Language Arts & Disciplines

As a society, we're in a constant struggle to control uncertainty and predict the unknown. Quite often, we think of scientific fields and theories as being separate from each other. But a more careful investigation can uncover the common thread that ties...

** Winner of AAAL Book Award 2020 ****Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2018**The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language is the first comprehensive survey of this area, exploring language and human mobility in today's globalised world. This key...

The first two stories are wordless and complement Phase 1 of Letters and Sounds. Max's Box is a retelling of the story of how Max finds a silver box - a discovery that will change his life forever. Inside the box are four watches that allow the wearer to...

Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader...

Lynne Bowker introduces the world of technology to the world of translation in this unique book, the first of its kind. Bowker reveals the role of technology in translation and how to use this ever developing tool.Book InformationISBN 9780776605388Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603738Author Sam LeithFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 25mm

This landmark edited collection offers a wide-ranging overview of how rapid technological changes and the push for providing wide access to digitized cultural heritage holdings are changing the landscape of archives. This book provides a set of...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.This heart-warming story of family life has been popular for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580650151Author D FlinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Lone Eagle Publishing CoPublisher Watson-Guptill PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780897392068Author Heron BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Heron BooksPublisher Heron BooksWeight(grams) 203g

The most complete guide available to the correct pronunciation of German for native English speakers. Revised and updated, a new feature for this edition is that the discussion of English-speaking learners' pronunciation problems has been extended to...

Since its first publication in 1991 Liliane Haegeman's Introduction to Government and Binding Theory has become established as the most authoritative introduction to the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic theory. This new edition has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622911370Author Liu YuehuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Cheng & Tsui CompanyPublisher Cheng & Tsui CompanyWeight(grams) 330g

Mr Flinch hates noise. His neighbours in Noisy Neighbours, a mechanic and a music teacher, can't help making a racket. Mr Flinch plots to get rid of them... TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and...

Despite the recognition that corpus-based translation research would benefit from the triangulation of corpora, little has been done in the direction of actually employing combined corpus data and methods in the field. This book aims to address this gap...

The Lifeboat Read & Spell Scheme. A highly-structured, multi-sensory scheme of lessons to help dyslexic children - and adults - to read, write and spell. This book contains ten lessons and each lesson is made up of eight photocopiable worksheets...

A color-illustrated introduction to the basic principles of visual language that every content creator and consumer needs to knowThe right images capture attention, pique curiosity, and inspire viewers to stick around long enough to read any accompanying...

Now in paperback and with a new Afterword offering insights into the events of 2020 and early 2021, including the pandemic, global protests, racial justice debates and the US presidential election, this book provides an original and compelling way of...

Incorporating approaches from linguistics and psychology, The Handbook of Psycholinguistics explores language processing and language acquisition from an array of perspectives and features cutting edge research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and...

There's never been a better time to be an author! Books like the Harry Potter series create a media phenomenon, with people lining up and camping outside bookstores to purchase newly released titles. Yet book sales overall - not just those of...

At a community fire day in a northern California town several years ago, author Faith Kearns gave a talk on building fire-safe houses able to withstand increasingly common wildfires. Much to her surprise, Kearns was confronted by an audience member whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593298329Author Valerie FridlandFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm *...

This practical guide to developing leadership skills in policing examines the qualities that make up a good leader, providing a variety of examples of good leadership approaches in various policing contexts. Police organisations are increasingly...

Flight or Fright? explains that although people have always wanted to fly, the flying machines they built didn't always work! From flying boats to huge airships, find out about the history of flying machines. Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction...

face2face Second edition is the flexible, easy-to-teach, 6-level course (A1 to C1). face2face Second edition vocabulary selection is informed by Cambridge English Corpus as well as the English Vocabulary Profile, meaning students learn the language they...

Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions. All English prepositions originally coded spatial relations between two physical entities; while retaining their...

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. The Level 4 More Songbirds phonics books revise all phonics previously covered in Songbirds Levels 1+, 2 and 3. They...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585427581Author Sherry EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 38mm

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 and illustrated by Alex Brychta, award-winning creators of the Oxford Reading...

This book is intended to help language teachers to work effectively and successfully with students who have Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs). It enables teachers to gain a thorough understanding of the nature of SpLDs and how these affect both...

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of...

Short story publishing is flourishing in the 21st century and is no longer seen as a poor relation of the novel. But what is a short story? And how do you write one? Robert Graham takes you through everything you need to know, from how a writer works to...

Join Glenn on his Tasty Travels! Read about his trips to different countries, find out what food he ate and try out some of his recipes. Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as...

Marlene Dietrich had the last line in Orson Welles's A Touch of Evil: "What does it matter what you say about other people?" The author ponders the question: What does it matter what you say about yourself? She wonders why the requirement to be a...

LEARN HOW TO WRITE CONVINCING AND COMPELLING DIALOGUE.Commissioning editors say good dialogue is one of the first things that make a book stand out from the crowd - and similarly, that clunky direct speech is one of the first things that will send a book...

Genre: Animal fantasy story Learning Objectives: Language Comprehension Strand 8: Engage with books by exploring and enacting interpretations. Writing Opportunities Strand 9: Sustain form in narrative, including use of person and time (e.g. writing...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world.....

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book characterizes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970066411Author Susan Presby KodishFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Extensional PublishingPublisher Extensional PublishingWeight(grams) 332g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399535376Author Evan S. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g