Language Arts & Disciplines

For anyone who has blanched at the uphill prospect of finishing a long piece of writing, this book holds out something more practical than hope: it offers a plan. The Clockwork Muse is designed to help prospective authors develop a workable timetable for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873385210Author Stephen McConkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Learning TogetherPublisher Learning Together

With Attention, Joshua Cohen returns with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters-many appearing here for the first...

Japanese Grammar: The Connecting Point is instrumental for anyone learning Japanese who seeks to gain a firm grasp of the most important aspect of the language: verb usage. Learning Japanese may seem to be a daunting task, but Dr. Nomura's book will help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787561947791Author Jiang LipingFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Beijing Language & Culture University Press,ChinaPublisher Beijing Language & Culture...

The constitution of Britain is changing rapidly, and the House of Lords is next on the agenda for reform. But whilst Britain takes on many of the features of other countries constitutions, the Lords reform debate remains insular and backward-looking...

Boxer and the Fish is based on Aesop's fable of The Greedy Dog. Boxer is very pleased with the fish he has for his dinner, until he spies a dog with what he thinks is an even bigger fish ... This popular story written by Monica Hughes and beautifully...

Every bookshop has a storyWe're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951399009Author James RortyFormat PaperbackImprint Mediastudies.PressPublisher Mediastudies.Press

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120835504Author Warwick JessupFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass,Dimensions(mm) 280mm * 220mm * 10mm

For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric...

Using an interdisciplinary perspective to discuss the intersection of language development and learning processes, this book summarizes current knowledge and represents the most critical issues regarding early childhood research, policy, and practice...

The fifth edition of this comprehensive and engaging text guides readers through the essential tools and skills necessary to conduct quantitative content analysis research.Readers will find a clear definition of quantitative content analysis and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788074701337Author Lida HolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Akropolis, NakladatelstviPublisher Akropolis, NakladatelstviWeight(grams) 471g

The use of museum collections as a path to learning for university students is fast becoming a new pedagogy for higher education. Despite a strong tradition of using lectures as a way of delivering the curriculum, the positive benefits of 'active' and...

The Diamond Smugglers is the true story of an operation responsible for smuggling millions of pounds worth of precious gems out of Africa. Ian Fleming drew on interviews with the reluctant hero of the diamond companies' counter-attack to explore the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780325056647Author Pauline GibbonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Heinemann Educational Books,U.S.Publisher Heinemann USAWeight(grams)...

Colloquial Norwegian provides a step-by-step course in Norwegian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate...

Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: EnglishFirst Teaching: August 2018First Exam: June 2019Ensure your students are prepared for every aspect of their assessment with the only textbook that offers comprehensive coverage of the updated syllabus...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material...

German Reading Skills for Academic Purposes allows researchers and learners with no prior understanding of German to gain an understanding of written German at CEFR C2/ACTFL Intermediate-High level that will allow them to read a variety of German texts,...

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club...

Practices of Looking, Third Edition, bridges visual, communication, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning within and between different arenas in everyday life. The third edition has been updated...

The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's...

In Billy's Luck Joel and Alex play for the hopeless Beaver Road Juniors. Joel hopes that when the team's new player, Billy, arrives their luck will turn. TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop...

This landmark volume offers a collection of conceptual papers and empirical research studies that investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The contributors include some of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992846077Author Stephanie J HaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Powerhouse PublicationsPublisher Powerhouse PublicationsWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838166120Author Kerry RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dear DamselsPublisher Dear Damsels

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982732Author Gabriel ShermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE SOCIETY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR Quirky, hilarious, always engaging and often moving, The Passion of Harry Bingo enters the lives of some of Britain's least known but most amazing characters. From Orkney to the Sussex coast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375813078Author Shirley Raye RedmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Golden Books Publishing Company, Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

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

Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognise letters and common words in Greek script. Whether you're travelling and want to understand the words around you, or preparing to learn Greek and...

THE LEXICAL APPROACH develops current thinking, synthesizing the best insights of previous theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and modern approaches to grammar.Reviews1. Background 2. Developing Ideas 3. The Wider Context 4. The Nature of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543262Author Giosue BaggioFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Journalism today is moving faster than ever before. With web 2.0, blogging, huge media conglomerates, 24-hour news-networks, and tight legal frameworks, this introduction investigates the role of journalism in the digital age. With priorities shifting,...

The definition of slang according to the Oxford Dictionary is'a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal are more common in speech than in writing and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of...

Traditionally a navigating and migratory people, Portuguese settlers came to the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century. The ancestors of the modern Portuguese community in Trinidad and Tobago hailed from the archipelago of Madeira, fleeing their...

In Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson discuss two varieties of Quichua, an indigenous Ecuadorian language. Drawing on their linguistic and...