A perennial bestseller in the wizarding world and one of the most popular books in the Hogwarts School library, Quidditch Through the Ages contains all you will ever need to know about the history, the rules - and the breaking of the rules - of the noble sport of Quidditch. Packed with fascinating facts, this definitive guide by the esteemed Quidditch writer Kennilworthy Whisp charts the game`s history from its early origins in the medieval mists on Queerditch Marsh, through to the modern-day sport loved by so many wizard and Muggle families around the world. With comprehensive coverage of famous Quidditch teams, the commonest fouls, the development of racing brooms, and much more, this is a must-have sporting bible for all Harry Potter...
ISBN: 9781408883082
Издательство:
Bloomsbury
Дата выхода: апрель 2017
The strips are available in an exciting array of colours and the paper can be manipulated in many ways. It s versatility offers many possibilities and Jane Jenkins has brought together a tasteful collection of designs and projects, with many step-by-step photographs, patterns and clear text. She shows how to make Art Nouveau and fantasy figures, Victorian fans, butterflies, candlestick holders and more. The beautiful, intricate and delicate filigreed patterns and pictures she creates are original and unique.
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 Starter Workbook with answers and downloadable audio can be used alongside the Student`s Book and offers additional consolidation activities.
ISBN: 9781107466142
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: январь 2015
Publisher Comments: The year is 1934. With the country in the stranglehold of drought and economic depression, Ella Barron runs her Texas boardinghouse with an efficiency that ensures her life will be kept in balance. Between chores of cooking and cleaning for her residents, she cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose misunderstood behavior finds Ella on the receiving end of pity, derision, and suspicion. When David Rainwater arrives at the house looking for lodging, he comes recommended by a trusted friend as "a man of impeccable character." But Ella senses that admitting Mr. Rainwater will bring about unsettling changes. However, times are hard, and in order to make ends...
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Ralph the Heir" is one of Anthony Trollope`s lesser-known novels, yet this compelling tale of property, illegitimacy and inheritance truly boasts of this great writer`s flair for dramatic story-telling.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08336-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2019
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. "Ralph the Heir" is one of Anthony Trollope`s lesser-known novels, yet this compelling tale of property, illegitimacy and inheritance truly boasts of this great writer`s flair for dramatic story-telling.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08337-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2019
Real Life brings English to life and makes learning enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and evocative topics. Real Life gives students English to talk about issues that are important to their lives. With a light and colourful look and feel, it is more socially oriented with a focus on real people and situations and appeals to average and less motivated students who need a more manageable path to exam success.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-9707-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Real Life brings English to life and makes learning enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and evocative topics. Real Life gives students English to talk about issues that are important to their lives. With a light and colourful look and feel, it is more socially oriented with a focus on real people and situations and appeals to average and less motivated students who need a more manageable path to exam success. Interesting and relevant topics teenagers relate to Real Time photo story with related exercises using functional language, real contexts and situations Words2know provide clear focus on vocabulary and make revision easier. Also recorded on class CD and Skills Multi-ROM Grammar2know with rules of meaning and give focus...
ISBN: 978-1-4058-9703-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Patricia Reilly, Dominika Chandler, Retta Dawson, Marta Uminska
Real Life brings English to life and makes learning English enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and evocative topics. Real Life gives students English to talk about issues that are important to their lives.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-3515-7
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Real Life brings English to life and makes learning English enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and evocative topics. Real Life gives students English to talk about issues that are important in their lives. Real contexts to practise everyday functional language. Real language and opportunities to share ideas with classmates about goals, dreams and global issues. Real strategies for speaking and writing and exam preparation. A course that: - highlights key language through Grammaf2know, Words2know and Phrases2know; - incorporates technology to reflect a digital world; - gives teachers perfect flexibility with additional activities in the Mini Workbook at the back of the Students` Book.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-9705-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Real Life brings English to Life and makes learning enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and evocative topics. Real Life gives students English to talk about issues that are important to their lives. With a light, colourful look and feel, it is socially oriented with a focus on real people and situations. Real Life appeals to students who need a more manageable path to exam success. Real Life addresses the critical factors for a successful alternative course at Upper Secondary Elementary to Advanced levels for 15 to 18/19 year olds.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-3946-9
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Real Life brings English to life and makes learning English enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and evocative topics. Real Life gives students English to talk about issues that are important to their lives. * Real contexts to practise everyday functional language * Real language and opportunities to share ideas with classmates about goals, dreams and global issues * Real strategies for success in their educational career, including speaking and writing skills and exam preparation * A course that: - highlights key language through Grammar2know, Words2know and Phrases2know - incorporates technology to refl ect a digital world - gives teachers perfect fl exibility with additional activities in the mini workbook at the back of...
ISBN: 978-1-4082-3948-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Real Life brings English to life and makes learning English enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and evocative topics. Real Life gives students English to talk about issues that are important to their lives. * Real contexts to practise everyday functional language * Real language and opportunities to share ideas with classmates about goals, dreams and global issues * Real strategies for success in their educational career, including speaking and writing skills and exam preparation * A course that: - highlights key language through Grammar2know, Words2know and Phrases2know - incorporates technology to refl ect a digital world - gives teachers perfect fl exibility with additional activities in the mini workbook at the back of...
ISBN: 978-1-4082-3944-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Liz Foody, Nick Dawson, Marta Uminska, Dominika Chandler
Real Life brings English to Life and makes learning enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and evocative topics. Real Life gives students English to talk about issues that are important to their lives. With a light, colourful look and feel, it is socially oriented with a focus on real people and situations. Real Life appeals to students who need a more manageable path to exam success. Real Life addresses the critical factors for a successful alternative course at Upper Secondary Elementary to Advanced levels for 15 to 18/19 year olds.
ISBN: 978-1-4082-3513-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .`Death has to happen. That’s what bein` alive is all about. You`re alive, and then you`re dead. It can`t just stop happening.`But it can. And it has.Death is missing – presumed gone.Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. If Death doesn`t come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime?You can`t have the undead wandering about like lost souls - there`s no telling what might happen!Particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living . . .The Discworld novels can be...
ISBN: 9780552166683
Издательство:
Transworld publishers
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023
After the death of his beautiful wife Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to forget the past. There he meets and marries a quiet young woman and takes her back to Manderley, his family home in Cornwall. But will the memory of Rebecca destroy the new marriage?
ISBN: 978-1-4082-7651-8
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sexual hunger, demonic violence; sinister logic - the lethal components of a deadly formula driving a psychopath in the grip of an unimaginable delusion; a boastful killer who sends the police tormenting notes; a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families, and calls Red Dragon. Special agent Will Graham has been assigned to similar cases before, cases where he was able to see and feel with the madmen, anticipate their moves and, most terrifying of all, be vulnerable to their horrifying brutality. Now Graham is reluctantly lured out of retirement, to find an opening to the evil mind of the Red Dragon. "Red Dragon" is quite probably the most suspenseful, utterly compelling thriller ever...
ISBN: 978-0-09-953293-4
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
In Red Eve Henry Raider Haggard sets a suspenseful love story against some of the most dramatic events in history, including the devastation wrought by the Black Plague. Will dashing protagonist Hugh de Cressi survive long enough to live happily ever after with his true love?
ISBN: 978-5-521-06624-7
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: февраль 2018
«Рыжий Лис» — роман канадского писателя Чарльза Робертса, рассказывающий о приключениях умного, любопытного и смелого лиса, который взрослеет и учится выживать, встречаясь с другими животными и Человеком. Робертс — натуралист, в предисловии он отмечает, что, хотя его герой обладает выдающимися умом и силой, такое нередко бывает в помете лисят: один из них больше, сильнее, быстрее других...
ISBN: 978-5-517-10748-0
Издательство:
RUGRAM
Дата выхода: февраль 2024
