Buddy - Nigel Hinton
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is a sympathetic look at the confusions of adolescence. Buddy's father, still dreaming of his teddy-boy youth, turns to crime, and his mother leaves home…
Not long after Ougai Mori takes the reins of the Port Mafia, his right-hand man, Osamu Dazai, has a nasty run-in with a gravity manipulator named Chuuya Nakahara, leader of the Sheep gang. However, with ominous rumors about Mori’s deceased predecessor as well as the mysterious being called Arahabaki spreading throughout Yokohama, the duo must put aside their differences and get to the bottom of things. Before they achieved infamy as the fearsome pair Twin Dark, Dazai and Chuuya were just boys. Was their first encounter a harbinger of hope or an ill omen of things to come…?
One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is a sympathetic look at the confusions of adolescence. Buddy's father, still dreaming of his teddy-boy youth, turns to crime, and his mother leaves home…
This is both the first systematic introduction to Discourse Studies for students and scholars of social movements and a study of discourses on the European “refugee crisis”, by leading theorist, Teun A. van Dijk.Concrete examples…
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Super Minds is back and is super charged! From the same renowned author team, the second edition is thoroughly updated, enhanced and ready to teach your students so much more than English. Aligned to the…
Audiokniha: Miroslav Moravec exceluje v hlavní roli groteskního příběhu o ctižádostivém herci, který se snažil stihnout víc, než je v lidských silách. Autor této původní rozhlasové hry Jan Vedral za ni získal v roce 1996…
Humans have always looked up at the sky and wondered. From ancient Babylonians tracking celestial objects on clay tablets to labs probing the subatomic realm, scientific inquiry has been driven by an innately human quest…
''A heart-warming story with a great girl-power message'' - Jacqueline WilsonCharlie Bass is a horse-mad ten-year-old who dreams of owning her own pony. So when she accidentally manages to buy a racehorse, Charlie is thrilled.The…