This is the students` book in the "Distinction" English course, aimed at students who have completed a Cambridge First Certificate in English course. It contains a range of motivating and accessible authentic materials to provide stimulating theme-based contexts which will consolidate and extend students` knowledge. The emphasis is on learning through enjoyable activity-based tasks with ample interactive communication. Students are actively involved in tasks which encourage them to discover how the language works. The language practice in each unit is based on the carefully selected texts. The important area of multi-word verbs is dealt with systematically. Study skills such as dictionary use, categorization methods and note-taking...
ISBN: 978-0-175-56395-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
At the age of 72, Lily Roberts becomes a national celebrity when she writes her spiritual memoirs. Her children, Alan and Clary, are disturbed by Lily`s intimate revelations about her married life. Ten years on, Lily comes to live with Alan, and the bitterness threatens to upset their lives.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-5842-2
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: июль 2012
John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son. But something is wrong. His family no longer interests him, his infidelities are leading him nowhere and he has begun to drink too much. Then one night, something inside John snaps and he calls his wife to tell her that he isn`t coming home.
ISBN: 978-0-09-951855-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Le public: Cette méthode d`apprentissage du français oral s`adresse aux apprenants de niveaux B1 et B2 du Cadre européen commun de référence. La progression se fait autour de 20 thèmes couvrant les principaux aspects de la vie quotidienne. Le contenu: Cet outil complet, simple d`utilisation, favorise l`interaction et permet aux apprenants de développer une aisance de l`expression orale nécessaire dans différentes situations de communication. Cette méthode est composée de textes, de photos ou dessins, de questions, citations et proverbes, et d`activités variées, l`accent étant mis sur l`apport lexical (fiches de vocabulaire spécifique pour chaque thème)....
ISBN: 9782706115653
Издательство:
Presses universitaires de Grenoble
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
As in the original book, "Dive Into Python," each chapter starts with a complete code sample, picks it apart and explains the pieces, and then puts it all back together in a summary. This guide provides a fast introduction to Python with advanced concepts explained thoroughly.
In Beatrice Prior`s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue - Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is - she can`t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made....
The thrilling third book in the internationally bestselling Divergent series that inspired a series of major motion pictures starring Shailene Woodley. This special 10th anniversary edition features exclusive content from Veronica Roth and a beautiful reimagined cover art from award-winning illustrator Victo Ngai.The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered – fractured by violence and scarred by loss. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she`s known, Tris is ready. Perhaps, beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.But Tris`s new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind....
She turns to face the future in a world that`s falling apart. For sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. Turning her back on her family, Tris ventures out, alone, determined to find out where she truly belongs. Shocked by the brutality of her new life, Tris can trust no one. And yet she is drawn to a boy who seems to both threaten and protect her. The hardest choices may yet lie ahead! A debut novel that will leave you breathless.
ISBN: 978-0-00-742042-1
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
I have done bad things. I can`t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future. Yet if Tris wants to uncover the truth about her world, she must be stronger than ever… because more shocking choices and sacrifices lie ahead.
In 1761, at a boarding school in New England, a young Mohawk Indian named Joseph Brant first met Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman. They began a long and intense relationship that would redefine North America. For nearly fifty years, their lives intertwined, at first as close friends but later as bitter foes. Kirkland served American expansion as a missionary and agent, promoting Indian conversion and dispossession. Brant pursued an alternative future for the continent by defending an Indian borderland nestled between the British in Canada and the Americans, rather than divided by them. By telling their dramatic story, Alan Taylor illuminates the dual borders that consolidated the new American nation after the Revolution....
Some know her as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Others as Merry Gentry, LA private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, her life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among her own kind, she has confronted enemies, endured the treachery and malevolence of her kith and kin, and honoured her duty to conceive a royal so she could claim a throne. But now she`s turned her back on court and crown in favour of exile in the human world. However, while she may have rejected the throne, she cannot abandon her people. Someone is killing the fey. The LAPD are baffled and Merry is worried: her kind are not easily captured or killed. At least not by mortals. And it`s not just these murders that concern her. It appears...
ISBN: 978-0-553-82592-3
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. To protect my unborn children, I have turned my back on the crown, choosing exile in the human world with my beloved Frost and Darkness. Yet I cannot abandon my people. Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and my guardsmen and me deeply disturbed. I thought I’d left the blood and politics behind in my own turbulent realm. But now I realize that evil knows no borders, and that nobody lives forever - even if they’re magical.
ISBN: 978-0-345-49597-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Known by his alias, `Oliver Stone`, John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone`s past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone`s freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. Joe Knox is leading the charge, but his superiors aren`t telling him everything there is to know about his quarry - and their hidden agendas are just as dangerous as the killer he`s trying to catch. Meanwhile, with their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club must fend for themselves, even as they try to protect him. As Knox closes...
ISBN: 978-0-330-45653-1
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a `tap-dancing child abuser,` the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together. In 1932, Vivi and the Ya-Yas were disqualified from a Shirley Temple Look-Alike Contest for unladylike behavior. Sixty years later, they`re `bucking 70` and still making waves. With passion and a rare gift for language, Rebecca Wells moves from present to past, unraveling Vivi`s life, her enduring friendships with the Ya-Yas, and the reverberations on Siddalee. The collective power of the Ya-Yas, each of them totally individual and authentic, permeates this story of a tribe of Louisiana wild women...
ISBN: 0-06-050225-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
David Baldacci is the author of fifteen previous consecutive New York Times bestsellers. With his books published in over 40 languages in more than 80 countries, and with nearly 80 million copies in print, he is one of the world`s favorite storytellers. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. Формат: 10,5 см x 17 см.
ISBN: 978-0-446-55164-9
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: июль 2011
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil`s Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada`s casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed...
ISBN: 978-0-307-38975-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-9495-6
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Packed with hair-raising escapades and laugh out-loud moments, this is the perfect tonic to cheer everyone up this year. Footloose, fancy free and ready to get back in the game Newly divorced Ben is back home with mum which is just where she wants him. But best mate Dickie has other ideas, and soon they are sharing a flat, up to all sorts and plotting Ben`s future romantic adventures. But being single isn`t all it`s cracked up to be. Ben staggers from one disaster to another - all under the beady gaze of his ex, who may not want him but doesn`t want anyone else to have him either! And then there`s Ben`s co-worker Poppy, who seems very interested in his escapades too - could she have plans of her own! Laugh-out-loud funny and based on...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730143-0
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
