Great voices of the century
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Backbone of the Nation
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the minersÂ’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families
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The Art of War - Tzu Sun
Anotace: For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu`s The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle, in business or in relationships. Now, i...
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Opium of the Intellectuals
Raymond Aron's 1955 masterpiece The Opium of the Intellectuals, is one of the great works of twentieth- century political reflection
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The Great Gatsby, 1. vydání - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Ni...
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Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother - Anne Sebba
<p>Ethel Rosenberg was a supportive wife, loving mother to two small children and courageous idealist who grew up during the Depression with aspirations to become an opera singer.On 19 June 1953 she became the first woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder. She was thirty-seven years old.Ethel's conviction for conspiracy to commit espionage on be...
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The Great Gatsby (978-88-536-0666-2)
Kniha - autor Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 142 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th century literary classic. In this Reader you will find: - Focus on… - CAE-style activities - Glossary of difficult words - Test yourself - Comprehension activities Tag Love Society “Gatsby?” aske...
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Feast of the Goat
'The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America's twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of
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Great Train Robbery 50th Anniversary:1963-2013
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery in 1963. Known as the "Crime of the Century" this is an official Special Ed
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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Fulton Bruce
Anotace: This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea`s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captu...
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Political Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ireland
This collection explores the complex political thinking of a fundamental period of Irish history. It investigates the great political issues of the da
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Great Torrington a District Through Time
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Great Torrington has changed and developed over the last century.
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Making Gay History : The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights - Marcus Eric
Anotace: From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992. Using the heartfelt stories of more than sixty people, he c...
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Making Gay History : The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights - Eric Marcus
<p>From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992. Using the heartfelt stories of more than sixty people, he ca...
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Hard by a Great Forest - Leo Vardiashvili
<p>* AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 * 'A spellbinding achievement' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Poignant and often painfully comic' OBSERVER 'I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it' KHALED HOSSEINI 'Hugely impressive' NEW EUROPEAN 'Novels like this might help light the way' GUARDIAN 'Beguiling...with glinting lyricism' SUNDAY TIMES Tbilisi's littered with memor...
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Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts - Various
<p>A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Italy. Each story appears in the original Italian alongside an expert English translation, pro...
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Great Spanish Stories: 10 Parallel Texts - Various
<p>A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insigh...
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Inspired By S S Chern: A Memorial Volume In Honor Of A Great Mathematician
Shiing-Shen Chern (1911-2004) was one of the leading differential geometers of the 20th century. Chern's works span various fields of geometry. Inspir
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Great Depression and New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
In the middle of the great, global twentieth-century crisis, the Great Depression forced the United States to adopt policies at odds with its politica
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 5:: The Great Gatsby audio CD pack
Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby's champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, the owner of all this wealth, wants only one thing - to find again the woman of his dreams, the woman he has held in his heart and his memory for five long years. The Great Gatsby...
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Adventures of a Mathematician
An autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story with prophetic speculation
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Oxford Bookworms Library New Edition 5 the Great Gatsby - kolektiv autorů
Anotace: Published 2012.Upper Intermediate CEF level B2 - 1,800 HeadwordsOxford Bookworms enjoy a world-wide reputation for high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience.Research shows reading a lot improves all your language skills.Experts recognize Oxford Bookworms as the most consistent series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story - ver...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Audiokniha MP3 Oscar Wilde, čte Rodilý mluvčí Audiokniha The Picture of Dorian Gray namluvená rodilým mluvčím. Jazyková úroveň B1 pro středně pokročilé posluchače. Late nineteenth-century London: a city of contrasts. Great wealth and terrible poverty, beauty and ugliness, purity and immorality. Oscar Wilde takes the reader into this strange and fascinating world throu...
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The Art of Rhetoric - Aristotelés
Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics...Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and debate became an increasingly important tool to g...
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The Art of Rhetoric - Aristotelés
<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics…</p> <p>Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public speaking and debate became an increasingly im...
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Young Adult ELI Readers 5/C1: The Great Gatsby+CD - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th century literary classic. In this Reader you will find: - Focus on… - CAE-style activities - Glossary of difficult words - Test yourself - Comprehension activities Tag Love Society “Gatsby?” asked Daisy urgently. “What Gatsby?” Could it be the same young army lieutenant whom Da...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.’ Tag Fantasy In this Reader you will find: - Information about Oscar Wilde’s life - Sections focusing on background and context - Glossary of difficult words - Comprehension activities - PET-style activities - Exit test Late nineteenth-century London: a city of contra...
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Commentary on The Song of Awakening
A twentieth-century Japanese Zen Master’s Commentary on Shd¶ka (Cheng tao ke), the famous poem by the great seventh-century Chinese Ch’an m
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Darwin's Man in Brazil
Fritz MĂĽller (1821-1897), though not as well known as his colleague Charles Darwin, belongs in the cohort of great nineteenth-century naturalists. Re
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Civilization and Its Discontents - Freud Sigmund
Anotace: Freud`s epoch-making insights revolutionized our perception of who we are, forming the foundation for psychoanalysis. In Civilization and its Discontents he considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness. Focusing on what he perceives to be one of society`s greatest dangers; `civilized` sexual morality, he asks, does repression compromise...
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Tales of Mystery & the Macabre - Gaskellová Elizabeth
Anotace: With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.`In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged`.Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848) but she also wrote ...
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The Secret History of the Mongols - Christopher P. Atwood
<p>A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan'Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed shoulders'Born poor into a world of dangers and hardships, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan would grow up to unify Mongolia and conquer a vast empire stretching from modern-day ...
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken
<p>Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this special edition of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. It's 19th Century England, Good King James III is on the throne, and the whole country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly-opened Channel Tunnel. When young orphans Bonnie and Sylvia...
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The Future of an Illusion - Sigmund Freud
<p>This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, wa...
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The Shadow of Perseus: A compelling feminist retelling of the myth of Perseus told from the perspectives of the women who knew him best - Claire Heywood
<p>'A page-turning retelling . . . so interesting and thought-provoking' JENNIFER SAINT'A fresh and original take on the myth of Perseus . . . I was gripped by the human drama at the novel's heart' ELODIE HARPERMyth remembers Perseus as one of its greatest heroes. A slayer of monsters. A rescuer of damsels.But the women who knew him best have a different story to te...
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People from Bloomington - Darma Budi
Anotace: In the 1970s, Budi Darma - one of Indonesia`s most acclaimed writers - lived as a student in Bloomington, Indiana. His experiences formed the basis for the renowed short story collection, The People from Bloomington: a portrait of small-town America that offers an incisive view of the West and the people that inhabit it.In Darma`s America, apartment blocks and g...
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Feast of the Goat - Llosa Mario Vargas
Anotace: `The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America`s twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.` Times Literary Supplement Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that h...
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Art of the Start 2.0
Fully revised and updated for the first time in a decade - Guy Kawasaki's iconic, bestselling guide for startups of all kinds. Now featuring the latest wisdom about social media and many other topics. A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new organization, a new anything-where there's a will, here's the way. Whether you are an entrepreneur, intrap...
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The Diary of a Young Girl (9780241952436)
Kniha - anglicky The definitive 70th anniversary edition of "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank and edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, the world's most famous diary and 'one of the greatest books of the century'. '12th June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a ...
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (9780007507672)
Kniha – autor George R.R. Martin, 368 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá - autor George R.R. Martin, 368 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá A century before A GAME OF THRONES, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros… A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin’s ongoing masterwork, A SONG OF ICE AN...
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Babylon Revisited - Fitzgerald Francis Scott
Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...
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The Colony of Good Hope - Kim Leine
<p>'A superb novel . . . A hugely powerful chronicle of lives lived on the edge' - Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that ...
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The Colony of Good Hope - Kim Leine
Anotace: In the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that drive each individual towards darkness or light. 1728: The Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Gr...
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The Decameron - Boccaccio Giovanni
Anotace: With a new foreword. Written in the fourteenth century by Italian author, poet and scholar Giovanni Boccaccio, the Decameron contains stories told by ten young Florentines who have fled the city to escape the Plague. Presented within the sophisticated structure of a surrounding frame story, the one hundred allegorical tales are shared through the voices of these...
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Pancake Stories
Peggy Pond Church, one of the great New Mexico authors of the twentieth century, wrote these stories for her own sons in the 1930s, and her daughter-i
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Sea People : In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific - Christina Thompson
<p>For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass m...
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The Power of Geography : Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World - Marshall Tim
Anotace: *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*`I can`t imagine reading a better book this year´ Daily MirrorTim Marshall`s global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation´s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn´t changed. But the world has.In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are se...
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Moments of Reprieve
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience wi
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The History of Middle-Earth 06: Return of the Shadow - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
<p>The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.</p> <p>The Return of the Shadow is the story of the first part of the history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study...
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money : with The Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes
<p>John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was first published in 1936. But its ideas had b...
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Selected Poems of Cavafy
C P Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical ev
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The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth - Tolkien John Ronald Reuel
Anotace: Collector`s slipcased edition of the first ever standalone presentation of one of J.R.R. Tolkien`s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts. In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led b...
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The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth - Tolkien John Ronald Reuel
Anotace: First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts. In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting ...
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The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, 1. vydání - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
<p>First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts.</p> <p>In 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brut...
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The Black Angels. The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis - Maria Smilios
<p>New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery.During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed 1 in 7 people, white nurses at ...
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History of Ayutthaya
The first study of Ayutthaya, placed alongside China and India as one of the great powers of Asia, from its emergence in the thirteenth century until
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City of Night
The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing god.
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Tales of Mystery & the Macabre - Elizabeth Gaskell
<p>With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'. Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848) but she also wrote...
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Colony of Good Hope
A powerful epic story of colonialism, set in eighteenth-century Greenland, about the great forces of nature, love, death, evil, and the meeting of cul
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Colony of Good Hope
A powerful epic story of colonialism, set in eighteenth-century Greenland, about the great forces of nature, love, death, evil, and the meeting of cul
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Age Of Revolution
The first volume of Hobsbawm's classic and universally acclaimed trilogy on the 19th century, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great
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