Language Arts & Disciplines

A lively, authoritative, and up-to-date look at the world of rhyming slang, from its origins in London's 19th-century underworld to the buzzwords of 21st-century popney. Arranged by topic, including Crime, Food and Drink, Illness, Money, Sex, and Sport,...

The standard style guide of the Christian publishing industry, The Christian Writer's Manual of Style, 4th Edition, compiled by veteran Zondervan editor Robert Hudson, contains clear guidance on style questions related to religious writing, including...

Lingala (a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family) is spoken by approximately 10 million people living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Angola. It originated in the Equatorial Region...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937434663Author Ray WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint XML PressPublisher XML PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847715708Author Gwyn ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569757796Author Haewon Geebi BaekFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 165g

The perfect gift for primary school leavers! This gift edition of the English school dictionary is the perfect language companion for all students aged 11+. Its vegan leather binding and protective slipcase makes it an ideal present for year 6...

Learn to speak, read and write Japanese quickly using manga comics strips!If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with this book. The language lessons are interspersed with entertaining manga comic strips that make it easy to learn and remember...

I Will Get You is based on the Norwegian folk tale of The Three Billy Goats Gruff, about the goats who manage to outwit a greedy troll living under a bridge ... This popular story written by Alex Lane and beautifully illustrated will capture your...

A book of 7 units where each main lesson is 4 pages long. Each unit includes Writing and Revise & Check sections, and the video lessons are called Colloquial English (lower levels have Practical English). The...

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. In The Red Man and the Green Man, the red man and the green man take a break from the traffic lights. The Level 4 More...

Your guide to becoming an explanation specialist. You've done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully - but something is missing. People just don't see the big idea - and it's keeping you from being successful. Your idea has an...

Is this the right course for me?Essential German Vocabulary is the course for you if you need help with your study of German. This fully revised edition of our best-selling course now contains plenty of hints on how to learn vocabulary effectively.Unlike...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR DOES 'I LOVE YOU' EVEN MEAN THE SAME THING AS 'JE T'AIME'? When Lauren Collins met a Frenchman at a party one night in London, she had no idea...

Poetry Projects to Make and Do, edited by Deborah Alma, The Emergency Poet, is a 'how to' handbook of essays, prompts, advice, and ideas designed to help both aspiring and established poets find new ways not only to create new poetry, but to share and...

The fourth in a series of 7 fun-filled activity books for children covers the first group of letter sounds. Jolly Phonics teaches children to read and write using synthetic phonics in a fun and engaging way. Each of these 36-page activity books for...

The Level 7 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 and More Stories B involve familiar...

Poetry and short stories can act as powerful springboards to growth, self-enhancement and healing. With the guidance of a facilitator, participants can engage with their own creative expression, and with that of others, and in doing so find opportunities...

The set includes extensive grammar, dialogues, and conversations, as well as tone distinction, manipulation, and identification.Book InformationISBN 9780877275060Author J. Marvin BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint Southeast Asia Program...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788853604200Author Dominique GuillemantFormat PaperbackImprint ELI s.r.l.Publisher ELI s.r.l.

While the working lives of tech entrepreneurs and delivery platform workers seem far removed, both are engaged in digital labor. What unites their experience and allows us to speak of their work under the same umbrella? Is it even possible to talk about...

Nowhere in Britain is more closely associated with a form of language than Liverpool. Yet the history of language in Liverpool has been obscured by misrepresentation and myth-making and narratives of Liverpool's linguistic past have scarcely done justice...

Ho is given a golden paintbrush in return for his kindness to an old man. Magic things begin to happen when Ho starts to paint ... This charming story written by Liz Miles and beautifully illustrated by Meilo So will capture your child's imagination!...

Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented tactile language and a way...

Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power or insight. This book sets the record straight. It shows runes working as a practical script for a variety of purposes in early English...

One hundred million podcast downloads say it all: Mignon Fogarty's kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans across the globe. Her first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New...

James Cameron admired Martha Gellhorn above all other war-reporters 'because she combined a cold eye with a warm heart'. The Chicago Times described her writing as 'wide ranging and provocative, a blend of cool lyricism and fiery emotion, alternately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781319244934Author Richard CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Bedford/Saint Martin'sPublisher Macmillan LearningDimensions(mm) 273mm * 217mm *...

"...not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." -The Review of Metaphysics "...essential reading for anyone interesting in...the new reader-centered forms of criticism." -Library Journal In this...

The ability to write clearly is critical to any scientific career. The Scientist's Guide to Writing provides practical advice to help scientists become more effective writers so that their ideas have the greatest possible impact. Drawing on his own...

The Level 3 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 and More Stories B build on the...

Open The Cabinet of Calm to find a comforting word that's equal to your troubles. ; Beginning with the griefs or discomforts we all feel on difficult days, Paul Anthony Jones offers us a matching linguistic remedy: fifty-one soothing words for troubled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956946621Author Ellis MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Dormouse Press, an imprint of Guidemark Publishing LtdPublisher Dormouse Press, an...

A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and beyond.Classical rhetoric is one of the earliest versions of what is today known as media studies. It was absolutely crucial to...

Now available in paperback, this book is a critical introduction to discourse analysis as it is practised in a variety of different disciplines today, from linguistics and sociolinguistics to sociology and cultural studies. The author shows how concern...

Novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading! TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains...

Don't worry-there's no need to stress about JLPT test prep! As the founder of JLPTBootCamp.com-a test prep website with more than 300,000 annual visitors-Clayton MacKnight has helped tens of thousands of students to pass the JLPT N5 exam. Now, he's...

Aladdin is based on the traditional tale from the Middle East of a boy who finds a magic lamp containing a genie who grants him three wishes. What will Aladdin wish for and what will happen when the lamp is stolen by an evil sorcerer? This charming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674864641Author Helen VendlerFormat HardbackPage Count 303Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 617g