Language Arts & Disciplines

Following 18 carefully structured lessons, this Romani language primer explores the vocabulary and grammar of the Kalderash Roma in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Designed for beginner students, this course reference begins with...

'Love this book! It triggers so many memories of the rave era. Thoroughly recommended.' - FATBOY SLIM 'Captures the hedonism and humour of the nineties with a laugh-out-loud honesty. The perfect Ibiza holiday read...if you can get it through customs!' -...

This book contains three full sets of practice papers for Key Stage 3 English - ideal preparation for the in-school tests that most pupils take at the end of Year 9 (age 14). Each set of tests contains a Writing Paper, a Reading Paper (with a full-colour...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787513805551Author Shi JiFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint SinolinguaPublisher SinolinguaWeight(grams) 430g

One of the oldest and most secret magical arts of the ancient world, Euphonics is the study of the natural meanings of sounds in words and language. First discussed over 2,000 years ago in Plato's Cratylus, it has long been used by sorcerers worldwide...

We spend much of our days talking. Yet we know little about the conversational engine that drives our everyday lives. We are pushed and pulled around by language far more than we realize, yet are seduced by stereotypes and myths about communication.This...

This celebrated work by one of the foremost experts in Indo-European and Classical linguistics is now available in a fully revised second edition, thoroughly updated and corrected with over fifty pages of new material. The Outline's forty-five chapters...

The Level 8 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 and More Stories continue to provide a mix of fantasy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787561932551Author Liu XunFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Beijing Language & Culture University Press,ChinaPublisher Beijing Language & Culture...

On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of his young son. In Anatomy of a...

Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio...

Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral terms, as the 'art of persuasion', it is clear that we are all forced to engage with it at some level, if...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845277246Author Phylip BrakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch

Master the basics of a lyrical and useful language Even though most people don't use Latin anymore, it used to be spoken by millions of people from across the ancient world. It later morphed into new languages we still use today! In Latin For Dummies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781292248769Format PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 195g

Exam Board: CEM Level & Subject: 11+ English & Verbal Reasoning Suitable for the 2024 tests Practice for your 11+ test in short, quick question bursts ...

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't...

The Level 7 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 involve familiar...

A Radio 4 Book of the Week'Jon Ronson meets Louis Theroux in the style of Joan Didion' - Telegraph'Riveting . . . human stories that make the impersonal intelligible' - The GuardianWe say that life is priceless but in these surprising stories that...

Clad in white tie and tails, dancing and scatting his way through the "Hi-de-ho" chorus of "Minnie the Moocher," Cab Calloway exuded a sly charm and sophistication that endeared him to legions of fans. In Hi-de-ho, author Alyn Shipton offers the first...

Many female journalists came to the fore during the first and second world wars, and their perspective was very different to that of their male peers, who were reporting from the field. Specifically, they often wrote about war from the perspective of...

‘The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time’ – John Le CarréMichael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916080133Author Peter BayntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Neu Westend PressPublisher Neu Westend PressWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Level 1 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 with simple first words and sentences. First Words introduce...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486258102Author Angel FloresFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

'Determination, grit and humour shine through' Lindsey Hilsum, ObserverNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection.A growing number of intrepid Arab and...

Pick Your Queen! compares the lives of Elizabeth the First and Queen Victoria. Which English queen was the best? Would you choose jelly or cake? Is a pet bear better than lots of dogs? It's time to pick your queen! Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a...

"Gateway to Arabic Book Three" builds on the skills learnt in Book Two and Extension Book One of the series and introduces new areas of grammar and vocabulary. The main focus of the book is the introduction of form one past and present tense verbs in...

Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956312808Author Alec GrimsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Barnes Holland Publishing LtdPublisher Barnes Holland Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

This essential Functional Skills English book for City & Guilds has everything students need to succeed in the Entry Level 3 English tests! It covers every topic and skill from the latest EL3 Functional Skills Reading and Writing specifications...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733165044Author Jeff PepperFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Imagin8 LLCPublisher Imagin8 LLCWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 16mm

Would you risk your life to go into a war zone to help someone you didn’t know? Will Blackburn did. On the day Russia invaded Ukraine Will was selling software and living quietly in Poland. 24 hours later Ukrainian refugees arrived in his home town...

A collection of dazzling travel pieces from SUNDAY TIMES journalist and critic A. A. GILL.From the moment he joined the SUNDAY TIMES, A.A. Gill has wanted to interview places - to discover the personality of a place as if it were a person, to listen and...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: OCR Level: GCSE Subject: English Language First teaching: 2015 First exams: 2017 Offering teachers and students a fresh approach to the 2015 OCR GCSE English Language...

A labourer, journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history - from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state through to the German Democratic Republic - Victor Klemperer is regarded...

Adventure, memoir, storytelling and celebration of all things maritime meet in Waypoints, a beautifully written account of sea journeys from Scotland's west coast. In the book Ian Stephen reveals a lifetime's love affair with sailing; each voyage honours...

Do you want to develop a solid understanding of Norwegian and communicate confidently with others? Through authentic conversations, vocabulary building, grammar explanations and extensive practice and review, Complete Norwegian will equip you with the...

In this vitally important and engaging text, leading feminist linguist Deborah Cameron explores the role of language and discourse in perpetuating sexism and misogyny in the twenty-first century. Covering how the linguistic expression of prejudice...

People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing...