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World first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author’s life and presented in an elegant three-volume hardback boxed set. J.R.R. Tolkien aspired to be a poet in the first instance, and poetry was...

The pandemic, climate change, rising populism, geo-political unrest – just a few of the issues causing turbulence in today’s world. We are living and working in times that are complex and fast changing. If complexity theory is good for anything, it must...

Choose Barron's for language learning--a trusted resource for over 50 years!This edition of 501 Italian Verbs provides language learners with fingertip access to a carefully curated selection of the 501 most common Italian verbs--in all tenses and moods!...

Part of James Joyce’s genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, “a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that country but they...

Supercharge your code with macros, the real power tools of the Rust programming language!Macros are instructions to generate new Rust code at compile-time, saving you hours of tedious code writing. The top Rust developers have built macros into...

An essential guide to the ways information has shaped and been shaped by societiesThanks to recent advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. How did information become so central to our everyday lives? This book traces the global...

The essential guide to teaching literacy skills to K-3 students Reach All Readers is filled with practical tools for every kindergarten and early grade educator. This book addresses the science behind how students learn to read and how educators can...

Supporting Early Childhood Practice Through Difficult Times encourages early years students and practitioners to take stock of current practices and pedagogies in the light of challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic, ecological concerns, and regulatory...

At the end of the tenth-century English manuscript the Exeter Book, there is a collection of almost one hundred riddles. They are notable for many reasons, but one feature in particular has challenged modern readers: their lack of solutions. In Truth Is...

Reveals the alt-right's project to claim science fiction and-by extension-the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future...

Choose Barron's for language learning-a trusted resource for over 50 years! This edition of 501 German Verbs provides language learners with fingertip access to a carefully curated selection of the 501 most common German verbs-in all tenses and moods!...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593518625Author The Princeton ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Princeton Review Publishing CorporationPublisher Random House USA...

During the interwar years in France, modernist literature challenged norms around sex and sexuality through daring portrayals of homosexuality and queerness. The same moment, however, witnessed the crystallization of the Western gender binary and its...

This account of the “laboratory of radical democracy” in the months before East Germany’s absorption in the West challenges memories of Germany’s reunification. For many, 1989 is an iconic date, one we associate with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the...

This volume casts a critical light on one of Germany’s bestselling and most controversial authors. Juli Zeh’s literary work is not only widely read in Germany, but also featured on high school and college syllabi both in Germany and abroad. In recent...

A captivating study of translation, adaptation, and intellectual cross-pollination that situates the Castilian Hermes in the center of medieval Mediterranean cultural exchange Hermes Trismegistus, a Hellenistic conflation of the Greek Hermes (god of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800742536Author Dil RoworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 632Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036006433Author Jo FacerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint John Catt Educational LtdPublisher Hodder Education

Hawthorne’s Literary History picks up Hawthorne where The Province of Piety left him, extending the historical and theological reading there developed of the early Puritan and revolutionary tales Hawthorne wrote in birthplace Salem on to the contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822967316Author Lesley WylieFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh PressWeight(grams) 454g

25th Annniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by...

Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecologyThe Ecological Plot traces the roots of this most mainstream branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. Weaving together the histories of different disciplines, John...

In a culturally diverse and complex world, there is a need for a framework to help foster school, community, and workplace engagement for addressing immediate needs and issues that individuals, families, groups, and organizations experience across these...

Traces the roots of this branch of science back to an unexpected source: narrative storytelling. John MacNeill Miller shows how pioneering thinkers drew on a shared set of literary techniques to imagine how different species could work together as a...

Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced...

Researchers in special education have been developing a knowledge base of evidence-based practices that improves the outcomes of students with disabilities. Unfortunately, filtering that knowledge into classrooms implemented by special education teachers...

Researchers in special education have been developing a knowledge base of evidence-based practices that improves the outcomes of students with disabilities. Unfortunately, filtering that knowledge into classrooms implemented by special education teachers...

The examination of Lucretian reception in Latin poetry has been served well by scholars. Lucretius’ presence in later prose writers, on the other hand, is a topic that warrants more investigation. Susanne Gatzemeier’s 2013 monograph (Ut ait Lucretius:...

The interdisciplinary papers in this volume focus on the translation of texts in its broadest meaning. The contributors represent Latin, Slavic, English and Scandinavian philologies and deal with very different aspects of translation as for example ‘The...

A guide to writing with the reader in mindIf you want people to read your writing, it has to be readable. In Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, Leonard Cassuto offers academic writers a direct, practical prescription for writing that will be read and...

A major new account of Victorian poetry and its place in the field of literary studies. The Burden of Rhyme shows how the nineteenth-century search for the origin of rhyme shaped the theory and practice of poetry. For Victorians, rhyme was not (as it was...

This account of the “laboratory of radical democracy” in the months before East Germany’s absorption in the West challenges memories of Germany’s reunification. For many, 1989 is an iconic date, one we associate with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the...

The years 1989–2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post*45 scholar Adam Kelly argues that American novelists who began their careers during these years—specifically the post-baby boom generation of writers born...

This book is a commonsense guide to becoming a reflective practitioner, written by a practitioner for practitioners. This second edition is fully revised and updated, incorporating extensive new material emphasizing hands-on tools, worksheets, and guides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814351482Author John GallagherFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University Press

Now in a revised and updated third edition incorporating a decade of additional research and classroom experience, this book has helped over 100,000 primary-grade teachers understand and successfully apply the science of reading in phonics instruction...

How to make American higher education fairerIn the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development...

This book demonstrates that the carefully chosen Greek words in Persius’ programmatic passages play a significant role in the context of his literary criticism: they allow him to express his objection to the Graecizing poetic compositions of his day more...

This successful guide--now in a revised and expanded second edition--gives teachers effective strategies to support adolescents' development of relevant literacy skills in specific disciplines. Demonstrating why disciplinary literacies matter, the...

Get ready for the new Pearson Edexcel GCSE Spanish qualification with this supercharged Revision Guide from the exam experts. Supports independent revision and exam practice. Fully aligned to the new 2024 specification (first exams in 2026) with online...