That the media world is changing at a dizzying pace is a statement of the obvious. Yet, some things do remain constant. There are principles of media literacy, which once students have mastered, arm them with the tools and critical thinking they need to be savvy and self-aware consumers of the media. Ralph Hanson does this in every page of his book.
In his bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world - a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin. Now, in Silent Treatment - his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how the power to heal can become a license to kill.... Silent Treatment will keep your pulse racing from beginning to end.
Günter Grass - The tin drum (audio drama)The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, became a runaway best-seller and catapulted its young author, i.e. Gunter Grass, to the forefront of world literature. Along with the book's fiftieth anniversary comes this new translation by Breon Mitchell, one that is faithful to Grass's style and rhythm, restores omissions, and reflects more fully the complexity of the original work. This is the story of Oskar Matzerath, a dwarfish hunchback detained in a mental hospital, convicted of a murder he did not commit.
For kids and their parents Для тех, кто любит слушать безупречную английскую актерскую речь с замечательным музыкальным сопровождением.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
The great warrior, king and conqueror who marched with his army from Macedonia to India- he was perhaps the first ruler with a world perspective, because he dreamed of one big world empire. It’s strange because he was taught by the famous philosopher Aristotle… The great German composer – what’s the music, what’s the fate!
