Language Arts & Disciplines

In December 1962, nationalists in Brunei, the hugely wealthy small kingdom on the North Coast of Borneo, formed the Army of North Kalimantan (TNKU) and, demanding greater democracy, engineered a rebellion against the Sultan and seized a large number of...

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A jargon-free manual on the basics of developing interesting fictional characters Vibrant, believable characters help drive a fictional story. Along with a clever plot, well-drawn characters make us want to continue reading a novel or finish watching a...

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 9781108449007Author Chris...

Nok is missing. Will Max and Ant be able to follow the footprints and find him in On Nok's Trail? Find out what happens when Nok uses his powers to start Tiger's toy trucks in I Win! Who will be the first to cross the finish line? In Popcorn Surfing,...

80 pages of extra practice - one for each lesson in the Student's Book. The practice pages include grammar tables, writing exercises, practise and learn boxes, and review sections after every four lessons.One page - one lesson - one...

From an award-winning writer and linguist, a scientific and personal meditation on the phenomenon of language loss and the possibility of renewal.As a child Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early...

Well established as a definitive text--and now revised and updated with eight new chapters--this book translates cutting-edge research into effective guidelines for teaching writing in grades K-12. Illustrated with vivid classroom examples, the book...

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...

The King sets Salan the task of getting the skin of the Lion of Jedda. Book InformationISBN 9780435070724Author Alison HawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint HeinemannPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm) 194mm * 124mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950328871Author Boris ShekhtmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Msi PressPublisher Msi PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

The Level 1 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide both wordless stories and a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills with simple first words and sentences. ...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. NowCollins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913564001Author Dan ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Amwriting LtdPublisher Amwriting Ltd

LEARN HOW TO PLOT AND STRUCTURE YOUR CREATIVE WRITING.How to Craft a Great Story takes you step by step through the process of creating a compelling and coherent plot and structure. It covers such basics as the traditional story arcs, and such advanced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047432Author Philippe SchlenkerFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The religious leader John Henry Newman (1801-1890) started his long career as a devout Protestant; he later became the head of a new movement of Catholic ideas within the Church of England, and finally joined the Catholic Church. He began a new epoch in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399531569Author Helen IrlenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects covered include word frequencies; sounds and sound symbolism; the structure of words; taboo words;...

Why the Sea is Salty tells three water-themed myths. They all explain something about the sea - why it is salty, why droughts and floods happen, how sea creatures came to be. Find out how wishes, dragons, giant ravens and magical sea creatures all play...

In Deep Down Weird you'll discover some of the amazing animals that live deep down in the ocean. Find out about fascinating creatures such as the yeti crab and the goblin shark. Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648555902Author Allison TaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Australian Writers' Centre PublishingPublisher Australian Writers' Centre...

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Why was the term 'intertextuality' coined? Why did its first theorists feel the need to replace or complement those terms - of quotation, allusion, echo, reference, influence, imitation, parody, pastiche, among others - which had previously seemed...

This informative and engaging illustrated reference provides the stories behind 1,001 signs and symbols, from ancient hieroglyphs to modern-day political and subculture symbols. What in the world does mean? And what about its meaning might have led my...

Engaging decodable stories fully aligned to Letters and Sounds enable your pupils to practise their phonics skills with their favourite characters. Written by Roderick Hunt MBE and illustrated by Alex Brychta, award-winning creators of the Oxford...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608683208Author Neala ShaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Really Existing Nationalisms challenges the conventional view that Marx and Engels lacked the theoretical resources needed to understand nationalism. It argues that the two thinkers had a much better explanatory grasp of national phenomena than is...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. ...

MYNEDIAD AGORED Dyma gyfrol atyniadol a chyfoes sy'n rhoi cyflwyniad hygyrch i ddisgyblaeth y Gymraeg. Mae'r llyfr yn cyflwyno cyfoeth, cyffro ac ehangder y Gymraeg fel disgyblaeth academaidd, a bydd yn ysgogi diddordeb a chwilfrydedd mewn...

Leading Scholars Blend Cutting-Edge Science with Practical Experience to Reveal Evidence-Based Best PracticesEdited by three leading authorities on nonverbal behavior, this book examines state-of-the-art research and knowledge regarding nonverbal...

Libraries that experiment are better positioned to adapt to rapidly changing environments and evolving user needs and behaviors. This guide shows how to draw from new approaches and technologies to harness experimentation as a tool for testing ideas and...

The Level 1+ 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. First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce...

This upper-intermediate level handbook of 25 essential English constructions will provide you with a much deeper understanding of things you may already know, but are not quite sure how to use. It is not a reference book, but a five-week self-study...

In The Adventures of Captain Fearbeard, Fearbeard is a gentleman explorer who ventures into the unknown with his long-suffering sidekick, Sam. Hop on board the Albatross with them as they encounter an ancient mummy, an arctic yeti and even a killer...

This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'.This new account is...

The Language of Politics: * examines how both politicians and commentators describe political stances * explores some of the most common linguistic features to be found in political speeches * analyses electioneering through various written texts...

The first large-scale empirical analysis of the gender gap in science, showing how the structure of scientific labor and rewards-publications, citations, funding-systematically obstructs women's career advancement.If current trends continue, women and...

Publishing is one of the oldest and most influential businesses in the world. It remains an essential creative and knowledge industry, worth over $140 billion a year, which continues to shape our education and culture. Two trends make this a particularly...

The volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or non-negotiable. The chapters address various ways in...