Language Arts & Disciplines

Essential Law for Information Professionals, fourth edition, provides up-to-date and easy-to-follow practical guidance on the law as it affects information management and the principles underlying practice. Using individual cases to illustrate these core...

In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages in Early Modern England Learning Languages in Early...

The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition presents an integrated discussion of key, and sometimes controversial, issues in second language acquisition research. Discusses the biological and cognitive underpinnings of SLA, mechanisms, processes, and...

Genre: Fantasy time-travel stroy Learning Objectives: Language Comprehension Strand 7: Draw together ideas and information from across a whole text, using simple signposts in the text. Writing Opportunities Strand 10: Use planning to establish clear...

My Dad Does Belly Dancing tells the story of Cal and his belly-dancing dad. Cal can't believe it when his dad tells him he is doing belly dancing to get fit. Just when he thought it would be impossible for his dad to get any more embarrassing... ...

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)...

This book contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic papers on modals and conditionals, including 'What "must" and "can" must and can mean', 'Partition and Revision', 'The Notional Category of...

This is a succinct introduction to the rapidly developing field of pragmatics - the study of language from the point of view of its users, of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction, and the effects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898696308Author Susan J. DaughtreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Child's World EducationPublisher Child's World Education

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a...

In The Ugh Factor, hundreds of acts are desperate to perform for the judges on the Star Makers TV show, but Anji and Leo's band is far too cool for that or is it? When their Mum strikes a bargain with them and they have to take part, they come up with a...

Few people can write with as much authority on the English language as Bryan A. Garner. The author of "The" "Chicago Manual of Style" s popular Grammar and Usage chapter, Garner is adept at explaining the vagaries of English with absolute precision and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486447988Author William Strunk JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

This book provides a straight forward and pragmatic guide to leadership, management and team working in contemporary library and information services. Contemporary managers and leaders in library and information services are working in a challenging...

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies or taking an introductory MA course, as well as...

Basic Radio Journalism is a working manual and practical guide to the tools and techniques necessary to succeed in radio journalism. It will be useful both to students starting a broadcasting career as well as experienced journalists wishing to develop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580082280Author Edith Hope FineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision than before, often pinpointing the beginnings of...

Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250014634Author Jessica HandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

American Sign Language (ASL) is a vibrant, easy-to-learn language that is used by approximately half a million people each day. Current with the latest additions to ASL and filled with thousands of brand new photographs by Deaf actors, Learn American...

In a sea of troubling reporting about education, teaching, reading, and the wellbeing of teens, Ivey and Johnston bring some good news that shows what happens when we stop underestimating young people. This accessible book offers an engaging account of a...

This book represents a significant intervention into the debates surrounding Brexit and language policy. It analyses the language capabilities and resources of the United Kingdom in a new, post-referendum climate, in which public hostility towards...

Facebook, a platform created by undergraduates in a Harvard dorm room, has transformed the ways millions of people consume news, understand the world, and participate in the political process. Despite taking on many of journalism's traditional roles,...

This collection of essays brings together a decade of writings on translation by leading international translation studies expert, Susan Bassnett. The essays cover a range of topics and will be useful to anyone with an interest in how different cultures...

Multilingualism is a meaningful and capacious idea about human meaning-making practice, one with a promising, tumultuous, and flawed present - and a future worth caring for in research and public life. In this book, David Gramling presents original new...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. These wordless stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and all your favourite characters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312575076Author James N FreyFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

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. ...

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...

The story of how the Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagined John Dewey's pragmatism. In The Evolution of Pragmatism in India, Scott R. Stroud delivers a comprehensive exploration of the influence of John Dewey's pragmatism on Bhimrao Ambedkar,...

"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.Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes...

This is an updated edition of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke, published in 2006. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, it explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, social class,...

When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she encounters a peculiar world where she meets animated chess pieces, characters from nursery rhymes, and talking animals. Everything there is inside out and upside down: so it is with consciousness. ...

Readers are essential agents in the production of bestsellers but bestsellers are not essential to readers' leisure pursuits. The starting point in this Element is readers' opinions about and their uses of bestselling fiction in English. Readers'...

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. When...

Paper is older than the printing press, and even in its unprinted state it was the great network medium behind the emergence of modern civilization. In the shape of bills, banknotes and accounting books it was indispensible to the economy. As forms and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760297848Author Mark PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 894g

Meet Fleet a cave-boy with a sabre-tooth kitten for a pet! Smiley may not be the biggest or the strongest pet, but Fleet knows that he's the best. Can they prove it by winning the Sports Day together? My Sabre-tooth Pet is a fun and lively story of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989854221Author Barbara CrookerFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint T. S. Poetry PressPublisher T. S. Poetry PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm...