Language Arts & Disciplines

The ideal gift to help kids learn brilliant new hobbies Get thinking, get scribbling and get inspired! The how-to book for kids who love writing. It's easy to understand and tells them exactly what they need to know step-by-step. ...

This new edition of the best selling, topic-based introduction to spoken and written English, is now fully revised and expanded with over 50% more material. This practical volume provides a wide range of written texts and transcriptions of speech for...

Many teachers have adopted the daily proofreading exercises published by large companies as a way to help students practice finding and correcting errors. Sadly, many students have fallen asleep over these same exercises.Ordinary daily proofreading...

This book helps you build and improve grammar skills. This new Student Book builds on the success of "Grammar Matters", using the same structure but with entirely new content, new features and a stimulating new design. It helps all students grasp the...

Why do we have so many dialects in England? Why do we not all speak in standard English? How has our history shaped and influenced the language we speak today? In a Manner of Speaking is a fun and fascinating exploration of spoken English that...

New reading and listening texts bring the real world to the classroom New activities and tasks present, practise and extend the language in meaningful contexts New Study... Practise... Remember! sections combine study skills with consolidation to...

Gain an insight into the English language via one of the UK's richest dialects: Geordie. From George Stephenson to The Animals to Viz, the North East has long had a successful creative culture, developing alongside its industrial history. ...

This updated edition is a practical reference guide which compares the relevant features of a student's own language with English, helping teachers to predict and understand the problems their students have. Learner English has chapters focusing on major...

A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of...

In this gloriously exuberant anthology, Wendy Cope sets out to prove that misery doesn't have all the best lines. Here is a collection of poems which are unashamedly happy: poems about love, places, the beauty of the natural world, about company and...

A fascinating and incisive examination of our language instinct from award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while...

This third edition of the landmark textbook Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook...

face2face Second edition is the flexible, easy-to-teach, 6-level course (A1 to C1). face2face Second edition is informed by Cambridge English Corpus and its vocabulary syllabus is informed by the English Vocabulary Profile, meaning students learn the...

Writing is a task as complex and multifaceted as reading-but it's often taught as a single skill. Discover how to plan and deliver comprehensive, explicit, and evidence-based writing instruction with this groundbreaking book, aligned with IDA's...

8-year-old Molly Meacher is the teacher of Class 2 at Hill Top Primary ... and her pupils are adults! Her class are very excited to be taking part in a biscuit competition, but then their biscuits go horribly wrong. Will they make it to the final? Molly...

Efficiently and effectively assess employees performance. Are your employees meeting their goals? Is their work improving over time? Understanding where your employees are succeeding-and falling short-is a pivotal part of ensuring you have the right...

Truth -- Meaning -- Reality presents a fresh approach to philosophy: a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses language, thought, knowledge, reality, and the relations between them. Horwich's story begins with a minimalist view of truth...

Test knowledge and understanding of content from The Students' Companion with the assistance of four fun, friendly characters in this write-in Practice Book. - Engage students with a full colour design - Build on higher level thinking to gain the...

Relevance, first published in 1986, was named as one of the most important and influential books of the decade in the Times Higher Educational Supplement. This revised edition includes a new Preface outlining developments in Relevance Theory since 1986,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950321421Author Language GuruFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Language Mastery PublishingPublisher Language Mastery PublishingWeight(grams)...

NO description availableBook InformationISBN 9781408523933Author Wendy WrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 266mm * 198mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991167401Author Arlene MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Bigwords101Publisher Bigwords101Weight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812973815Author Nassim Nicholas TalebFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm)...

Postdigital Storytelling offers a groundbreaking re-evaluation of one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of creativity today: digital storytelling. Central to this reassessment is the emergence of metamodernism as our dominant cultural condition...

The average contemporary English speaker knows 50,000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller, derived from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800...

Whether you want to be the next Bill Bryson, set up a brilliant blog or simply make the best of your travel journal, this book will lead you along the travel writer's way. The Travel Writer's Way takes a ground-breaking approach to the craft of travel...

The first three books of Horace's Odes were issued together, apparently in the latter part of 23 BC. The second book, however, has a coherence of its own in terms of subject matter, tone of voice, and arrangement. In particular there is a predominance of...

This practical resource for teacher trainers and teachers of English and other languages provides task material for training seminars and development groups. The topics are wide-ranging - from the nature and processes of language learning to specific...

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 9780262537889Author Ansgar AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 19mm

Latin inscriptions can appear daunting - a jumble of letters without any structure or meaning. However, once you know how, most are easy to read as they follow strict rules of grammar and abbreviation. This book will teach readers how to 'decipher' them...

'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber'A golden writer' Andrew MarrA. A. Gill was rightly hailed as one of the greatest journalists of our time. This selection of some of his recent pieces, which he made himself before his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140170962Author James LiptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

During the more than ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective handbook for his courses. Although most of the currently popular guides contain useful ideas, they all suffer from the same problems: poor...

This is a study of the rise of English Arminianism and the growing religious division in the Church of England during the decades before the Civil War of the 1640s. The widely accepted view has been that the rise of puritanism was a major cause of the...

'Paling's deftly drawn vignettes are frequently funny, sometimes sad and occasionally troubling . . . Borrow a copy from your local library, if you still have one. Better yet, buy it' Neil Armstrong, Mail on Sunday'Not only was I captivated by Paling's...

AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more... 'Something profound and utterly brilliant is going on... hilarious.' THE TIMES Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical...

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...

This title provides good practice and preparation for Secondary school selection examinations. It includes a pull-out answer sheet.Book InformationISBN 9780175663224Author P WintPage Count 92Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University...

Aristotle Ars RhetoricaBook InformationISBN 9780198145578Author Sir David RossFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 194mm * 131mm * 19mm