Nick Harris Bücher

Fantastisch und faszinierend sind die Mythen, die sich um die griechische Götterwelt ranken - und gefährlich noch dazu: Auf der Such nach antiken Schätzen gerät der Antiquitätenhändler John Oro in den Bann des mächten Gottes Zeus! Tatsächlich gelingt es ihm, ein Stück des Goldenen Vlieses aufzuspüren und die Büchse der Pandora zu öffnen. Doch der Preis ist hoch … Der reiche Schatz an Mythen, die liebevolle Gestaltung und die Ausstattung mit detailreichen Effekten – dem Eichenlaub-Orakel des Zeus, der Büchse der Pandora und vielen weiteren kleinen und großen Überraschungen zum Aufklappen und Entdecken –machen dieses Buch zu einem wahren Schatz. Auf spielerische Weise entsteht bei diesem Sachbuch mit hohem fiktionalen Anteil ein charmanter Zugang zum (Allgemein-)Wissen der Mythologie.

Evil Winston, the wig-wearing wizard, has cast a spell on the villagers of Shortsville. It's up to the reader to lead the three bald dwarves in their quest to stop him.

A small practical handbook on choosing and mixing colours successfully. It shows how to create the maximum colour range from the minimum number of paints. The authors address watercolours, acrylics and oils, showing how to mix, blend and dilute in order to achieve a range of effects.

'The unmistakable voice of Moto GP' - Valentino RossiAs 'The Voice' of motorcycle racing for forty years, commentator Nick Harris became the biggest star not on two wheels in the paddock, and this is his mostly eye-witness, white-knuckle account of MotoGP's scorching seventy-year history.The story starts on the Isle of Man in 1949, when Geoff Duke, with his slicked-back hair and one-piece black leathers, became the nation's hero, defying the odds and winning the most dangerous race in the world on a British-built Norton. Just over a decade later at Mallory Park, another British champion and one of the greatest riders of all time Mike Hailwood screamed past a young Nick Harris on his 250cc Honda, and a life-long passion was born.Harris has been at the centre of the sport for decades, getting to know the riders as individuals, seeings feuds unfold, champions made, careers and sometimes lives ended. We'll see the biggest podium stars up close, from Barry Sheene and Kenny Roberts to Valentino Rossi, and we'll meet the mechanics behind them, the manufacturers who poured millions into the teams, and the organisers who, in the early days, ruthlessly compromised rider safety for profits. The drama has often been as tense off the track as on it.This is the book the motorcycling world has been waiting for.

Christmas comes but once a year... and in the world of the grumpy bloke, that's once too often! But turn that frown upside down with the hundreds of jokes and one-liners in this book of festive fun.

Longman Originals is a series of graded readers. All the stories are specially written for EFL students and follow internationally established language guidelines.

Die mittelalterlichen englischen Balladen und Theaterstücke des 16. Jahrhunderts über Robin Hood berichten von edlen Räubern, die den Armen gegen ihre Unterdrücker zur Seite stehen. Die Geschichten wurden ständig weitererzählt und manches wurde erst später hinzugefügt. So wurden Marian, seine Liebste, und Bruder Tuck, ein Mönch, zu Robins treuesten Verbündeten. Die Geschichten zeigen, dass Einfallsreichtum und Witz oft mehr ausrichten als Gewalt. Zahlreiche Abbildungen und kurze Texte informieren über das englische Mittelalter, wo die alteingesessene angelsächsische Bevölkerung sich gegen die normannischen Eroberer zur Wehr setzt und Bauern gegen Ritter kämpfen.

Pack of ten best-selling iBookworms/i and– ideal for building up class libraries. Each Pack contains one copy of each listed title. liThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer/libr / liThe Elephant Man/libr /liA Little Princess/libr / liLove or Money?/libr / liThe Monkey's Paw/libr / liThe Phantom of the Opera/libr / liThe President's Murderer/libr / liSherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son/libr / liWhite Death/libr / liThe Wizard of Oz/li

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer insights into human nature and society. It follows the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. In Lilliput, he discovers a miniature world, towering over its inhabitants and observing their society from a god-like perspective. Conversely, in Brobdingnag, Gulliver becomes the curiosity, displayed in markets as a tiny man among giants. His journey continues to Laputa, a flying island where he encounters a society of speculators detached from reality, allowing their homeland to fall into disrepair while they obsess over impractical ideas. Finally, he reaches the land of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses he admires, contrasting sharply with the Yahoos, filthy creatures resembling humans. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), born in Dublin, crafted this enduring classic, which remains a profound exploration of the follies and vices of humanity through the lens of fantastical adventures.

It's the classic gags that keep people laughing time after time, and Nick Harris has collected together a bumper batch of the best jokes that are guaranteed to have anyone rolling in the aisles. With jokes ranging from the classic subjects (man walks into a bar, an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman, marriage and divorce and more) to laugh-a-minute one-liners and the downright surreal, there is a wealth of hilarious subject matter to keep readers entertained. This is the perfect stocking filler for anyone that loves a good old laugh.

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This elementary level book features three stories of love, death and deception on train journeys.

Rooted in centuries of wisdom, this devotional draws inspiration from the book of Proverbs, offering thoughtful reflections on each verse. The author, after retirement, began sharing daily insights on social media, which culminated in this collection. Each entry includes a contemplation of the verse and a brief prayer, providing guidance and encouragement for individuals, families, and churches seeking spiritual growth and understanding.

For half a century, Edward Payson Weston was one of the most famous people in the English-speaking world as the first age of international celebrity unfolded. The godfather of the pedestrianism movement - a sport that took the Victorian world by storm - he criss-crossed Britain and America on foot earning fame, fortune and notoriety in an athletic career that saw him complete some of the most amazing endurance feats ever witnessed. The story of a dreamer, schemer and ladies man, who met with presidents and royalty, crooks and knaves, A Man in a Hurry is one man's athletic journey from the Gold Rush to the Jazz Age. With its colourful detail, historical context and readable style, the co-authors have skilfully recreated a vanished world to tell one of the most amazing stories in sporting history and provide an important addition to the sports literature canon.

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.It is 1866, and there is trouble in the world's oceans. What is the extraordinary thing that people have seen there, travelling faster than a whale and cutting holes in the bottom of the strongest ships? Dr Aronnax joins the search for the 'monster', hoping for an exciting adventure. But when he meets the mysterious Captain Nemo, his adventure becomes more extraordinary than he had ever imagined, and he discovers a new underwater world, full of wonders, but of strange dangers too...

V roce 1926 zorganizovala Emily Sandsová, mladá nadšenkyně pro egyptologii, výpravu, jejíž cílem bylo najít ztracenou hrobku staroegyptského krále Osirise. Jejím jediným vodítkem byl starobylý papyrus a amulet Oko boha Re, který jí daroval tajemný mladý muž v Luxoru. Výprava však po několika měsících, když se zdálo, že jsou už téměř u cíle, náhle záhadně zmizela bez stopy. O sedmdesát let později dostane praneteř Emily Sandsové balíček s dokumenty svojí pratety, mezi kterými je i její deník. A právě ten se praneteř rozhodne poskytnout vydavatelství na vydání v naději, že to pomůže získat nějaké nové informace o osudu výpravy. Nádherná, jedinečná výpravná velkoformátová kniha s deskami v zlaté barvě a vsazenými barevnými sklíčky – imitací drahých kamenů, ve které se skutečné údaje a fakta prolínají s příběhem výpravy ve formě deníku, obsahujícího nákresy, mapy, dobové pohlednice, otvírací modely, 3-D artefakty a egyptskou hru senet (uvnitř knihy je popis hry + obálka s figurkami).

The fourth and final part of the fire-breathing series of novels that are packed with dragons, magic and action-adventure.

Půvabně a originálně ilustrovaná publikace, kde díky postřehu a řešení hádanek a záhad pomůže čtenář zachránit planetu. Zábavné čtení a hraní pro děti od 9 let. Zábavné ilustrace plné fantazie nás zavedou do mimozemské civilizace, kde společně s mimozemšťanem Plibem budeme zachraňovat planetu Bliss. Zločinný Lord Glax totiž vysává energii z hvězdy, okolo které planeta Bliss obíhá a to by brzy skončilo katastrofou. Ale je tu možnost, jak ho zastavit. Díky postřehu a bystrému zraku, soustředění a samozřejmě hravosti je možné vyřešením úkolů a hádanek překazit nekalé plány vůdce bandy Lávových lotrů - Lorda Glaxe.