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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie's writing life ran from 1920 to the 1970s, and she didn't...

"One of those life-changing reads that makes you see-or, in this case, hear-the whole world differently." -Megan Angelo, author of Followers"At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest...

A revised Student Edition of Lorraine Hansberry's iconic 1959 play - the first play produced on Broadway to be written by a Black woman. Alongside the play text itself, this edition contains commentary and notes by Isaiah Wooden, which consider the...

The world expects the impossible from teachers, with so many young people in our care - all with unique needs. How do we help everyone to thrive?Imagine a classroom where there is no 'normal' - where all brains are expected and welcomed. Students are...

An illuminating look at the poetic debut in twentieth-century American literary culture"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the...

This book articulates an understanding of what is meant by the term social justice from a global perspective, drawing upon examples of practice from across a range of English for academic purposes (EAP) and English language teaching (ELT) higher...

English Medium Instruction (EMI) refers to the use of the English language to teach academic subjects where first language of the majority of the population is not English. One popular implementation of EMI, the Multilingual Model, would imply that some...

In a world dominated by the visual, this book presents how a focus on the sounded experience and acts of listening may carve a way to reformulate emerging publics, create space for critical multilingual engagement and deepen recognition of emancipatory...

The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to...

The term "radical formalism" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formalistic reading and theorising form. These strategies disrupt and unsettle established norms while incorporating a metadiscursive...

Starving ghosts, anguished farmers, and grieving mothers. Floating heads, gaunt bodies, and masses of bodily fluids. Such are the visceral sensations, exaggerated affects, and suffering subjects that characterized leftist Korean cultural production in...

This reader is part of a five-volume-edition and comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. Volume 1 focuses on the historical and theoretical foundations of the field. The diachronic origins are presented that give...

Beat the Bots offers science-based creativity techniques that guide you through the writing process to unlock your imagination and create compelling stories that resonate with emotional truth in ways AI can't match.Even though artificial intelligence is...

This book draws on insights from 37 women leaders, collected from 2020 to 2022, around women's experiences with gender and racial bias, resilience, social justice, and leadership strategies and challenges. The respondents possess different educational...

Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Women's Prize for Fiction, Maggie O'Farrell, this collection covers her nine novels, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, two children's...

Drawing on a global history of politicized writing, this book explores literature's utility as a mode of activism and aesthetic engagement with the political challenges of the current moment.The question of literature's 'uses' has recently become a key...

The Literary Lifeline is a tribute to the transporting and consoling power of reading. In this insightful and moving book, Kevin Harvey affirms the importance that language and literature can play in our lives, reminding us of reading's enduring, and...

What we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novelIn Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons...

A guide on how to strategically lead institutions of higher education through mergers and other major institutional restructurings.Higher education is at a crossroads. With demographic shifts, financial constraints, shrinking enrollments, and the demand...

An empowering essay collection on fostering a more inclusive, compassionate mental health culture in higher education.In the competitive and achievement-driven world of higher education, the mental health and neurodiversity of faculty and staff often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668205099Author Becky Siegel SpratfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint S&s/Saga PressPublisher S&s/Saga PressWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889070351Author Sara KinseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Boys Town PressPublisher Boys Town PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837996438Author Max MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Summersdale PublishersPublisher Octopus Publishing Group

We are all familiar with coming across a new word, whether it has just been invented or whether we have just not met it before. How do we invent new words? How do we understand words that we have never heard before? What are the limits on the kinds of...

We are all familiar with coming across a new word, whether it has just been invented or whether we have just not met it before. How do we invent new words? How do we understand words that we have never heard before? What are the limits on the kinds of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625571779Author Brian MortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Black Lawrence PressPublisher Black Lawrence Press

This book offers a thorough, up-to-date review of the literature on school adjustment, covering key processes involved in major educational transitions-from elementary (1st grade) to secondary (junior high) and high school. Adopting a preventive...

This book offers a thorough, up-to-date review of the literature on school adjustment, covering key processes involved in major educational transitions-from elementary (1st grade) to secondary (junior high) and high school. Adopting a preventive...

Illuminates how family-student interactions enhance the educational achievement of students of color/first-generation academics and applies these lessons to institutional goals.Shaping Students of Color from Preschool to Graduate School argues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814102565Author Katie Wood RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)Publisher National Council of Teachers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259535Author Lisa L PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

The Cambridge Handbook of School-University Partnerships offers a panoramic view of research on school-university partnerships (SUPs), laying the groundwork for further development in the field. Through different theoretical and methodological...

During the nineteenth century, the idea of 'genius' became associated with natural landscapes on both sides of the Atlantic. Scott D. Hess explores how those associations defined the modern significance of nature and precipitated the emergence of...

Combines theory and practice to inspire teachers to embrace a sense of surprise in their classrooms.What would your classroom be like if you could see it as something surprising, novel, and fresh in every moment? What are the unique gifts that students...

Instances abound in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels where characters, particularly female characters, become lost, often moved by overwhelming emotion. Amanda Auerbach delves into the impact of these scenes on the character and the reader. On...

User experience (UX) writers are the professionals who create the verbal content of websites, apps, or other software interfaces, including error messages, help texts, software instructions, or button labels that we all see and engage with every day...

María Irene Fornés is both one of the most influential and one of the least well-known US theatermakers of the late twentieth century, with former students including leading US playwrights, directors and scholars. This is the first major scholarly...

Philip's Big Easy Read Scotland Road Atlas is an exceptionally clear guide to the best of Scotland from the market-leading map makers. Reliable and up to date, the fully indexed mapping is accompanied by town plans, tourist and planning information, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063452046Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605548296Author Jessica FongFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Redleaf PressPublisher Redleaf Press