Все книги издательства «Oxford University Press»

Would You Believe: Bed Testers Get Paid to Sleep?!	Oxford University Press
Автор: Platt Richard Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2010	PDF, 48 страниц, 1.44 МБ 7 Оценка:
A fascinating account of the world of work from prehistoric times to the present day. Covering so much more than the 9 to 5 this book looks at all kinds of work from child labour and slavery to high powered or highly dangerous jobs. Learn about the machines replacing humans in the workplace and the communities who don't even have a concept of what work is. What happens when work is scarce or people are forced to work against their will? And how many people's dreams of leaving work behind come true.
174 hitrets 24 августа 2012	Скачать книгу

Would You Believe: Marzipan Contains Cyanide?!	Oxford University Press
Автор: Platt Richard Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2007	PDF, 48 страниц, 1.44 МБ 7 Оценка:
Young historians and chefs get a real taste of the stories behind food we eat as we examine the amazing peculiarities of international cuisine past and present. Readers will learn about the often disgusting yet utterly fascinating foods that our ancestors ate such as maggot cake or rotten fish, as well as those that are still eaten around the world today — grasshopper stew anyone? Includes food myths, eating taboos and how archaeologists discover what Neolithic man ate.
173 hitrets 24 августа 2009	Скачать книгу

Boris Saves the Show	Oxford University Press
Автор: Weston Carrie Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2012	PDF, 32 страницы, 0.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
Miss Cluck has some exciting news for her class. There is going to be an end-of-term show! All the animals rehearse tirelessly and soon the day of the show arrives. But then — disaster! — Miss Webb and her nursery class who should be coming to watch the show are stuck in the mud. How will the show go on? Boris has an idea. He dashes out (in his superhero costume), finds the stricken tractor, and heaves Miss Webb and her class out of the mud. With the tractor back on track, and Boris squeezed onto the trailer with the ducklings and frogs, Miss Webb makes it to Miss Cluck's class after all and the curtain rises on a wonderfully entertaining show. And, of course, Boris is the hero of the story, both on and off the stage!
116 kingofspirit 16 мая 2015	Скачать книгу

Troublesome Angels and Flying Machines	Oxford University Press
Автор: Marshall Hazel Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2005	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
An exciting and fun story about Blanco Polo, the great-nephew of Marco Polo, and his journey from Venice to Spain to build flying machines with the villainous Count Maleficio. Along the way Blanco meets Eva, accompanied by her guardian angels, also bound for Spain for an arranged marriage to a man old enough to be her grandfather. The pair become great friends and Blanco's dream of building and piloting a flying machine are finally within his grasp. But when Count Maleficio reveals his true intentions for the flying machine Blanco and Eva have to flee, with the help of the angels.
810 allkonekt 09 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

Dark Summer	Oxford University Press
Автор: Sparkes Ali Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
It's the summer holidays, and Eddie finds himself strangely drawn to the famous caves at Wookey Hole. He makes friends with the ticket seller there, and before long is allowed to roam wherever he wants. He loves it... until the day he gets lost. Just as panic sets in, his hand is taken by a strange girl, about his own age, who guides him to the surface. Gwerren is weird. She's extraordinarily pale with huge violet eyes and white hair — what's more, she won't come out of the caves. As she and Eddie become friends he starts to wonder if she's a ghost. Then Eddie nearly dies in a pothole — and discovers not only the truth, but life where nobody thought it could be... A thrilling new novel from the author of the popular 'Shapeshifter' series.
986 radius 28 июля 2010	Скачать книгу

Wishful Thinking	Oxford University Press
Автор: Sparkes Ali Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2010	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
It's just a regular trip for Kevin, and he comes back with just the regular sorts of things. Some local fudge, a scented candle for his mum... and his own personal god. It's Abandinus, a little-known Celtic deity, who has suddenly found a new purpose in his eternal life-sorting out Kevin's. With a god on your side, everything's going to get a lot easier, isn't it? After all, a god can get stuff done. The trouble is, it's not always the kind of stuff Kevin has in mind...
1218 phoenix7 16 мая 2013	Скачать книгу

Tom Trueheart and the Land of Dark Stories	Oxford University Press
Автор: Beck Ian Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 400 страниц, 12.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
The Trueheart house is busy and bustling-because today is a special day. Tom's older brothers are getting married and preparing to live happily ever after. But then an unexpected wedding guest arrives. Someone who has decided that there will be no more Happy Endings. Tom's brothers and their brides are whisked off to the Land of Dark Stories, as prisoners of their old enemy Brother Ormestone. And Tom himself is put under a terrible enchantment... It is up to Tom to try to save the others, and to bring back Happy Endings. But how can he defeat the storybook monsters now that he is only the size of a thumb?
1450 admin 15 апреля 2013	Скачать книгу

Tom Trueheart and the Land of Myths and Legends	Oxford University Press
Автор: Beck Ian Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2011	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
Tom is determined to rescue his father, Jack the Giant-Killer, from the clutches of the dastardly Ormestone. But to do so he will have to venture into the most dangerous territory of all, the Land of Myths and Legends. Tom is brave and true, but can he overcome such terrors as the ferocious Norse dragon, an angry Cyclops and, worst of all, the hungry Minotaur waiting in the centre of the labyrinth? Join Tom in his third epic adventure as he faces dangers and creatures galore in the land of Myths and Legends.
1393 yury-m 15 октрября 2014	Скачать книгу

The Mystifying Medicine Show	Oxford University Press
Автор: Bemis J.C. Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
Orphan Ray has been separated from his sister. The only clue to finding her is a lodestone, left to him by his father before he vanished. The lodestone tugs Ray towards a train bursting with astounding characters. Soon Ray is hurtling across the Wild West, joining in as they perform their enthralling medicine show. But something dark is following the train. Something that wants to steal people's souls. How long before Ray realizes it? And can he and his new friends do anything to stop it?
1160 admin 19 марта 2012	Скачать книгу

Frozen Fire	Oxford University Press
Автор: Bowler Tim Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2008	DjVu, 352 страницы, 14.08 МБ 5 Оценка:
It starts with the phone call, late at night. The mysterious boy says he is dying. Dusty doesn't want to get involved — but the boy seems to have a link to the one person who's most important to her. Soon she has been drawn in — and now she has to deal with the other people who are looking for the boy — the violent man and his two sons, and the police too... Yet throughout all this, Dusty senses the presence of a boy who is not dying, a strange elusive boy who can show her what happened to her missing brother and solve the greatest mystery of her life. Where he is, who he is, why he wants to die, she cannot say. Only one thing is certain. Finding him will be dangerous.
1275 anarho 24 августа 2010	Скачать книгу

Starseeker	Oxford University Press
Автор: Bowler Tim Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
Luke is in trouble. Skin and the gang have a job for him. They want him to break into Mrs Little's house and steal the jewellery box. They want him to prove that he's got what it takes. That he's part of the gang. But Luke finds more than just a jewellery box in the house. He finds something so unexpected it will change his life forever... This is a wonderful, rich novel, written with lyricism, drama and power. Tackling issues of loss, love, and healing, and filled with the sense of a universe bursting with music, it is unputdownable from the first page to the last.
1218 phoenix7 16 мая 2012	Скачать книгу

Here be Monsters	Oxford University Press
Автор: Snow Alan Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2014	PDF, 256 страниц, 7.68 МБ 0 Оценка:
There's an emergency in Ratbridge! Only orphan Arthur and his new friends Willbury Nibble QC, Marjorie the inventor, a timid cabbagehead, and some very excitable boxtrolls can save the day! But are they really up to the job? Why has the evil Snatcher taken up residence in Cheese Hall? Who has stolen Marjorie's latest invention? And who knew that rats were so good at removing stains? Find out in this amazing, fun, and highly-illustrated romp!
930 lawyer_78rus 28 марта 2017	Скачать книгу

Virus Attack	Oxford University Press
Автор: Briggs Andy Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2008	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
Archfiends Basilisk and the Worm have dreamt up a plan so cunning it will strike fear into the heart of the bravest superhero. Combining their dastardly skills, they will infect HERO.COM with a virus potent enough to cripple it and ultimately to destroy Hero HQ. Toby, Lorna, Pete and Emily are tasked to stop them. Hard enough at the best of times, but particularly tricky once Hero.com is on the blink and their superhero powers keep fluctuating. And when Pete is kidnapped and cryogenically frozen by the vile villains, things start going from bad to worse... Another superpowered adventure from a master of pen and plot!
1043 vitalysev 13 октрября 2011	Скачать книгу

Crisis Point	Oxford University Press
Автор: Briggs Andy Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
The Hero Foundation is a shadow of its former self and Lord Eon — the most terrible supervillain ever — is still at large. Worse, he has hatched a plan to tear apart time. Toby and his superhero friends should be able to stop him... but Pete has woken from his coma a different person and Lorna has disappeared. In the titanic struggle that will follow, friendships will be tested and superhero powers strained to the limit as time runs out for the world... literally...
986 radius 28 июля 2010	Скачать книгу

Chaos Effect	Oxford University Press
Автор: Briggs Andy Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2010	PDF, 288 страниц, 8.64 МБ 7 Оценка:
Something is not quite right in the Foundation's War Room. The training robots powered by Hero.com are starting to take on a life of their own. A new villain is taking control-NanoMite. This fiendish cyborg is using his nanite swarm to take control of every electric appliance on the planet. Within days he threatens to plunge the entire world back into the Dark Ages. For Toby, things are not looking so good either. Lorna is keeping a low profile after her relationship with the Dark Hunter is revealed, Emily wants to find their traitrous friend Pete-and Toby has a painful crush on Jen. Worse still, Toby's plan to bring down the Council of Evil is thwarted when he is assigned to train up fledgling heroes. To add insult to injury, a pair of new Downloaders are now everybody's favourite heroes. A dangerous game of one-upmanship unfolds between Toby and the horribly likeable twins. But Toby won't let anything distract him from his main focus. He is determined to bring wrongdoers to justice-even at the cost of betraying somebody close to him... As civilization teeters on the brink of disater-which heroes will save the day?
1044 vitalysev 14 августа 2012	Скачать книгу

Countdown to Disaster	Oxford University Press
Автор: Burnie David Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2010	PDF, 80 страниц, 2.40 МБ 8 Оценка:
The world is in danger! From gigantic eruptions to asteroid collisions natural disasters have the power to devastate life on Earth. Find out why these disasters occur, what effects they have on our surroundings and how likely each disaster is to strike again. Find out what we are doing to avoid disasters in the future, and how people are learning to live with the threat of an earthquake or volcano on their doorstep.
290 admin 14 февраля 2012	Скачать книгу

Shadow Bringer	Oxford University Press
Автор: Calcutt David Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2010	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Nathan knows something is watching him — something menacing and dangerous. Something without a shape, that he can't get out of his head. The Creature. Then there are the noises he starts hearing in the attic. Shuffling. Scratching. Even a voice. The Bogeyman. Nathan's sure that the Creature and the Bogeyman are the same thing. Whatever it is, it's after him. As soon as it's strong enough, it will show Nathan what it really wants. And it's growing stronger all the time...
812 allkonekt 11 октрября 2013	Скачать книгу

Number 99	Oxford University Press
Автор: Cave Patrick Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2002	PDF, 176 страниц, 5.28 МБ 0 Оценка:
Kez is a traveller girl, living with her mum in an old Bedford bus, enjoying life on the open road. Then one day disaster strikes — Kez's mum goes missing, the police raid the site, and before she knows it, Kez has been whisked away into a foster home. Her new foster mother has been taking in children for many years, and in fact Kez is the 99th — and so becomes known as Number 99. With the help of the first foster child — Number 1, now a high-up civil servant — Kez sets out to find what has become of her mother. However, they find their way barred at every turn, and soon realize there is a high-level conspiracy to stop them finding her. Eventually they discover that Kez's mum had identified an illegal genetically-modified crop of wheat near the site where they lived, and has been spirited away to stop her revealing her knowledge before the crop is safely harvested. The race to find her is fraught with obstacles and danger, but Kez has a fighting spirit...
635 kubinec12 11 июля 2009	Скачать книгу

The Hidden World: The Remarkable Adventures of Tom Scatterhorn	Oxford University Press
Автор: Chancellor Henry Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2010	DOC, 528 страниц, 1.00 МБ 7 Оценка:
Tom is back at the Scatterhorn Museum, looking forward to spending some time there while his parents are away on one of their adventures. But an unexpected visitor called Pearl Smoot throws everything into disarray when she arrives with an incredible story. She says Tom's old enemy, Don Gervase Askary, has taken her father and brother — and what's more, she claims he has Tom's parents too. Together Tom and Pearl set out on a perilous journey to rescue their families — a journey that will take them in and out of time, to exotic foreign lands, and finally into the secret hidden world of Scarazand, stronghold of the terrifying Don Gervase himself... It's non-stop action in this breathtaking sequel to the first fantastic Tom Scatterhorn book, The Museum's Secret.
1915 carabin 12 сентября 2015	Скачать книгу

Viking Girl	Oxford University Press
Автор: Chandler Pauline Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2007	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Beren, a Viking princess, is forced to flee her home after her father is killed and her people defeated in battle. Guided by her uncle, she and the remains of her tribe come to England seeking sanctuary. But Vikings have been there before and laid waste to the land, and Beren's small group is met with scorching hatred from the locals. When Beren's uncle takes her men south to fight the king, Beren is left struggling to protect the rest of her followers. The only help comes from the local abbey. The monks there want everybody to live in peace. But when Beren befriends a trainee monk, the factions are further divided, and the hatred simmering under the surface begins to boil over. And then a new threat — from Beren's own uncle — raises its head. Now the people must decide: fight amongst themselves and be annihilated by a greater power, or unite under Beren's command, and fight for their freedom.
811 allkonekt 10 декабря 2009	Скачать книгу

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