Language Arts & Disciplines

With 77 readings by some of the world's great thinkers, Reading the World is the only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective, allowing students to explore the development of ideas across cultures, an increasingly important approach in our...

Faced with a full-blown crisis, a growing number of journalists are engaging in seemingly unjournalistic practices such as creating and maintaining databases, handling algorithms, or designing online applications. "Data journalists" claim that these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982194710Author Norman LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 137mm *...

"It's not what she said, it's the way that she said it," is a complaint we have all heard (or made) some time or another. What does it refer to? It obviously relates to the various forms of wordless communication, but especially to the speaker's use of...

Each Reading Book in the Rapid Plus series is finely levelled and trialled with KS3 students, and includes: all-new content, rigorously levelled and trialled with Key Stage 3 students pre-reading pages which introduce the main characters, plots and key...

The four-year RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign Project included a major expansion of the standard to align RDA: Resource Description and Access with the IFLA Library Reference Model, which is the conceptual basis of RDA. This expansion included the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399504614Author Patrick GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

In The Symbol Theory, Norbert Elias draws together three central themes. At the first level the book is concerned with symbols in relation to language, knowing and thinking. Secondly, Elias stresses that symbols are also tangible sound-patterns of human...

Perhaps the single most influential work of general linguistics published in this century, Leonard Bloomfield's Language is both a masterpiece of textbook writing and a classic of scholarship. Intended as an introduction to the field of linguistics, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061369261Author David WolmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

This book explores how mental illness is portrayed in 21st-century young adult fiction and how selected works can help teachers, librarians, and mental health professionals to more effectively address the needs of students combating mental illness. ...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780064610452Author Harry ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperReferencePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533324Author Shigeru MiyagawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning tradition is that propositions are representational. To...

Americans of all political persuasions fear that "free speech" is under attack. This may seem strange at a time when legal protections for free expression remain strong and overt government censorship minimal. Yet a range of political, economic, social,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951028794Author Melissa CaudleFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Absolute Author Publishing HousePublisher Absolute Author Publishing...

Find out about mummies: how and why they were preserved and what things the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs took with them into the afterlife. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence...

Sales calls, weddings, conferences, weekly meetings - we all have to speak in public. Yet many find the experience draining, terrifying, or remain unsatisfied with their own ability to engage and sway an audience. In "Present Like a Pro", you'll learn...

Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity. In this volume, 37 new essays provide a systematic look at different language and ethnic...

This book offers students a task-based introduction to Computer-Mediated Communication and the impact of the internet on social interaction. Divided into four parts which require students to learn, (theory), critique, (current issues), explore,...

This book sheds light on aspects of the Korean Wave and Korean media products that are less discussed-Korean literature, webtoon, and mukbang. It explores the making of these Korean popular cultural products and how they work and engage media recipients...

This innovative collection is the first of its kind to showcase global perspectives on learning minority languages as second languages, offering unique insights into their acquisition and specific characteristics and raising greater awareness around...

Pearson English Kids Readers bring the joy of reading to young learners of English. Children will love discovering the range stories and topics in this series - adventures, fairy tales, popular characters, the world around us. With more than 70 titles...

There are huge challenges facing the library and information science profession owing to the rapidly changing environment in which it exists. Librarians need to be 'blended professionals' who can take all their professional skills and experience, and...

Joseph LaPorte offers a new account of the connections between the reference of words for properties and kinds, and theoretical identity statements. Some terms for concrete objects, such as 'Hesperus' and 'Phosphorus', are rigid, and the rigidity of...

As globalization has increased awareness of the extent of language contact and linguistic diversity, questions concerning bilingualism and multilingualism have taken on an increasing importance from both practical and scholarly points of view. Written by...

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692228760Author Sheldon Lawrence Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Stillwaters PressPublisher Stillwaters PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm)...

Do bi- and multilinguals perceive themselves differently in their respective languages? Do they experience different emotions? How do they express emotions and do they have a favourite language for emotional expression? How are emotion words and concepts...

Sociophonetics: a student's guide provides a practical 'how-to' manual that will give students a clear understanding of the technical and theoretical advances in acoustic phonetics, speech perception, and recording technology which is essential for...

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. ...

Written for beginning learners of the language, this concise introduction to Chinese grammar assumes only a basic knowledge of Chinese, and no knowledge of grammatical terminology and practices. Comparing Chinese grammar patterns and rules with those of...

Populist Discourse brings together experts from both linguistics and political science to analyse the language of populist leaders and the media's representation of populism in different temporal, geographical and ideological contexts, including Nazi...

This book offers a comprehensive, entry-level guide for librarians and archivists who have found themselves managing or are planning to manage born-digital content. Libraries and archives of all sizes are collecting and managing an increasing proportion...

An engaging and fresh take on the rules and politics of English grammar, written in lively prose. It goes a step further than most books on grammar by providing an overview of the field, with a discussion of historical and current debates about grammar,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939210197Author Mary BuckhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Cantwell Publishing, LLCPublisher Cantwell Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

This book presents the essential background for understanding semantic theories of mood. Mood as a category is widely used in the description of languages and the formal analysis of their grammatical properties. It typically refers to the features of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399174872Author Alan GelbFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This guide to all aspects of the reporter's job, has been extensively revised and updated for a third edition. It considers:What is news?How the modern newsroom operatesHow facts are gathered and checkedThe reporter and picture ideasDistrict...