Книги жанра Oxford University Press
Название: Pride and Prejudice
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
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If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets Mr Darcy she finds him to be most arrogant. He, in turn, is determined not to be impressed by Elizabeth's beauty and wit. As events unfold their paths cross with more and more frequency, and their disdain for each other grows. Can they ever overcome their prejudices and realize that first impressions are not always reliable?
Название: The Railway Children
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2012
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If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When their father goes away unexpectedly, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis have to move with their mother from their London home to a cottage in the countryside. At the local station the children make friends with the porter, Perks, and spend their time waving to the passengers on the trains. But although they have many adventures on the railway, one question still remains... is their father ever coming back? The latest welcome addition to the popular Oxford Children's Classics series.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2013
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Read with Biff, Chip and Kipper My Phonics Flashcards are a fun way for children to develop their phonics skills, and they support the way children are taught to read at school. These fun, phonics games have been specially created to support children sitting the phonics screening and complement the Read with Biff, Chip & Kipper My Phonics Kit. Playing these phonic games will help children to: Recognise some of the multiple letter combinations that represent a sound e.g. the sound 'ai' as in train, play, angel, lake. Blend sounds to read words. Memorise and apply some of the phonic knowledge which is required for the government's phonics screening check. This set of 55 cards includes information about phonics, fun games and useful tips for using the flashcards. The series provides essential support for parents through www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Visit Oxford Owl for practical advice for helping children learn to read, all you need to know about phonics and the screening check, as well as lots of fun activities and free eBooks.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2013
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Young children learn best when they are having fun! These word playing cards can be an enjoyable way to learn to read the most common words in our language and how they are used in sentences. An enjoyable way to practise reading the range of common and tricky words children learn at school alongside phonics. Playing the words games will help children to: BL develop memory and concentration skills. BL recognise many common and tricky words by sight. BL build sentences. The series provides essential support for parents through www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Visit the Oxford Owl for practical advice for helping children learn to read, all you need to know about phonics and lots of fun activities and free eBooks. The cards contain: 48 word cards (2 copies of 24 words); 4 picture cards to help build sentences; 3 parent cards with practical advice on how to use the Flashcards and games to support memory and sentence making, through familiar games like snap.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2011
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If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called to a sinister house, they discover the body of a man whose face is filled with horror. Yet there are no signs of a struggle, just some letters written on the wall in blood. The police are baffled, but the brilliant Holmes uses his powers of deduction to trace the mystery through the damp, murky streets of London and back to the sun-scorched plains of America.
Название: What Do You Call a One-eyed Dinosaur
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2013
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What do you call a one-eyed dinosaur? A Do-you-think-he-saw-us! Come inside for more hilarious jokes and rhymes, as well as teasing tongue twisters, ridiculous riddles, loopy limericks, batty booklists, cautionary tales and much, much more. You'll roar with laughter!
Название: What Happens When the Queen Burps
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2013
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What happens when the Queen burps? She issues a royal pardon! Come inside for more hilarious jokes and rhymes, as well as teasing tongue twisters, ridiculous riddles, loopy limericks, batty booklists, potty proverbs and much, much more. You'll laugh your head off!
Название: Winnie's Dinosaur Day
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2013
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One day, when Winnie and Wilbur are flying over the museum, they see a crowd of people gathered around a huge dinosaur skeleton in the courtyard. It's a Triceratops and there's a competition to draw or make a model of what the dinosaur would have looked like when it was alive. Winnie is really keen to take part! But she just isn't sure what the skeleton might have looked like so she decides the only way to find out is to magic herself and her (not-so-willing) cat Wilbur back into the time of the dinosaurs! Once they arrive in the prehistoric swamp, Winnie and Wilbur hide behind a tree and it's not long before they spot a Triceratops munching the greenery. Pencils and sketchbook in hand, Winnie just can't capture the dinosaur on paper so instead she jumps onto his back and Winnie, Wilbur, and a rather surprised Triceratops crash into the museum courtyard just as the prize is about to be presented by Professor Perkins. The Triceratops is even more surprised when he is given the prize! Then Winnie and Wilbur take him home and it's time for one last magic-wand moment so that Winnie's prehistoric friend can really fit in to his new surroundings.
Название: Wuthering Heights
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2013
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If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When Mr Earnshaw adopts Heathcliff and brings him to Wuthering Heights, he doesn't foresee the unbreakable bond that develops between the foundling and his daughter, Cathy-a relationship which will lead to a passionate and all-consuming love affair. Although it seems their devotion has no bounds, fate has other plans for the pair... plans which will lead Heathcliff to wreak terrible vengeance on Wuthering Heights. This classic love story is a welcome addition to the Oxford Children's Classics series.
Название: Film Music
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
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The rich and deeply moving sounds of film music are as old as cinema itself. Even the very first projected moving images were accompanied by music in many places as a variety of performers — from single piano players to small orchestras — brought images to life through musical accompaniment. Film music has since become its own industry, an aesthetic platform for expressing creative visions and a commercial vehicle for growing musical stars of all varieties. This Very Short Introduction provides a lucid, accessible, and engaging overview of the subject of film music. Beginning with an analysis of the music from a well-known sequence in the film Reservoir Dogs, the book focuses on the most central issues in the practice of film music. Expert author Kay Kalinak takes readers behind the scenes to understand both the practical aspects of film music — what it is and how it is composed — and also the theories that have been developed to explain why film music works. This compact book not entertains with the fascinating stories of the composers and performers who have shaped film music across the globe but also gives readers a broad sense for the key questions in film music studies today.
Название: Law
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
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Law underlies our society — it protects our rights, imposes duties on each of us, and establishes a framework for the conduct of almost every social, political, and economic activity. The punishment of crime, compensation of the injured, and the enforcement of contracts are merely some of the tasks of a modern legal system. It also strives to achieve justice, promote freedom, and protect our security. The result is a system that, while it touches all of our daily lives, is properly understood by only a few, with its impenetrable jargon, obsolete procedures, and interminable stream of Byzantine statutes and judgments of the courts. This clear, jargon-free Very Short Introduction aims to redress that balance, as it introduces the essentials of law and legal systems in a lively, accessible, and stimulating manner. Explaining the main concepts, terms, and processes of the legal system, it focuses on the Western tradition (the common law and the civil law), but also includes discussions of other legal systems, such as customary law and Islamic law. And it looks to the future too, as globalization and rapid advances in technology place increasing strain on our current legal system.
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
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The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the context of each stylistic period-key cultural, historical, social, economic, and scientific events-influenced and directed compositional choices.
Название: Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
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What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness. J. Allan Hobson investigates his own dreams to illustrate and explain some of the fascinating discoveries of modern sleep science, while challenging some of the traditionally accepted theories about the meaning of dreams. He reveals how dreaming maintains and develops the mind, why we go crazy in our dreams in order to avoid doing so when we are awake, and why sleep is not just good for health but essential for life.
Название: A Dictionary of Science
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
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This best-selling dictionary contains 9,200 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth sciences, and astronomy. This new edition includes expanded coverage of global warming, forensic science, astrophysics, quantam theory, and the solar system. Supported by over 200 diagrams and illustrations the dictionary features recommended web links for many entries, accessed and kept up-to-date via the Dictionary of Science companion website. Other features include short biographies of leading scientists, full page illustrated features on subjects such as the Solar System and Genetically Modified Organisms, and chronologies of specific scientific subjects including plastics, electronics, and cell biology. Both concise and wide-ranging, this dictionary is an ideal reference work for students and a great introduction for non-scientists.
Название: At Home with Spelling 1
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2012
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At Home With Spelling 1 is a fun activity workbook for children, aged 5-7 years, to do at home. This first book focuses in particular on recognizing vowels and consonants, recognizing syllables, prefixes and suffixes, and developing strategies for remembering how to spell hard words. The illustrated step-by-step activities are simple and easy to enjoy, and include filling in missing letters, matching, and colouring to help children learn how to spell. Plus there are more than enough funky stickers to reward your child as they complete each double page spread! This book is ideal to build confidence in spelling at primary school and can be followed with At Home With Spelling 2.
Название: Boris Saves the Show
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2013
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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!
Название: Cockadoodle Moo
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2011
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Cockadoodle moo The geese came out to play. The farmyard hens danced round their pens The cows rolled round in the hay. From the moment you wake up until it's time to turn out the light, a poem will always brighten your day! This lively collection of rhymes and poems has contributions from Shirley Hughes, Jez Alborough, Richard Edwards, Tony Mitton, Giles Andreae, Michelle Magorian and many more. The poems are all illustrated in full colour and will delight young children time after time.
Название: How Do You Make a Skeleton Laugh
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2012
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How do you make a skeleton laugh? By tickling its funny bone, of course! Come inside for more hilarious jokes and rhymes, as well as teasing tongue twisters, ridiculous riddles, loopy limericks, batty booklists, dotty definitions, and much much more. You'll die laughing!
Название: Hugh Shampoo
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2013
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Hairier than Hairy Maclary, dirtier than Dirty Bertie, more shocking than Shock-headed Peter, Hugh Shampoo is a boy who will make you gasp, laugh, and wish for a hair-care regime to rival Justin Bieber's! Hugh Shampoo won't go near scissors, brushes, or shower attachments. He simply hates having his hair washed or combed or tampered with in any way. So he's not a particularly unusual little boy. What's more unusual is that his parents are both hairdressers. Poor Hugh! But then, when his parents decide to enter the 'scissor showdown' contest, things are about to change for Hugh... and his messy head of hair. A story told with humour and energy and one that tackles the familiar tussle over hair-washing faced by parents and children everywhere.
Название: Jack Holborn
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2009
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If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told. They're books to treasure and return to again and again. When orphan Jack stows away on the Charming Molly, he never guesses that he'll be sailing off on the adventure of a lifetime with a crew of pirates. There are ghosts, treasure, mutiny, and secrets galore — and looming over everything is the captain, who Jack knows is the only one who can help him discover the truth about his past.
