The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia. But Pelagia's fiance is fighting the Italian army. This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war.
A nightingale overhears a student, complaining that his professor's daughter will not dance with him, as he is unable to give her a red rose. The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one tells her that it can produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sacrifice her life to do so. Seeing the student in tears, the nightingale carries out the ritual, and impales herself on the rose-tree's thorn so that her heart's blood can stain the rose.
A gentle introduction to grammar for all ages! Clear signposting of grammar topics and short units that can be used in any order make the books easy to use alongside any upper primary/lower secondary beginner's course.
Ideal for Young Learners English Tests preparation.
Clear signposting of grammar topics and short units that can be used in any order make the books easy to use alongside any upper primary/lower secondary beginner's course. Ideal for Young Learners English Tests preparation.
Particle Physics for Non-Physicists - A Tour of the Micro-cosmos
Would you like to know how the universe works? The science that has found many of the answers to that profound and age-old question is particle physics: the study of those impossibly tiny particles with unbelievably strange names: bosons and leptons, quarks and neutrinos. 12 lectures of 30 minutes - 165 mb - mp3