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The Oxford History of Western Music: Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Richard Taruskin 9780195384826
RRP: £34.49£26.75The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes,... -
Diagrammatic Writing by Johanna Drucker 9789083270616
RRP: £7.00£6.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083270616Author Johanna DruckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Set Margins' publicationsPublisher Set Margins' publications -
The Cambridge Handbook of Language Learning by John W. Schwieter
RRP: £36.99£36.21Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting-edge work on second language learning, this Handbook, written by a team of leading experts, surveys the nature of second language learning and its implications for teaching. Prominent theories and methods from... -
Reading & Training: Pamela + audio CD by Samuel Richardson 9788853003331
RRP: £11.95£11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788853003331Author Samuel RichardsonPage Count 144Imprint CidebPublisher CIDEB s.r.l. -
Storymaking in Education and Therapy by Alida Gersie
RRP: £36.99£36.01Myths and related stories describe essential human experience which, requiring use of the imagination, reconcile and give voice to fantasy and reality. Speaking through images which embrace the paradox of possible and impossible, the likely and the... -
Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai's Film Studios by Gregory D. Booth 9780195327649
RRP: £34.49£23.32Beginning in the 1930s, men and a handful of women came from India's many communities-Marathi, Parsi, Goan, North Indian, and many others--to Mumbai to work in an industry that constituted in the words of some, "the original fusion music." They worked as... -
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 39: 2019 by Myrzinn Boucher-Durand 9780674257795
RRP: £27.95£22.15This volume of the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium offers a wide range of articles on topics across the field of Celtic Studies. It includes the Colloquium keynote given by Prof. Barbara Hillers which studied the literary use of folklore,... -
Suicide in the Middle Ages: Volume 1: The Violent Against Themselves by Alexander Murray 9780199553112
RRP: £62.00£61.49`Suicide' and `the Middle Ages' sounds like a contradiction. Was life not too short anyway, and the Church too disapproving, to admit suicide? And how is the historian supposed to find out? In this first volume of his trilogy, Alexander Murray takes... -
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £33.00£31.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262527408Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 13mm -
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind by George Lakoff
RRP: £23.00£20.34"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology... -
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts by Umberto Eco
RRP: £20.99£16.72"...not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." -The Review of Metaphysics "...essential reading for anyone interesting in...the new reader-centered forms of criticism." -Library Journal In this... -
Meaning and Reference by A. W. Moore 9780198751250
RRP: £56.99£43.87The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a wide variety of souces, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general... -
Creativity in Language and Literature: The State of the Art by Joan Swann 9780230575608
£37.16'Creativity in Language and Literature is a provocative and valuable book. Its breadth of topics, variety of approaches, and self-consciously creative and dialogic nature are especially appropriate and creative ways of approaching the subject of... -
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners by Michael Erard 9781451628265
RRP: £20.00£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451628265Author Michael ErardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: The Great Change in American Communities by Joshua R. Brown 9780198864639
RRP: £83.00£75.34This book introduces a new and still emerging theoretical framework for understanding language shift and uses this approach to explore a range of minority language communities in the United States. To date, approaches to language shift have typically... -
Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary by Christopher Ehret
RRP: £70.00£55.30This work provides the first truly comprehensive and systematic reconstruction of proto-Afroasiatic (proto-Afrasian). It rigorously applies, throughout, the established canon and techniques of the historical-comparative method. It also fully incorporates... -
Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman
RRP: £14.99£13.03From the celebrated translator of Cervantes and Garcia Marquez, a testament to the power of the translator's art "Groundbreaking."-New York Times Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and... -
The Bantu Languages by Mark Van de Velde 9781032401669
RRP: £43.99£38.44Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive volume presents grammatical analyses of individual Bantu languages, comparative studies of their main phonetic, phonological and grammatical characteristics and overview chapters on their... -
The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver 9780198826163
£29.70This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years'... -
A Guide to Discursive Organizational Psychology by Chris Steyaert 9781786431714
RRP: £35.95£33.43This lively guide showcasing original and carefully curated research illustrates the dynamic relationship between discourse and organizational psychology. It maps the origins and development of discursive approaches in the field of organizational... -
A History of the Scots Language by Robert McColl Millar 9780198864004
RRP: £30.00£28.51This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of... -
Difficult Airway Management by Mansukh T. Popat 9780199554515
RRP: £46.99£46.58Management of a patient with a difficult airway has undergone significant changes in recent years, with the introduction of both new guidelines and equipment. Chapters cover basic topics such as recognition of a difficult airway and general principles of... -
Sengoidelc: Old Irish For Beginners by David Stifter 9780815630722
£41.58David Stifter's Sengoidelc (Shan-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a course text and as a guide for the independent learner, this exhaustive handbook is also an invaluable... -
Dominoes: Starter: Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
£10.87Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities and on-page glossaries the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for... -
The Oxford History of Western Music: Music in the Early Twentieth Century by Richard Taruskin 9780195384840
RRP: £34.49£26.75The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes,... -
Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £28.99£24.42In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in linguistics, the science... -
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
RRP: £24.99£22.37Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of... -
Now You're Talking: Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence by Trevor Cox
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A lively, intelligent and persuasive history of speech...Expertly and patiently explained' The TimesWhy are human beings the only animals that can speak? And why does it matter?If you've ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice,... -
Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry 9780199276554
RRP: £67.00£55.80Eoin O'Duffy was one of the most controversial figures of modern Irish history. A guerrilla leader and protege of Michael Collins, he rose rapidly through the ranks of the republican movement. By 1922 he was chief of staff of the IRA, a member of the... -
The Story of Be: A Verb's-Eye View of the English Language by David Crystal
RRP: £14.99£10.95It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other English word. As he reveals be's multiple incarnations, David Crystal takes us to the heart of our... -
Semantics and Cognition by Ray S. Jackendoff 9780262600132
£35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262600132Author Ray S. JackendoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 499g -
War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence by Frank Jacob
RRP: £39.99£35.06Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the results of a war that are post-event defined as just or... -
The Idea of Arbitration by Jan Paulsson 9780199564170
RRP: £62.00£61.09What is arbitration? This volume provides a novel theoretical examination of the concept of arbitration, attempting to answer fundamental questions which have rarely been addressed systematically in English. It exlores the place of arbitration in the... -
Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain: The Institutional Origins of a Multicultural Nation by Randall Hansen 9780199240548
RRP: £100.00£84.35In this ground-breaking book, the author draws extensively on archival material and theortical advances in the social sciences literature on citizenship and migration. Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain examines the transformation since 1945... -
Machine Translation by Thierry Poibeau
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534215Author Thierry PoibeauFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 14mm -
Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms by Shirley Brice Heath 9780521273190
RRP: £50.99£45.00Ways with Words, first published in 1983, is a classic study of children learning to use language at home and at school in two communities only a few miles apart in the south-eastern United States. 'Roadville' is a white working-class community of... -
Complete Biblical Hebrew: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Biblical Hebrew, with Original Texts by Sarah Nicholson 9781473627833
RRP: £36.99£24.04Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Biblical Hebrew offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and ultimately gain the skills needed to... -
Chemical Reaction Engineering: A First Course by Ian S. Metcalfe
£32.30This book covers the material required for a basic understanding of chemical reaction engineering. Such material would normally be taught in a first chemical reaction engineering course in a university chemical engineering department. The principles of... -
Dialogic Pedagogy: The Importance of Dialogue in Teaching and Learning by David Skidmore
RRP: £34.95£29.52This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth theoretical perspective on dialogue in teaching. It explores the philosophy of dialogism as a social theory of language and explains its importance in teaching and learning. Departing from the more... -
Bayesian Epistemology by Luc Bovens 9780199270408
£44.76Probabilistic models have much to offer to philosophy. We continually receive information from a variety of sources: from our senses, from witnesses, from scientific instruments. When considering whether we should believe this information, we assess...