Language Arts & Disciplines

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781071846650Author Tom AltstielFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Sage Publications, IncPublisher Sage Publications, IncWeight(grams) 203g

The emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language, covering not only semantic matters but also topics normally considered to fall under pragmatics. Above all, the book displays and explains the richness...

A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights "Lahr's cogent analyses are revelatory. . . . He does not reduce the work to the life, but shows how it explains the...

Noam Chomsky continues to be one of the most influential intellectual figures of modern times. His wide-ranging contributions to the fields of linguistics, psychology, philosophy and politics have revolutionised our view of language, the mind and human...

* Practical, with easy to follow rules, without getting into the technicalities of linguistics. * Includes examples of correct and incorrect ways to report stories, as well as examples of common mistakes, problem words, and real journalism headlines. *...

Ethnography centers on the culture of everyday life. So it is ironic that most scholars who do research on the intimate experiences of ordinary people write their books in a style that those people cannot understand. In recent years, the ethnographic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593524404Author Ruta SepetysFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin Young ReadersPublisher Penguin Young ReadersWeight(grams) 227g

Bringing together a range of renowned scholars in the field, this book examines eighteen key issues within contemporary media studies. Written in an accessible student-friendly style, Media Studies - Key Issues and Debates is an authoritative landmark...

Behavioural skills are essential to effective policing practice and professional development, and are also embedded within the policing competency frameworks. As the police service looks to further redefine its role in the twenty-first century, this...

Man Meets Metal provides an introduction to ancient Britain, by introducing children to the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. TreeTops inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does...

Today many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population. And whilst we think we know what reading is, it remains in many ways a mysterious process, or set of processes. The effects of...

This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether...

Want Red Team offensive advice from the biggest cybersecurity names in the industry? Join our tribe.The Tribe of Hackers team is back with a new guide packed with insights from dozens of the world's leading Red Team security specialists. With their deep...

Chinese proverbs offer invaluable insights into both the language and rich culture of China. Assembled here are proverbs that form the basic cultural tokens with which Chinese speakers communicate about issues of love, friendship, morality, life, and...

Writing for radio brings together theoretical and practical aspects of radio writing. It deals with writing for all principal radio genres - short stories, plays, documentaries/drama documentaries, talks and features, adaptations/dramatisations,...

This is the second book in an extensive one-year introductory course in Japanese, also suitable for those who wish to work at a slower pace. Students who finish this course will have a firm grasp of how the language works and enough knowledge of the...

The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law brings together specially commissioned essays by twenty-six of the foremost legal theorists currently writing, to provide a state-of-the-art overview of jurisprudential scholarship. Each author...

Petey is a story about the future, where house robots are designed to do everything their human masters tell them. But one day, Sophie and Sam's robot develops a mind of his own... TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling...

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...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

Every individual book has a history which can help us to understand what difference it may have made in the world. Within these pages you will find books damaged by bullets or graffiti, recovered from fire or water, or even disguised as completely...

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. Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories practise...

Like Carl Darling Buck's Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), this book is an explanation of the similarities and differences between Greek and Latin morphology and lexicon through an account of their prehistory. It also aims to discuss the...

Translating cutting-edge research into practical recommendations for assessment and instruction, this book has helped thousands of readers understand the key role of phonological awareness in the development of reading, writing, and spelling. It clearly...

Although they were operational for little more than sixty years, the Royal Mail Coaches left behind an indelible romantic memory. But, journeys on the coaches were probably seldom the happy-go-lucky events depicted on the cards. The seating inside the...

"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.You're a brave man, but I am afraid for you,' says Lady Marian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374029Author Malachi O'DohertyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

The first guide to New Testament Greek to assume no prior knowledge and prioritise quick and effective methods of learning. Contains useful pedagogical features such as Q & A exercises, a glossary of English grammatical terms and a glossary of key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984861719Author Jarrett HillFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

This beginner's introduction presents the fundamentals of textual criticism in a concise manner. Case studies offer the student helpful examples.About the AuthorDavid Alan Black (DTheol, University of Basel) is senior professor of New Testament and Greek...

It's never a good idea to be overly-relient on technology while traveling! Look up words quickly and easily with this great travel-sized Japanese dictionary.Intended for use by tourists, students, and businesspeople traveling to Japan, Periplus Pocket...

Are you beginning a creative writing course? Or thinking about taking one?Doing Creative Writing is the ideal guide to what you should expect, what will be expected of you and how you can get the most from your course.It clearly and concisely...

How does English work? What are the different elements? How do they all fit together? The fourth edition of this popular textbook takes the reader on a step-by-step journey through the various levels of language, covering all the linguistic frameworks...

This book attacks the conventional history of the press as a story of progress; offers a critical defence and history of public service broadcasting; provides a myth-busting account of the internet; a subtle account of the impact of social media and...

A unique investigation of the political uses of different forms of communication - oral, manuscript, and printed - in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice. Today we take it for granted that communication and politics influence each other through...

Substantially revised, this authoritative study covers the standard finite difference methods of parabolic, hyperbolic, and elliptic equations, and includes the concomitant theoretical work on consistency, stability, and convergence. The new edition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904421047Author Violet BrandImprint BrandBooksPublisher BrandBooks

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983150336Author Alexander S PushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Study Pubs LLCPublisher Study Pubs LLCWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.Feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theoryAbout the AuthorJacqueline Rose is internationally known for her writing on feminism,...