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Atticus, the young Greek captain, is now a commander of the growing Roman navy, blockading a port near Tunis, when the Roman legions suffer terrible defeat by the triumphant Carthaginian army, spearheaded by the elephant charges. He and his ships escape together with the main body of the Roman fleet out manoeuvred by the more skilful Carthaginians and...
In this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book Liza Dalby traces the history of the kimono - its designs, uses, aesthetics and social significance.The colourful and stylised kimono, the national garment of Japan, expresses not only Japanese fashion and design taste but also reveals something of the soul of Japan, and is seen by many as a symbol...
Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the...
A Practical Course
"Engrossing as a novel throws a clear white light on one of the most spectacular artists of our time." Chicago Sunday Tribune.This remarkable autobiography began with a newspaper interview the artist gave journalist Gladys March in 1944. From then until the artist's death in 1957, she spent several months each year with Rivera, eventually filling 2,000...
Abridged edition
Eliciting comparisons to Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Pritchett's meditative work on Spain is comprised of a string of sketches, woven around the author's musings on the Spanish character.Having lived in Spain for four years during the 1920s, Pritchett is well placed to deliver such a report, and his resulting narrative is both well informed and...
Clear, attractive layout easy to use and easy to read. Restricted defining vocabulary, so students looking up a word will not find five more they don't know in the definition. Up-to-date coverage of today's vocabulay. Special provision for those studying other subjects in English at the secondary school level. Example sentences. Attractive illustrations....
A compact and easy-to-use thesaurus, comprising 150,000 synonyms in A-Z sequence. Cross-references indicate related words and opposites, part-of-speech and sense divisions help to find the right sense and examples phrases and usage labels give extra guidance.
Retold by M.J.Paine.Intermediate.
"I was pulled into simple living before I knew what it was. It crept up on me using the smallest of steps and didn't reveal its true beauty and real power until I was totally hooked. I was searching for a way to live well while spending very little money. What I found was a way of life that also gave me independence, opportunity and freedom." Rhonda...
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Miss Marple, are amazed by an advertisement in the local paper which reads "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30pm. Unable to resist, a crowd begins to gather at the house at the appointed time.
Short stories of classic authors
. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to...
Financial skulduggery in ancient Gaul! When local Chielf Whosemoralsarelastix wants a cauldron full of money kept out of Roman hands, the cash disappears while Asterix is guarding it. He and Obelix must earn enough to repay it through fairground gladiatorial contests, trendy theatrical performances, even bank robbery - they'll try anything. But whose...
On the eve of the Big Fight between Vitalstatistix and a pro-Roman Gaulish chief, Getafix the Druid is knocked out by a flying menhir. And the ingredients of the magic potion which gives superhuman strengths, which is known only by him, are lost.
The athletes of the ancient world assemble in Athens for the Olympic Games. Asterix and the Gauls enter too, but they're due for a setback. As an artificial stimulant, magic potion is banned. Can our friends win at the Games without it? And what's the special ingredient of the other potion, the one in the cauldron in the shed with the door that doesn't...
1500 palabras y más de 1100 ilustraciones.
Quaestor Vexatius Sinustitis, who is about to expose the Roman governor's creative accountancy, has been poisoned. Can Getafix brew an antidote? Only if Asterix and Obelix find a certain flower for the druid's potion in Helvetia. What with bank safes, cuckoo hourglasses, yodelling and holes in the cheese, they're soon on a real Helvetian roll.
Having left Vitalstatistix at a health farm specialising in nourishing dishes of boiled vegetables, Asterix and Obelix set off in search of richer fare. Meanwhile, in Rome, Caesar is determined to teach the Gauls a lesson - they must prevent him finding the Shield of Vercingetorix at any cost.
Danger threatens the Gaulish village when a false soothsayer appears on the scene. All the villagers, except Asterix are taken in by his prophesies. Then the ever-scheming Romans decide to use him in a plan to trap the Gauls once and for all.
Michael Peterson, or MP as he is commonly known, ruled the surfing scene throughout the early to mid-1970s until developing paranoid schizophrenia. This is his story, covering his early life, his celebrated victories in surfing, his descent into the drugs scene, and imprisonment and subsequent institutionalisation.
Les histoires mettent en scène un petit garçon, Nicolas, dans un environnement urbain1 pendant les années 1950, où se melent l'humour et la tendresse de l'enfance. Le personnage, identifié par un dessin au trait, livre ses pensées intimes grace à un langage d'enfant créé par Goscinny. Les thèmes sont avant tout ceux de l'enfance (comme la camaraderie, les...
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EL COLOR QUE CAYO DEL CIELO/THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE
Lovecraft,H.P
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THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW/LA LEYENDA DE SLEEPY HOLLOW
Irving,Washington
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Black Cat Step Five B2.2
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AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS/UN PUESTO AVANZADO DEL PROGRESO
Conrad,Joseph
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UNCLE FRED FLITS BY. MIKE MEETS PSMITH / LAS EXCENTRICIDADES DEL TÍO FRED. MIKE CONOCE...
Wodehouse,P.G.
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON/EL CURIOSO CASO DE BENJAMIN BUTTON
Fitzgerald,F.Scott
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DESPACIO, DESPACIO A MERCED DEL VIENTO/Slowly,slowly in the wind
Highsmith,Patricia
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EL JARDINERO.THE GARDENER/UNA MADONNA DE LAS TRINCHERAS.A MADONNA OF THE TRENCHES
Kipling,Rudyard
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THE TRAVELLERS STORY OF A TERRIBLY STRANGE BED/LA HISTORIA DEL VIAJERO SOBRE UNA CAMA...
Collins,Wilkie
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BLISS. MISS BRILL. THE WOMAN AT THE STORE/ALEGRÍA. LA SEÑORITA BRILL. LA MUJER DE LA...
Mansfield,Katherine
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THE THANKSGIVING VISITOR/EL INVITADO DEL DIA DE ACCION DE GRACIAS
Capote,Truman
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EL RICKSHAW FANTASMA.MI PROPIA Y AUTENTICA HISTORIA DE FANTASMAS/The panthom...
Kipling,Rudyard
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DRACULA´S GUEST. THE SECRET OF THE GROWING GOLD / EL INVITADO DE DRACULA. EL SECRETO...
Stoker,Bram
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Whether it's the sudden snapping of bonds between lovers or shopping on Oxford Street, Maeve Binchy finds the unexpected truth in experiences so real that every woman will recognize them. Filled with her delicious humor and warmth, the twenty-two stories in London Transports will delight and captivate as they take us to a place that is far away--and yet...
Cath is scatty, messy and guarded. While Si is impossibly tidy, bitchy and desperate for a man of his own. They are total opposites - but equally unlucky in love. And they've stuck together through thick and thin. Because that's what best friends do.So when their beautiful friend Portia - the undisputed queen of their group of friends at university -...
Meet Julia, a wildly successful television producer who appears to have the picture-perfect life. But beneath the surface, things are not as perfect as they seem. Stuck in a loveless relationship with her boyfriend, Mark, Julia thinks a baby is the answer . . . but she may want a baby more than she wants her boyfriend. Maeve, on the other hand, is...
Behind the shining windows and rose-bedecked gardens of Summer Street, there are lots of secrets. Theres the one that hard-working single mother, Faye, hides from her teenage daughter, Amber. And theres the one that thirty-year-old Maggie hides from herself.