Beginning with the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army at Milford in 1485 and ending with the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, this is an account of an eventful and contradictory age. The author draws together all the strands of Tudor social life into a tapestry displaying every aspect of the times. He contrasts the life of palaces, grand tournaments and English drama with the harshness of peasant life, terrible roads, a vast underclass, the harsh treatment of heretics and traitors and the misery of the Plague.
Henry VIII changed the course of English life more completely than any monarch since the Conquest. In the portraits of Holbein, Henry Tudor stands proud as one of the most powerful figures in renaissance Europe. But is the portrait just a bluff? In his new book, Derek Wilson explores the myths behind the image of the Tudor Lion. He was the monarch that delivered the Reformation to England yet Luther called him `A fool, a liar and a damnable rotten worm`. As a young man he gained a reputation as an intellectual and fair prince yet he ruled the nation like a tyrant. He treated his subjects as cruelly as he treated his wives. Based on a wealth of new material and a life time`s knowledge of the subject Derek Wilson exposes a new portrait of...
ISBN: 978-1-84529-903-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the universe. But the ensuing years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro and the macrocosmic world - observations that have confirmed many of Hawking`s theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book. Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel and a new introduction. It make vividly clear why...
ISBN: 0-553-17698-6
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Brief einer Unbekannten (1922) — eine kurze Novelle in Briefform. Die Rahmenhandlung beginnt damit, dass ein Schriftsteller nach einem Bergurlaub in seine Heimatstadt Wien zuruckkehrt. In seiner Post findet er einen langen Brief ohne Absender, in dem eine ihm unbekannte Frau ihr Leben schildert, das von der unerwiderten Liebe zu ihm bestimmt war.
ISBN: 978-5-521-00489-8
Издательство:
Пальмира
Дата выхода: апрель 2017
Richie and his wife Clara have won a weekend in New York in a newspaper competition. While Clara is off blowing their spending money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant transporter machine. It looks nothing like the open-plan teleporter on Captain Kirk's Starship Enterprise; in fact, it seems more like a glorified microwave oven. Richie places his burger inside, hits the return key on the linked-up computer - and the burger disappears. But if he can teleport a half-eaten veggie-burger, what else could you do with the machine? For criminals, the possibilities are endless. Who could catch you if you beamed drugs into nostrils a hundred...
ISBN: 978-0-552-77757-5
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Why it started, when, and what was the reality of `The Crusades` are some of the questions this book aims to answer. Many people saw the Crusades as pilgrimages, many believed they were doing the will of God, and many more were there for the booty. This was an institution that for more than five centuries punctuated European history, troubled Christian consciences and embittered Muslim attitudes towards the West. Geoffrey Hindley takes us from the Middle East and Muslim Spain to the pagan Baltic when `Crusaders` reclaimed or extended Europe`.
Bright Ideas Level 3 provides a flexible package that ensures exam success and encourages students to develop 21st century skills through creative games and activities.How do we make friends? What`s fun about music? What`s amazing about the sea?With a strong focus on the development of reading and writing skills through interactive learning, Bright Ideas Level 3 offers extensive exam and literacy support with the benefit of innovative content and familiar topics.Using `Big Questions` to challenge students and promote the development of 21st century skills in areas such as critical thinking, the course links the classroom with the `real world` and encourages the sharing of ideas through communication and collaboration.The comprehensive...
At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it - of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others, the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences. Fate is on its way to Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change their lives in the most ...
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene`s gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the "dangerous edge of things".
ISBN: 978-0-09-947847-8
Издательство:
Vintage Classics
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Bright Ideas Starter provides a flexible package that ensures exam success and encourages students to develop 21st century skills through creative games and activities.What`s your favourite toy? What can you do? Who`s in your family?With a strong focus on the development of reading and writing skills through interactive learning, Bright Ideas Starter offers extensive exam and literacy support with the benefit of innovative content and familiar topics.Using `Big Questions` to challenge students andpromote the development of 21st century skills in areas such ascritical thinking, the course links the classroom with the `real world` and encourages the sharing of ideas through communication and collaboration.Downloadable tests and worksheets...
Charrington Mary; Heijmer Joanna; Covill Charlotte
Bright Ideas Level 4 provides a flexible package that ensures exam success and encourages students to develop 21st century skills through creative games and activities.What`s great about technology? What`s fun about museums? Where do people work?With a strong focus on the development of reading and writing skills through interactive learning, Bright Ideas Level 4 offers extensive exam and literacy support with the benefit of innovative content and familiar topics.Using `Big Questions` to challenge students and promote the development of 21st century skills in areas such as critical thinking, the course links the classroom with the `real world` and encourages the sharing of ideas through communication and collaboration.The comprehensive...
Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders with seedy depravity. Frey`s trademark filmic snapshots zoom in on the parallel lives of diverse characters, bringing their egos and ideals, hopes and despairs, anxieties and absurdities vividly to life. Some suffer, like the otherworldly wino who tries to save a spoilt teenage runaway. Others gain, like the canny talent agent who turns sexual harassment to blackmailing advantage. Some are loaded, or grounded, and have luck on their side. Others, like the countless...
Robert Rankin`s THE BRENTFORD TRILOGY - seven books and counting - catapulted him into the dizzy heights of cult success, but over the years that cult following has grown and Robert Rankin is now the second best-selling writer of comic fantasy in Britain, after Terry He Always Makes Me Laugh Pratchett. Were you aware that there are, hidden in the streets of Brighton, twelve ancient constellations, like the Hangleton Hound and the Bevendean well, there are: and on each one hangs a tale, a tale so strange that only The Lad Himself, that inveterate spinner of tales and talker of the toot, Hugo Rune, can get to the bottom of them. And he`d better do it quickly, because if he doesn`t solve the dozen mysteries before the year is out, that`ll...
ISBN: 0-575-07773-5
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: март 2011
An account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear fission was possible and then became concerned about its implications. Index. Translated by James Cleugh.
At 66, Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it - of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others, the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences. Fate is on its way to Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change their lives in the most ...
ISBN: 978-0-14-139997-3
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Bright Ideas Level 5 provides a flexible package that ensures exam success and encourages students to develop 21st century skills through creative games and activities.How do we discover things? What`s exciting about exploring? How can we help at home?With a strong focus on the development of reading and writing skills through interactive learning, Bright Ideas Level 1 offers extensive exam and literacy support with the benefit of innovative content and familiar topics.Using `Big Questions` to challenge students and promote the development of 21st century skills in areas such as critical thinking, the course links the classroom with the `real world` and encourages the sharing of ideas through communication and collaboration.The...
Charrington Mary; Thompson Tamzin; Covill Charlotte
Bright Ideas Level 2 provides a flexible package that ensures exam success and encourages students to develop 21st century skills through creative games and activities.Why do we like birthdays? How can we be healthy? What`s fun about being outdoors?With a strong focus on the development of reading and writing skills through interactive learning, Bright Ideas Level 2 offers extensive exam and literacy support with the benefit of innovative content and familiar topics.Using `Big Questions` to challenge students and promote the development of 21st century skills in areas such as critical thinking, the course links the classroom with the `real world` and encourages the sharing of ideas through communication and collaboration.The...
At 66 Star Street in Dublin, someone is watching over the lives of the people living in its flats. But no one is aware of it - One of them is ready to take the plunge and fall in love; another is torn between two very different lovers. For some, secrets will come to light, which for others will have tragic consequences.
This ever popular four-book series Brighter Grammer helps students understand the key points of English grammer, using only essential technical terms. Graded exercises allow teachers to monitor development, and lively illustrations enhance the text and retain the students` intrest.
