Language Arts & Disciplines

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on...

Why are journalists and politicians trusted to tell the truth as little as estate agents? How can democracy function when everybody just believes whatever they want? Will we ever return to "normal"? Written in an engaging and accessible style for a...

Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. While not neglecting the historical setting of each, his chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781521014981Author I IbrarFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Pte Academic 79 PlusPublisher Pte Academic 79 PlusWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 297mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733165044Author Jeff PepperFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Imagin8 LLCPublisher Imagin8 LLCWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 16mm

This Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language: language in its sociocultural context. The field ranges from micro-analyses to broadly-based policy and planning undertakings. As such, this book draws from sociolinguistics, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982152Author Tracy KidderFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

While artillery has been described as the queen of the Napoleonic battlefield, this was an era when cavalry could still play a decisive role in battle, as well as being vital on campaign. This volume covers both British cavalry and artillery of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593331224Author Bird MattFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age...

In her The New York Times best-selling Between You & Me (ISBN 978 0 393 352146), Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's celebrated copy department. In...

This book explores the ways in which the emergence of the ‘new’ daily mass press of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries represented a hugely significant period in histories of both the British press and the British political system.Drawing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648931638Author Hollie AcresFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Keyko BooksPublisher Keyko BooksWeight(grams) 191g

The seventh 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...

A humorous and insightful guide to what the British really mean when they speak. In every walk of life, from relationships, to work, to politics, sport and the news, our everyday use of English harbours duplicities of meaning. We say 'I'm...

For upper intermediate and advanced students only; not for beginners or elementary level. Practical Everyday English is Book 1 in the Everyday English series. It is a self-study book designed to improve the vocabulary of upper intermediate and advanced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735603810Author Ross HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint KiingoPublisher KiingoWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world's most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories. Agatha Christie is revered worldwide for her books...

Chang is the best painter in all of China, so it's Chang the Emperor sends for when his new temple needs painting. But why is Chang painting dragons without any eyes? Is it true, as he claims, that if you add eyes, painted dragons come to life? This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684846309Author Kevin KerraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm *...

"Genuinely touching, wonderfully revealing" NEW YORKERGarlic and Sapphires is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted and highly prestigious job of New York Times restaurant...

The Level 9 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 A continue to provide a mix of...

Persuasion analyzed.Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential figures in the history of philosophy, theology, and science. He joined Plato's Academy in Athens in 367 and...

Tree or Three? Second edition contains enjoyable pronunciation practice of English sounds, word stress and intonation for beginner-level students Now in full colour and with updated artwork, this revised edition of Tree or Three? retains its simplicity...

In Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Social Imagination, and Behavior, Farzad Karimzad and Lydia Catedral investigate migrants' polycentric identities, imaginations, ideologies, and orientations to home and host countries through the notion of...

Unpacks and pulls the curtain back on what happens to our brains and our behaviors each time we addictively engage social media and the influencers we encounter there. Individuals seeking to widen their tribes of friends, fans, and followers have an...

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that...

Dad sings in the shops, in the shed, in the bus and in his bed in Singing Dad. Level 2 Songbirds Phonics books focus on matching one sound to one letter or more than one letter, for example th as in that. The focus phonics in this book are ng ll ff sh ch...

Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life. Over his varied and brilliant career he made profound contributions to English politics, law, education, and culture through...

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. In Animal Quiz, find out more about your favourite animals. The Level 2 More Songbirds phonics books revise all phonics...

Pablo is on a plane when he begins to write about Ernie the Explorer in his notebook. He leaves his notebook on the plane by accident, but other children carry on the story. Soon the notebook and Ernie have travelled to Peru, the Netherlands and South...

Offering concise yet thorough treatment of academic reading and writing in college, Reading Rhetorically, 4th.ed., shows students how to analyze texts by recognizing rhetorical strategies and genre conventions, and how to incorporate other writers' texts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916232723Author Simon WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Damaged Goods BooksPublisher Damaged Goods BooksWeight(grams) 152g

While the study of Classics in postcolonial worlds has received a great deal of recent attention, this is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between classical ideas and British colonialism. In this collection of essays, classical scholars...

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. The Excelsa is...

The Level 2 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 offer a predictable...

This first volume of what will be a full-scale portrait presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345405487Author DictionaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 175mm...

In The Big Chance Ray Martin, the new boss of Smalltown Football Club, arrives to talk to the team at half-time. Ray is puzzled to find his players all drinking tea in the shower. Then he meets Hilda, the tea lady... TreeTops Fiction contains a wide...

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