Philip Kerr

EVOLVE is a six-level English course that gets students speaking with confidence. Drawing on insights from language teaching experts and real students, this Level 2 (CEFR A2) Student's Book A (Units 1-6) covers all skills and focuses on the most effective and efficient ways to make progress in English. The eBook content is identical to print Student's Book A, but with additional features such as audio, 'Real Student' videos and easy navigation. This is an 18-month eBook license, from date of purchase. Access to the eBook is not guaranteed after the 18-month period.

EVOLVE is a six-level English course that gets students speaking with confidence. Drawing on insights from language teaching experts and real students, this Level 2 (CEFR A2) Student's Book A (Units 1-6) covers all skills and focuses on the most effective and efficient ways to make progress in English. The eBook content is identical to print Student's Book A, but with additional features such as audio, 'Real Student' videos and easy navigation. A separate code for Practice Extra offers interactive homework activities and allows teachers to track student performance. This is an 18-month license for the eBook and Practice Extra, from date of purchase. Access is not guaranteed after the 18-month period.

A gripping alternative history thriller set in the Second World War, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels.Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate; only Churchill refuses to listen. The upcoming Allied Tehran conference will be where the next steps - whatever they are - will be decided.Into this nest of double- and triple-dealing steps Willard Mayer, OSS agent and FDR's envoy to the conference. His job is to secure the peace that the USA and Hitler now crave. The stakes couldn't be higher.Showcasing Philip Kerr's brilliant research and masterful plotting at its best, Hitler's Peace has never before been published in the UK and is a fitting coda to the career of one of the masters of the historical thriller.

EVOLVE is a six-level English course that gets students speaking with confidence. Drawing on insights from language teaching experts and real students, this Level 2 (CEFR A2) Student's eBook covers all skills and focuses on the most effective and efficient ways to make progress in English. The eBook content is identical to the print Student's Book, but with additional features such as audio, 'Real Student' videos and easy navigation. A separate code for Practice Extra offers interactive homework activities and allows teachers to track student performance. This is an 18-month license for the eBook and Practice Extra, from date of purchase. Access is not guaranteed after the 18-month period.

EVOLVE is a six-level English course that gets students speaking with confidence. Drawing on insights from language teaching experts and real students, this Level 2 (CEFR A2) Student's eBook covers all skills and focuses on the most effective and efficient ways to make progress in English. The eBook content is identical to the print Student's Book, but with additional features such as audio, 'Real Student' videos and easy navigation. This is an 18-month eBook license, from date of purchase. Access to the eBook is not guaranteed after the 18-month period.

Darkly imaginative alternative history thriller from the global bestseller and author of the Bernie Gunther thrillers. For fans of Dominion, Fatherland and The Day of the Jackal

'These essays lift back the skin to reveal something secret and precious, articulating private truths and distilling sensation into language ... this collection is a timely, triumphant celebration of our embodiment' - iNews Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. In Beneath the Skin, fifteen writers each explore a different body part: Naomi Alderman unravels the intestines and our obsession with food; Thomas Lynch celebrates the womb as a miracle; AL Kennedy explores the nose's striking ability to conjure memories; and Philip Kerr traces the remarkable history of brain surgery. Moving, intimate and often unexpected, this is an awe-inspiring voyage through the mysterious landscape of our bodies.

London, 2013, and the city is battling an epidemic of serial killings - even with the widespread government use of DNA detection, brain-imaging, and the 'punitive coma'. Detective Isadora 'Jake' Jacowicz is hunting a murderer, code-named 'Wittgenstein,' who has taken it upon himself to eliminate anyone who has tested positive for a tendency towards violent behaviour - even if they've never committed a crime. His intellectual brilliance is matched only by his homicidal madness.

In his final book, New York Times bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad. Summer, 1928. Berlin, a city where nothing is verboten. In the night streets, political gangs wander, looking for fights. Daylight reveals a beleaguered populace barely recovering from the postwar inflation, often jobless, reeling from the reparations imposed by the victors. At central police HQ, the Murder Commission has its hands full. A killer is on the loose, and though he scatters many clues, each is a dead end. It's almost as if he is taunting the cops. Meanwhile, the press is having a field day. This is what Bernie Gunther finds on his first day with the Murder Commisson. He's been taken on beacuse the people at the top have noticed him--they think he has the makings of a first-rate detective. But not just yet. Right now, he has to listen and learn. Metropolis is a tour of a city in chaos: of its seedy sideshows and sex clubs, of the underground gangs that run its rackets, and its bewildered citizens--the lost, the homeless, the abandoned. It is Berlin as it edges toward the new world order that Hitler will soo usher in. And Bernie? He's a quick study and he's learning a lot. Including, to his chagrin, that when push comes to shove, he isn't much better than the gangsters in doing whatever her must to get what he wants.

Vocabulary has gained its rightful place at the centre of modern language learning syllabuses, but how does a writer select which items to present and practise? Philip Kerr, an experienced teacher, trainer and coursebook writer, explains the importance of key criteria such as frequency, learnability and usefulness when choosing vocabulary items to focus on.Starting with an overview of theoretical and practical issues involved in writing vocabulary materials, he goes on to illustrate a wide range of practice activity types and also includes suggestions for dealing with the knotty issue of rubric-writing. Carefully constructed tasks are backed up with detailed commentaries which encourage readers to think critically about vocabulary materials in general.This module forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course. The training modules are designed to help you write better ELT materials, either for publication, or simply to improve the quality of your self-produced classroom materials.

Berlin detective Bernie Gunther bows out at last in the 14th and final book of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series. With an introduction by Ian Rankin.'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURSTBerlin, 1928, the height of the Weimar Republic. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he asked to investigate the Silesian Station killings: four prostitutes murdered in as many weeks, and in the same gruesome manner. Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another murder occurs. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims - there are plenty in Berlin who'd like the streets washed clean of such degenerates. But this time the girl's father runs Berlin's foremost criminal ring, and he's prepared to go to extreme lengths to find his daughter's killer. It seems that someone is determined to rid Berlin of anyone less than perfect. The voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others. But not Bernie Gunther's...

Sommer i Berlin 1928. Stemningen i byen er kaotisk, dekadent og desperat. Livet leves i sexklubber, til kabaretter, med slagsmål i gaden, og Weimarrepublikken synger på sidste vers, for jødehadet vokser, og nazismen breder sig.Bernie Gunther har kun været få år ved politiet, men med fire år i skyttegravene under 1. Verdenskrig bag sig er han allerede mere hårdhudet end de fleste. Intet er rigtigt verboten i Berlin i 1920’erne, men under en bølge af mord på samfundets mest udsatte – prostituerede, vagabonder og krigsveteraner, der tigger på gaden – finder Bernie ud af, at nazismen har infiltreret Berlins politi. Tyskland står på kanten til Det Tredje Rige.METROPOLIS er afslutningen på Philip Kerrs imponerende sublimt velresearchede krimiserie i fjorten bind om den flabede, ukuelige snushane Bernie Gunther, om krig og forbrydelse og om Tyskland, Europa og Verden fra 1928 til 1957. Nye læsere kan starte her, for det er med METROPOLIS, at alting begynder. "Mesterligt punktum for et af de helt store fænomener i krimilitteraturen." Politiken, 6 af 6 hjerter "Samtlige bind i serien er mere eller mindre fantastiske, men netop Metropolis, hvor man mærker jødehadet vokse og nazismen brede sig, er efter min mening seriens allerbedste bind. Trist at vi aldrig skal læse mere fra denne store forfatter." Bogpusheren.dk, 6 af 6 stjerner "Ingen, ej heller hans tyske modstykke Volker Kutscher, kan som Kerr mane den ægte berlinerstemning frem. Alle detaljer er minutiøst genskabt og serveres med generøs elegance: De rigtige cigaretmærker, automobilerne, gadebelysningen, sproget, stemningen, samtaleemnerne, personerne." Bogrummet.dk, 4 af 5 stjerner "Metropolis er stemningsfyldt noir, ovenpå et bjerg af viden og indlevelse i perioden. Det er solid historie-undervisning, men føles aldrig som sådan. Philip Kerr sætter posthumt et mørkt og effektivt punktum for sin imponerende fortælling om overlevelse i Nazityskland før, under og efter nazisterne." Kultur-cafeen.com

Metropolis is] a perfect goodbye--and first hello--to its hero...Bernie Gunther has, at last, come home.--Washington Post New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad. Summer, 1928. Berlin, a city where nothing is verboten. In the night streets, political gangs wander, looking for fights. Daylight reveals a beleaguered populace barely recovering from the postwar inflation, often jobless, reeling from the reparations imposed by the victors. At central police HQ, the Murder Commission has its hands full. A killer is on the loose and though he scatters many clues, each is a dead end. It's almost as if he is taunting the cops. Meanwhile, the press is having a field day. This is what Bernie Gunther finds on his first day with the Murder Commisson. He's been taken on beacuse the people at the top have noticed him--they think he has the makings of a first-rate detective. But not just yet. Right now, he has to listen and learn. Metropolis, completed just before Philip Kerr's untimely death, is the capstone of a fourteen-book journey through the life of Kerr's signature character, Bernhard Genther, a sardonic and wisecracking homicide detective caught up in an increasingly Nazified Berlin police department. In many ways, it is Bernie's origin story and, as Kerr's last novel, it is also, alas, his end. Metropolis is also a tour of a city in chaos: of its seedy sideshows and sex clubs, of the underground gangs that run its rackets, and its bewildered citizens--the lost, the homeless, the abandoned. It is Berlin as it edges toward the new world order that Hitler will soo usher in. And Bernie? He's a quick study and he's learning a lot. Including, to his chagrin, that when push comes to shove, he isn't much better than the gangsters in doing whatever her must to get what he wants.

An NPR Book of the Year A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series. Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages "Christoph Ganz" to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, Greece. Under the cover of his new identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war. Witzel's claimed losses are large, and, even worse, they may be the stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz. But when Bernie tries to confront Witzel, he finds that someone else has gotten to him first, leaving a corpse in his place. Enter Lieutenant Leventis, who recognizes in this case the highly grotesque style of a killer he investigated during the height of the war. Back then, a young Leventis suspected an S.S. officer whose connection to the German government made him untouchable. He's kept that man's name in his memory all these years, waiting for his second chance at justice... Working together, Leventis and Bernie hope to put their cases--new and old--to bed. But there's a much more sinister truth to acknowledge: A killer has returned to Athens...one who may have never left.

This course focuses primarily on the use of authentic video material, but also on videos which the students make themselves. It considers: the range of video resources that can be used in the classroom; a range of practical ideas for exploiting video; using authentic video material; making use of video cameras.

EVOLVE is a six-level English course that gets students speaking with confidence. Drawing on insights from language teaching experts and real students, this Level 2 (CEFR A2) Student's Book covers all skills and focuses on the most effective and efficient ways to make progress in English. Each of the 12 units in the book features Time to speak, a lesson where decision-making and problem-solving tasks enable speaking to thrive. Optional mobile phone activities help create personalized learning experiences.

Friedrich drömmer om att bli en detektiv. En dag får han och hans vänner chansen, men då hamnar de i en riktig härva. (Barn och ungdom).

1957. Bernie Gunther, der nu kalder sig Christoph Ganz, lever et beskedent liv i München, hvor han arbejder som assistent i et lighus. Ad snirklede omveje bliver han ansat som taksator i et tysk forsikringsselskab, og Bernie går til jobbet som en gammel sporhund, der lugter blod. Han bliver bedt om at tage til Athen for at undersøge sin landsmand og tidligere kampdykker i Hitlers flåde, Siegfired Witzel. Han skib, Doris, er gået ned, og nu gør han usædvanligt store krav mod forsikringsselskabet. Men der er to ting, der spænder ben for, at det bliver et let job for Bernie i Athen: Witzels skib er stjålet fra græske jøder, der blev deporteret til Auschwitz under krigen. Og Witzel findes død skudt gennem begge øjne - en modus operandi, der åbner op for sluserne til uhyrligheder begået i 1943. FRYGT GRÆKERES GAVER er 13. selvstændige bog om den på samme tid kyniske og samvittighedsfulde Bernie Gunther, hvis fortid konstant bliver ved at indhente ham. Bernie Gunther er lige så uforskammet, underholdende, kampklar og interessant som altid."Det er formidabelt, som Philip Kerr har kunnet holde et tårnhøjt niveau og en gennemført og stensikker stil i bog efter bog." Nordjyske stiftstidende, 5 stjerner"Berlin Noir-bøgerne scorer typisk på tre parametre: Interessant historisk research udfoldet med lokalkolorit og levende tidsbilleder. Hårdkogt-humoristiske noir-replikker. God gammeldags spænding." Politiken, 4 af 6 hjerter"Philip Kerr holder sit eminente niveau i næstsidste bind i serien om Bernie Gunther, den kyniske antihelt med en mørk fortid og en illusionsløs fremtid." Weekendavisen"... en spændende, velfortalt, intelligent og fascinerende historie." Krimifan.dk, 5 af 5 hjerter."...alle ingredienser til en Kerr-classic er til stede ... et brag af en roman." Bogblogger.dk