Language Arts & Disciplines

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...

The first two stories are wordless and complement Phase 1 of Letters and Sounds. Max's Box is a retelling of the story of how Max finds a silver box - a discovery that will change his life forever. Inside the box are four watches that allow the wearer to...

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 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...

An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and personal writingWriting should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions...

The linking of psychosomatic to literary and literary to a larger political horizon raises the question of conservative premises to linguistic, pyschoanalystic, philisophical, and literary theories and criticisms of such.The linking of psychosomatic to...

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...

A text for practiced poets, this book offers a springboard beyond the basics into more daring poetic traditions, experimentation and methods. It lays out the myriad conversations influencing contemporary poetics, paying attention to its roots in...

Fjaka: the sublime state of aspiring to do absolutely nothing. Warmduscher: a 'warm showerer', meaning a bit of a wimp. Tener mano izquierda: literally 'to have a left hand'; to be skilfully persuasive. For all the richness of the English language there...

Build your first robots with Python and some cheap, basic components. This entertaining book guides you step by step! In Build Your Own Robot you'll learn how to: Use cameras to capture photos and let your robot seeTrack faces using computer vision and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250041128Author Carmine GalloFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

No other description available.About the AuthorNational Geographic Learning s mission is to bring the world to the classroom and the classroom to life. With our English language programs, students learn about their world by experiencing it. Through our...

This accessible introductory textbook looks at the modern relationship between politicians, the press and the public through the language they employ, with extensive coverage of key topics including: 'spin', 'spin control' and 'image' politics models...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988953567Author Lorraine PhillipsFormat PaperbackImprint 360 Books, LLCPublisher 360 Books, LLCWeight(grams) 667g

In John 1-10 and John 11-21 Lidija Novakovic provides a foundational analysis of the Greek text of John. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the text. Novakovic's analysis is a convenient pedagogical and...

*The first book to both introduce discourse analysis to scholars and students of social movement studies and also to provide a detailed study of the discourses of the refugee crisis in Europe *social movements are a hot topic and widely studied within...

Thoroughly revised and updated, the fourth edition of Writing for Journalists focuses on the craft of journalistic writing, offering invaluable insight on how to hook readers and keep them to the end of your article.The book offers a systematic approach...

This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress, phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis. Speakers can modulate the meaning and effects of their utterances by...

Want to become a classic novel buff, or expand your reading of some of the finest novels ever published? With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you'll quickly set out on a journey of discovery.Extended Introduction on...

Nok is missing. Will Max and Ant be able to follow the footprints and find him in On Nok's Trail? Find out what happens when Nok uses his powers to start Tiger's toy trucks in I Win! Who will be the first to cross the finish line? In Popcorn Surfing,...

This book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among...

Lesson-by-lesson revision and practice for students - the Workbook includes grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation activities for every lesson.Get your intermediate students talkingBook InformationISBN 9780194518048Author Clive OxendenFormat...

Language, Bananas, and Bonobos presents a series of engaging reflections on concerns such as our knowledge and use of language, political correctness, and the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees. In doing so, this volume provides new insights into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874219890Author Linda Adler-KassnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams)...

The use of corpora in translation studies, both as a tool for translators and as a way of analyzing the process of translation, is growing. This book provides a much-needed assessment of how the analysis of corpus data can make a contribution to the...

Narrative explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives. It shows what systematic attention to language can reveal about the narratives themselves, their tellers, and those to whom they are addressed. Topics examined include...

An introduction to the general linguistic study of aspect. Topics covered include the relation of tense and aspect, the morphology and the semantics of aspect, and structuralist and philosophical approaches. Dr Comrie draws his examples particularly from...

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...

Including comprehensive coverage on both print and online, consumer and free magazines, Magazine Editing looks at how magazines work and explains the dual role of the magazine editor. John Morrish and Paul Bradshaw consider the editor both as a...

In Tin Cat Ant makes a cat using some tin cans and teaches it to do some tricks. How much can Tin Cat learn before he starts to get tired? Cat tries to teach Cog Dog to sit but he won't stay. Will he do as he is told when Nok tells him? Find out in Sit,...

The mechanism of speech is a very complex one and in order to undertake any analysis of language it is important to understand the processes that go to make up the message that a speaker transmits and a listener receives. Professor Fry therefore first...

This textbook introduces the reader to the field of phonology, from allophones to faithfulness and exemplars. It assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and includes a brief review chapter on phonetics. It is written within the framework of Cognitive...

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...

Companion website https://www.bvimodel.org/ featuring additional content, BVI model implementations, adaptions and templates and much more. This book provides practical guidance for delivering and sustaining value and impact from digital content.Our...

This long-awaited volume provides an answer key to the drills and exercises contained in each of the units of John F. Collins's bestselling ""A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin"". Written for those charged with the responsibility of teaching the Latin of...

"Reliably insightful." - Publishers Weekly The first step to becoming a successful writer is to become a successful reader. Helping you develop your critical skills How to Read Like a Writer is an accessible and effective step-by-step guide to how...

A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures. In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gardenfors proposes a theory of semantics that bridges cognitive science and linguistics...

This is a book for scientists and other experts who need to explain the significance and potential of their work to colleagues, committees, funding bodies or the general public. It details how to harness story-telling principles to make complex or...

Turn detective and investigate a range of theories about what happened to one of the world's most fascinating civilizations: the Maya. TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction...