The latest collection from the master storyteller. The fourteen - all new - stories show Jeffrey Archer's great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tail. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the railway tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service.
Five Best Humorous Stories/ Марк Твен. Лучшие юмористические рассказы
This set of books and audio CD includes five favorite comic stories of Mark Twain. Readers are encouraged not adapted texts of short stories in English and a parallel translation into Russian. On an audio CD recorded by native speakers original texts of short stories. You can also listen to the stories and in Russian in the classical translation and compare the English and Russian versions. Reading and listening texts in their original language, comparing them with translation into Russian, you can appreciate the skill of the writer and at the same time improve their skills in reading, listening, and foreign language translation.
A scientific dialogue with the Dalai Lama Imagine sitting with the Dalai Lama in his private meeting room with a small group of world-class scientists and philosophers. The talk is lively and fascinating as these leading minds grapple with age-old questions of compelling contemporary urgency. Daniel Goleman, the internationally bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence, provides the illuminating commentary—and reports on the breakthrough research this historic gathering inspired.
Enid Blyton – The Famous Five Series(Audiobooks)
The Famous Five are a group of children who have the sort of adventures most kids dream about, in a world where ginger beer flows and ham rolls are a staple diet. Julian, Dick and Anne get together with their cousin George in the first adventure, Five On A Treasure Island.
Robert Tombs's momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history.
