The Second Book of General Ignorance: A Quite Interesting Book
Who made the first aeroplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What colour are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? What was the first dishwasher built to do? John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, the brains behind QI, here present a wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating and mind-bending facts, taking on the popular General Ignorance round from BBC1's top rated quiz and the first book in the bestselling series.
Сборник текстов для чтения на английском языке включает богатый материал из английских и американских оригинальных источников по разнообразным темам: «Мужчина и женщина», «Город», «Политика», «Здоровье», «Развлечения» и т.д. Особенностью данного сборника является подход к чтению не только как к источнику информации, но и как к способу совершенствования монологической речи в процессе чтения.
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Added by: sohel07 | Karma: 85.43 | Black Hole | 21 February 2011
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Stephen King: Collection of 21 Novels
Stephen King’s writing is securely rooted in the great American tradition that glorifies spirit-of-place and the abiding power of narrative. He crafts stylish, mind-bending page-turners that contain profound moral truths–some beautiful, some harrowing–about our inner lives. Let me assure you that King's work most definitely is literature, because it was written to be published and is read with admiration. What Snyder really means is that it is not the literature preferred by the academic-literary elite. This is a collection of King's most famous 21 novels.
Added by: math man | Karma: 198.35 | Black Hole | 20 February 2011
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The Economist Magazine 2010 Full Collection
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in an office in the City of Westminster, London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843. While The Economist calls itself a "newspaper", each issue appears on glossy paper, like a news magazine.
Identity and Agency in English Society 1500 - 1800
This collection of essays is arranged around the central issue raised by this raft of new empirical research--the relationship between social identity, or the "vision of the self," and the ways in which this can explain historical agency. If identities in early modern society were multiple, complex, and dependent on context, rather than homogenous, consistent, or easily determined, then it is difficult to make simple causal links to behavior. This collection aims to make innovative new research on the structures of English society available to the wider scholarly audience.
