Keď sa chceš dozvedieť o meste na vode, o ruských cároch, o blokáde vtedajšieho Leningradu počas 2. svetovej vojny, VOSR, ale aj o slávnom ruskom balete, toto je kniha pre Teba. Kniha je doplnená množstvom fotografií. Petrohrad je jedno z najkrajších miest Európy. Mesto sa chváli mnohými prirovnaniami, ako napríklad Benátky severu, okno do Európy, mesto bielych nocí, mesto hrdinov.... Petrohrad je

For once there had been false idols and asses\' heads drawn on the walls...\' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering

Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths,

From the craftsman behind the popular YouTube channel Primitive Technology comes a practical guide to building huts and tools using only natural materials from the wild. John Plant, the man behind the channel, Primitive Technology, is a bonafide YouTube star. With almost 10 million subscribers and an average of 5 million views per video, John\'s channel is beloved by a wide-ranging fan base, from campers

Introduction by Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denial July 15, 1942, Wednesday Remember this day; remember it well. You will tell generations to come. Since 8 o\'clock today we have been shut away in the ghetto. I live here now. The world is separated from me and I\'m separated from the world. Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia is Jewish, she lives in Poland and the year is

Arthur Miller\'s classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history - and the McCarthyism which gripped America in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the

Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, Okonowo takes violent action.

FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband\'s brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip\'s life crumble away when his father\'s ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with

E L James kehrt in die Welt von \"Fifty Shades\" zurück - mit einer intensiveren und dunkleren Version der Liebesgeschichte, die Millionen von Menschen auf der ganzen Welt in ihren Bann gezogen hat. Ihre leidenschaftliche, sinnliche Affäre endete in Schuldzuweisungen und gebrochenen Herzen, aber Christian Grey kann Anastasia Steele nicht vergessen. Fest entschlossen sie zurückzugewinnen, versucht er,

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Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating graded material that will encourage students to read. _Suffragette_ is adapted from the 2015 film of the same name and tells the inspiring story of the struggle for women\'s right to vote in early twentieth century Britain.

The purpose of similes and metaphors is to make a piece of writing more interesting. This book, Similes & Metaphors, contains about 300 well-established similes and metaphors. They can add to the interest of learners\' compositions provided they are not overused. The book provides lots of useful language information. In addition, there are 10 passages showing similes and metaphors in context, as well

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, motivating material that will instantly appeal to students. \"Hotel for Dogs\" is based on the 2008 movie of the same name which tells the story of a brother and sister who transform an abandoned building into a \'hotel\' for stray dogs.

John Dolittle is a highly respected doctor in the village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, yet he loves animals so much that his house is soon full of them. With all his patients scared away, and the expense of feeding his menagerie mounting, a friend suggests that the Doctor become a vet instead. With the help of Polynesia the parrot, Doctor Dolittle swiftly learns the language of the animals so that he

Századunk a civilizáció összeomlásával is fenyeget, emiatt a föld és az édesvíz közösségi birtoklásától függ fizikai létünk és etnikai megmaradásunk. Miért és hogyan lett a magyar föld a globális tőke elsajátítási tárgya? A szabad tőkeáramlás 2014 májusától korlátlan földpiacot követel. Van-e még ez után reális esély, hogy földünket a magyarság részére megőrizhessük? A könyv ezekkel a sorskérdésekkel

This miniature version of Men, Stefan Mays charged compilation of male nudes, contains all the energy, vitality and thrill of its precursor. And, it still contains all the delightful photographs that made the larger volume so delectable. Yet, this s pecial diminutive format makes it more affordable and accessible, as well as, more convenient to shelve and browse. Stefan May commissioned by magazines

One of Britain\'s most popular novels, George Orwell\'s dystopian tale \"Nineteen Eighty-Four\" is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. \'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.\' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police

M. R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a genre. James harnesses the power of suggestion to move from a recognisable world to one that is indefinably strange, and then unforgettably terrifying. Sheets, pictures, carvings, a dolls house, a lonely beach, a branch tapping on a window - ordinary things take on more than

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O’Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common–the enduring

What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe\'s time-travelling offer,