В пособии представлены различные тексты о Великобритании, которые знакомят школьников со страной изучаемого языка, ее географическим положением, политической системой, административно-территориальной структурой, историей, традициями и обычаями. Тексты сопровождаются грамматическими упражнениями.
The United Kingdom: Texts for oral and written work in English. All tasks in English
Uniting the Kingdom?: The Making of British History
Added by: bukka | Karma: 785.35 | Non-Fiction, Other | 10 April 2009
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Product Description This highly illuminating collection of original essays forms an ideal introduction to the most up-to-date thinking about the problems of British history and identities. How was the United Kingdom formed? How were Wales, Scotland and Ireland incorporated to a unified British polity? Uniting the Kingdom? is a timely examination of this history.
Assembling the most distinguished historians of Britian, this landmark book explores themes and questions across the entire span of British and United Kingdom history. Traditional chronological frontiers are broken down as medievalists, early modernists and modernists sustain a dynamic dialogue around the key issues of the British state such as expansion and contraction, the nature of political tensions and conflicting historiographies. Uniting the Kingdom? represents a comprehensive survey of the most recent historical scholarship and will preserve its resonance for years to come.
This handbook is intended for those readers who are intending to become permanent residents or citizens of the United Kingdom, and are studying in order to take the tests of knowledge of English and of life in the United Kingdom which all applicants now need to pass.
Stuffed with eye-popping pictures and far out facts, all the questions you could ever ask about the animal kingdom are answered in this one-of-a-kind family reference.
The recognition of animal pain and stress, once controversial, is now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals--like humans--enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain. Instead it suggests that creatures from birds to baboons feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe proposes that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society. For more information please visit the author's website at www.pleasurablekingdom.com
