With a brand new design, 1,000 additional words, and new fun sections like "The Four Longest Words in the English Language" and "The Spelling Words That Made Kids Champions", this is the perfect spelling resource for students.
There is something special about teaching children. Jayne Moon’s academic rigour and classroom experience inform every page of this book – but what shines through is a sense of the privilege it is to participate in someone’s learning at this age in their lives. This is a practical handbook with lots of teaching suggestions – but it is also a source of inspiration.
ISBN: 978-1-4050-8002-6
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: август 2011
Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori`s The Vampyre and James Malcolm Rymer`s Varney the Vampyre, a tale which held readers in thrall when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century. As well as these rare stories and those featuring the more well known bloodsuckers such as Le Fanu s Carmilla and Stoker s Dracula, there is a clutch of lesser known but equally frightening tales written by expert practitioners in the art of raising goose pimples. Children of the Night is a volume...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-546-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The battle waged in the heart of the Family Dracul continues, as the innocent take up arms against the monster. As his loved ones indulge in forbidden crimes with a legendary passion, Vlad the Impaler`s heir, Arkady, cries out to his sons" "Let the curse end with me!"
ISBN: 978-0-440-22269-9
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Stalin`s Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful State. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a murderer kills at will and Leo dares to investigate, the State`s obedient servant finds himself demoted and exiled. Now, with only his wife at his side, Leo must fight to uncover shocking truths about a killer - and a country where "crime" doesn`t exist. Формат: 15 см x 23 см.
Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends - and then the age of Mankind
ISBN: 978-0-345-34795-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
In this sequel to Marie, Allan Quatermain helps his Zulu friend Saduko in a crazy battle to win 100 cattle for the dowry of his love Mameena. However, the beautiful and mysterious Mameena, known as the "Child of Storm," seduces Allan and tries to engage him in marriage. This edition also includes Magepa the Buck (1887).
ISBN: 978-5-521-06436-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins, children of a city stockbroker, and their friends, the son and daughter of a curator at the new Victoria and Albert Museum, are already inscribed with mystery. Each family carries their own secrets. Into their world comes a young stranger, a working-class boy from the potteries, drawn by the beauty of the Museum`s treasures. And in midsummer a German puppeteer arrives, bringing dark dramas. The world seems full of promise but...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953545-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The People`s Republic seen by Chinese photographers. This book brings together a vast selection of images by Chinese photographers since 1949, giving readers a visual journey across the great People`s Republic; edited by esteemed photojournalist Liu Heung Shing, longtime Associated Press correspondent and Time magazine contributor. In post-Mao China, late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping urged his one billion countrymen to "seek truth from facts." Taking its cue from Deng`s overture, China today is the leading economic story of the 21st century. The process by which China navigated the path from periphery to a central position in world affairs dominates the debate about Asia and China`s relationship to the western world. Pulitzer-winning...
ISBN: 978-3-8365-0569-7
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
During his many trips through China, Karl Lang has created an unusual insight into this enormous empire of the Orient. In addition to the traditional rural life and the pulsating metropolises such as Beijing and Shanghai, the perfectly-composed panorama photographs also show the beauty of the landscape of this country so foreign to us.
ISBN: 978-3-89823-337-8
Издательство:
Editionpanorama
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Artie Wu and Quincy Durant, one of Southern California`s unlikeliest pairs, find that the local mix-up they are looking into has suddenly expanded in space, from Vietnam to Washington, and in time, through twenty years of intrigue and deception.
Discover China with its teeming cities, mountain temples and ancient palaces. Walk the Great Wall and take your last chance to visit the famous Three Gorges-this exceptional guide shows you how. NAVIGATE - 235 maps with Chinese script and English COMMUNICATE - Mandarin, Cantonese, Tibetan and Portugese language chapter DINE OUT - the mysteries of Chinese cuisine explained GET ABOUT - sections on Yangzi River cruises and Beijing`s traditional hutong UNWIND - China`s national parks make an idyllic getaway EASE YOUR MIND - watch the sunset from a sacred mountain
ISBN: 1-74059-117-8
Издательство:
Lonely Planet
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Karl Lang took his time to explore this huge country in several journeys that took him into its most remote regions. In addition to traditional country life, this photo book also depicts the bustling rhythm of China`s metropolitan areas. Portraits of the inhabitants of the respective regions complement the impressive panorama images.
ISBN: 978-3-89823-243-2
Издательство:
Editionpanorama
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Chinese style, long considered staid and traditional, is moving rapidly in a new and innovative direction. The pioneering spirit of a new China is manifesting itself in cuttingedge design and architecture as an insatiable appetite for creative new directions leads designers to infuse their work with a fresh vision. The traditional aesthetic values of elegance, subtlety and proportion are still evident, but modern materials and techniques now form the cornerstones of new design movements. China Living presents a fascinating overview of China`s diverse design landscape today. From modernist mountain villas to high-rise condominiums, and from artistic retreats in former industrial buildings to refurbished courtyard homes, the array of...
ISBN: 978-0-7946-0435-6
Издательство:
Tuttle Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Against a background of historical, cultural and social change comes Chinese Dress, a comprehensive and sumptuously illustrated book examining the extraordinary range of Chinese dress. Skillfully weaving together everything from court and formal costumes through to the working attire of the lower classes and the latest fashions of New China, Chinese Dress tells the story of the evolution of Chinese clothing. The first section details attire worn during the Qing dynasty by the emperors and their consorts, as well as the mandarins, merchants, and their womenfolk, both Manchu and Chinese. The following sections pay particular attention to the dramatic changes in clothing that took place in China from the Republican period, including rural...
ISBN: 978-0-8048-3663-0
Издательство:
Tuttle Publishing
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
