Книги издательства Macmillan Publishers

Straightforward: Elementary Level: Teacher's Book Pack (+ CD-ROM)
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Год: 2012
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Описание: The Straightforward Teacher's Book is one of the best around. Written by Jim Scrivener there are extensive teaching notes and extra tasks and ideas for every lesson plus more detailed notes on the language and cultural content of the Student's Book material. Each Teacher's Book is accompanied by a Teacher's Resource Disc in the back of the book, with short videos from Jim Scrivener's 'Learning Teaching 3rd Edition' that link to the 'Straightforward Methodology' sections and show experienced teachers demonstrating the techniques outlined.
Straightforward: Intermediate Level: Teacher's Book Pack (+ CD-ROM)
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Год: 2012
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Описание: The Straightforward Teacher's Book is one of the best around. Written by Jim Scrivener there are extensive teaching notes and extra tasks and ideas for every lesson plus more detailed notes on the language and cultural content of the Student's Book material. Each Teacher's Book is accompanied by a Teacher's Resource Disc in the back of the book, with short videos from Jim Scrivener's 'Learning Teaching 3rd Edition' that link to the 'Straightforward Methodology' sections and show experienced teachers demonstrating the techniques outlined. Teachers also have access to Straightforward Practice Online where they can 'link up' with their students to monitor their progress. Suggestions for extra activities for stronger classes, weaker classes and younger classes. 'Straightforward Methodology' plus video demonstrations to help teachers develop further as teachers by expanding on their range of teaching activities and techniques. Supplementary language notes for tricky grammatical and vocabulary activities and cultural notes to give vital answers about British and American culture. Teacher's Resource Disc includes 48 photocopiable worksheets, Unit tests, progress tests, end-of-term and end-of-year tests (with listening).
Straightforward: Pre-intermediate Level: Teacher's Book Pack (+ CD-ROM)
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Год: 2012
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Описание: The Straightforward Teacher's Book is one of the best around. Written by Jim Scrivener there are extensive teaching notes and extra tasks and ideas for every lesson plus more detailed notes on the language and cultural content of the Student's Book material. Each Teacher's Book is accompanied by a Teacher's Resource Disc in the back of the book, with short videos from Jim Scrivener's 'Learning Teaching 3rd Edition' that link to the 'Straightforward Methodology' sections and show experienced teachers demonstrating the techniques outlined. Teachers also have access to Straightforward Practice Online where they can 'link up' with their students to monitor their progress. Suggestions for extra activities for stronger classes, weaker classes and younger classes. 'Straightforward Methodology' plus video demonstrations to help teachers develop further as teachers by expanding on their range of teaching activities and techniques. Supplementary language notes for tricky grammatical and vocabulary activities and cultural notes to give vital answers about British and American culture. Teacher's Resource Disc includes 48 photocopiable worksheets, Unit tests, progress tests, end-of-term and end-of-year tests (with listening).
Straightforward: Upper Intermediate Level: Teacher's Book Pack (+ CD-ROM)
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Год: 2012
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Описание: The Straightforward Teacher's Book is one of the best around. Written by Jim Scrivener there are extensive teaching notes and extra tasks and ideas for every lesson plus more detailed notes on the language and cultural content of the Student's Book material. Each Teacher's Book is accompanied by a Teacher's Resource Disc in the back of the book, with short videos from Jim Scrivener's 'Learning Teaching 3rd Edition' that link to the 'Straightforward Methodology' sections and show experienced teachers demonstrating the techniques outlined. Teachers also have access to Straightforward Practice Online where they can 'link up' with their students to monitor their progress. Suggestions for extra activities for stronger classes, weaker classes and younger classes. 'Straightforward Methodology' plus video demonstrations to help teachers develop further as teachers by expanding on their range of teaching activities and techniques. Supplementary language notes for tricky grammatical and vocabulary activities and cultural notes to give vital answers about British and American culture. Teacher's Resource Disc includes 48 photocopiable worksheets, Unit tests, progress tests, end-of-term and end-of-year tests (with listening).
The Ghost
Название: The Ghost
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Год: 2012
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Описание: The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles includes great stories from both contemporary and classic authors. When British Prime Minister Adam Lang's ghost writer, Mike McAra, dies in mysterious circumstances, a new writer is brought in to write Lang's biography. But it soon becomes clear that Lang and his wife Ruth are a much more complicated couple than they first seem. The Ghost is a powerful commentary on the policies employed by the British government on 'The War on Terror' during the Tony Blair years.
The Ghost (+ Audio CD)
Название: The Ghost (+ Audio CD)
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Год: 2012
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Описание: The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles includes great stories from both contemporary and classic authors. When British Prime Minister Adam Lang's ghost writer, Mike McAra, dies in mysterious circumstances, a new writer is brought in to write Lang's biography. But it soon becomes clear that Lang and his wife Ruth are a much more complicated couple than they first seem. The Ghost is a powerful commentary on the policies employed by the British government on 'The War on Terror' during the Tony Blair years.
One Day
Название: One Day
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Год: 2012
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Описание: The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles includes great stories from both contemporary and classic authors. 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their university graduation. Soon their lives will go in separate directions. But where will they be on 15 July of the following year, and the year after that? One Day is a wonderful and moving love story which takes place over the decades of the eighties and nineties.
Testbuilder for the TOEIC Tests: Student's Book (+ Audio CD)
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Год: 2012
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Описание: A brand new title in this popular series of 'Tests that teach', designed to help improve students' exam performance and increase language competence. Task types familiarise students with the tasks they will face in the exam, further practice and guidance pages build confidence in answering them and an expanded answer key gives clear explanations as to why the given answer is correct. It can be used in the classroom or for self-study. The Testbuilder for the TOEIC Tests offers three complete tests for the Listening & Reading TOEIC test, followed by three tests for the Speaking TOEIC test and three tests for the Writing TOEIC test.
Assegai
Название: Assegai
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Год: 2009
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Описание: It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful and enigmatic mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from Von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and Von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.
The Master
Название: The Master
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Год: 2005
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Описание: It is January 1895 and Henry James's play, Guy Domville, from which he hoped to make his fortune, has failed on the London stage. Opening with this disaster, The Master spans the next five years of James's life, during which time he moves to Rye in Sussex, having found his dream retreat. There he writes his short masterpiece The Turn Of The Screw, a tale in which he incorporates many details from his own life, including his experiences as a member of one of the great eccentric American families and, later, an exile in England. Impelled by the need to work and haunted by his past — including his failure to fight in the American Civil War, and the golden summer of 1865, and the death of his sister Alice — James is watchful and witty, relishing the England in which he has come to live and regretting the New England he has left.
Dark Fire
Название: Dark Fire
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Sansom C.J.
Год: 2007
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Описание: It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister — and a new assignment... The secret of Greek Fire, the legendary substance with which the Byzantines destroyed the Arab navies, has been lost for centuries. Now, an official of the Court of Augmentations has discovered the formula in the library of a dissolved London monastery. When Shardlake is sent to recover it, he finds the official and his alchemist brother brutally murdered — the formula has disappeared. Now, Shardlake must follow the trail of Greek Fire across Tudor London, while trying at the same time to prove his young client's innocence. But very soon he discovers nothing is as it seems...
Patterns of Fashion 4
Название: Patterns of Fashion 4
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Год: 2008
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Описание: No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Since her untimely death in 1998, admirers of her work have been waiting, with increasing impatience, for the promised volume devoted to the linen clothes of the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods, a companion to her previous volume on tailored clothes of the same era.Planned and partly prepared by Janet herself, and completed by Jenny Tiramani, Janet's last pupil, no other book exists that is dedicated to the linen clothes that covered the body from the skin outwards. It contains full colour portraits and photographs of details of garments in the explanatory section, as well as patterns for 86 items of linen clothing, which range from men's shirts and women's smocks, from superb ruffs and collars to boot hose and children's stomachers. Beautifully produced, it is an invaluable guide to both the history and the recreation of these wonderful garments.
As the Earth Turns Silver
Название: As the Earth Turns Silver
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Год: 2010
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Описание: It is New Zealand, and the first decade of the twentieth century. Katherine McKechnie is struggling to raise two children following the death of her husband, when a chance encounter with a Chinese shopkeeper blossoms into friendship and, eventually, love. Racial tension and prejudice mean the two must keep their relationship secret, but Katherine's son, Robbie, learns the truth and, on the eve of World War I as young men everywhere are swept up on a tide of macho patriotism, takes his family's honour into his own hands — with devastating consequences. Both captivating and beautiful, As the Earth Turns Silver is a compelling read — and a remarkable debut.
The Song House
Название: The Song House
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Год: 2011
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Описание: When Kenneth Earl realises his memory is failing, he advertises for someone to help him catalogue his vast collection of music, and so create a record of his life. Maggie, the final candidate, is his last hope. But he doesn't guess when he gives her the job that the archive will be as much about her past as his — because this isn't the first time that Maggie has been to Earl House, and it's no coincidence that she applied for the post... 'Slowly, and in Azzopardi's melodic, lyrical prose the secrets of Maggie's childhood are revealed, full of loss and longing, unfaithful loves and bad choices' — Marie Claire. 'Not just a good read, but a fireworks display of true talent. A Fred and Ginger extravaganza — and an unforgettable dance' — The Scotsman. 'Azzopardi is an accomplished writer, beautifully weaving the past into the present until her words literally sing off the page' — Stylist magazine Book of the Week.
Three Stations
Название: Three Stations
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Год: 2011
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Описание: This is the stunning new thriller from the author of Gorky Park and Stalin's Ghost. As a train pulls into Yaroslav Station, Moscow, a teenage girl — Maya — wakes to an unimaginable horror. Her baby has been taken... Increasingly disillusioned with the workings of Moscow's Prosecution Service, Arkady Renko is teetering on the brink of resignation when he becomes drawn into a strange new case. A prostitute has been found dead in a trailer in Three Stations — a dark, notorious part of the city — without a mark on her. Soon Renko will find that the girl is linked to the extravagant Club Nijinsky and, as he is drawn into the extraordinary world of Moscow's super-rich, that nothing is quite as it seems. Meanwhile, Maya also wanders Three Stations, searching for her baby. Her only ally is a young man, Zhenya — Renko's own troubled ward — who is drawn to her cause and will guide her through Moscow's dark underbelly. But neither Zhenya nor Renko realize that Maya herself is being hunted. And those seeking her will stop at nothing to silence her...
The Sea
Название: The Sea
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Год: 2012
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Описание: First published in 2005, The Sea was critically acclaimed as an extraordinary achievement. It went on to win that year's Man Booker Prize, one of the most hotly contested in the history of the award. When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. In 2012 Picador celebrate our 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding, Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe.
Love Letters of Great Men
Название: Love Letters of Great Men
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Год: 2008
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Описание: From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. For some of these great men, love is a 'delicious poison' (William Congreve); for others, 'a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music' (Charles Darwin). Love can scorch like the heat of the sun (Henry VIII), or penetrate the depths of one's heart like a cooling rain (Flaubert). Every shade of love is here, from the exquisite eloquence of Oscar Wilde and the simple devotion of Robert Browning, to the wonderfully modern misery of the Roman Pliny the Younger, losing himself in work to forget how much he misses his beloved wife, Calpurnia.Taken together, these Love Letters of Great Men show that perhaps men haven't changed so very much over the last 2,000 years; passion, jealousy, hope and longing are all represented here — as is the simple pleasure of sending a letter to, and receiving one from, the person you love most.
Blood Sport
Название: Blood Sport
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Francis Dick
Год: 2007
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Описание: Gene Hawkins woke on the first day of his holiday with his hand on the Luger under his pillow, and a ringing in his ears. His boss was on the phone, inviting him on a family boat trip up the Thames. Keeble didn't fraternise with his employees unless he wanted something. What he wanted now was for Gene to spend three weeks looking for kidnapped stallions in Kentucky. He wouldn't take no for an answer. But before the afternoon was out Gene's survival skills were called on cloer to home — catapulting him into a maelstrom of blackmail and murder that would turn the blue grass of Kentucky to red...
The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People
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Год: 2012
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Описание: With the flair for narrative and the meticulous research that readers have come to expect, Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch and to the monarchy, chronicling the Queen's pivotal role at the centre of the state, which is largely hidden from the public gaze, and making a strong case for the institution itself. Arranged thematically, rather than chronologically, Marr dissects the Queen's political relationships, crucially those with her Prime Ministers; he examines her role as Head of the Commonwealth, and her deep commitment to that Commonwealth of nations; he looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 and how the monarchy and the monarch have had to change and adapt as a result. Indeed he argues that under her watchful eye, the monarchy has been thoroughly modernized and made as fit for purpose in the twenty-first century as it was when she came to the throne and a 'new Elizabethan age' was ushered in.
The House I Loved
Название: The House I Loved
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Год: 2012
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Описание: Paris, 1869. Houses are being razed, whole neighbourhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently transform Paris into a modern city. In the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home until the very end; as others flee, she stakes her claim in the basement of the house on rue Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer and closer each day. Attempting to overcome the loneliness of her daily life, she begins to write letters to Armand, her late husband. And as Rose delves into her memories, she reveals the secrets held within the walls of her beloved house.