Language: reference and general

This comprehensive guide introduces aspiring storytellers to the ins and outs of writing fiction and nonfiction for young adults.

Comedy is serious business - and serious money.

Designed for people who want to tell a story their way, 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Indpendent Filmmaking explains everything a budding auteur needs to know, from literary development and financial and organizational pre-production to principal photography production, post-production assembly, exhibition and distribution, and more.

Attention aspiring and working writers alike!

Learn more than 10,000 of the most useful words and phrases in English with this beautifully illustrated dictionary for English-language studentsBuilding on the success of the English for Everyone programme and DK's Bilingual Visual Dictionary series, English for Everyone: Illustrated English Dictionary uses crystal-clear illustrations to show the meaning of over 10,000 words of English vocabulary.

Our children have the energy, capacity, and passion to create and nurture a global culture in which inclusion, acceptance, respect, and participation are the core values that underpin a human being's every interaction.

A favourite language aid of millions of travellers, this phrase ebook by DK contains all the key words and phrases that you may need in everyday situations.

This phrase ebook is the ultimate guide to get you talking in the local language on your next trip to Italy.

PLEASE NOTE - this is a replica of the print book and you will need paper and a pencil to complete the exercises.

*A TIME, New Yorker, Financial Times and History Today Book of the Year*'Hilarious' Sam Leith'I loved this book' Susie Dent'Witty and affectionate' Lynne TrussPerfect for book lovers, a delightful history of the wonders to be found in the humble book indexMost of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up.

Pedantic about punctuation or scrupulous about spelling?

The Italian English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is your essential vocabulary guide to the world around you.

A PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTA riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the processWhat does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living language?

The Russian-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary makes Russian simple for you to learn, translate and retain key vocabulary.

'A beautiful, deeply philosophical book about reading as a form of existential consolation' Literary Review'Acute and tender .

Encyclopaedia of Professional Journalism is a pioneering effort by T.

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique.

The ability to communicate in print and person is essential to the life of a successful scientist.

A comprehensive study of an award-winning playwright known for unconventional blending of genresJohn Guare, one of the most innovative and influential contemporary American playwrights of the last sixty years, is best known for such works as House of Blue Leaves, winner of an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play, and four Tony Awards, and Six Degrees of Separation, recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play and the Olivier Best Play Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

De nieuwste editie van de toonaangevende bestseller in de categorie studieboeken Nederlandse taal en taalkunde

In de derde herziene editie van Taal en Taalwetenschapgeefteen team van gerenommeerdetaalkundigeneen bredeinleiding inde belangrijkste thema'svan de taalwetenschap.

The Penguin Guide to Punctuation is indispensable for anyone who needs to get to grips with using punctuation in their written work.

What does it feel like to try and create something new?

Unravel the mysteries of language with J.

People speak different languages, and always have.

'If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on.

From 'shotclog', a Yorkshire term for a companion only tolerated because he is paying for the drinks, to Albanian having 29 words to describe different kinds of eyebrows, the languages of the world are full of amazing, amusing and illuminating words and expressions that will improve absolutely everybody's quality of life.

The King's English is Kingsley Amis's authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language.

Long-time word-detective and bestselling author of Port Out, Starboard Home, Michael Quinion brings us the answers to nearly two hundred of the most intriguing questions he's been asked about language over the years.

Ammon Shea was ten when he first discovered the joy of reading a dictionary rather than using it to look a word up.

The Wonder of Whiffling is a hugely enjoyable, surprising and rewarding tour of English around the globe (with fine coinages from our English-speaking cousins across the pond, Down Under and elsewhere).

The Penguin Writers' Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English.

'I have spent almost 33 of the last 53 years in and out of prison, but mainly in.

Can anything be described as 'very real'?

The Penguin Writers' Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English.

The Penguin Writers' Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English.

The Penguin Writers' Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English.

The Penguin Writers' Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English.

'Lately, I am trying to provoke myself into art - into writing.

This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms.

The Penguin Writer's Manual is the essential companion for anyone who wants to master the art of writing good English.

Vocabulary alone isn't enough.

This book has a simple thesis: to write well you need to think clearly about what you want to say.

In this provocative and persuasive new book, Nicholas Ostler challenges our assumption that English will continue to dominate as the global lingua franca.

Why would Germans accuse you of being like the donkey getting cross with a rabbit?

Allen s Dictionary of English Phrases is the most comprehensive survey of this area of the English language ever undertaken.

Patsy Rodenburg is the leading acting coach in the UK (she has worked with Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen and Cate Blanchett).

The Penguin Writers' Guides series provide authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English.

A fascinating, thematic exploration of clich s from as the actress said to the bishop to zero hour, explaining what they are and where they ve come from.

The English language is crammed with colourful phrases and sayings that we use without thinking every day.

THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT FRANCE: You burnt Joan of Arc!