The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. This title describes the selection process for colonial officers, the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer`s wife and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum.
ISBN: 978-0-670-91959-8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Миром правят вампиры. Они — не вечно молодые романтичные юноши и девушки с бессонными глазами и кровавыми губами, а вполне обыкновенные мужчины и женщины со следами жизненного цинизма на лице. Только им открыт секрет «гламура» и «дискурса». И именно они — настоящая мировая элита, вербующая в свои ряды прохожих одним лёгким укусом.
ISBN: 978-5-4467-3577-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2022
Introduction, notes and activities by Dorothea Barret In the second half of the 19th century, the British Empire, was at its greatest. Imperialism left a lasting mark on Great Britain itself as well as on the ex-colonies. The atmosphere and issues of this bygone age are evoked in Empire Tales , an anthology of stories by some of the most outstanding British writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Ruyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, George Orwell and Jean Rhys.
ISBN: 978887754-296-0
Издательство:
CIDEB
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers` decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we`re good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; and, the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the empire is never very far away. In this acute and witty analysis, Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ("intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever") the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer`s...
An unusual and authoritative `natural history of languages` that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the world in the last five thousand years is above all the story of its languages. Some shared language is what binds any community together, and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. Yet, the history of the world`s great languages has rarely been examined. Empires of the Word is the first to bring together the tales in all their glorious variety: the amazing innovations - in education, culture and diplomacy - devised by speakers in the Middle East; the uncanny resilience of Chinese throughout twenty centuries of...
ISBN: 978-0-00-711871-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legend. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings and queens. His victories helped shape the destiny of the New World. Morgan gathered disaffected English and European sailors and soldiers, hard-bitten adventurers, runaway slaves, cutthroats and sociopaths and turned them into the fiercest and most feared army in the Western Hemisphere. Sailing out from the English stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, `the wickedest city in the New World`, Morgan and his men terrorised Spanish merchant...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-0293-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
The focus on careful reading in theoretical literature has meant that we have somewhat ignored reading behaviours such as skimming, scanning and search reading in the teaching and testing of reading. These theories do not explain how readers process texts quickly and selectively. The development of the Advanced English Reading Test (AERT) for university students in the People`s Republic of China under the auspices of the National College English Test Committee was the vehicle for investigating the nature of and the relationships between skimming, scanning, search reading and careful reading. This volume reports on the methodological procedures that led to the development of this important test and discusses the results of the empirical...
ISBN: 978-0-521-65381-7
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Que pensent les anges de nous ? Que peuvent-ils faire pour nous aider ? Lorsque Michael Pinson (stupidementtue dans un accident d`avion) a passe avec succes l`epreuve de la "pesee des ames", il a accede au royaume des anges. Le voila charge de trois mortels, qu`il devra desormais guider et aider tout au long de leur vie. Ses moyens d`action : les reves, les signes, les mediums, les intuitions, les chats. Que faire pour leur montrer la voie du bonheur? Et puis comment s`occuper intelligemment au Paradis, un endroit bien sympathique mais sans cinema, sans musique, sans restaurant? Apres Les Thanatonautes, Bernard Werber nous donne une fois de plus a reflechir sur notre statut d`etre humain, en melangeant sagesse ancienne, philosophie...
ISBN: 9782253152071
Издательство:
Livre de Poche
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"New York Times" bestselling author, Card is a master storyteller who has earned millions of fans and reams of praise for his previous science fiction and fantasy novels. Now he steps a little closer to the present day with this chilling look at a near-future scenario of a new American civil war.
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5522-5
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
First volume in a dramatic and colourful new fantasy series, ‘Shadows of the Apt’, about the fight for survival against a menacingly regimented empire. Seventeen years ago Stenwold witnessed the Wasp Empire storming the city of Myna in a brutal war of conquest. Since then he has preached vainly against this threat in his home city of Collegium, but now the Empire is on the march, with its spies and its armies everywhere, and the Lowlands lie directly in its path. All the while, Stenwold has been training youthful agents to fight the Wasp advance, and the latest recruits include his niece, Che, and his mysterious ward, Tynisa. When his home is violently attacked, he is forced to send them ahead of him and, hotly pursued, they fly by...
ISBN: 978-0-230-70413-8
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The Palgrave Macmillan Law Masters series is a long-running and successful list of titles offering clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors. This eighth edition of Employment Law has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the area, most notably in the form of the Equality Act 2010. In what is one of the fastest moving areas in the law today, this popular text steers the reader confidently through the complexities. It is an ideal companion - both for law students and for those studying employment law or labour law as part of a business-related degree programme. The enhanced layout includes end of chapter summaries, exercises and further...
Employment law is one of the fastest moving areas in the law today with statutory changes, European Directives and new cases changing the detail very rapidly. This book steers the student confidently through the complexities, providing summary points at the end of each chapter plus exercises and additional reading. This edition has been fully updated to reflect recent changes including the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and the Employment Equality (Sex Discrimination) Regulations 2005.
Cambridge English Empower is a general adult course that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from the experts at Cambridge English Language Assessment. The Intermediate Teacher`s Book offers detailed teaching notes for every lesson of the Student`s Book. It also includes extra photocopiable activities, keys to exercises and extra teaching notes.
ISBN: 9781107468573
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: январь 2023
Cambridge English Empower is a general adult course that combines course content from Cambridge University Press with validated assessment from the experts at Cambridge English Language Assessment. The Upper Intermediate Teacher`s Book offers detailed teaching notes for every lesson of the Student`s Book, it includes extra photocopiable activities, keys to exercises and extra teaching notes.
ISBN: 9781107468917
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: январь 2023
Сборник включает статьи участников Юбилейной международной научной конференции, прошедшей в Государственном историческом музее 5–6 декабря 2013 г. Представлены доклады участников конференции, прозвучавшие на пленарном заседании и заседаниях секций – „Государственный исторический музей и Государственная публичная историческая библиотека: взаимосвязи и культурные оппозиции“, „Алексей Сергеевич...
ISBN: 9785913730107
Издательство:
Петроний
Дата выхода: октябрь 2017
