This edition features new content for 2021 from Dr Mary Dobson: Plagues, Pandemics and Planetary Health. Have you ever wondered how the universe began? Or what it takes to put humans on the moon? Do you know what happens in the microscopic world of a life-saving vaccine? What would you do if you could travel through space and time? "A glorious scientific gaze at our world, and the universe...

Auschwitz and Birkenau were separate from each other,by about a 45 minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evolved into a killing machine in 1941. Later that year a new site called Birkenau was found to extend the Auschwitz complex. Here a vast complex of buildings were constructed to hold initially Russian POWs and later Jews as a labour...

Children's Classic Stories is a timeless collection of fairytales, fables and folktales. Many you will know by heart, others you will be familiar with and some will be new to you. Charming illustrations by renowned children's artists bring to life much-loved characters such as Dick Whittington and Snow White--and introduce many new ones-- to keep you entertained time and time again. This...

Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, 'In a German Pension', appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The...

This exciting new collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable work being written today. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends hidden gems and old favourites, surprising new voices and giants of Spain's literary culture, from Emilia Pardo Bazán and Leopoldo Alas, through...

Throughout his life George Orwell aimed, in his words, to make 'political writing into an art'. This collection brings together the best of his matchless political essays and journalism with his timeless satire on totalitarianism, Animal Farm. It includes articles on subjects from the corruption of language to the oppressive British Empire; his masterly wartime Socialist polemic, 'The Lion...

With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate farms of the harsh New England mountains. Through the eyes of a visitor from the city, trapped for a winter in snowbound Starkfield, readers glimpse the hidden histories of this austere and beautiful land. Piecing together the story of monosyllabic Ethan Frome,...

One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean, the street urchin Gavroche, the rascal Thenardier, the implacable detective Javert, and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette, have entered...

What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted...

Primary Readers obejmują książeczki z serii Storytime i Christmas-time. Lektury te są przeznaczone dla dzieci w wieku 9-12 lat, uczących się w klasach IV-VI szkoły podstawowej lub na kursach językowych. Dostępne na trzech poziomach – niebieskim, czerwonym i zielonym, mogą służyć jako uzupełnienie każdego kursu języka angielskiego. Pięknie ilustrowane książeczki motywują dzieci do...

The Berenstain Bears take a trip to the hospital and get a special tour! While Brother and Sister Bear see all the amazing things that happen in the hospital, they make new friends along the way! Young readers will learn about doctors, nurses, patients, and more in this fun and informative 8x8 storybook. All of the author's royalties are being contributed to the Stan & Jan...

`What makes the dessert beautiful is the fact that somewhere there is a hidden well.` - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French writer and aviator This book presents various pool designs. It can be used as a source of inspirations by architects.

Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? This book aims to change the way you think about business and the world. It also seeks to shatter the illusions of people around the world by teaching them how.

How can you save your friend's life if she doesn't want to be rescued? In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives to a wondrous castle filled with winding stairways, watchful portraits and twinkling chandeliers. In this new sanctuary, they are confronted with a set of clues...

Czy można na 80 stronach albumu fotograficznego dokonać prezentacji 38-milionowego kraju bogatego w zabytki swojej tysiącletniej historii, geograficznie i przyrodniczo zróżnicowanego, z dostępem do morza, mającego góry, obfitującego w jeziora i duże kompleksy leśne, z licznymi ośrodkami przemysłowymi i tradycyjną jeszcze wsią? Autorzy albumu podjęli się tego zadania, przedstawiając to, co w...

The first of three notebooks belonging to Barry Loser perfect for reluctant readers, this silly series will be enjoyed by fans of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" "I've never minded that my name's Barry Loser because my coolness has always cancelled it out, but ever since Darren Darrenofski joined school with his horrible little crocodile face he's been completely ruining my life about...

This striking and innovative collection of jazz covers presents the designs that defined a sound. Containing record covers from the 1940s through to the early 1990s, each reproduction is accompanied with essential background information. Spanning photographic and illustrative works, these album artworks are a marriage of music and design and a remarkable history of jazz.

Przygotowany z okazji kanonizacji Jana Pawła II, pierwszy modlitewnik, w którym zamieszczono modlitwy za wstawiennictwem nowego Świętego. Modlitewnik wstępem opatrzył kard. Stanisław Dziwisz. Do ich napisania zaproszono wiele znakomitych osobistości, m.in.: ks bpa Grzegorza Rysia, ks. bpa Józefa Zawitkowskiego, ks. Henryka Romanika, ks. Leszka Smolińskiego i innych. W modlitewniku znalazły...

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START level 1, opowiada historię zwykłego człowieka, który nagle budzi się w innym świecie. Henry, początkowo wycofany ze społeczeństwa ma na celu jedynie przeżycie. Okazuje się, że nowy świat jest spełnieniem jego marzeń. Obowiązuje tam system gier, rozwijanie się poprzez zdobywanie doświadczenia. Cała książka opiera się na tzw. „boskiej grze”, według której kolejni bogowie przyzywają do...