David Burke

Francesca ha una cotta per Giovanni! (trans.): Francesca has a crush on Giovanni! (lit.): Francesca has a baking for Giovanni! Ho mangeato in un ristorante caro, dove mi hanno spennato! (trans.): I ate at an expensive restaurant and got fleeced! (lit.): l ate at an expensive restaurant and got plucked! Mamma mia! Even after years of trying to learn Italian, you still have trouble conversing with a native speaker. Why? Because every day Italian is...

You Know How To Survive A Disaster? If the answer is "NO," then the Disaster Survival Handbook is a MUST-HAVE! This is a non-nonsense reference book on how to stay alive in man-made and natural disasters. Prepare yourself with the skills you need, because you never know when tragedy hits! If disaster strikes, the world changes. Everything we've come to rely on is in doubt, and we often find ourselves with only our wits to get us through. Chances...

A "Cinderella" adaptation designed to introduce children to Mandarin Chinese, featuring Chinese words inserted in the English text, a vocabulary list, humorous illustrations, and a reading of the story on an audio CD.

This is the traditional story of Cinderella used to introduce theGerman language to young children. Almost 20 English words are substituted withthe German translation. The German word is reinforced throughout the story.

In a brilliant coda to the play Copenhagen, Michael Frayn receives mysterious letters that take him back to the theme of his bestselling novel, Headlong -- human folly, this time his own. Michael Frayn's Copenhagen has established itself as one of the finest pieces of drama to grace the stage in recent years. The subject of the Tony-winning play is the strange visit the German nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg made to his former mentor, scientist...

Presents Shakespeare's romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, along with scene-by-scene analysis, commentary on past and current productions, and an overview of Shakespeare's theatrical career.

The Greek interpreter: Holmes assists his brother Mycroft to solve a problem for Mr. Melas and a foreign young man -- The Norwood builder: Why did the builder leave everything to Mr. McFarlane, who was a virtual stranger?

The crooked man: Servants for Colonel James Barclay hear arguing and then blood-curdling screams before finding their employer dead. The speckled band: Helen Stoner becomes concerned when she hears a mysterious whistle-a sound her sister complained about right before her death.

""A triumphant general returns to Rome from a war against the Goths and descends into a vicious circle of revenge by refusing to show mercy to his conquered enemy. Blood begets more blood in Titus Andronicus, a fictional drama drawn from a tale by Ovid. Shakespeare styled this early play in the manner of a "revenge tragedy," a genre rooted in classical theater and enormously successful with Elizabethan audiences. Enacting grotesque incidents of...