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Why Only Us: Language and Evolution by Robert C. Berwick
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533492Author Robert C. BerwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 14mm -
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme-And Other Oddities of the English Language by Arika Okrent
RRP: £18.49£13.28Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you're an expert with a red pen who never omits a comma or misplaces a modifier, you must have... -
English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers by Barbara Jean Harris 9780195151282
RRP: £51.00£35.70Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts, their sitters have not been judged for their professional... -
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions by Jaak Panksepp
RRP: £65.00£61.85Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry. However, with advances in neurobiology and neuroscience, researchers are demonstrating that this position is wrong as... -
Lazarillo de Tormes (Dual-Language) by Anonymous 9780486414317
RRP: £8.49£5.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486414317Author Anonymous AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Empowering EAL Learners in Secondary Schools: A Practical Resource to Support the Language Development of Multilingual Learners by Joanna Kolota 9781032479798
RRP: £19.99£17.69One in five students are identified as speaking English as an Additional Language (EAL) and all teachers are highly likely to be teaching multilingual students in their classrooms. As our schools become more culturally and linguistically diverse, they... -
The Violin Family and its Makers in the British Isles: An Illustrated History and Directory by Brian W. Harvey 9780198162599
£116.50The contribution of the British Isles to the history of the violin family has been consistently under-estimated. For over 200 years England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland have produced many fine makers and an abundance of quality instruments and bows, now... -
Reading the Gaelic Landscape: Leughadh Aghaidh na Tire by John Murray 9781849954389
RRP: £18.99£15.65Following the success of the first edition, this new edition has been expanded and improved with additional images and enhanced drawings. The subject matter has been expanded with the chapter on grammar and pronunciation extended. There are examples of... -
German Grammar You Really Need To Know: Teach Yourself by Jenny Russ
RRP: £14.99£9.80Comprehensive and clear explanations of key grammar patterns and structures are reinforced and contextualized through authentic materials. You will not only learn how to construct grammar correctly, but when and where to use it so you sound natural and... -
The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber
RRP: £12.99£7.77'His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary borders' Financial Times'Like a child after the Pied Piper... -
The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations by Steven Suskin 9780199790845
RRP: £51.00£32.19Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first... -
When Dead Tongues Speak: Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin by John Gruber-Miller 9780195174953
RRP: £40.99£28.38When Dead Tongues Speak introduces classicists to the research that linguists, psychologists, and language teachers have conducted over the past thirty years and passes along their most important insights. The essays cover a broad range of topics,... -
Affinities by Brian Dillon
RRP: £13.99£9.17What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching... -
Jesus and Muhammad: Parallel Tracks, Parallel Lives by Francis E. Peters 9780199747467
RRP: £33.99£21.89Jesus and Muhammad are two of the best known and revered figures in history, each with a billion or more global followers. Now, in this intriguing volume, F.E. Peters offers a clear and compelling analysis of the parallel lives of Jesus and Muhammad, the... -
Distributed Languaging, Affective Dynamics, and the Human Ecology Volume II: Co-articulating Self and World Paul J. Thibault 9780367611903
RRP: £39.99£35.06Language plays a central role in human life. However, the term "language" as defined in the language sciences of the 20th century and the traditions these have drawn on, have arguably limited our thinking about what language is and does. The two... -
When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge by K. David Harrison 9780195372069
RRP: £22.99£16.66It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. ... -
MCQs for the First FRCR by Varut Vardhanabhuti 9780199584024
£60.33MCQs for First FRCR offers the most comprehensive coverage of the topics covered in the new First Fellowship of Royal College of Radiology (FRCR) examination, which includes newly-added topics such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance. Led by... -
Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature by Sarah Iles Johnston
£18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555404277Author Sarah Iles JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 341gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
Mother Tongue: The surprising history of women's words -'Fascinating, intriguing, witty, a gem of a book' (Kate Mosse) by Jenni Nuttall 9780349015309
RRP: £16.99£15.11A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our lives.'Fascinating, intriguing, witty, a gem of a book' KATE MOSSE'Wonderful' DAILY TELEGRAPH'This superb book teems with historical... -
Focus on IELTS New Edition Coursebook/iTest CD-Rom Pack by Sue O'Connell
RRP: £35.00£34.77Focus on IELTS New edition with iTests CD-ROM keeps its popular topic based approach plus new material aimed at helping students succeed in their future studies. Thorough exam skills training and graded practice helps students pass the exam. This new... -
Other Tongues: Psychological therapies in a multilingual world by Beverley Costa
RRP: £16.99£16.12Multilingual clients are different from monolingual clients. So writes Beverley Costa at the start of this groundbreaking book. Other Tongues challenges counsellors and psychotherapists to consider more deeply the tool that is central to their work -... -
Language, Society and Power: An Introduction by Annabelle Mooney 9780367638443
RRP: £29.99£26.64Language, Society and Power provides an accessible introduction to the study of language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we view society, and how it varies according to age,... -
Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts 9780380728220
RRP: £11.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380728220Author Roger FoutsFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 358g -
Dutch Grammar You Really Need to Know: Teach Yourself by Gerdi Quist
RRP: £14.99£9.80Comprehensive and clear explanations of key grammar patterns and structures are reinforced and contextualized through authentic materials. You will not only learn how to construct grammar correctly, but when and where to use it so you sound natural and... -
Empiricism and Language Learnability by Nick Chater 9780198734260
£60.73This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability. The authors, from different backgrounds---linguistics, philosophy, computer science, psychology and cognitive science-explore the idea that... -
Miss Julie and Other Plays by Johan August Strindberg
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.' Strindberg was one of the most extreme,... -
Irish English: History and Present-Day Forms by Raymond Hickey
RRP: £41.99£38.34English has been spoken in Ireland for over 800 years, making Irish English the oldest variety of the language outside Britain. This 2007 book traces the development of English in Ireland, both north and south, from the late Middle Ages to the present... -
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Silvia Ferrara 9781529064780
RRP: £10.99£7.12'Ferrara's book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but it's also a celebration of these things still undeciphered, and many other tantalising mysteries besides.' - The SpectatorThis book tells the story of our greatest invention... -
A New History of Ireland Volume VII: Ireland, 1921-84 by J.R. Hill 9780199592821
£57.86A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... -
Dogwhistles and Figleaves: How Manipulative Language Spreads Racism and Falsehood by Jennifer Mather Saul 9780192871756
RRP: £25.00£21.19Pinpoints how "dogwhistles" and "figleaves," two kinds of linguistic trick, distort political discourse and normalize racism It is widely accepted that political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist and more accepting of wildly... -
Eschatological Presence in Karl Barth's Goettingen Theology by Mr. Christopher Asprey 9780199584703
RRP: £132.50£102.06The posthumous publication of previously unavailable academic lectures by Karl Barth allows unprecedented access to the crucial formative years between the production of his two major masterpieces, the Commentary on Romans and the Church Dogmatics. Barth... -
English Stylistics: A Cognitive Grammar Approach Zeki Hamawand 9783031225550
RRP: £54.99£49.36This accessible textbook hinges on the central assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Grammar, introducing students to the analytical tools they need to approach Stylistics, an essential area in language analysis. The author verifies the... -
Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training: A Beginner's Guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork (R) by Andrea Caban
RRP: £31.99£28.33Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner's guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork (R), a method that focuses on universal and inclusive speech training for actors from all language, racial, cultural, and... -
Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues by Pat Thane 9780198203827
£73.43At the end of the twentieth century more people are living into their seventies, eighties, nineties and beyond, a process expected to continue well into the next millennium. The twentieth century has achieved what people in other centuries only dreamed... -
Introducing Phonetic Science by Michael Ashby 9780521004961
RRP: £32.99£29.23This accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonetics, the study of speech. Assuming no prior knowledge of the topic, it introduces students to the fundamental concepts in phonetic science, and equips them with the essential... -
It's All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories by Alexander Tulloch
RRP: £12.99£9.88Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia and hypochondria derive from ancient Greek, but did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse can also trace their linguistic origins back to the Athens of 500 bce? This... -
Stories from the Tain by John Strachan
£12.39'The Tain' (meaning 'The driving-off cows of Cooley') is a legendary Irish tale set in the first century AD. It tells of a war against Ulster by the Connacht queen Medb and her husband Ailill, who intend to steal the stud bull Donn Cuailnge and are... -
Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose by Mick Short 9780582291300
£42.26Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works, how they understand and are moved by them. Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres, carying out... -
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction by Lyle Campbell 9781474463126
RRP: £29.99£27.79Lyle Campbell presents an accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics. The fourth edition has a lucid and engaging style, expert guidance and comprehensive coverage, making it ideal for students coming to historical linguistics for the... -
Complete Bengali Beginner to Intermediate Course: (Book and audio support) William Radice 9781444106862
RRP: £44.99£29.65Are you looking for a complete course in Bengali which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Bengali will guarantee success!Now fully updated to make your...