Книги издательства HarperCollins Publishers
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2009
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This stimulating textbook provides an excellent understanding of Sociology and equips students with the skills they need to succeed in AQA GCSE exam. Packed with full-colour illustrations and up-to-date figures, offering excellent coverage of the new Sociology specification for AQA, the second edition of this very successful Sociology textbook is: / extremely thorough — provides in depth coverage of the spec with a wide range of activities / fully up-to-date and fully re-researched / user-friendly — and full of activities that teachers can use immediately to engage students / accessible — the language is appropriate for 14-16-year olds so that they can grasp the academic concepts / assessment focussed — with sample exam questions at the end of each chapter and frequent 'check your understanding' features / clearly differentiated throughout / backed up by video clips from Online Classroom.
Название: Collins Spanish Dictionary and Grammar
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2010
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The Collins Spanish Dictionary & Grammar is an up-to-date dictionary and a user-friendly grammar guide in one handy volume. Colour headwords, cultural notes, and an easy-to-use grammar section make this book ideal for intermediate learners. Collins Spanish Dictionary & Grammar is designed for intermediate learners of Spanish, whether at school, at home, or for business. 80,000 references and 110,000 translations will help those learning Spanish take their language skills to the next level. / This edition of Collins Spanish Dictionary & Grammar has been revised and updated to offer extensive and relevant coverage of today's English and Spanish, with thousands of phrases and examples guiding the user to the most appropriate translation. / A comprehensive grammar guide which presents detailed examples and translations to help users understand Spanish grammar — the perfect complement to the dictionary. / The clear Collins typography gives the text a contemporary feel, and along with the new alphabet tabs, ensures that users find the information they need quickly and easily. Log on to www.collinslanguage.com and access our free online Spanish dictionary. Some of the other titles available in the Collins Spanish dictionary range are Collins Spanish Gem, Collins Spanish Pocket and Collins Spanish Concise Dictionary — giving users all the help they need.
Название: Death on the Nile
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2001
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The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything... until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed...
Название: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2010
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A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope — a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life ... as only a dog could tell it.
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2007
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8 paperback picture story books featuring the misadventures of the lovable bear from Darkest Peru, contained in a special gift suitcase. Ages: 3-6 yrs.
Название: The Man Who Hated Football
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2005
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A novel about a family man struggling to reconcile his shambolic personal life with the job of football reporting he has grown to hate. Jimmy Stirling's wife despairs of him, while his editor at the newspaper for which he is a football reporter both despairs of him and actively despises him as well. Not to be outdone, Jimmy Stirling despairs of his job, himself and the local Budgens where most of his meagre salary goes providing for his needy twins (and his aggressive smoking habit). His father has just died, the mortgage is destroying him, and the pints in the Butt of Lewis (his London pub) and the Hare and Greyhound (his country pub) are adding up. Is his wife having an affair? Is he having an affair? Does he want to hold on to his job? Ladies and gentlemen, in Will Buckley's hilarious and piercing first comic novel, I'm afraid we have another man in crisis.
Название: Animals
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2007
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A novel of confusion and paranoia, love and doubt, fear and hysteria: unsettling, unhinged, provocative and bestially funny, 'Animals' is for human beings everywhere. Keith Ridgway's third novel is a psychological menagerie of confusion, paranoia, searching and love. Narrated by an illustrator who can no longer draw, it tells of the sudden and inexplicable collapse of a private life, and the subsequent stubborn search for a place from which to take stock. We are surrounded here — by unsafe or haunted buildings, by artists and capitalists who flirt with terror, by writers and actresses and the deals they have made with unreality, and by the artificial, utterly constructed, scripted city in which we have agreed to live out a version of living. But there are cracks in the facade, and there are stirrings under the floorboards, and there are animals everywhere you look, if only you'd dare to look for them. Unsettling, unhinged, provocative and richly funny, 'Animals' is for human beings everywhere.
Название: Hidden Depths
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2007
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Embark on a journey to the hidden depths of the world`s oceans. Explore the world`s last frontier through breathtaking, unique photographs from the ocean depths amd state-of-the-art maps.
Название: 2008 Collins Road Atlas Britain
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2007
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The ultimate 3.2 miles to 1 inch scale large format road atlas for the year 2008, featuring Collins popular and well established road mapping; designed for exceptional clarity and ease of use. Printed on paper sourced from a sustainable forest this fully updated road mapping covers the whole of Britain. This atlas includes over 20 urban area maps at 1 inch to 1 mile which are ideal for planning routes into and through major towns and cities. Two new areas (Middlesbrough and Sunderland) have been added this year. The atlas includes: Full postcodes for indexed places of interest; ideal for use alongside satnav systems. Route planning maps of Britain and Ireland at 15.8 miles to 1 inch (1:1,000,000) with main map page numbers superimposed over the top to aid journey planning. Northern Scotland at 5 miles to 1 inch (1:316,800). Comprehensive selection of over 60 town and city centre street maps to help pinpoint your final destination. Park & Ride locations shown, ideal when visiting towns and cities. Motorway Services guide with information on facilities. Blue flag and surfing beaches. Fully updated fixed speed camera sites with average speed camera locations clearly highlighted. There is also a route planning map of Ireland. This atlas is ideal for any driver of any vehicle who prefers a large format road atlas and requires the latest information and extremely clear map detail.
Название: Giotto's Hand
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2007
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Witty and clever art history-mystery featuring Jonathan Argyll, from the author of the bestselling masterpiece 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'. General Bottando of Rome's Art Theft Squad is in trouble: his theory that a single master criminal, dubbed 'Giotto', is behind a string of major art thefts has aroused the scorn of his arch enemy and rival, the bureaucrat Corrado Argan. He needs a result, and the confession of a dying woman may just provide the vital clue. In pursuit of the elusive Giotto, Bottando's colleague, Flavia di Stefano, sets off hotfoot for Florence, and English art dealer Jonathan Argyll is dispatched to London and then on to rural Norfolk — only to discover a body and a mystery which could lead to the greatest art find of his career!
Название: Marvin K: Mooney Will You Please Go Now!
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2003
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Some people just won't take the hint when it's time to go to bed, but Marvin K. Mooney eventually gets the message! This fun tale by Dr. Seuss is aimed at young readers and remind them that they sometimes have to do what they are told! The new covers incorporate guidance on reading levels: Blue Back Books are for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books are for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books are for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. This book belongs to the Green Back Book range.
Название: Stars 'n' Cars
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2008
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Join your favourite roaring new friends in this action-packed new Roary storybook tying in with the new pre-school show! Meet Big Chris, Marsha the Marshall, Flash the Rabbit and all of Roary's new friends — Maxi, Cici, Tintop, Drifter and Plugger in this brilliant new storybook. Big Chris has been invited to appear on a TV karaoke show but the Silver Hatch gang are worried the fame will go to his head and he'll leave Silver Hatch forever... Find out in this colourful picturebook, full of roaring images from your favourite TV show, Roary the Racing Car!
Название: The Rise and Fall of a Domestic Diva
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2008
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The queen of the black-hearted soap opera is back! Welcome to the upwardly mobile Prendergast Road! On Prendergast Road, deep in Nappy Valley, among olive trees in terracotta, lower fuel emissions, Lithuanian prostitutes, teenage drug dealers, stalkers and soaring house prices, five desperate women wait! The progeny of the IVF generation is ready to start school and only one of them is destined to get a place in Nappy Valley's most oversubscribed cradle of learning. How far will these women go to get that place? Follow Kate Hunter into the depths of her impeccably honed life, as she struggles to maintain the facade of perfection. When exactly did life become a life class? Is happiness overrated? Is it just possible that beneath the flawless sheen of her friends' and neighbours' amazingly trouble-free lives, beneath the freshly-ironed shirts and home-grown veg, lie the same half-truths, the same uncertainties and the same desperation to keep up with the Joneses!? Sarah May is an intimate observer of society (AKA curtain-twitcher of the highest order) and her novel is an hilariously dark-hearted soap opera of our everyday lives. In a society that always strives to be more organic, less carbon-polluting, more virtuous than any other, 'The Rise and Fall of the Domestic Diva' is a breath of fresh air (imported from the mountains of Nepal and filtered organically for purity, of course. A snip at only GBP6.99.).
Название: The Sum of Our Days
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2009
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A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, 'The House of the Spirits', was based on her Chilean childhood, and her autobiographical works include the deeply moving 'Paula' — a family history written at the bedside of her daughter while she lay in a coma — and the fascinating 'My Invented Country', which explored the events of her native Chile where she lived until Pinochet's military coup. Now, in 'The Sum of the Days', we have Isabel describe in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25 years. The first page picks up from where Paula ends — her daughter never did wake up from her coma and died in 1992 — when Allende recounts spreading Paula's ashes in her favourite part of the woods by their home. It is fair to say that Isabel has never recovered from losing her daughter but has managed to survive by keeping her husband, son, grandchildren as well as close friends — kindred spirits — central to her life.' The Sum of the Days', based on Allende's own journals and daily correspondence with her mother in Chile, reveals the author to be a dazzling, generous, warm and hysterically funny matriarch within her swirl of family and friends.
Название: Rapscallion
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2009
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Matthew Hawkwood, ex-soldier turned Bow Street Runner, goes undercover to hunt down smugglers and traitors at the height of the Napoleonic Wars in this thrilling follow-up to Ratcatcher. For a French prisoner of war, there is only one fate worse than the gallows: the hulks. Former man-o'-wars, now converted to prison ships, their fearsome reputation guarantees a sentence served in the most dreadful conditions. Few survive. Escape, it's said, is impossible. Yet reports persist of a sinister smuggling operation within this brutal world — and the Royal Navy is worried enough to send two of its officers to investigate. But when they disappear without trace, the Navy turns in desperation to Bow Street for help. It's time to send in a man as dangerous as the prey. It's time to send in Hawkwood!
Название: Sharp Shot
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2009
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Jack Higgins, master of the modern thriller, teams up with Justi Richards, bestselling author of Dr Who, to deliver a pulse-pounding new instalment in the adventures of the teenage Chance twins! This third gripping novel about the adventures of teenage twins Rich and Jade Chance takes the action and adventure to a new calibre — then pulls the trigger! With their secret agent dad in trouble, Jade and Rich are flung into a headlong series of chases, fights and captures that leads them to the arid deserts of the Middle East. There, the pair come up against terrifying new villains and surprising allies as an assassination attempt threatens international relations and a buried secret of the first Gulf War comes explosively to light...
Название: The Times Crossword Book 13
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2009
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The Times Crossword is the most famous crossword in the world. Tease your brain with this superb collection of puzzles which have been compiled by the Editor of The Times Crossword to test you word power skills. This collection of 80 cryptic puzzles will test your word power to its full. Bend your brain by lateral thought, test your linguistic prowess or simply switch off for a moment or two and see why The Times crossword has become, quite deservedly, the world's most famous crossword. Continuing the enormous success of previous titles in the series, The Times Crossword Book 13 will be eagerly snapped up by crossword aficionados everywhere.
Название: Atmospheric Disturbances
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2009
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'Last December, a woman entered my apartment who looked exactly like my wife...' Dr Leo Liebenstein is convinced that his wife has disappeared and that she has been replaced by a double. While everyone else may be fooled, Leo knows she cannot be his real wife, and sets off on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love. With the help of his psychiatric patient Harvey — who believes himself to be a secret agent who can control the weather — Leo attempts to unravel this mystery. Why has his wife been replaced? What do the secret workings of The Royal Society of Meteorology have to do with it? Who is the enigmatic Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, and is he, or maybe his wife, or perhaps even Harvey, at the center of it all? From the streets of New York to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia, Leo's erratic quest ultimately becomes a test of how far he is willing to take his struggle against the uncontested truth he knows to be false. 'Atmospheric Disturbances' is at once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind.In this highly inventive debut, with tremendous compassion and dazzling literary sophistication, Rivka Galchen explores the mysterious nature of human relationships, and how we spend our lives trying to weather the storms of our own making.
Название: Evening is the Whole Day
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2009
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A spellbinding, exuberant first novel, set in Malaysia, that introduces us to a prosperous Indian immigrant family, as it slowly peels away its closely guarded secrets. When the family's servant girl, Chellam, is dismissed from the big house for unnamed crimes, it is only the latest in a series of losses that have shaken six-year-old Aasha's life. Her grandmother has passed away under mysterious circumstances and her older sister has disappeared for a new life abroad, with no plans to return. Her parents, meanwhile, seem to be hiding something away — from themselves, and from one another. As the novel tells us the story of the years leading up to these events, we learn what has happened to the hopes and dreams of a family caught up in Malaysia's troubled post-colonial history. What bought the Rajasekharan family to the Big House in Malaysia? What was Chellam's unforgivable crime? Why did the eldest daughter leave the country under strained circumstances? What is Appa — the respectable family patriarch — hiding from his wife and his children? Through this vibrant cast of characters, and through a masterful evocation of the clashes and strains in a country where Malays, Indians and Chinese inhabitants vie for their positions in society, Preeta Samarasan brings us an enthralling saga of one household and the world beyond it.
Название: Bad Things
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 2009
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The new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Straw Men and The Intruders is a heart-stopping tale of secrets, lies and our culpability in our own misfortunes — the bad things in the world and the bad things we do to each other. On a beautiful summer's afternoon four-year-old Scott Henderson walked out onto a jetty over a lake in Black Ridge, Washington State. He never came back. John Henderson's world ended that day, but three years later he's still alive. Living a life, of sorts. Getting by. Until one night he receives an email from a stranger who claims to know what happened to his little boy. Against his better judgement Henderson returns to Black Ridge, unleashing a terrifying sequence of events that threatens to destroy what remains of everything he once held dear. Bad things don't just happen to other people — they're waiting round the corner for you too. And when they start to make their way in through the cracks in your life, you won't know until it's far too late...
