A dazzling predecessor to Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient and the novel in which the characters of Hana, the orphaned girl, and Caravaggio, the thief, appear for the first time, In the Skin of a Lion is a work of fiction that bristles with intelligence and shimmers with romance as it tests the boundary between history and myth.
Настоящее издание является продолжением `The Yistory of England by J.J.Bell` и рассчитано на средний уровень владения языком (Intermediate). Оно посвящено интереснейшему периоду английской истории, длившемуся с 1485 по 1689 гг., со времен войн Алой и Белой розы до событий `Славной революции` и состоит из очерков, посвященных царствованию английских королей династий Тюдоров и Стюартов. Тексты сопровождаются комментариями и контрольными заданиями. Это позволяет рекомендовать книгу в качестве учебного пособия учащимся старших классов различных типов школ, студентам гуманитарных вузов, всем изучающим английский язык и интересующимся историей.
Over two million Girl Scouts worldwide owe their membership to its founder, Juliette Low a woman who, as a girl growing up in the post Civil War South, refused to accept that girls couldn't do everything boys could. Whether angrily defending her friend against taunts of schoolmates or rescuing a kitten from the highest branches of a tree, Low possessed the spirit and strength of character that would lead her in adulthood to act as a world-famous advocate for girls. Children will experience Low's joy at the gift of her very own horse, feel her excitement at attending her first dance, and share her frustration with being thrust in to the role of a well-behaved 19th-century young lady who would rather have been riding, creating sculptures, or climbing.
