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When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never to attempt to see her child again, she nonetheless spent the next fifty years secretly searching for him, unaware that he was searching for her from across the Atlantic. Philomena's son, renamed Michael Hess, grew up to be a top Washington lawyer and a leading Republican official in the Reagan and Bush administrations. But he was a gay man in a homophobic party where he had to conceal not only his sexuality but, eventually, the fact that he had AI

Professor Smith has always been every student’s favourite teacher. But when Sam and Izzie return to school after the summer holidays, their fun, energetic science teacher is gone. Professor Smith is anxious and when he is kidnapped in front of them, they realise that he was right to be so scared. But what dark secret could their science teacher be hiding? And can Sam and Izzie uncover the truth before their own lives will be put in danger?

Dossiers:
Detectives in Fiction, Forensic Science

The famous mineralogist, Professor Lidenbrock, finds a piece of parchment in an old book. A message written in code describes a secret entrance to another world. The Professor’s nephew, Axel, breaks the code and he and his uncle set out on a journey that takes them back in time to the days of the dinosaurs and pre-historic man. But how will they manage to get back to the present safely?

Dossiers:
Volcanoes, Geological Time

Robert Louis Stevenson investigates into the nature of good and evil in this novel set in the Scotland of 1745. This was the year many in Scotland fought to put a Scottish king on the British throne. Two brothers, James and Henry Durie, become involved in this historical event. But The Master of Ballantrae is a also worldwide novel. Readers will travel from Scotland to New York, to India… Along the way, they will meet soldiers, hunters and pirates.

Dossiers:
Double Trouble – Doubles and Alter Egos in Fiction and Popular Culture
The War that Made America

In Dickens’s first novel, Samuel Pickwick and three other members of the Pickwick Club decide to spend six months travelling around England observing the manners and habits of everyone they meet. Follow them on their hilarious adventures as they get involved in a duel, an election campaign and as one of them even ends up in prison…

Dossier:
England in the Early Nineteenth Century

Have you ever made a bet - a big bet?
In the 1850s, a young American finds himself in London by chance. He is penniless, and yet he leads the lixurious life of a millionaire. How can he do this?
It's all thanks to a bizarre bet made by two eccentric gentlemen.

Dossiers:
San Francisco in the 1850s
Sailing Ships
Sailing on San Francisco Bay
The English and Betting
Londinium
How did People Dress in the 1850s?
Money and its Origins
London Today
The Origins of Banking

Učebnice konverzace v anglickém jazyce je určena především studentům středních odborných škol a učebních oborů pro kadeřnice a kosmetičky. Může však také dobře posloužit již vyučeným nebo vystudovaným kadeřnicím a kosmetičkám, které denně přicházejí do styku s anglicky mluvícími zákazníky.

Učebnice předpokládá základní znalost angličtiny a její gramatiky, na níž rozvíjí dovednosti komunikace v oboru kadeřnictví a kosmetiky. Nejdůležitějším cílem této publikace je schopnost dorozumět se v praxi se zákazníky z anglicky mluvících zemí.

Vzhledem k tomu, že zkouška z cizího jazyka je podle nového vzdělávacího programu součástí učňovských zkoušek, bude učebnice jistě neocenitelnou pomůckou i p

This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle. As always there are heartbreaking stories such as the family devastated by tuberculosis and a ship's woman who 'serviced' the entire crew, as well as plenty of humour and warmth, such as the tale of two women who shared the same husband! Other stories cover backstreet abortions, the changing life of the docklands, infanticide, as well as the lives of the inhabitants of Nonnatus House. We discover what happens with the gauche debutant Chummy and her equally gauche policeman; will Sister Monica Joan continue her life of crime? Will Sister Evangelina ever crack a smile? And what of Jennifer herself? The book not only details the final years of the tenements but also of

Compact Key for Schools is a focused, 50 - 60 hour course for the Cambridge English: Key (KET) for Schools exam. The Teacher's Book supports teachers with lesson preparation ideas and features CLIL extension tasks. It contains audioscripts and full answer keys for the Student's Book and Workbook. Photocopiable Revision and Progress tests are also included.