The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories

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Editorial: Oxford

Autor: Vicent O'Sullivan

Idioma: Anglès 

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This anthology presents 50 stories by over 40 of New Zealand's best writers. Nineteenth-century writing, which is largely unknown, is represented by Clara Cheeseman and G B Lancaster, as well as by the more familiar Lady Barker and itinerant Henry Lawson. In the early twentieth century Katherine Mansfield is followed by Greville Texidor as well as Frank Sargeson and Dan Davin. The middle years of the century exhibit a flowering of talent. Janet Frame, Maurice Duggan, and Maurice Gee are all fine practitioners of the genre, while Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace are the strong voices of Maori writing. The past dozen or so years have seen an explosion of new writing, with talents as diverse as Owen Marshall, Keri Hulme, Barbara Anderson, and Peter Wells. The selection provides an introduction to New Zealand short fiction that readers interestd in the new literatures in English will find stimulating and surprising. The stories are accompanied by brief biographical notes and a glossary of Maori words.

Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under

     TÍTOL: Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under

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Editorial: Ballentine Books

Autor: Fahire, Phyllis

Idioma: Anglès 

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Spanning more than a century, Australian Literature crystallizes a spirit, style, and ethos found nowhere else in world literature. These captivating selections in Australian Literature come from major voices, both famous and lesser known, and encompass short stories, memoirs, novels and aboriginal writings. Resonant or wryly witty, charming or disturbing, they explore themes deeply rooted in the Australian experience—shaping the land, the legacies of the convict past, the displacement of the aborigine, the search for a national identity, sex, love, and commitment.

Including these stories:

“The Drover’s Wife” by Henry Lawson

“The Chosen Vessel” by Barbara Baynton

“The Loaded Dog” by Henry Lawson

From The Tree of Man by Patrick White

“The Night We Watched for Wallabies” by Steele Rudd

“A Gentleman’s Agreement” by Elizabeth Jolley

“Northern Belle” by Thea Astley

“The Cooboo” by Katharine Susannah Prichard

From Dr. Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World by Colin Johnson

“Going Home” by Archie Weller

From Wanamurraganya: The Story of Jack McPhee by Sally Morgan

“Breaking a Man’s Spirit” by Marcus Clarke

“Absalom Day’s Promotion” by Price Warung

“The First Days” by A. B. Facey

“In the Trenches” by A. B. Facey

From The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow

“The Kyogle Line” by David Malouf

“American Dreams” by Peter Carey

“Willy-wagtails by Moonlight” by Patrick White

“A Good Marriage” by Olga Masters

“Civilization and Its Discontents” by Helen Garner

“The Train Will Shortly Arrive” by Frank Moorhouse

“Two Hanged Women” by Henry Handel Richardson

“Brown Seaweed and Old Fish Nets” by Christina Stead

“The Woman at the Window” by Marian Eldridge

“A Woman with Black Hair” by Beverley Farmer

“Blood and Water” by Tim Winton

Fahrenheit 451: The gripping and inspiring classic of dystopian science fiction

    TÍTOL: Fahrenheit 451: The gripping and inspiring classic of dystopian science fiction

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Editorial: Harper Voyager

Autor: Ray Bradbury

Idioma: Anglès 

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Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.

The classic novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity.

Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, forty years on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.

Eureka Stockade: A Ferocious and Bloody Battle

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Editorial: Big Sky Publishing

Autor: Gregory Blake

Idioma: Anglès 

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Eureka Stockade: A ferocious and bloody battle, is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial government attacked and stormed a crudely-built fortification erected by insurgent gold miners at the Eureka lead on the Ballarat Gold Diggings. The fighting was intense, the carnage appalling and the political consequences of the affair profound. This book, for the first time, examines in great detail the actual military events that unfolded during the twenty minutes of deadly fighting at Eureka.

We are not alone, Contact by carl sagan

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Editorial: orbit books

Idioma: Anglès 

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING CLASSIC NOVEL OF FIRST CONTACT

We are not alone . . .

At first it seemed impossible - a radio signal that came not from Earth but from far beyond the nearest stars. But then the signal was translated, and what had been impossible became terrifying.

For the signal contains the information to build a Machine that can travel to the stars. A Machine that can take a human to meet those that sent the message.

They are eager to meet us: they have been watching and waiting for a long time.

And now they will judge.

'Stunning and satisfying' Los Angeles Times

'An astonishingly exciting, precise and involved book' Sydney Sunday Telegraph

'The range and depth of ideas is quite uncommon' New York Times Book Review

'Sagan's informed and dramatically enacted speculations into the mysteries of the universe . . . make Contact an exciting adventure' Publishers Weekly

A True Story (Level 1 Oxford Bookworms) A1

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Editorial: Oxford Bookworms

Idioma: Anglès (A1)

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About the SeriesHelp your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers - now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed seven-stage system of grading, from Starter to Stage 6, remains the same, helping you to find the right level for all your students. The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure.

Key Series FeaturesStunning NEW covers, to get students interested from the start.NEW World Stories - collections of short stories written in English from around the world - Africa, Australia, South Asia and more...UPDATED Factfiles, with NEW text and colour photos, and a new look.UPDATED Tests, including a NEW Multiple-choice Test for every book.NEW Teacher's Handbook for each Stage, with answers to the activities in all the books.UPDATED Activity Worksheets with a story summary & worksheets at Stages 1-4.MORE books available with Audio for students to listen to the complete text.

Illustrations (including new ones in selected stories) to support the book and help introduce new vocabulary.

About the Author information, Glossary and Activities section at the back of every book.FREE answer keys, tests, story summaries, and photocopiable activities from www.oup.com/elt/bookwormsDescriptionTrue Stories400 headwordsWord count: 5,775Also available on audio CDWhen he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor. Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good man but the law was bad. This is the true story of Australia's most famous outlaw.

The housemaid: An absolutely addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist

  TÍTOL: The housemaid: An absolutely addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist

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Editorial: bookouture

Idioma: Anglès

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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own...

Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.

I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it's hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina's life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Nina's pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it's like. But she soon finds out... and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it's far too late.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don't know who I really am.

They don't know what I'm capable of...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried * A No.1 New York Times bestseller * A Sunday Times bestseller * A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller * 5 million copies sold * 20-million-copy bestselling author

This unbelievably twisty read will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Girl on the Train won't be able to put down The Housemaid!

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardobe | The Chronicles of Narnia

   TÍTOL: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardobe | The Chronicles of Narnia

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Editorial: Harper

Idioma: Anglès

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Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read.

A mass-market paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition features cover art by Cliff Nielsen and interior black-and-white illustrations by the series' original illustrator, Pauline Baynes.

Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the second book in C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series, which has been drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over sixty years. This is a stand-alone read, but if you would like to explore more of the Narnian realm, pick up The Horse and His Boy, the third book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

Vielfalt B2.2 Fremdsprache / Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch

  TÍTOL: Vielfalt B2.2 Fremdsprache / Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch

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Editorial: Hueber

Idioma: Alemany B2.2

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Libro de alumno y de ejercicios del método Vielfalt B2.2

Gente de Hoy 2 Libro de Trabajo

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Editorial: Difusion

Idioma: Español B1

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Gente hoy 2 es la edición revisada y actualizada de Gente, el curso pionero en la aplicación del enfoque por tareas con el que millones de estudiantes de todo el mundo se han iniciado en el aprendizaje del español.

Esta nueva edición recoge las sugerencias de un cualificado grupo de profesores usuarios del libro en diferentes países y contextos educativos.

Gente de Hoy 2 Libro del Alumno

   TÍTOL: Gente de Hoy 2 Libro del Alumno

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Editorial: Difusion

Idioma: Español B1

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Gente hoy 2 es la edición revisada y actualizada de Gente, el curso pionero en la aplicación del enfoque por tareas con el que millones de estudiantes de todo el mundo se han iniciado en el aprendizaje del español. Esta nueva edición recoge las sugerencias de un cualificado grupo de profesores usuarios del libro en diferentes países y contextos educativos.