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This is a detailed ethnographic study of a therapeutic prison unit in Canada for the treatment of sexual offenders. Utilizing extensive interviews and participant-observation over an eighteen month period of field work, the author takes the reader into the depths of what prison inmates commonly refer to as the «hound pound.» James Waldram provides a rich and powerful glimpse into the lives and treatment experiences of one of society’s most hated groups. He brings together a variety of theoretical perspectives from psychological and medical anthropology, narrative theory, and cognitive science to capture the nature of sexual offender treatment, from the moment inmates arrive at the treatment facility to the day they are relased. This book explores the implications of an outside world that balks at any notion that sexual offenders can somehow be treated and rendered harmless. The author argues that the aggressive and confrontational nature of the prison’s treatment approach is counterproductive to the goal of what he calls «habilitation» – the creation of pro-social and moral individuals rendered safe for our communities. <br /><br />

В книгу вошла одна из самых известных детективных историй Артура Конана Дойла о Шерлоке Холмсе – «Собака Баскервилей» (The Hound of the Baskervilles). Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень Intermediate). Книга также содержит упражнения, комментарии и словарь.

The story focuses around the narrator and his friend St. John, who have a deranged interest in robbing graves. They constantly defile crypts and often keep souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions. Since they reside in the same house, they have the opportunity to set up a sort of morbid museum in their basement. Using the objects they collect from the various graves they have robbed, they organize the private exhibition. The collection consists of headstones, preserved bodies, skulls and several heads in different phases of decomposition. It also included statues, frightful paintings and a locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin.

В сборник вошли сокращенные и упрощенные тексты наиболее популярных рассказов американского писателя О. Генри, а также одна из самых знаменитых повестей А. К. Дойла о Шерлоке Холмсе «Собака Баскервилей». Тексты сопровождаются комментариями, упражнениями, а также небольшими словариками, облегчающими чтение. Книга предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень 3 – Intermediate).

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate?

This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two boys, who find themselves repeatedly on the brink of discovery or death, witness many hair-raising events, including mutiny, savagery, cannibalism, and frantic pursuits.