"Is duty enough reason to live a lie? When John meets Savannah, he realises he is ready to make some changes. Always the angry rebel at school, he has enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life. Now he's ready to turn over a new leaf for the woman who has captured his heart. ..
"A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder. In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to help her children escape from the Communist guerrillas who occupied their villag..
"Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set to baroque music. In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play's changing fortunes to chang..
"'Really made me think about how I think' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West Tough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncer tainty on its head, mak..
Progress Tracker at the end of every unit helps students self-assess their achievements. Additional activities in Word Work sections reinforce the new vocabulary introduced in each unit...
"Celebrating 25 years of The Notebook - the classic novel which became the heart-wrenching film. * Once again, just as I do every day, I begin to read the notebook aloud... Noah Calhoun has returned from war and, in an attempt to escape the ghosts of battle, he sets his mind and his body t..
"A house full of love. A house full of secrets. #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks is back with his best novel yet. * Trevor Benson never intended to return to North Carolina. But here he is, back where it all began. Trevor found himself unable to resist the call home..
Ήταν κάποτε μια αρκούδα τόσο γεμάτη αγάπη και χαρά για τη ζωή που, όποτε συναντούσε κάποιο άλλο ζωντανό πλάσμα ενώ έκανε τη βόλτα της στο δάσος, το αγκάλιαζε. _x000D_
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Η αρκούδα περνούσε τις μέρες της εξερευνώντας το δάσος, ξαφνιάζοντας νέους φίλους και γνωριμίες με τις μεγάλες της αγκαλιές. ..
Μέσα από ζωηρή εικονογράφηση και χιούμορ, οι μικρές αλήθειες της ζωής παρουσιάζονται με απλό και κατανοητό τρόπο. Το σημείο όπου το βιβλίο του Νίκολας Αλαν καινοτομεί είναι στο ότι, πέρα από το θέμα της αναπαραγωγής, εισάγει τα παιδιά στην έννοια της κληρονομικότητας, τονίζοντας το γεγονός ότι πολλά..
Επί μεγάλο χρονικό διάστημα εστιάζαμε το ενδιαφέρον μας στη σκοτεινή πλευρά της βιολογικής μας κληρονομιάς: την ικανότητά μας για επιθετικότητα, βαναυσότητα, προκατάληψη και ιδιοτέλεια. Ωστόσο, η φυσική επιλογή μάς έχει προικίσει με ένα σύνολο επωφελών κοινωνικών γνωρισμάτων, μεταξύ των οποίων την ι..