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Mark Thompson Enough SaidWe’ve never had more information or more opportunity to debate the issues of the day. Yet the relationship between politicians, the media and the public is characterised by suspicion, mistrust and apathy. What has gone wrong? Enough Said reveals how political, social and technological change has transformed our political landscape – and how we talk about the issues that affect us all. Political rhetoric has become…
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Sergio Miceli Ennio Morricone ENThe book: Ennio Morricone is an Italian composer and conductor of many Italo-Western classics such as The Good the Bad and the Ugly. Born in Rome, Morricone wrote more than five hundred soundtracks for a wide variety of genres and received the Honorary Academy Award for career achievement in 2007. The book is a portrait of the artist with many private, mostly unpublished photographs accompanied by many stunning film…
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Steven Pinker Enlightenment NowIs modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality...
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Steven Pinker Enlightenment NowIs modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trendlines rather than the headlines, you discover that our…
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Angela Tomkinson Enjoy New York ENLet’s all go to the Big Apple! Come with us on our A-Z journey to one of the most exciting and fun cities in the world. Do you want to know what’s the tallest building in New York? Or what New Yorkers like doing in their free time? Would you like to learn about the food people eat in New York ? Or whichfamous people are from this city? You can discover the answers to these questions and learn much more about the…
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André Aciman Enigma VariationsFrom a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's ...
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André Aciman Enigma VariationsFrom a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one ...
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Joseph Emonds English: The Language of the Vikings ENAutoři dokládají, že základ střední angličtiny (a tedy i moderní angličtiny) je severogermánský s četnými výpůjčkami ze staroanglické slovní zásoby, nikoli naopak. Střední angličtina pochází ze staré kontinentální skandinávštiny a k prolnutí obou slovních zásob nedošlo v době raného skandinávského osídlení Anglie, ale až o 200 let později, především ve 12. století. Autoři na základě četných gramatických rysů…
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Stuart Redman English Vocabulary in Use Pre-intermediate and Intermediate ENA new edition of the best-selling vocabulary practice title. Whether you're studying on your own or in class, English Vocabulary in Use Pre-intermediate and Intermediate covers all the words and phrases you need at this level to understand and be understood in English. This new edition is fully updated to make the book even more relevant and accessible. The updated CD-ROM provides hundreds of extra practice…
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Beth Levin English Verb Classes and Alternations ENIn this rich reference work, Beth Levin classifies over 3,000 English verbs according to shared meaning and behavior. Levin starts with the hypothesis that a verb's meaning influences its syntactic behavior and develops it into a powerful tool for studying the English verb lexicon. She shows how identifying verbs with similar syntactic behavior provides an effective means of distinguishing semantically coherent verb…
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Bas Aarts English Syntax and Argumentation ENHow can we go about describing the structure of sentences? What do we learn from analysing language in this way? This book examines the nuts and bolts of English syntax in an accessible way. Now in its fourth edition, English Syntax and Argumentation remains a student favourite. The book starts with a discussion of the basic concepts that are important in the study of syntax, and then moves on to more complex issues…
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Peter Roach English Phonetics and Phonology ENA complete basic course in English phonetics and phonology which combines academic material with practical exercises, both written and recorded. Since the publication of the first edition in 1983, this course has established itself as the most practical, comprehensive text in the field and become widely used in many parts of the world in universities and other institutions of higher education. It is used by both…
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Michael Ondaatje English Patient ENThe final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of The Histories by…
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Jonathan Bate English Literature: A Very Short Introduction ENSweeping across two millennia and every literary genre, acclaimed scholar and biographer Jonathan Bate provides a dazzling introduction to English Literature. The focus is wide, shifting from the birth of the novel and the brilliance of English comedy to the deep Englishness of landscape poetry and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature laureates. It goes on to provide a more in-depth analysis, with…
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George Mikes English Humour for Beginners ENIf you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour.So proclaims George Mikes' timeless exploration of this curious phenomenon. Whether it's understatement, self-deprecation or plain cruelty, the three elements he identifies as essential to our sense of humour, being witty here is a way of life. Perfectly placed as an adopted Englishman himself, Mikes delivers his shrewd advice -…
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Adrian Wallwork English for Writing Research Papers ENPublishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English usage. It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native authors, 500 abstracts by PhD students, and over 1000 hours…
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Anna Kucharíková English for Students of Mechanical Engineering ENToday's classroom is a vibrant place, technically endowed with cassette and CD decks, video players, overhead projectors, etc. Course materials present the most up-to-date fruits of serious educational theory in textbooks that are as pleasing to the eye as they are stimulating to the mind and the tongue. Our script hopes to take its modest place among those works enabling students to advance their knowledge in a…
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Irena Baumruková English for nutritionists ENThe first part of the textbook, the practical part, is designed for students, assistants, professionals in healthy lifestyle and exercises, and nutritional specialists who have to communicate in English or who wish to work in English-speaking countries. The level is lower intermediate to intermediate, but some of the texts can be used by well-motivated, self-study beginners as well. The language is easy, and…
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English Fairy Tales / Anglické pohádky ENV tomto výbor nazvaném Anglické pohádky se objevují poprvé v českém překladu pohádky sebrané etnologem a sběratelem lidové tvořivosti Josephem Jacobsem, původně vydané ve dvou knihách: jako English Fairy Tales (Anglické pohádky) (1890) a More English Fairy Tales (Další anglické pohádky) (1894). Výběr zahrnuje jak pohádky u nás již v podobných verzích dobře známé (O třech medvědech, Tomík Paleček), tak i pohádky méně…
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F.A. Steel English Fairy TalesFairy tales are written both to entertain and to educate. Published in the shadow of the First World War, F. A. Steel's retellings of forty-one English fairy tales form a classic collection of stories, ranging from the familiar ...
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