Language Arts & Disciplines

In the words of novelist Harlan Ellison, "The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. New York Times bestselling author and British Academy Award nominee J. Michael Straczynski knew he wanted to be a writer ever since he was a...

This book shows how complex words and word-like phrasal lexical units can be analysed as constructions, as pairings of forms and meanings. It contributes to current work on the architecture of the grammar, the morphology-syntax interface, the shape and...

While an exile from Constantinople, the twelfth-century Byzantine functionary and canonist John Zonaras culled earlier chronicles and histories to compose an account of events from creation to the reign of Alexius Comnenus. For topics where his sources...

Developed by The Open University, this textbook offers an innovative introduction to the study of the English language and the practices, skills and strategies of creative writing. For anyone studying English Language or Creative Writing at tertiary...

This book provides a straightforward introduction to the spectroscopy of diatomic molecules and is written at the level of intermediate undergraduate courses in physical chemistry and chemical physics. Following a general introduction to the subject, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486416007Author Thomas MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Dealing with grammar in a modern way, with modern terminology, this book gives readers an understanding of the way language works. Providing readers with the vocabulary to think about and discuss Scots, English and other Modern languages, Modren Scots...

'A delightful compendium' - Evening StandardHave you ever had a feeling that you couldn't quite describe, because no English word exists for it?Indeed, without such a word, it's difficult to remember or understand the feeling, and to talk about it with...

invaluable for students on university and teacher-training courseschecks your knowledge of how English is actually used in speech and writingshows how grammar differs in different contexts of registersprovides practice with relationships between grammar...

A Frequency Dictionary of Arabic is an invaluable tool for all learners of Arabic, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as well as several of the most widely spoken Arabic dialects.Based on a...

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...

Perfect for enjoying in school or at home, Bug Club is proud to present a series of plays to get kids reading, sharing and interacting at KS1. Presented by celebrated children's author Julia Donaldson, each play features engaging stories, beautiful...

This varied collection of essays represents the differing strands of work currently being undertaken in the exciting new field of Translation Studies and reflects a shift of emphasis away from a more descriptive form of translation towards the idea that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618154456Author Galway KinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 159mm * 14mm

In Waiting for Goldie Danny's grandad is in hospital, so Danny must record the time that Grandad's champion racing pigeon, Goldie, returns from the race. What will Danny do when Goldie doesn't come back? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality...

From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what...

The Workbook contains a wide variety of review and practice exercises and covers all of the language areas in the corresponding Students' Book unit. It also contains regular review sections to help learners consolidate what they have learned. Upper...

Artists need to write, every day, to support their studio practice and careers. Working artists know this. Newly minted art graduates and emerging artists learn this the hard way-usually when a gallerist asks for basic documents like an artist resume,...

At a time of radical shifts in power across the globe, the sixth edition of An Introduction to Political Communication examines the role of the media in the political process. Brian McNair reflects on the role of communication in key events such as the...

Norwegian: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of contemporary Norwegian as used by native speakers. The Grammar presents a fresh and accessible description of the language. Explanations are clear, free from jargon and...

The phenomenon known as metaphor is an extremely complex mental event - we cannot capture its complexity if we tie ourselves to existing standard views on metaphor. This book offers fresh insight into metaphor, updating an established theory, conceptual...

In the new edition of the international bestseller Environmental Interpretation, Sam H. Ham captures what has changed in our understanding of interpretation during the past two decades. Ham draws on recent advances in communication research to unveil a...

The ground-breaking Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom (Nunan, 1989), has been completely updated and revised to create this new edition, now titled Task-Based Language Teaching. The previous edition helped to set the research agenda in...

Shortlisted for the BAAL Book Prize 2017 Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise and rise of these winky faces, clinking glasses and smiling poos? Given the sheer...

This book gives the complete theory of the irreducible representations of the crystallographic point groups and space groups. This is important in the quantum-mechanical study of a particle or quasi-particle in a molecule or crystalline solid because the...

The micro-friends, and Nok, are on a school trip to the woods. They shrink for some micro-fun, and find a strange-looking object hidden in some leaves. Find out what they discover in An Amazing Find. The friends find themselves on board Nok's lost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486411262Author Stanley AppelbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Team X...

Supported by data from linguistic fieldwork conducted in the Faroe Islands and Iceland, this book presents a pioneering approach to syntactic analysis, 'Optimal Linking Grammar' (OLG), which brings together two existing models, Linking Theory and...

For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It has taken listeners to parts of the world where they have never gone, and perhaps never would: war zones, refugee camps, elite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787802003910Author Ba JinFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint SinolinguaPublisher SinolinguaWeight(grams) 230g

Face2face is designed for busy teachers who want to get their adult and young adult learners to communicate with confidence.face2face Second edition is the flexible, easy-to-teach, 6-level course (A1 to C1).Book InformationISBN 9781108449014Author Chris...

Revising and Editing for Translators provides guidance and learning materials for translation students and professional translators learning to revise the work of others or edit original writing, and those wishing to improve their self-revision ability...

This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582973166Author Nancy KressFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911481263Author Charlotte BronteFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Foxton BooksPublisher Foxton Books

Discover the magic of stories: Read and learn with Disney friends With the brand-new Disney Readers series, young learners can build their reading skills with the help of engaging Disney stories and characters they know and enjoy. * Created to be used...

The Level 1+ 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. First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. ...

WINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS including the Writer's Digest Grand Prize and Rubery Book Award Book of the Year True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of...