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Alexander Jenny: Bullies, Bigmouths and So-Called Friends

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Most books about bullying tell children how to act without addressing how they feel. But the usual advice to 'ignore it' or 'say something smart' is doomed to fail, as you can't act brave and confident if you feel stressed and helpless inside. Jenny Alexander's approach is to develop readers' psychological defences. Through an entertaining mix of exercises, quizzes and fictional scenarios, she…

Clifford Sue: England in Particular: A Celebration of the Commonplace, the Local, the Vernacular and the Distinctive

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Apples, bandstands, beach huts, black dogs, breweries, bricks, cakes, causeways, chalk horses, cheese rolling, cider, cooling towers, curbstones, dances, dialect, dry stone walls, fens, fire festivals, foxes, gargoyles, geology, ghosts, heaths, heronries, ice houses, jet, lagoons, maypoles, mazes, moats, nightingales, peat, pies, primrose banks, quicksand, rhubarb, sheep, spoil heaps, terraced…

Inkpen Mick: The Blue Balloon

Скачать книгу (размер 208 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 42) Аннотация: Ten years after it was first published, THE BLUE BALLOON is now a celebrated classic which continues to delight millions of children. Kipper has found a soggy blue balloon in the garden. At first, it seems like an ordinary balloon, but it's not. It's full of fun and magic. This is a book to be treasured, loved, read time and time again, with fantastic fold out pages.

Alchin Nicholas: Theory of Knowledge: Teacher's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The Theory of Knowledge course is central to the philosophy of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. It encourages students to question the basis of knowledge and to develop the ability to evaluate critically information from a wide range of sources. Unlike most academic courses, where students are used to being given facts that they are expected to learn, in this course they are…

Smith Elisabeth: Teach Yourself Instant Russian

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: First published in 1998, the Instants have established themselves as the best-selling range of language titles from teach yourself. When published as part of the teach yourself relaunch in May 2003, they were given a new cover, internal text re-design and availability on CD for the first time, but now they have undergone an extensive revision, with 16 more pages to give room for additional…

Fox Kate: Watching English

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: «Kate fox, a social anthropologist, is Co-Director of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford and a Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Research. Following an erratic education in England, America, Ireland and France, she studied anthropology and philosophy at Cambridge. ''Watching the English . . . will make you laugh out loud («Oh God. I do that!») and cringe simultaneously («Oh God. I do…

Holmes Andrew: All Fur Coat

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Simon is an artist with an unhealthy obsession for an actress whose face is on all the posters on the tube advertising the new musical she`s in. He likes to pick off the chewing-gum people so frequently stick on bits of her body to make her pure and perfect again.

Tracey Turner: Who's Who of Horrors: An A-Z of Loathsome Lives

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: An A to Z of the most gruesome people who have ever lived! What do the following have in common? The Cross-Eyed Lambeth Poisoner, the Teenage Butcher, Juana the Mad and Ismail the Bloodthirsty? Answer: they are all horrors! People who have tortured, murdered, died in a revolting manner, or practise a particularly horrid habit. This book lists these and dozens more, each with its own Horror…

Riley Andy: Great Lies to Tell Small Kids

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: New wicked humour from the author of the bestselling Bunny Suicide books This Christmas you can finally let your bunnies out of their padded hutches, because Andy Riley doesn't want them anymore. He wants your children! From the creator of the bestselling Bunny books comes more wicked humour — GREAT LIES TO TELL SMALL KIDS. They range from merely bogus to truly cruel: 'Every ant you meet must be…

Jackson Lisa: Malice

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: The scent is unmistakable: the perfume that his beautiful first wife, Jennifer, always wore. Opening his eyes in the hospital room, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz sees her standing in the doorway. But Jennifer died twelve years ago. Once out of the hospital, Bentz begins to see Jennifer everywhere, haunting and taunting him, then vanishing without a trace. Could she still be alive? But it was…

Holden Wendy: Gallery Girl

Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: A hilarious tale from Sunday Times Number 1 bestselling author Wendy HoldenZeb's the darling of Brit Art; the rock n' roll bad boy artist whose works go for bazillions. But can he keep his end up — in every sense — now that his powerful female patron is losing interest? Beth loves art and the traditional gallery she works in and loves her boyfriend, doctor David. But the hospital hours he keeps…

Stirling Jessica: The Last Voyage

Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: At first handsome, freewheeling Clive Cavendish does not appear to be an ideal catch for Julie. But when a whirlwind seduction leads to love and marriage and Clive's ambitious schemes begin to pay off Julie is more than happy to be the wife of an up-and-coming painter and the mother of his children. Anna's suitor, Howard Buskin, is rich, moody and reclusive. He prefers painting Dartmoor's…

Walker Fiona: Tongue in Cheek

Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: From the very first day that they move to the Oddlode Valley, it's inevitable that young teacher Mo Stillitoe, recently separated socialite Diana Lampeter and cool, retired dressage diva Anke Brakespear will find their lives entangled. Despite their differing generations and backgrounds, the women are on a relocation collision course. As inept removal men deliver furniture — and even horses — to…

Clark Marcia: Guilt by Association

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A Deputy DA specialising in high-profile cases, Rachel Knight is addicted to her work and fiercely loyal to her friends. But when her colleague Jake is found dead in a seedy Los Angeles hotel room next to the body of a teenage male prostitute, Rachel realises she might not know those around her as well as she thinks. The police want to write off Jake's death as a straightforward murder/suicide.…

Lady Gaga: Lady Gaga X Terry Richardson

Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: The first official book by international superstar Lady GagaIn this book of original, behind-the-scenes photographs, acclaimed photographer Terry Richardson follows superstar Lady Gaga during one year of her life, from Lollapalooza through the final show of her Monster Ball tour. During the time period he followed Gaga, Richardson took over 100,000 images and attended more than 30 Monster Ball…

Grisham John: Calico Joe

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Calico Joe tells the story of Paul Tracey, a 13-year-old boy from a dysfunctional family, caught in a conflict of loyalties when his troubled baseball-playing father comes face to face with the greatest young player of his age, Joe Castle, and the terrible consequences that follow. Decades later, with his father dying, Paul decides that the tragedy of his youth must be reconciled and attempts to…

Clements Rory: Martyr

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: England is close to war. Within days the axe could fall on the neck of Mary Queen of Scots, and Spain is already gathering a battle fleet to avenge her. Tensions in Elizabeth I's government are at breaking point. At the eye of the storm is John Shakespeare, chief intelligencer in the secret service of Sir Francis Walsingham. When an intercept reveals a plot to assassinate England's 'sea dragon',…

Hall Elliott: The Children's Crusade

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: PI Felix Strange is working his last case. The woman he loves has been taken by Fisher Partners — America's for-profit secret police — and, though he suspects he won't find her, he's going to do the next best thing: kill everyone involved. As he works his way down the list, Strange is offered a secret deal, which could lead him straight to Iris. Across the American South, the militant Sons of…

Jackson Lisa: Devious

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: From a №1 New York Times bestselling author comes an edge-of-your-seat romantic thriller, in which New Orleans detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya investigate the murder of a young nun and uncover a serial killer as devious and depraved as they come.

Grisham John: Theodore Boone: The Accused

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Theodore Boone is the thirteen year old who knows more about the law than most adult lawyers. He certainly never expected to be the victim of crime himself. But then his bike is vandalised, he's attacked while doing his homework and, worst of all, framed for a robbery. When stolen computer equipment turns up in Theo's school locker, the police start leaning on him hard. And he is the only…