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Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest
Автор: Bear Grylls Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20142016-08-14
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'No one could fail to be gripped by his heartfelt excitement and emotion over what was the adventure of a lifetime.' Independent At the age of twenty-three, Bear Grylls became the youngest Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest. At extreme altitude youth holds no advantage over experience, and it is generally acknowledged that younger climbers have more difficulty coping with the adverse effects of mountaineering. Nevertheless, only two years after breaking his back in a freefall parachuting accident, Bear Grylls overcame severe weather conditions, fatigue, dehydration and a last minute illness to stand on top of the world's highest mountain. Facing Up is the story of his adventure, his courage and humour, his friendship and faith.
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Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor
Автор: J.Randy Taraborelli Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 560 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20092008-12-23
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Elizabeth Taylor is known internationally as one of the most beautiful and talented women ever to grace the silver screen. She has won two Academy Awards and starred in over sixty films. She is just as well known for her tempestuous personal life, marrying eight times and suffering through innumerable health problems. A cultural icon, she has been written about before... but never like this. This moving book traces for the first time Elizabeth's journey through the dark and often lonely world of a fame unparalleled in the 1960s and 1970s, a time during which alcohol and drugs played a major part in her life. It would be with her fifth (and sixth) husband Richard Burton (with whom she made twelve movies, including «Cleopatra») that she would learn life lessons about love and loyalty that would inform the rest of her life and, finally, be the catalyst for her recovery from alcoholism in the 1980s. This book also details her philanthropic work as an AIDS activist in the 1990s as well as her stunning success as a business woman today (with a multi-million-dollar fragrance). Based on years of research, this is not just a star's biography... it's an unforgettable woman's story.
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The Distant Hours
Автор: Kate Morton Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 600 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20122013-10-17
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From the international bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden comes a brand new tale of love, mystery, betrayal and dark secrets... Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl, Edie's mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Millderhurst Castle with the Blythe family. Fifty years later, Edie too is drawn to Milderhurst and the eccentric Sisters Blythe. Old ladies now, the three still live together, the twins nursing Juniper, whose abandonment by her fiance in 1941 plunged her into madness. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother's past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst Castle, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in the distant hours has been waiting a long time for someone to find it...
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Dissolution
Автор: C. J. Sansom Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 300 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20152012-06-25
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In an age of treachery and turmoil, brutal murder brings the ultimate test of faith. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved. But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. Cromwell's Commissioner Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege — a black cockerel sacrificed on the alter, and the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic. Dr Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell into this atmosphere of treachery and death. But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes...
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Dead Man's Grip
Автор: Peter James Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20142013-07-04
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Detective Superintendent Roy Grace returns... I want them to suffer, and i want them dead... Carly Chase is still traumatised after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered. Now Detective Superintendent Roy Grace of the Sussex Police force issues a stark and urgent warning to Carly: She could be next. The student had deadly connections. Connections that stretch across the Atlantic. Someone has sworn revenge and won't rest until the final person involved in that fateful accident is dead. The police advise Carly her only option is to go into hiding and change her identity. The terrified woman disagrees — she knows these people have ways of hunting you down anywhere. If the police are unable to stop them, she has to find a way to do it herself. But already the killer is one step ahead of her, watching, waiting, and ready...
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Dark Fire
Автор: C. J. Sansom Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 200 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20122016-08-27
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This is the second in C. J. Sansom's remarkable historical crime series. It's 1540, three years after Shardlake was commissioned by Cromwell to investigate the murders at Scarnsea monastery. It is the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Shardlake is trying to keep a low profile, believing himself to be out of favour with Thomas Cromwell while at the same time maintaining his London-based legal practice. He has been pulled, against his better judgement, into defending Elizabeth Wentworth, charged with murdering her cousin. But Elizabeth refuses to plead either guilty or not guilty. The penalty for not pleading is to be crushed under a weight until you plead or die. Shardlake is powerless to help the girl yet she is suddenly granted a reprieve — courtesy of Cromwell. The cost of the reprieve to Shardlake is two weeks once again in the service of Cromwell. Cromwell, however, is no longer the triumphant, irresistible force he once was, not least because of the ill-fated marriage he arranged for the King with Anne of Cleves. Cromwell is running out of options, but he has one more card to play: Greek Fire, an ancient weapon considered lost long ago, which has turned up again in the hands of two alchemist brothers. This is the kind of gift to guarantee the King's favour, it is also the kind of gift that people kill for...
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Cure
Автор: Robin Cook Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20142012-12-16
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With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner. Worried that she still has what it takes, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler, involving organized crime and two start-up bio-tech companies caught in a zero-sum game. Satoshi Machita, a former Kyoto University researcher, is set to own a valuable patent controlling pluripotent stem cells destined to spark a trillion-dollar industry of regenerative medicine. When he dies on a crowded New York subway platform, Laurie must decide whether his death was natural or something fiendish. Behind the scenes, there are people who would like to see Laurie as far away from the investigation as possible. Despite threats against her, Laurie presses on, until they extend to the person she loves most in the world: her son, JJ. Suddenly Laurie must face solving the crime and saving her son's life.
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The City and The City
Автор: China Mieville Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 500 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20142014-02-09
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When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & The City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
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As the Crow Flies
Автор: Jeffrey Archer Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122011-12-07
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Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps — his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell everything: 'The Biggest Barrow in the World'. Charlie's progress from the teeming streets of Whitechapel to the elegance of Chelsea Terrace is only a few miles as the crow flies. But in Jeffrey Archer's expert hands it becomes an epic journey.
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Airhead: Runaway
Автор: Meg Cabot Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from her family and from herself. She's reeling from the shock that Nikki, the girl whose body her brain was forced to inhabit, is still alive. And she's furious. Manipulative Brandon plans to use Em to discover a secret that will ensure his success, whilst Christopher is out for revenge, fuelled by his jealousy. With everyone around her playing a dangerous game, maybe Em should just keep on running... It is the final book in the fashion-tastic and hilarious new trilogy from the queen of teen fiction.
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The Magic Flute: Workbook
Автор: Fidge L. Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092007-06-05
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Explorers – серия книг, написанных специально для детей младшего школьного возраста с учетом их интересов и возрастных особенностей. Серия разбита на восемь уровней, состоит из 64 названий и может быть использована с любым учебным пособием по английскому языку для начальной школы.
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Robin Hood and His Merry Men: Explorers 4. Woorkbook. Comprehension and Vocabulary
Автор: Louis Fidge Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092009-10-13
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Macmillan English Explorers have been written specifically for young learners of English. They bring first language teaching methods to reading lessons in international classrooms. The accompanying Workbooks for Explorers Level 4 can be used in the classroom or by children working independently. The activities develop reading comprehension skills and literary appreciation, practise vocabulary recognition, support spelling and provide opportunities for writing.
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The Importance of Being Earnest: Reader and CD: Upper Intermediate Level (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Oscar Wilde Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20122011-06-21
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One of a graded series of retold versions of popular classic and contemporary titles and specially written stories, The Importance of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece of love and mistaken identity. It first appeared on the stage in 1895 and has been hugely popular ever since.
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Little Explorers B: The School Play
Автор: Barbara Mitchell Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092007-06-05
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Macmillan English Explorers is an exciting new reading programme developed specifically for children learning English in kindergartens and primary schools...
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400 Ideas for Interactive Whiteboards
Автор: Barney Barrett Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20132014-09-02
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This title provides a wealth of resources to help teachers integrate the digital board into their classrooms. It provides ideas for using regular programs and software, as well as offering suggestions on how to create specifically-tailored resources. The clear organisation means that activities are categorised according to skill focus, making them easy to locate. It also contains suggestions for project work, 'learning to learn' activities and 'the connected classroom'. It presents a fully comprehensive resource pack of activities for using the interactive whiteboard; provides systematic coverage of skills to enhance and support students' learning; includes guidance on a range of technological approaches for all levels of experience. It is for teachers who are already using interactive whiteboards and who want to discover new and innovative ways to use them and for teachers with little experience or who feel unsure about how to use them most effectively in the classroom.
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Call of the Wild
Автор: Rachel Bladon Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 20132016-08-17
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Part of a series of retold versions of popular classic and contemporary titles and specially written stories.
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Crime Stories Advanced Level
Автор: Ceri Jones Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132015-03-16
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This series of Readers containing original, unsimplified stories written by famous classic and modern writers, now features four new titles. All the collections come with substantial support material for each story, including a short summary, a description of major themes, pre-reading vocabulary activities, post-reading language and comprehension exercises, a literary analysis section and essay questions. «The Macmillan Literature Collections» will help ease students' transition from graded Readers to authentic reading, giving them the joy of feeling that they are finally reading and studying literature just as it was written.
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Essential Business Vocabulary Builder (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Paul Emmerson Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20122011-12-07
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This is the second, in a two-level series of business vocabulary and practice books. It is a self study/classroom book & CD pack. The first half of the book is devoted to business vocabulary and practice, the second half to skills work. The audio CD features interviews with real business people and has accompanying exercises in the book. The business vocabulary builders are intended as companions to the two business grammar builders by the same author.
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Global Intermediate: Coursebook
Автор: Lindsay Clandfield Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20132014-04-07
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Global is a new six-level general English course for adult learners. It is an information-rich course, sophisticated in both presentation and approach. It has international appeal, combining challenging content, intelligent topics and cross-cultural awareness. It features none of the celebrity-driven lifestyle content often found in typical general English courses for adults. The Global approach is fully aware of the needs of today's learner's, and places an emphasis on effective communication in English between both native and non-native speakers. Global helps users to learn English, to learn about English and to learn through English, and is the ideal course for students who want to communicate in a global envirnonment.
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Little Explorers: Teddy in Bed
Автор: Gill Budgell Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2011 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20142013-05-06
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Teaching phonics is recognised educationally as an essential part of the teaching of reading and writing. The Macmillan English Explorers Phonics Reading Series complements the first four levels of the existing Explorers Reading Scheme in a way that will teach children how to sound out words and blend sounds to read words and to segment the sounds in the words in order to accurately spell them. Each book in the new series has a strong, identifiable phonic focus and the phonic focus is set within the context of a story to ensure that reading for meaning is retained. Popular and familiar characters from the Macmillan English Explorers series can be found, along with the introduction of new contexts and characters. Perfect for using alongside the existing Macmillan English Explorers reading scheme to add further depth and context, or as a stand-alone phonics reading scheme.
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