A simple approach which captures the young reader’s attention. Children learn basic English vocabulary and structures. Full colour illustrated words and activity pages. Illustrated vocabulary includes: - toys - days, months, seasons - jobs - clothes.
A body has been found on the overlook near Mulholland Drive. The victim, identified as Dr. Stanley Kent, has two bullet holes in the back of his head from what looks like an execution-style shooting. LAPD detective Harry Bosch is called out to invest igate. It is the case he has been waiting for, his ...
With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes''s Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy written in English. Forged in the crucible of the civil and ...
"Journal 3" brims with every page ever seen on the show plus all-new pages with monsters and secrets, notes from Dipper and Mabel, and the Author''s full story. "Gravity Falls "fans will simply love this 288-page full-color jacketed hardcover version of "Journal 3"!" "Plus, the book jacket doubles as ...
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance ...
Three men go deep into unknown parts of Africa in order to look for a lost friend. After many dangerous adventures they find him, but they also find some amazing treasures in a secret cave in a mountain. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce ...
The beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. But when medical examiner Maura Isles looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes. Now very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where she murders a security guard and seizes hostages, ...
An intimate deep dive into Japan''s diversely rich food landscape with 120 recipes from 7 compelling Japanese chefs and 24 stories of food artisans through the eyes of award-winning author Nancy Singleton Hachisu. In Food Artisans of Japan, Nancy Singleton Hachisu introduces us to the chefs and artisans ...
Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander series. Featuring all the characters you\''ve come to love from the Outlander series, this brilliant collection of short stories throws you into the magical world of ...
Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons, a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life. Time is running out. She visits the boy in hospital - an encounter ...
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself \''Mogor dell\''Amore\'', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, ...
''''Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent'''' Observer How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind''''s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories ...
Trains hold a fascination for just about everybody and this lift-the-flap history of locomotion tells it all from Stephenson''s Rocket to the bullet trains of today. You can lift the flaps to explore all kinds of exciting trains, from a luxury steam train fit for a queen to super-fast trains that run ...
Příběh dlouho očekávané knihy vzpomínek Salmana Rushdieho se začíná odvíjet 14. února 1989, kdy se britský prozaik indického původu dozvěděl, že byl ájatolláhem Chomejním právě odsouzen k smrti za autorství románu Satanské verše, podle íránského duchovního vůdce namířeného proti "islámu, Prorokovi a ...
História puzzle siaha do osemnásteho storočia a za jeho zrodom stojí anglický rytec a kartograf John Spilsbury. Prvé puzzle okolo roku.1760 vytvoril tak, že na mapu pripevnil tenké tvrdé drevo a jemnou ostrou pílkou na vytváranie intarzie z neho vyrezal hranice krajín. Takto vytvorený produkt deťom v ...
I seen a kid killed... He strangled it, up by the horse.'' When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike''s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot ...
This book introduces children to ten amazing and unusual types of home. They can experience life high up in a tree house or cuddled up cosy in an igloo; find out what it''s like to live underground or in a noisy, working windmill. Two spectacular double gatefolds allow them to see whether having hundreds ...
Meet Kate Mackenzie. She: works for the T.O.D. (short for TyrannicalOffice Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Divisionat the New York Journal) is sleeping on the couch because herboyfriend of ten years refuses to commitcan\''t find an affordable studio apartmentanywhere ...