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Oxford Essential Italian Dictionary

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: The Oxford Essential Italian Dictionary is a new compact Italian-English and English-Italian dictionary that offers up-to-date coverage of all the essential day-to-day vocabulary with over 40,000 words and phrases and 60,000 translations. This dictionary is easy to use and ideal for travel, work, or study. The latest words in each language have been added, reflecting all aspects of life today,…

Evans M.: Blackstone's International Law Documents

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Designed specifically for students, Blackstone's Statutes lead the market in providing a carefully selected, regularly updated, and well sourced collection of legislation for the core subjects and major options offered on the law syllabus. Each title is ideal for use throughout the course and in exams providing the student with: — Unparalleled coverage — Unannotated primary and secondary…

Johnson W.J.: Dictionary of Hinduism

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This authoritative dictionary covers all aspects of Hinduism, including practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred sites, languages, and religious texts — everything from Tantra to temples, from bhakti to Divali. The most wide-ranging dictionary of its kind, it features almost 2,800 clear, concise, up-to-date, and fully cross-referenced entries, including many biographical entries for key…

Welshman John: Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: 'We were dumped at a roundabout with our labels on. People pulled and tugged at the children they wanted. It was a bit like a cattle market... people just waded in. I went with a lady and her daughter — she was like a second Mum'. Alexander King, evacuated aged eleven Based on the stories of thirteen children and adults, Churchill's Children tells the often moving story of the evacuation of…

Weber Thomas: Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Hitler claimed that his years as a soldier in the First World War were the most formative years of his life. However, for the six decades since his death in the ruins of Berlin, Hitler's time as a soldier on the Western Front has, remarkably, remained a blank spot. Until now, all that we knew about Hitler's life in these years and the regiment in which he served came from his own account in Mein…

Knowles Elizabeth: How to Read a Word

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Language is not fixed, but evolves over time, and exploring the routes taken by the words can lead us on fascinating journeys. How to Read a Word, written by the noted lexicographer Elizabeth Knowles, shows us how to explore the origins, associations, and evolution of words, focusing in particular on two points: what questions can be asked about a word? And how can they be answered? How to Read a…

Godbold E.Stanly: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: The Georgia Years, 1924-1974

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This dual biography of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, the thirty-ninth President of the United States and his wife, chronicles the unique political and business relationship of a couple who together rose from obscurity to national and international power. His life in an isolated, prosperous, locally powerful, Baptist farm family prepared him for a career in public service and business. Rosalynn came…

Jay Antony: Lend Me Your Ears: Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The power of words in politics is well known, and Lend Me Your Ears, the fourth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, brings together both words of wisdom and things that might have been better left unsaid. This unique reference book not only charts the most influential political events of recent times via the things people said about them — including an international…

Addison Paul: No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-war Britain

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: In No Turning Back, Paul Addison takes the long view, charting the vastly changing character of British society since the end of the Second World War. As he shows, in this period a series of peaceful revolutions has completely transformed the country so that, with the advantage of a longer perspective, the comparative peace and growing prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century appear…

Gross John: The Oxford Book of Parodies

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and many others, are represented in this stunning new anthology, which provides an unparalleled introduction to the parodist's art. The classics of the genre are all here, from Lewis Carroll to Max…

Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft: Frankenstein

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. Scientist Victor Frankenstein, is determined to create intelligent life. He works night and day on his experiment until at last he succeeds. Only then does he realize that what he has created is a monster.…

Spyri Johanna: Heidi

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the mountains, the two grow to love each other dearly. Heidi charms everyone she meets-but then her strict aunt sends her away again to live in the…

Dickens Charles: Oliver Twist

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When Oliver Twist asks for more food it changes his life for ever. He flees his dreary life in the workhouse but enters a much more dangerous place-the dark streets of London. Oliver is soon in the clutches of…

Austen Jane: Pride and Prejudice

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets Mr Darcy she finds him to be most arrogant. He, in turn, is determined not to be impressed by Elizabeth's beauty and wit. As events unfold their paths cross with more and more…

Kalinak Kathryn: Film Music

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema itself. Even the very first projected moving images were accompanied by music in many places as a variety of performers — from single piano players to small orchestras — brought images to life through musical accompaniment. Film music has since become its own industry, an aesthetic platform for expressing creative visions and a…

Martin Elizabeth A.: A Dictionary of Science

Скачать книгу (размер 4 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 912) Аннотация: This best-selling dictionary contains 9,200 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth sciences, and astronomy. This new edition includes expanded coverage of global warming, forensic science, astrophysics, quantam theory, and the solar system. Supported by over 200 diagrams and illustrations the dictionary features recommended web links for many…

Soars John: New Headway: Workbook with Key (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A new Beginner edition from the world's most trusted ELT course — a perfectly-balanced syllabus and lots of support for beginner students.

McCaughrean Geraldine: The Death Defying Pepper Roux

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: When Pepper Roux was born his aunt foretold that he would not live past 14 years of age. Throughout his childhood his parents haven't bothered with him much, knowing that his life would be short-lived. So when Pepper wakes up on his 14th birthday he knows this will be the day that he'll die. But as the day wears on, and Pepper finds himself still alive, he decides to set off to sea in an attempt…