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Business Grammar Builder» helps students improve both their grammar and Business English vocabulary. It is designed for students studying at intermediate level or higher and can be used both in the classroom and for self study. 50 units of clearly structured grammar explanations with graded practice exercises set in business contexts; Low to high context exercises, starting with gap-fills and matching activities. Leads into high-context practice based on telephone calls, emails, company reports etc; Authentic and interesting texts and citations from leading business sources; 16 progress tests for revision and consolidation; CD-ROM featuring selected conversations and articles from the book. Can be used for checking answers, revision and additional listening practice; Comprehensive index, glossary of grammar terms and answer keys for all tests and exercises.

A classroom-tested English course for adults and young adults, Inside Out has been designed to develop real-life communicative skills and powers of self-expression. Creative grammar work. Learners organise and develop their knowledge of grammar. Easy-to-use exercises put rules into practice — and are then recycled as speaking activities. All grammar work is backed up with clear summaries. Personalised speaking tasks. A series of challenging speaking tasks focuses on learners' own experiences and opinions. Choices within tasks encourage learners to take charge of interactions. Structured planning time is built into tasks, improving both fluency and accuracy. Contextualised lexis. Lexical items are seen in context, showing how words and phrases function and how they collocate with each other. Focus exercises highlight and recycle lexis to help learners build a bigger and better active vocabulary. Realistic listening and reading. A rich selection of accessible and entertaining texts: cartoons, postcards and letters, and extracts from newspapers, magazines and novels. Listenings include conversations, interviews and classic pop songs. Inside Out Pre-intermediate Student's Book provides over 90 hours' teaching material.

This popular Proficiency course has now been fully revised and updated to reflect the changes in the revised Cambridge Proficiency Examination. Key features: — Ten topic-based units with motivating and stimulating material to help students develop and practise the advanced language and skills required to pass the exam. — Help sections give advice on how to approach the exam, including speaking tips and answering multiple choice questions. — Extensive practice of summary and composition writing skills. — Focus on word building, vocabulary development and help with phrasal verbs. — Exam practice section in every to enable students to prepare throughly for the exam.

In People Like Us you'll meet people from different countries all over the world. But remember that your culture is not just your country. It's what you do and how old you are. It's where you live. It's the things you like doing and the things you don't like doing. It's the way you talk and your education. It's about your friends, your family and your own character. This is your cultural identity. People Like Us has three aims: • to help you find out about other cultures. • to help you find out more about your own culture. • to help you enjoy practicing your English. People Like Us, for adult and young adult learners of English, is an integrated skills course exploring cultural values and attitudes. Based on over twenty hours of recorded interviews, People Like Us allows you to sample the lifestyles, attitudes and opinions of eleven real people from around the world. As well as learning about other cultures, you will be invited to reflect on your own culture. In this way, People Like Us will help build your cross-cultural awareness.

Smart is an exciting new four-level course with a strong grammatical base for upper primary school students, taking them from beginner level to intermediate. The course introduces new language through ten units in which dialogues and reading texts help present new grammar and vocabulary in situations which are of interest to this age group. Members of the pop group Smart Moves, who appear throughout the course, also help present new language items. Key features in the Student's Book include: • Further help with grammar in «Grammar guide» boxes within each lesson. • «Language Plus» pages for each unit, which give additional grammar practice. • «Stopover» pages after the fifth and tenth units, giving consolidation of language already covered. • Coverage of the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing. • A grammar reference section for support. • Suggestions for cross-curricular activities. The Teacher's Book contains full teaching notes, photocopiable activities, tests, culture notes and ideas for further exploitation. The Workbook gives written practice of language covered in each lesson.

Smart is a four-level course with a strong grammatical base for secondary school students. It introduces new language through ten topic-based units in which dialogues and reading texts help present new grammar and vocabulary in situations of interest to this age group.

Way Ahead получил высокую оценку Федерального Экспертного Совета МО РФ и допущен к использованию в школах (классах) с углубленным изучением английского языка в качестве учебного пособия (Письмо Министерства образования РФ № 13-58-2130/17 от 03.07.02, Вестник Образования России №4/2003, с. 72, 74). Way Ahead имеет целый ряд достоинств: сбалансированное обучение всем видам речевой деятельности, обучение грамматике на визуальной основе по образцу, отработка не только отдельных звуков, но и ритма и интонации иноязычной речи, учет принципа посильности и доступности при формировании языковых навы& ков и развитии всех видов речевой деятельности. Достоинством УМК является его многокомплектность и профессионально-методическая оснащенность.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, had Jt a great deal to say on the pi subject of parallel universes. Very little of this, however, below the level of Advanced God and, since it is now well-established that all known gods came into existence a good three millionths of a second after the Universe began rather than, as they usually claimed, the previous week, they already have a great deal ot explaining to do as it is, and are therefore not available for comment at this time . . .

In a sprawling mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonide lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. His cunning widow, 50 years his junior, is set to inherit a sizable fortune, and is rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor living on the estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward casts his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately — and knows no one is on the level.

Criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan look for a pattern in the disappearances of teenage girls across the country. Authorities are convinced the girls are runaways. Hill and Jordan have spent years exploring the psyches of madmen — but they know sane men kill, too. When one of Hill's students is murdered, it's the first move in a sick and violent game for three players.

One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Such were one man's wages. Here, collected for the first time, are all the poems he published in English, from his earliest collaborations with Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur, Howard Moss, and Anthony Hecht to the moving farewell poems he wrote near the end of his life. With nearly two hundred poems, several of them never before published in book form, this will be the essential volume of Brodsky's work.

In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their fold. And the manipulative Nofret has already set about a plan to usurp her rivals' rightful legacies. When her lifeless body is discovered at the foot of a cliff, Imhotep's own flesh and blood become the apparent conspirators in her shocking murder. But vengeance and greed may not be the only motives...

Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, are conditioned by constant hunger and war. They are subjects of the Dosadi Experiment, which has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned how to pass through the God Wall to exact revenge on the Universe that created them. From the author of the classic Dune series.

Two of Agatha Christie's most enduring — and endearing — sleuths star in this collection of mystery treats. Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple investigate cases of a country gentleman who is questioned about a murder not yet committed, a medium who is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever imagined, and a decorative doll in a London shop that adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits.

Strapped by a chauffeur's wages, Michael Rogers' want of a better life seems out of reach. Especially elusive is a magnificent piece of property in Kingston Bishop — unil a chance meeting with a beautiful heiress makes his dreams possible. Marrying her is the first step. Building the perfect home is the next. Unfortunately, Michael ignored the local warnings about the deadly curse buried in the tract of land, and living out his dreams may exact a higher price than he ever imagined. Praised as one of Agatha Christie's most unusual forays into gothic, psychological suspense, this novel of fate, chance, and the nature of evil was a personal favorite of the author's as well.

Is it a gesture of good will or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to magnificent estate? How desperate is Joyce Lambert, a destitute young widow whose only recourse is to marry a man she despises? What unexpected circumstance stirs old loyalties in Theodora Darrell, and unfaithful wife about to run away with her lover? In this collection of short stories, the answers are as unexpected as they are satisfying. The Queen of Crime takes bizarre romantic entanglements, supernatural visitations, and classic murder to inventive new heights.

In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was systematically exterminating the voracious insects which made these areas uninhabitable. Using deadly foamal bombs and newly developed vibration weapons, men like Joao Martinho and his co-workers fought to clear the green hell of the Mato Grosso. But somehow those areas which had been completely cleared were becoming reinfested, despite the impenetrable vibration barriers. And tales came out of the jungles... of insects mutated to incredible sizes... of creatures who seemed to be men, but whose eyes gleamed with the chitinous sheen of insects... A fascinating examination of the fragile balance between consciousness, man and insect from one of the best-loved science fiction creators of all time.

Paris, the most romantic city on earth, is a place of second honeymoons and newly discovered passions. It lures us with a banquet of tastes, sound, sights, and smells. And for Lara Lewis, it is the place where she and her husband once experienced love at its best. Now it is a place where forty-something Lara believes she can rekindle her marriage. She plans the most romantic adventure: to retrace her first honeymoon with her husband, visit the same sights, eat in the same restaurants, explore the same villages. But when her surgeon-husband tells her at the last minutes that there's another woman, Lara's heart is broken...almost. Somewhere along the road of life, Lara has lost herself. but she makes a bold move. She decides to invite a man she hardly know to take the trip with her, a much younger man. What follows is the story of two innocent Americans stumbling through France in a madcap romantic adventure that begins with missed connections, lost luggage, and language barriers, and ends up being one woman's journey to find herself and the love that has eluded her all her life...

In Nativity Poems six superb poets in English have come together to translate the ten as yet untranslated poems from this sequence, and the poems are presented in English in their entirety in a beautiful, pocket-sized edition illustrated with Mikhail Lemkhin's photographs of winter-time St. Petersburg.

oseph Brodsky was a great contrarian and believed, against the received wisdom of our day, that good writing could survive translation. He was right, I think, though you had to wonder when you saw how badly his own work fared in English. But then perhaps the Russians hadn't expelled a great poet so much as exposed us to one of their virulent personality cults. Yet Brodsky's essays are interesting. Composed in a rather heroically determined English, clumsily phrased and idiomatically challenged, they are still inventive and alive. There are suggestive analyses of favorite poems by Hardy, Rilke, and Frost in this book, and a moving meditation on the figure of Marcus Aurelius. Though too often Brodsky goes on at self-indulgent length, he usually recaptures our attention with a characteristic aside: «The fact that we are livingdoes not mean we are not sick».

Was it really the Thomasina Tuckerton — dropout heiress turned bohemian beat girl — seen in a cafe brawl with another woman? Her obituary confirms it. Thomasina's unfortunate demise would have passed unnoticed if it hadn't been for the priest who suffered a fatal blow at the hand of a stranger only days later. What's the connection? A list of names hidden in father Gorman's shoes — among them, Miss Tuckerton's. It leads to a former country inn, now a house called, The Pale Horse, and a sinister pattern woven by three unusual ladies — a psychic, a medium, and a witch — each with a secret of her own.

The personal ad posed a simple question: Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne. The answer is a resounding no for a jealous wife who suspects her husband of infidelity...for a lonely widow driven to assume a new identity...for a distraught mother whose son has been kidnapped...and for the finance of a strangely reclusive bride-to-be. But what sort of detective would solicit in the personals? The sort who has a knack for investigating affairs of the heart. For therein lie the darkest motives for murder. And they are proving most lucrative for the hopelessly romantic — a highly suspicious — inspector Parker Pyne.

For over thirty years, Robert Ludlum has been acknowledged as the master of international suspense and intrigue. In 2000, Ludlum managed to raise the bar yet again with his widely acclaimed bestsellers The Prometheus Deception and The Hades Factor, the first novel in his exciting Covert-One series. Now Covert-One is back, in a novel that could only have come from the imagination of the world's greatest storyteller. «What they're going to do, I never would have believed it. It's insanity»! They were the final words spoken by Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russia's security service, before his body was ripped apart by a spray of assassins' bullets. In possession of Danko's classified papers, Covert-One operative Jon Smith and CIA undercover agent Randi Russell have unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy that threatens to unleash a plague of immeasurable proportions. A Serb terrorist has been dispatched from Russia to spirit hazardous vials of deadly bacteria into the United States. His mission: deliver it to an unknown American government agent — a shadowy figure whose own motives for acquiring the bioweapon are made all the more unfathomable when both men are found murdered, and the strain is stolen. Now Smith and Russell must track it down, find the madman who possesses it, and stop him before he holds a defenseless world hostage with the power to render the human race extinct.

Santaroga seemed to be nothing more than a prosperous farm community. But there was something different about Santaroga. Santaroga had no juvenile delinquency, or any crime at all. Outsiders found no house for sale or rent in this valley, and no one ever moved out. No one bought cigarettes in Santaroga. No cheese, wine, beer or produce from outside the valley could be sold there. The list went on and on and grew stranger and stranger. Maybe Santaroga was the last outpost of American individualism. Maybe they were just a bunch of religious kooks... Or maybe there was something extraordinary at work in Santaroga. Something far more disturbing than anyone could imagine.