Treasure Island. Wyspa Skarbów oraz Moby Dick Dwie adaptacje w jednym tomie z ćwiczeniami i kluczem rozwiązań. Powieść Wyspa skarbów autorstwa szkockiego pisarza Roberta Louisa Stevensona opowiada o poszukiwaniu ukrytego skarbu. Główny bohater powieści – rzezimieszek Długi John Silver – stał się ikoniczną postacią pirata. Moby Dick amerykańskiego pisarza Hermana Melville’a to książka...

Podczas gdy widzowie szaleją na punkcie postaci Jack’a Sparrowa i całej serii Piratów z Karaibów, wciąż warto wyruszyć w czytelniczą podróż z kapitanem Nemo. Na książce 20 000 mil podmorskiej żeglugi, napisanej przez Juliusza Verne’a, wychowywało się wiele pokoleń, przeżywając z bohaterami kolejne przygody oraz poznając podwodny świat fauny i flory. Kapitan Nemo oprowadza po nim profesora...

Big ideas for small buildings Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be diminutive in their dimensions, but are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese...

James Joyce to jeden z najwybitniejszych pisarzy XX wieku. ,,Dublińczycy” to 15 opowiadań, w których zaprezentował świat ówczesnej Irlandii, przedstawił obraz Dublina i życie codzienne mieszkańców. Opowieści pełne są emocji i rozważań o dzieciństwie, młodości i dojrzewaniu. W zbiorze znajduje się uważane za arcydzieło gatunku – opowiadanie ,,Zmarli”. Mówi się, że wydanie ,,Dublińczyków” było...

Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He...

CZYTAJ MROCZNĄ POWIEŚĆ W ORYGINALE I UCZ SIĘ ANGIELSKIEGO! Młody prawnik Jonathan Harker wyrusza do zamku ekscentrycznego hrabiego Draculi. Niedługo po przybyciu zdaje sobie sprawę, że stał się więźniem w mrocznej posiadłości, a pozornie uprzejmy arystokrata to tak naprawdę żądny krwi wampir. Co więcej, Harker dowiaduje się, że jego los jest przypieczętowany – po wyjeździe...

Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści Dracula to atrakcyjna pomoc dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacja powieści Brama Stokera Dracula została przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach na poziomie średnio zaawansowanym, jednak dzięki obecności polskiego tłumaczenia z książki korzystać mogą również...

This thoughtful book includes new and extraordinary water-crystal photographs that provide convincing reasons for all of us to choose positive words and strive for perfect resonance for a more healthy, peaceful, and happy life. Masaru Emoto has photographed thousands of water crystals throughout his years of research, yet few have been as beautiful and life affirming as those...

The #1 book for coaches, leaders, talent managers and professionals around the world. This is the definitive and fully updated new edition.'Coaching for Performance provides a foundation for those who want to understand the potential and power of coaching. The Sixth Edition is a must-read and a want-to-read; with updates, powerful case studies, and empirical evidence of coaching making a...

The classic guide to finding love and creating life-altering miracles of happiness and fulfillment, now revised and updated with new insights, stories, teaching points, and transformational exercises. Are you frustrated by stymied relationships, missed connections, and the loneliness of the search for someone to spend the rest of your life with? In this classic, updated guide...

The Eaters of the Dead is a brilliant, stirring tale of historical adventure which deserves a place on readers bookshelves alongside Michael Crichton''s bestselling techno-thrillers. It is AD922 and Ibn Fadlan is sent north from Baghdad as a peaceful ambassador. But before he reaches his destination, he falls in with some Vikings and when they are attacked by mystical...

'Lessons of History’ by Will Durant is an in-depth analysis of human civilization and culture over five thousand years. The authors discuss key themes such as race, character, morals, religion, economics, government, war, and more. They question whether progress is real by examining the growth and decay of civilizations. The book includes a bibliographical guide and index.

Alexandre Dumas’s epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo,...

The deadly second year at Basgiath awaits. Don't miss out on the series that the world can't stop talking about:'This book contains an addictive, drug like essence that will make you relinquish all responsibility until the very last word. Do not say I didn't warn you' - Glamour 'I didn't sleep, I didn't eat, and when I finished, I had the overwhelming urge to just start it all over again' -...

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, this...

Hirohiko Araki is the author of one of the longest-running and most beloved manga of all time, the epic fan favorite JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. According to him, manga is the ultimate synthesis of all forms of art, and in this book he reveals the secrets behind how to make the magic happen using concrete examples from his own work. Read all about his "golden ratio" for drawing, the...

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabéa's fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas...

This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.

Wielka powieść o rodzinie - "The Sound and the Fury" "The Sound and the Fury" to monumentalna powieść napisana przez Williama Faulknera, laureata Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury. Od momentu swojej publikacji w 1929 roku, książka ta uważana jest za jedno z najważniejszych dzieł XX wieku. Faulkner w niezwykle intensywny sposób przedstawia rozpad rodziny Compson, ukazując złożone i...

The founding work of Gothic fiction On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself - despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this...