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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Alessandro Volta, inventor of the battery • Michael Faraday, inventor of the electric motor • Marie Curie, famous for her work on radioactivity • Albert Einstein, creator of the Theory of Relativity • Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the first antibiotic • Linus Pauling, chemist and peace activist BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 15,287 • Headword count: 1,631 • PLUS:...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Henry J Heinz, the man who invented tomato ketchup • William Lever who made millions from soap • Michael Marks, founder of the Marks and Spencer stores • Henry Ford, who mass-produced cars and made them affordable • Coco Chanel, the businesswoman who changed fashion for women • Ray Kroc, the man who created the McDonald's chain of restaurants BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count:...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher • Socrates, the great Greek philosopher • Aristotle, the first to organize scientific knowledge • William Wilberforce who ended the British slave trade • Karl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital • Mahatma Gandhi who helped free India from British rule BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 16,058 • Headword count: 1,701...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Mayer Amschel Rothschild who started a bank which made his family rich • Cornelius Vanderbilt who became one of the richest people in the USAW. K. Kellogg who started the world's biggest cereal company • Elizabeth Arden who built the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company • Walt Disney who started the famous entertainment company • Soichiro Honda who started the Honda motorbike...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun • René Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said 'I think, therefore I am' • Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity works • Carl Friedrich Gauss, 'the Prince of Mathematicians' • Charles Babbage who invented computers • Ada Lovelace who wrote the first computer program BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 8,351...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child genius • Giuseppe Verdi who wrote the operas Aida and La Traviata • Johann Strauss, 'The Waltz King' • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who wrote the ballet Swan Lake • Irving Berlin who wrote There's No Business Like Show Business BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 8,344 • Headword count:...
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The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. Contents: • Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona Lisa • Christopher Wren who rebuilt London • Antoni Gaudí who built the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona • Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painter • Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican female artist BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 10,172 • Headword count: 941 • PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England • Saladin, historic Muslim leader • Genghis Khan, famous leader of the Mongol empire • Catherine the Great, the woman who turned Russia into an empire • Abraham Lincoln who stopped slavery in the USA • Queen Victoria, the famous British Queen BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 6,360 • Headword count: 628 • PLUS: visit...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English Literature • William Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in history • Charles Dickens who wanted to make England a better place • Victor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poor • Leo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace • Rudyard Kipling who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize BRITISH...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize • Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people • John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away • Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children • Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research • Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community BRITISH...
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The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. Contents: • Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, who helped humans to fly • Louis Blériot, the first person to cross the sea in an aeroplane • Charles Lindbergh, first to cross the Atlantic alone • Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic • Amy Johnson, the British woman who broke flying records BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 9,498 • Headword count: 906 • PLUS: visit...
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The Sunday Times national newspaper is famous for its insight investigative journalist team. This book profiles the major stories from the famous insight team that have had the most impact from the Thalidomide case to the Coronavirus investigation. News-breaking stories as told from The Sunday Times with commentary setting each story in context. These stories are a result of often years of work and painstaking investigations. The reports ripped away...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Gaius Julius Caesar, the powerful Roman leader • Queen Elizabeth I who ruled England for 45 years • George Washington, the first president of the USA • King Louis XVI, the last king of France • Winston Churchill who led Britain in the Second World War • Che Guevara, the Argentinian doctor who fought for revolution BRITISH ENGLISH • Word count: 18,924 • Headword count:...
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An inspiring selection of hand-picked adventures, chosen by Ed Stafford. For those who don't mind a bit of discomfort in order to experience the wilder side of our amazing planet. Stunning photography, sketch maps, as well as Ed's commentary throughout to inspire adventurers to create their own expeditions. Open your mind and reboot your soul with these unforgettable adventures. Get a taste of total freedom as you soar like an eagle over mountains...
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Casey's Unit is, as ever, full of troubled, disaffected pupils, and new arrival Leo is something of a conundrum. Thirteen year old Leo isn't a bad lad – in fact, he's generally polite and helpful, but he's in danger of permanent exclusion for repeatedly absconding and unauthorised absences. Despite letters being sent home regularly, his mother never turns up for any appointments, and when the school calls home she always seems to have an excuse....
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: • Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook • Humphry Davy who discovered 'laughing gas' • Charles Darwin who changed people's ideas with his theory of evolution • Gregor Mendel who first discovered the science of genetics • Louis Pasteur who saved millions of lives by killing germs • Francis Crick who helped to discover the structure of DNA BRITISH...
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Finding Your Roots volume 3
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What's in a name? Well, a lot, at least when it comes to piecing together family history. For former slaves, choosing a last name was one of their first acts of freedom. For Jewish immigrants, it was a way to fit in in their new country. Whatever the reason for a name change, it can make the process of learning about one's ancestors difficult, if not impossible. In this episode, Gates unearths missing links in the family histories of media legend...
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In this unique book, one of football's greatest cult players reflects on the travails of the sport and draws upon his own experience to offer an honest assessment on one of its final remaining taboos: mental health. The most difficult position in football? Being a goalkeeper. That's what they say, right? You must be mad to stand between those posts and bat away shots and crosses all game long. Neville Southall should know. He was the goalkeeper for...
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After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong ... this is her staggering true story. When Jade Kelly met her new foster mother she thought her prayers had been answered. Kindly Carol Docherty was everything her violent, drug addicted mother was not. Loving and nurturing, she fed and clothed ten-year old Jade and offered a life free of fear from near constant abuse....
20) Schlafen - Leben
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Theresia Enzensberger kann nicht schlafen. Also schreibt sie ein Buch über den Schlaf und folgt dabei den verschiedenen Stadien, die wir in der Nacht durchleben. So beginnt sie in der zähneknirschenden Leichtschlafphase mit einem Essay über die Moralisierung von Schlaf, Traum als politische Metapher und die Folgen allgemeinen Schlafmangels. Fast unmerklich wird ihr Text in der Tiefschlafphase privater, innerlicher, und eröffnet uns eine intensivere,...