A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of `The Corrections`. Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. `The Discomfort Zone` is his intimate memoir of his growth from a `small and fundamentally ridiculous person` through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It`s also a portrait of a middle class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s, and a vivid personal history of the decades in which America has taken an angry turn away from its mid-century ideals. The stories told here draw on elements as varied as the effects of Kafka`s fiction on Franzen`s protracted quest to lose his virginity, the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-723425-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Discover China Workbook 2" is an accompanying workbook to "Discover China Student Book 2", designed for upper-elementary teenage-adult learners of mandarin Chinese. Workbook 2 is suitable for both in-class and self-study use. Workbook 2 features clear language objectives which correspond with the Student`s Book unit structure and activities. A wide variety of vocabulary and grammar exercises, as well as extra reading and listening activities, provide practice of the core language presented in Student`s Book 2. Each unit of "Discover China Workbook 2" contains a list of learning objectives which provide a clear outline of the language skills and knowledge which is practiced in each activity. Also contained in each unit is additional...
ISBN: 978-0-230-40640-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: январь 2012
Learn more about the world and English with Discover English. With four levels and two possible starting points, Discover English provides a solid grammar and lexical syllabus with the right amount of variety and challenge to motivate
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6659-0
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Learn more about the world and English with Discover English. With four levels and two possible starting points, Discover English provides a solid grammar and lexical syllabus with the right amount of variety and challenge to motivate young learners.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6631-6
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Learn more about the world and English with Discover English. With four levels and two possible starting points, Discover English provides a solid grammar and lexical syllabus with the right amount of variety and challenge to motivate
ISBN: 978-1-4082-0934-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Discover English provides a solid grammar and lexical syllabus with the perfect mix of variety and challenge to motivate young learners. In set Students` Book on double pages with notes around edge. Photocopiable grammar worksheet for each unit. Photocopiable festival/culture sheets. Workbook answer key and audio scripts. 80 flashcards. ActiveTeach Discover Discover the world!
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6640-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Suitable for young adult to adult beginner Chinese language learners, this book adopts a communicative and integrated approach to Chinese language learning.
ISBN: 978-0-230-40595-0
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Imagine a flat world sitting on the backs of four elephants who hurtle through space balanced on a giant turtle. The Discworld is a place (and a time) strikingly parallel to our own—but also very different. But also very similar. To commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of the Discworld, the first two volumes of the remarkable Terry Pratchett`s equally remarkable—and phenomenally successful—series were made available together, right here, in graphic novel form. These beautifully illustrated renditions of "The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic" show and tell the bizarre misadventures of the spectacularly inept wizard Rincewind and Twoflower, Discworld`s very first—and possibly, portentously its very...
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inguiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy`s isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter`s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
ISBN: 0-09-928482-0
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
The magic of the Christmas season is brought to life with favorite Disney characters in the second edition of this popular title. Join Cinderella, Mickey Mouse, Ariel, Pinocchio, plus new stories with Nemo and the gang from Toy Story, and over a dozen more Disney characters in festive holiday tales. Each story has been updated and given a fresh look with both spot and full-page art throughout. With beautiful gilded pages and 200 stickers, this storybook is the perfect way to get into the holiday spirit.
ISBN: 978-1-4231-1054-5
Издательство:
Disney Editions
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Share your secret thoughts with the Disney Princesses in this fun notebook. There are places to record your likes and dislikes, spaces to stick your favourite photos and mementos, and a diary to note down important dates. Complete with a lock and key to keep everything safe.
Everyone knows that Old King Cole is the merriest soul and that Jack is nimble, quick, and likes to jump over candlesticks. Now little ones can follow along word-for-word as Mickey and friends introduce them to classic Mother Goose rhymes. Sturdy board pages, a padded cover, and one rhyme per page make this ideal for the youngest group. This delightful book and CD set offers a Disney take on everything from Humpty Dumpty to Rock-A-Bye, Baby, and includes several nursery rhyme songs as well!
ISBN: 978-1-4231-3743-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam".--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time".--John le Carre". . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade".--Hunter S. Thompson.
Premier jour de vacances a Saint-Malo: Antje visite la ville et promene le chien Leo. Elle regarde les joueurs de boules, les pecheurs. Tout a coup, Leo saute sur un bateau, Antje saute a son tour. Le bateau sort du port. plus rien! Ses amis l`appellent sur son portable, mais Antje ne repond pas, ne peut pas repondre. La gendarmerie maritime part a sa Que s`est-il passe? Est-ce qu`Antje va retrouver ses amis?
ISBN: 978-2-278-06095-5
Издательство:
Didier
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Livingston, banlieue de New York. Il y a onze ans, Ken Klein, accuse d`avoir viole et etrangle sa petite amie, disparaissait a jamais, emportant avec lui la verite sur ce meurtre aussi atroce qu` Convaincu de l`innocence de son frere, Will s`est resigne a cette fuite sans retour. Jusqu`au jour ou il apprend que, revenu sur les lieux du crime, Ken a ete apercu dans le cimetiere de la Bientot, Will voit sa fiancee le quitter sans Pur hasard? Difficile a croire. Brutalement plonge au coeur d`une tenebreuse affaire, il est temps que Will comprenne que les deux etres qui lui sont le plus chers sont peut-etre ceux qu`il connait le Формат: 11 см х 18 см.
ISBN: 978-2-266-13649-5
Издательство:
Pocket
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Layoffs have become a fact of life in today’s economy; initiated in the mid 1970s, they are now widely expected, and even accepted. It doesn’t have to be that way. In "The Disposable American", award-winning reporter Louis Uchitelle offers an eye-opening account of layoffs in America–how they started, their questionable necessity, and their devastating psychological impact on individuals at all income levels. Through portraits of both executives and workers at companies such as Stanley Works, United Airlines, and Citigroup, Uchitelle shows how layoffs are in fact counterproductive, rarely promoting efficiency or profitability in the long term. Recognizing that a global competitive economy makes tightening necessary, Uchitelle...
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3433-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
In an age of treachery and turmoil, brutal murder brings the ultimate test of faith. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved. But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. Cromwell`s Commissioner Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege - a black cockerel sacrificed on the...
