from the back cover: Shirley Homes, private investigator. Like Sherlock Holmes a hundred years ago, she lives in London, enjoys working on difficult cases, and has some helpful friends. She understands people, is a good listener, and of course, she is clever with computers. In today's world that is important, because a lot of crime is cyber crime. In this second Shirley Homes detective story, …
Good luck in Malaysia, bad news in New Zealand, a chicken and a jug of cider in Britain, a goat and a pumpkin in India, fun and games in a cyber café in Nigeria ... The countries change, but people's lives are always strange and wonderful in any place. Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories are by Shahana Chaudhury, Mary McCluskey, Na…
What does it feel like to be achild? Learning how to negotiate with the unpredictable adult world, learning how to pick a path through life's traps and hazards, learning when the time has come to put away childish things. The writers of these short stories show us the world as seen from the far side of the child-adult divide, a gap that is sometimes small, and sometimes small, and sometimes an …
Karen Armstrong diakui sebagai seorang ahli agama-agama, yang sangat menekuni fenomena munculnya radikalisme-fundamentalisme keagamaan. Dalam buku ini, dia dengan sangat baik menelusuri kembali jantung budaya dan peradaban agama-agama ‘pra-Ibrahim’, pada era Aksial (900-200 SM).” - Prof. M. Amin Abdullah, Rektor UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta Kita hidup dalam masa transformasi sosial …
A science picture-book about different way things can move.
You will discover: how to change the shape of a solid; what the hardest natural solid is; how chocolate is made
Understand and enjoy Shakespeare with Jennifer Mulherin lively introduction. Follow the story of each play, get to know the characters, find out about the background, read the quotations and look at the superb pictures