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Peng Dict of International Relations (B)

Evans

International relations have undergone a revolution since the immense upheavals in Eastern Europe of 1989. The end of the Cold War, which was in many ways the great simplifier of international affairs, has...

Peng Dict of Eng Idioms (2ed)

Gulland

Power napping, the Oprah effect, girl power - these are just some of the recent figures of speech to have entered our language. The perfect guide to the idiosyncrasies of the English language, this best-selling...

Penguin Readers 4: King Solomon`s Mines

H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good and Allan Quatermain are travelling to the mysterious, unmapped heart of Africa. Sir Henry wants to find his missing brother. Quatermain wants to find King Solomon`s secret...

Penguin Readers 4: The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Contemporary / British English It is 1942 in Holland and the Germans have invaded. All Jewish people are frightened for their lives, so the Frank family hide. Life is dangerous but they hope for the best until they...

Penguin Readers 3: The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) In 1891, the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, disappeared in Switzerland while working on a dangerous case. Everyone thought that he was dead. But three years...

Penguin Readers 3: My Fair Lady

Alan Jay Lerner

Contemporary / British English (Available February 2008) My Fair Lady is the story of a poor young flower-seller and a professor who doesn`t like women. The professor decides to teach the flower-seller to speak better...

Penguin Active Reading 2: Mr Bean

Richard Curtis, Robin Driscoll

A famous painting is going to the Grierson Gallery in LA and they want a top man to come to the United States. He can talk about the artist. The National Gallery in London send Mr Bean. But something is very wrong...

Penguin Active Reading 3: The Incredible Journey

Sheila Burnford

The country is wild and dangerous. Mountains are high, rivers run fast, and there are strange animals in the woods. But three family pets - two dogs and a cat - begin a long, long walk through western Canada. They...

Penguin Readers 6: Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Classic / British English Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of lack of money. He withdraws from society and, poor and lonely, he develops a plan to murder a...

Penguin Readers 3: Psycho

Robert Bloch

Contemporary / British English (Available February 2008) Anna Scott is an American film star. She is rich, beautiful and very famous. William Thacker is a shy man who has a small, unsuccessful bookshop in London....

Penguin Readers Easystarts: Simon and the Spy

Elizabeth Laird

Original / British English Simon Simple is going on holiday and the police are looking for a spy. On the train, Simon meets a beautiful girl. He likes her and she likes him. But the spy is there too. Simon and the...

Penguin Readers 1: Marcel and the Shakespeare Letters

Rabley, Stephen

Original / British English Marcel visits his friend, Henry, in London. Henry knows a professor and he has some very interesting letters by William Shakespeare! Marcel and Henry want to see the letters, but they are...

Penguin Active Reading 4: Body in the Library

Agatha Christie

Early one morning the Bantrys wake to find the dead body of a young woman in their library. Who is she? How did she get there? The police are called, of course, but Dolly Bantry quickly invites her friend Jane Marple...

Penguin Readers 3: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man`s Chest

Contemporary / American English Jack Sparrow, captain of the Black Pearl, is back in a new adventure. This time he, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Commodore Norrington are all looking for a chest that belongs to...

Penguin Readers 6: Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina, one of world literature`s greatest novels, tells the story of a beautiful young woman who is unhappily married to a man much older than herself. When she falls in love with a handsome young soldier,...

Penguin Readers 4: Cinderella Man

Marc Cerasini

Contemporary / American English Jim Braddock is a successful boxer in New York. But in October 1929 the American economy fails, and at the same time Jim starts to lose in the boxing ring. Does the true story of Jim...

Penguin Dict of Marketing

Harris, Phil

The Penguin Dictionary of Marketing is the only one-volume dictionary of its kind to offer full sections of international terms, giving it a truly global readership. Covering everything from direct marketing to...

Penguin Readers 4: Cinderella Man

Marc Cerasini

Jim Braddock is a successful boxer in New York. But in October 1929 the American economy fails, and at the same time Jim starts to lose in the boxing ring. Does the true story of Jim Braddock — the Cinderella Man —...

Penguin Readers 4: Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Classic / British English Macbeth, a brave soldier, is trusted by the Scottish king. Then a strange meeting with three witches makes him greedy for power. Macbeth wants to be king. He and his evil wife make murderous...

Penguin Active Reading 3: Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein is probably the most famous horror story in the world. Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist who creates a monster from parts of dead bodies. At first the monster looks for love and wants to be kind....

Penguin Readers 5: Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence

Classic / British English (Available April 2008) This moving story follows the emotional development of Paul Morel. Paul is torn between his passionate love for his mother and his romantic friendships with Miriam and...

Penguin Readers 2: Heidi

Spyri, Johanna

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Heidi lives with her grandfather in his little wooden house, high up in the mountains of Switzerland. One day Heidi`s aunt arrives and takes her to Clara`s home in...

Penguin Readers 3: The Beatles

Paul Shipton

The year was 1963, and Beatlemania was only just beginning. Soon the Beatles had fans all around the world. For the rest of the 1960s their music led the way and they changed modern music forever. This book tells the...

Penguin Readers 6: Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is rejected by everyone he meets. But Jean`s life is changed forever when he...

Penguin Readers 3: Emil and the Detectives

Erich Kastner

Emil is travelling alone to his grandmother`s house in the city. He is carrying money toher from his mother. Then a man on the train steals the money. Emil follows the thief and an exciting adventure begins, with lots...