Language Arts & Disciplines

This succinct and accessible resource will help students of biblical languages gain a better appreciation and understanding of the rules, functions, and terminology of English grammar. Useful for beginners, intermediate, and advanced students this quick...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891287179Author Mary F BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint American Printing House for the BlindPublisher American Printing House for the...

Genre: Realistic story 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 person...

Suitable for children age 7 and above with a reading age of 5 years to 5 years 6 months Part of the Rapid Reading intervention series by Pearson Rapid Stage: Starter Level 1B (equivalent to blue book band) Design supports readers with dyslexia Proven to...

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

A compelling argument about the importance of using more than one language in today's world In a world that has English as its global language and rapidly advancing translation technology, it's easy to assume that the need to use more than one language...

In Spike Says Spike claims he can dive, drive and fight fires! Level 4 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds ee as in tree, ie as in tie, oa as in boat and ai as in train. The focus phonics in this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983141211Author Alan WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Writers Tribe BooksPublisher Writers Tribe BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618382019Author Karen Elizabeth GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 177g

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. These wordless stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and all your favourite characters...

Relevance, first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the Times Higher Educational Supplement. This revised edition includes a new Preface outlining developments in Relevance Theory since 1986,...

In a small village on the southern coast of Crete, the narrator meets a young man who tells him a history of his journey which took him from Prague as far as to the Libyan sea. It is a voyage to uncover mysterious deaths of two brothers: one was murdered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915425133Author Joanna PennFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Curl Up PressPublisher Curl Up PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 18mm

This book explores the world of comets: what they are, how they are formed and how people have reacted to them throughout the centuries. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence...

Since its foundation in 1860, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's world-renowned collections have become a key centre for scientific study and its much-loved building an important icon for visitors from around the world. The museum now...

Part of the "Storyworlds" series, this pack contains the four "Animal World" Stage Two stories, about animal characters. The stories are "Yum! Yum!", "Bingo Wants to Play", "Bingo and the Bone" and "The Big Surprise". Each stage of "Storyworlds" provides...

Subtexts are all around us. In conversation, business transactions, politics, literature, philosophy, and even love, the art of expressing more than what is explicitly said allows us to live and move in the world. But rarely do we reflect on this...

This first-ever anthology of the war reporting and commentary of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg is drawn from more than four decades of reporting at home and abroad for the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, and various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993467493Author Felicity DavidsonFormat PaperbackImprint RSL EducationalPublisher RSL Educational

Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality is, those who want to make a full or part-time job out of writing are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957415362Author Chris LongmuirFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Barker & JansenPublisher Barker & Jansen

This is an elementary introduction to syntactic analysis. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject whatsoever, it is intended for students who are encountering such analysis for the first time. For those embarking on a longer term study of syntax, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486852003Author Anderson M. BatenFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Pragmatics: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the study of verbal and nonverbal communication in context. Including nine chapters on the history of pragmatics, current theories, the application of pragmatics, and possible future...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788128811890Author Krishna Gopal VikalFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Diamond Pocket BooksPublisher Diamond BooksDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 10mm

This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism...

A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems-a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines-illustrated with 110 full-color photographs.Easy to create and share online, spine poems-also known as collage poems...

Project X Alien Adventures takes you on an incredible reading journey with this fantastic story featuring the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger. Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger rip-jump to the next dimension in the hope of finding the...

Adriana Belletti here collects work presented by top scholars at a workshop at the University of Siena in connection with a visit by Noam Chomsky. These eight articles go beyond strictly mapping syntactic properties, touching on broader theoretical...

Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims? In what ways can prejudice be explicit or subtle? This book uses a detailed analysis of over 140 million words of newspaper articles on Muslims and Islam, combining corpus linguistics and discourse...

Nineteenth-century English can in many ways be claimed to have laid the foundations for the present-day language, but until recently it has not received as much attention from scholars of linguistics as the English of earlier periods. This book provides...

For those that have mastered the basics of memoir and wish to probe this brand of creative nonfiction further, Writing the Radical Memoir uses salient theories about memory and the self to challenge assumptions about how we remember and tell the truth of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395528150Author Robert ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 309g

By arranging frequently used characters under the phonetic element they have in common, rather than only under their radical, the Dictionary encourages the student to link characters according to their phonetic. The system of cross-referencing then...

This book will help you: Recognize what information to fact-check Identify the quality and ranking of source materials Learn to fact-check a variety of media types: newspaper; magazine; social media; public and commercial radio and television, books,...

This set includes two essential resources for writers and editors: The Copyeditor's Handbook, now in its fourth edition, and The Copyeditor's Workbook, the new companion to the bestselling Handbook. Unstuffy, hip, and often funny, The Copyeditor's...

Language and Identities offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance and performance of identities at different levels - individual, group,...

We live our lives in conversation, building families, societies and civilisations. In over seven thousand languages across the world, the basic infrastructure by which we communicate remains the same. This is the first ever book-length linguistic...

"A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars... It introduces an insightful, inspiring, and inviting way of making sense of the messiness without losing hope of changing things." - Nishant Shah, Chinese University of...

Develop a mindful practice with this interactive journal, full of simple and inspirational ideas for every day Writing things down is more than a mental release, it is a way of living consciously and mindfully in the present. This journal...