Language Arts & Disciplines

The essential little book that students love for demystifying academic writing, reading, and research Millions of students love "They Say / I Say" because it offers lively and practical advice they can use throughout their college career (and beyond)...

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...

This is fascinating reading for anyone interested in true crime, modern, cutting-edge criminology and also where language meets the law. It is comes now in paperback! Tell kids not to worry. sorting my life out. be in touch to get some things. Instead of...

From the author of the bestselling Motherfocloir, Non-fiction Irish Book of the Year. A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR. What do we talk about when we talk about Irish? When we talk about saving or supporting a language do we mean the musical combination of...

Abbe Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the...

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. ...

The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs Pitmatic will help you to understand the everyday lives and work of miners. Miners who provided fuel, helped...

THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Have you ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message? Wondered where memes came from? Fret no more: Because Internet is the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language,...

In Absolutely Awful Adults, read three hilarious stories and let Mr Peacock, Mr McMeanie and Mr Splatter persuade you that some adults are absolutely awful and should not be allowed within a trillion miles of delightful children like you! Chucklers is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935228295Author Harmen Meyndertsz Van Den BogaertFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Evolution Publishing & ManufacturingPublisher Evolution Publishing...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593797495Author Gabriel WynerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

In light of the rapidly growing number of people studying Arabic--in academia, governments, NGOs, and business--Media Arabic is a unique and timely learning tool for anyone looking to access news information from this important global region firsthand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915924288Author Georgia A PopoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Teachers & Writers CollaborativePublisher Teachers & Writers...

This is a major reassessment of the communications revolution of the seventeenth century. Using a wealth of archival evidence and the considerable output of the press, Jason Peacey demonstrates how new media - from ballads to pamphlets and newspapers -...

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...

Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England's greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens's early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683595571Author Adam J. HowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Faithlife CorporationPublisher Faithlife CorporationWeight(grams) 452gDimensions(mm)...

This highly practical book reveals that there are many ways of being creative that will help us grow as Christians. As well as journaling, we can try: *mind-mapping *composing a letter to God or from God to us *considering what we would like to appear in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395850862Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 560g

Reading Latin, first published in 1986, is a bestselling Latin course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin fluently and intelligently. It does this by combining the understanding of continuous texts with rigorous teaching of grammar; it...

Jeremy Clarkson gets under the bonnet in Clarkson on Cars - a collection of his motoring journalism.Jeremy Clarkson has been driving cars, writing about them and occasionally voicing his opinions on the BBC's Top Gear for twenty years.No one in the...

Let's be serieux!Can't quite come up with the right French quip or four-letter word? With Talk Dirty: French, you'll be able to put your (middle) finger on it. Each entry provides an individual foreign gem, a useful French sentence employing the word,...

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...

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) 318gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

How well do you know your words?; Buxom used to mean obedient; A cloud was a rock; Raunchy originally meant dirty; Brimming with hidden histories and tantalising twists, The Accidental Dictionary tells the extraordinary stories behind ordinary words.;...

Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text Uses over 3000...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946095674Format PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Gresham Books LtdPublisher Gresham Books LtdWeight(grams) 110g

Do we need a law of privacy? Should judges be allowed to stop us reading about a footballer's adultery or enjoying pictures of a film star's wedding? Is a super-model's cocaine addiction something that she should be allowed to keep private? And aren't we...

Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Language, GCSE 9-1 English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2024 AQA approved Teach AQA's GCSEs in English Literature and English Language as one coherent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951949440Author Lingo MasteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Lingo MasteryPublisher Lingo MasteryWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Twenty years after its first publication, Susan M. Gass's Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner has become a classical text in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). This new printing includes the original text, along with a new...

A hilarious romcom for fans of The Hating Game and Beach ReadInspiration can be found in the most unlikely - and inconvenient - placesKara Sullivan is definitely not avoiding her deadline. After all, it's the week of her best friend's wedding and she's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916280007Author Zanne GaynorFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint acrobat-globalPublisher acrobat-global

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954083373Author Imran Hamza AlawiyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Anglo-Arabic Graphics LtdPublisher Anglo-Arabic Graphics Ltd

The world's best-selling grammar series for learners of English. Essential Grammar in Use French edition is a self-study reference and practice book for elementary-level learners (A1-B1). The book is simple, easy-to-use and is perfect for independent...

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911481232Author L. Maud MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Foxton BooksPublisher Foxton Books

Let best-selling novelist Sophie King guide you through the whole process of writing your first novel and getting it published.This revised edition takes aspiring novelists through the steps of writing a novel, from finding that initial idea, to keeping...

This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education- Reinforce learning, deepen understanding and encourage self-reflection in practical workbook activities.- Provide extra practice and self-assessment: Each Workbook is...