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Super Surprise! Course Book 4	Oxford University Press
Автор: Reilly Vanessa Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2010	PDF, 63 страницы, 1.89 МБ 5 Оценка:
Шестиуровневый УМК для начальной школы, который интригует и привлекает внимание детей «сюрпризами» и увлекательными рассказами. Рассчитан на 60 — 90 часов. Забавные наборы «сюрпризов» от Uncle Harry, волшебные сундучки, закрытые на замки, и увлекательные вебсайты, вызывают интерес ребят и мотивируют их к изучению языка. Каждый рассказ учебного пособия написан в увлекательной форме и содержит большое количество иллюстраций. В каждом уроке новый лексико-грамматический материал дается с помощью мотивирующей работы с «сюрпризом». На уровнях 1 и 2 «сюрприз» от Uncle’а Harry содержит определенный предмет и рассказ. На уровнях 3 и 4 персонажи учебника открывают сказочные сундучки с «сюрпризами» — предметами (по несколько на каждый урок) и рассказом от бабушки, а на уровнях 5 и 6 рассказы даются в форме увлекательных Интернет-писем из разных уголков мира. Таким образом, тема «сюрприза» как бы подрастает вместе с ребятами, благодаря чему они сохраняют заинтересованность на протяжении всего курса. Каждый уровень пособия включает в себя 6 блестяще иллюстрированных рассказов различных жанров. Каждый рассказ тщательно подобран таким образом, чтобы соответствовать образному ряду и интересам учеников. Super Surprise дает возможность оживлять сюжеты рассказов. Комплект пособия содержит множество элементов, которые обеспечивают наглядность рассказа преподавателя: это и приковывающие внимание постеры к рассказам; и аудио CD с инсценировками, помимо начитанных на них текстов; и интерактивные книги с рассказами на iTools и MultiROM; а также полезные советы преподавателю о том, как лучше использовать мимику и жесты в работе с пособием в Teacher’s Book.
228 krutoyuokher 28 марта 2013	Скачать книгу

The Man of Feeling	Oxford University Press
Автор: MacKenzie Henry Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 160 страниц, 4.80 МБ 8 Оценка:
The Man of Feeling (1771) is the foremost novel of sentiment in which the hero, Harley demonstrates his sensiblity in a series of episodes as he is tested against an uncaring world. This edition reprints Brian Vickerss authoritative text with a new introduction and notes discussing the work in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment and European sentimentalism.
580 admin 26 февраля 2011	Скачать книгу

The Romance of the Rose	Oxford University Press
Автор: Guillaume De Lorris Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
If any man or woman should ask what I wish this romance... to be called, it is the Romance of the Rose, in which the whole art of love is contained. Guillaume de Lorris's own introduction to his allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair gives no indication of the eventual scale and scope of the work, which became the most popular and influential of all medieval romances. In the hands of Jean de Meun, who continued de Lorris's work, it assumed vast proportions and embraced almost every aspect of medieval life, from predestination to the right way to deal with premature hair-loss. This new translation into modern English, based on the French edition by Felix Lecoy, is intended as much for the general reader as for students of French and English literature.
1392 yury-m 15 декабря 2011	Скачать книгу

Daodejing	Oxford University Press
Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2008	PDF, 224 страницы, 6.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
Of ways you may speak, but not the Perennial Way; By names you may name, but not the Perennial Name. The best-loved of all the classical books of China and the most universally popular, the Daodejing or Classic of the Way and Life-Force is a work that defies definition. It encapsulates the main tenets of Daoism, and upholds a way of being as well as a philosophy and a religion. The dominant image is of the Way, the mysterious path through the whole cosmos modelled on the great Silver River or Milky Way that traverses the heavens. A life-giving stream, the Way gives rise to all things and holds them in her motherly embrace. It enables the individual, and society as a whole, to harmonize the disparate demands of daily life and achieve a more profound level of understanding. This new translation draws on the latest archaeological finds and brings out the word play and poetry of the original. Simple commentary accompanies the text, and the introduction provides further historical and interpretative context.
811 allkonekt 10 декабря 2010	Скачать книгу

Hannibal's War: Books. 21-30	Oxford University Press
Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 800 страниц, 24.00 МБ 8 Оценка:
You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use the victory! Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans over the following sixteen years. Livy describes the bloody siege of the Spanish city of Saguntum, Rome's ally, which sparked the war, and the Carthaginian leader's famous march with elephants over the Alps into Italy. Livy's gripping story-telling vividly conveys the drama of the great battles, the disastrous encounters at Trasimene and Cannae, and the final confrontation between Hannibal and the youthful Scipio Africanus. Individuals as well as events are brought powerfully to life, as the long course of the Second Punic War unfolds. This new translation captures the brilliance of Livy's style, and is accompanied by a fascinating introduction and notes.
2900 admin 15 июня 2011	Скачать книгу

The Kalevala	Oxford University Press
Автор: Lonnrot Elias Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 736 страниц, 22.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region of Karelia, that straddles the border of eastern Finland and north-west Russia, developed an oral poetry that was to last into the nineteenth century. This poetry provided the basis of the Kalevala. It was assembled in the 1840s by the Finnish scholar Elias Lonnrot, who took 'dictation' from the performance of a folk singer, in much the same way as our great collections from the past, from Homeric poems to medieval songs and epics, have probably been set down. Published in 1849, it played a central role in the march towards Finnish independence and inspired some of Sibelius's greatest works. This new and exciting translation by poet Keith Bosley, prize-winning translator of the anthology Finnish Folk Poetry: Epic, is the first truly to combine liveliness with accuracy in a way which reflects the richness of the original.
2668 eugeni 21 июля 2010	Скачать книгу

The Castle	Oxford University Press
Автор: Kafka Franz Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 320 страниц, 9.60 МБ 8 Оценка:
K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ever been before A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats — this is the setting for Kafka's story about a man seeking both acceptance in the village and access to the castle. Kafka breaks new ground in evoking a dense village community fraught with tensions, and recounting an often poignant, occasionally farcical love-affair. He also explores the relation between the individual and power, and asks why the villagers so readily submit to an authority which may exist only in their collective imagination. Published only after Kafka's death, The Castle appeared in the same decade as modernist masterpieces by Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Mann and Proust, and is among the central works of modern literature. This translation follows the text established by critical scholarship, and manuscript variants are mentioned in the notes. The introduction provides guidance to the text without reducing the reader's own freedom to make sense of this fascinatingly enigmatic novel.
1160 admin 19 марта 2012	Скачать книгу

The Trial	Oxford University Press
Автор: Kafka Franz Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 240 страниц, 7.20 МБ 8 Оценка:
Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested. A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. The mysterious court which conducts his trial is outwardly co-operative, but capable of horrific violence. Faced with this ambiguous authority, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure. He consults various advisers without escaping his fate. Was there some way out that he failed to see? Kafka's unfinished novel has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem. One of the iconic figures of modern world literature, Kafka writes about universal problems of guilt, responsibility, and freedom; he offers no solutions, but provokes his readers to arrive at meanings of their own. This new edition includes the fragmentary chapters that were omitted from the main text, in a translation that is both natural and exact, and an introduction that illuminates the novel and its author.
870 admin 22 марта 2012	Скачать книгу

Five Plays	Oxford University Press
Автор: Jonson Ben Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 624 страницы, 18.72 МБ 0 Оценка:
The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. The text is the modernized version of Herford and Simpson's edition (OUP 1925-52), with full annotation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
2262 metroteam 19 марта 2012	Скачать книгу

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia	Oxford University Press
Автор: Johnson Samuel Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we inquire, the less we can resolve. Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the happy valley in order to make their choice of life. By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they may come to understand the nature of happiness, and value it more highly. Their travels and enquiries raise important practical and philosophical questions concerning many aspects of the human condition, including the business of a poet, the stability of reason, the immortality of the soul, and how to find contentment. Johnson's adaptation of the popular oriental tale displays his usual wit and perceptiveness; sceptical and probing, his tale nevertheless suggests that wisdom and self-knowledge need not be entirely beyond reach. This new edition relates the novel to Johnson's life and thought and to politics, society, and the global context of the Seven Years War. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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The Devil is an Ass and Other Plays	Oxford University Press
Автор: Jonson Ben Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2001	PDF, 574 страницы, 17.22 МБ 0 Оценка:
Poetaster Sejanus The Devil is an Ass New Inn Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographies illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. The series should reshape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.
2072 reg16 23 февраля 2009	Скачать книгу

Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St: Edmunds	Oxford University Press
Автор: Jocelin of Brakelond Издательство: Oxford University Press, 1998	PDF, 192 страницы, 5.76 МБ 5 Оценка:
This is the first English translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century England. The translation brilliantly communicates the interest and immediacy of Jocelin's narrative, and the annotation is particularly clear and helpful.
692 zorkuzz 15 октрября 2009	Скачать книгу

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories	Oxford University Press
Автор: James Henry Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2008	PDF, 336 страниц, 10.08 МБ 0 Оценка:
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncles at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here — Sir Edmund Orme, Owen Wingrave, and The Friends of the Friends — The Turn of the Screw is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess's infernal imagination, which torments but also entrals her? The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease? Or is it simply, the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read? The texts are those of the New York Edition, with a new Introduction and Notes.
1217 phoenix7 15 июня 2010	Скачать книгу

The Europeans	Oxford University Press
Автор: James Henry Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 208 страниц, 6.24 МБ 7 Оценка:
Eugenia, Baroness M nster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. Their voyage is prompted, apparently, by natural affection; but the Baroness has also come to seek her fortune. The advent of these visitors is viewed by the Wentworths, in the suburbs of Boston, with wonder and some apprehension. The brilliant Eugenia fascinates her impressionable cousins and their more worldly neighbour, but she is baffled by these people, to whom fibbing was not pleasing. Meanwhile Felix, painter of trifling sketches, eases them all in and out of various amorous complications, with no fear of not being, in the end, agreeable.
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The Awkward Age	Oxford University Press
Автор: James Henry Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
The Awkward Age (1899), written at a time when female emancipation and the double standard were subjects of fierce debate, is the most remarkable example of James's dramatic method. The novel traces the experiences of 18-year-old Nanda Brookenham, exposed to corruption in the salon of her youthful, modern mother, who, in maintaining a circle where talk is shockingly sophisticated, must sacrifice either her daughter or... her intellectual habits. Does Nanda reach maturity and self-knowledge in the lively company of handsome, genial Vanderbank, whom she loves, and of ugly, intelligent, parvenu Mitchy, who loves her? Or is she a symbol of sterile idealism, as she clings to old Mr Longdon, with his memories of Nanda's grandmother, and of an aristocracy once untouched by money-troubles and dubious French novels? A sense of suppressed violence lurks behind this powerful story of virginal innocence and its importance in the marriage market.
1566 olen33 21 августа 2011	Скачать книгу

Notre-Dame De Paris	Oxford University Press
Автор: Hugo Victor Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	DjVu, 592 страницы, 23.68 МБ 5 Оценка:
Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, ranging from the cruel, superstitious king, Louis XI, to the underworld of beggars and petty criminals. These disreputable truands' night-time assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature. Hugo vividly depicts medieval Paris, where all life is dominated by the massive cathedral. His passionate enthusiasm for Gothic architecture is set within the context of an epic view of mankind's history, to which he attaches even more importance than to the novel's compelling story. Alban Krailsheimer's new translation is a fresh approach to this monumental classic by France's most celebrated Romantic.
2146 erdik 14 сентября 2014	Скачать книгу

Four Major Plays	Oxford University Press
Автор: Ibsen Henrik Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2008	PDF, 384 страницы, 11.52 МБ 0 Оценка:
Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
1391 yury-m 14 февраля 2010	Скачать книгу

The Scarlet Letter	Oxford University Press
Автор: Hawthorne Nathaniel Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 272 страницы, 8.16 МБ 8 Оценка:
Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me. With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet A upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name her husband begins his search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of two very different men, as moral codes and legal imperatives painfully collide. Set in the Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, The Scarlet Letter also sheds light on the nineteenth-century in which it was written, as Hawthorne explores his ambivalent relations with his Puritan forebears. The text of this edition is taken from the Centenary Edition of Hawthorne's works, the most authoritative critical edition.
986 radius 28 июля 2010	Скачать книгу

Leviathan	Oxford University Press
Автор: Hobbes Thomas Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	DjVu, 576 страниц, 23.04 МБ 0 Оценка:
He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind. Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. Hobbes argues that human beings are first and foremost concerned with their own individual desires and fears. He shows that a conflict of each against every man can only be avoided by the adoption of a compact to enforce peace. The compact involves giving up some of our natural freedom to a sovereign power which will enforce the laws of peace on all citizens. Hobbes also analyses the subversive forces — religion, ambition, private conscience — that threaten to destroy the body politic, Leviathan itself, and return us to the state of war. This new edition reproduces the first printed text, retaining the original punctuation but modernizing the spelling. It offers exceptionally thorough and useful annotation, an introduction that guides the reader through the complexities of Hobbes's arguments, and a substantial index.
2088 nergon 28 июня 2011	Скачать книгу

The Mayor of Casterbridge	Oxford University Press
Автор: Hardy Thomas Издательство: Oxford University Press, 2009	PDF, 432 страницы, 12.96 МБ 5 Оценка:
The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her? Michael Henchard is an out-of-work hay-trusser who gets drunk at a local fair and impulsively sells his wife Susan and baby daughter. Eighteen years later Susan and her daughter seek him out, only to discover that he has become the most prominent man in Casterbridge. Henchard attempts to make amends for his youthful misdeeds but his unchanged impulsiveness clouds his relationships in love as well as his fortunes in business. Although Henchard is fated to be a modern-day tragic hero, unable to survive in the new commercial world, his story is also a journey towards love. This edition is the only critically established text of the novel, based on a comprehensive study of the manuscript and Hardy's extensive revisions.
1566 olen33 21 августа 2011	Скачать книгу

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