A classic English novel is retold here in graphic novel format. Set in nineteenth-century England is this story of Jane Eyre, the governess at Thornfield Manor, and Rochester, lord of the manor. They haven fallen in love, but Rochester harbors a tragic secret that threatens to keep them apart. Barrons popular and growing series of Graphic Classics titles introduce many of the worlds literary masterpieces to young readers. Elementary and secondary school teachers will value these books as a way to make great novels and plays accessible to their students especially to those students who resist reading. Presented in graphic novel format, each title tells an absorbing, fast-paced story dramatized with high-quality color illustrations. After...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Titles in Barron`s Grammar series are small in size but filled with helpful fast-reference information for language students and translators. Barron`s Japanese Grammar makes a handy supplement to classroom textbooks. Topics covered include parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, idioms, and advice on pronunciation. Books in this series are printed in two colors to highlight important study points and help students find specific information quickly and easily.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: май 2012
A world-famous classic novel is the basis for this brand-new, dramatically illustrated book. Transformed from Jules Verne`s original text into a graphic novel, this, like other "Graphic Classics" editions, makes a good introduction for young readers to the imaginative riches of literature. These books contain many extra features, including brief biographies of their authors, a list of each author`s important works, a glossary, and an index. Suitable for classroom use as introductions to literature for junior and senior high school students, these graphic novels entertain young readers while introducing them to the works of renowned literary artists. Full-color illustrations throughout. In this pioneering science fiction tale from a...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Shakespeare`s immortal drama is retold here in a graphic novel format. Julius Caesar, emperor of Rome, is brutally assassinated, but soon the conspirators Brutus, Marc Antony, and Cassius turn against one another to spark a civil war. Barron`s popular and growing series of Graphic Classics titles introduce many of the worlds literary masterpieces to young readers. Elementary and secondary school teachers will value these books as a way to make great novels and plays accessible to their students especially to those students who resist reading. Presented in graphic novel format, each title tells an absorbing, fast-paced story dramatized with high-quality color illustrations. After delving into any of these stimulating titles, many boys and...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This brand-new textbook for students of classical literature presents a comprehensive summary of Latin grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure. Students are introduced to nouns in all genders and declensions, verbs in all conjugations and tenses, vocabulary, and bilingual passages that demonstrate classical Latin sentence structure. This book presents students with a very useful complement to their studies of classical Latin texts, such as Julius Caesar`s Commentaries on the Gallic Wars, the poetry of Virgil, and other literary works from the bards of ancient Rome.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Updated to reflect recent modifications in federal and state law, this book is a quick-reference source for lawyers, law students, legal professionals, and interested laypersons. The author defines more than 3,000 legal terms, using nontechnical language that remains legally accurate. Terms are documented with citations and apply to civil procedure, commercial and contract law, constitutional law, criminal law, property law, and torts. This is a mass-market-size paperback. This Law Dictionary is also available from Barron`s in a trade edition that features larger pages with large type.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Updated to reflect recent modifications in federal and state law, this book is a quick-reference source for lawyers, law students, legal professionals, and interested laypersons. The author defines more than 5,000 legal terms, using nontechnical language that remains legally accurate. Terms are documented with citations and apply to civil procedure, commercial and contract law, constitutional law, criminal law, property law, and torts. This title is also available in a smaller trim-size and type-size mass market edition.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This program for Russian students of English and for Russian travelers to English-speaking countries instructs in the basics of reading, writing, and speaking. The book features cartoon illustrations, language games and puzzles, language flash cards, and more. The accompanying set of six audio compact discs replace the cassettes that were offered in the earlier edition of this user-friendly language learning package. They dramatize typical travel situations and provide practice in listening comprehension and American-English pronunciation.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Barron’s popular "Fast and Fun Way" foreign language learning programs are designed primarily for travelers to foreign countries but are also suitable for instruction in classrooms and language labs. "Learn Russian the Fast and Fun Way" is available in its book-only format and can also be purchased with a set of six audio compact discs. The book is filled with cheerful illustrations, word lists, pull-out vocabulary flash cards, a pull-out miniature dictionary, and language-learning exercises that take the form of games and puzzles. Emphasis is on the practical Russian that travelers will need when getting around in Moscow, St. Petersburg, or outlying villages. The program teaches appropriate words and phrases for greetings and...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This up-to-date edition of "Management" covers the management curriculum as it is presented in leading business schools today. The authors describe and appraise contemporary trends and techniques employed in the management of both large and small companies.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Titles in Barrons "Easy Way" series are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide range of subjects and skills. Among them are several language-learning books for beginners. This second edition of "Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way" comes with an audio compact disc that supplements the book, providing pronunciation help and listening comprehension material in the form of spoken dialogues. This book-and-CD combination introduces basic sentence patterns and practical vocabulary by dramatizing many true-to-life and often humorous conversational situations in Mandarin Chinese. An introduction to Chinese written characters is presented in the books final chapter.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Creates a hypothetical company and analyses both domestic and international marketing strategies that it would typically employ in the business climate.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This brand-new title for students of French serves the double purpose as a combination workbook and a grammar instruction manual. It is filled with exercises and answers that emphasize informal, conversational language usage. Both the lessons and exercises are arranged progressively, from easy to more difficult, to reflect students` learning development. "Mastering Grammar" books make ideal supplementary companions to main classroom textbooks. They can also be used as main texts for adult education courses and for individuals learning a new language on their own.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This brand-new title for students of Italian serves the double purpose as a combination workbook and a grammar instruction manual. It is filled with exercises and answers that emphasize informal, conversational language usage. Both the lessons and exercises are arranged progressively, from easy to more difficult, to reflect students` learning development. "Mastering Grammar" books make ideal supplementary companions to main classroom textbooks. They can also be used as main texts for adult education courses and for individuals learning a new language on their own.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This brand-new title for students of Spanish serves the double purpose as a combination workbook and a grammar instruction manual. It is filled with exercises and answers that emphasize informal, conversational language usage. Both the lessons and exercises are arranged progressively, from easy to more difficult, to reflect students` learning development. "Mastering Grammar" books make ideal supplementary companions to main classroom textbooks. They can also be used as main texts for adult education courses and for individuals learning a new language on their own.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
The newly enlarged and updated edition of this useful book for ESL students covers all the fundamentals of English grammar and usage, including parts of speech and typical verb patterns in sentences. All English verb tenses are presented in detail, and instruction is presented in forming questions and answers, punctuation and capitalization in written English, and much more. The book also features summary grammar rules, illustrative word charts, and brief tests with answers to help students gauge their progress in mastering the English language. Master the Basics language books are concise yet comprehensive handbooks that make fine supplements to language textbooks in high school and college courses. Master the Basics English is also...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
A world-famous classic novel is the basis for this brand-new, dramatically illustrated book. Transformed from Herman Melville`s original text into a graphic novel, this and other "Graphic Classics" editions make good introductions for young readers to the imaginative riches of literature. These books contain many extra features, including brief biographies of their authors, a list of each author`[s important works, a glossary, and an index. Suitable for classroom use as introductions to literature for junior and senior high school students, these graphic novels entertain young readers while introducing them to the works of renowned literary artists. Full-color illustrations throughout. This classic sea adventure tells the story of...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Books in Barron`s Business Library Series speak to men and women who are starting a company or managing a small-to-medium-size business. Advice and instruction is geared to daily operations and finding practical solutions for typical problems. Topics discussed in this book include understanding cost concepts, job-order costing, process costing, activity-based costing (ABC), activity-based management (ABM), cost-volume and break-even analysis, budgeting, cost analysis for non-routine decisions, how to make capital budgeting decisions, performance metrics such as the balanced score card, and a variety of cost management tools, including target costing and life-cycle costing. The authors cover all important issues that relate to budgeting...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Here is a novelized version of the new hit comedy film released by Fox Studios in December `06. It`s an expanded version of Milan Trenc`s picture storybook for children, "The Night at the Museum", which was first published by Barron`s several seasons ago. On his very first night at work, the night guard at New York`s Museum of Natural History begins to see the museum`s exhibits come to life. He tells his son about the many strange things he sees each night. At first reluctant to believe his father`s fanciful tales, the son begins to see Dad in a new light when he, too, spends a night at the museum. He discovers that his father`s amazing world is real. The film`s unusual and entertaining story, starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This brand-new comedy-adventure novel for young readers is based directly on the hilarious movie of the same name, released nationwide in May `09, and starring Ben Stiller as the whimsical museum guard Larry Daley. Both the film and its novelization are sequels to the 2006 box office winner and New York Times best-selling novelization, Night at the Museum. In this new book, the good-hearted dreamer Larry Daley must say good-bye to his famous friends from history who magically came to life during closing hours at New York`s Natural History Museum. They are being replaced by virtual hologram exhibits, and the originals have been packed up and shipped off to the National Archives in Washington, Then, Larry learns that the ancient Egyptian...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When Larry becomes a night guard at New York`s Museum of Natural History, he expects to have an easy job. But on his very first night, he dozes off, then wakes up to the most amazing vanishing act in the museum`s long history. The museum`s entire famous collection of huge dinosaur skeletons has disappeared. In a panic, Larry rushes from one room to the next - then dashes outside into Central Park, and next door into the planetarium. Where did the skeletons go? Here and there, he manages to pick up a stray bone or two, but the skeletons are truly gone. Who is the dinosaur thief? And how in the world can Larry get those dinosaur bones back again? Originally published by Barron`s in 1993, this mystery-comedy for kids returns in print as a...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
A great companion for international travelers, the new edition of this handy language-teaching package combines the pocket-size bilingual Russian "At a Glance" phrasebook with two audio compact discs that present simplified dialogues in Russian. The phrasebook holds more than 1500 expressions that travelers need for making themselves understood in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other places they’re likely to visit. The book also contains an additional 2,000-word bilingual dictionary, plus travel tips, driving tips, simplified maps of major Russian cities, and more. The audio CDs, which replace the cassette tapes in earlier editions, familiarize travelers with often-needed phrases, and also provide help with language...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In the "Graphic Classics" version of this great epic by Western civilization`s first immortal poet, the Greek hero Odysseus returns home from the Trojan War. His lengthy sea voyage is marked by a series of dangerous, often fantastic adventures, which also make exciting reading. "Graphic Classics" are graphic novel versions of immortal novels and plays, presented in a way to help make great literary works accessible to students, and encourage boys and girls to discover the joy of reading the masterworks in their original form. Titles in this series tell absorbing, fast-paced stories dramatized with high-quality color illustrations. Each "Graphic Classics" title includes a thumbnail biography of the author, a list of his or her important...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Oliver, an orphan in 19th-century London, falls into a den of thieves, but is finally rescued by Mr. Brownlow, a wealthy benefactor. In each of Barron`s "Graphic Classics" an English literary classic is transformed into a dramatic graphic novel with superb, atmospheric color illustrations and a finely-paced narrative. The tale - chosen from among important novels in the literary canon - will keep young readers fascinated from first page to last. "Graphic Classics" make fine introductions for young readers to the riches of English literature. Books are available in both paperback and hardcover editions. In addition to the stories, each title features a brief biography and time line of its author, a list of his important works, a glossary,...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: февраль 2012