Added by: rszyma | Karma: 779.66 | Fiction literature | 23 September 2010
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The Panama Plot
The Panama Plot (collected 1918) starts out with six tales set in Latin America, followed by four US laid tales. The Latin American stories have some common features. All have detailed Backgrounds, dealing with life in the countries they are set. Several deal with shipping. The murders in the story are almost all poisoning cases. Reeve takes a double point of view on these poisons: he shows their unusual symptoms, and builds scientific detective stories out of these.
Teachers' club is a monthly e-magazine for teachers who would like to expand their students' knowledge about culture of English speaking countries. This issue is devoted to fruits of autumn.
Harry Turtledove continues to mirror World War II in the third installment of his Derlavai series, Through the Darkness. While many of the countries, people and events in the series have analogs in the real world, there are enough differences to maintain tension. Turtledove’s military scenes clearly show the difference between strategy and tactics as almost all of his grunts view themselves as being on the receiving end of a major defeat, even when they intellectually ...
A lot of interesting and useful information about geography, history, economy, education, literature, government and politics, culture, customs and everyday life in English speaking countries.
The Little Data Book on External Debt provides a quick reference for users interested in external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, key debt ratios, and the currency composition of long-term debt for all countries reporting through the Debtor Reporting system. A pocket edition of the Global Development Finance 2009, Volume II: Summary and Country Tables, it contains statistical tables for 135 countries as well as summary tables for regional and income groups.
