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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Marco Polo who taught the world about ChinaIbn Battuta who travelled to 44 countriesChristopher Columbus who discovered new worldsJames Cook, first to sail around the world in both directionsDavid Livingstone who explored AfricaYuri Gagarin, the first man to go into spaceBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 14,679Headword count: 1,163Each book includes a full recording of each story online.PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, tea...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Mayer Amschel Rothschild who started a bank which made his family richCornelius Vanderbilt who became one of the richest people in the USAW. K. Kellogg who started the world''s biggest cereal companyElizabeth Arden who built the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics companyWalt Disney who started the famous entertainment companySoichiro Honda who started the Honda motorbike and car companyBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 6,901Headword count: 623Each b...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Henry J Heinz, the man who invented tomato ketchupWilliam Lever who made millions from soapMichael Marks, founder of the Marks and Spencer storesHenry Ford, who mass-produced cars and made them affordableCoco Chanel, the businesswoman who changed fashion for womenRay Kroc, the man who created the McDonald''s chain of restaurantsBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 18,209Headword count: 1,624Each book includes a full recording of each story onl...

Collins COBUILD Key Words for Chemical Engineering is a brand-new vocabulary book aimed at anyone who wants to study or work in the field of chemical engineering. The title contains the 500 most important words and phrases you will need to succeed and includes practice material to make sure you really learn them.This title has been specially created for foreign learners of English who want to improve their career prospects in chemical engineering by learning English. The title covers the most co...

Collins COBUILD Key Words for Automotive Engineering is a brand-new vocabulary book aimed at anyone who wants to study or work in the field of automotive engineering. The title contains the 500 most important words and phrases you will need to succeed and includes practice material to make sure you really learn them.This title has been specially created for foreign learners of English who want to improve their career prospects in automotive engineering by learning English. The title covers the m...

Shortlisted at HRH THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOK AWARDS 2013Be the best you can be in presentations, meetings, negotiations and networking.Collins Key Business Skills gives you the tools you need to succeed in business if English is not your first language.Written by an expert in business and international communication, Key Business Skills offers professional advice and practice in the following areas:* presentations* meetings* negotiations* networkingNon-native English speaker ex...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward\\''s manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely. Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it. I could hardly keep my seat.\\''Spirited and impulsive, Marianne Dashwood is the complete opposite to her controlled and sensible sister, Elinor. When it comes to matters of the heart, Marianne is passionate and romantic ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. These short stories, written mostly in the 1890s, vividly portray Bengali life and culture. Tagore\\''s treatment of caste culture, bureaucracy and poverty paint a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century India, and all are interwoven wit...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. Tagore\\''s poetry continues to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world.ISBN: 9780007925575Nr pagini: 240 pagesFormat: 111 x 178 x 15mm | 130gAnul aparitiei: 09 May 2013...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

Collins COBUILD Key Words for Retail is a brand-new vocabulary book aimed at anyone who wants to study or work in the retail industry. The title contains the 500 most important words and phrases you will need to succeed and includes practice material to make sure you really learn them.This title has been specially created for foreign learners of English who want to improve their career prospects in retail by learning English. The title covers the most common words found in this area, and will gi...

Collins COBUILD Key Words for Mechanical Engineering is a brand-new vocabulary book aimed at anyone who wants to study or work in the field of mechanical engineering. The title contains the 500 most important words and phrases you will need to succeed and includes practice material to make sure you really learn them.This title has been specially created for foreign learners of English who want to improve their career prospects in mechanical engineering by learning English. The title covers the m...

Collins COBUILD Key Words for Insurance is a brand-new vocabulary book aimed at anyone who wants to study or work in the insurance profession. The title contains the 500 most important words and phrases you will need to succeed and includes practice material to make sure you really learn them.This title has been specially created for foreign learners of English who want to improve their career prospects in insurance by learning English. The title covers the most common words found in this area, ...

The Collins COBUILD Key Words for IELTS series is a brand-new range of three graded books which contain the essential vocabulary students need to succeed in the IELTS exam.These books have been specially created for foreign learners of English who plan to take the IELTS exam to demonstrate that they have the required ability to communicate effectively in English, either at work or at university.Collins COBUILD Key Words for IELTS: Book 1 Starter covers the most common words found in IELTS, and w...

Learn key vocabulary for the FCE examAchieve the score you needCollins COBUILD Key Words for Cambridge English: First and First for Schools will help students to enrich their vocabulary and increase their accuracy and fluency in preparation for the Cambridge English: First (FCE) and First for Schools exams.* hundreds of vocabulary-building features, synonyms, phrases and collocations* a thematic word list section, organized according to topics that frequently appear in the exams* words are organ...

Collins COBUILD Key Words for Finance is a brand-new vocabulary book aimed at anyone who wants to study or work in the finance industry. The title contains the 500 most important words and phrases you will need to succeed and includes practice material to make sure you really learn them.This title has been specially created for foreign learners of English who want to improve their career prospects in finance by learning English. The title covers the most common words found in this area, and will...

Collins COBUILD Key Words for Electrical Engineering is a brand-new vocabulary book aimed at anyone who wants to study or work in the field of electrical engineering. The title contains the 500 most important words and phrases you will need to succeed and includes practice material to make sure you really learn them.This title has been specially created for foreign learners of English who want to improve their career prospects in electrical engineering by learning English. The title covers the m...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life . . . `The Confessions of an English Opium Eater is both a classic of the English autobiographical genre and a hard-nosed study of the effects of drugs on an artistic mind. A close associate of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the brilliant but troubled de Quincey recounts both the pleasures and pain of op...

Improve the way you communicate in English when working internationally - it''s as much about how you say it as what you say!You need more than just a good level of English to communicate successfully in international business. Collins Effective International Business Communication gives you clear and practical advice to help you to communicate successfully with colleagues and business partners around the world, using the English you already know.* Part 1 will help you with speaking and listenin...

Make yourself understood in businessThis brand new self-study book is the perfect way for business people who spend a lot of time on the phone or in meetings and want to improve their spoken English, getting their message across effectively. The focus is on the key language required to speak English accurately in business.''Collins English for Business'' is a new series of self-study skills books which focus on the language you really need to do business in English - wherever you are in the worl...