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A two-level course for very young children with optional handwriting and number work. • It gives pupils that basic knowledge and feeling for English which is the foundation of successful learning. • It teaches pupils to say and understand a basic English vocabulary and a small number of useful expressions. • It teaches numbers and the letters of the alphabet and introduces pupils to the early stages of reading and writing. • It is based around enjoyable songs, rhymes and games, carefully matched to the interests of young learners. • It is suitable for use with large or small classes. • The core of the course at each level consists of the Pupil's Book and accompanying cassette. These can be used in conjunction with the Activity Book, Handwriting Book and Numbers Book.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.

Get Set — Go! is a lively language course for children learning English for the first time. • Get Set — Go! has a carefully graded syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. The lower levels emphasize speaking and listening but also lay a foundation for the more demanding comprehension and story-writing skills in later levels. • Get Set — Go! is based around a variety of texts and activities, including entertaining stories, songs and games, which are all carefully matched to the interests of children. • Get Set — Go! Workbooks reinforce the language learnt in the Pupil's Books and include special revision sections. • Get Set — Go! Teacher's Books provide teachers with clear guidance and lots of extra ideas. They also include tests which record children's progress. • Get Set — Go! is easy to use and fun to use! Each level consists of: — Pupil's Book. — Workbook. — Teacher's Book. — Cassette. There are also flashcards at the first level.

The Upper-Intermediate level brought right up-to-date, with new topics, new features, and a revised syllabus which all aid real progress. — Vital core grammar consolidated and expanded in exploratory Language Focus sections. — New texts from a variety of sources provide the rich vocabulary input that learners need at this level. — New listening material exposes learners to wide-ranging examples of real spoken English. — New sections, the Music of English and Spoken English, highlight stress and intonation patterns and focus on features of informal spoken English to help learners boost their command. — Hot words and Hot verbs present and practise vital collocations. — New topics with international appeal deal with up-to-date issues that will engage learners.

An innovative, five-level beginner's course for young learners from the age of 10.

»Devils», also known in English as «The Possessed and The Demons», was first published in 1871. The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. Dostoevsky compares infectious radicalism to the devils that drove the Gadarene swine over the precipice in his vision of a society possessed by demonic creatures that produce devastating delusions of rationality. Dostoevsky is at his most imaginatively humorous in Devils: the novel is full of buffoonery and grotesque comedy. The plot is loosely based on the details of a notorious case of political murder, but Dostoevsky weaves suicide, rape, and a multiplicity of scandals into a compelling story of political evil. This new translation also includes the chapter `Stavrogin's Confession', which was initially considered to be too shocking to print. In this edition it appears where the author originally intended it.

The «Lives of the Caesars» include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of sources, without much concern for their reliability. His biographies consist the ancestry and career of each emperor in turn; however, his interest is not so much analytical or historical, but anecdotal and salacious which gives rise to a lively and provocative succession of portraits. The account of Julius Caesar does not simply mention his crossing of the Rubicon and his assassination, but draws attention to his dark piercing eyes and attempts to conceal his baldness. The Live of Caligula presents a vivid picture of the emperor's grotesque appearance, his waywardness, and his insane cruelties. The format and style of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars was to set the tone for biography throughout western literature — his work remains thoroughly readable and full of interest.

No characters in English literature since those in the Great Dickens gallery have taken so firm a hold upon the British and American imagination as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. This selection draws the best stories from the several Sherlock Holmes volumes, and shows how the famous detective and his assistant are elevated above the level of fiction and into the realm of mythology, where the learned and the simple meet on equal footing.

Stimulating activities within a graded syllabus. — It follows a carefully graded syllabus which allows for recycling of language. — A complete comic-strip adventure story runs through each book, featuring ace detective Captain Shadow. This provides a memorable context for new language and maintains motivation. — It involves children in a variety of other fun activities, such as songs, rhymes, games, and puzzles, which are all used to practise language in an enjoyable way. — It gives children a thorough grounding in listening, speaking, reading and writing.

A three-level, story-based course with a rich package of teacher's resource materials. Cookie and Friends gives teachers everything they need to create lively, well-structured, and varied language classes while focussing on key areas of child development, such as motor-skills and personal awareness.

This is one of two books of exercises designed to accompany Thomson and Martinet's. They provide intermediate learners with a wealth of interesting and lively practice material, concentrating on those areas of grammar which generally cause most difficulty.

This is an approachable, region-by-region account of life in the United Kingdom. Providing insights into life in the different regions of Britain, this book covers a variety of topics, such as London, TV and Radio, Liverpool and the Beatles, Stratford and Shakespeare, and Northern Ireland. It also includes comprehension questions, discussion topics, quizzes and games, with an answer key at the back.

A foundation course in basic English for zero-English beginners. Workbook — extra grammatical, lexical and functional practice of all Class Book language — extra vocabulary, pronunciation and listening exercises — available with or without key

The world's most trusted guide to problems in English — now in a new edition.

90% new, with refreshed content and new features. — 12 units (previously 14) fit better with school syllabuses and course length. — New angles on topics, new reading texts and listenings, and new design and illustrations are combined with the tried and tested methodology. — More integrated pronunciation practice including Music of English boxes focusing on word and sentence stress, and extra pronunciation work in every unit of the Workbook. — 12 complete writing lessons. Model texts and practice exercises help students produce more interesting and accurate writing. — New Grammar Reference with integrated practice exercises in the Student's Book. — New Workbook features allow students to read texts, and practise listening and pronunciation at home, alongside the usual grammar and vocabulary exercises.

The first ever 4th edition from the world's most trusted course — New Headway Intermediate, completely rewritten and packed with new material. — 100% new grammar presentations. — 100% new listening material. — 100% new reading texts. — 'Spoken English' and 'Music of English' features — new to Intermediate. — More teacher support for mixed-ability classes.

'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition. Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition shows how Austen brilliantly turns the everyday into the exceptional.

This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discussed the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery.

Hamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant texts were fused in the eighteenth century to create the most commonly used text of today. Drawing on both critical and theatrical history, he shows how this gusion makes Hamlet seem a much more 'problematic' play than it was when it originally appeared in the First Folio of 1623. The Oxford Shakespeare edition presents a radically new text, based on that First Folio, which printed Shakespeare's own revision of an earlier version. The result is a 'theatrical' and highly practical edition for students and actors alike.

`You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of «The Adventures of Tom Sawyer», but that ain't no matter.' So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white boy living in America's deep South before the Civil War, «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn» is the story of Huck's escape from his brutal father and the relationship that grows between him and Jim, the slave who is fleeing from an even more brutal oppression. As they journey down the Mississippi their adventures address some of the most profound human conundrums: the prejudices of class, age, and colour are pitted against the qualities of hope, courage, and moral character. Enormously influential in the development of American literature, «Huckleberry Finn» remains a controversial novel at the centre of impassioned critical debate. This edition discusses all the current issues and the evolution of Mark Twain's penetrating genius.

»Don Quixote», first published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, is one of the world's greatest comic novels. Inspired by tales of chivalry, Don Quixote of La Mancha embarks on a series of adventures with his faithful servant Sancho Panza by his side. The novel has acquired mythic status and its influence on modern fiction is profound.

»The Grammar Lab» is for children aged 9 to 12 learning English as a foreign language. The books are at three levels of difficulty which are suitable for use on their own or in support of a general coursebook. Within each chapter, grammar rules are taught in stages. Exercises follow each stage.

The very first Sherlock Holmes story, «A Study in Scarlet» was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. His two creations, Holmes, the master of the science of detection and Watson, the great detective's faithful companion, are immediately in fine form. The mystery itself, its solution plucked unerringly by Holmes from the heart of Victorian London, proves to be the inevitable consequence of a tragedy of the American West. The story is harrowing in its alternating hope and despair, although Holmes himself was later to complain that the book `produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid'.

Of all Jack London's fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In addition to The Call of the Wild, the epic tale of a Californian dog's adventures during the Klondike gold rush, this edition includes White Fang, and five famous short stories — 'Batard', 'Moon-Face', 'Brown Wolf', 'That Top page Spot', and 'To Build a Fire.