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Many lawsuits arise over disagreements about language and about the meanings of everyday words, phrases, and sentences. This book draws on over fifty cases involving disputed meanings in the American legal system where the author served as an expert...

The 1810s – a decade marked by the challenges of war, monarchy, poverty, religion, and nationalism – are immortalised in Percy Bysshe Shelley's impassioned but despairing sonnet, 'England in 1819', as a graveyard of undead ideologies from which he longs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646428137Author K Alex IlyasovaFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636501642Author Janine KloiberFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gryphon HousePublisher Gryphon House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636501680Author Karen NemethFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Gryphon HousePublisher Gryphon House

How to advance student success through inclusive reform at America's research universities.How can research universities foster both equity and excellence in undergraduate education? This compelling collection, edited by Steven P. Dandaneau, offers a...

A persuasive case for building career success through broad education, targeted skills, and social capitalYoung people coming out of high school today can expect to hold many jobs over the course of their lives, which is why they need a range of...

What if music could do more than teach notes and rhythms? What if it could unlock the very skills a child needs to thrive in today’s fast-changing world?Superpowers Through Music: Unleashing Your Child’s Potential with the Musicolor Method® reveals how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217294602Author Neal AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Unearthing the ethical entanglements of early children's books with the Atlantic slave economy.What ethical lessons are children taught when their books are funded by enslavement and their childhoods sweetened with sugar? In Sugarcoated Ethics, Courtney...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798225050535Author ScholasticImprint Scholastic Teaching ResourcesPublisher Scholastic Teaching Resources

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798225050528Author ScholasticImprint Scholastic Teaching ResourcesPublisher Scholastic Teaching Resources

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798225050542Author ScholasticImprint Scholastic Teaching ResourcesPublisher Scholastic Teaching Resources

This book offers engineering students a concise and practical introduction to data science — no prior experience required. Designed specifically for those new to programming and statistical analysis, the book introduces the essential tools and concepts...

This book offers engineering students a concise and practical introduction to data science — no prior experience required. Designed specifically for those new to programming and statistical analysis, the book introduces the essential tools and concepts...

A thirtieth anniversary edition of the landmark work on race, power, and education-repackaged for a new generation Since its original publication, education professor Lisa Delpit's Other People's Children has become a foundational text in the struggle...

*INCLUDED THE TIMES AND WATERSTONES' BEST FOOD & DRINK BOOKS OF 2021*Fill your year with flavour.The official The Kitchen Cabinet compendium is here at last, with over 100 hours of dinner table talk distilled into this handy almanac, a year in the life...

Bohemian Bolsheviks is a sharp reminder that historical narrative not only shapes our sense of the terrain under our feet, but the horizon in front of us. Marxist political alignment engages a welter of intimate and biographical factors enriching the...

Reimagining higher education around the world: lessons from the creation of eight new colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North AmericaHigher education is perpetually in crisis, buffeted by increasing costs and a perceived...

Powerful tales of resilience, from educators and librarians in the face of the growing bigotry stoked by the far right“Heartbreaking yet hopeful, Pushed to the Edge is a powerful revelation of the war taking place against public school teachers and their...

Pablo Neruda in Context includes forty-two essays by some of the main experts on Pablo Neruda's oeuvre that focus on how his places of residence and travel (Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, Asia), the landmark event of the Cold War, as well as literary...

This Element interrogates the complex role of gender in shaping the sociolinguistic variable of UPTALK within Hong Kong English, highlighting its interaction with other sociodemographic factors. Foregrounding gender as a central factor, the Element...

Southern Min – the most commonly spoken variant of Taiwanese – has over 100 million speakers. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM) phonology, filling a critical gap in linguistic research. It demonstrates...

This Element interrogates the complex role of gender in shaping the sociolinguistic variable of UPTALK within Hong Kong English, highlighting its interaction with other sociodemographic factors. Foregrounding gender as a central factor, the Element...

This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. It integrates the latest thinking about her engagement, stances, and knowledge of twentieth-century literary movements. Elizabeth Bowen often remarked that she grew up with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789298857Author Joseph PiercyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Michael O'Mara Books LtdPublisher Michael O'Mara Books LtdWeight(grams) 295g

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When Phil Hanley was in year one at school, he realised something that would forever set him apart from his peers: he couldn't read. His teachers were ill-equipped to assist him, and he slipped through the school's cracks, year by year falling further...

A survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's UlyssesThis collection of essays reviews the state of theory on James Joyce's Ulysses more than 100 years after the fictitious Leopold Bloom steps into the novel, a day Joyceans celebrate as Bloomsday. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503612232Author Ben AllportFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

This book takes a literary geographical approach to the study of folklore, exploring the complex relationships between people, narratives and places as they emerge through belief, storytelling and ritual practice. Drawing on human geography,...

In recent years, speech recognition devices have become central to our everyday lives. Systems such as Siri, Alexa, speech-to-text, and automated telephone services, are built by people applying expertise in sound structure and natural language...

Contrary to the widespread belief in Ireland's rapid secularisation, religion continues to play a significant role in twenty-first-century Irish culture, though not in the familiar forms of Catholicism and Protestantism. This volume seeks to redress the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646427925Author Wonderful FaisonFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589882119Author Deborah WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 243Imprint Paul Dry BooksPublisher Paul Dry Books

This Element examines aviation English as a global lingua franca through the lens of communities of practice. Pilots and air traffic controllers involved in international operations belong to multiple communities, including local professional, broader...

This Element examines aviation English as a global lingua franca through the lens of communities of practice. Pilots and air traffic controllers involved in international operations belong to multiple communities, including local professional, broader...

In recent years, speech recognition devices have become central to our everyday lives. Systems such as Siri, Alexa, speech-to-text, and automated telephone services, are built by people applying expertise in sound structure and natural language...

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. This Element draws together disability and Gothic literature in ways that show the interplay between them. The first chapter offers a brief history of Critical Disability Studies, and the manner in which...

Heritage languages are those spoken as a first language in immigrant communities where another language is dominant. This book provides a novel approach to heritage language research by focusing on German as it is spoken in a range of German-origin...