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Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.' In The Casebook, you can read the final twelve stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about his brilliant detective. They are perhaps the most unusual and the darkest that he penned. Treachery, mutilation and the terrible consequences of infidelity are just some of the themes explored in these stories, along with atmospheric touches of the gothic, involving a bloodsucking vampire, crypts at midnight and strange bones in a furnace. The collection His Last Bow features some of Sherlock Holmes' most dramatic cases, including the vicious revenge intrigue connected with 'The Red Circle' and the insidious murders in 'The Devil's Foot'. The title story recounts how Sherlock Holmes is brought out of retireme

The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark. Sunday Times And Independent Books Of The Year 2012. The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination? In The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark retells the story of the outbreak

This popular BEC series has been completely revised. PASS Cambridge BEC is a practical course for students who wish to gain a recognised business English qualification. Focusing on relevant international business situations, the course has been structured to provide students with a thorough preparation for the Business English Certificates (BEC).

New to this Edition

• Updated texts, photographs and artwork
• Updated topics to reflect business today
• NEW reading materials
• NEW re-recorded listening
• NEW Teacher's Book is packaged with the Class Audio CD

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Arman, a teenage refugee, makes an epic journey across Europe, often in the hands of people smugglers. He lives and works as an illegal immigrant in the UK until one day love comes into his life.

Complete audio recording available online.

Original stories at seven levels from starter to advanced, written specially for learners of English. With gripping plots and a range of genres to satisfy every taste, Cambridge English Readers offer high-quality original fiction that students will love! The highest quality of writing and storytelling is combined with the

Reading Explorer is a six-level reading series which uses carefully adapted National Geographic text, images and video to develop reading and vocabulary skills for learners of English.

• Stunning real-world content supported by stunning visuals develops learners' understanding of the wider world in which they live.
• Reading passages introduce a variety of text types, develop visual literacy, and incorporate graphic organizers, to help learners become better readers in English.
• Reading Comprehension activities include question types commonly found on high-stakes international exams.
• Vocabulary Practice activities build awareness of high-frequency vocabulary items and provide additional mini-passages for reading practice.
• Vocabul

Creating young thinkers with great futures

Using an inquiry-based approach to learning, Oxford Discover develops the communication skills and thinking skills students need for success in the 21st century.

Who are your family and friends? Where can we see colors? How can we make music?

Oxford Discover uses Big Questions such as these to tap into students' natural curiosity. It enables them to ask their own questions, find their own answers, and explore the world around them.

This approach to language learning and literacy, supported by a controlled grammar and skills syllabus, helps students achiev

Creating young thinkers with great futures

Using an inquiry-based approach to learning, Oxford Discover develops the communication skills and thinking skills students need for success in the 21st century.

Who are your family and friends? Where can we see colors? How can we make music?

Oxford Discover uses Big Questions such as these to tap into students' natural curiosity. It enables them to ask their own questions, find their own answers, and explore the world around them.

This approach to language learning and literacy, supported by a controlled grammar and skills syllabus, helps students achiev

Sonny's on the run. Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates, and absolves them of their sins. He's been lied to his whole life. But then one prisoner's confession changes everything. He knows something about Sonny's disgraced father. Sonny wants revenge.

'This telegram is from my brother Mycroft,' says Holmes. 'He wants to speak to me at once about Mr Arthur Cadogan. Do you know this man, Watson?'
'I saw something about him in today's newspaper,' I answered.

When a young man dies on a London Undergroung line, top-secret plans for a new British submarine go missing. But who is Cadogan's killer, why did he die, and where are the missing papers? Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson must quickly help Mycroft to answer these important questions.

OXFORD DOMINOES:

Four-level graded readers series, perfect for reading practice and language skills development at upper-primary and lower-secondary levels.

Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading

This new edition of Tom Hutchinson's bestselling course combines all the aspects that students and teachers loved from the previous edition with exiting new digital components, extra resources and more teacher support than ever before.
Your students will love watching the new animated Mickey, Millie and Mut and Sweet Sue and Smart Alex cartoons. In later levels of the course the cartoons are replaced with dramatized episodes of Kids, the photo-story from the Student's Book. For your kinaesthetic learners there are new fun total physical response pronunciation activities in the pronunciation bank at the back of the Student's Book. Other students will enjoy reading the stories in the extensive reading bank.

And you will love all the teacher support available with Proje

Happy Street je úspěšná řada učebnic pro děti, které už jsou schopny začít číst a psát v angličtině. V učebnicích Happy Street děti pronikají do světa postav známých z Happy House v širším kontextu a poznávají také souseda Grega a jeho pejska Flossy

Pro žáka:

• učebnice se stranami zaměřenými na činnosti vedoucí od čtení k psaní, novými stránkami zaměřenými na kulturu a svátky, s motivujícími činnostmi v rámci angličtiny na doma s důrazem na mezipředmětové vztahy
• pracovní sešit s činnostmi na procvičování čtení a psaní, na rozvoj mezipředmětových vztahů a na sebehodnocení; strany s příběhy na pokračování "Colin in Computerland", audio CD se všemi písničkami a příb

Happy Street je úspěšná řada učebnic pro děti, které už jsou schopny začít číst a psát v angličtině. V učebnicích Happy Street děti pronikají do světa postav známých z Happy House v širším kontextu a poznávají také souseda Grega a jeho pejska Flossy

Pro žáka:

• učebnice se stranami zaměřenými na činnosti vedoucí od čtení k psaní, novými stránkami zaměřenými na kulturu a svátky, s motivujícími činnostmi v rámci angličtiny na doma s důrazem na mezipředmětové vztahy
• pracovní sešit s činnostmi na procvičování čtení a psaní, na rozvoj mezipředmětových vztahů a na sebehodnocení; strany s příběhy na pokračování "Colin in Computerland", audio CD se všemi písničkami a příb