Language Arts & Disciplines

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...

The University Archives was established in 1634. Based in the Bodleian Library, it is the institutional archive of Oxford University, holding records which span just over 800 years, documenting the University's activities and decisions throughout that...

This collection offers empirical studies and theoretical essays about human communication in everyday life. The writings come from many of the world's leading researchers and cut across academic boundaries, engaging scholars and teachers from such...

For some employees, verbal abuse can be the everyday language of doing business. Defending yourself from these verbal abusers-calmly, professionally, and successfully-can be crucial to your on-the-job success. Nationally recognized linguistics expert...

Learn the official language of Kenya and Tanzania Swahili For Dummies will teach you the basics of Swahili, so you can start conversing in Africa's language of commerce. This book introduces you to the foundations of Swahili grammar and enables you to...

In this essential guide, Meghan Casey outlines a step-by-step approach for successful content strategy, from planning and creating your content to delivering and managing it. Armed with this book, you can confidently tackle difficult activities like...

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'...

Most introductions to English phonetics and phonology focus primarily on British or American English, which fails to account for the rich diversity of English varieties globally. This book addresses this gap, providing an overview of English phonetics...

Talk is a central activity in social life. But how is ordinary talk organized? How do people coordinate their talk in interaction? And what is the role of talk in wider social processes? Conversation Analysis has developed over the past forty years as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643241593Author Logophilia EducationFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)...

Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding The New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us in a charming language book as full of life as it is of...

Pearson English Kids Readers bring the joy of reading to young learners of English. Children will love discovering the range stories and topics in this series - adventures, fairy tales, popular characters, the world around us. With more than 70 titles...

There are six titles at Level 1: Fun at School explores sounds you might hear at school - in the playground, in the classroom, at lunch-time and at home-time. Kipper and friends go to school on a snowy day and have lots of fun acting out Goldilocks and...

Networks are everywhere: networks of friends, transportation networks and the Web. Neurons in our brains and proteins within our bodies form networks that determine our intelligence and survival. This modern, accessible textbook introduces the basics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486400334Author Dan X. SoloFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 315gDimensions(mm)...

Explorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world.From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong, passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they interact with each other, with humanity and with the world at...

The definitive step-by step resource for qualitative and ethnographic research Qualitative Research Methods: Collecting Evidence, Crafting Analysis, Communicating Impact is a comprehensive guide on both the theoretical foundations and practical...

The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946708069Author Linda K TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Bold Vision BooksPublisher Bold Vision BooksWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Develop regular creative writing practice with this interactive journal, full of simple, witty and playful ideas every writer will enjoy. They say that everyone has a book in them, but who has the time to sit down and find it? This journal,...

Ella's grandpa is an inventor. When he gives her an umbrella she knows immediately that it isn't just an ordinary brolly ... but she's still amazed when it whisks her up into the sky! Join Ella as she soars and swoops through the skies in this delightful...

Midnight and Other Poems is the first full-length poetry collection to be published in the UK by this remarkable Palestinian writer, previously known to English-language readers for his highly-acclaimed autobiography I Saw Ramallah (Bloomsbury, 2004)...

This first book of Japanese: The Spoken Language initiates a course in modern spoken Japanese that teaches current usage through drills and functional exchanges. The series is entirely romanized. Accompanying audio and video materials are availableBook...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101972779Author James GrissomFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

What's the word that describes the process of making supportive noises when you're listening to someone? What is syntax and how does it differ from grammar? Do you know what a morpheme is? And did you know that it's not only an atom that has a nucleus?...

The book is a fully annotated translation of al-Shayzari's Nihayat al-Rutba fi Talab al-Hisba (The Utmost Degree in the Pursuit of Hisba), a manual written in the 12th century AD for the practical use of the Islamic inspector of markets. It is the...

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...

Our workbooks for each year contain extra reading and writing activities perfect for homework or cover work. Vocabulary lists at the end of each module. Year 8 Segunda Edicion Workbook B for extension Print edition in packs of 8.Book InformationISBN...

Combining literary criticism and theory with anthropology and cognitive science, this highly relevant book argues that we are fundamentally shaped by dialogue. Patrick Grant looks at the manner in which dialogue informs and connects the personal,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904799719Author Benjamin Hall KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Tiger XenophonPublisher Tiger XenophonWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The Level 1 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide both wordless stories and a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills with simple first words and sentences. ...

Life is story in motion. Each day, you add to your story, revise it, and view it from a different angle. You erase things. Tear pages out. And sometimes, in hindsight, wish you could put them back. A day is a story. A year is a story. A life is a story. ...

Exciting intellectual frontiers are open for exploration as agenda-setting theory moves beyond its 25th anniversary. This volume offers an intriguing set of maps to guide this exploration over the near future. It is intended for those who are already...

A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for...

Cambridge Academic English is a three-level integrated skills course for higher education students at university or on foundation courses. The C1 Advanced Student's Book consolidates academic study skills. Students' analytical skills are challenged...

From the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no...

Advertising Theory provides detailed and current explorations of key theories in the advertising discipline. The volume gives a working knowledge of the primary theoretical approaches of advertising, offering a comprehensive synthesis of the vast...

Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognise letters and common words in Ukrainian script. Whether you need to quickly be able to read and understand the words around you, or are preparing to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788360229378Author Liliana MadelskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint PrologPublisher PrologWeight(grams) 456g

Renowned biblical scholar Stanley Porter offers an accessible introduction to hermeneutics to help students and pastors better interpret and understand God's Word. Interpretation for Preaching and Teaching focuses on various levels of interpretation...