Language Arts & Disciplines

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. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399534829Author Rod L. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Genre: traditional tale Learning Objectives: Language Comprehension Strand 7: Explore how particular words are used, including words and expressions with similar meanings. Writing Opportunities Strand 9: Sustain form in narrative, including use of...

AP Teachers’ #1 Choice! Ready to succeed in your AP course and ace your exam? Our 5 Steps to a 5 guides explain the tough stuff, offer tons of practice and explanations, and help you make the most efficient use of your study time. 5 Steps to a 5: English...

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. In...

The Language of Sport:* looks in detail at the language of sports-talk including commentary and 'new sportswriting'* explores linguistic representation of related issues such as gender, national/regional identity* examines the way sport sells itself as...

An engaging and comprehensive introduction to sign languages that features wide coverage which makes it ideal for undergraduate students studying this topic for the first timeThe first introductory sign language textbook to cover cognitive functional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955152566Author Peter RydingFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Pathfinder Partners LtdPublisher Pathfinder Partners Ltd

"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.You look exactly like him! You can take the dead boy's place...

There are six titles at Level 1: Fun at School explores sounds you might hear at school - in the playground, in the classroom, at lunch-time and at home-time. Kipper and friends go to school on a snowy day and have lots of fun acting out Goldilocks and...

Ancient Rome's original archconservative.M. Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), one of the best-known figures of the middle Roman Republic, remains legendary for his political and military career, especially his staunch opposition to Carthage; his modest way of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787301291610Author Liu YuehuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Peking University PressPublisher Peking University PressWeight(grams) 118g

As an interdisciplinary area of research, translation studies attracts students and scholars with a wide range of backgrounds, who then need to face the challenge of accounting for a complex object of enquiry that does not adapt itself well to...

Sociolinguistics is one of the central branches of modern linguistics and deals with the place of language in human societies. This second edition of Introducing Sociolinguistics expertly synthesises the main approaches to the subject. The book covers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513620343Author Shola KayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Movement PublishingPublisher Movement PublishingWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This will be the fourth edition of a time-tested resource for students writing papers in the fields of religion and theology. It provides essential guidance for writing assignments typical in graduate programs in religion and has served as a standard...

The history of fiction has been dominated by the novel and the short story. But now a brave new genre has emerged: very brief fiction. FLASH! identifies the qualities that make for excellent flash fiction, demystifies the writing process and guides...

A practical guide to the development and operation of digital preservations services for organizations of any size Practical Digital Preservation offers a comprehensive overview of best practice and is aimed at the non-specialist, assuming only a basic...

This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions. Starting with the early 17th century,...

Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120835474Author Warwick JessupFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass,

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic...

An accessible yet in-depth introductory textbook on the basic concepts of phonetics, fully updated and revised This broad, interdisciplinary textbook investigates how speech can be written down, how speech is produced, its acoustic characteristics, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787301294178Author Liu YuehuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Peking University PressPublisher Peking University PressWeight(grams) 170g

The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long...

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club...

Persian, or Farsi, is one of the world's oldest languages. Dating back to the sixth century B.C., it is spoken today by over forty million people in Iran and 5 million in Afghanistan. Now available in paperback for the first time, this comprehensive...

New Cutting Edge Upper Intermediate Workbook consolidates and extends the language taught in the Students' Book. Grammar exercises give students useful practice and build confidence Vocabulary boosters and Wordspots build on the lexical areas covered in...

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...

The micro-friends, and Nok, are on a school trip to the woods. They shrink for some micro-fun, and find a strange-looking object hidden in some leaves. Find out what they discover in An Amazing Find. The friends find themselves on board Nok's lost...

Did you know that the English language has over 150 words for the adjective 'drunk' developed over 1,000 years? Be prepared to learn words you have never heard before, find out fascinating facts behind everyday words, and be surprised at how lively and...

Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a...

Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to formal semantics.About the AuthorIrene Heim is Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of The Semantics of...

Renowned biblical scholar Stanley Porter offers an accessible introduction to hermeneutics to help students and pastors better interpret and understand God's Word. Interpretation for Preaching and Teaching focuses on various levels of interpretation...

The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs emerged in the late 1600s as one of the largest landowners in Caithness. As such they played a major part in the history of the county, a role revealed in the family papers with their wide variety of documents,...

How To Be A Writer is a collection of interviews with famous writers, performers and industry insiders that takes the reader through a writer's day, from getting up to giving in. And, along the way, asks: When do you get ideas? When should you write? How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086903927Author Lida HolaPage Count 298Imprint Akropolis, NakladatelstviPublisher Akropolis, NakladatelstviWeight(grams) 1240g

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This book is an outstanding contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind, by one of the most influential thinkers of our time. In a series of penetrating essays, Chomsky cuts through the confusion and prejudice which has infected the...

Kid Wonder and Grandpa are behind bars at Baggem City Prison in Kid Wonder and the Sticky Skyscraper. They are trying to discover a sneaky plot by her great enemy, the cunning Slippery Shadow. He has suddenly become interested in cookery... TreeTops...