a decision that drove him from the pace he knew and loved. In those early years, between boy and man, he had carved out a life for himself, and somehow, he had found a semblance of through every waking moment during those long aching years, he was haunted by what happened when he was a boy. He had never forgotten that warm, carefree girl with the laughing he recalled the sadness, the bad timings and even now, he could not forgive himself. They say you never forget your first love and it`s true. You could have a dozen loving relationships and even settle down with someone...
