Книги издательства Macmillan Publishers
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2009
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Twenty million podcast downloads say it all: Mignon Fogarty's kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans across the globe. Her first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her weekly grammar podcast has been hailed by USA Today as authoritative but warm. Now, in daily devotional form, Grammar Girl offers 365 lessons on language that are sure to inspire. Chock-full of bite-sized writing tips, fun quizzes, and efficient memory tricks, The Grammar Devotional gives you the tools you need to improve your grammar and become an even better communicator, one day at a time.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2011
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The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values — morality, politics, and class. The Language Wars examines the present state of the conflict, its history, and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the present. Moving chronologically, the book explores the most persistent issues to do with English and unpacks the history of proper usage. Where did these ideas spring from? Who has been on the front lines in the language wars? The Language Wars examines grammar rules, regional accents, swearing, spelling, dictionaries, political correctness, and the role of electronic media in reshaping language. It also takes a look at such details as the split infinitive, elocution, and text messaging. Peopled with intriguing characters such as Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Lenny Bruce, The Language Wars is an essential volume for anyone interested in the state of the English language today or its future.
Название: Alphabet Under Construction
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2006
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An artist's approach to introducing the alphabet Mouse airbrushes the A, buttons the B, carves the C . Mouse is hard at work constructing each letter of the alphabet. He dyes the D, erases the E, and folds the F. Mouse works his way right through to Z, constructing an alphabet that surpasses even the wildest artistic imagination.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2011
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In time for the 50th anniversary of Catch-22, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book), illuminates his most vital subject yet in this first biography of Joseph Heller. Joseph Heller was a Coney Island kid, the son of Russian immigrants, who went on to great fame and fortune. His most memorable novel took its inspiration from a mission he flew over France in WWII (his plane was filled with so much shrapnel it was a wonder it stayed in the air). Heller wrote seven novels, all of which remain in print. Something Happened and Good as Gold, to name two, are still considered the epitome of satire. His life was filled with women and romantic indiscretions, but he was perhaps more famous for his friendships — he counted Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Carl Reiner, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Mario Puzo, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen, and many others among his confidantes. In 1981 Heller was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a debilitating syndrome that could have cost him his life. Miraculously, he recovered. When he passed away in 1999 from natural causes, he left behind a body of work that continues to sell hundreds of thousands of copies a year.
Название: Moomin's Lift-The-Flap: Hide and See
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2011
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Pre-readers can sharpen hand-eye coordination as they join Moomintroll's search for that rascal Little My, who has found a very clever hiding place. Along the way, they will meet Moomintroll's family and many friends. The funny names — from Snufkin to Fillyjonk — beg to be sounded out and repeated again and again. Based on characters and artwork created by Tove Jansson, whose original Moomin books have been translated from the original Swedish into more than thirty languages.
Название: Moomin's Little Book of Numbers
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2011
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Little ones can rely on the Moomins to make numbers fun. Moomintroll, Moominmamma, and the Snork Maiden help create a game out of learning to go from one to ten, and beyond, with everyday objects such as seashells and stars.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2013
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A communication-focused course that builds young adult and adult learners' confidence to use English. Breakthrough Plus contains modernised content, a fresh design and a digital version of the Student's Books for classroom presentation purposes as well as additional practice material with markbook functionality. The accompanying digibook provides an onscreen version of the Student's Book with integrated audio, plus additional interactive practice with over 120 activities and markbook functionality. The Digibook includes 12 video street interviews filmed in New York with accompanying worksheets. Teachers have access to the DigiBook, their students' markbook, and an additional Test Generator program. This has created a truly blended, content-rich course, covering high-interest themes in a thorough but accessible way.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2013
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A communication-focused course that builds young adult and adult learners' confidence to use English. Breakthrough Plus contains modernised content, a fresh design and a digital version of the Student's Books for classroom presentation purposes as well as additional practice material with markbook functionality. The accompanying digibook provides an onscreen version of the Student's Book with integrated audio, plus additional interactive practice with over 120 activities and markbook functionality. The Digibook includes 12 video street interviews filmed in New York with accompanying worksheets. Teachers have access to the DigiBook, their students' markbook, and an additional Test Generator program. This has created a truly blended, content-rich course, covering high-interest themes in a thorough but accessible way. NEW Digibook provides an onscreen version of the Student's Book with integrated audio, plus additional interactive practice with over 120 activities and markbook functionality.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2012
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A communication-focused course that builds young adult and adult learners' confidence to use English. Breakthrough Plus contains modernised content, a fresh design and a digital version of the Student's Books for classroom presentation purposes as well as additional practice material with markbook functionality. The accompanying digibook provides an onscreen version of the Student's Book with integrated audio, plus additional interactive practice with over 120 activities and markbook functionality. The Digibook includes 12 video street interviews filmed in New York with accompanying worksheets. Teachers have access to the DigiBook, their students' markbook, and an additional Test Generator program. This has created a truly blended, content-rich course, covering high-interest themes in a thorough but accessible way. NEW Digibook provides an onscreen version of the Student's Book with integrated audio, plus additional interactive practice with over 120 activities and markbook functionality.
Название: Footprints 5: Activity Book
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2010
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Beautifully illustrated and appealing to both children and teachers, this six-level course is designed to meet the needs of teachers and learners who are working at a high level of English. Footprints provides a strong emphasis on cross-curricular content with clearly identified language aims that acknowledge the increasing trend towards content-based learning. Levels 1 and 2 take students on a magical journey, meeting well-known fairy tale characters to find the treasure at the end of the rainbow. Levels 3 and 4 continue the idea of a quest but the context moves away from the world of fairy tales to one of mystery and adventure, working with the children's growing maturity and awareness of the world around them.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2013
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Every student needs top class reading, writing, listening and speaking skills to succeed at an academic level. Skillful focuses on each of these skills to give presentation, instant practice and complete immersion in that area of language. It offers students the opportunity to develop language skills by presenting them with ideas from today's world, while building critical thinking skills that are vital for academic success. The course takes a skills-based approach with each unit distinguishing between and global and close skills. The nature of each unit encourages students to think about the world around them, creating exciting and engaging learning material. The skills boxes that appear throughout the books signal the topic focus to the teacher, while providing the students with relevant tips, words and phrases. The study skills focus develops this further, providing students with practical guidance and support, and building confidence for independent learning throughout their university career.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2013
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Every student needs top class reading, writing, listening and speaking skills to succeed at an academic level. Skillful focuses on each of these skills to give presentation, instant practice and complete immersion in that area of language. It offers students the opportunity to develop language skills by presenting them with ideas from today's world, while building critical thinking skills that are vital for academic success. The course takes a skills-based approach with each unit distinguishing between and global and close skills. The nature of each unit encourages students to think about the world around them, creating exciting and engaging learning material. The skills boxes that appear throughout the books signal the topic focus to the teacher, while providing the students with relevant tips, words and phrases. The study skills focus develops this further, providing students with practical guidance and support, and building confidence for independent learning throughout their university career.
Название: False Impression
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2013
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Jeffrey Archer, one of the greatest popular novelists of our generation, delivers a truly page-turning thriller. When an aristocratic old lady is brutally murdered in her country home the night before 9/11, it takes all the resources of the FBI and Interpol to work out the connection between her and the possible motive for her death a priceless Van Gogh painting. It's a young woman in the North Tower when the first plane crashed into the building who has the courage and determination to take on both sides of the law and avenge the old lady's death. Anna Petrescu is missing, presumed dead, after 9/11 and she uses her new status to escape from America, only to be pursued across the world from Toronto to London, to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bucharest, but it is only when she returns to New York that the mystery unfolds. Why are so many people willing to risk their own lives and others' to own the Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear?
Название: Dead Man's Time
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2013
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This is the series everyone is reading. From the No. 1 chart-topper Peter James, comes the ninth novel in the multi-million copy bestselling Roy Grace series... Some will wait a lifetime to take their revenge... A vicious robbery at a secluded Brighton mansion leaves its elderly occupant dying. And millions of pounds' worth of valuables have been taken. But, as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, heading the enquiry, rapidly learns, there is one priceless item of sentimental value that the old woman's powerful family cherish above all else. And they are fully prepared to take the law into their own hands, and will do anything, absolutely anything, to get it back. Within days, Grace is racing against the clock, following a murderous trail that leads him from the shady antiques world of Brighton, across Europe, and all the way back to the New York waterfront gang struggles of 1922, chasing a killer driven by the force of one man's greed and another man's fury.
Название: The Hit
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2013
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The trap is set. Failure is not an option. When government hit man Will Robie is given his next target he knows he's about to embark on his toughest mission yet. He is tasked with killing one of their own, following evidence to suggest that fellow assassin Jessica Reel has been turned. She's leaving a trail of death in her wake including her handler. The trap is set. To send a killer to catch a killer. But what happens when you can't trust those who have access to the nation's most secret intelligence?
Название: The Killing 2
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers
Год: 2013
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It is two years since the notorious Nanna Birk Larsen case. Two years since Detective Sarah Lund left Copenhagen in disgrace for a remote outpost in northern Denmark. When the body of a female lawyer is found in macabre circumstances in a military graveyard, there are elements of the crime scene that take Head of Homicide, Lennart Brix, back to an occupied wartime Denmark — a time its countrymen would wish to forget. Brix knows that Lund is the one person he can rely on to discover the truth. Reluctantly she returns to Copenhagen and becomes intrigued with the facts surrounding the case. As more bodies are found, Lund comes to see a pattern and she realises that the identity of the killer will be known once the truth behind a more recent wartime mission is finally revealed...
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2013
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Exuberantly coloured artwork and favourite animals make this rhythmic story the perfect introduction to looking and learning about colours. Each spread leads seamlessly into the next and young children will delight in Eric's colourful collage animals and simple repetitive language.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2010
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Eric Carle's familiar illustrations of brown bear, red bird, yellow duck and the other endearing animals from his classic creation parade across the pages of this great interactive board book. As each page is turned, a new animal and its color are introduced, accompanied by Bill Martin's singsong, rhyming question-and-response text to read aloud or listen to. There are sliding doors throughout the book, which children will just love to open, so they can discover what the next animal in this engaging story will be.
Название: Ender's Game
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2013
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The beloved, bestselling science fiction classic Enders Game by Orson Scott Card comes to the screen in a major motion picture event in November 2013. Starring Hugos Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, and Ben Kingsley, the movie is sure to inspire a new audience of fans to read the book that started it all. Ender Wiggin brilliant, ruthless, cunning, tactical and strategic master, and a child.
Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA
Год: 2013
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Hot on the heels of Slide and Find Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? is this Slide and Find edition of the final collaboration between Bill Martin Jr and Eric Carle, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? The author-illustrator team turns their talents to the theme of animal conservation, introducing children to some of the world's most endangered species through Bill Martin Jr's rhythmic, repetitive text and Eric Carle's vibrant images. This Priddy edition is a great way to make story time interactive — on each spread, there is a sliding door for children to open, so they can discover for themselves what the next animal in this engaging story will be.
