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Japanese Grammar: The Connecting Point by Kimihiko Nomura 9780761853114
RRP: $124.80$110.60Japanese Grammar: The Connecting Point is instrumental for anyone learning Japanese who seeks to gain a firm grasp of the most important aspect of the language: verb usage. Learning Japanese may seem to be a daunting task, but Dr. Nomura's book will help... -
Reforming the House of Lords: Lessons from Overseas by Meg Russell 9780198298311
$165.15The constitution of Britain is changing rapidly, and the House of Lords is next on the agenda for reform. But whilst Britain takes on many of the features of other countries constitutions, the Lords reform debate remains insular and backward-looking... -
Language, Learning, and Disability in the Education of Young Bilingual Children Dina C. Castro 9781800411838
RRP: $58.40$48.38Using an interdisciplinary perspective to discuss the intersection of language development and learning processes, this book summarizes current knowledge and represents the most critical issues regarding early childhood research, policy, and practice... -
The Oxford History of Western Music: Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century by Richard Taruskin 9780195384819
RRP: $67.26$51.36The 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,... -
Tourette Syndrome by Mary Robertson
RRP: $31.18$22.64Tourette's Syndrome (TS) is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder affecting up to 1% of the population. It is characterised by motor and vocal tics, and upsetting anti-social behaviour such as involuntary swearing and obscene gestures. This second... -
The Translation Studies Reader by Lawrence Venuti 9780367235970
RRP: $85.78$74.96The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The introductory essays prefacing each... -
The Latin Inscriptions of Rome: A Walking Guide by Tyler Lansford
RRP: $56.55$51.64Rome's oldest known Latin inscription dates from the sixth century BC; the most recent major specimen was mounted in 2006-a span of more than two and a half millennia. Remarkably, many of these inscriptions are still to be found in situ, on the walls,... -
Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays by Douglas M. MacDowell 9780198721581
$63.06BL Covers every play, with extensive quotations in English Aristophanes' comedies are famous for their comic characters and earthy humour, but they are also highly topical, with many contemporary political allusions easily missed today. Douglas... -
Surfaces by Gary Attard
$62.99This primer provides an introduction to the subject of surfaces at the level of undergraduates and first year postgraduates. There are three chapters, the first concerns basic thermodynamic material used to understand the properties of surfaces... -
Paradoxes and Problems by John Donne 9780198127536
$135.64A scholarly edition of works by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatusBook InformationISBN 9780198127536Author John DonneFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint... -
Latin Via Ovid: A First Course by Norma Goldman 9780814317327
RRP: $72.05$67.78Using an introduction to mythology by the master storyteller Ovid himself, the authors have prepared a unique teaching tool designed to achieve proficiency at Latin in one year at the college level, two years at the high school or intermediate level. The... -
The Oxford Dictionary of Rhyming Slang by John Ayto
RRP: $27.28$20.53A lively, authoritative, and up-to-date look at the world of rhyming slang, from its origins in London's 19th-century underworld to the buzzwords of 21st-century popney. Arranged by topic, including Crime, Food and Drink, Illness, Money, Sex, and Sport,... -
Collins School Dictionary: Gift Edition by Collins Dictionaries
RRP: $29.23$18.92The perfect gift for primary school leavers! This gift edition of the English school dictionary is the perfect language companion for all students aged 11+. Its vegan leather binding and protective slipcase makes it an ideal present for year 6... -
Vulgar Latin by Jozsef Herman
RRP: $58.40$55.50"Vulgar Latin" refers to those features of Latin language that were not recommended by the classical grammarians but existed nonetheless. Although "Vulgar Latin" is not well documented, evidence can be deduced from details of the spelling, grammar, and... -
Sayings of the Buddha: New translations from the Pali Nikayas by Rupert Gethin
RRP: $21.43$15.15'As if someone were to hold up a lamp in the dark so that those with eyes could see - in exactly the same way Gotama has made the truth clear in various ways.' Gotama the Buddha, who lived the life of a wandering ascetic in northern India during the... -
Interdisciplinary Research: Case studies from health and social science by Frank S. Kessel 9780195324273
RRP: $122.85$101.32Interdisciplinary inquiry has begun to receive widespread attention because of the rich, creative contributions it often generates. But a host of factors, institutional, interpersonal and intellectual, also makes undertaking such research a daunting... -
Exploring English Grammar: From formal to functional by Caroline Coffin 9780415478168
RRP: $85.78$75.74This engaging textbook bridges the gap between traditional and functional grammar. Starting with a traditional approach, students will develop a firm grasp of traditional tools for analysis and learn how SFG (Systemic Functional Grammar) can be used to... -
An Introduction to Language by Victoria A. Fromkin 9781337559577
$137.51Whether you are studying education, languages, cognitive science, psychology, anthropology, English, or teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE, 11th Edition, offers the information you need in a clear and descriptive... -
Textual Intervention: Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies by Rob Pope
RRP: $85.78$74.96This user-friendly yet challenging text provides a genuinely interactive strategy for successful textual intervention. Thoroughly dialogic in approach, it draws on a combination of discourse analysis, critical theory and creative writing.Reviews'Textual... -
Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang by Paul Baker 9780826473431
RRP: $74.08$70.94Polari has been the secret language of gay men and women through the twentieth century. But more than a language, Polari is an attitude. From the prisons and music halls of Edwardian England to Kenneth Williams, American Gls in London and the Sisters of... -
Ben-Yehuda's Pocket English-Hebrew, Hebrew-English Dictionary: Meelon Ben-Yehuda Meelon Ceem Anglee-Iuree, Iuree-Anglee by Ehud Ben-Yehuda 9780671688622
RRP: $21.43$13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671688622Author Ehud Ben-YehudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 306g -
Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography by Monica Heller 9780826486912
$146.46The subject of this book is linguistic minorities, and how language is used by speakers of languages which are not the main language of communication. This is a core topic for sociolinguists, who examine how language is actually used within a given... -
Nature's Robots: A History of Proteins by Charles Tanford
$52.20Proteins are amazingly versatile molecules. They make the chemical reactions happen that form the basis for life, they transmit signals in the body, they identify and kill foreign invaders, they form the engines that make us move, and they record visual... -
Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication by Gunther Kress
RRP: $87.73$76.60The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making. Multimodality: A Social... -
The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary by R. S. McGregor
RRP: $54.58$52.30This major Hindi-English dictionary has been produced to meet the need of a growing number of people now learning and studying Hindi. Reflecting the many-sided development of Hindi during the 20th century, it provides over 36,000 headwords, with generous... -
Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Won't Do As It's Told by Lane Greene
RRP: $21.43$15.15Language is a wild animal: rough, ambiguous, inconsistent in countless ways. But that just makes it all the more tempting to tame it. Many have tried, from sticklers for supposedly correct grammar to inventors of supposedly perfect languages; from... -
The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov by M. M. Bakhtin 9780340592670
$74.37Incessantly cited by critics, Bakhtin's work nonetheless remains relatively unavailable: partly through lack of suitable editions, partly because no individual text conveys all the key concepts or arguments. This anthology provides in a convenient format... -
Guilt by Descent: Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy by N.J. Sewell-Rutter 9780199227334
RRP: $273.00$214.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society by Emile Benveniste 9780986132599
RRP: $58.50$57.82Since its publication in 1969, emile Benveniste's Vocabulaire here in a new translation as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocultural... -
Intelligence: Investigation, Community and Partnership by Clive Harfield
$90.30This title provides a clear introduction and practical guide to the use of intelligence in policing, offering detailed explanations of relevant legislation and establishing the theoretical and operational context and rationale within which intelligence... -
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Janet Holmes
RRP: $70.18$63.75Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic introductory work, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a variety of social contexts, considering both how language works and how it... -
Scientific and Technical Translation Maeve Olohan 9780415837866
RRP: $74.08$65.09Routledge Translation Guides cover the key translation text types and genres and equip translators and students of translation with the skills needed to translate them. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from... -
Oxford Latin Desk Dictionary by Grocyn Lecturer James Morwood 9780198610700
$28.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198610700Author James MorwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University Press -
Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners: A Critical Analysis of Theoretical Concepts Jim Cummins 9781800413573
RRP: $58.40$48.38Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this... -
The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech by Irving Lewis Allen 9780195092653
RRP: $31.18$25.92Irving Lewis Allen provides an insightful history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. Anecdotal and at times analytical, this book is both a lexicon of slang and a history of recent casual language.Book... -
How to Pass the MRCPsych CASC by Andrew Iles
$113.41Following the recent changes to the psychiatry training curriculum by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, this is the first book of its kind specifically written to offer revision support for the new Clinical Assessment of Skills and Competencies (CASC)... -
The Essential Turing by B. J. Copeland 9780198250807
RRP: $72.13$58.01Alan Turing, pioneer of computing and WWII codebreaker, is one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this volume for the first time his key writings are made available to a broad, non-specialist readership. They make... -
Garner's Modern English Usage by Bryan A. Garner
RRP: $95.53$91.26The most original and authoritative voice of today's English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage in 1999, the book... -
Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism by Colin Baker
RRP: $68.15$57.56The seventh edition of this bestselling textbook has been extensively revised and updated to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education in an everchanging world. Written in a compact and clear style, the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin by Sarah Knight 9780190886998
RRP: $79.93$74.65From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book...