Language Arts & Disciplines

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year "A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of Books As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity...

Praise for the cloth edition:"Commendable in its scholarship . . . should prove of interest to linguists, medievalists, and Renaissance academicians, as well as to fastidious performers of early music." -Choice"Singing Early Music is a pioneering work of...

Many very intelligent people don't like dealing with numbers. Similarly, many gifted scientists are not especially interested in studying people and their cultural behaviour. In this book, we argue that being interested in people and their cultures, and...

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. Max,...

"In the undeniably vast crowd of books about public speaking, this one stands out for its intelligent, direct approach ... An indispensable manual on all aspects of public speaking and a boon to those who may be anxious about it." -KIRKUS STARRED REVIEWA...

Discover the magic of stories: Read and learn with Disney friends With the brand-new Disney Readers series, young learners can build their reading skills with the help of engaging Disney stories and characters they know and enjoy. * Created to be used...

Phonemic Awareness in Young Children complements any prereading program. From simple listening games to more advanced exercises in rhyming, alliteration, and segmentation, this best-selling curriculum helps boost young learners' preliteracy skills in...

Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic...

This book provides a psychoanalytic reading of works of literature, enhancing the illuminating effect of both fields.The first of two volumes, Madness and the Social Link: The Jean-Max Gaudilliere Seminars 1985-2000 contains seven of the "Madness and the...

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

In The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories, discover what happens when you wake up thirsty in the middle of the night. How do you play a trick on the most insufferable boy in the village, while helping out Aunt Arabelle at the same time? What would you...

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...

Argues that the subjective evaluation of the product must give way to a descriptive and objective attempt to reveal the workings of the process (ie translating). Without such a shift, translation theory will continue outside the mainstream of...

Language typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This textbook provides an introduction to the subject which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics. It offers the broadest coverage of any introductory book,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532690907Author Richard S TombackFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A 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 all your favourite characters with some...

The King and Queen and Princess Pip are going on holiday in Princess Pip's Holiday. 'This holiday is going to be BORING,' says Pip when she discovers they are going to a castle. But is she right? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories...

This book explores embodiment in second language education, sociocultural theory and research. It focuses on process drama, an embodied approach that engages learners' imagination, body and voice to create a felt-experience of the second language and...

In Snooty Prune Prunella hates her name. Why does everyone have to call her 'Prune'? Things get worse when she moves to a new school. Will she find a friend in the mysterious pen pal? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling...

Moustapha Safouan, in this courageous and honest book, confronts head-on the problem of Arab despotism, examining it from the point of view of political philosophy, religious argument and linguistic history. A ground-breaking book written by the...

'After a number of years teaching writing courses and appearing at writers' conferences, I began to see that creating a process book utilising one of my novels as an example of each step of my process might prove useful to people who are interested in...

Sakura is a Wish Fisher. She catches wish fish and delivers each fish to its rightful owner so their wish can come true. One day, she notices that there don't seem to be many wish fish in the river, and discovers that the Emperor has stolen them! The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537025Author Mark PolizzottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 13mm

Someone is hacking into Jake's computer and causing him a lot of embarrassment.Book InformationISBN 9780435070892Author David GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint HeinemannPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 67gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering...

Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains how the market works, helps translators learn how to translate...

Discourse Analysis: The Questions Discourse Analysts Ask and How They Answer Them is the first introductory text organized around the kinds of questions discourse analysts ask and how they are systematically addressed by analysts of different empirical...

"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.What can possibly live at the bottom of the ocean, thousands of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780910355285Author James Scott BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Compendium PressPublisher Compendium PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

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Featuring 365 writing prompts-one for every day of the year-this journal will be an invaluable companion to your year of self-care. Every now and then, we all need a gentle reminder to step back from our busy lives to tend to our own wellbeing...

Extensively updated and expanded to reflect the evolving landscape of online crime, this fourth edition of Cybercrime and Society is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to this complex and fascinating topic. But just what are cybercrimes? And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787561943632Author Liu XunFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint Beijing Language & Culture University Press,ChinaPublisher Beijing Language & Culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847166104Author Stephen WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Straightforward PublishingPublisher Straightforward PublishingWeight(grams) 190g

The medieval Welsh bardic grammars were composed and transmitted during a period of intense social and political change in Wales. These documents, which contain both a highly Latinate description of the Welsh language and a treatment of the strict poetic...

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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...

In Fur from Home Animal Adventures, sheep from space are trying to deliver the intergalactic post, Royston the cat dreams of visiting London, and Baxter the bear is travelling south to find his dad. Join them on their amazing journeys. Chucklers is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781681377063Author Anna BadkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845279059Author Guto RhysFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch