Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball gane in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn’t believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.

These stories paint colourful pictures of life in Britain and America in the past. We meet some unusual people. There’s the dreamy boy who wakes up one day to find a bird making a nest in his hair! And there’s the man who tries to catch a ghost.

NOVÉ VYDÁNÍ TOHOTO TITULU BUDE DOSTUPNÉ AŽ NA KONCI ROKU 2011 !

Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy's. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. The Water-Method Man is a work of consummate artistry and comic invention, bizarre imagery and sharp social and psychological observation.

Severin Winter is not a man to take things lightly. His loving, like his wrestling, is decidedly heavyweight…a fact not lost on Utch, a lovely Viennese lady whose husband is rather taken (literally) by the delicate Edith, Severin's underweight wife. A bizarre menage a quatre is the result of these convoluted desires as Irving blends farce and tragedy in another bubbling, brilliant novel.

Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a perverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder, a man of rare compassion with an addiction to ether. Dr Larch loves all his orphans, especially Homer Wells. It is Homer's story we follow, from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage, to his adult life running a cider-making factory and his strange relationship with the wife of his closest friend.

Business Objectives - kurz pro manažery a studenty obchodní angličtiny, kteří dosáhli mírně pokročilé úrovně.

An amusing video training package based on the syllabus of the Business Objectives course.Key features
The video consists of eight short comic episodes which can be used in any order.
It covers all the essential language functions encountered by students who need to use English in a business context.
Each unit focuses on a core business communication skill, e.g., Telephoning, Planning ahead, and Presenting facts and figures.
The functional element is combined with a strong grammar and vocabulary syllabus, reinforced by tasks and exercises in the Activity Book.
Comedy is an important motif in the video, keeping students entertain

Most people around the world today know something about American life. The United States is a big country. Not all Americans are the same! In this book you will see the many faces of American life.

Business Objectives - kurz pro manažery a studenty obchodní angličtiny, kteří dosáhli mírně pokročilé úrovně.

An amusing video training package based on the syllabus of the Business Objectives course.Key features
The video consists of eight short comic episodes which can be used in any order.
It covers all the essential language functions encountered by students who need to use English in a business context.
Each unit focuses on a core business communication skill, e.g., Telephoning, Planning ahead, and Presenting facts and figures.
The functional element is combined with a strong grammar and vocabulary syllabus, reinforced by tasks and exercises in the Activity Book.
Comedy is an important motif in the video, keeping students entertain

Business Basics - kurz pro studenty začínající s obchodní angličtinou.

An updated edition of this complete first course in English for business. Business Basics now leads on to Business Focus - the new course for pre-intermediate Business english students.

Key features
The material features real companies and individuals, and authentic texts, providing relevant study for Business English students. The new edition contains 90% new material, providing a fresh and updated context for the language work.
The syllabus remains language-driven, giving learners the thorough grounding in basic structures and skills which they need at this level.
A new pronunciation syllabus provides work on word and sentence stress, intonation, and other areas such as

Business Basics - kurz pro studenty začínající s obchodní angličtinou.

An updated edition of this complete first course in English for business. Business Basics now leads on to Business Focus - the new course for pre-intermediate Business english students.

Key features
The material features real companies and individuals, and authentic texts, providing relevant study for Business English students. The new edition contains 90% new material, providing a fresh and updated context for the language work.
The syllabus remains language-driven, giving learners the thorough grounding in basic structures and skills which they need at this level.
A new pronunciation syllabus provides work on word and sentence stress, intonation, and other areas such as