Language Arts & Disciplines

Luce Irigaray is a practising psychoanalyst, and formerly a member of the Ecole freudienne de Paris. She has also held a research post at the Centre National de Research Scientifiques since 1964, where she is now a Director of Research in Philosophy...

This serves as an update of the author's successful Collecting Toy Soldiers (Collins, 1987; pbk edition, New Cavendish, 1991). In it James Opie gives the collector the benefit of thirty years experience as the world's leading authority on traditional toy...

Shelley has a great idea in Shelley Holmes Animal Trainer. She decides to be an animal trainer. Shelley is sure it will be easy to train animals, but when she tries to train her dog, Dustbin, things don't quite go to plan. TreeTops Fiction contains a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671727529Author Milo O. FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 136g

This book presents the research of the 'Sydney School' in language and literacy pedagogy. Widely known as genre-based pedagogy, the research is cutting-edge, but is built on 30 years of developments in the field, in a unique collaboration between...

Now in its third edition, this practical introduction to forensic linguistics is required reading for students of language and the law. It includes: new chapters on identifying forensic texts and important interactional aspects of the language used...

In Skills and Thrills, meet Ari as he swings through the air on a trapeze! Find out all about the skills and thrills of circus school. Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553374964Author Natalie GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. In The Wishing Elf, Miss Smith's class has a magical visitor. The Level 3 More Songbirds phonics books revise all phonics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623174057Author Stella FosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Translating Change explores and analyses the impact of changes in society, culture and language on the translation and interpreting process and product. It looks at how social attitudes, behaviours and values change over time, how languages respond to...

The new edition of Language and Gender: A Reader responds to the wealth of research that has shaped the field since its initial publication in 1998. Retaining many of the foundational entries that have made the volume so popular, the second edition has...

Teaching creative writing for the multicultural, global, and digital generation, this volume offers a fresh approach for enhancing core writing skills in the major forms of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama. A Guide to Creative Writing and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788393073115Author Iwona StempekPage Count 160Imprint POLISH-COURSES.COM, Iwona StempekPublisher POLISH-COURSES.COM, Iwona StempekWeight(grams) 690g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760297848Author Mark PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 894g

This unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. Contributors include Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amy Lowell,...

Fully updated and revised, this fourth edition of Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar explains the principles of systemic functional grammar, enabling the reader to understand and apply them in any context. Halliday's innovative approach of...

Pete cannot find a suitable owner for the smelly baby dragon for sale in his Peculiar Pet Shop until one day an old witch comes into the shop. The witch wants to buy a fluffy cat but unsuspectingly leaves the pet shop with the smelly dragon. It becomes...

The Level 3 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 build on the...

What's Your Story? is an effective tool for transformation: an interactive journal for anyone who longs to bring a new story to life - if only they could figure out what it is. Through a series of deeply personal writing prompts, the journal inspires you...

Develop regular creative writing practice with this interactive journal, full of simple, witty and playful ideas every writer will enjoy. They say that everyone has a book in them, but who has the time to sit down and find it? This journal,...

In the words of novelist Harlan Ellison, "The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. New York Times bestselling author and British Academy Award nominee J. Michael Straczynski knew he wanted to be a writer ever since he was a...

A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature is one of a very small group of resources in English for the teaching of intermediate and advanced level classical Arabic. Based on his lecture notes, the late Seeger Bonebakker designed a superb teaching text,...

Get close to some of the world's gigantic art installations from the Nazca lines in Peru and The Kelpies in Scotland, to Mount Rushmore in the USA. TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as...

In Pass the Ball! Tommy is embarrassed when his grandad wears his old kit to Tommy's football practice. But Tommy's team are soon glad that Grandad has a trick or two up his sleeve. TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling...

The Children of Lir is an Irish legend of a wicked queen who wants the King to love her more than his four children. She decides to use her magic to get rid of the children ... This engaging story written by Maire Buonocore and beautifully illustrated...

This revised text is aimed specifically for library support staff and purposefully aligned with the American Library Association – Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) competency standards for Cataloging and Classification. In recent years AACR2...

This clear and concise introduction offers students of linguistics and English language a comprehensive overview of English grammar, including word structure, major and minor word classes, phrases, clauses and sentences. Based on twenty years' teaching...

Diggety Dog is looking for a bone. But no matter how far he digs, he only seems to manage to uncover trouble! Children will love this fun rhyming story by Michaela Morgan. * Yellow / Band 3 - A humorous rhyming story * Text type -...

This collection explores the discursive strategies and linguistic resources underpinning conflict and polarization, taking a multidisciplinary approach to examine the ways in which conflict is constructed across a diverse range of contexts.The volume is...

Public Speaking In A Week is a simple and straightforward guide to mastering the art of public speaking, giving you everything you need to know in just seven short chapters. From writing and delivering the content to handling your nerves and avoiding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312300524Author James N FreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

A celebratory 20th anniversary edition of A landmark collection from black writers across the literary spectrum'The fact that IC3, the police identity for Black, is the only collective term that relates to our situation here as residents ('Black British'...

Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology is a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. The authors map out more than 25 key elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of view, metaphor, and movement and use these elements as...

Drawing on vast amounts of new data from live, unscripted radio and TV broadcasts, and the internet, this is a brilliant and original analysis of colloquial English, revealing unusual and largely unreported types of clause structure. Andrew Radford...

Do you ever wonder why we have seasons? How Winter Came into the World shows how the Greeks explain winter. It is about a god called Hades who falls in love with a beautiful goddess called Persephone Captivating versions of some of the best myths and...

This best-selling dictionary is now in its 4rd edition. Specifically written for students of language teaching and applied linguistics, it has become an indispensible resource for those engaged in courses in TEFL, TESOL, applied linguistics and...

The AI revolution can seem powerful and unstoppable, extracting data from every aspect of our lives and subjecting us to unprecedented surveillance and control. But at ground level, even the most advanced 'smart' technologies are not as all-powerful as...

This volume brings together research principles with the practical issues of carrying out research to provide a clear and fascinating guide to the reality of contemporary criminological research. The experience of leading experts is combined with...

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