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Metaphors We Live by by George Lakoff
RRP: €19.20Booksplease Price: €17.70People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors... -
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08Steven Pinker, the bestselling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st centuryWhat is the secret... -
First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing ... and Life. by Joe Moran
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.31A STYLE GUIDE BY STEALTH - HOW ANYONE CAN WRITE WELL (AND FULLY ENJOY GOOD WRITING)'Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise and quietly comical' Craig BrownAdvanced maths has no... -
Gramadeg Cymraeg Cyfoes/Contemporary Welsh Grammar by 9781859026724
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €10.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859026724Author GomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
The Penguin Dictionary of English Grammar by R. L. Trask
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54This succinct and authoritative volume is the perfect guide to the many grammatical laws and idiosyncrasies that govern the English Language. Larry Trask writes with remarkable clarity, communicating... -
The Truth About English Grammar by Geoffrey K. Pullum 9781509560547
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €18.30Do you worry that your understanding of English grammar isn't what it should be? It may not be your fault. For hundreds of years, vague and confused ideas about how to state the rules have been... -
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by P. H. Matthews
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.63The third edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics is an authoritative and invaluable reference source covering every aspect of its wide-ranging field. In 3,250 entries the Dictionary... -
500 Words You Should Know by Caroline Taggart
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.62'This "essential cornucopia" aims to inspire you to use uncommon words in their original contex'- BooksellerEver wanted to ameliorate your atavistic lexicon, engage in a little intellectual badinage... -
A Latin Grammar by James Morwood
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €9.88A Latin Grammar offers: The most accessible students' guide: clearly written explanations of key Latin grammar points in an easily navigable layout Hundreds of example sentences: illustrating... -
Parma Eldalamberon 23 : The Feanorian Alphabet, Part 2 & Eldarin Pronouns by J. R. R. Tolkien 9781836901266
Booksplease Price: €32.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836901266Author J. R. R. TolkienFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint
An Introduction to English Language: Word, Sound and Sentence by Koenraad Kuiper 9781350380127
Booksplease Price: €41.35Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language, namely its words, sounds and sentences...
Treigladur, Y - A Check-List of Welsh Mutations (Argraffiad Newydd) D. Geraint Lewis 9781859024805
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859024805Author D. Geraint LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint
A Parliament of Owls: A Book of Collective Nouns by Chloe Rhodes 9781789295955
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Why are geese in a gaggle? Are lions actually proud? And do crows deserve their murderous moniker? Collective nouns are one of the most bizarre and baffling aspects of the English language, and this...
English for the Natives: Discover the Grammar You Don't Know You Know Harry Ritchie 9781848548398
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €11.11'My first English lesson was grammar with the terrifying Mrs Petrie. She spent the entire time marching up and down the classroom, thwacking various items of school furniture with a ruler while she...
Stories from the Tain by John Strachan
RRP: €14.40Booksplease Price: €13.68'The Tain' (meaning 'The driving-off cows of Cooley') is a legendary Irish tale set in the first century AD. It tells of a war against Ulster by the Connacht queen Medb and her husband Ailill, who...
Longman's Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English Paper by Douglas Biber
RRP: €49.80Booksplease Price: €47.32Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and...
Oxford A-Z of Better Spelling by Charlotte Buxton
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.82Good spelling is fundamental to making the right impression with any type of writing; reports, homework, CVs, and letters all require correct spelling in order to get the message across in clear and...
The Wonders of Language: Or How to Make Noises and Influence People by Ian Roberts
RRP: €28.80Booksplease Price: €26.15Ian Roberts offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a species: our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the structure of...
The Architecture of Language by Nirmalangshu Mukherji 9780195684469
Booksplease Price: €14.24In this book, Noam Chomsky reflects on the history of 'generative enterprise' - his approach to the study of languages that revolutionized our understanding of human languages and other cognitive...
Introduction to Attic Greek by Donald J. Mastronarde 9780520275713
RRP: €45.60Booksplease Price: €39.60Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available. The text...
The Teacher's Guide to Grammar by Deborah Cameron 9780199214488
Booksplease Price: €40.32The Teacher's Guide to Grammar is unique in focusing directly on the aspects of grammar that teachers need to know. Assuming little or no formal linguistic education, this concise and accessible book...
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation by George Steiner 9780192880932
RRP: €19.79Booksplease Price: €15.79`Translation has long needed a champion, and at last in George Steiner it has found a scholar who is a match for the task.' Sunday Times First published in 1975, After Babel constituted the first...
English Words and Sentences: An Introduction by Eva Duran Eppler
Booksplease Price: €38.20Hands-on, theory-neutral and non-technical, this textbook is a basic introduction to the structure of English words and sentences. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistic analysis, it presents the...
The 25 Rules of Grammar: The Essential Guide to Good English by Joseph Piercy
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.39Everything you need to know about the 25 essential rules of English grammar.English grammar is often said to be over-complicated and difficult to get to grips with but the truth is that, while...
The Oxford English Grammar by Sidney Greenbaum 9780198612506
Booksplease Price: €103.98Written by one of the world's leading grammarians, The Oxford English Grammar is a completely new book which combines an authoritative review of and topic reference for English grammar. Opening...
Celtic and Medieval Alphabets: 53 Complete Fonts by Dan X. Solo 9780486400334
RRP: €14.99Booksplease Price: €10.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486400334Author Dan X. SoloFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint
Introduction to Attic Greek: Answer Key by Donald J. Mastronarde 9780520275744
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.54This booklet provides the answers to the exercises in Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition by Donald J. Mastronarde, (UC Press, 2013, 9780520275713). It is an invaluable guide for instructors and...
Aitchison's Linguistics: A practical introduction to contemporary linguistics Jean Aitchison 9781444105964
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60Is this the right book for me?This classic book is a straightforward introduction to linguistics which attempts to answer two fundamental questions: 'What is language?' and 'How does language work?'...
More Nitty-gritty Grammar: Another Not-so-serious Guide to Clear Communication by Edith Hope Fine 9781580082280
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580082280Author Edith Hope FineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint
Exegetical Gems from Biblical Greek: A Refreshing Guide to Grammar and Interpretation Benjamin L. Merkle 9780801098772
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.12Learning Greek is a difficult task, and the payoff may not be readily apparent. To demonstrate the insight that knowledge of Greek grammar can bring, Benjamin Merkle summarizes 35 key Greek...
From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 by Christopher Cannon
RRP: €26.39Booksplease Price: €25.49The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only...
The Morphology of Biblical Greek: A Companion to Basics of Biblical Greek and The Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament by William D. Mounce 9780310226369
RRP: €31.20Booksplease Price: €25.44The Morphology of Biblical Greek explains, in a way second-year Greek students can understand, how Greek words are formed. It shows that Greek word formation follows a limited set of rules. Once...
Understanding Grammar in Scotland Today by John Corbett
RRP: €17.94Booksplease Price: €15.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877933Author John CorbettFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint <
Introducing Semiotics: A Graphic Guide by Paul Cobley
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.00"Introducing Semiotics" outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. Through Paul Cobley's incisive text and Litza Jansz's brilliant...
Social Perspective: An Intermediate-Advanced Chinese Course: Volume II by Yi Ning
RRP: €47.99Booksplease Price: €45.59Social Perspective is a course set over one academic year for intermediate learners of Chinese. In two volumes, it focuses on developing learners' language competency to a high advanced plus/advanced...
Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide by John Maher 9781848312944
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €5.29Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal...
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T O'Conner
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525533054Author Patricia T. O'ConnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Im
A Book of Punctuation by 9788186830307
Booksplease Price: €3.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788186830307Format PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Pentagon PressPublisher
Dictionary of Spelling by 9788186830222
Booksplease Price: €3.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788186830222Format PaperbackPage Count 307Imprint Pentagon PressPublisher
Syntactical Mechanics: A New Approach to English, Latin, and Greek by Bruce A McMenomy 9780806144948
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €20.02Syntax, Bruce McMenomy would like the beleaguered student to know, is not a collection of inconsistent and arbitrary rules, but rather an organic expression of meaning that evolved over time. Aimed...