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Intervention
Автор: Robin Cook Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20152013-02-26
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It's been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton's college graduation and almost as long since he's been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Once a highly regarded ophthalmologist, Jack's career took a dramatic turn after a tragic accident that destroyed his family. But that, too, is very much in the past: Jack has remarried — to long-time colleague and fellow medical examiner Laurie Montgomery — and is the father of a young child. A post-mortem on a young college student who had recently been treated by a chiropractor, leads Jack to investigate alternative medicine. What makes some people step outside the medical establishment to seek care from practitioners of Eastern philosophies and even faith healers? Jack's classmate Shawn Doherty is now a renowned archaeologist and biblical scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. He has recently obtained permission for a final dig beneath Saint Peter's in Rome — despite a long-standing grudge against the Catholic Church — and has made a startling discovery with huge ecclesiastical and medical implications. When Kevin Murray, now Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, gets wind of Shawn's findings, he's desperate to keep them from the public. Kevin has strong political ambitions within the Church, but his association with Shawn threatens to undermine them. Kevin turns to his old friend Jack to help protect an explosive secret — one with the power to change live forever.
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Lenin: A Biography
Автор: Robert Service Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20112011-06-15
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«Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure. Making use of recently opened archives, he has been able to piece together the private as well as the public life, giving the first complete picture of Lenin. This biography simultaneously provides an account of one of the greatest turning points in modern history. Through the prism of Lenin's career, Service examines events such as the October Revolution and the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, the one-party state, economic modernisation, dictatorship, and the politics of inter-war Europe. In discovering the origins of the USSR, he casts light on the nature of the state and society which Lenin left behind and which have not entirely disappeared after the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991. 'Immensely scholarly but also vivid and readable. This is a splendid book, much the best that I have ever read about Lenin... I was overwhelmed by the power and vividness of this portrait' — Dominic Lieven, «Sunday Telegraph». 'He has managed skilfully to depict the surreal life of an obsessive, brilliant and stubborn individual' — «Guardian». 'Lenin's life was politics, but Service has succeeded in keeping Lenin the man in focus throughout...This book deserves a place among the best studies of one of the most fascinating figures in modern history' — Harold Shukman, «The Times».»
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The Making of Modern Britain: From Queen Victoria to Ve Day
Автор: Andrew Marr Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20122013-02-16
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«In «The Making of Modern Britain», Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question 'How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers and Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs and celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page.»
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The Mediator: Love You to Death and High Stakes
Автор: Meg Cabot Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20132013-04-12
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«Meet Susannah Simon: she's a typical teenage girl, who just happens to be a ghost-hunter... oh, and she's also dead-over-heels for Jesse — the sexiest spook ever! But can this girl get her ghost? In «Love You to Death», Suze arrives in California and has barely unpacked when her mediator skills are put to the test. A vicious spirit in her new school is hell-bent on making her life a complete nightmare, but Suze is more than ready to kick some serious ghost butt if she has to. In «High Stakes», Suze's new life is looking up — cool friends, pool parties and getting to know Jesse (swoon), but then a desperate spirit asks for her help. Suddenly she's on the trail of a creepy local businessman, who just might be a vampire. Life just got dead complicated. Again.»
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The Mediator: Mean Spirits and Young Blood
Автор: Meg Cabot Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 448 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20152013-02-26
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«Meet Susannah Simon: she's a typical teenage girl who just happens to be a ghost-hunter... oh, and she's also dead-over-heels for Jesse — the sexiest spook ever! But can this girl get her ghost? In «Mean Spirits», Suze is all set to spend a relaxing summer on the beach, until she runs into the vengeful ghosts of four high-school students. She must use her mediating skills to guide these ghouls through the afterlife and stop them wreaking havoc in the present. In «Young Blood», Suze is heartbroken when gorgeous ghost Jesse doesn't seem to love her back. When his 150-year-old grave is unearthed in her backyard, she is determined to discover how and why he died. But one thing's for sure — digging up the past can be a deadly business...»
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The Mediator: Grave Doubts and Heaven Sent
Автор: Meg Cabot Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20112014-03-08
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«Meet Susannah Simon: she's a typical teenage girl who just happens to be a ghost-hunter... oh, and she's also dead-over-heels for Jesse — the sexiest spook ever! But can this girl get her ghost? In «Grave Doubts», Suze has to contend with fellow ghost-hunter, Paul Slater, who gives her a deadly ultimatum. Unless she dates him, he'll send Jesse into the afterlife — for good. Paul may be totally hot, but Susannah Simon will not be bossed around. Let the games begin... In «Heaven Sent», all Suze's dreams have come true — she's finally dating the most gorgeous ghost of all time, Jesse! But when her creepy admirer threatens to travel back in time and stop Jesse from dying, Suze is distraught. Will her new boyfriend choose life or love?»
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Paper Money
Автор: Ken Follett Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 1996 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092001-08-21
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Three seemingly independent events occur one morning in London: an MP wakes up after spending the night with a woman he picked up in a bar; a tycoon meets a Bank of England official for breakfast; and a criminal briefs his crew. A journalist struggles to unravel the truth behind the three events.
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What The Ladybird Heard
Автор: Julia Donaldson Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122012-10-13
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«'Oink!' said the cats... With all the MOOing and HISSing and BAAAing and CLUCKing, the farmyard is full of noise. But when Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len hatch a plot to steal the fine prize cow, it's the quietest animal of all who saves the day! Spot the glittery ladybird on every page of this wonderful rhyming tale from the creators of the bestselling «The Princess And The Wizard» and «Sharing A Shell».»
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Bridget Jones's Diary (Level 5 Intermediate with extra exercises) (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Fielding Helen Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2009 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-07-23
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Bridget Jones's Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement. Caught between the joys of Singleton fun, and the fear of dying alone and being found three More... Weeks later half eaten by an Alsatian; tortured by Smug Married friends asking, How's your love life with lascivious, yet patronizing leers, Bridget resolves to reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult and learn to program the VCR. With a blend of flighty charm, existential gloom, and endearing self-deprecation, the diary has touched a raw nerve with millions of readers the world round. Read it, laugh and crash your head onto the table before you cry, Bridget Jones is me!
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Dr No (Level 5 Intermediate)
Автор: Fleming Ian Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 119 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20102009-06-25
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James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the sudden disappearance of the island's Governor and his assistant. When he arrives, 007 begins to suspect that the Governor's absence is in some way linked to Dr No, the reclusive owner of a remote island which lies between Cuba and Jamaica. There have been several strange deaths on this island, which the local people blame on a mysterious and terrifying 'dragon'. Bond decides to pay a secret visit to the island. But he is not the only person to land there.
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Apartment 16
Автор: Adam L.G. Nevill Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20152011-06-25
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In an upmarket apartment block in Knightsbridge called Barrington House, the door to apartment 16 is always locked. For the last twenty years it has been empty. No one goes in. No one comes out. One evening a night security guard hears noises from inside. What he sees through the letterbox of apartment 16 changes his life forever... Shortly after a young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left another apartment in the block by her Aunt Lillian — an aunt she never knew, who died in mysterious circumstances. Touched by her aunt's story Apryl delves into the history of Barrington House. Something bad happened — something dark... something terrible, and the only way to stop it is to confront whatever lies behind the door of apartment 16 the gateway to something altogether more terrifying...
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Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives
Автор: Professor Richard Wiseman Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 200 Дата загрузки: 23 августа 20102011-09-27
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Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected? You need some Quirkology in your life. While other scientists beaver away on obvious problems, Richard Wiseman has been busy uncovering the secret ingredients of charisma, exploring how our personalities are shaped by when we are born and examining why people usually miss the obvious signs of their partner's infidelity. Using scientific methods to investigate offbeat topics that interest the general public as well as the scientific community, Quirkology brings a new understanding to the backwaters of the human mind and takes us to places where mainstream scientists fear to tread. Comparable to Freakonomics, but British, far more populist, and a lot funnier. Findings include: How does your surname influence your life? What does the way you walk reveal about your personality? Why should women have men write their personal ads? What is the funniest joke in the world?
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The Pillars of the Earth
Автор: Follett Ken Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 1087 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20092009-07-23
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Nothing happens the way you plan it. A lot of people were surprised by The Pillars of the Earth, including me. I was known as a thriller writer. In the book-business, when you have had a success, the smart thing to do is write the same sort of thing once a year for the rest of your life. Clowns should not try to play Hamlet; pop stars should not write symphonies. I should not have risked my reputation by writing something out of character and overarobitious. What's more, I don't believe in God. I'm not what you would call a spiritual person, According to my agent, my greatest problem as a writer is that I'm not a tortured soul. The last thing anyone would have expected from me was a story about building a church So Pillars was an unlikely book for me to write — and I almost didn't. I started it, then dropped it, and did not look at it again for ten years. This is how it happened...
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Little Explorers A: At the Zoo
Автор: Barbara Mitchell Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 24 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092007-06-05
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Macmillan English Explorers reading programme introduces, teaches and develops essential reading skills and gives continuity at each age level. They contain a balance of whole class teaching, shared reading and individual activities. With important high frequency words included in the authentic natural language, Macmillan English Explorers will help make children want to read and encourage reading as a habit.
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Poisoning In The Pub
Автор: Simon Brett Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 марта 20132015-08-13
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What's your poison? Fethering residents, Jude and Carole, get more than they bargained for when a lunchtime meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified and when a series of disasters start to befall his business, it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor. Left with a bad taste in their mouths — and not just from the food — the two amateur lady detectives wonder if it might just be more than a run of bad luck, which is forcing their favourite pub into bankruptcy. When Ray, a young man with the mental age of a five year old, is found in the kitchen of the pub with a knife through his heart — Carole and Jude swing into action. There's a killer on the loose in Fethering and Carole and Jude need to uncover who it is before it's last orders for the pub — and themselves.
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Kraken
Автор: China Mieville Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132013-04-22
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Deep in the research wing of the Natural History Museum is a prize specimen, something that comes along much less often than once in a lifetime: a perfect, and perfectly preserved, giant squid. But what does it mean when the creature suddenly and impossibly disappears? For curator Billy Harrow it's the start of a headlong pitch into a London of warring cults, surreal magic, apostates and assassins. It might just be that the creature he's been preserving is more than a biological rarity: there are those who are sure it's a god — A god that someone is hoping will end the world.
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The Perfect Murder
Автор: Peter James Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2014 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20152016-05-22
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Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly twenty years, but each barely recognises the person they wake up with every morning. Victor is so fed up with his job at the local egg-box factory — as well as distracted by his visits to his favourite prostitute, Kamila — that he hardly notices his wife's constant ridicule. Joan has resigned herself to the fact that Victor will never see beyond her double-chin to a new hair cut or outfit. She even puts up with his constant snoring which keeps her up night after night. Just. For unbeknownst to Victor, Joan is taking her sweet revenge: spending large amounts of money on his credit card, kitting herself out in a sexy new wardrobe, to impress her secret lover, Don. But then, as the bills mount, Victor loses his job. Soon he realises that the only way he can achieve his dream of setting up home with Kamila is to get Joan out of the picture. But Victor is about to get a nasty surprise. For he's not the only one with murder on his mind.
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Rupture
Автор: Simon Lelic Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 317 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20132011-12-07
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'Find what you were looking for, Inspector'? Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were asking the wrong thing. She had found what she was looking for — she had found what she had been sent to discover — but she had found out more besides. The question was what to do about it. The question was whether to do anything at all. In the depths of a sweltering summer, teacher Samuel Szajkowski walks into his school assembly and opens fire. He kills three pupils and a colleague before turning the gun on himself. Lucia May, the young policewoman who is assigned the case, is expected to wrap up things quickly and without fuss. The incident is a tragedy that could not have been predicted and Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Soon, however, Lucia becomes preoccupied with the question no one else seems to want to ask: what drove a mild-mannered, diffident school teacher to commit such a despicable crime? Piecing together the testimonies of the teachers and children at the school, Lucia discovers an uglier, more complex picture of the months leading up to the shooting. She realises too that she has more in common with Szajkowski than she could have imagined. As the pressure to bury the case builds, she becomes determined to tell the truth about what happened, whatever the consequences.
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The Immortals: Shadowland
Автор: Alyson Noel Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20152011-06-25
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Ever and Damen have travelled through countless past lives — and fought off the world's darkest enemies — in search of each other. But just when their destiny seems finally within reach, a powerful curse falls upon them. A single touch of their hands, a soft brush of their lips will mean death for Damen — cast into the darkness of the Shadowland. But as she seeks to break the curse, Ever meets Jude — a green-eyed, golden surfer boy who understands magick, and understands Ever better than she realises. And she begins to ask a terrifying question: even if you're immortal, can true love really last forever?
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The Immortals: Dark Flame
Автор: Alyson Noel Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 336 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20132012-07-28
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Once it seemed being immortal was a gift to Ever Bloom — now it's a curse. And she's a danger to herself. Ever has been dabbling in Magyck — seeking to explore her own powers, hoping to find a future for her relationship with Damen. But she's not in control — in fact, the magyck has bound her eternally to her immortal enemy, Roman. Whenever he's near, she feels his heartbeat, his breath, his blood racing in her veins. Ever is in deep — and the one person who might be able to help her must never find out what she's done.
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