Language Arts & Disciplines

This book, first published in 1933, examines the dialect of the people of Byers Green in County Durham. Orton explores the possible reasons behind why the dialect has signs of external influences, and the ways in which it differs to the dialects of other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784612733Author Lynda Pritchard NewcombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech intended to rouse can put a room to sleep. A mistimed tweet can cost you your job. And a letter to a beloved...

The Consultation, published almost 20 years ago by the same authors, has been completely rewritten. The New Consultation will be an essential aid for all doctors and their educators to increase the effectiveness of their consultations and to help to make...

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar: A Practical Guide, third edition, is an innovative reference guide to Mandarin Chinese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume.The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional...

The Gospel Coalition 2022 Book Award Winner (Academic Theology) Southwestern Journal of Theology 2022 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Hermeneutics/Bible Reference/Biblical Backgrounds) Two experts in exegesis and dogmatics show how Christology and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986134791Author C S LakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Ubiquitous PressPublisher Ubiquitous PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

From the acclaimed author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners brings together a diverse and fascinating selection of garden writing that spans the centuries, the seasons and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684892983Author My Daily RussianFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint My Daily RussianPublisher My Daily RussianWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814141540Author Allison Harper HittFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of...

The contribution of the British Isles to the history of the violin family has been consistently under-estimated. For over 200 years England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland have produced many fine makers and an abundance of quality instruments and bows, now...

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power. In this exhilarating little book, he shows his human side,...

Basic Swedish: A Grammar and Workbook combines an accessible basic reference grammar and related exercises in one volume, and covers most of the topics that students might expect to deal with in their first year of learning Swedish.Each of the 25 units...

Get It Right: Boost Your Vocabulary is a series of practical, write-in workbooks that are designed to expand students' vocabulary and address the word gap. The series includes carefully selected, aspirational words drawn from the Oxford Children's...

New and expanded edition.An International Bestseller - Over One Million Copies Sold!Shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.Since Aristotle, we have fought to understand the causes behind everything. But this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957884028Author George TanakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint PolyscholarPublisher PolyscholarWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.In Catching Fire , the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807337Author Robert GravesFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

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...

Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul and Philip Roth. From the pleasures, intrigues and...

Story of our Lives is the true story of the Hancock family. Family photographs and documents are woven together to create an entrancing tale of how one family experienced some of the world's most important historical events.TreeTops inFact is a...

Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish employees are to blame: without a dictionary or style guide to hand in fifteenth century Bruges, the typesetters simply spelled it the way it sounded to their...

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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, SPECTATOR 'You simply cannot...

Fully revamped and expanded, this second edition offers a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. Mapping out 38 foundational elements of poetry including image, line, point of view, metaphor, movement, and music, authors Amorak...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946995704Author Randy EllefsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Evermore Press, LLCPublisher Evermore Press, LLCWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language. When someone swears at you, it can sting. Likewise,...

Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However, with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience, researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as...

Mastering grammar is now easier than ever with this fully illustrated guide that covers the most important rules in grammar and punctuation-making even the most confusing rules easy to understand. This illustrated guide to English grammar gives you...

This book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series. Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological approach, Monika Bednarek brings together linguistic analysis of the Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue...

Dangerous Trainers tells the story of a boy who discovers that his brother's new trainers are not safe. At night, the trainers can move by themselves. But where do they go? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to...

'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post______________________The huge variety of colourful phrases contained in the English language are notoriously varied and, often,...

Fantastically useful, true and best of all very amusing. This comprehensive and succinct insider s guide is told with characteristic clarity and laced with excellent practical advice. If you want to write, read this first. Tim Whitby, producer. ...

Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation comes an illustrated manifesto and an interactive guide to reclaiming the wonder of the everyday through mindful activities, creative exercises and heart-warming stories.In a world that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971385849Author Michael Steven NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Michael NewtonPublisher Michael NewtonWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783170715Author Charlotte MakhloufFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Brilliant PublicationsPublisher Brilliant Publications

Concise and Abridged Edition Do we really have the right to say the 'wrong' thing? 'I strongly recommend this book. Hume is right that the current proliferation of trigger warnings is absurd' Guardian In a fierce defence...

The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and...

Lonely Planet Estonian, Latvian & Lithuanian Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Estonian, Latvian & Lithuanian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Chat with...