Language: Reference & General

This edited book calls for a rethink of the current Asian language learning paradigm that frames Asian languages as strategic and economic tools, r...

The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators in American theater today. ...

The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators in American theater today. ...

The Routledge Student Guide to English Usage is an invaluable AZ guide to the appropriate use of English in academic contexts.The first part of the...

Focusing on communication needs in real-world clinical situations, Dr. Pilar Ortega's updated edition of this practical text helps you address toda...

This intensive foundation course in Italian is designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Accompanying audio material contai...

Balancing skills and theory, this introductory public speaking textbook encourages the reader to see public speaking as a way to build community in...

Most people dread writing reports; they also dread reading reports. What they dont realize is that the techniques that make writing more readable m...

One-time teacher and bestselling novelist Joanne Harris has been advising and corresponding with aspirational writers for over six years. This coll...

The pages of The Confession Album contain 100 questions. Your part is collecting the answers - whether from a loved one, or yourself - in the cours...

Jewish Languages from A to Z provides an engaging and enjoyable overview of the rich variety of languages spoken and written by Jews over the past ...

What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of ordinary people. ...

Written by a team of top academics and highly-experienced legal practitioners, this is a very complex area of law. It provides both a critical anal...

As Long as the Earth Endures is an annotated collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language of Indian...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeatss work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils shows how readin...

This practical and portable guide has been designed specifically to help academics and students in medicine and surgery departments at universities...

The German election of 2013 has important ramifications for the whole of Europe. Germany After the 2013 Elections: Breaking the Mould of Post-Unifi...

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 from the Bodleian Library in two parts. They consist...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

First published in 1980, this study of two renowned later fourteenth century English poets, Chaucer and Langland, concentrates on some major and re...

This book provides an up-to-date, coherent and comprehensive treatment of digital scholarly editing, organized according to the typical timeline an...

First published in 1882, this volume formed the sixth part of a unique series of English-language Charlemagne romances. It contains three poetic te...

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, bo...

The Other Kind of Funnies refutes the mainstream American cultural assumption that comics have little to do with technical communication-that the f...

This book offers an engaging and accessible introduction to data visualization for communicators, covering everything from data collection and anal...

This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular...

Winner of the Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological AssociationThis book offers a...

Translating for performance is a difficult and hotly contested activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between...

Kinotalk: 21st Century is a cinema-based textbook that enhances students linguistic and cultural proficiency through guided studies of 12 Russian f...

The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across t...

Title first published in 2003. This informative volume addresses the impact of the EU on national policies to combat poverty in European member sta...

First published in 1998, this volume brings together the most part of the authors work on medieval polyphony. The most significant advance in music...

This absorbing collection of metaphors includes a variety of expressions with figurative meanings, like similes, proverbs, slang and catchphrases. ...

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello...

This groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics. The b...

The nine essays in this volume by Elizabeth Brown deal with the development of representative institutions and monarchial power in Capetian France....

Master the basics of writing with THE LEAST YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ENGLISH: WRITING SKILLS. The book's simple approach (embraced by students for dec...