The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Readers, Level 3)

The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Readers, Level 3)
by Henry James
Pearson ESL (March 2000) | ISBN-10: 0582416922 | pages 48
PDF | English | 14.5 MB

A young lady arrives at a big country house to teach two children. Strange things start to happen. The children are very beautiful but are they as innocent as they seem? And how did the last governess die? A terrible story of ghosts and evil begins. Henry James (1843 - 1916) wrote this story in 1898. Many people think it's the best ghost story ever written.

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LONGMAN Egzamin Gimnazjalny z języka angielskiego. Podręcznik i repetytorium z testami

LONGMAN Egzamin Gimnazjalny z języka angielskiego.
Podręcznik i repetytorium z testami
by Rod Fricker, Jerzy Gaszewski, Tomasz Siuta
Pearson Longman (2008) | ISBN-10: 8388291821 | pages 215
PDF | English | 40 MB

Nowy kurs przygotowujący do egzaminu gimnazjalnego został opracowany przez zespół autorów mających doświadczenie w nauczaniu w polskim gimnazjum. Wyjątkowe połączenie podręcznika i repetytorium pozwala na efektywne wykorzystanie publikacji jako podręcznika w trzeciej klasie gimnazjum oraz jako repetytorium do samodzielnej powtórki przed egzaminem.

• Idealna publikacja do wykorzystania na lekcji i do samodzielnej nauki!
• Wszystkie typy zadań egzaminacyjnych.
• Zakres słownictwa obejmujący 15 tematów katalogowych.
• Pomocne strategie podpowiadające, jak radzić sobie z poszczególnymi typami zadań.
• Solidna porcja różnorodnych ćwiczeń na rozumienie tekstu czytanego i słuchanego oraz reagowanie językowe.
• Powtórzenie wszystkich struktur gramatycznych obowiązujących na egzaminie.
• Testy w formacie arkuszy egzaminacyjnych.
• Liczne, kolorowe ilustracje wspomagające naukę słownictwa.
• Przejrzysty i logiczny układ gwarantujący dobre przygotowanie do egzaminu.

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Egzamin Gimnazjalny z Języka Angielskiego - Arkusze Egzaminacyjne

Egzamin Gimnazjalny z Języka Angielskiego - Arkusze Egzaminacyjne + CD
by Grażyna Iskra
Wydawnictwo Szkolne PWN (2008) | ISBN: 978-83-7446-902-9 | pages 51
PDF + Audio (MP3) | English | 50 + 25 MB

Arkusze gimnazjalne to publikacja skierowana do uczniów, którzy zdają egzamin gimnazjalny z j.angielskiego. W książce znaleźć można zbiór zadań do wszystkich części egzaminu, transkrypcję nagranych tekstów oraz klucz z odpowiedziami. Do książki dołączona jest płyta CD z nagranymi tekstami przeznaczonymi do sprawdzania odbioru tekstu słuchanego. Zadania są podobne do tych, ktуre pojawią się w trakcie egzaminu końcowego. Dzięki temu uczeń ma możliwość sprawdzenia swojej wiedzy i oswojenia się z nową formą egzaminu.

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English Proverbs and Sayings

English Proverbs and Sayings
by S. Kuskovskaya
Vysheishaya Shkola (1987) | ISBN-10: 0828534985 | pages 257
PDF | English | 50 MB

Proverbs, or sayings, are short sentences expressing a well-known truth, or a common fact familiar to experience. They cover many of the aspects of human life, and, as they refer mostly to everyday facts they are highly colloquial. Short and well constructed sentences, they are easily memorized. Proverbs of different countries often convey similar general ideas in an entirely different form.
This book is an attempt to group certain proverbs, or sayings, according to a possible similarity of ideas conveyed by them. These classified proverbs amount to over a thousand. They are given with Russian translations or, when possible, with Russian equivalents of a varying degree of adequacy.

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Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving; Text adaptation by Alan Hines
Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0194243370 | pages 40
PDF | English | 13 MB

In the first of these stories, Rip van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets a headless rider in the middle of a dark night. These two classic tales of the supernatural by Washington Irving have been popular for nearly two hundred years.

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First Certificate Practise Tests

First Certificate Practise Tests
by Mark Harrison and Rosalie Kerr
Oxford University Press (1996) | ISBN: 9789604032815 | pages 162
PDF | English | 88.7 MB

This book contains five complete practice tests for the revised First Certificate in English (FCE), Cambridge Level 3. Developed by experienced writers, the tests accurately reflect the coverage and level of the real examination. Each of the texts in Papers 1 and 3 has been taken from a different source, in order to include examples of the wide variety of text types that you may find in the actual examination.

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National Geographic - January 1971

National Geographic - January 1971
PDF | English | 10 MB

The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, published its first issue nine months after the Society was founded as the Society's official journal, a benefit for joining the tax exempt National Geographic Society. The magazine has had for many years a trademarked yellow border around the edge of its cover.
There are 12 monthly issues of National Geographic per year, plus at least four additional map supplements. On rare occasions, special issues of the magazine are also created. The magazine contains articles about geography, popular science, world history, culture, current events and photography of places and things all over the world and universe. The National Geographic magazine is currently published in 32 language editions in many countries around the world. Combined English and other language circulation is nearly nine million monthly with more than fifty million readers monthly.
With a worldwide circulation in thirty-two language editions of nearly nine million, more than fifty million people receive the magazine every month[citation needed]. In May 2007, National Geographic magazine won the American Society of Magazine Editors' General Excellence Award in the over two million circulation category and the best photography award for three issues of the magazine in 2006.

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Penguin Readers

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Penguin Readers
Level 3 Pre-Intermediate (1200 words)
Longman (2006) | ISBN: 1405833963 | pages 64
PDF | English | 8.5 MB

Precious Ramotswe is the only female private detective in Botswana. Her agency the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the best in the country. She solves a number of difficult - and sometimes dangerous - problems. A missing husband, a missing finger and a missing child she will solve these mysteries in her own special way.

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A Workbook in Language Teaching by Earl W. Stevick

A Workbook in Language Teaching
With Special Reference to English as a Foreign Language
by Earl W. Stevick
Abingdon Press (1963) | ISBN-10: 068746174X | 128 pages
PDF | English | 5 MB

This book is designed to be used either as a whole or in part. It should be of value, either in the initial training of new language teachers or as a basis for rethinking and mutually profitable discussions among those who are more experienced.

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Two-Word Verbs in English by J.N. Hook

J.N. Hook, “Two-Word Verbs in English”
Heinle ELT (1981) | ISBN: 0155925067 | 190 pages
PDF | English | 50 MB

This practical text will help students understand and use over 400 of the most common two- and three-word verbs in English such as add up to, write down, break in on, or watch out for.

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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature Vol. 1: Greek Literature

P.E. Easterling, Bernard M.W. Knox “The Cambridge History of Classical Literature
Vol. 1: Greek Literature"
Cambridge University Press (1985) | ISBN: 0521210429 | 924 pages
PDF | English | 55 MB

This series provides individual textbooks on early Greek poetry, on Greek drama, on philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and of the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part 4. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index.

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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Vol. 2: Latin Literature

E.J. Kenney, W.V. Clausen “The Cambridge History of Classical Literature,
Vol. 2: Latin Literature"
Cambridge University Press (1982) | ISBN: 0521210437 | 974 pages
PDF | English | 62 MB

The Cambridge History of Classical Literature provides a comprehensive, critical survey of the literature of Greece and Rome from Homer till the Fall of Rome. This is the only modern work of this scope; it embodies the very considerable advances made by recent classical scholarship, and reflects too the increasing sophistication and vigour of critical work on ancient literature. The literature is presented throughout in the context of the culture and the social and hisotircal processes of which it is an integral part. The overall aim is to offer an authoritative work of reference and appraisal for one of the world's greatest continuous literary traditions. The work is divided into two volumes, each with a similar and broadly chronological structure. Among the special features are important introductory chapters by the General Editors on 'Books and Readers', discussing the conditions under which literature was written and read in antiquity. There are also extensive Appendices or Authors and Works giving detailed factual information in a convenient form. Technical annotation is otherwise kept to a minimum, and all quotations in foreign languages are translated.

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The Alamo - (Warhammer Historical: Legends Of The Old West range)

The Alamo - (Warhammer Historical: Legends Of The Old West range)
PDF | English | 100 pages | 40 MB

This lavish book deals with one of the most infamous battles in the Old West when the Mexican army fought Texans at the Alamo mission in San Antonio. Inside you'll find new rules, army lists and scenarios so you can take your battles to a whole new scale, creating sweeping military actions to recreate the Texas War for Independence.

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Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians

Patrick W. Carey, Joseph T. Lienhard, "Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians"
Greenwood Press (February 2000) | ISBN: 0313296499 | 608 pages
PDF | English | 29 MB

The last 20 centuries of Christian history have witnessed the emergence of numerous theological traditions. This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 450 Christian theologians. Included are entries for those individuals whose work was primarily in systematic and spiritual theology, or who were church historians chiefly concerned with theological matters. Whenever possible, each entry provides basic biographical information, a brief account of the theologian's education and career, and a summary of the person's most important contributions to theology. The entries end with bibliographies of primary and secondary sources, while the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.

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Robert Audi, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy Second Edition

Robert Audi, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy Second Edition
Cambridge University Press (1999) | ISBN 0521637228
PDF | 13 MB | 1032 pages

Widely acclaimed as the most authoritative and accessible one-volume dictionary available in English (and now with translations into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Italian, and Spanish underway) this second edition offers an even richer, more comprehensive, and more up-to-date survey of ideas and thinkers written by an international team of 436 contributors.

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English Collocations in Use: Advanced (w/key)

English Collocations in Use: Advanced (w/key)
by Felicity O'Dell, Michael McCarthy
Cambridge University Press (September 2008)
ISBN-10: 0521707803 | 190 pages | PDF | English | 73 MB

A good knowledge of collocations (typical word combinations) is essential for fluent and natural-sounding English, and knowledge of collocations is often tested in advanced level examinations such as Cambridge CAE, CPE and IELTS. English Collocations in Use Advanced presents and practises hundreds of collocations in typical contexts to help you improve your written and spoken English. It also includes tips on learning strategies and ways to avoid common learner errors. The book is informed by the Cambridge International Corpus to make sure that the collocations taught are the most frequent and useful for students at each level.

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Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business (6th Ed)

Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business (6th Ed)
by Fred S. Steingold
Nolo.com; 6th edition (February 2001) | ISBN-10: 0873376420 | 468 pages
PDF | English | 6.5 MB

This book is like an encyclopedia of small business. Full of the information you expect based upon the title of the book. The information is detailed so you have the guidance you sought. You'll definitely be returning to this book throughout the years.

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The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations by Jon R. Stone

The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations by Jon R. Stone
The Illiterati’s Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and Sayings
Routledge (2005) | ISBN-10: 0415969085 | 416 pages
PDF | English | 11 MB

The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations by Jon R. Stone, Religious Studies. Routledge, based in New York and Oxford, publishes this comprehensive treasury of nearly 8,000 Latin quotations, mottoes, proverbs and maxims from the birth of the Roman Republic to the fall of its empire. It also addresses the Latin that distinguished the Renaissance and Reformation. The expressions are drawn from sources as different as philosophy, literature, politics, law, science, religion, drama, poetry and warfare. The text also includes an extensive English-Latin index and a layman's guide to Latin pronunciation. Stone, a La Habra native now living in Huntington Beach, joined the university in 2004. He is the author of eight other books including the award-winning Latin for the Illiterati and More Latin for the Illerati, also published by Routledge.

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TIME Magazine March 16, 2009 Vol. 173 No. 10 (U.S. Edition)

TIME Magazine March 16, 2009 Vol. 173 No. 10
DOC (MS Word) + PDF + MP3 | English | 2.8 + 0.9 MB

• COVER: The Health Care Crisis Hits Home - When my brother got sick and his insurers refused to pay, he needed help. After a dizzying, infuriating trip through the system, here's how we found it
• WORLD: The Making of a Terrorist - How the lone surviving gunman of the Mumbai massacre made the long journey from a Pakistani village to a bloodstained railroad station
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Watchmen: Hero Worship - Can a devoted director create a Watchmen for the masses?
• SCIENCE: Denmark's Wind of Change - How Denmark's green energy initiatives power its economy

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TIME Magazine March 9, 2009 Vol. 173 No. 9

TIME Magazine March 9, 2009 Vol. 173 No. 9
DOC (MS Word) + PDF + MP3 | English | 4.6+ 1.2 + 100 MB

• COVER: House of Cards: The Faces Behind Foreclosures - One false step, one fierce wind, and a lifetime of work and hope can all come crashing down. The faces behind the foreclosures
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: U2's Unsatisfied — and Unsatisfying — A New Album
• SOCIETY: Why We're Going Nuts Over Nut Allergies - Food allergies are very real, and those involving a certain high-profile legume are especially troubling. But have we overblown the peanut problem?
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Van Morrison - The rock legend returns with a live version of 1968's classic Astral Weeks. Van Morrison will now take your questions

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TIME Magazine March 2, 2009 Vol. 173 No. 8

TIME Magazine March 2, 2009 Vol. 173 No. 8
DOC (MS Word) + PDF + MP3 | English | 3.8 + 1.0 + 27 MB

• COVER: Best Actress: Kate Winslet's Moment - Intense, ambitious and only slightly panicked, Kate Winslet is the finest actress of her generation
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Lincoln Center's New Come-Hither Design - Performing-arts complexes want to connect with their neighborhood. One of them is succeeding
• HEALTH & MEDICINE: Twins and Aging: How Not to Look Old - Doctors studying identical twins uncover the surprising effects behavior has on aging
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Danny Boyle - The Slumdog Millionaire director shares his Mumbai tales. Danny Boyle will now take your questions

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H. Sienkiewicz, With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel (1898)

With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia (1898)
by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Polish title: Ogniem i mieczem)
Authorized and unabridged translation from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. (1898)
DjVu + PDF | English | 16 + 38 MB | pages: 843

The period embraced in this set is "one of the most dramatic and fruitful of results in European Annals - remarkable for work and endeavor, especially in the Slav world," the author writes. Among Western Slavs, the great events were the Hussite Wars and the union of Lithuania and Poland. The Hussite Wars were caused by ideas of race and religion (born in Bohemia.) The period of Bohemian activity began in 1403 and ended in 1434, with the battle of Lipan. Known for their great narrative power and contain vivid characterizations, Sienkiewicz' work includes the great trilogy of historical novels began to appear in 1883. It is composed of With Fire and Sword (1884), The Deluge (1886), and Pan Michael (1887-88). Set in the later 17th century, the trilogy describes Poland's struggles against Cossacks, Tatars, Swedes, and Turks, stressing Polish heroism in a vivid style of epic clarity and simplicity. Henryk (Adam Alexander Pius) Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a novelist, born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His major work was a war trilogy about 17th-c Poland, beginning with Ogniem i mieczem (1884, With Fire and Sword), but his most widely known book is the story of Rome under Nero, Quo Vadis? (1896), several times filmed, notably in 1951 by Mervyn Le Roy (1900-87). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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H. Sienkiewicz, The Deluge: An Historical Novel (1898)

The Deluge: An historical Novel of Poland, Sweden and Russia (1898)
by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Polish title: Potop)
Authorized and unabridged translation from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. (1898)
DjVu | English | 18 + 23 MB | pages: 622 + 704

This is a two-volume work, the sequel to "With Fire and Sword," a massive book called one of the greatest in European literature. "The Deluge" continues the sweeping saga of war and rebellion that threatened the kingdom of Poland and changed the face of Eastern Europe in the 17th Century. This historical novel of Poland, Sweden and Russia, is a masterful blend of history and imagination, filled with nonstop action and adventure. Sienkiewicz's work is the sweeping saga of a nation caught in the throes of a civil war, of a people struggling for survival, and of events that forever changed the face of Eastern Europe. Number two in his trilogy on the history of Poland, it tells the love story of a man and a woman tragically separated by foolishness, pride, confusion and the Swedish invasion of Poland in the 1600s which divided a nation against itself and drew the best and worst out of its citizens.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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H. Sienkiewicz, Pan Michael: An Historical Novel (1898)

Pan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey
by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Polish title: Pan Wołodyjowski)
Authorized and unabridged translation from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. (1898)
DjVu + PDF | English | 16 + 43 MB | pp. 566

Like any Sienkiewicz work, "Pan Michael" is a wonderful read due to its prose, his wonderful characterization and due to his ability to bring color to his works. It rounds out the Trilogy that has bridged stylistic centuries and proven there is an ageless recipe for plot, drama, character and objective.
NO reader, regardless of ethnic background can fail to feel for the incredibly detailed main characters in this novel, such as Pan Michael or the daring woman, Basha. Action is not stinted and combines with the other elements in this colorful and sweeping epic to demonstrate history in one of the least well-documented areas of 17th century Europe. In Poland and Lithuania, where the edges of three great religions, and dozens of ethnic groups ebbed and flowed over the multicolored plains in endless kaleidescopes of struggle, Sienkiewicz paints a vast landscape of dramatic and epic action.
He does this without losing the artist's eye for color or the political opportunist's artful demonstration of back-room dealings and rationales used by the shakers and movers of the novel's time-period (for it IS an historical novel). Not only is this clearly done with analogies for the time in which the novel was written (pointed examples clearly exist to parallel conditions in 19th century occupied Poland), but it resonantes with us in our hearts across the intervening century-plus, and in this, or any great republic. There is no doubt the reader will be more curious about the history of the period, and will want to read the other two novels in The Trilogy (With Fire and Sword, and The Deluge), but this is a stand-alone novel as well. The other books do not need to be read, but all of these books are precious, and they are in chronological order. All three will cause sleepless nights where you will be unable to put down the books.
Written by the novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905 for Quo Vadis, these earlier books (The Trilogy, of which Pan Michael is the third book) for which he received grief from the critics but kudos from the reading public, were probably greater works, and are certainly recommended.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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