Language Arts & Disciplines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850222040Author Kathleen HawkeFormat PaperbackImprint TruranPublisher Truran

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and...

When our students enter middle and high school, the saying goes that they stop learning to read and start reading to learn. Then why is literacy still a struggle for so many of our students? The reality is that elementary school isn't designed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761563518Author James C. HumesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Prima Publishing,U.S.Publisher Prima Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams) 193g

This volume provides a balanced set of reviews which introduce the central topics in the philosophy of time. This is the first introductory anthology on the subject to appear for many years; the contributors are distinguished, and two of the essays are...

Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established...

A lower-level exam practice book designed to improve the level of students who plan to take the IELTS test in the future. Collins Get Ready for IELTS Writing is the perfect book for lower level learners who want to develop the necessary skills...

As a teacher, the more efficient you are, the less stressful work becomes, and the more effective you are, the more you can focus on teaching those in front of you. Teach Smarter is an essential guide that helps early career teachers reduce their...

Writing an academic book is a daunting task. Where to start? This workbook. So, you've written a dissertation. Congratulations! But how do you turn it into a book? Even if you know what to do when revising your dissertation, do you know how to do those...

This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues, recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or classic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393337082Author Alice LaplanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 677Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm...

Denise Riley is renowned as a feminist theorist and a poet and for her remarkable refiguring of familiar but intransigent problems of identity, expression, language, and politics. In Impersonal Passion, she turns to everyday complex emotional and...

This is a user-friendly and comprehensive beginner Indonesian book and a great way to learn Indonesian.Divided into 28 graded lessons, Basic Indonesian provides fill-in-the-blank exercises, quizzes, word puzzles and question-and-answer practices to...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692215180Author Hares AhmadzaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Cultures Direct PressPublisher Cultures Direct PressWeight(grams) 290g

Cambridge Experience Readers is an award-winning series of graded readers including original fiction, adapted fiction and non-fiction especially written for teenagers. Lucho and Eva are paired together for a History project. The first stage is to draw...

This volume defines Dialogic Literary Argumentation, outlines its key principles, and provides in-depth analysis of classroom social practices and teacher-student interactions to illustrate the possibilities of a social perspective for a new vision of...

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows...

Imprisoned in English argues that in the present English-dominated world, social sciences and the humanities are locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English and that most scholars in these fields are not aware of the need to break away from this...

When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine, and the SEC...

The First World War inspired a huge outpouring of writing, including many classic accounts of the horrors of the trenches, written by men. What has been less visible until now is the War's impact upon women writers, whose experience was often very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884910463Author Jeffery HatcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Story Press,U.S.Publisher Story Press,U.S.

Get Started, Foundations in English provides true beginners with the skills needed for confident communication. Learners build a solid foundation in the grammar, vocabulary, and skills needed to achieve everyday communicative tasks like greeting people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845246075Author Guto RhysFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch Cyf

William Sloane was a brilliant editor, publisher, and teacher for more than forty years. In this book are gathered chapters derived largely from lectures he gave over twenty-five years at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, from correspondence with...

Birds show bewildering diversity in their life histories, mating systems and risk of extinction. Why do albatrosses delay reproduction for the first 12 years of their life while zebra finches breed in their first year ? Why are fairy-wrens so sexually...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399578809Author Dinty W. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950321377Author Language GuruFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Language GuruPublisher Language GuruWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

The essential book for professionals and students looking to expand their business vocabulary. Bringing learners up to date with the language they need for business today, this book explains words and expressions, provides practice in using the new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956497161Author Backpage Press LimitedFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint BackPage Press LimitedPublisher BackPage Press Limited

Treasure House Spelling Pupil Books are aimed at ages 5-11, offering complete coverage of the demanding 2014 National Curriculum, and ideal practice of the all the spelling rules in the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling test. This Treasure...

Why do humans have such diverse cultures and ways of life? Michael Carrithers presents an original and powerful answer to this central problem of anthropology, arguing that it is the ways in which people interact, rather than technological advances, that...

Keeping pace with the rapidly shifting environment for all information services workers, in this book provides readers with the knowledge and tools needed to manage the ebb and flow of reference services in today's libraries. From the ongoing flood of...

Drawn from decades of experience, this is a concise and highly practical guide to writing history. Aimed at all kinds of people who write history academic historians, public historians, professional historians, family historians and students of all...

Project X Alien Adventures takes you on an incredible reading journey with this fantastic story featuring the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger. The micro-friends rip-jump to an apparently normal-looking dimension. But things turn...

The Consultation, published almost 20 years ago by the same authors, has been completely rewritten. The New Consultation will be an essential aid for all doctors and their educators to increase the effectiveness of their consultations and to help to make...

Whether it's in a one-on-one meeting with the boss or at an international conference to an audience of thousands, presenting information is a integral part of modern working life. And since few businesses offer any training in presentation skills, nearly...

Agent Blue, the super spy-pigeon, is back! When all the TV satellites around the world disappear, Agent Blue suspects Birdseed is up to his old tricks again. Can Blue defeat a giant robot dove, stop the mysterious Swirly-Whirly and finally capture...

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows...

'After a number of years teaching writing courses and appearing at writers' conferences, I began to see that creating a process book utilising one of my novels as an example of each step of my process might prove useful to people who are interested in...