Language Arts & Disciplines

How do the specific circumstances in which we write affect what we write? How does what we write affect who we become? How can we maintain professsional and personal integrity in today's university? In a series of traditional and experimental writings, a...

The micro-friends are being chased by the Krools. Find out if they can escape the heat-seeking gel boomerangs and reach Planet Moxor in Space Hunt. Ant, Tiger and Seven are alone in a desert on Planet Moxor. They take shelter in a cave, but have they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787513572026Author Foreign Language PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Foreign Languages PressPublisher Foreign Languages PressWeight(grams) 125g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440504917Author Syd FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Dell BooksWeight(grams) 301g

'An extraordinary book of real passionate research' Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War. But before the trial could take place Pound was pronounced insane...

Used along with Writing with Ease, the workbooks complete the elementary-grade writing curriculum. Level Three is the third of a planned four-volume set to accompany Writing with Ease.About the AuthorSusan Wise Bauer is an educator and academic who has...

A fun and helpful resource for anyone interested in learning some Indonesian-whether you're 5 or 100!This picture dictionary covers the 1,500 most useful Indonesian words and phrases. Each word and sentence is given in Indonesian script-with a Romanized...

Jane Walmsley shares George Bernard Shaw's belief that America and Britain are two nations divided by a common language. In this title she looks beyond this shared facade to see the great gulfs that separate us in such areas as tastes in food, dress,...

This language guide includes fifteen chapters of situational phrases covering travelling by rail, trolley, bus; coping with emergencies; shopping; and other daily life adventures. Each Ukrainian phrase is accompanied by an English translation and...

'A lively, intelligent and persuasive history of speech...Expertly and patiently explained' The TimesWhy are human beings the only animals that can speak? And why does it matter?If you've ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice,...

With up to a quarter of all insect species heading towards extinction over the next few decades, there is now a pressing need to summarize the techniques available for measuring insect diversity in order to develop effective conservation strategies...

face2face Second edition is the flexible, easy-to-teach, 6-level course (A1 to C1). face2face is the flexible, easy-to-teach General English course that helps adults and young adults to speak and listen with confidence. face2face is informed by...

Richards explains how effective language teaching involves a network of interactions between curriculum, methodology, teachers, learners, instructional materials. Each chapter discusses and examines the theoretical and practical dimensions of a central...

This volume is both a companion to the editors' Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC, and a successor to the later part of the Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC, edited by Russell Meiggs and David M. Lewis...

The Level 2 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B offer a...

Susan Wise Bauer lays out a plan for teaching writing that combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing instruction with innovative new educational methods. Writing With Ease outlines a complete three- or four-year program for elementary-grade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062912985Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 1056Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1315gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

"This new compilation offers many advantages...As an example of a book design, little more could be asked of this volume."-Harvard Journal of Asiatic StudiesThe Compact Nelson is an abridged edition of the revised New Nelson Dictionary, Dr. Andrew N...

LEARN HOW TO WRITE PLAYS AND HAVE THEM PERFORMEDWriting Plays is the invaluable and comprehensive guide to anyone who wants to write plays and get them performed. It covers the basics of the theatre, creating and working with characters, writing...

This is the first English translation of Schleiermacher's Dialectic, the first of his eight forays into the foundations of thinking that aims at knowing. This text, representing Schleiermacher's succinct preparatory notes for his 1811 lectures, offers a...

The academic vocabulary covered by the series is sourced from the Academic Word List, and the Oxford Corpus of Academic English. The Corpus is an 85-million-word corpus of academic sources, developed by Oxford University Press, the world's authority on...

This book presents a comprehensive foundation course for beginning students of written and spoken Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), providing an essential grounding for successful communication with speakers of the many colloquial varieties. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582972800Author Kristine HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Penguin Publishing GroupPublisher Penguin Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859646557Author Chris SowtonPage Count 237Imprint Garnet EducationPublisher Garnet Publishing

Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand...

Uniquely interdisciplinary and accessible, The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication is the ideal text for undergraduate introductory courses in Intercultural Communication, International Communication and Cross-cultural Communication...

This textbook provides an up-to-date account of modern thinking about the electronic structure and properties of crystalline and non-crystalline materials in a form that is readily accessible to undergraduates in materials science, physics, and chemistry...

Using key perspectives from Linguistic anthropology the book illuminates how social actors take up the ideals of law, equality, and democratic representation in locally-meaningful ways to make their own national history in ways that may perpetuate...

In Cool Drool, Baz is staying with his Aunt, an archaeologist. He finds an ancient skull and something is living inside it a slug called Sumo! This is the story of an extraordinary slug that just happens to be a graffiti artist. When the ancient skull is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970526Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 291Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 481g

Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between...

Most introductions to English phonetics and phonology focus primarily on British or American English, which fails to account for the rich diversity of English varieties globally. This book addresses this gap, providing an overview of English phonetics...

An intimate, moving and ultimately uplifting new monologue play. Replay is the story of a woman revisiting her childhood, coming to terms with the significant pain of her past and finally realising that she needs to embrace the memory of her brother in...

At the tender age of ten, Fanny Price moves from her poor family home to live with her wealthy cousins at Mansfield Park. Settling into this proud family is only the first of many challenges she will have to face. Can Fanny, uneducated and inexperienced,...

Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783965922Author Paul Anthony JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Elliott & Thompson LimitedPublisher Elliott & Thompson...

You've written a book, triumphantly typed 'The End', but now, it seems, no-one wants to publish it. What do you do next? Author of over thirty novels, stories and screenplays, and tutor on the prestigious creative writing course at Bath Spa, Fay Weldon...

This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of modern syntactic analysis in a simple step-by-step fashion. Each unit is constructed so that the reader discovers new ideas, formulates hypotheses and practises fundamentals. The reader is presented...

Winner of the Swedish National Language Council's Erik Wellander Prize, 2003Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar is an award-winning complete reference guide to modern Swedish grammar. Systematic and accessible, the volume is organised to promote a thorough...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578802220Author Siddharth JainFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Siddharth JainPublisher Siddharth JainWeight(grams) 191g