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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Climate Change

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Third Edition

Level 2: 700-Word Vocabulary

Barnaby Newbolt

Format: Paperback

Language Level: A2/B1

It's a terrible problem - or it's really not as bad as people say. There will be sudden big changes - or slower changes that we can learn to live with. It means the end for many animals, people, even whole islands - but will this happen soon, or hundreds of years from now? What is the true story about climate change? Why is it happening, and what can we do about it? If we learn about the past, then perhaps there will be time to make changes for the future...

Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Titanic

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Third Edition

Level 1: 400-Word Vocabulary

Tim Vicary

Format: Paperback

Language Level: A1/A2

On a quiet sea, the biggest ship in the world is waiting. There is no noise from the engines. Up in the night sky there are hundreds of stars. Behind the ship, an iceburg - a great mountain of ice - goes slowly away into the black night. In the beautiful first-class rooms, rich passengers eat and listen to music. Down in the third-class cabins, families sleep. An exciting new life is waiting for them in America. But for many of the people in this small "city on the sea", this is their last night alive...

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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Disaster!

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Third Edition

Level 4: 1400-Word Vocabulary

Mary McIntosh

Format: Paperback

Language Level: B1/B2

From out of the sky, from under the earth, from far out at sea - disaster comes. We build and invent new things - and sometimes bring disaster on ourselves. Today television and the Internet mean that we can watch disasters as they happen, and see their terrible results. From Pompeii to the Asian Tsunami, from the Great Fire of London to Chernobyl, the stories of disasters are frightening, but they have much to tell us. Disasters bring stories of fear, pain, loss, and death - but also of people whose extraordinary bravery and feeling for others will touch your heart.

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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: The History of the English Language

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Third Edition

Level 4: 1400-Word Vocabulary

Brigit Viney

Format: Paperback

Language Level: B1/B2

About a quarter of the people in the world today speak or use English. In homes and schools, offices and meeting rooms, ships and airports, people are speaking English, how has this happened? How did English begin, and what will become of it in the future? The history of the English language is a journey through space and time, from thousands of years ago to today and beyond, and to all parts of the world. Come on that journey and meet the monks and soldiers, the kings and scientists, the printers, poets, and travellers who have helped to make the English of today.

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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Nelson Mandela

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Third Edition

Level 4: 1400-Word Vocabulary

Rowena Akinyemi

Format: Paperback

Language Level: B1/B2

In 1918 in the peaceful province of Transkei, South Africa, the Mandela family gave their new baby son the name Rolihlahla - "troublemaker". But the young boy's early years were happy ones, and he grew up to be a good student and an enthusiastic sportsman. Who could imagine then what was waiting for Nelson Mandela - the tireless struggle for human rights, the long years in prison, the happiness and sadness of family life, and one day the title of President of South Africa?

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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Australia and New Zealand

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Level 3: 1000-Word Vocabulary

Christine Lindop

Format: Paperback

Language Level: B1

What do you find in these two countries at the end of the world? One is an enormous island, where only twenty million people live - and the other is two long, narrow islands, with ten sheep for every person. One country has the biggest rock in all the world, and a town where everybody lives under the ground; the other has a beach where you can sit beside the sea in a pool of hot water, and lakes that are bright yellow, green, and blue. Open this book and start your journey - to two countries where something strange, beautiful or surprising waits around every corner.

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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Martin Luther King

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Level 3: 1000-Word Vocabulary

Alan C. McLean

Format: Paperback

Language Level: B1

The United States in the 1950s and 60s was a troubled place. Black people were angry, because they did not have the same rights as whites. It was a time of angry words, of marches, of protests, a time of bombs and killings. But above the angry noise came the voice of one man - a man of peace. "I have a dream," said Martin Luther King, and it was a dream of blacks and whites living together in peace and freedom. This is the story of an extraordinary man, who changed American history in his short life.

Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Recycling

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Level 3: 1000-Word Vocabulary

Sue Stewart

Format: Paperback

Language Level: B1

What will we do when there is nowhere to put our rubbish? Every day, all over the world, people drop cans, boxes, paper, and bottles into bins and never think about them again. And the rubbish mountains get bigger and bigger. But there is another way - a way that makes old paper into houses, broken bottles into jewellery, and old cans into bridges. Anyone can recycle - it's easy, it saves money, and it's a way to say, "I care about the Earth." Saving the world starts with you - here - now.

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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Information Technology: Information Technology

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Level 3: 1000-Word Vocabulary

Paul A. Davies

Format: Paperback

Language Level: B1

It is hard to imagine the modern world without information technology. At home, at work, and at play, mobile phones, emails and computers have become part of daily life. The story of information technology is a story of machines - from the ancient abacus to the small powerful computer chips of today. But it is also a story of people. Meet a woman who wrote computer programs two hundred years ago, a teenage millionaire, a man who began with a paperclip and ended with a house - and the criminals who want your name and your money. Come and discover the world of information technology.

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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Rainforests

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Third Edition

Level 2: 700-Word Vocabulary

Rowena Akinyemi

Format: Paperback

Language Level: A2/B1

Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes - this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell. Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared. While you read these words, somewhere in the world people are cutting down rainforest trees. What are these wonderful places that we call rainforests - and is it too late to save them?

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