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. Max,...

Corpus Linguistics has revolutionised the world of language study and is an essential component of work in Applied Linguistics. This book, now in its second edition, provides a thorough introduction to all the key research issues in Corpus Linguistics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787301256527Author Kang YuhuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Peking University PressPublisher Peking University PressWeight(grams) 499g

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory is a classic introduction to the complex yet crucial area of literary theory. This book is known for its clear, accessible style and its thorough, logical approach, guiding the reader through the...

Al Tompkins teaches students about broadcast journalism using a disarmingly simple truth-if you aim for the heart with the copy you write and the sound and video you capture, you will compel your viewers to keep watching. With humor, honesty, and...

How Not to Write is a wickedly witty book about grammar, usage, and style. William Safire, the author of the New York Times Magazine column "On Language," homes in on the "essential misrules of grammar," those mistakes that call attention to the major...

The Lifeboat Read & Spell Scheme. A highly-structured, multi-sensory scheme of lessons to help dyslexic children - and adults - to read, write and spell. This book contains ten lessons and each lesson is made up of eight photocopiable worksheets...

Volume 1 provides a general and comprehensive introduction to semantics, synthesizing work on meaning and communication from many disciplines and setting semantics in the larger framework of semiotics.Volume 1 provides a general and comprehensive...

The Level 3 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 build on the...

Queerly Phrased is a groundbreaking collection of previously unpublished essays that examine the relationship between language and the construction of gender and sexuality. Bridging the gap between sociolinguistics and gay studies, the contributors draw...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974893327Author Eve Heidi Bine-StockFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint E & E PublishingPublisher E & E PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

Meet Captain Comet and Spanner the robot in Captain Comet and the Purple Planet. When Spanner plants his flag on a new planet, he and Captain Comet soon discover that the planet is not quite what it seems ... TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of...

Jungle Journal takes a trip to the rainforests of the Congo with wildlife documentary producer, Verity White. TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The variety of...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 3 Scholastic Set: 05 Title: Up at Night Focus: ee ight oo (long, as in 'food') oo (short, as in 'look') Tricky words: we put and go the are full of I into they to be Book...

Intercultural Communication provides a critical introduction to the dynamic arena of communication across different cultural and social strata. Throughout this book, topics are revisited, extended, interwoven, and deconstructed, with the reader's...

The primary purpose of this book has not been to recount all that past scholars have said about the science, but rather to record the first appearances of those ideas which seem most important in the logic of our own day.Book InformationISBN...

In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient...

The curious crew from Netflix's Ask the StoryBots star in an all-new Step into Reading leveled readerWhat is a virus? How do you catch a cold? Beep, Boop, and the rest of the robots from Netflix's Ask the StoryBots are looking for answers. The...

This examination of the literary effectiveness of young adult literature from a critical, research-oriented perspective answers two key questions asked by many teachers and scholars in the field: Does young adult literature stand up on its own as...

The History of English provides an accessible introduction to the changes that English has undergone from its Indo-European beginnings to the present day. The text looks at the major periods in the history of English, and provides for each a...

The commentaries in the Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries series are designed for students in intermediate or advanced Greek or Latin at colleges and universities. Each volume includes, on facing pages, the ancient text, a running vocabulary,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898696506Author Susan J. DaughtreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Child's World EducationPublisher Child's World Education

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,...

The mid-nineteenth century brought a revolution in popular and scholarly understandings of old and second-hand books. Manuals introduced new ideas and practices to increasing numbers of collectors, exhibitions offered opportunities previously unheard of,...

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

Reporting for Journalists explains the key skills needed by the twenty-first century news reporter. From the process of finding a story and tracing sources, to interviewing contacts, gathering information and filing the finished report, it is an...

Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The variety of topics means there are books to interest every child in this compelling series. The series is written...

Best friends Looga and Barooga are off on another adventure! When Looga discovers that Barooga is afraid of storms, she uses her imagination to whisk them up into the clouds to find out where thunder comes from. Meet dragons, giants, clowns and an ice...

Meet three very different dragons in Dragon Tales. Imagine a dragon - perhaps fire breathing, with scales, claws and a long tail! The dragons in these action-packed, fantastic funny stories from Libya, China and England, might surprise you. Captivating...

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext series offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis of conversation. Written in a clear, user-friendly style by an experienced teacher, it combines practical activities...

Presenting a field-defining overview of one of the most appliable linguistic theories available today, this Handbook surveys the key issues in the study of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), covering an impressive range of theoretical perspectives...

It is quite commonplace for bilingual speakers to use two or more languages, dialects or varieties in the same conversation, without any apparent effort. The phenomenon, known as code-switching, has become a major focus of attention in linguistics. This...

Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's ""Odyssey"" and Euripedes' ""Medea"". More recently, a number of science fiction and fantasy works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the internet has brought these...

This thoroughly revised second edition of Total Sports Media (formerly Total Sportscasting) offers a complete guide to sports media across TV, radio and digital broadcasting.Covering everything from practical skills to industry lingo, this book guides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452295568Author Eveline ChaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher PlumeWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 136mm * 12mm

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...

Written by a global team, this up-to-date introduction to applied linguistics helps students learn what it's like to do applied linguistics, and not just read about theoretical concepts. First, it provides frameworks for understanding both the shared...

Write right in for scholarly success While world-renowned for the precision and clarity it lends to scholarly writing, keeping track of APA style's exacting standards can be demanding (at times even excruciating!) for initiates and seasoned writers...

In Hard to Please Rodney invents two machines to help the grumpy owners of the Charming Tea Shop. Will Rodney's inventions get them to buy his father's delicious buns? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to...