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A new-look printing of Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' to mark the 25th anniversary of her death. Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, having become the best-selling novelist in history. Her autobiography, published in 1977 a year after her death, tells of her fascinating private life, from early childhood through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan. Not only does the book reveal the true genius of her legendary success, but the story is vividly told and as captivating as one of her novels.

Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of provincial matters. For the writer, subject matter was subordinate to his anguished quest for aesthetic perfection. For his twentieth-century successors the formal experiments that underpin Madame Bovary look forward to the innovations of contemporary fiction. Flaubert's protagonist in particular has never ceased to fascinate. Romantic heroine or middle-class neurotic, flawed wife and mother or passionate protester against the conventions of bourgeois society, simultaneously the subject of Flaubert's admiration and the butt of his irony - Emma Bovary remains one of the most enigmatic of fictional

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's calorie representative in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, he combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs long thought to be extinct. There he meets the windup girl - the beautiful and enigmatic Emiko - now abandoned to the slums. She is one of the New People, bred to suit the whims of the rich. Engineered as slaves, soldiers and toys, they are the new underclass in a chilling near future where oil has run out, calorie companies dominate nations and bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe. And as Lake becomes increasingly obsessed with Emiko, conspiracies breed in the heat and political tensions threaten to spiral out of control. Businessmen and ministry officials, wealthy foreigners and landless refugees all h

Aktivity s barevnými samolepkami pomáhají dětem od 4 let zvládnout základní slova, učí anglické písničky a básničky a rozvíjí manuální zručnost. Sešit obsahuje ke každé aktivitě informace pro rodiče a učitele.

In this delightful tale, Morris McGurk dreams about staging the world's greatest show, packed with the most tremendous, stupendous acts ever seen, from the Spotted Atrocious -- a beast most ferocious -- to the Drum-Tummied Snumm from the country of Frumm. This delightful book forms part of the second stage in HarperCollins' major Dr. Seuss rebrand programme. With the relaunch of 10 more titles in August 2003, such all-time favourites as How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? and Dr. Seuss' Sleep Book boast bright new covers that incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels: Blue Back Books are for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books are for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books are for older, more fluent readers to

Jednoduchá hra s barvami a tvary.

Nauč se počítat a rozeznávat tvary s touto populární hrou založenou na známé anglické dětské říkačce. Vyleze tvůj pavouk jako první okapem nahoru? Stihne to dříve než začne pršet?  

Co hra rozvijí a podporuje?

• učení barev, tvarů a počítání
• menší děti mohou začít pouze s rozpoznáváním tvarů a pak později přidat i barvy a počítání

Leze pavouk, leze vzhůru

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Updated with over 500 new words, phrases and meanings, Oxford Wordpower Dictionary is a corpus-based dictionary that provides the tools intermediate learners need to build vocabulary and prepare for exams. Oxford 3000™ keyword entries show the most important words to know in English. This edition includes new Topic Notes, Exam Tips and Writing Tips, and a 16-page Oxford Writing Tutor.

Students can search the A-Z dictionary by word or topic on the CD-ROM, and use the exercises to practise for international exams.

NEW on the CD-ROM: Oxford iWriter for B1-B2 students to develop writing skills, and the iGuide, an interactive tutorial to help students explore dictionary entries.

Arménie, země rozkvetlých horských luk, pastevců a starobylých kamenných kostelů, je nejstarší křesťanskou zemí světa. Symbolem Arménie je bájný Ararat, který dnes leží těsně za hranicí země v Turecku. Pokud se sem vydáte s naší konverzací, záhy zjistíte, že porozumět tajuplnému písmu ve skutečnosti není tak složité. Díky této příručce se zvládnete dorozumět v nejrůznějších situacích a vaše cestování bude o to radostnější.

• 2 600 vět a frází, 1 600 slovíček v tématech
• 6 000 hesel ve slovníku
• Doporučení a upozornění
• Přepis výslovnosti všech frází
• 16 stran gramatiky
• 10 stran praktických informací o zemi

Newspapers contains ideas for making effective use of these rich sources of text.

Practical, creative and original ideas show teachers how they can make effective use of English-language newspapers in the classroom.

The popular RESOURCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks and activities are clearly presented, and offer

Images demonstrates how virtually any text-based activity can be enhanced through the use of images.

Images argues that words and images are inseparable, and shows how images can be used to support the teaching of productive and receptive language skills, grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, and more.

The popular RESOURCE BOOKS FOR TEACHERS series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the class