"FCE: Use of English 1: Student`s Book" is intended for students preparing for this examination as well as other examinations at the same level of difficulty. Key features: Condensed presentation of grammar structures followed by exercises on each structure. Consolidation sections consisting of phrasa verbs, prepositions, open cloze texts, multiple choice cloze texts, collocations, "key" word transformations and word formation. Appendices on prepositions, word formation, spelling rules and pronunciation.
ISBN: 978-1-84679-569-5
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: апрель 2010
The worst day of Tim Blake`s life started out with him making breakfast for his seventeen-year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job - even if he wasn`t entirely sure what her job at the Just Inn Time motel actually was - and Tim hoped this quality father-daughter time would somehow help her deal with his divorce. When she didn`t arrive home at her usual time, he thought she`d probably gone to the mall to hang with her friends. When she didn`t answer her phone he began to worry. When she didn`t come home at all, he began to panic. And when the people at the Just Inn Time said they had no Sydney Blake working at the motel and never had, he began to see his life going into freefall. If she hadn`t been...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-8335-9
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and on the sea bed below it. Now reissued in a new cover style. A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn’t do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would...
"Obscene, horrid, driving, urgent, candid, a fascinating, compelling book!" New York Post "Hunter Thompson is the most creatively crazy and vulnerable of the New Journalists. His books are brilliant and honorable and the literary equivalent of Cubism: all rules are broken." Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. "Gaze in Hunter Thompson does in his own mad way betray a profound democratic concern for the polity. And in its own mad way, it`s damned refreshing." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in "The New York Times"
ISBN: 978-0-446-31364-3
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
A chilling contemporary thriller from Robert Harris set in the competitive world of high finance. Dr Max Hoffman is a legend. A physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world`s financial markets. None of his rivals is sure how he does it, but somehow Hoffman`s hedge fund - built around the standard measure of market volatility: the VIX or "Fear Index" - generates astonishing returns for his investors. Late one night, in his house beside Lake Geneva, an intruder disturbs Hoffman and his wife while they are asleep. This terrifying moment is the start of Robert Harris`s new novel - a story just as compelling and timely as his most recent...
Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and The New York Times celebrated its "wicked humor and bracing political conviction". Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the...
Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay, different from anyone you`ve ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace with a very rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace the dark. He knows the night as no one else can - its mystery, its beauty, its terrors, and the eerie silken rhythms that seduce one into believing anything - even freedom - is possible. Until the night Christopher Snow witnesses a series of disturbing incidents that sweep him into a violent mystery only he can solve, a mystery that will force him to rise above all fears and confront the many-layered secrets of Moonlight Bay and its...
ISBN: 978-0-553-57975-8
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the ne plus ultra of Hunter S. Thompson and the whole gonzo clan he spawned. Written in the lurid afterglow of the 1960s, Fear and Loathing is a loosely connected series of mad dashes across the desert, trashed hotel rooms, and goofs on the brutish, naive, or merely unhip, perpetrated by Thompson and his mammoth Samoan attorney. The pair start out high on a medicine cabinet`s worth of elixirs, powders, and pills, and stay that way for 200 pages. They careen through an unsettling landscape of paranoia and alienation, but that doesn`t mean the book isn`t a riot. Here`s a small taste: "By this time, the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a tolerable level. The room...
ISBN: 978-0-00-720449-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
In the fourteenth book in the series, the stakes are raised even higher as Stephanie Plum finds herself in her most dangerous, hilarious, hottest, chase yet. With her loveably offbeat family along for the ride (as well as a few new faces), it`s clear to see why the Plum novels are called «Hot Stuff» by the New York Times and why Evanovich herself is called «the master.» --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3763-7
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Crime: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars. Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn’t be more proud. He always was the smart one. The Cousin: Joe Morelli. Morelli is Dom’s cousin. He’s also a cop. Less than a week after Dom’s release from prison, Morelli has shadowy figures breaking into his house and dying in his basement. Meanwhile, Dom has gone missing… The Catastrophe: Moonman. Morelli hires Walter “Mooner” Dunphy, stoner and “inventor” turned crime fighter, to protect his house. Morelli is low on cash. Mooner will work for potatoes. The Cupcake: Stephanie Plum. Stephanie and Morelli have a long-standing relationship that involves sex, affection, and driving...
Science with the squishy bits left in. "The Fearsome Fight for Flight" will send you sky-high. Are you in a flap to discover who put a parachute on a puppy? Why scientists fire dead birds from cannon? What happened to the world`s first flying sheep? If you think you can stomach the sick side of Science, then read on as we go plane crazy. Laugh at some seriously silly flying stunts, find out which scientist was blown up in a balloon, and learn how to build a world-beating plane. With fantastic fact files, quirky quizzes and crazy cartoons, "The Fearsome Fight for Flight" is a real high-flier. Science has never been so horrible.
ISBN: 978-1-4071-1027-1
Издательство:
Scholastic UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern history. For though they were descended from African slaves, they were also descended from the French and Spanish who had enslaved them. They were the gens de couleur libres-the Free People of Color-and in this dazzling historical novel, Anne Rice chronicles the lives of four of their number, men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave, privilege and oppression, passion and
ISBN: 978-0-345-33453-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dome and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow`s Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.
Think Amelie is scary? Meet her dad, the terrifying vampire Mr. Bishop. What does he want - and what will Amelie do about it? Claire`s caught in the middle, along with her friends and even her parents, as Morganville`s fragile alliance between humans and vampires starts to fracture. Soon, everyone will have to choose a companion for the Feast of a side.
ISBN: 978-0-451-22463-7
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Feder, widowed after a short marriage of love, moved to Paris, desperate to conquer the world and make a fortune. Seduced by his melancholy and his ambition, the beautiful Rosalind, famous dancer, becomes his mistress and run it as a fashionable painter. Success is not long. One day a rich provincial Feder asked to portray Valentine, his young wife ... Great painter of the human soul and the passions that animate it, Stendhal, in this short novel is reminiscent of the finest pages of his masterpiece The Red and the Black.
ISBN: 978-2-07-030820-0
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: август 2011
"Si les vieilles dames se mettent a buter les jeunots, si les doyens du troisieme age se shootent comme des collegiens, si les commis-saires divisionnaires enseignent le vol a la tire a leurs petits-enfants, et si on pretend que tout ca c`est ma faute, moi, je pose la question : ou va-t-on ?" Ainsi s`interroge Benjamin Malaussene, bouc emissaire professionnel, pave pour endosser nos erreurs a tous, frere de famille elevant les innombrables enfants de sa mere, cceur extensible abritant chez lui les vieillards les plus drogues de la capitale, amant fidele, ami in-faillible, maitre affectueux d`un chien epilep-tique, Benjamin Malaussene, l`innocence meme (" l`innocence m`aime ") et pourtant, le coupable ideal pour tous les flics de la...
ISBN: 978-2-07-040370-7
Издательство:
Gallimard
Дата выхода: май 2012
Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones ... And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt ... And everything is about to change ... For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. The King knows it, his closest advisers know it, yet sill they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery. The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.
ISBN: 978-1-85723-273-8
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that`s only the There`s treason in the air. A crime has happened. He`s not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too. He`s not even sure what they dun. But as soon as he knows what the questions are, he`s going to want some answers. Формат: 10,5 см х 17,5 см.
ISBN: 0-552-14237-9
Издательство:
Corgi Books
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
