Language Arts & Disciplines

Football is Sean's world in In the Shadow of the Striker. He can't wait for Saturdays when he plays for his team and he wouldn't swap a ticket for the match between City and United for anything. Suddenly, Sean's life turns upside down. Why do his mum and...

Our workbooks for each year contain extra reading and writing activities perfect for homework or cover work. Vocabulary lists at the end of each module. Year 8 Segunda Edicion Workbook A for consolidation Print edition in packs of 8. Book...

The Intellectual Revolution is a reader designed for students who have just completed an introductory course in ancient Greek and wish to read substantial passages of ancient authors in the original language. It introduces three of ancient Greece's most...

Mathematics is the essential language of science. It enables us to describe abstract physical concepts, and to apply these concepts in practical ways. Yet mathematical skills and concepts are an aspect of physics that many students fear the most. ...

A book of 7 units where each main lesson is 4 pages long. Each lesson opens with a quotation from a famous person - the quotes range from flippant to philosophical, witty, or thought-provoking - which provide talking points for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683597704Author Joseph R DodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Faithlife CorporationPublisher Faithlife CorporationWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)...

I have to believe in the institutions we trust to be fair, and functional. Whether that be the judiciary, the police, the media ... That they should all be able to resist the temptations of a more entertaining lie, over a less extraordinary truth. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913929008Author Stephen HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint ThinkeLife PublicationsPublisher ThinkeLife Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780899576657Author S. ZodhiatesFormat HardbackPage Count 2608Imprint AMG PublishersPublisher AMG PublishersWeight(grams) 1769g

Not a how-to text, this beguiling book is instead a fascinating look at Chinese language and culture. Ranging through history, literature, folklore, linguistics, and sociology, this is a breezy, straightforward primer of surprising breadth.About the...

Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously...

The Moon in the Pond is a Brer Rabbit tale from African-American traditional stories. Rabbit tells Bear and Fox that the moon has fallen in the pond. Will they be able to rescue it? This humorous story written by Chris Powling and beautifully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912370382Author How2BecomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint How2become LtdPublisher How2become Ltd

'A delightful compendium' - Evening StandardHave you ever had a feeling that you couldn't quite describe, because no English word exists for it?Indeed, without such a word, it's difficult to remember or understand the feeling, and to talk about it with...

The ideal introduction for students of semantics, Lexical Meaning fills the gap left by more general semantics textbooks, providing the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning beyond the traditional overviews of lexical relations. The...

Learn how to argue from the masters. This book is a complete course on the art of argument, taught by the greatest practitioners of it: Churchill, Lincoln, and hundreds of others from the golden age of debate in England and America. The book’s concise...

If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills alongside the development of a positive or growth mindset. In this book, a follow...

Upon its publication in 2002, Josef Tropper's Altathiopisch: Grammatik des Ga az mit UEbungstexten und Glossar was quickly recognized as the best modern grammar of Classical Ethiopic in any language. Now Eisenbrauns makes Tropper's grammar available for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925335897Author Stephen DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964921597Author Barbara GettyFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Handwriting Success, LLCPublisher Handwriting Success, LLCWeight(grams) 177g

Public speaking can be terrifying. For David Nihill, the idea of standing in front of an audience was scarier than cliff jumping into a thorny pit of spiders and mothers-in-law. Without a parachute or advanced weaponry. Something had to change. In what...

This book shows how complex words and word-like phrasal lexical units can be analysed as constructions, as pairings of forms and meanings. It contributes to current work on the architecture of the grammar, the morphology-syntax interface, the shape and...

I hear with my little ear...a poem and a story in The Deer and the Earwig. Level 6 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds ar as in star, au as in August, ur as in fur, air as in hair, ear as in near, ure as...

Your guide to current terms and concepts used in intelligence and security Arabic What is the Arabic term for 'sleeper cell'? How would you say 'hijacker'? Could you recognise the phrase 'operational planning'? Or 'money-laundering investigations'? This...

Tara has a party in Tara's Party, but Martha won't pass the parcel... Level 6 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds ar as in star, au as in August, ur as in fur, air as in hair, ear as in near, ure as in...

This book provides a straightforward introduction to the spectroscopy of diatomic molecules and is written at the level of intermediate undergraduate courses in physical chemistry and chemical physics. Following a general introduction to the subject, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486416007Author Thomas MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580650632Author L CowgillFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Lone Eagle Publishing CoPublisher Watson-Guptill PublicationsWeight(grams)...

This varied collection of essays represents the differing strands of work currently being undertaken in the exciting new field of Translation Studies and reflects a shift of emphasis away from a more descriptive form of translation towards the idea that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618154456Author Galway KinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 159mm * 14mm

In Waiting for Goldie Danny's grandad is in hospital, so Danny must record the time that Grandad's champion racing pigeon, Goldie, returns from the race. What will Danny do when Goldie doesn't come back? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality...

From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what...

Can you really learn to write speeches? The Political Speechwriter's Companion guides students through a systematic "LAWS" approach (language, anecdote, wit, and support) that politicians can use to persuade their audiences into taking action. In the...

At a time of radical shifts in power across the globe, the sixth edition of An Introduction to Political Communication examines the role of the media in the political process. Brian McNair reflects on the role of communication in key events such as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787513807364Author Wu ZhongweiFormat PaperbackPage Count 83Imprint SinolinguaPublisher SinolinguaWeight(grams) 249g

Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as...

The phenomenon known as metaphor is an extremely complex mental event - we cannot capture its complexity if we tie ourselves to existing standard views on metaphor. This book offers fresh insight into metaphor, updating an established theory, conceptual...

From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944936051Author K M WeilandFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PenforaswordPublisher PenforaswordWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm * 18mm

The ground-breaking Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom (Nunan, 1989), has been completely updated and revised to create this new edition, now titled Task-Based Language Teaching. The previous edition helped to set the research agenda in...