"The trick to the whole thing", Duke said, "is to pick your own road in life." Growing up is tough. But what if you had a handbook that told you how to figure things out? How to stay out of trouble? At Duke's place, Jimmy and Kevin find out that the handbook doesn't need to be written down. It can be as easy as listening to Duke and the old guys taking about their lives. But how can Duke unde…
In the near future, England has become a corrupt, totalitarian state, opposed only by V, the mystery man wearing a white porcelain mask who intends to free the masses through absurd acts of terrorism.
A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. I…
from the back cover: In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Prince…
Endorsed by Cambridge for the latest syllabus, this comprehensive resource helps you develop crucial English language skills. Plenty of exam-style audio material is included on a CD, so students can get realistic Listening practice. This includes complex skills development like listening for inference - a crucial requirement of the latest syllabus. The course is written by examiners Dean Robert…