The Medieval Vision - Essays in History and Perception
This exceptionally readable book describes how medieval men and women perceived their world, and how their vision of it colored their ideas about natural and supernatural occurrences and their attitudes about land and property, government, the role of women, crime, lawlessness, and outlaws.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 14 February 2011
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Yankee Doodle Dead
Unless you find the idea of a woman who runs a mystery book store as an amateur crime solver just too cute for comfort, you'll have some fun with Carolyn G. Hart's latest cozy yarn about Annie and Max Darling, the Nick and Nora Charles of the South Carolina island resort town called Broward's Rock. Annie, of course, still keeps her Death on Demand book shop, matching wits with customers about unlikely murder methods from classic mysteries while serving them iced café lattes to ward off the summer heat.
This coursebook is different and unique because it introduces English language in connection with other subjects children are studying at school at this age, such as Social science, History, Art, Geography. The tasks are fun and informative. The book has a lot of pictures, and yet it's using an engaging and amuzing way to teach and talk about new things.
From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life.
A multimedia program for children learning English at elementary level. Provides such activties as games, puzzles, singing, and word connections. Contains 50 interactive exercises and a mini English-Polish dictionary of about 300 words. Can be used in kindergarten and at the beginning of primary school.
