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Essential Latin Dictionary: Teach Yourself by Alistair Wilson
RRP: £16.99£9.58Is this the right book for me?With over 20,000 translations, including everyday idioms and expressions, Essential Latin Dictionary is the perfect tool to support your Latin learning. This new edition is fully updated with a guide to usage and insights... -
Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It by Jane Setter 9780192843029
RRP: £14.99£10.95Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Setter explores these and other fascinating questions in this engaging introduction to the power and the... -
Language, Culture and Knowledge in Context: A Functional-Cognitive Approach by Brian Nolan
£27.61This volume investigates the nature of language, culture, knowledge, and context, and their interrelationships. Each of these is defined - in terms of their relationship to language in particular, and to identify their respective properties. What exactly... -
Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction by Lynda Mugglestone
RRP: £8.99£6.45Do, or should, dictionaries control language? How do they treat language change, both now and in the past? Which words do dictionaries leave out - and on what grounds? Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a... -
The Complete Euripides Volume II Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195388695
£9.00Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go... -
Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance Style by Peter Schubert
RRP: £126.99£52.52An exceptional text for undergraduate and graduate music students, Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style uses a wide variety of carefully graded exercises to present guidelines for writing and analyzing 16th-century music. The only species counterpoint... -
The Foundations of Gentry Life: The Multons of Frampton and their World 1270-1370 by Peter Coss
RRP: £28.49£26.27In The Foundations of Gentry Life, Peter Coss examines the formative years of the English gentry. In doing so, he explains their lasting characteristics during a long history as a social elite, including adaptability to change and openness to upward... -
Arabic Language and Linguistics by Reem Bassiouney 9781589018853
£35.53Arabic, one of the official languages of the United Nations, is spoken by more than half a billion people around the world and is of increasing importance in today's political and economic spheres. The study of the Arabic language has a long and rich... -
The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies by Donald Bloxham 9780199677917
£35.00Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years,... -
Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics by Tony McEnery
RRP: £85.00£77.00How might evidence of language use - writing and speech - be used as a way of studying language? Corpus linguistics is the study of linguistic data from a particular language or set of languages. It is a fast-moving approach to studying language, and... -
Viewpoint and the Fabric of Meaning: Form and Use of Viewpoint Tools across Languages and Modalities by Barbara Dancygier 9783110578577
RRP: £19.00£16.62This volume explores the cross-linguistic diversity, and possibly inconsistency, of the span of linguistic means that signal reported speech and thought. The integration of broad linguistic (viewpoint in conversation and narrative) and cognitive (theory... -
The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780199753635
RRP: £12.49£9.00Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go... -
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination by Jacob Bronowski
RRP: £18.00£17.59"A gem of enlightenment. . . . One rejoices in Bronowski's dedication to the identity of acts of creativity and of imagination, whether in Blake or Yeats or Einstein or Heisenberg."-Kirkus Reviews "A delightful look at the inquiring mind."-Library... -
Leadership Skills in Policing by Colin Rogers 9780199539512
£37.83This practical guide to developing leadership skills in policing examines the qualities that make up a good leader, providing a variety of examples of good leadership approaches in various policing contexts. Police organisations are increasingly... -
Experimental Translation: The Work of Translation in the Age of Algorithmic Production by Lily Robert-Foley 9781913380700
RRP: £35.00£22.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380700Author Lily Robert-FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonWeight(grams)... -
Four Major Plays by Federico Garcia Lorca
RRP: £8.99£6.45`I have made a terrible discovery ... I have not yet been born ... I live off borrowed substance; what I have within me is not mine.' In his four last plays Federico Garcia Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish... -
The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture by Peter V. Jones 9780521386005
RRP: £28.99£26.22The World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for students at university and at school as well as for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, it covers all aspects of the city - its... -
How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit by James Paul Gee 9780415725583
RRP: £39.99£35.06This bestselling textbook is the ideal companion to An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, by leading author, James Paul Gee. Using a practical how-to approach, Gee provides the tools necessary to work with discourse analysis, with... -
The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language by Keith Kahn-Harris
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-Harris is playing a very different sport. He really has discovered the whole world in an egg.' Simon... -
The Ethics of Life Writing by Paul John Eakin 9780801488337
£24.14A pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us... -
Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust: The Concept of the Body Politic by Andreas Musolff 9781138810037
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory. Its main arguments are that the... -
Age and the Rate of Foreign Language Learning by Carmen Munoz 9781853598913
£21.99This book examines the various ways in which age affects the process and the product of foreign language learning in a school setting. It presents studies that cover a wide range of topics, from phonetics to learning strategies. It will be of interest to... -
Gods in the Word: Archetypes in the Consonants by Margaret Magnus 9781453824443
RRP: £10.00£8.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453824443Author Margaret MagnusFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 152g -
Focus on IELTS Teacher's Book New Edition by Sue O'Connell
£45.95The Teacher's Book includes: Full teaching notes Photocopiable resources Answer keys to exercises Full audio scriptBook InformationISBN 9781408239179Author Sue O'ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Pearson LongmanPublisher Pearson Education... -
That's The Way It Crumbles: The American Conquest of the English Language by Matthew Engel
RRP: £10.99£7.77Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You betcha. And are we outraged? Hell, yes. But do we do... -
Tip Tip: Phase 2 Set 2 Blending practice (Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised) by Charlotte Raby 9780008668167
RRP: £4.75£4.71Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that... -
The Comedy of Error: why evolution made us laugh by Jonathan Silvertown
RRP: £12.99£9.49What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes - the desire to laugh is universal. But why do we find some gags hilarious, whilst others fall flat? Why does... -
Where the Wind Blows by Heyward H Coleman
RRP: £14.50£13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984735624Author Heyward H ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Heyward ColemanPublisher Heyward ColemanWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire by Mark Bradley 9780199584727
£107.59While the study of Classics in postcolonial worlds has received a great deal of recent attention, this is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between classical ideas and British colonialism. In this collection of essays, classical scholars... -
Translation and Translating: Theory and Practice by Roger T. Bell 9780582016484
RRP: £49.99£48.24Argues that the subjective evaluation of the product must give way to a descriptive and objective attempt to reveal the workings of the process (ie translating). Without such a shift, translation theory will continue outside the mainstream of... -
New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics: A Syntactic, Semantic and Stylistic Analysis by Hussein Abdul-Raof 9780367874674
RRP: £39.99£35.06New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics provides a panoramic insight into the Qur'anic landscape fenced by innate syntactic, semantic and stylistic landmarks where context and meaning have closed ranks to impact morphological form in order to achieve... -
Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft by Professor Steven G. Kellman
RRP: £20.99£19.02Though it is difficult enough to write well in one's native tongue, an extraordinary group of authors has written enduring poetry and prose in a second, third, or even fourth language. Switching Languages is the first anthology in which translingual... -
The Names of Homeric Heroes: Problems and Interpretations by Nikoletta Kanavou 9783110578201
RRP: £19.00£15.91The purpose of this book is to contribute to the appreciation of the linguistic, literary and contextual value of Homeric personal names. This is an old topic, which famously interested Plato, and an object of constant scholarly attention from the time... -
The Creole Debate by John H. McWhorter 9781108450836
RRP: £19.99£16.42Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that... -
English Phonetics and Phonology: An Introduction by Philip Carr
RRP: £28.95£25.07A new edition of the popular introductory text on the phonological structure of present-day English. A clear and accessible introductory text on the phonological structure of the English language, English Phonetics and Phonology is an ideal text for... -
The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Margaret Kelleher 9781910820421
RRP: £18.00£17.03The Maamtrasna Murders provides a cultural history of the events and subsequent impact of the renowned Maamtrasna murders from the perspective of language change in late nineteenth-century Ireland. Professor Kelleher takes the Maamtrasna case - one that... -
Irish/Ness is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland by Olaf Zenker 9781785332067
RRP: £27.95£22.58Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language,... -
Financial Market Complexity by Neil F. Johnson 9780198526650
£104.67Financial markets are a fascinating example of 'complexity in action': a real-world complex system whose evolution is dictated by the decisions of crowds of traders who are continually trying to win in a vast global 'game'. This book draws on recent... -
Register Variation Online by Douglas Biber
RRP: £30.99£26.43While other books focus on special internet registers, like tweets or texting, no previous study describes the full range of everyday registers found on the searchable web. These are the documents that readers encounter every time they do a Google... -
Read and write Greek script: Teach yourself by Sheila Hunt
RRP: £16.99£11.54Master Greek script with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Read and write Greek script is a clear step-by-step guide to the written language, with plenty of examples from real-life texts to show how it...