Language Arts & Disciplines

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...

This new edition of the Luath Scots Language Learner featuring updated information is suitable as an introductory course or for those interested in reacquainting themselves with the language of childhood and grandparents. There are dictionaries and...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907838118Author Georges X. ZhangFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sinolingua London LtdPublisher Sinolingua London LtdWeight(grams) 600g

"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...

Latin is the language of a vast quantity of untouched source material. Despite the widespread popular interest in research into local and family history there has been no recent text book to help the beginner to cope with the great barrier preventing...

The image of the witch - crook-nosed, unpleasant of disposition and with a penchant for harming her neighbours - is well established in the popular imagination. For hundreds of years the accusation of witchcraft has been levelled against women throughout...

The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language is edited by two leading figures in TESOL, it contains 30 chapters written by internationally recognised language teaching professionals and applied linguists. Current topics in TESOL...

Essential Chinese Phrasebook & Dictionary presents the practical language of everyday interactions, conveyed in a way that's clear, concise, accessible and enjoyable.It includes significant sentences used when meeting people, starting conversations, and...

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. Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories A practise...

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...

The home of trusted English learner's dictionaries for everyday language learning. Focussing on the most common errors in English, this book is the easiest way to improve your everyday language skills. Using simple explanations and corpus...

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...

The first Chechen language course available in English! Chechen is spoken by over 1.4 million people worldwide, mostly in the Chechen Republic. It is also spoken in the Chechen diaspora in Russia, Europe, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Middle East,...

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...

'If you feel like you aren't really progressing with language learning apps, this is your book.' ReviewPerfect for:Absolute beginners or anyone who wants to refresh their knowledge of GermanAnyone looking for clear and simple explanations, or who...

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...

A Reference Grammar of Dutch is aimed at English-speaking students of Dutch at beginner/intermediate level. It is designed to be practical and user-friendly: grammatical information is presented in short entries arranged in alphabetical order, allowing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787561937266Author Jiang LipingFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Beijing Language & Culture University Press,ChinaPublisher Beijing Language & Culture...

The People of the Abyss is a classic work about poverty and recounts the time the author spent in London. Born in San Francisco, he became a political activist and socialist at an early age. Written after posing as an American sailor stranded in the East...

You're about to have an uncomfortable meeting with your boss. The principal just called about your middle-schooler. You had a fight with your partner and it's an hour before bed. You know your next move will go a long way toward defining your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788467034714Author Real Academia de la Lengua Espa olaFormat PaperbackPage Count 305Imprint Planeta PublishingPublisher Planeta PublishingWeight(grams)...

The W&A Guide to How to Hook an Agent is the definitive guide to putting together a manuscript submission and attracting the attention of a literary agent. Structured around a series of real-life questions raised at Writers' & Artists' successful...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 5 Scholastic Set 11, 12 and 13 Focus: y (funny), ea (head), wh (wheel), oe (toe), ou (shoulder), y (fly), ow (snow), g (giant), ph (phone), le (apple), al (metal), c (ice), ve (give), o-e...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845700454Author Kou YouFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Cypress Book Co. UK LtdPublisher Cypress Book Co. UK LtdWeight(grams) 750g