Language Arts & Disciplines

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years'...

How language evolved has been called 'the hardest problem in science'. In "ADAM'S TONGUE", Derek Bickerton - long a leading authority in this field - shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as...

Genre: Humorous story Learning Objectives: Language Comprehension Strand 8: Explain their reactions to the text, commenting on important aspects. Writing Opportunities Strand 9: Select from different presentational features to suit particular writing...

News and Journalism in the UK is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of press and broadcast journalism in Britain and Northern Ireland.Surveying the industry in a period of radical economic...

Scribners tells the inside story of five generations--over 150 years--at the legendary publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, beginning with its founding in an unused chapel in downtown New York through its golden era on Fifth Avenue above the...

Language and Identities offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, negotiation, maintenance and performance of identities at different levels - individual, group,...

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), used in 200,000 libraries across 140 countries, has entered a new age, primarily maintained today as a continuously revised electronic system rather than an occasionally updated set of print volumes. Its editors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2015 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Computing & Information Sciences, presented by the...

Project X CODE is a book-by-book series built for SEN and struggling readers aged 6-11. Welcome to Micro World, invented by Macro Marvel - an amazing theme park where you have to shrink to get in! Disaster strikes when CODE, the computer that controls...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 3 Scholastic Set: 05 Title: Up at Night Focus: ee ight oo (long, as in 'food') oo (short, as in 'look') Tricky words: we put and go the are full of I into they to be Book...

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Whatever you do and wherever you go, you use language to interact. This text explains what human language is and how it works, giving you a look into the multiple fascinating and surprising facets of this uniquely human trait. You ll find many...

A Brilliant, Buoyant Guide to Publishing Your Book Hundreds of thousands of books come out every year worldwide. So why not yours? In The Book Bible, New York Times bestseller and wildly popular Manhattan writing professor Susan Shapiro reveals the best...

This book shows some of the different gymnastic activities that children can learn. Photographs and text illustrate some of the techniques used on the bar, on the mat and on the rings. Specific numbered instructions are given on how to do a forward roll...

Teachers in any subject area must have a basic understanding of how language is learned and used in educational contexts because language impacts teaching and learning across all subjects. This book is written specifically for those teachers and teacher...

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...

Analysing language data systematically and looking closely at how people formulate their thoughts can reveal astonishing insights about the human mind. Without presupposing specific subject knowledge, this book gently introduces its readers to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645495713Author Jan-Andrew HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Black HartPublisher Black HartWeight(grams) 200g

'Wow!' says Ernie. In The Ghost Ship Ernie is shocked to discover a ghost ship floating in the school playground. The Captain is looking for his lost treasure and he is sure that its somewhere in Ernies school. TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of...

Stretch your students to achieve their best grade with this year-round course companion; providing clear and concise explanations of all syllabus requirements and topics, and exam practice questions to support and strengthen learning.- Practice and...

"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.A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog...

Extensively revised and updated, this second edition provides, in an A-Z format, an analysis of the most important generalizations that have been made on the unidirectional change of grammatical forms and constructions. Based on the analysis of more than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788171673506Author Kavita KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 431Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

This title features 48 copymasters to learn correct letter formation from the start. The first 26 copymasters practise components of letters within scenes. The remainder provide hollow letters large enough for 'rainbow writing', handwriting verses, and...

Whether you are a faculty member, a librarian, an independent scholar, the junior member of a research team, or a writer outside academia, Handbook for Academic Authors will help you select the right publisher, submit a winning proposal, negotiate a...

Media Industries: History, Theory and Method is among the first texts to explore the evolving field of media industry studies and offer an innovative blueprint for future study and analysis. capitalizes on the current social and cultural environment of...

Disney and Pixar films are beloved by children and adults alike. However, what linguistic messages, both positive and negative, do these films send to children about gender roles? How do characters of different genders talk, and how are they talked...

Language and tradition have long been relegated to the sidelines as scholars have considered the role of politics, science, technology and economics in the making of the modern world. This reading of over two centuries of philosophy, political theory,...

Autonomy has become a key concept in language education. This comprehensive account of autonomy in language learning, clearly details the history and sources of the concept, discusses current areas of debate and looks at practical applications in the...

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. ...

We are living through the consequences of a linguistic revolution. Dramatic linguistic change has left us at the beginning of a new era in the evolution of human language, with repercussions for many individual languages. In this book, David Crystal,...

The new "nonfiction" the adaptation of storytelling techniques to journalistic articles in the manner of Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, and John McPhee is an innovative genre that has been awarded virtually every Pulitzer Prize for literary journalism since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646119509Author Rochelle BarlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 277mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399578083Author Ross PetrasFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 132mm *...

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. ...

"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.The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out...

In the last decade, the availability of corpora and the technological advancements of corpus tools have increased dramatically. Applied linguists have greater access to data from around the world and in a variety of languages through websites, blogs, and...

This state-of-the-art account of research and theorizing brings together multimodality, learning and communication through detailed analyses of signmakers and their meaning-making in museums, hospitals, schools and the home environment.By analyzing video...

Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization offers a coherent system of terms and categories for the study of the complex phenomena in the world's writing systems. Tracing the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787513572132Author Foreign Language PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Foreign Languages PressPublisher Foreign Languages PressWeight(grams) 299g