Language Arts & Disciplines

Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is now more relevant to today's overcrowded planet than ever.With an introduction by Iain Sinclair.In the city...

A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and,...

The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the...

Today, Alan Turing is a well-recognised name, but it was not always so. Until the last few years of the 20th century hardly anyone had heard of him or his achievements. All that changed when the British government permitted the story of Bletchley Park...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582973272Author Ron RozelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

"A model of popular-science writing" STEVEN POOLEWho was "the first speaker" and what was their first message?An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's greatest mysteries - the origins of language.Drawing on evidence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787301282533Author Liu YuehuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Peking University PressPublisher Peking University PressWeight(grams) 222g

A collection of dazzling travel pieces from SUNDAY TIMES journalist and critic A. A. GILL.From the moment he joined the SUNDAY TIMES, A.A. Gill has wanted to interview places - to discover the personality of a place as if it were a person, to listen and...

'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . . . Fascinating.' Sunday TimesOnce we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and...

Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America,...

For nearly four decades, Trancework has been the definitive textbook for thousands of professionals undergoing training in the art and science of clinical hypnosis. Now in its 5th edition, this classic text continues its legacy of encouraging sound...

The publications game can seem tricky: knowing where to start, how to plan and draft a paper, who to pitch it to and how to present it can appear difficult enough. With the advent of e-publishing and ever-tougher regulatory frameworks surrounding...

Positive Communication for Leaders provides a practical model of positive communication that can be can immediately inspire unity and influence change in organizations. Drawing on decades of research in the fields of communication and leadership and...

Meet Clare and her bear in Clare and the Fair. Level 6 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds ar as in star, au as in August, ur as in fur, air as in hair, ear as in near, ure as in pure and soft g as in...

This accessible textbook hinges on the central assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Grammar, introducing students to the analytical tools they need to approach Stylistics, an essential area in language analysis. The author verifies the...

At the end of the twentieth century more people are living into their seventies, eighties, nineties and beyond, a process expected to continue well into the next millennium. The twentieth century has achieved what people in other centuries only dreamed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613162118Author Mary Roberts RinehartFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 441gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608194964Author James W. PennebakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 385g

This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when "books" were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a lively tour, from the royal libraries of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801061179Author Non ap EmlynFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Atebol CyfyngedigPublisher Atebol CyfyngedigWeight(grams) 170g

'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post______________________In this highly entertaining book, language enthusiast and Sunday Times best-selling author Caroline Taggart...

The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea's masterpiece charts the author's coming-of-age in a bruised and...

Colloquial Amharic: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Amharic as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a...

This edition of the "Left Hand Writing Skills" combines all three stages in the "Left Hand Writing Skills" series. Altogether, the book contains 83 worksheets to help students through the phases of fine motor skill development, formation and flow of...

This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic. In doing so it provides a much-needed...

In The Bigfoot Mystery the magic key takes the children to a forest. What mystery animal do they meet? Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are an exciting new set of stories from Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta. Full of humour and drama...

Join a friendly mechanic for a day working on a research base and out on the ice. Learn about the challenges of surviving in the Antarctic, explore the incredible landscape and meet the local wildlife, as you discover all the amazing and important...

Level 5 of a 6 levelled new course that includes rich international content to teach reading comprehension, writing and speaking and listening skills to first and second language learners. Step-by-step teaching scaffolding, clear learning objectives and...

Bringing Words to Life has enlivened the classrooms of hundreds of thousands of teachers. Responding to readers' success stories, practical questions, and requests for extended examples, this ideal volume builds on the groundbreaking work of Bringing...

This accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonetics, the study of speech. Assuming no prior knowledge of the topic, it introduces students to the fundamental concepts in phonetic science, and equips them with the essential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800993808Author Esyllt MaelorFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 149mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904421030Author Violet BrandFormat PaperbackImprint BrandBooksPublisher BrandBooks

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845700379Author Zhang XiaomingFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Cypress Book Co. UK LtdPublisher Cypress Book Co. UK LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555404277Author Sarah Iles JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 341gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

*For those aspiring authors who are interested in the path to success*'I read this yesterday in one glorious sitting! What an absolute treat of a book!' Lesley Kara'Illuminating, revealing and absolutely fascinating, Will Brooker offers us the keys to...

The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making. Multimodality: A Social...

Find out if Ron Rabbit's Scrap Rocket will lift off in The Scrap Rocket. Level 3 Songbirds Phonics books focus on words with consonant clusters, for example str as in strap. The focus phonics are words with consonant clusters at the beginning and/or end...

Helping you deliver effective and integrated teaching of grammar.A step-by-step grammar course for the new curriculumBook InformationISBN 9781408523896Author Wendy WrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376639Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Listed in The Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2014 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry Winner of The Believer Poetry Award "The (Soma)tic Exercises are innovative and crucial to our art form...Conrad must be one of the most original...