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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593517765Author Princeton ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

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...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the topic of assessing students who use two or more languages in their daily life. The book provides foundational information for assessing multilingual learners (MLs) in schools, with an emphasis on school...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765129630Author Douglas J. KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

A collection showcasing the latest poems of the Kurdish-Syrian maestro of Arabic style. Salim Barakat, the captivating Kurdish-Syrian poet and novelist known for his mastery of Arabic style, is hailed as an enigmatic and intricate figure in contemporary...

Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. This book argues that this structure of feeling has roots that can be traced...

This book explores the formation and development of the cross-national patterns of adult learning systems between 1989 and 2019 in four Central European countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. Drawing on the approach of the political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438498812Author Vanessa K. ValdésFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

How Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heightsAs novel publication exploded in nineteenth-century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot learned from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548700Author Evangelia AdamouFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics series provides non-specialist primary school teachers with subject knowledge and full teaching programmes in a variety of key primary curriculum subjects. This book is a revised and up-to-date hands-on guide to planning...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. X-rays are powerful. Moving through objects undetected, revealing the body as a tryptic of skin, tissue, and bone. X-rays gave rise to a...

Learn how to read with these decodable Phonic Books for older readers.Phonic Books Pet Sitters are older reader books that introduce children to a few letters and sounds at a time. The pack of 12 decodable books is aimed at older children in the very...

Highlights the importance of considering contemporary public culture through the lens of fan studies The Gamergate harassment campaign of women in video games, the “Unite the Right” rally where hundreds of Confederate monument supporters cried out racist...

A critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thoughtIn the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of quantifying, measuring, and evaluating “intelligence,”...

Some of the most well-known psychoanalysts and literary theorists explore Jacques Lacan’s influence on literature. The relationship between literature and psychology is long and richly complex, and no more so than in the work of Jacques Lacan, the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593517703Author Princeton ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593517635Author Princeton ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593517598Author David KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593517604Author Princeton ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

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Considering Butler’s “tragic trilogy”—a set of interventions on Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Bacchae, and Aeschylus’s Eumenides—this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085008Author Camille Kandiko HowsonFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

In Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake of the 1990s "pet boom." Blurring the binary between human and nonhuman, Grillo draws on Japanese science fiction, horror, guide-dog...

Fifty easy-to-deploy active learning exercises for teaching academic writing in any fieldThe Pocket Instructor: Writing offers fifty practical exercises for teaching students the core elements of successful academic writing. The exercises—created by...

The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora...

Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacious agency, as the growth of usury allowed financial signs to reproduce without human intervention. Magic was coming to seem Satanic,...

This book is the first full evaluation of the Proto-Australian hypothesis, which proposes that most Australian languages have a common ancestor: Proto-Australian [PA]. Using the standard methodologies of historical linguistics, the authors show that...

Taking 44 Mecklenburgh Square as the focal point and springboard for a critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of modernist biofiction and poetry to the literature of the...

This book presents research into inclusive education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), written by scholars based in CEE. Inclusive education has become a framework for understanding and embracing diversity but most of the research in this area has...

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!...

A revealing account of the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excelElite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888370285Author Kaylah HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint International Society for Technology in EducationPublisher International Society for...

Moving beyond a more traditional view of language as a discrete sociocultural and cognitive entity that distorts our understanding of surrounding ecologies, this book argues that the starting point for ecolinguistics is an appreciation of language as not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598632Author Terri SchlichenmeyerFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

Learn how to read with these decodable Phonic Books for older readers.Phonic Books Pet Sitters are older reader books that introduce children to a few letters and sounds at a time. The pack of 12 decodable books is aimed at older children in the very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722506766Author Dan StrutzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media

Makes scoring higher so easy, it's scary! Millions of readers have enjoyed Mary Shelley's original 1818 edition of Frankenstein for its dark and gripping plot. But did you know that it's also packed with words you need to know to score higher on tests?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593517673Author Princeton ReviewFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Focus on your child's strengths and passions to support lifelong learning This book provides parents with practical tools to teach and engage their children at home. By focusing on their children's strengths and passions, rather than on their...