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Foundations of Physical Chemistry: Worked Examples by Nathan Lawrence
$41.67The transition between school and university presents new challenges and ideas for the student of chemistry. This Primer, written jointly by two undergraduates and a university professor is ideally suited to the needs of students at the school/university... -
Equity by Sarah Worthington 9780199290505
RRP: $60.62$47.39This second edition of Sarah Worthington's Equity maintains the clear ambitions of the first. It sets out the basic principles of equity, and illustrates them by reference to commercial and domestic examples of their operation. The book comprehensively... -
Why We Talk: The Evolutionary Origins of Language by Jean-Louis Dessalles 9780199563463
RRP: $54.81$43.65Jean-Louis Dessalles explores the co-evolutionary paths of biology, culture, and the great human edifice of language, linking the evolution of the language to the general evolutionary history of humankind. He provides searchingly original answers to such... -
German Reading Skills for Academic Purposes by Alexander Burdumy
RRP: $47.72$41.96German Reading Skills for Academic Purposes allows researchers and learners with no prior understanding of German to gain an understanding of written German at CEFR C2/ACTFL Intermediate-High level that will allow them to read a variety of German texts,... -
Language, Power and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire by Jim Cummins
RRP: $32.19$28.88Population mobility is at an all-time high in human history. One result of this unprecedented movement of peoples around the world is that in many school systems monolingual and monocultural students are the exception rather than the rule, particularly... -
Taking Chances: Winning with Probability by John Haigh
RRP: $16.76$11.73What are the odds against winning the Lottery, making money in a casino, or backing the right horse? Every day, people make judgements on these matters and face other decisions that rest on their understanding of probability: buying insurance, following... -
Understanding Child Language Acquisition Caroline Rowland (University of Liverpool, UK) 9781444152654
RRP: $56.75$50.99Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language acquisition over the last fifty years, as well as to some of the most influential theories in... -
Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Oliver Kamm 9781780227955
RRP: $14.18$9.55Are standards of English alright - or should that be all right?To knowingly split an infinitive or not to?And what about ending a sentence with preposition, or for that matter beginning one with 'and'?We learn language by instinct, but good English, the... -
The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War by Ardis Butterfield 9780199657704
$54.36The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. During this war, two profoundly intertwined peoples developed complex strategies for expressing their... -
Look Again: Gender Travis Alabanza 9781849767156
RRP: $12.90$9.18Tate Britain: Look Again: the National Collection of British Art reimagined for today. Gender is a polyphonic portrait of the representation of gender in art, from acclaimed playwright and artist, Travis Alabanza. Gender is performance. Think of the... -
Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities by John Warner 9781421437989
RRP: $23.87$21.39An important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing.There seems to be widespread agreement that-when it comes to the writing skills of college students-we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They... -
CLIL in Context Practical Guidance for Educators by Fred Genesee
$47.01CLIL in Context is a comprehensive, practical guide to CLIL in different educational contexts. The authors provide tips on how to implement CLIL for majority language students in dual language programs, for minority and indigenous language students who... -
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms by Richard A. Lanham 9780520273689
RRP: $32.25$25.27With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, "A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms" provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms - mostly Greek and Latin - that students of Western literature and rhetoric are... -
Analyzing Everyday Texts: Discourse, Rhetoric, and Social Perspectives by Glenn F. Stillar 9780761900610
RRP: $98.04$86.12By outlining and integrating three different perspectives - discourse, rhetoric and social theory - this book provides a comprehensive and well-illustrated framework for the analysis of everyday texts. The first part of the book describes the tools and... -
The World's Major Languages by Bernard Comrie
RRP: $56.75$51.65The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number... -
Discourse Theory and Practice: A Reader by Margaret Wetherell 9780761971566
RRP: $63.20$51.78`A highly effective introduction to the range of approaches found in discourse analysis... a lively and intellectually stimulating Reader' - David Silverman, Goldsmith College, University of London Discourse Theory and Practice is much more than a... -
Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect by Denise Riley 9780822335122
RRP: $25.79$22.63Denise Riley is renowned as a feminist theorist and a poet and for her remarkable refiguring of familiar but intransigent problems of identity, expression, language, and politics. In Impersonal Passion, she turns to everyday complex emotional and... -
French Grammar You Really Need To Know: Teach Yourself Robin Adamson 9781444179439
RRP: $19.34$12.64Comprehensive 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 Images of Time: An Essay on Temporal Representation by Robin Le Poidevin 9780199575510
RRP: $47.72$40.31The Images of Time presents a philosophical investigation of the nature of time and the mind's ways of representing it. Robin Le Poidevin examines how we perceive time and change, the means by which memory links us with the past, the attempt to represent... -
The Welsh Academy English-Welsh Dictionary by Dr. Bruce Griffiths 9780708311868
RRP: $70.95$60.73This English-Welsh dictionary - modelled on the "Harrap Shorter French" dictionary - includes synonyms; illustrative quotations; idioms; accentuation; specialist and technical terms; regional variants; literary and colloquial registers; as well as... -
The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies by J. W. Rogerson 9780199237777
$53.01The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the... -
English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice Paul Carley 9781138886346
RRP: $47.72$42.48English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice provides a unique introduction to basic articulatory phonetics for students of English. Built around an extensive collection of practice materials, this book teaches the pronunciation of modern standard... -
Scots Thesaurus Scottish Language Dictionaries 9781902930039
RRP: $27.08$22.69Unique subject guide to over 20,000 Scots words. * Subject-by-subject access to Scots words with definitions in English * Wide-ranging coverage of different subjects including animal and plant life, farming and fishing, food and drink, emotions and... -
Pocket Scots Dictionary by Scottish National Dictionary Association
RRP: $15.47$12.51The Pocket Scots Dictionary, based on the Concise Scots Dictionary, provides information on Scots language for the general public and for schools in a compact and user-friendly form. * Scots words old and new, general and local * Clear, simple... -
Common Phrases: And Where They Come From by Myron Korach 9781599213071
RRP: $15.47$11.51In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Anguished English, Common Phrases is a fascinating guide to the origins of our language. Wonderful stories reveal the real meaning of Adam's apple, nick of time, stool pigeon, armed to the teeth, raining cats... -
The Language , Society and Power Reader by Annabelle Mooney
RRP: $51.59$45.74The Language, Society and Power Reader is the definitive Reader for students studying introductory modules in language and society.Highly user-friendly, this wide-ranging collection of key readings introduces students to the thoughts and writings of... -
English as a Global Language by David Crystal
RRP: $19.34$14.73David Crystal's classic English as a Global Language considers the history, present status and future of the English language, focusing on its role as the leading international language. English has been deemed the most 'successful' language ever, with... -
Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence by Jonathan Culpeper 9780521689779
RRP: $34.82$30.70When is language considered 'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between 'impoliteness' and 'rudeness'? Grounded in naturally-occurring language data and drawing on... -
Reading Joyce by David Pierce 9781405840613
$46.62'Is there one who understands me?' So wrote James Joyce towards the end of his final work, Finnegans Wake. The question continues to be asked about the author who claimed that he had put so many enigmas into Ulysses that it would 'keep the professors... -
Philodemus, On Poems, Books 3-4: with the fragments of Aristotle, On Poets by Richard Janko
$69.25The On Poems by the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (1st century BC) survived amid the library of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, which was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. The papyrus-rolls in this, the only... -
The Language of Fake News by Jack Grieve
RRP: $21.93$18.99In this Element, the authors introduce and apply a framework for the linguistic analysis of fake news. They define fake news as news that is meant to deceive as opposed to inform and argue that there should be systematic differences between real and fake... -
The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses by Amar V. Bhide 9780195170313
$43.15What is this mysterious activity we call entrepreneurship? Does success require special traits and skills or just luck? Can large companies follow their example? What role does venture capital play? In a field dominated by anecdote and folklore, this... -
The Secrets of Words by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $21.92$12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046718Author Noam ChomskyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Words and Things: An Examination of, and an Attack on, Linguistic Philosophy, A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology by Ernest Gellner
RRP: $21.92$19.63When Ernest Gellner was his early thirties, he took it upon himself to challenge the prevailing philosophical orthodoxy of the day, Linguistic Philosophy. Finding a powerful ally in Bertrand Russell, who provided the foreword for this book, Gellner... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody
RRP: $29.01$25.85This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we... -
Answer Key to Al-Kitaab fii Tacallum al-cArabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning ArabicPart One by Kristen Brustad
RRP: $5.16$5.10This answer key is to be used with "Al-Kitaab fii Ta callum al-cArabiyya: A Textbook for Beginning Arabic: Part One, Second Edition". The answer key for "Al-Kitaab, Part One" is intended as a resource for teachers and for learners studying on their own... -
Scouse: A Social and Cultural History Tony Crowley (The School of English, University of Leeds (United Kingdom)) 9781846318405
RRP: $32.24$28.91Nowhere in Britain is more closely associated with a form of language than Liverpool. Yet the history of language in Liverpool has been obscured by misrepresentation and myth-making and narratives of Liverpool's linguistic past have scarcely done justice... -
Many Voices: Empire by Afua Hirsch 9781849767774
RRP: $12.90$9.18Tate Britain: Look Again: the National Collection of British Art reimagined for today. Empire is a vital exploration of how Britain's colonial legacy has shaped its art, by one of the UK's most influential voices on the subject. In twenty-first... -
Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax by Brian Roark 9780199274789
RRP: $72.24$57.11The book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of morphology, syntax, computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). It provides a critical and practical guide to computational techniques for handling morphological and syntactic... -
The Account Book of Richard Latham, 1724-1767 by Lorna Weatherill 9780197260920
$106.63This account book of a small yeoman farmer in Lancashire, running from 1724 (just after his marriage) to his death in 1767, provides a record of expenditure on domestic, personal, and farming items. It is unique in offering a detailed view of household...