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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness. This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the pla...

PrefaceHow is the Book Organized?Part 1: Direct Democracy for an Effective Political WordChapter 1: Politics vs EconomyChapter 2: Political ideologies and Their FallaciesChapter 3: Human cost of socialist/ communist ideologiesChapter 4: Propaganda and disinformation: Efficient methodds for political manipulationChapter 5: Direct democracyPart 2: Pax constantia and moreChapter 6: World political problems and hot they affect our lives?Chapter 7: The elite of the worldChapter 8: Pax constantiaGloss...

Dubliners, about Joyce's native city, is faithful to his country, seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every precedent and piety in Irish literature. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, struggling musicians, poets, patriots, and many more simply striving to get by.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man falls between the realism of Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses. The novel is a highly autobiographical account of the yout...

The Story Musical is a series of stories and tales in English aimed at Primary Schools. The material has been created according to aformat which provides the teacher with all the tools required to set up a musical. The teacher is guided through the organization of all thevarious activities involved in preparing a musical, in order to optimize the results.The stories are inspired by the most famous classics, but have been completely rewritten to give a lighter note to the material, which is upto-...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for motivating, graded material that will instantly appeal to students. This well-known English classic by W.M. Thackeray is made accessible to students in this lively adaptation, illustrated with full-colour stills from the recent movie, starring Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp.

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a realneed in the ELT classroom for contemporary gradedmaterial that will instantly appeal to students.Based on the award winning 2014 film, The Imitation Gametells the true story of cryptanalyst Alan Turingand his brilliant team of code-breakers as they crack the famousEnigma Code during World War II. LEVEL 3-4Comes with a CD - and online resourcesPerfect also for native English speaking children who are strugglingwith their readingFull colour sti...

Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there isa real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level readingmaterial for younger learners. Kraang Attack! is based on anepisode from the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series. CanLeo, Raph, Mikey and Donnie work together to beat the Kraangdroids?Kraang Attack! is one of four graded readers adapted from theTV series.

Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there isa real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level readingmaterial for younger learners. The Spongebob Squarepants TVseries is popular with children all over the world for its memorablecharacters and quirky storylines. When SpongeBob and Patrickdiscover a magic pencil, they have a lot of fun ... until they drawDoodlebob! Based on an episode from the series.

_Practise it! Smash it!_ is a brand-new supplementary skills serieswith engaging, contemporary content aimed at teenagers and youngadults studying for exams. Each title is full of tips and examstrategy work and is presented in the format of student posts andblogs. _Reading and Writing for First (FCE)_ focuses on the challengesin the Reading and Writing First Certificate exam paperswith combined skills activities and lots of practice of the Firstquestion types....

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a realneed in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material thatwill motivate students to read.The Kung Fu Panda films are popular with children around the world.The Kung Fu Panda 3 Popcorn ELT Readeris based on the third film in thefranchise.LEVEL 3comes with CD & online resourcesPerfect also for native English speaking children and adultswho are struggling with their readingA popular film with global recognition factor.Full colour stills...

Extensive reading is essential for improving fluencyand there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-levelreading material for younger learners. The How to Train Your Dragon moviesare loved around the world for their original characters, excitingadventures and fun, action-packed stories.This Level 1 Popcorn ELT reader is based on the first film inthe franchise.LEVEL 1 - starter levelComes with a CD - and online resourcesPerfect also for native English speaking children who are...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a realneed in the ELT classroom for hand-picked classics of English literaturethat are simplified and adapted for students in an accessibleand engaging way. Great Expectations is one of Charles Dickens most popularnovels, its colourful characters and strong story inspiringnumerous film and TV adaptations.This simplified version condenses the novel for students of Englishand is interspersed with stills from the film adaptation starringHelena Bonham-...

Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there isa real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level readingmaterial for younger learners. Inventor Flint Lockwood thoughthe saved the world when he destroyed his most infamous invention- a machine that turned water into food. But Flint soon learnsthat his invention survived and is now combining food and animalsto create foodimals! Join Flint and his friends as they embarkon a mission to save the world - again! Based on the...

Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there isa real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level readingmaterial for younger learners. Based on the blockbuster filmthis reader tells the story of Flint Lockwood, a young scientist,who invents an amazing food-making machine. At first his creationbrings happiness to the town, but when Flints machine startsworking too well, the forecast quickly changes from sunny to Cloudywith a Chance of Meatballs. Now Flint must find a ...

Extensive reading is essential for improving fluencyand there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-levelreading material for younger learners.There are pigs everywhere on Bird Island and Red is not happy.Why are they looking at the eggs?What do they want?And can he stop them?A fun reader based on the hit film Angry Birds The Movie.LEVEL 2Comes with a CD - and online resourcesPerfect also for native English speaking children who are strugglingwith their readingA heartwarming ...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a realneed in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material thatwill motivate students to read.This Starter Level Popcorn ELT Readerintroduces the characters from the hit film AngryBirds (2016).The Angry Birds are happy on Bird Island.But why are the pigs coming and what do they want?LEVEL 1 - ideal for beginnersbook & CD - also has online resourcesFull colour insidesPerfect also for native English speaking children who are strugglingwith ...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a realneed in the ELT classroom formotivating graded material that will encourage students to read.Twelve Years a Slave is the extraordinary true storyof Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York State who,in 1841, was kidnapped and sold into slavery.This simplified version condenses Northups memoirs forstudents of English and is interspersed with stillsfrom the 2013 Oscar award winning film.LEVEL 3 (IntermediateB1)Comes with a CDAlso pe...

One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our WorldRhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century Michele RobertsJean Rhyss masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyres madwoman in the attic, Bertha Rochester.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, how...

One of the twentieth centurys great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowrys Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.It is the fiesta Day of the Dead in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate, ugly pariah dogs roam the streets and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life. Drowning himself in ...

A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyces Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, hi...