Language Arts & Disciplines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789620434600Author Yamin MaFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Joint Publishing (Hong Kong) Co LtdPublisher Joint Publishing (Hong Kong) Co...

Any new journey requires a map to guide you through potential pitfalls, explain interesting landmarks, and offer time-saving tips. Given that a thesis or dissertation is arguably the most important journey students will embark upon in their professional...

This book provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate. As well as covering the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good feature writing, the...

This book narrates the history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons to the present-day, charting the various changes that have taken place and the impact these have had on the way we spell today. While good spelling is seen as socially and...

'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...

Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places. Volume 1 provides a synthesizing introduction, which shows how accents vary not only geographically, but also with social class, formality, sex and age;...

Clear and accessible, this textbook provides a step-by-step guide to textual analysis for beginning translators and translation students. Covering a variety of text types, including business letters, recipes, and museum guides in six languages (Chinese,...

The Level 2 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 offer a...

"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.For many of the people in this small city on the sea, this is...

Fully revised and expanded, the third edition of Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics maintains a balance of accessibility and scholarly rigor to provide students with a complete introduction to the physics of speech. Newly updated to reflect the latest...

From the barbed, childish taunt on the school playground, to the eloquent sophistry of a lawyer prising open a legal loophole in a court of law, meaning arises each time we use language to communicate with one another. How we use language - to convey...

A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486443447Author A E CowleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 637gDimensions(mm)...

Applying for Jobs and Internships in Museums offers a straightforward approach to applying for positions within a museum. Martha M. Schloetzer provides practical advice about the application and interview process that will prepare emerging museum...

In Black Dan Stevie's new dog is called Black Dan the Seventh. Stevie loves him, but Black Dan has a strange and terrible secret that could lead Stevie into danger. TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore...

News and Journalism in the UK is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of press and broadcast journalism in Britain and Northern Ireland.Surveying the industry in a period of radical economic...

The Level 2 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 offer a predictable...

Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale - the computer-aided analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook outlines the basic methods of corpus linguistics, explains how the...

The magic key takes the children to a land of ogres in The Ogre's Dinner. Will Lee find his first adventure too scary? What do ogres eat for dinner? Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are an exciting new set of stories from Roderick Hunt...

Digital literacy is a powerful subject, which supports inclusivity, social mobility and digital citizenship globally. This book brings together thought-leaders and experts in the field, providing a blend of research and practice across sectors, and...

Comics are a global phenomenon, and yet it's easy to distinguish the visual styles of comics from Asia, Europe, or the United States. But, do the structures of these visual narratives differ in more subtle ways? Might these comics actually be drawn in...

An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital libraryLibraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it...

The True Diary of Carly Ann Potter starts at New Year with Carly's big plans to be a 'better person'. But Carly's plans don't include cousin Zoe. Zoe comes to stay - and she's changed. Different. Alien, even... TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of...

Translating cutting-edge research into practical recommendations for assessment and instruction, this book has helped thousands of readers understand the key role of phonological awareness in the development of reading, writing, and spelling. It clearly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948093050Author Edward MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Oriflamme Publishing LtdPublisher Oriflamme Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 225g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239353Author Bill KovachFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

The Level 4 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, More Stories B and More Stories C...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394724690Author John BradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615359212Author Brita LindFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint WWW.Giraffejuice.comPublisher WWW.Giraffejuice.comWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

This book focuses on the varieties of Birmingham and the industrial heartland of the Black Country. This volume focuses on the closely allied yet differing linguistic varieties of Birmingham and its immediate neighbour to the west, the industrial...

This unique, ambitious and entertaining book presents twenty-nine scripts in detail and offers examples of a hundred more. Written in nontechnical prose and organized into brief but comprehensive sections, it will serve as a handy reference for world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841675213Author Catchpole BarbaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Ransom PublishingPublisher Ransom PublishingWeight(grams) 70g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955345142Author John SeelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint OxpeckerPublisher OxpeckerWeight(grams) 244g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788087481660Author Z. MalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Akropolis, NakladatelstviPublisher Akropolis, NakladatelstviWeight(grams) 549g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407200Author John McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm *...

Helping you deliver effective and integrated teaching of grammar.A step-by-step grammar course for the new curriculumBook InformationISBN 9781408523995Author Wendy WrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University...

A new edition of the highly successful and proven Read Write Inc. Spelling programme. This has been specially developed for the new curriculum by leading primary literacy expert Ruth Miskin and lead author Janey Pursglove. The programme consists of an...

Formal Semantics: The Essential Readings is a collection of seminal papers that have shaped the field of formal semantics in linguistics.About the Author Paul Portner is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Acting Director of the Interdisciplinary...

James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the...