Language Arts & Disciplines

Kopar is a very moribund, close to extinct, language spoken in three villages at the mouth of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. This is the only description of the language available. It also discusses areas where rapid language shift is affecting the...

'Latin is "it", the most wonderful "thing". It is mind-enhancing, character-improving, enthralling, exciting, deeply satisfying, and valuable. My solid determination is to spare no pains to do it the justice that its importance demands.'Mr Gwynne,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736152331Author Angela AckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Jadd PublishingPublisher Jadd PublishingWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

The Logic Manual is a clear and concise introduction to logic for beginning philosophy students. It offers a complete introductory course, guiding the reader carefully through the topics in logic that are most important for the study of philosophy. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788861827288Format PaperbackImprint Alma EdizioniPublisher Alma Edizioni

This innovative text examines videogames and gaming from the point of view of discourse analysis. In particular, it studies two major aspects of videogame-related communication: the ways in which videogames and their makers convey meanings to their...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and characters. They also support children's...

`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.' Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945736094Author Allison K WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Coriander PressPublisher Coriander PressWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters' Club M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest...

If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500 tongues? Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853997174Author Stephen AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788899358921Author Telis MarinImprint Edizioni Edilingua srluPublisher Edizioni Edilingua srlu

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399973564Author Jeremy ClarkeFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Quartet BooksPublisher Quartet Books

Do you understand everything you read in English? To read fluently in all situations you need to practise reading different kinds of texts. Collins Reading presents 20 different texts with exercises to help you develop the skills to...

An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history!The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853183365Author Yasha BeresinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lewis MasonicPublisher Lewis Masonic

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.' - Muriel Rukeyser. Today s world wants to know you and the real story behind why you do what you do. Whether you have a product to sell, a company mission to share or an audience to entertain, people are far...

'what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent' Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in English translation in 1922, is one of the most...

'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations'- Independent'A marvellously readable book.....

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739684037Author alexandra heardFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Tractorland LtdPublisher Tractorland Ltd

Cataloguing and Classification introduces concepts and practices in cataloguing and classification, and common library standards. The book introduces and analyzes the principles and structures of library catalogues, including the application of AACR2,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937434786Author Krista Van LaanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint XML PressPublisher XML PressWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785375064Author Eamonn MallieFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784615826Author Sion Tomos OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

This book, a collection of eleven essays by one of the most interesting moral philosophers currently writing, is written from a perspective that is at once sympathetic towards and critical of liberal political philosophy. The essays explore the capacity...

This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and political controversies. In addition to chapters on...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES AND VANITY FAIR New York Times bestselling author Lesley Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of the greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century - the true effects of the atom bomb -...

`The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace.' Edward Gibbon called The Histories an `immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest...

Latin names - frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel - have been annoying the layman since they first became formalised as scientific terms in the eighteenth century. Why on earth has the entirely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780964921511Author Barbara GettyFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Handwriting Success, LLCPublisher Handwriting Success, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781292407364Author Pearson EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams)...

A unique collection of interviews with contemporary poets at the height of their craft. How does a subconscious thought become an award-winning poem? Journalist, Rosanna McGlone, speaks to some of the country's leading poets to find out. Don Paterson,...

This student-led vocabulary book is ideal for any English-speaking student of GCSE French. One of four books written for the CCEA specification, it also covers the AQA, WJEC and Edexcel courses, as the word lists are virtually identical.As well as the...

From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, discover the most significant speeches of the modern era!Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama...

Although you can get by in Norway without speaking the language, knowing just a few essential phrases can help you make friends, enjoy service with a smile, and discover richer, more rewarding travel experiences. Fast Talk Norwegian is the concise...

Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural...

On 1 September 1909, American explorer Frederick Cook caused one of the biggest sensations in exploration history when, after a year with no word from him, news arrived that he had not only survived his Arctic expedition but had become the first person...

The definitive guide to starting and running a freelance editing business. You’ve been thinking about shifting into the world of freelance editing, but you don’t know where to start. In a time when editors are seeking greater flexibility in their work...