Language Arts & Disciplines

Colloquials are now supported by FREE AUDIO available online. All audio tracks referenced within the text are free to stream or download from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio complements the book and will help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692965962Author Dale LylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Boll Weevil PressPublisher Boll Weevil PressWeight(grams) 318g

Talk Italian 2 has already helped thousands of people to improve their Italian. Whether you're returning to the language and don't want to start from scratch or you've completed an introductory course, Talk Italian 2 is the ideal way to take your...

Luke is mad about monsters in The Monster in the Wardrobe. He is always scaring himself with creepy stories. His sister Carolyn thinks he has an overactive imagination. But tonight is different. There is definitely a noise coming from the wardrobe. ...

This book is designed to cover one year's work in Hebrew leading up to a full understanding of the language. It has been used by the author with his students for many years and the published text is the result of testing and refining over these years. ...

The international bestseller that will sharpen your mind, broaden your perspective and transform your relationships._____________________________________________________WHY ARE WE SO BAD AT ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS?In an increasingly polarized world, asking...

This fascinating collection investigates the origins of our most intriguing superstitions, many of which we still observe today.Hundreds of the beliefs passed down through the generations have their foundations in our ancestors' efforts to ward off evil,...

A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers is the leading publication on the basics of broadcast technology. Whether you are new to the industry or do not have an engineering background, this book will give you a comprehensive primer of...

The new National Curriculum emphasises the importance of composition but also 'transcription' i.e. spelling and 'fluent, legible and, eventually, speedy handwriting.' Our exciting new 'Let's Do Handwriting' titles provide all the help that children...

What's the best way to learn a new language? By approaching it not as a series of facts to memorize but as something alive, with a personality you can get to know and tendencies you can sometimes predict. Designed for long-term retention, Learning...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school, at work and in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity...

Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound and frequently perplexing bond between writer and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112723Author William StrunkFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

In this revised second edition, Deirdre McCloskey demonstrates how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry and other rhetorical means of persuasion. ""The Rhetoric of Economics"" shows economists to be human persuaders and poets of the...

Logan Murray has successfully taught the techniques of stand-up comedy to thousands, and in this book he distills his years of experience into the essential skills for a great and enjoyable performance. He will help you find your own creative streak and...

In this characteristically turbocharged book, now in a new post-election edition, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part...

In A Kitten in Daisy Street Hetty and her brothers and sisters all want a ride on the roundabout. They have just enough money for a ride each, but when Hetty finds a starving kitten she realizes she'll have to make a choice... TreeTops Fiction contains...

Agent Blue is the new secret agent with the Pigeon Spy Agency! He's sent undercover to infiltrate super-villain Birdseed's secret headquarters, where he discovers Birdseed's plan to splat film stars with goo at the Golden Feather Awards. Can Blue stop...

‘The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time’ – John Le CarréMichael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the...

A companion workbook to Discovering Albanian 1 Textbook, this workbook offers a rich variety of graded practice exercises in grammar and vocabulary. A key to all the exercises is included at the end of the workbook.Book InformationISBN...

Developing the research, writing and referencing skills vital to achieving success in an academic environment is a necessary part of university study. Keys to Academic English presents Academic English, a distinct form of the language used at a tertiary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582975276Author Bill RoorbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm)...

The three Garima Gospels are the earliest surviving Ethiopian gospel books. They provide glimpses of lost late antique luxury gospel books and art of the fifth to seventh centuries, from the Aksumite kingdom of Ethiopia. This book reproduces all of the...

Multilingual clients are different from monolingual clients. So writes Beverley Costa at the start of this groundbreaking book. Other Tongues challenges counsellors and psychotherapists to consider more deeply the tool that is central to their work -...

This essential textbook is a step-by-step guide to how to write a self-reflective translation commentary, a key requirement of most courses on translation.Starting with source text analysis, it guides students in how to set out a translation strategy and...

4th Revised Edition of JAPANESE FOR BUSY PEOPLE, the most popular Japanese language textbook series in the world. Now comes with free downloadable audio recordings.Since it was first published in 1984, the focus of the Japanese for Busy People series has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768184290Author Kevin HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 107g

Exam Board: CEM Level & Subject: 11+ Non-Verbal Reasoning Suitable for the 2024 tests Practice for your 11+ test in short, quick question bursts Making...

The home of trusted English learner's dictionaries for everyday language learning. Collins Easy Learning English Conversation: Book 2 is a unique guide to communicating in English. Building on the phrases and vocabulary learnt in Book 1, it...

Ideologies play a crucial role in the way we understand and shape the political world. But no one has yet satisfactorily explained the nature of ideologies themselves. In this important study, Michael Freeden offers a ground-breaking approach to the...

Ovid's Metamorphoses have been seen to mark a culmination of the classical epic tradition and a revolutionary transferral of narrative interest from warfare to love and fantasy. This introduction considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative, its...

A book for Welsh learners, Intermediate Level. A Welsh adaptation of Man Hunt by Richard MacAndrew, being a murder mystery set against the beauty of the Brecon Beacons. REPRINT FIRST PUBLISHED 2018.ReviewsMae Gem Beryglus yn stori drosedd sy'n digwydd yn...

Take your shot at becoming the next Tolkien, Asimov, or King with this simple roadmap to transforming your fiction into works of art Writing Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror For Dummies is your skeleton key to creating the kind of fiction that grips readers and...

In Brevity, David Galef provides a guide to writing flash fiction, from tips on technique to samples by canonical and contemporary authors to provocative prompts that inspire powerful stories in a little space. Galef traces the genre back to its varied...

A masterclass in persuasion from the inspiring philosopher who has taught a million people to argue through his popular open online courseOur personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The...

Meet Bob in Bob Bug. Level 1+ Songbirds Phonics books focus on matching one sound to one letter, for example o as in dog. The focus phonics in this book are r l d b f h i u s m c t g p a o. Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907838118Author Georges X. ZhangFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sinolingua London LtdPublisher Sinolingua London LtdWeight(grams) 600g

A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our lives.'Fascinating, intriguing, witty, a gem of a book' KATE MOSSE'Wonderful' DAILY TELEGRAPH'This superb book teems with historical...

Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By is a ground-breaking book which reveals the stories that underpin unequal and unsustainable societies and searches for inspirational forms of language that can help rebuild a kinder, more...

A bumper collection of the work of award-winning West Country journalist and author David Foot, 'Footprints' spans the full range of his work - from cricket, football and boxing to theatre, local history and murder. With an observant eye, a fascination...