Publicado por Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747805822 ISBN 13: 9780747805823
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - England's most prolific architect since Sir Christopher Wren, he designed the Cenotaph in Whitehall, country houses, and the memorials to commemorate the dead of the First World War.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747572631 ISBN 13: 9780747572633
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The classic western novel behind the Oscar-nominated film by the Coen brothersFEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY DONNA TARTT'True Grit is the best novel to come my way for a very long time.' ROALD DAHL'Portis has made an epic and a legend. Mattie Ross should soon join the pantheon of America's legendary figures such as Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp and Jesse James' WASHINGTON POSTThere is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, $150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces.Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney.Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father's murder.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0747568332 ISBN 13: 9780747568339
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'Empress Orchid is strong on both sexual chicanery and violent conspiracy . fascinating' GUARDIAN'An engrossing story . enhanced by Min's imaginative power . Like all good novelists, she implies as much as she says, and her characterisation is subtle and worldly-wise' GLASGOW HERALD_________________________It is the 19th century, and China is in chaos. One woman will rise from poverty to change its history for ever.To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives.When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine she enters the erotically charged and ritualised Forbidden City. But beneath its immaculate façade lie whispers of murders and ghosts, and the thousands of concubines will stoop to any lengths to bear the Emperor's son.Orchid trains herself in the art of pleasuring a man, bribes her way into the royal bed, and seduces the monarch, drawing the attention of dangerous foes. Little does she know that China will collapse around her, and that she will be its last Empress.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1586831844 ISBN 13: 9781586831844
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book is designed to foster independent study, research, writing, and oral presentation skills in students in grades four through six. The lessons, which integrate several content areas, can be used for enrichment or extension in the classroom or as a homework assignment. The forty lessons, four for each of ten months, September through June, are connected to a famous person or event associated with that month. An index indicates the content areas and skills taught in each lesson.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 158683195X ISBN 13: 9781586831950
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This professional booktalking tool for the busy middle and junior high school library media specialist includes booktalks that can be used to support the curriculum, encourage student leisure reading, and provide ideas for educator-media specialist collaboration. Each entry includes an annotation, a booktalk, and a curriculum connection activity as well as a list of five similar titles. Types of books included in this volume are fiction, short story collections, poetry collections, informational books, and biographies.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1586831763 ISBN 13: 9781586831769
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - - Utilize the unique style of picture books to create instructionally sound, standards-based lessons- Improve students' writing and literacy skills in grades 5-9- Fun and effective strategies teach the basic literary elements of character, point of view, setting, plot, style, and theme, and the activities are aligned with NCTE standards.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1586831836 ISBN 13: 9781586831837
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This comprehensive guidebook is useful for all library media specialists who are seeking national board certification. The book provides a blend of informational resources and personal experiences to provide you with practical approaches to the process of preparing and applying for national board certification in library media. From prospective candidates to administrators, this book appeals to all audiences interested in the national board certification process.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0229118429 ISBN 13: 9780229118427
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This very practical book begins by describing how the various parts of both marine diesel and gasoline engines work. It then goes on to show the basic service maintenance necessary for both the general running and winter layup, and pinpoints common faults and suggests remedies.
Publicado por Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1841135399 ISBN 13: 9781841135397
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The relationship between intellectual property and private international law is a fascinating and multi-faceted one. Both fields are inherently international, but it is the exponential increase in conflicts involving trans-border elements, in a world characterised by global trade and borderless communication structures, that has, in modern times, drawn the two disciplines close. The essays contained in this book, first presented at a Symposium in Munich, set out possible visions for a future system of international and regional jurisdiction and applicable law that is better adapted to the increasingly supranational character of IP rights. A second feature of the book is its treatment of 'harmonisation' of choice-of-law issues. Framed by these two elements - international jurisdiction on the one hand and perspectives for harmonised choice of law rules in an international context on the other - specific European themes are also addressed; jurisdiction, the establishment of a European judiciary in the patent field, the relationship between regional (European) systems and an international jurisdiction convention, and the recent proposal for a Regulation on applicable law in non-contractual relationships (Rome II).