Language Arts & Disciplines

Special Exam Focus sections for each paper and new text-based activities for Paper 1, part 1, and Paper 3, parts 1 and 2 Regular opportunities for reviewing and testing, with additional photocopiable tests in the Teacher's Book Emphasis on...

Would you like to meet the Spooks? The Spooks tells the story of the Spook family and the Normal family who both live in Tottering Towers. The Spooks want to frighten the Normals. But the Normals know what to do with Spooks! TreeTops Fiction contains a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582971377Author Mauro V CorvasceFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

The Language of Colour provides a fresh and innovative approach to the study of colour from the co-author of the best-selling textbook, Reading Images.Moving on from the meanings of single colours, Theo van Leeuwen develops the theory that many different...

Using insights drawn from the experiences of professional linguists working in a range of domains, this book is an essential resource to help you recognize the value and relevance of your skills and training as a linguist in the job market. No matter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804072Author Natalie GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

The demand for information on learning Arabic has grown spectacularly as English-speaking people have come to realize how much there is yet to know about other parts of the world. It is fitting that this "Arabic Language Handbook", complementing...

The Skills in English series is designed to cover all the National Curriculum requirements using a wide range of texts. The student book focuses on reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. It provides differentiated activities that integrate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953871445Author Marie & Harry CowlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint H J CowlingPublisher H J Cowling

A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts is designed as a six-volume study of the earliest comprehensive corpus of ancient Egyptian texts, inscribed in the pyramids of five pharaohs of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2325-2150 BC) and several of their queens...

Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This...

The relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences is an important area of research in linguistics. Studying the connections between lexical conceptual meaning and event structural relations, this book arrives at a modular...

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows...

Human language is a weird communication system: it has more in common with birdsong than with the calls of other primates. In this wide-ranging and accessible overview, first published in 2000, Jean Aitchison explores the origins of human language and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789995782627Author C. D. SalibaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint BDLPublisher BDLWeight(grams) 161g

Helping you deliver effective and integrated teaching of grammar.A step-by-step grammar course for the new curriculumBook InformationISBN 9781408523964Author Wendy WrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University...

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...

Novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading! TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.This is the true story of Grace Darling - a girl who became a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898696407Author Susan J. DaughtreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Child's World EducationPublisher Child's World Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974893341Author Eve Heidi Bine-StockFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint E & E PublishingPublisher E & E PublishingWeight(grams) 148g

The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the complex field of translation studies. Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together authoritative original...

The Philosophy of LanguageBook InformationISBN 9780198750154Author J. R. SearleFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 194gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 136mm * 9mm

A central work in the history of rhetoric.Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books,...

This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in...

Critically acclaimed writer and award-winning foreign correspondent, Anthony Loyd is also an ex-heroin addict. Another Bloody Love Letter exposes the thrilling and brutal reality of life as a war journalist - from the climax of war in Kosovo and the...

In Hysterical Historicals, read all about some hysterically funny figures from made-up history: join Julius Teaser in his Roman amphitheatre, float about being soppy and writing poems with Percy Bysshe Smelley, go on crazy expeditions with Marco Pillow...

"Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to 'Married with Children' to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that understanding can lead to victory" - New York Times Book Review A lively and accessible guide to understanding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733435215Author Barbara GettyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Handwriting Success, LLCPublisher Handwriting Success, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881895Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

A second collection of the cutest baby animals, all from unusual species which young readers will enjoy discovering for the very first time.Book InformationISBN 9781913339227Author Loll KirbyPage Count 24Imprint Owlet PressPublisher Owlet Press

The fifteenth volume in the Art of series takes an expansive view of revision-on the page and in life In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the...

At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the `closed minds' of American youth . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response. Harvard Educational Review Every...

Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements on the function and feasibility of literary translation. The essays provide an...

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. Team...

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...

There are 6 books at Level 1+: Book 1 practises 's a t p' Book 2 practises 'i n m d' Book 3 practises 'g o c k' Book 4 practises 'ck e u r' Book 5 practises 'h b f ff' Book 6 practises 'l ll le ss' Each sound is explored through an Oxford...

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...

This edition of Cicero's fifth oration against Verres, a Roman magistrate prosecuted for his notorious misgovernment of Sicily, includes introduction, the Latin text, a comprehensive commentary of the text and a vocabulary. The introduction, divided into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848862401Author Heather PindarFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Maverick Arts PublishingPublisher Maverick Arts PublishingWeight(grams)...