Language Arts & Disciplines

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. First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce...

A Word a Day contains 365 carefully selected words that will enhance and expand your vocabulary, along with their meanings, origins and sample usage and fascinating word-related facts and trivia.It is estimated that on average an English-speaking adult...

This student-led vocabulary book is ideal for any English-speaking student of GCSE French. One of four books written for the CCEA specification, it also covers the AQA, WJEC and Edexcel courses, as the word lists are virtually identical.As well as the...

Baba Yaga is a witch who appears in many Russia and Middle Eastern folk tales. When the brave Natasha is tricked into visiting Baba Yaga's house in the woods, will she be able to escape the clutches of the wicked witch? This exciting story written by...

Using clear, readable prose, conceptual artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmith's manifesto shows how our time on the internet is not really wasted but is quite productive and creative as he puts the experience in its proper theoretical and philosophical...

Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published originally as a paper on communication theory more than...

The Level 6 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...

Get Andrew Carnie's Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Fourth Edition, and The Syntax Workbook, Second Edition, in a combined set This set includes both the newly revised fourth edition of Syntax: A Generative Introduction and the new second edition of...

'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters' Club M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest...

Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories - spiralling from real events - that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These cronicas - a genre unique to...

A unique collection of interviews with contemporary poets at the height of their craft. How does a subconscious thought become an award-winning poem? Journalist, Rosanna McGlone, speaks to some of the country's leading poets to find out. Don Paterson,...

Some philosophers think physical explanations stand on their own: what happens, happens because things have the properties they do. Others think that any such explanation is incomplete: what happens in the physical world must be partly due to the laws of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523094110Author Joel SchwartzbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599632971Author Pat PattisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc

The Collins Cambridge Lower Secondary English series offers a skills-building approach to the Lower Secondary English curriculum framework (0861) from 2020. The Stage 8Student's Book supports students to develop their skills in reading, writing and...

Karl Marx (1818-1883) is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the great foreign correspondents of the nineteenth century. During his eleven years writing for the New York Tribune (their collaboration began in...

This playful dinosaur will "slither, skid, slide and glide" his way into children's hearts! Encourage children to explore synonyms with the loveably cheeky Thesaurus Rex, who has an irresistible way with words. Action-verb and noun synonyms feature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838434304Author Andrew BoultonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Gasp BooksPublisher Gasp Books

Written especially for students transitioning from GCSE to AS and those working towards the AQA A Level exam, the AQA AS and A Level German Grammar & Translation Workbook can be used for homework, revision and independent study. It includes thorough...

The official style guide followed by The Times and The Sunday Times. Uncover the rules, conventions and policies on spelling, grammar and usage followed by the journalists, contributors and editors working on the Times and Sunday Times...

Roderick Jones adopts a very practical approach to both consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, providing detailed illustrations of note-taking, reformulation, the 'salami' technique, simplification, generalization, anticipation, and so on, including...

One-time teacher and bestselling novelist Joanne Harris has been advising and corresponding with aspirational writers for over six years. This collection of pithy and funny lists of advice provides both hard-won wisdom and insider industry help. All...

Find out what happens to the tiny dots in the lake in Tadpoles. Level 4 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds ee as in tree, ie as in tie, oa as in boat and ai as in train. The focus phonics in this book...

This work is a celebration of the dialect spoken in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and South Staffordshire. The amazing text and cartoon-like illustrations capture the warmth and humour of the East Midlands.Book InformationISBN...

Did you know that . . . a soldier's biggest social blunder is called jack brew - making yourself a cuppa without making one for anyone else? That twitchers have an expression for a bird that can't be identified - LBJ (the letters stand for Little Brown...

Kreuzer offers guidance to scholars looking to comparative historical analysis (CHA) for the tools to analyze macro-historical questions. Like history, CHA uses the past to formulate research questions, describe social transformations, and generate...

'Be short, be simple, be human.'When Sir Ernest Gowers first wrote Plain Words, it was intended simply as a guide to the proper use of English for the Civil Service. Within a year, however, its humour, charm and authority had made it a bestseller. Since...

Getting our voices heard can be a nerve-wracking and overwhelming task particularly in a world where everyone seems to have something to say. The ability to present our ideas with confidence is now a coveted skill. Yet on stage, we become this other...

Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE English Language, GCSE English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2024 AQA approved Teach AQA's GCSEs in English Literature and English Language as one coherent course with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852174477Author Iain GrayFormat PaperbackImprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788408163435Author Carlos Ruiz ZafonFormat PaperbackImprint Editorial Planeta, S.A.Publisher Editorial Planeta, S.A.

Peter Trudgill looks at why human societies at different times and places produce different kinds of language. He considers how far social factors influence language structure and compares languages and dialects spoken across the globe, from Vietnam to...

The Collins Cambridge Lower Secondary English series offers a skills-building approach to the Cambridge Lower Secondary English curriculum framework (0861) from 2020. The second edition of the Stage 7 Workbook is designed to help students to consolidate...

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...

Two Books in one! Now a gorgeous series on Apple TV. This full-colour, highly illustrated diary series is perfect for young readers who love friendship stories starring animal characters! "a bright and...

'A cracking read' Lorraine Kelly 'Riveting' Sunday Telegraph 'Behind every great interview is a great booker - Sam McAlister is one of the unsung heroes of television news' Piers Morgan She is the woman who clinched the 2019 interview with...

Emmy and Birch go on an adventure to take to the sky with this Young Reader book, the only official levelled reader series based on Minecraft, the world's best-selling video game! Minecraft is the best-selling video...

Our unique Spanish Workbook provides focused practice to prepare your students for their end of course assessments. The exercises in the workbooks prepare students for the reading, writing and listening assessments - with QR codes to enhance learning...

Hennessy's classic text tells you everything you need to know about writing successful features. You will learn how to formulate and develop ideas and how to shape them to fit different markets. Now in its fourth edition, Writing Feature Articles has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592404940Author John McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 182mm * 129mm *...