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What is 'translation'? Even as the scholarly viewpoint of translation studies has expanded over recent years, the notion of 'translation' has remained fixedly defined by its interlinguistic element. However, there are many different contexts and...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringAnthony Trollope is among the best-loved novelists in the English language. His strongly drawn characters and skilful plots are compelling, while his moral judgements are often subtly challenging. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036011246Author Shaan PatankarFormat PaperbackImprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder Education

A super-cute, full-color phrasebook covering all situations you are likely to encounter in Korea!Essential phrases for every situation — whether watching your favorite K-drama series, catching up on the latest K-Pop news, hanging out with your friends,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636702186Author Jez ButterworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Explores the history of Batgirlfrom her groundbreaking comics debut to her disappointing live-action appearances and beyond.For over sixty years, every woman who took on the mantle of Batgirl has been a powerful, independent heroine, belying the sidekick...

Exploring the relationship between theory and practice in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of Appliable Linguistics. Featuring both internationally-renowned scholars and rising stars from Argentina,...

The Inwardness of Things considers Joseph Conrad as a modern voice in an ancient and enduring quarrel between the poets and the philosophers. Beginning from the polemical poetics of his 1897 preface, Debra Romanick Baldwin focuses on Conrad’s...

CRASH! explores the fascinating, revealing, and surprising cultural impact of plane crashes across art, literature, music, media, and creative nonfiction. Plane crashes are covered extensively but they are not analyzed very deeply, beyond rote media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036011475Author Andrew GintyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hodder EducationPublisher Hodder Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916040151Author Martin BirchallFormat HardbackImprint High Fliers Publications LtdPublisher High Fliers Publications Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765113929Author David GramlingFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g

A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs.To an American, oligarchy is something that happens somewhere else. In Oligarchy in America, Luke...

‘Your pipe is drawing sweetly, the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is warm and stagnant. In these blissful circumstances, what is it that you want to read about? Naturally, about a murder.’ George Orwell set out...

Research Methods in Linguistics guides the reader through the key issues, principles, and contributions of core methods in linguistic research. It is an essential resource for researchers and graduate students looking for clear introductions to key...

This volume uses interview data from self-identified Black women reflecting on their childhood in the Canadian public-school system to explore voice, agency, girlhood, and identity in Canada’s elementary schools. Highlighting themes of race, gender,...

This volume presents a comprehensive collection of the latest research findings supporting the current and future implementations and applications of computerized multistage testing (MST).As a sequel to the widely acclaimed "Computerized Multistage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636702216Author Cornelius EadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

The perfect gift for anyone trying to navigate life as an adult, Adulting 101 is bursting with tips and tricks on finance, health, relationships and moreBook InformationISBN 9781835442111Author Igloo BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint...

Whatever stage of career planning you are currently at, this inspiring book will help you navigate your career journey. From gaining work experience, networking effectively, conducting a job hunt, writing a knock out CV, impressing at interview to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765122112Author Dr. or Prof. Adeline SoldinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Applying the framework of the Prosodic Model to naturalistic data, this book presents a systematic study of the phonological structure of Shanghai Sign Language (SHSL). It examines the handshape inventory of SHSL in terms of its underlying featural...

Roger Ascham is often classified as ‘a great mid-Tudor humanist’ and he is perhaps best known for his role as tutor to Elizabeth I. His most famous works, The Scholemaster and Toxophilus, have been extensively quarried and anthologised in studies on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501398995Author Prof. or Dr. Jeff SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350360532Author John ReganFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765102442Author Ulf SchulenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Exposes a stylistic tradition of flamboyantly failed passing in queer literature and film This book posits formal experimentation as an index for evolving expressions of male homosexuality from literary modernism to the German New Wave and the present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350227071Author Simon BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350380073Author Victoria N MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Real-world solutions to America’s thorniest social problems—from housing to retirement to drug addiction—based on original reporting from around the world A new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350411975Author Dr Lucy Valerie GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

The Nazis and their collaborators buried over 100,000 victims at Babyn Yar, a ravine in modern-day Ukraine. Most of the individuals were Jewish, making this area one of the most infamous mass murder sites in history. The Ravine of Memory starts when the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350287143Author Marie-Pierre MoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new, nonconformist ways of approaching literary fiction, arriving at weaknessas a crucial principle of narrative and character formation...

A legendary editor’s survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future'Edwin Frank’s masterly account of the novel gone modern and the modern gone global is a critical history of the last literary century. Epic, personal,...

Examining the challenges faced by novelists writing realist fiction in the age of climate change, this open access book considers the various ways in which contemporary writers have evolved new and transformed modes of realism to grapple with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111238746Author Friedrich NiethammerFormat HardbackPage Count 99Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 227g

The book focuses on students’ experiences of learning with a learning disability, beginning by examining different factors that shape students’ university engagements in South Africa. Students’ experiences, gathered through semi-structured interviews,...

Interpreting The Amistad Trials traces the signal importance of interpreters and translators in the famous 19th-century Amistad case and discusses how race, ethnicity, slavery, and colonialism shaped this story. From the recruitment process to the...

Values are fundamental to political attitudes. Ideals like freedom, equality, democracy, and fairness give us standards to judge whether conditions are good or bad and whether policy solutions are preferable or detrimental. Political Persuasion examines...