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Simplified Chinese: Short Stories for Beginners (A1) Skill Level is carefully designed for learners starting their Simplified Chinese journey, offering 20 simple and engaging short stories tailored to the A1 level. Each story introduces foundational vocabulary, basic grammar structures, and everyday phrases, helping you build confidence. To enhance your learning experience, every story is paired with a detailed vocabulary chart, translating key words from Simplified Chinese to English for clarity and ease of learning.

From “one of the best writers in the English language” (The Washington Post), a sweeping yet intimate novel about one man’s life in the aftermath of the Civil War “I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things…were gone forever.” Born into bondage in...

Broken Heartlands is an essential and compelling political road-trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour’s red wall, by Sebastian Payne – an award-winning journalist and Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times. The Times Political Book of the Year A Daily Telegraph...

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never made permanent. In 1957, in his lodgings in Accra, he sets out to write his story. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He...

At once epic and intimate, the story of Lilly Bere unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, from the moment Lilly fled Dublin at the end of the First World War to the new world of...

With acclaimed works like The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty, Irish author Sebastian Barry has earned a reputation as a "master storyteller" ( The Wall Street Journal). In A Long Long Way he has created an unforgettable portrait of the horrors of war through the story of Willie Dunne, a young man who leaves his native Dublin in 1914 to join the Allies on the Western Front.

When Andy Fleming turns up in the newsroom of the New York Chronicle to learn the business Nick Russo is determined to dislike him. Nick has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighbourhood to reporter the hard way. Andy is heir to a publishing fortune: he can’t type, he loses his keys and has never done a day’s work in his life…and one day he’ll be Nick’s boss. Except, Nick keeps rescuing Andy: showing him the ropes, tracking down his keys, freeing his tie when it gets stuck in the filing cabinets. Opposites in every way, an unlikely friendship soon turns into feelings neither want to deny.

Brought to you by Penguin. It is no exaggeration to say that venture capital has been central to the greatest legal creation of wealth anywhere, and enabled much of the world we live in, yet we know surprisingly little about this strange tribe of financiers. In The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby...

“Dutch Short Stories for Advanced (C1) Skill Level” is designed for learners at the C1 level, offering 30 captivating short stories that push your Dutch comprehension to new heights. Each story presents complex sentence structures, nuanced expressions, and advanced vocabulary, challenging you to expand your understanding of the language in real-life contexts. To support your learning, every story includes a comprehensive vocabulary list with Dutch-to-English translations of key words, providing clarity on more advanced terms and idiomatic phrases.

Über kaum einen historischen Vorgang neuerer Zeit herrscht so viel Unklarheit und Dissens wie über die deutsche Revolution von 1918/19. Hat die sozialdemokratische Führung, die am 9. November 1918 die Regierung übernahm, die Revolution gemacht oder niedergeschlagen? Hat sie Deutschland vor dem Bolschewismus gerettet oder der Reaktion zum Sieg verholfen?

Paris, 1889. Sous les lumières étincelantes de la capitale qui se prépare à célébrer son Exposition universelle, l'ombre rôde. Une ombre qui tue… et dévore les âmes. À l'I.S.F., les Investigations Surnaturelles Françaises, deux enquêteurs aux tempéraments aussi contradictoires que complémentaires sont dépêchés sur l'affaire : Louise de Stalles, succube aristocrate au charme incendiaire et au tempérament explosif, et Paul Deschanelles, nécromancien élégant, dandy jusqu'au bout de sa canne… mais incapable de regarder un cadavre sans pâlir.

Echar Raíces es el podcast de Pon Raíces sobre hogares reales, arquitectura, diseño de interiores y las decisiones que pueden transformar la forma en la que vivimos. Soy Sebastián Laris y cada semana entramos a hogares reales para conocer las historias de quienes los habitan y descubrir qué podemos aprender de los espacios que han construido. Conversamos con arquitectos, interioristas, diseñadores, paisajistas, artesanos, muebleros y otros expertos para entender cómo una distribución diferente, un mueble, la iluminación, los materiales, el jardín o una decisión aparentemente ...

How to understand the economic impact of migration.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'A fine and profoundly intelligent novel, written by an author who balances big ideas with human emotion. Wistful, yearning and wise' ELIZABETH DAY 'Faulks's most poignant love story yet' ANTONY BEEVOR, author of Stalingrad _____________________ 1914: Young Anton...

Cosa pensa quando sente la parola riciclaggio? Sono sicuro che pensa immediatamente ad alcune cose che hanno a che fare con la conservazione della natura,...

18 And Life on Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and who at the age of eight discovered the gift that would change his life. Throughout his career, Sebastian Bach has sold over twenty million records both...

“Exceptional . . . Deeply researched and elegantly written . . . As a description of the politics and pressures under which modern independent central banking has to operate, the book is incomparable.” —Financial Times The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of...

When James learns that an uncle he hasn’t heard from in ages has left him something in his will, he figures that the least he can do is head down to Cornwall for a weekend to honor the old man’s parting wishes. He finds the family home filled with half-remembered guests and unwanted memories, but more troubling is that his uncle has tasked his heirs with uncovering the truth behind a woman’s disappearance 20 years earlier. Leo’s of the opinion that rich people aren’t to be trusted where wills are concerned. So he does what any sensible spy would do and infiltrates the party.

In their years of working with senior executives around the world, MIT research scientists Stephanie Woerner, Peter Weill, and Ina Sebastian noticed that these leaders knew they had to transform their businesses, but lacked a coherent framework and a common language—a playbook—to guide and motivate their employees and keep everyone focused on a common goal. Future Ready is that playbook.

Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his...