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Collins School Dictionaries

The home of trusted Irish dictionaries for everyday language use.Ideal for students looking for an up-to-date, clear Irish dictionary for everyday home and class use and for exams revision.

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Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection

'Very thin indeed is the curtain between us and the unknown'

The short stories of H. G. Wells are about many things, but they are nearly always about contact between the extraordinary and the everyday. There are few mighty statesmen or square-jawed heroes in his writing-it's a junior teaching assistant-who ends up being handed the fruit of the tree of knowledge in a railway carriage, a domestic housekeeper who must save a botanist from a murderous orchid, and a Lancashire engineer who ends up, high in the Amazon, witnessing the rise of an empire of insects. Even in Wells's non-fantastic stories, people are propelled out of their elements, forced to reckon with their place in the world-or that of humanity at large. 

Wells is best-known today for his science fiction novels and his prophetic writings, but he began his career as a journalist and wrote an extraordinary number of tales, sketches, and thought-experiments, forty of which are collected here. This edition contains many acknowledged classics, but also collects some of the less celebrated gems found in the pages of the magazines and newspapers in which Wells learned his craft. This book contains text based on the stories' first magazine appearances, with an introduction, commentary, and notes on the periodicals for which Wells wrote.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around theglobe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of othervaluable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies forfurther study, and much more.

The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories

read - understand - play

What does a chess player need who is familiar with the rules, but often gets into trouble right away in the opening? This question was the starting point for the authors before they began to compile the material for a book about the English Opening.
As their work progressed, they realized that there was too much material to be accommodated in a single work. That's why they decided to divide it into two volumes. Volume 1 deals with the Symmetrical Variation, which is characterized by the moves c2-c4 and c7-c5. It is presented in an introduction and 6 following chapters, which are designed according to the guidelines of the series 'read - understand - play'.
The opening lines are explained in detail, with the authors paying special attention to the presentation of the inherent ideas and plans to ensure that the reader understands them properly instead of just playing moves learned by heart. Even the meaning and purpose of a single move may be explained, insofar as it is important for understanding.
Based on the knowledge that the reader will surely acquire by studying this book, he will be able to use the discussed Symmetrical Variation with the white and the black pieces in an appropriate way. At the same time, the work offers one or the other new idea that can surprise even an experienced opponent and promises interesting, entertaining and - last but not least - successful chess games.
The correctness of the treated lines was checked with the help of leading engines.
The English opening with the plays 1.c4 e5 and 1.c4 Nf6 can be found in Volume 2

Openings - The English Opening Vol. 1 Symmetrical Variation

Winner of the 2020 Michael Jacobs Prize; shortlisted for the Eccles Centre &amp; Hay Festival Writer's Award'A treasure chest full of rare and exquisitely rendered stories' JON LEE ANDERSON'The best book you are likely to read on Cuba for ages' SPECTATORA brilliantly unconventional and riveting ride through Cuba's history, drawing on the David and Goliath dynamic of its confrontations with the US and other superpowers. It captures realities behind the fantastical, exoticised treatment Cuba often receives.Mrs Gargantua deals with towering figures - both human and non-human - and ambitions which have left their mark on Cuba, the distorted means by which the island is often presented to the outside world. From Columbus and the conquistadores, Ptolemy to Paris Hilton, Hemingway, nuclear warheads and the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, from a nationalist sparrow 'martyred' during Cuba's independence wars to Fidel Castro's genetically modified super-cow, this non-fiction work exposes the country's status as a social and biological testing ground and resource to be mined by larger nations.The book's title comes from an account of Maria Hoyt, a US heiress who raised a gorilla in Cuba (one of the first to do so beyond Africa). Later her pet was sold to a circus in the United States where she became a celebrity: the famous 'Mrs Gargantua'. Her story is directly linked to Hoyt's predecessor in monkey and ape husbandry, the Cuban Rosalía Abreu; reputedly the richest woman in Latin America and a legendary recluse, Abreu became the first person in history - at her mansion in Havana - to breed a chimpanzee in captivity, with unexpected and far-reaching consequences.Like 'Mrs Gargantua', Cuba has been endlessly subject to the whims of the human circus that tries to tame her.The award-winning Mrs Gargantua forms an entirely original, compelling inventory of the author's twenty-year relationship with the island and its people, while also attempting to sketch Cuba's wider importance to a political understanding of the Americas, both in tangible and imaginary terms.

Reports from Cuba

Mrs Gargantua

The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in this stand-alone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything. By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt—enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb’s Gauntlet.Melinoë is a Caerus assassin, trained to track and kill the sacrificial Lambs. The product of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she is a living weapon, known for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. She has never failed to assassinate one of her marks.When Inesa learns that her mother has offered her as a sacrifice, at first she despairs—the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors. But she’s had years of practice surviving in the apocalyptic wastes, and with the help of her hunter brother she might stand a chance of staying alive.For Melinoë, this is a game she can’t afford to lose. Despite her reputation for mercilessness, she is haunted by painful flashbacks. After her last Gauntlet, where she broke down on livestream, she desperately needs redemption.As Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, both girls begin to question everything: Inesa wonders if there’s more to life than survival, while Mel wonders if she’s capable of more than killing.And both wonder if, against all odds, they might be falling in love. <ul><li>Indie Next Pick</li><li>CBC Hot off the Press Pick</li><li>CCBC Choices 2026</li><li>NAIBA Book of the Year Finalist</li></ul>

Fable for the End of the World

My Reading

A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'.

As part of the My Reading series, King Lear is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur W. Frank brings a career of studying illness and suffering to consider how King Lear can aid people whose lives need help. Reading King Lear leads Frank to an encounter with his own old age and provides a source of consolation and companionship. This book does not try to minimize vulnerabilities, but it shows what is fully human, and thus shared, in suffering. The book introduces readers to King Lear and it invites those who know the play to a new consideration for its ability to affect people's lives.

Shakespeare's Dark Consolations

King Lear

A Financial Times Best Book of 2025A Forbes Best Business Book of 2025The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, electric cars and the rest. And most of the tech companies that created and monetized these technologies are also in the US.
In this book Mehran Gul, the winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize, asks: is that changing?Less than a decade ago, the sentiment towards Chinese tech compa­nies was often dismissive and complacent. Now the alarm bells are ringing. But as the commentariat pontificates how the US-China tech battle will play out, an equally interesting question to ask is: are there more Chinas out there? Places no one is taking seriously now that might turn out to be massively competitive sooner than we think.Samsung, a South Korean conglomerate, competes with Apple to be the world's largest manufacturer of smartphones. Arm, founded in the UK, develops chip designs that are used in more than 90 per cent of all mobile devices. Spotify, based in Sweden, is the most popular music streaming service in the world.That's not all. The world's most important semiconductor company, TSMC, is in Taiwan. The other most important company in the semiconductor industry, ASML, is in the Netherlands. Some of the world's best-known games like Minecraft, Candy Crushand Angry Birdscame from gaming studios in the Nordics. Nearly all the major electric battery manufacturers like CATL, LG, and SK On are in Asia.This is a story about technology and the places where it finds its way into the world. Silicon Valley has for half a century been unrivalled in spinning out technologies and fast-growing, high-value, billion-dollar-plus tech companies, the Apples, Facebooks, Googles of the world, that made it the centre for the most rapid creation of wealth in human history. Its secrets are spreading to more places.The geography of innovation is shifting. The world has a lot more high-value tech companies than ever before, growing a lot faster than ever before, in a lot more places than ever before. This is a book about these places.

The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies

The New Geography of Innovation

Success in science depends nowadays on effective communication in English. This workbook is specifically designed to give under- and post-graduates confidence in writing in English. Examples and exercises show how to avoid common errors and how to rephrase and improve scientific texts. The generation of a model manuscript enables the reader to recognise how scientific English is constructed and how to follow the conventions of scientific writing. Guidelines for structuring written work and vocabulary lists should encourage young scientists to develop a concise and mature style.
The workbook is accessible to students of many fields, including those of the natural and technical sciences, medicine, psychology and economics. 
The fourth edition extends the list of words in the scientific lexicon and, as requested by many readers of previous editions, provides several short texts that illustrate the use of many of the less common words in the lexicon.

A Workbook

Writing Scientific English

Henry Heckelbeck

In this twentieth Henry Heckelbeck adventure, Henry uses his spy skills to go undercover! Henry Heckelbeck’s spy senses kick into full gear when he sees his school principal lurking inside a bookstore. It’s odd enough to run into your principal outside of school, but when he’s also acting suspiciously, Henry knows he has to get to the bottom of it and crack the case. And he’s going to need a disguise or two to figure it out! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Henry Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.

Henry Heckelbeck Goes Undercover: Volume 20

Agatha Christie Library

The inspiration for the Netflix original series starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter, and Martin Freeman!A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, Seven Dials.Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank then backfired, with tragic consequences.For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "Seven Dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance. . . .

The Official Authorized Edition

Seven Dials [TV Tie-in]

In this book, the author describes the journey through crisis, insight and transformation from the perspective of humanist pastoral care and spiritual guidance. The hero's journey as described by Joseph Campbell serves as an inner guide - a kind of map for the process of descending into the inner world beyond everyday consciousness, into the untamed wilderness of the soul. She shares with us her many years of experience as a spiritual companion. In doing so, it becomes clear how, even beyond fixed belief systems, a form of guidance can emerge that leads to deep spiritual insight and takes one's own unique path seriously.

The Inner Path - A Humanistic Approach to Pastoral Care in Times of Crisis, Insight and Change

FROM THE AUTHOR OF FINDING HER EDGE - NETFLIX NO.1 IN 20 COUNTRIES WORLDWIDE! SEASON 2 IS COMING! A high-stakes YA sports romance following a gymnast caught between her head, her heart and the biggest prize of all. Perfect for fans of The Summer I Turned Pretty and Lynn Painter. A year ago, Audrey Lee was recovering from surgery; now she's made the US national team. She's about to take part in the competition of a lifetime when horrifying news rips through her squad, threatening to tear them apart. Audrey is desperate to take her mind off the shocking scandal, and then she meets sweet, charming Leo - the one person she can't get close to until after the games. The chemistry between them is impossible to ignore, but so is the fact he's the son of her new coach. Will Audrey tumble towards her podium dreams or into Leo's arms?

An elite gymnastics YA sports romance by author of Finding Her Edge, Netflix global hit

Break The Fall

Give your child the best chance of 11+ success with Bond! Developed and written by experienced tutors, Bond's bestselling 11+ Assessment Practice books combine explanations for how to approach all of the key 11+ question types and exam-style practice, perfect for preparing for the GL Assessment and other admissions tests including the Kent Test. This book is ideal as a first step for 11+ prep, or for levelling up skills.

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