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Professional English in Use - ICT

Santiago Remacha Esteras , Cambridge University Press

The Story of the Internet

Stephen Bryant , Pearson Education Ltd
At the time when Marc Andreessen said that his software was going to change everything, the Internet was just a hobby for most of the people who used it. The Internet began as a very small part of America's struggle with the USSR in the Cold War. But it starts the 21st century as the technology that will change the lives of almost every person on the planet

Course Books

Language Leader Advanced Class

David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent, Ian Lebeau, & Gareth Rees , Pearson Longman


Longman Exams Dictionary

Della Summers , Longman
212,000 words, phrases and meanings - including thousands from computing, business, science and medicine 160,000 examples - including thousands from academic reports and essays Clear definitions using only 2000 common words Exams Workbook - practical help in preparing for your exam

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Test yourself on a range of Science based subjects.

Graded Readers

Management Gurus (Penguin Readers 4)

David Evans , Penguin

The Strangest Man: The Life of Paul Dirac

Graham Farmelo , Faber & Faber

Why Does E=mc2?

Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw , Da Capo
This is an engaging and accessible explanation of Einstein's equation that explores the principles of physics through everyday life. Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of 21st century science to consider the real meaning behind the iconic sequence of symbols that make up Einstein's most famous equation. Breaking down the symbols themselves, they pose a series of questions: What is energy? What is mass? What has the speed of light got to do with energy and mass? In answering these questions, they take us to the site of one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted. Lying beneath the city of Geneva, straddling the Franco-Swiss boarder, is a 27 km particle accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider. Using this gigantic machine - which can recreate conditions in the early Universe fractions of a second after the Big Bang - Cox and Forshaw will describe the current theory behind the origin of mass. Alongside questions of energy and mass, they will consider the third, and perhaps, most intriguing element of the equation: 'c' - or the speed of light. Why is it that the speed of light is the exchange rate? Answering this question is at the heart of the investigation as the authors demonstrate how, in order to truly understand why E=mc2, we first must understand why we must move forward in time and not backwards and how objects in our 3-dimensional world actually move in 4-dimensional space-time. In other words, how the very fabric of our world is constructed. A collaboration between two of the youngest professors in the UK, "Why Does E=MC2?" promises to be one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity in recent years.