Collins English Readers: They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).
Аудиокнига предназначена для развития навыков аудирования и чтения. Книга адаптирована и прочитана носителем языка.
You Can't Read This: Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes
Wherever people can read, there are stories about the magic, mystery, and power of what they read. Val Ross presents a history of reading that is, in fact, the story of the monumental, on-going struggle to read. From Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon the Great, the world’s oldest signed author to Empress Shotoku of Japan who in 764 ordered the printing of one million Buddhist prayers; from the story of Hulagu, Ghengis Khan’s nasty brother who destroyed the library of Baghdad to Bowdler and the censorship of Shakespeare, there have been barriers to reading ranging from the physical to the economical, social, and political.
• COVER: The New Map Of The Brain - There are uncharted worlds inside your head, but science is drawing a map • The Mystery of Consciousness - You exist, right? Prove it. How 100 billion jabbering neurons create the knowledge--or illusion--that you're here • The Power of Hope - We say "Sweet dreams" when we induce general anesthesia--but nobody dreams. Consciousness stops. With anesthesia, however, we know how to undo the spell. REUPLOAD NEEDED
Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800
On Christmas morning in the year 800, Pope Leo III placed the crown of imperial Rome on the brow of a Germanic king named Karl—a gesture that enabled the man later hailed as Charlemagne to claim his empire and forever shape the destiny of Europe. Becoming Charlemagne tells the story of the international power struggle that led to this world-changing event, illuminating an era that has long been overshadowed by myth.
From Genghis Khan to the arid wastes of the Gobi desert, from the Soviet Union's most Stalinist satellite to the first Asian communist country to embrace democracy, Mongolia has always been an area of mystery and dread to westerners. Studied in school as part of the core curriculum, the Mongol Empire once stretched across Asia from the Pacific Ocean to Kiev and Baghdad. In modern times, interest in Mongolia has been suddenly sparked by the opening up of the country after 70 years of isolation in the Communist block.
