A defiant critique of American capitalism A MASTER OF GRITTY NATURALISM, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in "The Financier," Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realitiesaa struggle for spoils without conscience or pity. Dreiseras 1912 classic remains an unsparing social critique as well as a devastating character study of one of the most unforgettable American businessmen in twentieth-century literature.
The Good Grammar Book teaches all the grammar you need for speaking and writing in English. It explains the rules, shows you how the language works, and gives you plenty of practice. It can improve your English every time you use it, either with your coursebook in class, or as extra practice at home. Explanations are clear, simple, and easy to remember. Real examples show you how rules work and how to avoid common mistakes. Colour illustrations help you understand difficult grammar points. Practice activities teach you to use the grammar. Grammar and vocabulary are practised together in special exercises. Tests at the beginning of each section show you what you need to practise. Tests at the end of each section show your progress....
ISBN: 0-19-431519-3
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2001
Цель пособия - способствовать дальнейшему формированию и совершенствованию речевых навыков и умений студентов, обучающихся по специальностям сервиса и коммерции, в профессиональной для них сфере коммуникации - гостиничном бизнесе. Пособие включает в себя аутентичные тексты из оригинальных американских и британских источников по указанной тематике, а также текущей периодики. Предлагаемая система...
ISBN: 5-238-01069-9
Издательство:
Юнити
Дата выхода: апрель 2006
In the scope of human history, graffiti is the only visual art form started by children to have become a globally entrenched medium. With forty years of history as an organized artistic lifestyle sport, graffiti has sprung from the neglected neighborhoods of New York and Philadelphia to cover cities on every habitable continent. It was an amazing formula: fame for your name via effort and style. In the middle of the 1980s, there was a rush of media attention focused on the movement of graffiti, as a part of the hip-hop culture that included rapping, DJing, and breakdancing. The movement immediately spread throughout the world and took immovable root across the United States. Yet despite the early rush and all of its success around the...
ISBN: 978-0-06-169878-1
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This new edition offers clear guidance on the practicalities of the Internet as a resource and classroom tool and a range of practical activities grouped by themes and levels.
ISBN: 978-0-521-68446-0
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: январь 2013
In this, the 20th edition of the leading international showcase of domestic design, guest editor and acclaimed Dutch designer Marcel Wanders surveys the world of design and identifies new, original and interesting work in the areas of furniture, lighting, tableware, textiles and products.
ISBN: 978-1-85669-435-3
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In this, the twenty-first edition of the leading international showcase of domestic design, guest editor and acclaimed Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola surveys the best furniture, lighting, tableware, textile and product designs of the last two years. Introductions by the editors provide insight into both the selection and the trends and issues currently influencing the design world.
ISBN: 978-1-85669-516-9
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutionary China, and life in downtown San Francisco; women struggling to find a cultural identity that can include a past and a future half a world apart.
ISBN: 978-0-19-479263-9
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: март 2011
A New York Times Bestseller In 1949 four Chinese women - drawn together by the shadow of their past - begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died. When her daughter comes to take her place, she learns of her mother s lifelong wish, and the tragic way in which it has come true.
From the man who designed the Klingon language and culture for the Star Trek feature films and Star Trek: The Next Generation, here is a comprehensive sourcebook for Klingon language and syntax--the only one of its kind.
our modern world, even though it was appropriate to older, simpler times. Working with imagination and often hilarious computer simulations, Dietrich Dorner provides a compass for intelligent planning and decision-making that can sharpen the skills of managers and policy-makers everywhere.
The information in this book is distributed on an "As Is" basis, without warranty. While every precau-tion has been taken in the preparation of the book, neither the author nor Peachpit Press shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this book or by the computer software and hardware products described in it.
ISBN: 0321193091
Издательство:
Peachpit Press
Дата выхода: февраль 2003
В данный сборник произведений великого американского поэта и прозаика Эдгара По (1809-1849) - родоначальника нескольких литературных жанров, предтечи символизма и человека, стоявшего у истоков современной криминалистики (его очерк `Тайна исчезновения Мари Роже` заложил основы криминалистики как науки) - вошли детективные и `логические` рассказы об Огюсте Дюпене - прообразе знаменитого Шерлока Холмса. Помимо...
ISBN: 5-8346-0113-8
Издательство:
Менеджер
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2001
The New Cambridge English Course is a four-level course for learners of English. Level 4 takes learners from intermediate to upper-intermediate standard (approximately at the level of the Cambridge First Certificate). It can be used with learners who have studied previous levels of the course, or as an independent upper-intermediate course. The course features: proven multi-syllabus approach, clearly focused and \'signposted\' aims for each lesson, wide variety of presentation and practice material, allowance for different learning styles and teaching situations, balance between control and freedom in language practice, motivating range of up-to-date topics, frequent use authentic reading and listening material, highly attractive,...
ISBN: 0521376645
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 1995
The New Cambridge English Course, complete in four levels, provides teachers of adult and young adult learners with the most thorough and comprehensive modern course available, for beginner through to upper-intermediate level.Levels 1 and 2 have firmly established The New Cambridge English Course as the one course which provides the wide range of features needed for successful achievement and steady progress at the beginner and low-intermediate stages: a multi-syllabus approach, systematically covering all aspects of language from grammar, notions and functions through to pronunciation, skills and vocabulary, effective development of fluency through controlled and freer activities, as well as thorough grounding in accuracy, wide range of...
ISBN: 0521376394
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 1995
The New Cambridge English Course, complete in four levels, provides teachers of adult and young adult learners with the most thorough and comprehensive modern course available, for beginner through to upper-intermediate level.Levels 1 and 2 have firmly established The New Cambridge English Course as the one course which provides the wide range of features needed for successful achievement and steady progress at the beginner and low-intermediate stages: a multi-syllabus approach, systematically covering all aspects of language from grammar, notions and functions through to pronunciation, skills and vocabulary, effective development of fluency through controlled and freer activities, as well as thorough grounding in accuracy, wide range of...
ISBN: 0521376505
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: декабрь 1995