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It is imperative that now at once, while these stupendous events are still clear in my mind, I should set them down with that exactness of detail which time may blur. But even as I do so, I am overwhelmed by the wonder of the fact that it should be our little group of the "Lost World"-Professor Challenger, Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and myself-who have passed through this amazing experience. When, some years ago, I chronicled in the Daily Gazette our epoch-making journey in South America, I little thought that it should ever fall to my lot to tell an even stranger personal experience, one which is unique in all human annals and must stand out in the records of history as a great peak among the humble foothills which surround it. The event itself will always be marvellous, but the circumstances that we four were together at the time of this extraordinary episode came about in a most natural and, indeed, inevitable fashion. I will explain the events which led up to it as shortly and as clearly as I can, though I am well aware that the fuller the detail upon such a subject the more welcome it will be to the reader, for the public curiosity has been and still is insatiable.

In the debut of literature's most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall. With this investigation begins the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Если вы изучаете английский язык или свободно на нем говорите, у вас есть замечательная возможность услышать на языке оригинала захватывающий рассказ доктора Ватсона о его первой встрече с Шерлоком Холмсом, а затем проверить свое понимание произведения, прослушав русский перевод. Текст неадаптирован. Английскую версию читает Joseph Samuel Bagley (Великобритания)

Комплект из книги и аудиофайлов предлагает вам погрузиться в захватывающий мир детективов Артура Конан Дойля. Вы сможете услышать и прочитать на языке оригинала один из самых запоминающихся рассказов писателя о блестящих расследованиях Шерлока Холмса – «Этюд в багровых тонах». Свое понимание неадаптированного текста можно проверить, прочитав или прослушав перевод произведения на русский язык. Читая и слушая тексты на английском языке, сравнивая их с переводом на русский, можно по достоинству оценить мастерство писателя и одновременно улучшить свои навыки чтения, а также восприятия на слух иностранной речи. Для работы над текстом в конце книги предлагаются упражнения и словарь. Книга будет интересна и полезна школьникам, абитуриентам, студентам, преподавателям, а также всем, кто изучает английский язык самостоятельно.

Although new ventures’ competitive positioning and their founders’ social networks are both recognized as important in the context of transition economies, not much is known about their multiplicative effect on performance. We build on the strategic management literature and social network theory to develop theoretical predictions about the role of competitive strategies and social capital for entrepreneurial performance. These are tested with survey data from Bulgaria. We find that both the venture’s competitive strategic positioning and the founder’s networking positively influence performance. The hypothesized moderating effect of networking for the relationship between differentiation strategy and performance received only tentative support. Contrary to expectations, we find a negative moderating effect of networking for the relationship of cost leadership with performance. These results suggest that the entrepreneur’s network plays a role in shaping how strategies influence performance by possibly upholding differentiation and deemphasizing cost leadership strategy. Implications for managerial practice and public policy are discussed.