Language Arts & Disciplines

The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in every field of human endeavour, and a motor of cultural, scientific and political...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language...

Alan Whicker is quite simply a legend. A visionary and master of his craft, his television shows from the fifties to the nineties almost single handed invented the language of travel television and earned him the status of one of the most foremost of...

Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of parents and caregivers around the globe to the miracle of signing with their babies - and left them wanting more! Now, in this newly expanded edition, Monta Z. Briant provides...

From 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and...

History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily on narrative. Cutting across many disciplines, narratology describes and analyzes the language of narrative with its regularly recurring patterns,...

The Online Journalism Handbook offers a comprehensive guide to the ever-evolving world of digital journalism, showcasing the multiple possibilities in researching, writing, and storytelling provided by new technologies.In this new edition, Paul Bradshaw...

Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use. ...

A fully updated edition for the absolute or near beginner. With a step-by-step approach that takes care not to overload the page with too much material, this book gives your lower-level students a steady, encouraging start to learning...

Drawn from decades of experience, this is a concise and highly practical guide to writing history. Aimed at all kinds of people who write history academic historians, public historians, professional historians, family historians and students of all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844441266Author Bill MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Mantra LinguaPublisher Mantra LinguaWeight(grams) 177g

microbursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text-based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the...

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. In Is It?, children guess what the hidden items are. The Level 1+ More Songbirds books consolidate phonics introduced to...

Upon its publication in 2002, Josef Tropper's Altathiopisch: Grammatik des Ga az mit UEbungstexten und Glossar was quickly recognized as the best modern grammar of Classical Ethiopic in any language. Now Eisenbrauns makes Tropper's grammar available for...

In its ninth printing, the Albanian Practical Dictionary is expanded and romanized to include 9,000 entries with simple pronunciation and basic grammatical information. Also includes a transliteration guide, a list of abbreviations, geographical names,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262042840Author Jacob EisensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 29mm

A new, original book for learners at Intermediate level. Part of the series Amdani. A thriller story about Sara, a Welsh tutor to a group of people from England who have settled in rural north-west Wales and who are eager to integrate into their new...

Pronunciation Plus helps students improve their pronunciation through a variety of stimulating listening and speaking exercises. Pronunciation Plus Student's Book helps intermediate-level students improve their pronunciation through a variety of...

This first-year grammar has grown out of the author's experience in teaching Hebrew to seminary students for over thirty years. Through those many years of classroom use, Dr. Ross has developed and refined his explanations, exercises, and examples to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788740831177Author KingoFormat HardbackPage Count 301Imprint University Press of Southern DenmarkPublisher University Press of Southern DenmarkWeight(grams)...

Pronunciation Games is a teacher's resource book containing photocopiable pronunciation games for use in the classroom. Each unit contains an enjoyable activity designed to raise learners' awareness of an aspect of English pronunciation. The activities...

The new edition of Language and Gender: A Reader responds to the wealth of research that has shaped the field since its initial publication in 1998. Retaining many of the foundational entries that have made the volume so popular, the second edition has...

Mediators have long debated whether "evaluative mediation," the kind commonly practiced by retired judges and others who frequently mediate in the context of litigation, should be called mediation. The crux of that debate concerns whether evaluations by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787513807364Author Wu ZhongweiFormat PaperbackPage Count 83Imprint SinolinguaPublisher SinolinguaWeight(grams) 249g

This collection defines a new model for interpreting dependent upon close partnerships between the growing number of deaf attorneys, educators, and other professionals and their interpreters.Book InformationISBN 9781563683688Author Peter C. HauserFormat...

The Workbook contains a wide variety of practice exercises that review all the language areas studied in the Students' Book: Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation exercises help to consolidate new language. Functional and writing exercises build on...

Most nonlinear differential equations arising in natural sciences admit chaotic behaviour and cannot be solved analytically. Integrable systems lie on the other extreme. They possess regular, stable, and well behaved solutions known as solitons and...

In their introduction to this collection of essays, the editors argue that constraints can be seen as a source of literary creativity, and given that translation is even more constrained than 'original' literary production, it thus has the potential to...

Information literacy research is growing in importance, as evidenced by the steady increase in dissertations and research papers in this area. However, significant theoretical gaps remain.Information Literacy Through Theory provides an approachable...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.They're machines, but they look and sound and think like humans...

The testing and assessment of language competence continues to be a much debated issue in foreign language teaching and research. This book is the first one to address the testing of four important dimensions of foreign language education which have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580650151Author D FlinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Lone Eagle Publishing CoPublisher Watson-Guptill PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Discourse Analysis provides an essential and practical introduction for students studying modules on the analysis of language in use. It explores the ways in which language is used and organised in written and spoken texts to generate meanings and takes...

As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world when so much of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979631467Author Gary GenardFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Cedar & Maitland PressPublisher Cedar & Maitland PressWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399533952Author Elizabeth LyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Get ready to take on your first college research paper like a pro Just got assigned your first college research paper? Don't sweat it! College Research Papers For Dummies has your back with the perfect companion to these not-as-hard-as-they-look...

Thomas K Holcomb's highly successful textbook on Deaf culture has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. The changes reflect those in the field and include three new chapters focusing on the impact of technology on the Deaf experience,...

The 18th edition of Daniel Jones's classic work is the definitive guide to contemporary English pronunciation. This new and fully updated edition contains over 230,000 pronunciations of words, names and phrases. In addition, it includes lively essays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781292424484Author David BonamyPage Count 128Imprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams) 342gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...