Language Arts & Disciplines

There is a growing awareness among researchers in the humanities and social sciences of the rhetorical force of mathematical discourse-whether in regard to gerrymandering, facial recognition technologies, or racial biases in algorithmic automation. This...

Language Development: An Introduction offers a cohesive, easy-to-understand overview of all aspects of language development, including syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics. Each idea and concept is explained in a way that is clear to...

The long-awaited 2nd edition of this best-selling research methods handbook is fully updated and includes brand new coverage of online research methods and techniques, mixed methodology and qualitative analysis. This edition includes two new contributed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999624821Author Anne JanzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Cuesta Park ConsultingPublisher Cuesta Park ConsultingWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925883329Author Mem FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ligature Pty LimitedPublisher Ligature Pty LimitedWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

For many people Dempster's Diary was the Mail. His page, with its scurrilous revelations about the great, the good, and the not-so good, was the only one to read. Bursting on to the national stage in the Seventies, in his kipper ties and too-tight suits,...

In Scrapman and the Incredible Flying Machine Winston dreams of making a flying machine. There is just one problem. The machine Winston has made won't fly! Can Scrapman help him? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling...

A nostalgic romp through modern NBA history as documented by basketball's most iconic and innovative magazine covers.Every magazine cover is the result of a series of intentional decisions. Cover Story shares the behind-the-scenes stories of these...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780028633879Author Benjamin BlechFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Alpha BooksPublisher Alpha BooksWeight(grams) 640g

When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea...

Discourse in English Language Education introduces students to the major concepts and questions in Discourse Studies and their applications to language education. Each chapter draws on key research to examine critically a particular approach in the...

What is eye tracking? Why is it important for linguistics? How can I use it in my own research project? Answering these questions and more, this book guides you through one of the most exciting and innovative research methods in the field of...

In this book, Bronwyn T. Williams explores how perceptions of agency-whether a person perceives and feels able to read and write successfully in a given context-are critical in terms of how people perform their literate identities. Drawing on interviews...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and characters. They also support children's...

Julia Golding gives us a humorous version of the Beowulf poem, as seen from the monster Grendel's point of view. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children...

This book condenses the important lessons learned at key points during the author's 30-year career as an intergovernmental conference interpreter and trainer, seeking to define what constitutes good interpreting and how to develop the skills and...

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. Max...

This is an introductory workbook and guide to writing Japanese Katakana.Writing Japanese Katakana has been carefully designed to facilitate the quick and easy mastery of the 46-character katakana alphabet, making it the perfect tool to begin the process...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986076473Author Dr R Wayne PaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Institute of General SemanticsPublisher Institute of General SemanticsWeight(grams)...

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. In Ron Rabbit's Big Day, sharp-eyed Ron spots a thief. The Level 3 More Songbirds phonics books revise all phonics...

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. In Pen-Pals, Joan from America comes to visit Megan. The Level 4 More Songbirds phonics books revise all phonics previously...

Each of the twelve chapters of How Poems Get Made examines a specific aspect of the poetic medium: diction, syntax, rhythm, echo, figure, repetition and more. Acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach shows how a poet may manipulate these most basic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789187109416Author David GaughranFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint David GaughranPublisher David GaughranWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This new edition of Andrew Radford's outstanding resource for students is a step-by-step, practical introduction to English syntax and syntactic principles, written by a globally-renowned expert in the field. Assuming little or no prior background in...

Kipper and Lee take the dogs for a walk and make an exciting discovery in A Lucky Find. Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are an exciting new set of stories from Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta. Full of humour and drama with a delightful...

American Sign Language (ASL) is a vibrant, easy-to-learn language that is used by approximately half a million people each day. Current with the latest additions to ASL and filled with thousands of brand new photographs by Deaf actors, Learn American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402293528Author Regina L BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, Inc

Spread the Word explores the lives of William Caxton, Alexander Graham Bell and Tim Berners-Lee. They all found ways to help us communicate, spreading the word around the world. Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage...

The focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and...

From Arabic and Japanese to Hebrew, Javanese and Cherokee, explore 26 unique scripts and alphabets with Lonely Planet - and learn to write local proverbs with our calligraphy tutorials. For each script you'll discover its history and roots, how and where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906614775Author Pat BoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 290g

Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre: history, industry, audience, text, and genre...

This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual...

The period between 1500 and 1700 was the most decisive one in the formation of standard modern English, yet no really comprehensive account of Early Modern English has been available. Manfred Gorlach's Introduction to Early Modern English fills a very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957670433Author Jane BettanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Dormouse Press, an imprint of Guidemark Publishing LtdPublisher Dormouse Press, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533386Author Michael BucklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 13mm

Small Fang is very excited about starting school. But while practising events for the School Sports Day, he is so keen to be picked to compete that he cheats, and scares the other children. Because he is so fast, he is finally picked to play football,...

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. In My Cat, the cat keeps getting in the way! The Level 4 More Songbirds phonics books revise all phonics previously covered...

Free Speech and Hate Speech in the United States explores the concept and treatment of hate speech in light of escalating social tensions in the global twenty-first century, proposing a shift in emphasis from the negative protection of individual rights...