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In Company Intermediate Student´s Book Pack
In Company is our popular skills-based business English series for professional adults who are seeking to realise their full potential as self- reliant speakers of English in both professional and social situations. In Company Trains the students in the language and skills which are immediately transferable to the workplace. Each lesson is a stand-alone, fast track to competence in a particular business skill. In Company now comes with a self- study CD-ROM containing 20 practice units linked in topics and language to the Student book units. As with the Student's Book each unit falls into one of four business skill categories.
Written in My Own Heart`s Blood
It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions that have to be accommodated. Her former husband, Jamie, has returned from the dead, demanding to know why in his absence she married his best friend, Lord John Grey. Lord John's son, the ninth Earl of Ellesmere, is no less shocked to discover that his real father is actually the newly resurrected Jamie Fraser, and Jamie's nephew Ian Murray discovers that his new-found cousin has an eye for the woman who has just agreed to marry him. And while Claire is terrified that one of her husbands may be about to murder the other, in the 20th century her descendants face even more desperate turns of events. Her daughter Brianna is trying to protect her son from a vicious criminal with murder on his mind, while her husband Roger has disappeared into the past...
Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets
The present monograph Concepts of Harmony in Five Metaphysical Poets analyses the significance of Pythagorean cosmology for the understanding the world and man in the English Renaissance. The author perceives Pythagorean cosmology as a key concept for the arts in the Renaissance, especially music and poetry. A gradual wane in the belief of the concept of a universal cosmic harmony is markedly reflected in the work of the five major "metaphysical poets" under study: Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Marvell and Crashaw. They struggle to keep the metaphorical potency of the Pythagorean concept while stressing the process of their language experiments. However, this leads to a general metaphorization of the world: the mission of the poet shifts from interpreting universal truths about the world and the human fate in it to keeping the power of poetic language as the very instrument of such metaphorization. In that sense, this struggle for harmonising the "un-musical"or "mute" nature of the universe has ever since become one of the main challenges of poetry.
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Puss-in-Boots: The Outlaw (book & CD)
Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading material for younger learners. Puss-in-Boots: The Outlaw is based on the blockbuster Puss-in-Boots film, a spin-off from the ever-popular Shrek film franchise.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic account of life on the streets. To be poor and destitute in 1920s Paris and London was to experience life at its lowest ebb. George Orwell, penniless and with nowhere to go, found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job. By day, he tramped the streets, often passing time with 'screevers' or street artists, drunks and other hobos. At night, he stood in line for a bed in a 'spike' or doss house, where a cup of sugary tea, a hunk of stale bread and a blanket were the only sustenance and comfort on offer. Down and Out in Paris and London is George Orwell's haunting account of the streets and those who have no choice but to
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Secondary Level 1-Night at Muzeum book+CD
Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, graded material that will instantly appeal to students. "Night at the Museum" is based on the family movie starring Ben Stiller, set in the Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Down and out in Paris and London
George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, "Down and Out in Paris and London" is a moving tour of the underworld of society from the author of "1984", published with an introduction by Dervla Murphy in "Penguin Modern Classics". 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature.
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Ancient Rome
Immerse yourself in the history of ancient Rome - from its origins as a small settlement on the Palatine Hill to its peak as an empire reigning over 90 million people, and its tumultuous decline. Covering more than 1,000 years of history, and an empire that stretched from Scotland to Syria, Ancient Rome reveals in vivid detail all of the key political, cultural, and military events that shaped the Roman Empire and explores what it was like to live in a society that laid the foundations for many aspects of the modern world. Sumptuous photography and engaging text cover every facet of life in ancient Rome, from art, entertainment, and fashion to engineering, medicine, and war, while detailed maps trace the rise of the mighty Roman Empire.
Step back in time as you explore the pages of this history book to discover:- Themed spreads explore developments in areas such as sculpture, religion, warfare, and engineering. - Includes tales of the most dramatic events and battles in Roman history, as well as profiles of influential historical and cultural figures. - An optional 80pp reference section includes sections on rulers, gods and goddesses, and key sites.
Featuring Rome's greatest emperors, from Augustus to Constantine, as well as profiles of generals, historians, and influential women, Ancient Rome also delves into the fascinating stories of gladiators, bakers, and enslaved people. The most iconic buildings of Rome are brought to life with specially commissioned CGI recreations, while the stories of ordinary citizens, soldiers, and persecuted groups from across the empire are told with the help of illustrations, artefacts, and eyewitness accounts. Beautifully illustrated and unparalleled in scope, Ancient Rome is the perfect book for anyone who is interested in this defining period of world history.
Life of Pi (Film Tie-in)
One boy, one boat, one tiger ...After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in recent years.
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Tatry v časoch monarchie
Staré pohľadnice nie sú len objektom záujmu zanietených zberateľov. Sú aj dobovými dokumentmi, ktoré slúžia celému radu odborníkov, od historikov až po architektov a dizajnérov.
Kniha ,,Tatry v časoch monarchie,, vznikla z nostalgie a úprimného obdivu k ľuďom, ktorí sa zaslúžili o vybudovanie tatranských kúpeľných osád. Obsahuje unikátne a zriedkavé zábery z tatranských kúpeľných obcí z prelomu 19.teho a 20.teho storočia. Veľká časť z pohľadníc, ktoré kniha obsahuje neboli ešte nikdy uverejnené v podobných publikáciach.
Okrem toho sa na rozdiel od kníh podobného žánru zaoberá nielen architektúrou ale aj ľuďmi, ktorí žili v ich okolí, či priamo v nich. Nemalá časť je venovaná doprave a rozvoju športového života v našich veľhorách.
Autorka čerpala z dobovej literatúry písanej v anglickom, maďarskom, nemeckom, slovenskom a českom jazyku a snažila sa priblížiť čitateľovi Tatry tak, ako ich videli cudzinci, ktorí sem prichádzali.
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Dejiny Peloponézskej vojny V-VIII
Druhá časť Thukydidovho diela Dejiny peloponézskej vojny obsahuje knihy V–VIII. Udalosti V. knihy sa začínajú v desiatom roku vojny, v ktorom bol medzi Aténami a Spartou uzavretý Nikiov mier. Uzavretím mieru však vojnové udalosti nedostali nadlho oddych. Bojové ambície zvíťazili nad argumentmi života v mieri a vojská oboch strán sa opäť vrhajú do nových, ešte krutejších bojov.
Thukydides nám podáva charakteristiky najvýznamnejších osobností zúčastňujúcich sa vojny, poukazuje na klady, ale aj tienisté stránky, ktoré sprevádzali ich život. Ukazuje pozitíva, ale i chyby pri rozhodnutiach, ktoré niekedy znamenali významné víťazstvá, inokedy záhubu celých vojsk. Vykresľuje také osobnosti, ako boli v Aténach Perikles, Demosthenes, Kleon, Alkibiades, Nikias či v Sparte Brasidas, Agis, Gyllipos.
O udalostiach peloponézskej vojny Thukydides podáva opisy na základe svedectiev „na vlastné oči“, ktoré buď sám zažil, videl, alebo ich získal od priamych účastníkov bojov či iných udalostí. Príbehy Thukydidovho diela sú tak vo veľkej miere opisom skutočnosti, zbavenej subjektívnych a neistých prvkov. Aj preto Thukydidovo dielo tvorí pre nás cenný zdroj objektívneho poznania histórie antického sveta.
Publikácia obsahuje komplexnú štúdiu Petra Kuklicu Dejinný význam Thukydidovho diela v kontexte vzniku a vývoja gréckej civilizácie, ktorá podrobne rozoberá Thukydida a jeho literárnu tvorbu. Štúdia čitateľa stručne sprevádza dejinami Atén, Sparty či iných miest a oblastí Grécka, od najstarších zmienok o ich vzniku, vysvetľuje vývoj politických zriadení v týchto mestách, výstižne charakterizuje boje Grékov, ktoré predchádzali peloponézsku vojnu, stručne opisuje najvýznamnejšie osobnosti. Záver štúdie patrí hodnoteniu diela z rôznych aspektov, s poukázaním na všetky najdôležitejšie udalosti Thukydidovho života a peloponézskej vojny.
Lacná kniha Rok, který změnil svět (-70%)
„Pane Gorbačove, zbořte tu zeď!“ Slavné zvolání prezidenta Ronalda Reagana při návštěvě Berlína v roce 1987 bývá citováno jako hlas polnice, ohlašující konec studené války. Spojené státy zvítězily, praví se v této verzi výkladu historie, protože Ronald Reagan neochvějně čelil Sovětskému svazu: americká neústupnost srazila říši zla na kolena. Novinář Michael Meyer, který tam tehdy byl v roli vedoucího redakce Newsweeku, s tímto pohledem nesouhlasí. V obzvlášť poutavém vyprávění o revolucích v Evropě roku 1989 dokládá, že americká neústupnost byla jen jedním z faktorů, jež vyvolaly změny, které otřásly světem. Autor dokázal spojit živoucí záznam o vzestupu polské Solidarity, kradmé otevírání maďarských hranic, sametovou revoluci v Praze a pád nechvalně známé zdi v Berlíně. A dodává, že nejdůležitější události proběhly skrytě, díky činům, jichž se uprostřed bitvy odvážili nebojácní jednotlivci jako dramatik a spisovatel Václav Havel v Praze; dělník z doků u Baltu Lech Walęsa; tichý a nezdolný reformátor, premiér z Budapešti Miklós Németh; a muž, který si sám uvědomil, že říše je ztracená a rozhodl se, odvážně a moudře, nechat ji zaniknout v míru – nejvyšší sovětský představitel Michail Gorbačov. Vedle vědomých zásahů těchto osobností sehrála svou roli i celá řada náhod a lidských chyb, k nimž dochází vždy, když se události horempádem řítí vpřed. Meyer ty závratné dny zobrazuje v celé jejich dramatičnosti i nepředvídatelnosti. Nejenže nabízí napínavou kroniku nejdůležitějších dní závěru dvacátého století, ale zásadním způsobem přehodnocuje politické mýty a nepochopení dějin. Rok, který změnil svět ovlivní náš pohled na minulost i chápání světa do budoucna
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Bruce Springsteen´s Born In The USA
Bruce Springsteen is best known for his most public acts. It's in the concert hall - more than on the stereo or the screen - that he engages his audience as few other performers ever have. And yet, the most important moments of his career have taken
place in utter solitude. A writer's work takes place far from an audience, and anyone seeking to understand Springsteen's work has to investigate those solitary moments. The most important of all those moments took place in the waning weeks of 1981 a
s he sat alone in his house in Colt's Neck, New Jersey, and wrote "Born in the U.S.A."...
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Boje dolnouhorských banských miest
Preklad publikácie významného uhorského historika 19. storočia, Gustáva Wenzela o bojoch príslušníkov rodu Dóczyovcov s hornouhorskými banskými mestami, patrí ku klasickým dielam historiografie zaoberajúcej sa dejinami územia dnešného Slovenska.
Publikácia vyšla ešte roku 1876, v maďarskom a latinskom jazyku a dnes je prakticky nedostupná. Je to pritom dielo, ktoré v celkovom rozsahu doteraz nebolo prekonané, od jeho vydania vyšlo len niekoľko málo štúdií, čiastočne sa dotýkajúcich problematiky Dóczyovcov alebo spomenutých hradov v ich vlastníctve.
Preložená publikácia, obohatená o vysvetlivky s doplňujúcou štúdiou o najnovších výsledkoch výskumu, bude mať mimoriadny význam a bude prínosná nielen pre odborníkov, ako sú historici, muzeológovia alebo archivári, ale aj pre širokú laickú verejnosť so záujmom o históriu.
Krátke dejiny Ruska: Od pohanov po Putina, 2. vydanie
Je niekto schopný skutočne porozumieť Rusku? Dajme možnosť jednému z popredných svetových odborníkov, aby nám na základe úchvatnej histórie národa ukázal, ako vrhnúť jasnejšie svetlo na budúcnosť tejto krajiny.
Rusko nemá prirodzené hranice, nie je osídlené jedným kmeňom alebo spoločenstvom, ani nemá skutočnú jednotnú identitu. Jeho pozícia na križovatke Európy a Ázie znamená aj to, že ho odjakživa vnímajú ako cudzí element – pre Európanov je ázijskou krajinou a pre Ázijčanov zasa európskou. Aj napriek tomu patrí medzi najmocnejšie krajiny sveta a na globálnom javisku je významným hráčom s bohatou históriou vojny a mieru, básnikov aj revolucionárov.
Mark Galeotti nás v tejto doslova expresnej výprave zavedie rovno do srdca ruského príbehu tohto najväčšmi nepochopeného národa na svete. Predstaví nám proces jeho formovania aj najstaršie mýty – vrátane vlády Ivana Hrozného a Kataríny Veľkej –, vzostup a pád Romanovovcov, prevedie nás obdobím októbrovej revolúcie, studenej vojny, katastrofy v Černobyli až po pád Sovietskeho zväzu a príchod neznámeho politika menom Vladimír Putin
Lacná kniha Eclipse Film tie-in (-90%)
'Bella?' Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? Following the international bestsellers Twilight and New Moon, Eclipse is the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's captivating saga of vampire romance.
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How the Word Is Passed
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - which offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping a nation's collective history, and our own.
It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers.
A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our most essential stories are hidden in plain view - whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth or entire neighbourhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women and children has been deeply imprinted.
How the Word is Passed is a landmark book that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of the United States. Chosen as a book of the year by President Barack Obama, The Economist, Time, the New York Times and more, fans of Brit(ish) and Natives will be utterly captivated.
Az én kis egyszarvúm - matricás foglalkoztató
Ez a matricás foglalkoztatókönyv sok-sok kreatív feladat segítségével ismertet meg téged az unikornisok világával. Rajzolj, színezz, és ragaszd be a matricákat - jó sok van belőlük, több mint 340 darab! Készíts képeslapot és sormintát, kísérd el kedvenc egyszarvúdat a tengerparti nyaralásra, mutasd meg neki az utat a labirintusban, és töltsd ki a szórakoztató szórejtvényt! A könyv végén megtalálod a feladatok megoldásait.
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Dějiny židovského národa, 3. vydání
Dějiny Židů jsou svého druhu dějiny světa, ovšem viděné pod velmi neobvyklým úhlem, očima inteligentní a vzdělané oběti. Johnsonovi však jde ještě o víc: ukázat podstatu samé historie a křesťanské civilizace. Žádný národ netrval nikdy s větší neochvějností než Židé na tom, že dějiny mají účel a lidstvo osud. Od nepaměti se drželi této víry tváří v tvář strašnému utrpení. Jejich víra a osud daly vzniknout mnoha velkolepým projektům pro lidstvo, vzniklým jak z božské inspirace, tak vytvořených člověkem. S jistou nadsázkou lze proto říci, že Židé stojí v samém středu věčného úsilí dát lidskému životu vznešený záměr. Tato kniha je nejen monumentální kronikou v čase (4 000 let) a prostoru (celý svět), ale syntézou i dramatem. Zároveň nám dává jakoby nahlédnout na odvrácenou stranu naší vlastní rozporuplné civilizace.