Language Arts & Disciplines

In Doughnut Dilemma Danny MacDonald lives for football, especially his favourite team Lowgate United. But Lowgate's star striker, Keith, is turning into the team's worst player. Keith can't think about anything but tasty doughnuts. Can Danny help his...

This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions. Rhetoric is the way in which we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an...

Robbie Woods is determined to be Robin Hood in the school play. In Robbie Woods and his Merry Men he is doesn't think he has much chance of being chosen for the part. Will he remember the words? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories...

Explorers: Then and Now compares today's intrepid explorers with their historical counterparts to see how much things have changed. TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction...

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...

Introduction to Neuropsychopharmacology expands on the molecular and cellular foundations of the classic Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology, Eighth Edition (Cooper, Bloom, and Roth) by now including the behavioral methods used to study psychoactive...

Closely examining how the news media reports economic and financial matters, this book equips students with solid methodological skills for reading and interpreting the news alongside a toolkit for best practice as an economic journalist. How to Read...

Offering a uniquely broad-based overview of the role of language choice in the construction of national, ethnic and religious identity, this textbook examines a wide range of specific cases from various parts of the world in order to arrive at some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638787907Author Tarn WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593380499Author Scott EmmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Random House Books for Young ReadersPublisher Random House USA Inc

Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods is a guide to conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects, written by top scholars for students and researchers in social science fields. Adopting a critical perspective focusing on...

Andrew Radford has acquired an unrivalled reputation over the past forty years for writing syntax textbooks in which difficult concepts are clearly explained without excessive use of technical jargon. Analysing English Sentence Structure continues in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354374487Author V SubhashFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint V. SubhashPublisher V. SubhashWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312286668Author Patricia HighsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

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. Find...

Suitable for children age 7 and above with a reading age of 5 years to 5 years 6 months Part of the Rapid Reading intervention series by Pearson Rapid Stage: Starter Level 1A (equivalent to red book band) Design supports readers with dyslexia Proven to...

Bob and Benny are looking for a job in An Odd Job for Bob and Benny. When Mrs Catkin asks for their help they are happy to say yes. But when they discover the job is looking after Daisy, Mrs Catkin's elephant, they begin to have second thoughts. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642350586Author Michael W LucasFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Tilted Windmill PressPublisher Tilted Windmill PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

Second Language Research: Methodology and Design is a clear, comprehensive overview of core issues in L2 research. Authored by well-known scholars in SLA and supported by a wealth of examples from actual studies and extensive pedagogical resources, this...

Through an analysis of the discourse practices of populist Far Right groups in France, Italy and Belgian Flanders, this book makes a ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of the ways in which homophobic discourse functions. It proposes an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948464284Author C S JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint C. S. JohnsonPublisher C. S. JohnsonWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

Setting out to reinstate rhetoric, this book opens with an overview of the rhetorical system as developed in classical times. In Defence of Rhetoric surveys and analyses material from Aristotle to Plato through the Renaissance to the modern novel and the...

Part of the "Storyworlds" series, this pack contains the four "Our World" Stage Two stories, about children's experiences at school and home. The stories are "Clever Joe", "Dinner Time", "Helpers" and "Naughty Joe". Each stage of "Storyworlds" provides a...

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...

In this bestselling Reader, Jaworski and Coupland have collected in one volume the most important and influential articles on discourse analysis. Designed as a structured sourcebook and divided into clear sections, The Discourse Reader covers the...

Verbal Communication Through Telling Stories"...learn how to bring your own stories to life on the page, on the stage, around a campfire, or a dinner table." -Mary Jo McConahay, award-winning journalistWinner 2020 Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction...

In a time when millions travel around the planet; some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile, translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging...

Ignite English aims to excite and motivate teachers and students by making learning relevant and supporting teachers. Addressing key concerns raised in recent Ofsted reports as well as meeting the needs of the new KS3 National Curriculum, each Teacher...

Shakespeare's English: A Practical Linguistic Guide provides students with a solid grounding for understanding the language of Shakespeare and its place within the development of English. With a prime focus on Shakespeare and his works, Keith Johnson...

In this first general theory for the analysis of popular literary formulas, John G. Cawelti reveals the artistry that underlies the best in formulaic literature. Cawelti discusses such seemingly diverse works as Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Dorothy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838394363Author Ellora SuttonFormat PaperbackImprint Fourteen PublishingPublisher Fourteen Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988523104Author Guy KawasakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Nononina PressPublisher Nononina PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm *...

This is a systematic and accessible introduction to the critical concepts, structures and professional practices of political communication. Lilleker presents over 50 core concepts in political communication which cement together various strands of...

Corpus analysis can be expanded and scaled up by incorporating computational methods from natural language processing. This Element shows how text classification and text similarity models can extend our ability to undertake corpus linguistics across...

About half the world's population knows and uses two or more languages in everyday life, and an increasing number of parents are raising their children bilingual. This makes a resource on what it means to become and be bilingual all the more necessary...

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition brings together fifty leading international figures in the field to produce a state-of-the-art overview of Second Language Acquisition. The Handbook covers a wide range of topics related to Second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787301291634Author Liu YuehuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Peking University PressPublisher Peking University PressWeight(grams) 135g

Understanding Phonology, Fourth Edition provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account of phonological issues such as segmental contrasts; syllables and moras; quantity,...

The Language of the News investigates and critiques the conventions of language used in newspapers and provides students with a clear introduction to critical linguistics as a tool for analysis.Using contemporary examples from UK, USA and Australian...

Carefully controlled information, structure and vocabularyGlossary at the back of the book explains some of the difficult words and phrasesThe book has around 1400 basic words for Pre-intermediate-level studentsPoints for Understanding section and...