Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Fully endorsed by OCR and revised to match the 2005 specification, this series has been carefully revised by experienced teachers and provides easy to use texts. Cambridge Advanced Mathematics for OCR encourages achievement by supporting revision and consolidation through review exercises and mock exam papers written by experienced examiners. The books also explore ideas through practical and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 380) Аннотация: English Grammar in Use Third edition is a fully updated version of the classic grammar title. It retains all the key features of clarity and accessibility that have made the book so popular with students and teachers. This new edition is designed to be flexible. The book is available both with and without answers, so it can be used in class or for homework. The 'with answers' version of the book…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 642) Аннотация: This book, designed for students who have already developed a basic competence in Russian, aims to broaden and improve their vocabulary by providing detailed information on groups of Russian words with related meanings. It is invaluable as a guide to finding the right word for the context. In order to enhance understanding of the structure of the Russian vocabulary, groups of synonyms are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Using film and video in the classroom is motivating and fun but can be daunting for the teacher. This book guides and supports teachers with plenty of practical suggestions for activities which can be used with drama, soap opera, comedy, sports programmes and documentaries. Many of the activities will lend themselves for use with DVD and webcasts.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 370 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 270) Аннотация: Philip Edwards deals succinctly with the exhaustive commentary and controversy which Hamlet has provoked in the manifestation of its tragic energy. Robert Hapgood has contributed a new section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to the play in this updated edition. He discusses recent film and stage performances and actors of the Hamlet role as well as directors of the play. His…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 277) Аннотация: Professor Evans helps the reader to visualise the stage action of Romeo and Juliet, a vital element in the play's significance and useful to students approaching it for the first time. The history of the play in the theatre is accompanied by illustrations of notable productions from the eighteenth century onwards. A lucid commentary alerts the reader to the difficulties of language, thought and…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: A new section of the Introduction to this updated edition considers important professional theater productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years. The Reading List has been revised and augmented to reflect the scope of the revised edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: To Shakespeare's contemporaries, Richard II was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the time, how to cope with an unjust ruler. But over the last century or so, the play came to be regarded as the poetic fall of a tragic hero. The Introduction to this edition provides a full context for both the Shakespearean and the modern views of King Richard's fall.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 080 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 213) Аннотация: Charles Edelman focuses on the play's sexual politics and recent scholarship devoted to the position of Jews in Shakespeare's time in this new edition. He surveys the international scope of theatrical interpretations of The Merchant in the 1980s and 1990s as well as different ways of tackling the troubling figure of Shylock.
Скачать книгу (размер 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 188) Аннотация: Much Ado has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which the most famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 236) Аннотация: Scott McMillin has added a new section on key events in scholarship and theater since the 1980s (including international, political, feminist and postcolonial analysis) to this updated edition of Shakespeare's Othello. The influence of historicism and cultural materialism are also taken into account, and a complete description of performances of the play on stage, film and television considers…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: One of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays, this edition of The Taming of the Shrew considers its reception in the light of the hostility and embarrassment it often arouses, taking account of both scholarly defences and modern feminist criticism of the play. For this updated edition Ann Thompson has added new sections to the Introduction which describe the 'deeply problematic'…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: The study of groups — 'group dynamics' — is a vibrant academic field, overlapping diverse disciplines. It is also highly relevant to language education because the success of classroom learning is very much dependent on how students relate to each other, what the classroom climate is like, what roles the teacher and the learners play and, more generally, how well students can co-operate and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: Distance learning presents language teachers and learners with a new set of challenges, opportunities and practical realities. This book presents a comprehensive overview of important issues within the field and explores the ways in which all participants are adapting their practices in response to the new learning environment.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: From its mythical foundation in 753 BC to its sack in the fifth century AD, the city of Rome had an impact on the world that it would be hard to overestimate. At its height the empire which it built up stretched from northern Britain to the deserts of Arabia. In this new history an international team of historians, archaeologists and classicists presents a vision of the world's most famous…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 104 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 610) Аннотация: Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models have begun to dominate the field of macroeconomic theory and policy-making. These models describe the evolution of macroeconomic activity as a recursive sequence of outcomes based upon the optimal decision rules of rational households, firms and policy-makers. Whilst posing a micro-founded dynamic optimisation problem for agents under…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: This book is a rigorous, yet nonmathematical analysis of key macroeconomic issues faced by emerging economies. The first part develops an analytical framework that can be used as a workhorse model to study short-run macroeconomic issues of stabilization and adjustment in such economies, comparable to the IS-LM framework widely used in intermediate-level macroeconomics textbooks for industrial…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book provides a unique introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, and also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 187 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 234) Аннотация: The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist…