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Shirley Homes and the Lithuanian Case - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Bassett, Jennifer

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, 'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?' Sherlock Holmes, of course, was not a real person, but, like Sherlock, Shirley has good eyes, and good ears. And she knows the right questions to ask. And in the Lithuanian Case, the right questions are important. Because Shirley must find a missing person - Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. Where is she? Who is she with?

Shirley Homes and the Lithuanian Case Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Bassett, Jennifer

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, 'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?' Sherlock Holmes, of course, was not a real person, but, like Sherlock, Shirley has good eyes, and good ears. And she knows the right questions to ask. And in the Lithuanian Case, the right questions are important. Because Shirley must find a missing person - Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. Where is she? Who is she with?

Silas Marner - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

Eliot, George

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living. But what if a thief should come in the night and take his gold away? What will Silas do then? What could possibly comfort him for the loss of his only friend?

Silas Marner Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

Eliot, George

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living. But what if a thief should come in the night and take his gold away? What will Silas do then? What could possibly comfort him for the loss of his only friend?

Sister Love and Other Crime Stories - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Escott, John

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when they were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago. They say that everybody has one crime in them. Perhaps they only take an umbrella that does not belong to them. Perhaps they steal from a shop, perhaps they get angry and hit someone, perhaps they kill . . .

Sister Love and Other Crime Stories Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Escott, John

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when they were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago. They say that everybody has one crime in them. Perhaps they only take an umbrella that does not belong to them. Perhaps they steal from a shop, perhaps they get angry and hit someone, perhaps they kill . . .

Skąd się biorą innowacje. I dlaczego rozkwitają w wolności

Matt Ridley

nnowacja pojawia się tam, gdzie ludzie mają wolność myślenia, eksperymentowania i spekulowania. Pojawia się tam, gdzie ludzie mogą się ze sobą wymieniać towarami. Pojawia się tam, gdzie ludzie są stosunkowo zamożni, a nie zdesperowani. Ma w sobie coś z zaraźliwości. Potrzebuje inwestycji - pisze Matt Ridley w swojej książce "How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom", która we wrześniu ukaże się nakładem Wydawnictwa WEI pt. "Skąd się biorą innowacje i dlaczego rozkwitają w wolności". Ridley przedstawia historię innowacji i to, jak musimy zmienić nasze myślenie na ten temat. Innowacja jest głównym wydarzeniem współczesności, powodem, dla którego doświadczamy zarówno znacznej poprawy standardów życia, jak i niepokojących zmian w naszym społeczeństwie. Zapomnijmy o krótkoterminowych symptomach, takich jak Donald Trump i Brexit, to innowacje same w sobie je wyjaśniają i to one ukształtują XXI wiek na dobre i na złe. Innowacje pozostają jednak tajemniczym procesem, słabo rozumianym przez decydentów politycznych i biznesmenów, trudnym do przywołania do porządku, ale nieuniknionym i nieubłaganym, gdy już się wydarzy. Ridley argumentuje w tej książce, że musimy zmienić sposób, w jaki myślimy o innowacjach, aby postrzegać je jako stopniowy, oddolny, przypadkowy proces, który przytrafia się społeczeństwu jako bezpośredni rezultat ludzkiego nawyku wymiany, a nie uporządkowany, odgórny proces rozwijający się zgodnie z planem. Innowacja zasadniczo różni się od wynalazku, ponieważ polega na przekształcaniu wynalazków w rzeczy praktyczne i przystępne cenowo dla ludzi. W niektórych sektorach proces ten przyspiesza, a w innych zwalnia. Jest to zawsze zjawisko zbiorowe, oparte na współpracy, a nie kwestia samotnego geniuszu.

Skyjack! - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Vicary, Tim

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is! And there isn't much time. One man lies dead on the runway. In a few minutes the hijackers will use their guns again. And the Prime Minister knows who they are going to kill.