The Pupil's Book Pack includes a Pupil's Book, stickers and sticker activities to focus attention on key vocabulary, press-outs and a free Multi-ROM full of activities for each unit and the festivals. The Multi-ROM also contains the songs from the course, each of which is accompanied by mime and gesture to facilitate understanding and provide opportunities for movement. The Pupil's Book is made up of six story based units, each with seven lessons. There is also a festivals section at the end of the book.

Jane Austen's witty novel is set in the early 1800s. It is a light-hearted account of the difficulties a pretty young woman encounters in her search for a rich and handsome husband!

Students will enjoy this thoroughly entertaining detective story. Salahadin El Nur searches for the answer to the riddle of an ancient curse. He suspects an English professor of being involved with a gang of ruthless smugglers.

Sherlock Holmes helps Mary Morstan find out the truth about her father and the man who has been sending her pearls.

During a stopover in Miami, James Bond meets Auric Goldfinger and soon discovers that he is not just a multi-millionaire whose fortune is built on trading gold, but also a sophisticated and clever cheat.

Perfect for students preparing to take a B2 level exam, for example the Cambridge FCE examination or for those students aiming for the IELTS band 5. Includes 28 alternating grammar and vocabulary units •Up-to-date syllabus based on the B2 (Vantage) level of the Council of Europe's framework •28 units, alternating grammar and vocabulary units •A well researched grammatical and lexical syllabus •Clear comprehensive grammar and vocabulary presentation tables •Useful reference section including regular verbs, glossary, phrasal verbs, phrases and collocations, word patterns, word formation and British English/American English differences

James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the sudden disappearance of the island's Governor and his assistant. When he arrives, 007 begins to suspect that the Governor's absence is in some way linked to Dr No, the reclusive owner of a remote island which lies between Cuba and Jamaica. There have been several strange deaths on this island, which the local people blame on a mysterious and terrifying 'dragon'. Bond decides to pay a secret visit to the island. But he is not the only person to land there.

Ever wondered why bad musicians always win the Eurovision Song Contest, or how incompetent politicians get elected? You need some Quirkology in your life. While other scientists beaver away on obvious problems, Richard Wiseman has been busy uncovering the secret ingredients of charisma, exploring how our personalities are shaped by when we are born and examining why people usually miss the obvious signs of their partner's infidelity. Using scientific methods to investigate offbeat topics that interest the general public as well as the scientific community, Quirkology brings a new understanding to the backwaters of the human mind and takes us to places where mainstream scientists fear to tread. Comparable to Freakonomics, but British, far more populist, and a lot funnier. Findings include: How does your surname influence your life? What does the way you walk reveal about your personality? Why should women have men write their personal ads? What is the funniest joke in the world?

Helping students prepare for the world of work, this two-level series focuses on systematically developing their communicative abilities so they increase their empolyment opportunities and have the confideance to use English in the workplace. Key Features: — Carefully graded materials that do not assume students are familiar with the world of work, — A focus on developing listening and speaking skills in business situations, — Set in a workplace context with characters students can relate to, — Viewpoints sections in which a variety of speakers talk about aspects of culture and business, — Ongoing project tasks that allow students to use the language studied to develop their own professional and company profile, — A supportive Teacher's Book with expansion ideas, tests and supplementary photocopiable activities.

Up-to-date syllabus based on the B2 (Vantage) level of the Council of Europe's framework. 28 units, alternating grammar and vocabulary units. A well researched grammatical and lexical syllabus. Clear comprehensive grammar and vocabulary presentation tables. Useful reference section including regular verbs, glossary, phrasal verbs, phrases and collocations, word patterns, word formation and British English/American English differences. Perfect for students preparing to take a B2 level exam, for example the Cambridge FCE examination or for those students aiming for the IELTS band 5. Includes 28 alternating grammar and vocabulary units.

It's the end of something simple. And the beginning of everything else. Sometimes life happens even when you're not sure you're ready for it. In Capeside, the sleepy New England coastal town where teenagers Joey, Dawson, Pacey, and Jen live, this year the river is running fast. Choices will be made, and chances will be taken. Promises will be broken, and desires revealed.

Angered by Dawson's indecision, Joey and Jen form a reluctant alliance and plan a weekend together in New York to attend the sixteenth birthday party of Jen's cousin. Joey is amazed on her first visit to the Big Apple.

Lenny Samuel is hired to find a retired championship racehorse. The private eye thinks that he is going to enjoy this job. After all, what could be easier? All he has to do is hang around California's racetracks, ask a few questions and then report back to his very pretty client.

Lia and Jay's grandmother is old and in poor health. She misses her husband who has recently died. She begs her family to fetch water from the well at the abandoned family farm in the hills. After listening to their parents' words of caution about the recent volcanic activity in the area, Lia and Jay set off early in the morning to walk to the farm. On their journey the teenagers meet a variety of people and when they return, it is not just the well water that they bring back to the city.

The Laser B1 Workbook. • This follows the grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening and writing syllabus of the Student's Book exactly, and is designed to further practice and consolidate the work done in the Student's Book. • All Workbook exercises are designed so that they can be assigned for homework. • The structure of the Workbook is as follows: — Reading: consolidating the skills developed in the reacting section of the unit. — Dictionary Corner: consolidating the lexis and lexico-grammar of the first Dictionary Corner section of the Student's Book. — Grammar 1: consolidating the grammar of the first Grammar Point section of the Student's Book. — Dictionary Corner: consolidating the lexis and lexico-grammar of the second Dictionary Corner section of the Student's Book. — Grammar 2: consolidating the grammar of the second Grammar Point Section of the Student's Book. — Writing: consolidating the skills developed in the Writing section of the Student's Book. — Listening: consolidating the skills developed in the Listening section of the unit. • There are revision sections after every two units of the Workbook. After units 2, 4, 6, 10, 12 and 14, these are out of 20 or 25 and focus on the grammar and lexis of the previous two units. After units 8 and 16, the revision section is out of 50 and focuses on all grammar and lexis from the previous 8 units.

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, There are very few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books.

Profoundly sad and hopeful at the same time... Hachiko Waits shows us the very best in life; loyalty, devotion, our ability to love-all taught by a beloved, intelligent, and heroic dog. I love it. Patricia MacLachlan, Newbery Award-winning author of Sarah Plain and Tall The loyalty and devotion of a dog has no bounds What a good dog you are. What a fine dog you are. Hachi, you are the best dog in all of Japan. Professor Ueno speaks these words to his faithful dog before boarding the train to work every morning. And every afternoon just before three o'clock, Hachi is at the train station to greet his beloved master. One day, the train arrives at the station without the professor. Hachi waits. For ten years Hachi waits for his master to return. Not even Yasuo, the young boy who takes care of Hachi, can persuade him to leave his post. Hachiko Waits is a novel inspired by a true story. Readers will be touched by the story of Hachiko and his impact on the people of Japan.

A haunting tale of a woman revisiting her past, with shattering consequences Isabel, Owen, and Julia were childhood friends. But when they were 15, Julia disappeared without a trace — an event that had a devastating impact on the others. Years later, Isabel returns to her hometown in the north of England for Owen's funeral. She hadn't seen him since they recklessly burned down the local supermarket together; he was sent to prison and she, just shy of her 18th birthday, to a young offenders' center. Isabel suspects that Owen was responsible for Julia's murder, and she's hoping finally to find some kind of resolution. Feeling cut off from her husband and child in Turkey, and awash with unexpected memories, Isabel ventures further into the murky depths of her past. But nothing is as it seems — either past or present — and as Isabel's world unravels we finally realize the stunning, shattering truth.

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War, Macmillan published a much-loved and extremely successful series of books under the title of Highways and Byways. In them, the authors took readers on a delightful guided tour of the country, county by county, pointing out places of interest, key historical events and local lore and legend. Now, Macmillan is reissuing — in one beautifully designed volume — a selection of those highways and byways, which affords contemporary readers both a charming period piece and a wonderful glimpse of the very best of Britain.