Книги издательства Macmillan Publishers
Название: 50 Ways to Find a Lover
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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Sarah Sargeant has been single for three years and nine months. She has just spent five months plucking up the courage to ask out a balding man with a paunch who works in her local pub. The gentleman in question informed her that he would rather stay in and watch the Narnia movie on DVD. Her pride has not just been bruised, it's been disembowelled. And she vows it's the last time she will ever reach out to a member of the opposite sex. But her family and friends have other ideas. They enter her into a reality TV show against her will, persuade her to go speed dating and even more radically, they encourage her to start a blog. Suddenly Sarah Sargeant is on a mission. A mission to explore 50 Ways To Find A Lover.
Название: The Ancient (Saga of First King 1)
Год: 2009
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Searching for his long-lost father, Bransen Garibond is tricked into journeying across the Gulf of Corona to the wild lands of Vanguard, where he is pressed into service in a desperate war against the brutal Ancient Badden. On a lake just below Badden’s magical ice castle, several disparate societies – dwarves, monks and barbarians — are caught up in the web of their own conflicts, and thus oblivious to his devastating plan to destroy them by releasing a tidal wave to wipe their island clean. Bransen finds himself becoming the link between these turmoils, and if he fails, all who live on the lake will perish – and all of northern Honce willl fall under the shadow of a merciless and vengeful oppressor.
Название: The Cradle Snatcher
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Clare Elian has always known the risk of being married to a rich, handsome younger man like Marc. She just never thought she'd be the one to bring the danger home. But when she gives birth to two gorgeous babies — one of each, naturally — she discovers motherhood isn't quite the cinch she'd expected. Desperate to escape back to her chic chain of boutique flower shops, she hires Jenna, a confident, efficient nanny keen to escape a relationship that has gone horribly wrong. Before long, a deadly rivalry emerges for control of the nursery. And as events spiral out of their control, both women find themselves forced to make wrenching decisions about love, loyalty and motherhood.
Название: Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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Darcy van Aiken is doing very well, thank you. She’s an ICU nurse with an ‘amicable’ divorce from ex-husband, Mike, two great kids, and a prescription for Ritalin. Then her older son, Jeremy, gets engaged to Cami Zander-Brown – daughter of a wealthy New York family – and her world turns upside down. The source of the trouble is not Cami’s elegant and accomplished mother, Rose. Nor is it in the form of Guy, her charismatic and wildly successful literary agent father. Instead, lurking in the shadows of Mike’s new life, is the beautifully dressed and highly manipulative Claudia. The Zander-Browns have money. Lots of money. The plans for their daughter’s dream wedding grow more fabulous by the day, and Claudia is loving every minute of it. With her perfect taste, she can’t help thinking she’d make a much better mother of the groom than Darcy. This wedding gives her the opportunity to entrench herself in Mike’s life, and take credit for the two sons Darcy has raised. It’s a battle for supremacy, and it takes all of Darcy’s courage and determination to outwit the determined Claudia. What emerges is a wonderfully delicious, hilarious and touching read about family, friendship and human behaviour.
Название: Housewife in Love
Год: 2009
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At long last, love is in the air, sending Helen Robbins into a flat spin while she grapples with the prospect of starting over (and whether or not she’s too old to have sex in an aeroplane). Does she really want a relationship? Moreover, does she really want a relationship with a man like Rick? While she wrestles with the million dollar question, her sister Julia blindly prepares to face the onslaught of motherhood for the first time at 43, prompting neurotic Leoni (killing her husband slowly on a high cholesterol diet) to warn her that parenthood isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. As if to prove the point, Rick’s passion-killing teenage daughter, Lola, turns up and demonstrates just how awful a kid can turn out. And as Helen’s wedding day approaches, she plans the biggest surprise of them all...
Название: Silks
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge’s guilty verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason expect that he’ll be seeing Trent again much sooner than he’d ever imagined. Setting aside his barrister’s wig, Mason heads to Sandown to don his racing silks. An amateur jockey, his true passion is to be found in the saddle, on a thoroughbred, pounding the turf. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered – a pitchfork driven through his chest – the prime suspect is champion jockey Steve Mitchell and the evidence is overwhelming. Mason, reluctant to heed Mitchell’s pleas for legal advice, soon finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of threat and intimidation and is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death… his own.
Название: American Star
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2009
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Feel the heat... as cult superstar Nick Angel claws his way from Midwest boyhood poverty to riches, power and fame in the heart of New York City. Feel the heat... as his path collides with the beautiful Lauren Roberts, an innocent learning fast about the ways of the world. About men. About money. And about never having to be alone... «American Star»... a fantastic love story – as only Jackie can tell it!
Название: The Last Legion
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2006
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The story opens on the day that the Western Roman Empire collapses finally in 470AD, as the Last Emperor of Rome is encamped protected by the Nova Invicta Legion. All is lost in the space of a few minutes as a horde of Barbarians sweep through the camp in the fog, kill the Imperial family and take the young Emperor captive. The Roman Empire is in ruins... But all is not lost. From the dust of battlefields emerges a small team of invincible warriors — The Last Legion. Their task is to rescue the Emperor and his enigmatic tutor and to try and resurrect the glory of Rome. All their strength of character and bravery come into play as they guide the last Caesar in a dramatic journey of escape through a devastated Italy and Northern Europe to their ultimate destinies in the land of the Britons... and the beginning of a new legend.
Название: White Apples
Год: 2004
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Vincent Ettrich, an engaging philanderer, discovers that he has died and come back to life — but he has no idea why, or any memory of the experience. Beset by peculiar omens and strange characters, including a talking rat and an inexplicable tattoo on the neck of his most recent lover, he gradually discovers that he was deliberately brought back by his one true love, Isabelle, because she is pregnant with their son — a child who, if correctly raised, will play a crucial role in saving the cosmic mosaic that is the universe. But to be brought up right, he must be educated by his own father. Specifically, he must be taught what Ettrich learned on the other side — if only Ettrich himself can remember it! Tempting and provocative, White Apples is forbidden fruit plucked straight from the orchard of Jonathan Carroll's abundant and legendary imagination.
Название: The Sacred Cut
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2006
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For the first time in decades The Eternal City is paralysed by a blizzard. And a gruesome discovery is made in the Pantheon — one of Rome's most ancient and revered architectural treasures. Covered by softly falling snow is the body of a young woman — her back horribly mutilated... But before Costa, Peroni and Rome's Questura can begin a formal investigation the US Embassy has brought in its own people, FBI Agents who want the case closed down as quickly and discreetly as possible. But Costa is determined to find out why — and as the FBI grudgingly admits that this corpse is not the first, the mutilations of the woman's body point to Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man — and to a conspiracy so sinister and buried so deep, that only two people know its true, crazed meaning.
Название: Mastering English Language
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 1992
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»Mastering English Language» combines a systematic, detailed and lively approach that will stimulate, clarify and, where necessary, simplify many essential matters relating to the English language. The new edition has been extensively rewritten to take into account examination changes. The book will empower students by developing their effectiveness in speaking, reading and writing in the classroom, examination-room, place of work or at home. Topics covered include the components of expression; words, sentences, paragraphs; idea — formation; specific writing techniques; types of literary composition ...
Название: Cultural Theory and Problem of Modernity
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 1998
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This book presents a critical analysis of the relation between sociological theory and recent debates in cultural studies. A distinctive sociological perspective is developed based on the work of Marx, Weber, Bourdieu and Bakhtin. The book examines the problems of theorising issues such as modernity, mass culture and postmodernity by advocating a historical and context-based approach.
Название: Othello
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2003
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With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, «Othello» is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works. Both criticism and culture are represented in this collection of recent essays which provides readers with examples of feminist, new-historicist, cultural materialist, deconstructive, and post-colonial perspectives on «Othello». With discussions of recent stage and screen productions, and analysis of the use of the play in such contemporary events as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, this compelling critical volume presents a wide variety of ways of understanding the continuing significance of Shakespeare's play both in his own time and in ours.
Название: Way Ahead 5 Workbook
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 1999
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»Way Ahead» is a six-level course for primary school children who are learning English. The structures and functions of the English language are taught through a variety of child-cenrtred activities, which have been carefully graded and are suitable for classes in a variety of cultural backgrounds. At the lower levels, the books introduce a cast of characters who contextualize the language and aim to make learning fun. At the upper levels, the texts are topic-based, and introduce children to the study skills they need to pursue their studies to a higher level.
Название: Way Ahead 1 Teacher's Resource Book
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 1999
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»Way Ahead» is a six-level course for primary school children who are learning English as a second language. The structures and functions of the English language are taught through a variety of child-centred activities, which have been carefully graded and are suitable for classes in a variety of cultural backgrounds. At the lower levels, the books introduce a cast of entertaining characters who contextualize the language and make learning fun. At the upper levels, the texts are topic-based, and introduce children to the study skills they need to pursue their studies to a higher level.
Название: Way Ahead 4 Teacher's Resource Book
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 1999
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»Way Ahead» is a six-level course for primary school children who are learning English as a second language. The structures and functions of the English language are taught through a variety of child-centred activities, which have been carefully graded and are suitable for classes in a variety of cultural backgrounds. At the lower levels, the books introduce a cast of entertaining characters who contextualize the language and make learning fun. At the upper levels, the texts are topic-based, and introduce children to the study skills they need to pursue their studies to a higher level.
Название: Way Ahead 6 Teacher's Resource Book
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 1999
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»Way Ahead» is a six-level course for primary school children who are learning English as a second language. The structures and functions of the English language are taught through a variety of child-centred activities, which have been carefully graded and are suitable for classes in a variety of cultural backgrounds. At the lower levels, the books introduce a cast of entertaining characters who contextualize the language and make learning fun. At the upper levels, the texts are topic-based, and introduce children to the study skills they need to pursue their studies to a higher level.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2008
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Written by over 1500 eminent contributors, this new edition of «The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics» retains many classic essays of enduring importance and contains 1,872 articles. Published in eight print volumes and for the first time in online format, this is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists.
Название: Mastering Philosophy
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2001
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»Mastering Philosophy» introduces the beginner to all the main areas of this fascinating subject. A wide range of problems are investigated within a generally historical framework from the Ancient Greeks through to the present day. The book provides guided answers and comments to encourage the reader to engage in philosophical 'dialogue', and contains extensive suggestions for further reading. In this second, comprehensively revised edition, attention has been paid to recent developments in continental philosophy. New chapters on critical thinking and oriental philosophy have also been included.
Название: Mastering Practical Criticism
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2006
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»Mastering Practical Criticism» offers students of English Literature at advanced and degree levels a clear, well-explained guide to mastering the skills of critical appreciation. It starts with ways of unlocking meaning in literary texts and proceeds through each stage of the process to the final essay response. Students are given useful and practical advice on organising their material as they analyse the text, thus saving valuable time in examinations. This is a skills-based guide, offering plenty of thoroughly worked through examples, designed to build confidence and remove some of the anxiety that frequently accompanies unseen critical analysis.
