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Translation and Stylistic Variation: Dialect and Heteroglossia in Northern Irish Poetic Translation considers the ways in which translators use stylistic variation, analysing the works of three Northern Irish poet-translators to look at how, in this...

Character drives plot. Based on this principle, this book walks aspiring writers through the fascinating world of character-driven screenwriting. When a writer engages their characters, they start a process which naturally leads to the story's structure...

Black Beauty is the autobiography of a horse, who narrates the amazing story of his life. See Black Beauty grow up with his best friends Ginger and Merrylegs, and leave home to become a working horse doing different jobs for many different owners - some...

A revelatory and exhilarating tour de force, Nicholas Ostler's The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages explores the rise of a linguistic diversity we could never before have imagined. In the twenty-first century, can we really take...

With a task-based learning approach, the main objective is for students to use the language that they know in order to achieve a particular communication goal. Generally focussed on speaking, tasks are opportunities for in-class communication which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399165580Author Ammon SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

German: An Essential Grammar is a practical reference guide to the core structures and features of modern German. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging grammar uses clear, jargon-free explanations and sets out the...

Collins International Primary English offers full coverage of the Cambridge Primary English curriculum framework (0058) from 2020 within a six-level, multi-component course, which has been carefully developed to meet the needs of teachers and students in...

The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries after Rome's fall, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and...

The micro-friends are being chased by the Krools. Find out if they can escape the heat-seeking gel boomerangs and reach Planet Moxor in Space Hunt. Ant, Tiger and Seven are alone in a desert on Planet Moxor. They take shelter in a cave, but have they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138096714Author Javier Munoz-BasolsFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

I hear with my little ear...a poem and a story in The Deer and the Earwig. Level 6 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds ar as in star, au as in August, ur as in fur, air as in hair, ear as in near, ure as...

Agent Blue, the super spy-pigeon, is back! When all the TV satellites around the world disappear, Agent Blue suspects Birdseed is up to his old tricks again. Can Blue defeat a giant robot dove, stop the mysterious Swirly-Whirly and finally capture...

In a world where higher education is increasingly internationalised, questions of language use and multilingualism are central to the ways in which universities function in teaching, research and administration. Contemporary universities find themselves...

For thousands of years people have wondered how the world began. How the World Began includes creation myths that attempt to explain this. Meet gods, goddesses and giants at the beginning of time as they create the earth in these myths from China, North...

In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe and gratitude. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith,...

The Level 5 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C...

The Level 5 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C...

This brief, user friendly edition has long remained popular, for it is pitched at just the right level for school students tackling their first continuous prose, and for other early-stage learners of Latin. Moreover, the text is selected from the Pro...

History's Marvellous Mistakes is a biography of Christopher Columbus, the Kellogg brothers and Alexander Fleming the people behind three amazing discoveries that were made by mistake! Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to...

This is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Italian, which can be used independently or alongside Modern Italian Grammar. Divided into three sections, this highly useful text includes:exercises based on essential...

In The Personality Potion Danny is scared to audition for a part in the school play. His Uncle Hal gives him a magic potion, it is green and fizzy and full of stars and it works wonders. Or does it? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality...

Intermediate Cantonese is designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language.Each of the 25 units combines clear, concise grammar explanations with communicatively oriented exercises to help build...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641521093Author Michael DigiacomoFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge Press

In Jellyfish Shoes, Laura is very proud of her new jelly shoes. They are pink and see-through like raspberry jelly. When her brother, Scott, tells her they are made of jellyfish, she changes her mind about the shoes. TreeTops Fiction contains a wide...

Written by award-winning author Julia Donaldson, Songbirds Phonics are highly decodable, beautifully illustrated real stories. In Cat Naps, Top Cat is feeling sleepy. The Level 1+ More Songbirds books consolidate phonics introduced to beginner...

Colloquials are now supported by FREE AUDIO available online. All audio tracks referenced within the text are free to stream or download from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio complements the book and will help...

Have you ever wished that everything you touched turned to gold? In King Midas and other tales the foolish King Midas makes that wish and then wishes he hadn't. These myths from Bolivia, China and Ancient Greece show what lengths people will go to for...

The Level 1 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide both wordless stories and a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills with simple first words and sentences. ...

This books tells us about four of the most interesting artists from around the world: Leonardo da Vinci, Katsushika Hokusai, Rosa Bonheur and Barbara Hepworth. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading...

What would happen if Usman could step inside one of his books? Find out in Usman's Books. Level 5 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds oo as in moon, oo as in good, ow as in down, oi as in coin and soft c...

The King and His Wish is based on the Caribbean tale The King Who Wanted to Touch the Moon, about a king whose demands get him into trouble, as he decides to ask to touch the moon ... This popular story written by Alison Hawes and beautifully...

The King and His Wish is based on the Caribbean tale The King Who Wanted to Touch the Moon, about a king whose demands get him into trouble, as he decides to ask to touch the moon ... This popular story written by Alison Hawes and beautifully...

This edition of the first book of Ovid's "Amores" was first published in 1973 by OUP. It has been kept in print by BCP because it remains an outstandlingly useful volume. It was one of two editions (the other being Gordon Williams' "Horace 'Odes' III",...

Not Ethan Again! is a charmingly-illustrated story of jam, frogs and sibling rivalry. Jessie's brother Ethan is always taking her stuff, like her doll and her scooter. He even takes the card that Jessie made for Granny's birthday. But when he takes a pot...

Everyone remembers the Queen's 'Annus Horribilis', but what do 'quid pro quo' and 'habeas corpus' mean? Why do plants have Latin names? Why do families, towns, countries and even football teams have Latin mottoes? What do the Latin epitaphs in churches...

The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation brings together for the first time material dedicated to the theory and practice of translation to and from Japanese. This one semester advanced course in Japanese translation is designed to raise awareness of...

Nok is missing. Will Max and Ant be able to follow the footprints and find him in On Nok's Trail? Find out what happens when Nok uses his powers to start Tiger's toy trucks in I Win! Who will be the first to cross the finish line? In Popcorn Surfing,...

The Level 9 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories and More Stories A continue to provide a mix of...

This work is a celebration of the dialect spoken in most parts of Yorkshire. The amazing text and cartoon-like illustrations capture the warmth and humour of the area.Book InformationISBN 9781853067631Author Leonard MarkhamFormat PaperbackPage Count...