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Greg is a porter at the Shepton Hotel in New York. When a girl with beautiful green eyes asks him for help, Greg can't say no. The girl's name is Cassie, and she says she is an artist. She tells Greg that her stepfather has her sketchbooks, and now she wants them back. Cassie says her stepfather is staying at Greg's hotel… so what could go wrong?

'It's an interesting job,' says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong – very wrong.

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Christine Lindop. Who is the man with the roses in his hand?' thinks Anna. 'I want to meet him.' 'Who is the girl with the guitar?' thinks Will. 'I like her. I want to meet her.' But they do not meet. 'There are lots of men!' says Anna's friend Vicki, but Anna cannot forget Will. And then one rainy day…

Organizational Change integrates major empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to implementing communication in organizational settings. Laurie Lewis ties together the disparate literatures in management, education, organizational sociology, and communication to explore how the practices and processes of communication work in real-world cases of change implementation. Gives a bold and comprehensive overview of communication research and ideas on change and those who bring it about Fills...

Кадзуо Исигуро – урожденный японец, выпускник литературного курса Малькольма Брэдбери, написавший самый английский роман конца XX века! Лауреат Нобелевской премии 2017 года. «Остаток дня» – дневник дворецкого, жизнь с точки зрения Бэрримора. В основе его стилистики лежит сдержанность, выявляющая себя в самой механике речи. Герой не считает возможным проявлять свои чувства, и на лингвистическом уровне эта своеобразная аскеза приводит к замечательным результатам – перед нами этакая оборотная...

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Jane Cammack. Manor Hall is an old dark house with a mystery. Nobody can go into the music room. But one night Tom and Milly hear something. The noise is coming from the music room. Tom and Milly open the door. Someone in the music room is singing. Tom and Milly are afraid, but they can't move. Can Tom and Milly discover the mystery of Manor Hall?

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Michael Dean. It is the year 2030, and an e-mail message arrives at New York Cafe: 'I want to help people and make them happy!' But not everybody is happy about the e-mail, and soon the police and the President are very interested in the New York Cafe.

В эпатажном произведении, изданном в США тридцать лет назад, профессор Уолтер Блок с позиций либертарианской этики и беспристрастной логики исследует галерею преследуемых обществом типажей, общественных «козлов отпущения», среди которых: сутенер, проститутка, штрейкбрехер, шантажист, ростовщик, клеветник, наркоторговец, наркоман, спекулянт, посредник и др. Результаты анализа поражают дерзостью и парадоксальностью. «Овцы в волчьих шкурах» – это несомненный интеллектуальный вызов для...

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A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Phillip Burrows and Mark Foster. The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange…

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Helen Brooke. Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer. Now another woman lies in a London street and there is blood everywhere. She is very ill. You are the famous detective Mycroft Pound; can you catch the killer before he escapes?

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Come with us to London – a city as old as the Romans, and as new as the twenty-first century. There are places to go – from Oxford Street to Westminster Abbey, from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to Wimbledon Tennis Club. And things to do – ride on the London Eye, visit the markets, go to the theatre, run in the London Marathon. Big, beautiful, noisy, exciting – that's London.

В этой книге выдающийся французский социолог Бруно Латур бросает вызов нашему пониманию общества и «социального». Он показывает, почему социальное не может мыслиться как разновидность материала или как некая сфера, и ставит под сомнение сам проект «социального объяснения» какого-либо другого положения дел. Хотя этот более ранний проект был в прошлом продуктивен и, возможно, необходим, теперь он почти остановлен, и отчасти благодаря прогрессу социальных наук. На нынешней стадии их развития уже...

Build an online catalog and a members-only site Everything you need to know to create a dynamic PHP and MySQL Web site! Been thinking of creating a high-quality interactive Web site? This book is just what you need to get started! Here's the fun and easy way(r) to develop a Web application in PHP 4, 5, or 6 and MySQL 5, test your software, enable your Web pages to display, change, and move database information, and much more. Discover how to * Plan and implement a Web database application *...

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. 'Every day someone steals money from people near the shops. We must stop this,' says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many suspects – who is the robber?

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim…

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Phillip Burrows and Mark Foster. 'How can Mr Frank be angry now?' thinks Mike happily. His film is good and he is the only cameraman on the volcano. Now he can go home. But then he finds Jenny and she is dying. Rocks start to move and Mike is afraid. Can they get off the volcano alive? And what happens to Mike's camera and film?

Книга содержит сокращенный и упрощенный текст сказки Дж. М. Барри (1860-1937) «Питер Пен». Текст произведения сопровождается постраничными комментариями, системой упражнений и словарем. Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (Уровень 2 – Pre-Intermediate).

В одних странах, городах, компаниях и семьях люди спокойно относятся к 15-минутным опозданиям, мусору под ногами, мятой одежде, бурной жестикуляции, пререканиям детей с взрослыми и подчиненных с руководством. В других вас сурово накажут за малейшую непунктуальность, улетевшую мимо урны жвачку, лишнюю запятую в документе или непочтительность во взгляде. Почему в одних культурах жестко соблюдаются установленные нормы, а в других активно приветствуются независимость и инициативность? Почему люди...

«Половая психопатия» – классический труд по психопатологии, выдержавший 12 изданий еще при жизни автора, Рихарда Крафт-Эбинга (1840). Его вклад в мировую психиатрию трудно переоценить – Крафт-Эбинг считается основоположником современной сексологии. Издав несколько общих трудов по психиатрии, он решился на издание книги чрезвычайно смелой, даже шокирующей. В своем труде автор впервые в истории описал такие сексуальные патологии, как садизм, мазохизм, некрофилия, асексуальность и пр. Каждый вид...

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Phillip Burrows and Mark Foster. 'Everything's ready now. We can do the experiment,' says your assistant Joe. You are the famous scientist Mary Durie working in a laboratory in Alaska. When you discover something very new and valuable, other people want to try to steal your idea – can you stop them before they escape?

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Phillip Burrows and Mark Foster. When Tonya and her friends decide to sail around the world they want to see exciting things and visit exciting places. But one day, they meet an orca – a killer whale – one of the most dangerous animals in the sea. And life gets a little too exciting.

Whatever your project – no matter how big or small – PRINCE2 For Dummies, 2009 Edition is the perfect guide to using this project management method to help ensure its success. Fully updated with the 2009 practice guidelines, this book will take you through every step of a project – from planning and establishing roles to closing and reviewing – offering practical and easy-to-understand advice on using PRINCE2. It also shows how to use the method when approaching the key concerns of project...