Skills for First Certificate Reading provides thorough and comprehensive training in language and exam skills for students preparing for Paper 1 of the Cambridge First Certificate in English examination. The Student's Book includes: — 16 thematic units. — task-based exercises developing essential reading skills. — four complete paper 1 reading practice exams, conforming to specifications. — motivating and interesting first certificate-level texts. — pairwork exercises for discussing reasons for answers and deducing successful approaches. — Exam know-how, providing key practical easy-to-understand exam tips, hints and approaches. — wordperfect, providing key first certificate vocabulary development. — Grammar focus, providing training in receptive grammar encountered when reading. — Speed reading development exercises and how to do... Reference section at the back of the book.

Way in to English is an introductory workbook for children who are beginning to learn English. Way in to English introduces the English alphabet and provides practice in letter recognition; phonics and spelling; handwriting. Way in to English is supported by an audio cassette which includes alphabet letter names, phonic sounds of the letters, pronunciation of vocabulary words, songs and rhymes.

The expected never happens . . . A man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged . . . Has he achieved 'The Perfect Murder'? A tanstalising opening to A Twist in the Tale. Consider also: a wine-tasting with a bizarre difference, a game of sex with a sexy stranger, a violent row in a golf clubhouse bar, a rivalry founded on eating cornflakes . . . just some of the openings in this cunningly constructed, fast-moving, entertaining set of stories from THE bestselling author of our time. 'Probably the greatest storyteller of our age' Mail on Sunday

Frank Herbert’s Dune series is one of the great creations of imaginative literature, science fiction’s answer to The Lord of the Rings. Decades after Herbert’s original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert’s son, Brian Herbert, in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson. Working from Frank Herbert’s own notes, the acclaimed authors reveal the chapter of the Dune saga most eagerly anticipated by readers: the Butlerian Jihad. Throughout the Dune novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to the war in which humans wrested their freedom from “thinking machines”. In Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring to life the story of that war, a tale previously seen only in tantalizing hints and clues. Finally, we see how Serena Butler’s passionate grief ignites the struggle that will liberate humans from their machine masters; here is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune. And here is the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, where traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange....