Language Arts & Disciplines

Many of us have wanted to write a life-story but have been unsure how to set about it or how to bring such a project to completion. Whether you are planning to write about your own family or research the life of a famous historical figure, this book will...

This book gives the complete theory of the irreducible representations of the crystallographic point groups and space groups. This is important in the quantum-mechanical study of a particle or quasi-particle in a molecule or crystalline solid because the...

The micro-friends, and Nok, are on a school trip to the woods. They shrink for some micro-fun, and find a strange-looking object hidden in some leaves. Find out what they discover in An Amazing Find. The friends find themselves on board Nok's lost...

An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offers beginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction to our current understanding of the rules and principles that govern the syntax of natural languages. Includes numerous pedagogical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486411262Author Stanley AppelbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar is a comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese. Focusing on the language of the high classical period, which ranges from the time of Confucius to the unification of the empire by Qin...

The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes...

Teaching the Spoken Language is about teaching the spoken language. It presents in a highly accessible form the results of the author's important research on teaching and assessing effective spoken communication. The authors examine the nature of spoken...

Supported by data from linguistic fieldwork conducted in the Faroe Islands and Iceland, this book presents a pioneering approach to syntactic analysis, 'Optimal Linking Grammar' (OLG), which brings together two existing models, Linking Theory and...

An essential guide for anyone with cause to communicate in written form (most of us), a passing interest in doing it better (some of us), and a disinterest in a book on said subject that is humourlessly preoccupied with rules (almost all of us).Author...

Face2face is designed for busy teachers who want to get their adult and young adult learners to communicate with confidence.face2face Second edition is the flexible, easy-to-teach, 6-level course (A1 to C1).Book InformationISBN 9781108449014Author Chris...

Although listening is central to human interaction, its importance is often ignored. In the rush to speak and be heard, it is easy to neglect listening and disregard its significance as a way of being with others and the world. Drawing upon insights from...

In an age of emails, tweets and emojis, this beautiful selection of original love letters invites us into a privileged realm and reminds us why the written word is so expressive and revealing. The 30 handwritten notes included in this book span...

How can Mrs Green feed her cat in No Milk Today? Level 5 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds oo as in moon, oo as in good, ow as in down, oi as in coin and soft c as in dice. The focus phonics in this...

The updated second edition of Unlocking Literacy is here-and now pre- and inservice educators will have the very latest research and practical guidance on teaching good reading and spelling skills. Developed for general and special educators of students...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582977966Author Dinty W. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820467597Author April WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 630g

Find out about the everyday lives of children all over the world while learning about time zones and the Earth's rotation. TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992910778Author Jon LinkFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Modern Toss LimitedPublisher Modern Toss LimitedWeight(grams) 196g

Create the next very hungry caterpillar, big red dog, or cat in the hat with a hand from this trusted guide In Writing Children's Books For Dummies, you'll learn what to write between "Once upon a time . . ." and "The End" as you dive into chapters...

To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350885Author Brent CarnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 520g

Lynda Mugglestone's hugely popular The Oxford History of English is now updated and entirely reset in a new edition featuring David Crystal's new take on the future of English in the wider world. In accounts made vivid with examples from a vast range...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787301242889Author Liu YuehuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Peking University PressPublisher Peking University PressWeight(grams) 124g

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club...

Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World is a practical guide for all teachers to help their students with pronunciation. The activities take a clear step-by-step approach explaining how to get the best out of an activity and why it works.Short,...

Historic levels of polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, the news media, and traditional political leadership set the stage in 2016 for an unexpected, unlikely, and unprecedented presidential...

Murders, cover-ups, infidelities, financial and political skulduggery: Dr. John Olsson has seen it all in his decades as one of the world's top forensic linguists specialising in authorship. Working on cases that range from accusations of genocide...

When Tom's father dies, Tom has to leave his home with Puss, the cat. Luckily Puss is a very clever cat, and soon Tom is riding in a carriage with the King and his pretty daughter.Includes a word list, 5 pages of activities and free online audio (British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787040448443Author HanbanFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Higher Education Press,ChinaPublisher Higher Education Press,ChinaWeight(grams) 280g

Many great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere. My Language Is a...

When it was first published in 1997, Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve was described as the definitive response to Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and Noam Chomsky's nativism. In this revised and expanded new edition, Sampson revisits his original...

The book was planned and written as a single, sustained argument. But earlier versions of a few parts of it have appeared separately. The object of this book is both to establish the existence of the paradoxes, and also to describe a non-Pascalian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447042642Author Jeremy BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Harrassowitz VerlagPublisher Harrassowitz VerlagWeight(grams) 894gDimensions(mm) 240mm...

The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but the socially-recognized capacity to make one's words count in various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another person something and expect to be believed, and what we...

Conference Interpreting: A Student's Practice Book brings together a comprehensive compilation of tried and tested practical exercises which hone the sub-skills that make up successful conference interpreting. Unique in its exclusively practical focus,...

Adrienne's Gimmick helps you speak and understand French. With its vocabulary of words and expressions, the Gimmick can serve as exercise books (with or without a teacher), class book or reference book, and is intended for students of intermediate level...

This user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying systemic functional linguistics (SFL).Assuming no prior knowledge, this guide is divided into nine chapters which can be read independently of one another and...

Colourful concept book of first words in Britta Teckentrup's distinctive style.Book InformationISBN 9781912757602Author Bernette FordFormat HardbackPage Count 18Imprint Boxer Books LimitedPublisher Boxer Books Limited

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that...