The Italian Starter Kit is a rapid Italian course packed with great tools. Including a fun coursebook, flash cards for learning 5 words a day, a ' Personal Tutor' on two CDs & a ' Traveller's Companion' full of essentials for your trip. Join the million of people who succeed with Elisabeth Smith & learn to speak Italian in just 7 weeks. This course will take you from beginner to the equivalent of foundation GCSE. This pack contains 1 144 page book, 1 48 page ' Traveller's Companion' booklet, 2 70 minute audio CDs, 156 flashcards & online content to enrich your learning. ...

This quick & easy Spanish course is perfect for learning basic conversational Spanish in just 7 weeks with 2 interactive CDs & 2 guides to help you. This course will take you from beginner to the equivalent of foundation GCSE. This pack contains 1 144 page book, 1 48 page ' Traveller's Companion' booklet, 2 70 minute audio CDs, 156 flashcards & online content to enrich your learning. ...

At 1.28 a.m. on Wednesday, 23 March 2011, just three weeks after celebrating her 79th birthday, the biggest star Hollywood has ever known died. The tributes & eulogies to Elizabeth Taylor were legion. A weeping Elton John said, We have just lost a Hollywood giant. More importantly, we have lost an incredible human being. In Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend, 1932?2011, acclaimed biographer David Bret has written the revealing, incisive & definitive life story of the most controversial cinematic icon since Mae West. While never yielding in his admiration & respect, Bret has stripped away the veneer to portray the star as she really was: sometimes arrogant, attention-seeking, avaricious, reckless, monstrous towards her peers, generous, even foolish at times but, above all, through the tumultuous relationships & the personal mayhem, a survivor. Elizabeth Taylor was the very last of the Hollywood greats. As David Bret writes, Most of her contemporaries ? Garbo, Streisand & Dietrich excepted ? were compelled to walk in the shadow of her sun. Of todays stars, not one may be deemed worthy of stepping even within a mile of that shadow. ...

From the time she appeared in National Velvet, the film that skyrocketed her to international fame at age twelve in 1944, until her death in 2011, Elizabeth Taylor's beauty, allure, & personal strength captivated the world. This title reflects the essence of a great star & legendary modern woman. ...

Books Celebrity Biographies A dazzling portrait of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor, with unseen photographs, unpublished letters & private reflections. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life & magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century’s most famous film star. As the first authorised biography of Elizabeth Taylor, this book captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile & complex woman as never before… From her rise to massive fame at the age of twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first actor to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages & enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction & her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist. Using Elizabeth’s unpublished letters, diary entries & off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends & family, Kate Andersen Brower tells the full, unvarnished story of the classic Hollywood star who continues to captivate audiences the world over.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9780008435820 •†Author:†  Kate Andersen Brower •†Publisher:†  Harper Collins •†Format:†  Hardback •†Pages:† 512 •†Dimensions:† 15.9 x 4.6 x 24 cm ...

Elizabeth Woodville is undoubtedly a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress; as an unprincipled advancer of her family's fortunes & a plucky but pitiful queen in Shakespeare's histories. She has been alternatively championed & vilified by her contemporaries & five centuries of historians, dramatists & novelists, but what was she really like? In this revealing account of Elizabeth's life David Baldwin sets out to tell the story of this complex & intriguing woman. Was she the malign influence many of her critics held her to be? Was she a sorceress who bewitched Edward IV? What was the fate of her two sons, the ' Princes in the Tower'? What did she, of all people, think had become of them, & why did Richard III mount a campaign of vilification against her? David Baldwin traces Elizabeth's career & her influence on the major events of her husband Edward IV's reign, & in doing so he brings to life the personal & domestic politics of Yorkist England & the elaborate ritual of court life. ...

Elizabeth I was born into a world of women. This title explores Elizabeth's relationships with the key women in her life. Beginning with her mother & the governesses & stepmothers who cared for the young princess, including her beloved Kat Astley & the inspirational Katherine Parr, it focuses on her formative years. ...

From her privileged aristocratic childhood, to the abdication & the problems with Diana, this book questions how the Queen Mother faced her challenges & crises, assess her role, how powerful she was, & how she coped. This is a personal portrait of one of Britain's national treasures. ...

Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch in British history. She has been a towering presence in British national life

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Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the ' Virgin Queen' in this sequel to the Oscar-nominated ' Elizabeth'. This time round Elizabeth has to contend with the rising power of Spain, as Philip II (Jordi Molla) readies an armada for invasion, intent on returni ...