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Mary Lou Robertson is a young girl in Florida who has an interesting hobby; she watches birds. In fact, she loves birds so much, that at age 13, she's even writing a children's book about them. Why does Mary Lou love birds so much? How did she write a...

The purpose of English for Health Sciences is to empower students with the language and life skills they need to carry out their career goals. To this end it provides ample opportunities for students to build awareness and practice the language in...

Countering assumptions about early American print culture and challenging our scholarly fixation on the novel, Jared Gardner reimagines the early American magazine as a rich literary culture that operated as a model for nation-building by celebrating...

This volume brings together sixteen essays on key and intersecting topics in critical cultural studies from major scholars in the field. Taking into account the vicissitudes of political, social, and cultural issues, the contributors engage deeply with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429678407Author Ann CorcoraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 8Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 2g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783832532673Author Elsa Garcia NovoFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Logos Verlag Berlin GmbHPublisher Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062203892Author Walter Dean MyersFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 276g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780135889671Author Maryellen VogtFormat PaperbackImprint PearsonPublisher PearsonWeight(grams) 5670g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814112113Author Thomas M McCannFormat PaperbackImprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of English

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814107003Author National Council of Teachers of EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National...

This book explores how 15 immigrants from German-speaking Switzerland in Australia make sense of their migratory experience, of building a new life in a different language. It does so by examining their written and oral life stories. The analysis takes...

The death of the daily newspaper in the internet age has been predicted for decades. While print newspapers are struggling from drops in advertising and circulation, their survival has been based on original reporting. Instead of a death knell, metro...

My Gulf World and Me is an exciting and culturally appropriate new series of non-fiction readers about the Gulf region written especially for primary ESL learners. Written specifically for the Gulf region, these readers contain culturally appropriate...

My Gulf World and Me is an exciting and culturally appropriate new series of non-fiction readers about the Gulf region written especially for primary ESL learners. Written specifically for the Gulf region, these readers contain culturally appropriate...

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and applied linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers...

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample...

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English language and Applied Linguistics. Each book in the series guides readers...

Introducing Social Semiotics uses a wide variety of texts including photographs, adverts, magazine pages and film stills to explain how meaning is created through complex semiotic interactions. Practical exercises and examples as wide ranging as...

This book explores the growing tension between multilingualism and monolingualism in the European Union in the wake of Brexit, underpinned by the interplay between the rise of English as a lingua franca and the low status of translations in EU bodies,...

A picture dictionaryCarefully controlled information, structure and vocabularySome difficult words and phrases are explained with picturesThe book has around 1100 basic words for Elementary-level studentsFree resources including worksheets, tests and...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Join...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. In...

The aim of this book is to offer a broad picture of the current state of academic research on foreign language teaching for the tourism sector from different perspectives and cultural backgrounds. This multilingual volume includes sixteen essays written...

The cultural universe of urban, English-speaking middle class in India shows signs of growing inclusiveness as far as English is concerned. This phenomenon manifests itself in increasing forms of bilingualism (combination of English and one Indian...

It is all too often assumed that humour is the very effect of a text. But humour is not a perlocutionary effect in its own right, nor is laughter. The humour of a text may be as general a characteristic as a serious text's seriousness. Like serious...

If civilizations are to cooperate as well as clash, our mediators must solve problems using serious thought about relations between Self and Other. Translation Studies has thus returned to questions of ethics. But this is no return to any...

The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics, and the relationship between these two processes. Cultural categories such as named languages, linguistic standards and genres are the...

Why would a Latin Qur'an be addressed to readers who knew no Latin? What happens when translators work on paper rather than parchment? Why would a Jewish rabbi translate a bible for Christians? How can a theorist successfully criticize a version of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846910319Author Justine SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Badger PublishingPublisher Badger PublishingWeight(grams) 67g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781844242498Author Jonny ZuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Badger PublishingPublisher Badger PublishingWeight(grams) 67gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841678504Author Norman TonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 8Imprint Ransom PublishingPublisher Ransom PublishingWeight(grams) 48g

The overarching theme of "Discourse and Technology" is cutting-edge in the field of linguistics: multimodal discourse. This volume opens up a discussion among discourse analysts and others in linguistics and related fields about the two-fold impact of...

In Brazil, a man has discovered a new way of saving, or rescuing, people from drowning in the ocean. This new rescue method involves a person using a motor-powered aircraft to work with lifeguards on the beach. How do these people work together? Is...

For thousands of years certain remote groups of native Chinese people have existed in near isolation. Separated from the mainstream world, these deeply cultural communities have maintained the old ways of life. Now, with the introduction of today's...

Pearson English Kids Readers bring the joy of reading to young learners of English. Children will love discovering the range stories and topics in this series - adventures, fairy tales, popular characters, the world around us. With more than 70 titles...

One of the first books to shine a light on the broad scope of translation studies, this Routledge Translation Classic is widely regarded as a pillar of the discipline. Authored by one of the most infl uential translation theorists of the twentieth ...

This book offers a broad-based, contemporary perspective on Bible translation in terms of academic areas foundational to the endeavor: translation studies, communication theory, linguistics, cultural studies, biblical studies and literary and rhetorical...

Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. The books are designed for students of linguistics and those who are studying language as part of a wider...

Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law: describes the different registers and genres that make up...

Using novel examples from live, unscripted radio/TV broadcasts and the internet, this path-breaking book will force us to reconsider the nature of everyday English and its complex interplay of syntactic, pragmatic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic...