Hilarious and provocative, fanciful and wise, offering answers to questions we never thought to ask and questions to the answers always thought we knew, these essays range over subjects marginally useful and fabulously unexpected.
ISBN: 0-09-942863-6
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
This new 11th edition offers complete and up-to date preparation for the Paper-Based TOEFL and the Computer-Based TOEFL, with a preview of the Next Generation TOEFL test. There is extensive practice—even for students who don’t have access to a computer. The manual includes a review chapter for each section of the TOEFL, including the new Speaking Section, and presents nine full-length model tests for the Computer-Based TOEFL, with questions answered and explained, along with one full-length model test for the Next Generation TOEFL and a practice test for the TOEFL Academic Speaking Test (TAST), with example answers. The optional compact disc-and-book package provides the audio versions for the Listening Comprehension sections of all...
ISBN: 0-7641-2315-7
Издательство:
Barron's
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Shortlisted for the Primary Teacher Update Award 2018Learn as you do in this hands-on engineering book for kids with Carol Vorderman.Being an engineer isn`t just about wearing a hard hat and looking important while holding a clipboard! It`s about looking at the world and trying to figure out how it works. As well as simple engineering projects for kids to try, DK`s How to be an Engineer will teach them how to think like an engineer, including materials, building, machines, getting around, and energy. You can find out how engineers use STEAM subjects and their imaginations to fix problems, and take inspiration from engineering heroes such as Leonardo da Vinci, Mae Jemison, and Elon Musk.This book encourages you to investigate, with...
ISBN: 9780241316672
Издательство:
Ladybird
Дата выхода: январь 2023
Nikki Maxwell has been writing in a diary since the start of the school year, and she usually takes it everywhere she goes, so she can`t believe it when one morning she can`t find her diary! The hunt is on, and while she looks, pursuing various theories about where it could be, Nikki can`t help putting together a list of important diary-keeping lessons to remember in case of missing diary emergencies like this one. Overflowing with Nikki`s trademark humour and art this special DIY edition of DORK DIARIES not only features a brand new story featuring all of your favourite characters from the series, but also includes tips from Nikki about keeping your own diary and space for readers to write and draw their own entries.
ISBN: 978-0-85707-352-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
It`s Hiccup`s birthday, but that`s not going to keep him from getting into trouble. To save his dragon, Toothless, from being banished, Hiccup must sneak into the Meathead Public Library and steal the Viking`s most sacred book. But the Vikings see books as a dangerous influence, and keep them locked up and under heavy guard. To save his friend, Hiccup must brave the Hairy Scary Librarian and his dreadful army of Meathead Warriors and face off against the formidable Driller-Dragons. Will he make it out and live to see his next birthday?
ISBN: 978-0-316-08531-1
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: август 2011
The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol`s humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase suddenly take on a bizarre life of their own. The second story, Ivan Krylov`s Panegyric in Memory of My Grandfather, has an ingenuous narrator praise the nobility and modesty of a landowner whose actions prove him to be otherwise. The final two stories, by the Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, are satirical attacks on the inability of civil servants to cope with real life, and on Russia`s autocracy. Together, they represent some of...
ISBN: 978-1-84749-173-2
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Rudyard Kipling`s Just So stories about animals and their antics have delighted readers for years. Now, Ladybird brings these stories alive for very young children. Meet the lazy camel, grouchy rhinoceros, hungry leopard, curious elephant and many other eccentric animals in these enchanting stories. Narrated simply and accompanied by rich and detailed illustrations that children love, these retellings will introduce a new generation to the magic and whimsy of Kipling s genius.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0183-7
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Ever wonder how real estate magnates become real estate magnates? By filling out mind-numbing mortgage applications? By making personal guarantees to their bankers? Hardly. For years, successful real estate investors have used nontraditional methods of securing funding. They have created effective money strategies that circumvent banks, yet result in profitable deals. Now, real estate professional James Misko makes these innovative techniques available to the general public in How to Finance Any Real Estate, Any Place, Any Time. In this easy-to-use guide, Jim offers more than forty-five nontraditional ways to buy properties. These are not pie-in-the-sky theories, but proven strategies that will put the wraps on virtually any real estate...
Read the books that inspired the How to Train Your Dragon films! This book will be a hit with children and adults alike. High up in the treacherous mists of the Murderous Mountains, Hiccup and the Company of the Dragonmark are in hiding. The witch`s Spydragons are guarding the shores of Tomorrow - but Hiccup is determined to become King of the Wilderwest. Can Hiccup dodge the dragons and steal the King`s Things back from Alvin before the Doomsday of Yule? And is there a traitor in Hiccup`s camp who in the end will betray them all? How to Train Your Dragon is now a major DreamWorks franchise. How to Train Your Dragon 2 hits cinemas in Summer 2014 starring Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett and Jonah Hill and the TV series, Riders of Berk, can...
This is the funniest book that you will read about English people! Why are the English different from Europeans? George Mikes` book describes the strange things the English do and say. And the English don`t get angry when they read the book. They love it! You will too!
ISBN: 978-1-405-87909-5
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
`The Harper`s Essay` is reprinted in this volume alongside personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage. Although his subjects range widely, each piece wrestles with the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern America.
ISBN: 978-0-00-715358-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
How to Manage People is a practical book from bestselling author Michael Armstrong. It provides advice to managers and team leaders on how to manage people in their teams - getting the best results from them and dealing with any people problems that may arise. Many managers have to do their job without HR advice and this book is particularly designed to meet their needs. It covers every aspect that involves getting things done through people, including: leadership, motivating people, team building, delegating, interviewing, managing performance, developing and rewarding people, managing change and handling people problems. Concise yet comprehensive, How to Manage People provides vital support for every front line manager and should be...
* Looks in detail at the theory of words and at how students learn new vocabulary * Offers practical advice on how to help students build vocabulary in new and effective ways and how to test students` word knowledge * Major developments, such as language corpora and lexical approaches, are clearly explained and related to your needs as a teacher
ISBN: 978-0-582-42966-6
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Read the book that inspired the hit DreamWorks film How to Train Your Dragon: THE HIDDEN WORLD. With exclusive content, including Viking facts and a sneak peek of The Wizards of Once!Прочтите книгу, которая вдохновила DreamWorks на создание популярного фильма "Как приручить дракона: СКРЫТЫЙ МИР". С эксклюзивным контентом, включая факты о викингах и краткий обзор "Волшебников страны однажды"!
So what if he`s a bit older and usually regards a human female as dinner, not a dinner date? Yes, Roman Draganesti is a vampire, but a vampire who lost one of his fangs sinking his teeth into something he shouldn`t have. Now he has one night to find a dentist before his natural healing abilities close the wound, leaving him a lop–sided eater for all eternity. Things aren`t going well for Shanna Whelan witnessing a gruesome murder by the Russian mafia, she`s next on their hit list. And her career as a dentist appears to be on a downward spiral because she`s afraid of blood. When Roman rescues her from an assassination attempt, she wonders if she`s found the one man who can keep her alive. Though the attraction between them is immediate...
ISBN: 978-0-06-075196-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
"How to Say It" provides clear and practical guidance for what to say--and what not to say--in any situation. Covering everything from business correspondence to personal letters, this is the perfect desk reference.
Elephants didn`t always have long trunks - that is, until one day when the elephant`s child could contain his curiosity no longer, stepping closer than he should have to Crocodile...A charming, illustrated retelling of one of Rudyard Kipling`s Just So Stories, specially rewritten for children who are learning to read.With puzzles and answers at the back of the book.
ISBN: 9781409596769
Издательство:
Usborne
Дата выхода: январь 2016
This book will show you how to overscome the natural fear of public speaking and even learn to enjoy it. Drawing on Dale Carnegie`s years of experience as a business trainer, this practical book will help you to become a successful speaker. His invaluable advice includes ways to: Develop poise. Gain self-confidence. Improve your memory. Make your meaning clear. Begin and end a talk effectively. Interest and charm your audience. Improve your diction. Win an argument without making enemies. Dale Carnegie`s methods have helped millions of people worldwide. Make sure you have the advantage, and make them work for you too.
