Language Arts & Disciplines

Do you understand everything you read in English? To read fluently in all situations you need to practise reading different kinds of texts. Collins Reading presents 20 different texts with exercises to help you develop the skills to...

How much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability, and how much on our linguistic resources? Where, and how, do these two questions meet? Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, starting...

Blast off on the biggest micro-adventure yet with the popular Project X characters Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger and their new robot micro-friend, Eight. Carefully levelled and highly motivating, this book is ideal for independent reading. When the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780440242697Author Barbara Ann KipferFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787561934319Author Liu XunFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Beijing Language & Culture University Press,ChinaPublisher Beijing Language & Culture...

Read Write Inc. Literacy and Language covers your literacy and language teaching for years 2-6/P3-7. The programme inspires a love of literature through the study of complete texts, with a core structure of grammar skills taught in context and through...

Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction is the first book to provide a concise, straightforward guide for students and researchers who are interested in understanding and using discourse analysis. The authors reflect on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788419236050Author Jaime CorpasFormat PaperbackImprint DifusionPublisher Difusion

Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, ranging from ancient Greece and China to the twenty-first century, the book introduces readers to the skills...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955890199Author Stephen de YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Ancient Faith PublishingPublisher Ancient Faith PublishingWeight(grams)...

Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns spark debate, prompting new policies about what pronouns to use. More than a by-product of the culture wars, gender-neutral pronouns are, however, nothing new. Pioneering linguist Dennis Baron...

Written for students transitioning from GCSE to AS, taking the Edexcel, WJEC and Eduqas exams, this AS and A Level German Grammar & Translation Workbook can be used for homework, revision and independent study. It includes thorough revision of key...

The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802874917Author Page H. KelleyFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Exam Board: WJECLevel: GCSESubject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2017Direct your students to achieve stand-out success in their Shakespeare questions with the only WJEC Eduqas-specific GCSE play texts; produced in partnership...

With a new introduction from the author, discover the secrets to a perfect TED Talk and learn how to deliver an exceptional presentation with Carmine Gallo's Talk Like TED.'A smart, practical book that will teach you how to give a kick-butt presentation'...

The Level 8 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 and More Stories continue to provide a mix of fantasy...

The Glorious Revolution was a decisive moment in England's history; an invading Dutch army forced James II to flee to France, and his son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary, were crowned as joint sovereigns. The wider consequences were no less...

This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than...

Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and "electability"... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community. Set away from the Westminster bubble in the party's traditional northern heartlands, this is a clash of...

Language learning is retraining your brain, and any form of training requires focus, constant practice and especially support. This most handy support tool can easily come with you anywhere. In 6 laminated pages the coverage is so succinct that our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783739959016Author Ulrich RenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Sefa VerlagPublisher Sefa VerlagWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 2mm

The Level 5 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, More Stories B and More Stories C take...

A handwriting expert reveals the secrets hidden in your penmanship-now featuring a new afterword analyzing the handwriting of President Donald Trump.Handwriting expert Michelle Dresbold-the only civilian to be invited to the United States Secret...

This is a revised second edition of A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language first published in 1962. It is based on and replaces Thatcher's Arabic Grammar and has a vocabulary of over 4,000 words, almost twice as many as in the old Thatcher, while...

For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs-or is thinking about writing one-this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors, including Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, and others. The events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist...

Working with Texts is a well established textbook that introduces students to the main principles of language analysis, through contemporary text examples. Covering a wide range of language areas, the book uses an interactive, activity-based approach to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913433550Author Helena MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Peak Study Resources LtdPublisher Peak Study Resources LtdWeight(grams)...

This Play Guide is specifically written for A Level students who are studying The Glass Menagerie as part of the AQA A Level Drama & Theatre specification. It provides structured support for Component 1: Section A - Drama and theatre. / This book is...

'Marvellous . . . I read it with astonished delight . . . It is equally scholarly and entertaining.' - Jan Morris 'Quirky and compelling.' - The Times Once we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song...

The Ministry of Quizzes is the must-buy gift book for quiz solvers and puzzlers, from David Gentle, author of On the Tip of My Tongue. Perfect for fans of the GCHQ Puzzle Book, Bletchley Park Brainteasers, and The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book.Deep in the...

Syncretism - where a single form serves two or more morphosyntactic functions - is a persistent problem at the syntax-morphology interface. It results from a 'mismatch' whereby the syntax of a language makes a particular distinction but the morphology...

'Fascinating... I loved this book; I really did' David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A Level Subject: English Language First teaching: 2015 First exams: 2017 This book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the 2015 AQA A...

Project Management for Book Publishers provides readers with a solid understanding of efficient processes and workflows for content creation, product development, and the marketing and distribution of both physical and digital products.Digital has...

This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education Inspire learners to build, strengthen and extend their skills. Written by experienced authors and primary practitioners, Cambridge Primary English offers full coverage of...

A New York Times bestselling writer explores what our unique sonic signature reveals about our species, our culture, and each one of us. Finally, a vital topic that has never had its own book gets its due.There's no shortage of books about public...

Value-Driven Data explains how data and business leaders can co-create and deploy data-driven solutions for their organizations. Value-Driven Data explores how organizations can understand their problems and come up with better solutions, aligning...

Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the development of this popular field. The book is divided into seven sections covering the...

In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best...