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The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman 9780199739783
RRP: £42.99£26.91Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between... -
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,... -
Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature by Martin Montgomery
RRP: £39.99£35.46Ways of Reading is a best-selling textbook for undergraduate students of English Language and English Literature, providing readers with the tools to analyse and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts. Six sections, comprising twenty... -
Introduction to Natural Language Processing by Jacob Eisenstein
RRP: £72.00£49.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262042840Author Jacob EisensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 29mm -
The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III: Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family by Peter Byrne
RRP: £26.99£23.20Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "many worlds" theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy. Using Everett's unpublished papers (recently discovered in his son's basement) and dozens... -
Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes by Colin McLarty 9780198514732
RRP: £137.50£107.59This book covers elementary aspects of category theory and topos theory. It has few mathematical prerequisites and uses categorical methods throughout rather than beginning with set theoretic foundations. It works with key notions such as cartesian... -
The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek by Albert Rijksbaron
RRP: £26.00£24.85The verb is, in any language, the motor of all communication: no verb, no action. In Greek, verb forms change not only with person, number, tense, and voice, but in four possible moods as well. "The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek" is... -
The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire by Leslie P. Peirce 9780195086775
RRP: £61.00£47.17The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of... -
The Gentle Art Of Verbal Self Defense At Work by Suzette Haden Elgin 9780735200890
£11.44For some employees, verbal abuse can be the everyday language of doing business. Defending yourself from these verbal abusers-calmly, professionally, and successfully-can be crucial to your on-the-job success. Nationally recognized linguistics expert... -
The Story of Life by Richard Southwood 9780198607861
RRP: £16.99£12.94How did life begin? What was 'snowball earth'? Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Are we all descended from 'African Eve'? Will humans be responsible for the next major extinction? These and many other fundamental questions are addressed in this... -
Key Topics in Second Language Acquisition Vivian Cook 9781783091799
RRP: £19.95£16.94This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA researchers have tried to answer common questions about second language acquisition rather than being a... -
Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning by Paul Ricoeur 9780912646596
£20.30The four essays that make up this volume are based upon and expand the lectures Ricoeur delivered at Texas Christian University, 27-30 November 1973, as their Centennial Lectures. They may be read as separate essays, but they may also be read as step by... -
Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration by John C. Norcross
RRP: £110.00£89.78Hailed by one reviewer as "the bible of the integration movement," the inaugural edition of Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration was the first compilation of the early integrative approaches to therapy. Since its publication psychotherapy integration... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring by Phillip Kitcher 9780195183603
RRP: £14.99£10.48Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's... -
A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles by Anand Syea 9780367897369
RRP: £36.99£32.93• Provides the first detailed analysis of the grammar of English Creoles, focusing on a selection of English Creoles from across the Atlantic and Pacific. • Fulfils the need for a grammar of English Creoles which will allow those not only studying and... -
Language and Gender: A Reader Jennifer Coates (Roehampton University London, UK) 9781405191272
RRP: £33.95£30.38The new edition of Language and Gender: A Reader responds to the wealth of research that has shaped the field since its initial publication in 1998. Retaining many of the foundational entries that have made the volume so popular, the second edition has... -
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£12.24Apologies 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 *... -
Second Language Writing by Ken Hyland 9781108456418
RRP: £29.99£27.07Authoritative and accessible, this book introduces the theory and practice of teaching writing to students of EFL/ESL learners. While assuming no specialist knowledge, Ken Hyland systematically sets out the key issues of course design, lesson planning,... -
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... -
Bespoke: A Guide to Cycle-Speak and Saddle Slang Tom Bromley 9780712353656
RRP: £12.99£8.60Some sports lend themselves to language: cycling is one of them. With its rich history and culture, and its professional roots across the continent and beyond, cycling has developed a terminology that goes well beyond borders, producing a lexicon all of... -
An Introduction to Regional Englishes: Dialect Variation in England by Joan C. Beal
RRP: £19.99£16.42Are the dialects of England disappearing in the wake of globalisation and 'Estuary English', or are geographical differences as strong as ever? Joan Beal looks at recent research into regional variation in England, discusses the evidence for 'dialect... -
The Oxford Handbook of Causation by Helen Beebee
£42.07Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and freedom of the will. In epistemology, philosophers investigate how... -
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... -
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,... -
Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America by Kenneth Morgan 9780192892911
RRP: £37.99£31.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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... -
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... -
Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction Peter Stockwell 9781138781382
RRP: £37.99£33.38A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis.The second edition of this seminal text features:* updated theory, frameworks, and examples... -
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... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years by A. David Moody 9780199215584
RRP: £28.99£21.20This second volume of A. David Moody's full-scale portrait, covering Ezra Pound's middle years, weaves together into a single highly readable and challenging narrative, in a way that has not been done before, the illuminating story of his life, his... -
Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life by Meredith B. McGuire 9780195368338
RRP: £25.99£17.13What are we to make of the Latina schoolteacher who considers herself a good Catholic, rarely attends Mass, but meditates daily at her home altar (where she mixes images of the Virgin of Guadalupe with those of Frida Kahlo, and traditional votive candles... -
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 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...