When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was 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.…
It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her mo…
Unit 1 Myself and Other Unit 2 Family and Relationships Unit 3 Education Unit 4 Work Unit 5 Leisure and Recreation Unit 6 The Natural World
Part 1 All about English Verbs Part 2 English Verb in Action
Chapter 1 Overview Chapter 2 Thermostats Chapter 3 Dampers and Damper Motors Chapter 4 Automatic Valves Chapter 5 Pneumatic Transmitters, Indicating Receivers, and Receiver Controllers Chapter…
Introduction 1 A True Sustainability Criterion and Its Implications 2 "Alternative" and Conventional Energy Sources: Trail-Mix, Tom Mix or Global Mixup? 3 Electricity and Sustainability 4 The …
1 Occurrence and Resources 2 Classification 3 Recovery, Preparation, and Transportation 4 Storage 5 General Properties 6 Physical, Mechanical, and Thermal Properties 7 Combustion 8 Combustio…
Part I 1. Introduction 2. Energy-Related Challenges 3. The Indispensable Role of Social Science in Energy Research Part II Invited Contributions 4. What About Social Science and Interdiscip…
1. Energy Systems 2. Energy Resources 3. Energy Vectors 4. Energy Conversion and Transformation Plants 5. Distributed Generation and Cogeneration 6. Energy Useful Effect End Use
Prospero, the Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda are far away from home, alone on an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. They want to return to Milan... Then, one day Prospero sees…
'Bring me something new and exciting. Bring me a BIG story!' says Rosie's editor at The Record newspaper. And, when she leaves the office, Rosie does find a story. A story that is bigger than she …
In Hamburg, Germany, Professor Otto Lidenbrock comes home with an old Icelandid book. In it there is a message about a journey to the centre of the Earth. This is the beginning of one of Jules Vern…
One cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter are driving along a country road... A blue van is waiting for them. Tom is in the van, but he's not a kidnapper - he's an arti…
Hal works at the zoo every day and his life isn't exciting until he meets Tim. Tim is a movie star. He has a difficult life, and he is unhappy until he meets Hal. But when they meet, and agree to c…
In the first of these stories, Rip van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets …
Sherlock Holmes needs a rest, so Dr Watson takes him to the country. They stay with Watson's old friend, Colonel Hayter, in his nice house near Reigate. And of course everything is quiet here, away…
Keawe buys a magic bottle that can give him anything he wants. He builds a beutiful house, falls in love with and marries Kokua, and is very happy. But if you have the bottle and die, you go to he…
The men and the woman in this book - William Tell, Tom Blood, Lord Bao, King Matthias, Johnny Appleseed, and Lady Godiva - are all real people from history. But every time someone tells an old stor…
King Shahriyar cannot trust women. Every afternoon he marries a wife, but the next morning he always kills her. One day, the Vizier cannot find any more wives for the King. What can he do? 'I can b…
Sinbad the sailor spends many years at sea. He visits strange countries, meets some strange people and some frightening animals. He is sometimes rich, sometimes poor and always in danger. But all t…