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North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you. A place rich in…

The Magic Brocade EN

This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5 - 12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.

S. Arengo The Magic Cooking Pot EN

The Classic Tales books offer familiar stories, featuring characters such as Cinderella and Snow White. Full-colour illustrations aim to stimulate children's interest in the story and help them to follow the storyline. Suitable both for reading aloud to a whole class, or for individual reading, there is a glossary in each book with illustrations and examples to help with unfamiliar words. Activities and puzzles…

Sue Arengo The Magic Cooking Pot

Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales, and they'll love their English lessons too.

S. Arengo The Magic Cooking Pot Activity Book EN

The Classic Tales course offers favourite traditional stories, retold for younger learners. Five carefully graded levels provide easy and enjoyable reading practice. Illustrations and a glossary, together with puzzles and questions related to the story, act as a further aid to understanding. Four beginner level titles are also available as Big Books. These large format editions enable the teacher to introduce the…

Rachel Bladon The Magpie and the Milk

What happens to the farmer, the milk, and the magpie?

Percy Bysshe Shelley The Major Works

A major new edition, freshly edited in many cases from manuscripts, of Shelley's poetry and prose. It contains the longer poems from Queen Mab to The Triumph of Life, including generous selections...

Rudiger Wolfrum The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law

This index volume completes The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, the definitive reference work on international law. It provides complete lists of not only all articles and authors contained within the ten volumes, but also full...

C.B. Martin The Mind in Nature EN

What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical. C.B. Martin, an original and influential exponent of 'ontologically serious' metaphysics, echoes Locke's dictum that 'all…

Matthew Lewis The Monk EN

The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, is overwhelmed with desire for a young girl; once having abandoned his monastic vows he begins a terrible descent into immorality and violence. His appalling fall from grace embraces blasphemy,…

Peter Foreman The Mystery of Allegra EN

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Allegra is an unusual name. It means 'happy' in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other…

Cyril Edwards The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs

In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit...

Margaret Drabble The Oxford Companion to English Literature EN

The first edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, edited by Sir Paul Harvey, was published in 1932, and quickly established itself as as the standard source of reference for scholars, students, and general readers alike. In 1985, under the editorship of Margaret Drabble, the text was thoroughly and sensitively revised to bring it up to date without losing its essential character, or the lightness of…

Alison Latham The Oxford Companion to Music EN

This new edition of The Oxford Companion to Music is a comprehensive and authoritative reference work, which, like its famous predecessors, will be invaluable to both professional and amateur musicians, and general music lovers. A distinguished and international team of contributors covers a broad sweep of musical subjects, ranging from composers and performers to instruments and genres.The Oxford Companion to Music…

Jancis Robinson The Oxford Companion to Wine

Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award including the Glenfiddich and Julia Child/IACP awards, ...

John Ayto, John Simpson The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang EN

Here are over 5,000 slang words and phrases common to 20th-century English, providing a comprehensive and highly engaging guide to the most outspoken corner of our language. Unlike most such dictionaries this volume is organized thematically. Within each section the words are listed chronologically, starting with the century's earliest words and phrases and progressing right through to the present day, thus…

The Oxford Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms EN

An essential point of reference for anyone wanting to widen their vocabulary, this dictionary offers more than 140,000 alternative and opposite words as well as thousands of real examples of usage from the Oxford English Corpus to help you find the word you need quickly and easily. Authoritative, accessible, and completely up to date, The Oxford Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms is an invaluable guide for anyone…

N.S. Doniach The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary EN

The only Hebrew Dictionary reflecting modern scholarship. The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary is a landmark in the description of modern Hebrew. Hailed by the Jewish Chronicle as a 'tremendous advance over previous works', it provides a unique description of Hebrew language as it is encountered and used today, covering formal and poetic Hebrew as well as current idioms and phrases, slang and colloquialisms.

Jan E. Leighley The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior EN

•Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors. •The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior provides the key point of reference for anyone working in the area. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a…

L. Sandy Maisel, Jeffrey M. Berry The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups EN

•Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors. •The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups provides the key point of reference for anyone working in the area. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics is a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a…

David Coen, Wyn Grant, Graham Wilson The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government EN

Business is one of the major power centres in modern society. The state seeks to check and channel that power so as to serve broader public policy objectives. However, if the way in which business is governed is ineffective or over burdensome, it may become more difficult to achieve desired goals such as economic growth or higher levels of employment. In a period of international economic crisis, the study of how…

Asli M. Colpan, Takashi Hikino, James R. Lincoln The Oxford Handbook of Business Groups EN

Business Groups - large, diversified, often family-controlled organizations, such as the Japanese keiretsu and the Korean chaebol - have played a significant role in national economic growth, especially in emerging economies. Earlier variants can also be found in the trading companies, often set up in Britain, which operated in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Business Groups are often criticized as premodern forms…

Dirk Geeraerts, Hubert Cuyckens The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics EN

lenn Morgan, John Campbell The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis EN

It is increasingly accepted that 'institutions matter' for economic organization and outcomes. The last decade has seen significant expansion in research examining how institutional contexts affect the nature and behaviour of firms, the operation of markets, and economic outcomes. Yet 'institutions' conceal a multitude of issues and perspectives. Much of this research has been comparative, and followed different…

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