Language: reference and general

This intermediate textbook continues to develop students' skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Vietnamese at the second-year language learning level.

Part textbook and part handbook, From "e;Huh?

Early in his career, Len Jenkin identified two qualities that theatre should have: wonder and heart.

Have you ever thought that you might want to write a story but simply couldn't find a way to get started?

You will never be lost for words in your travels around Italy and Italian-speaking countries again!

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to write the novel that's in you bursting to get out.

HE'S WRITTEN MORE THAN 80 BOOKS.

Executive Writing Skills for Managers deals with the English business writing you need at the top of your career.

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to say whatever you want creatively with hand-made greeting cards.

This collection of more than twenty-five essays, both meditative and formally inventive, considers all kinds of subjects: everyday objects such as keys and hats, plus concepts of time and place; the memoir; writing; the essay itself; and Michael Martone's friendship with the writers David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Kurt Vonnegut.

Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger's Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our increasingly diverse American literature.

Kenya has a rich and complex history.

This practical step-by-step guide provides an ideal introduction to the exciting and fun world of cartooning, covering a wide range of cartoons, caricatures, comic strips and manga.

Ecumenical consciousness has not always been part of the Catholic experience.

In the past century, more and more Americans have been migrating from rural areas and urban centers to suburban communities.

Explores the relationship among the German confessional divide, collective memories of religion, and the construction of German national identity and difference.

Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies.

In his short life (1865-1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of ancient Jewish and Christian history.

An amusing, informative, controversial and utterly irreverent history of the world's favourite word.

Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger's Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our increasingly diverse American literature.

Anxious about the apostrophe?

Everything you need to know to become a first-class letter writer.

This book is really a must-have for therapists and others in the creative arts, so that you can see how the workings of the human mind can be displayed through the arts.

The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoë Wicomb, one of South Africa’s leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume.

Tajikistan is the poorest and only Persian-speaking country among the post-Soviet independent states.

This practical guide to effective public speaking for professionals with Asperger Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) provides tailored advice on using your Asperger strengths to your advantage and overcoming areas of challenge to find your public speaking voice.

Writing in Bereavement is a practical creative handbook that will assist counsellors, volunteers and others in their work with bereaved adults.

Magic can take many forms, whether it be a desire, a wish, or a spell.

Poetry and short stories can act as powerful springboards to growth, self-enhancement and healing.

The use of creative writing as a route to personal or professional development is a powerful therapeutic tool, yet often the most difficult part is knowing how and where to begin.

This book will help students improve their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.

If you are a writer of fiction, this practical handbook will teach you how to acquire your own writer's tool-box.

This stimulating workbook is aimed at committed writers and students of creative writing who want to engage with ideas about writing and develop their craft and practice.

ADOPT THE LANGUAGE OF LEADERSWhether you're new to the world or work, or you just want to brush up on your leadership lingo, Talk More.

The official style guide followed by The Times and The Sunday Times.

Learn Japanese in no time with Paul Noble's tried-and-tested method.

From the Revolutionary War forward, Irish immigrants have contributed significantly to the construction of the American Republic.

This writing book is designed for students of all writing calibers.

A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Korean.

Taiwan was able to solidly build and sustain a film industry only after locally-produced Mandarin films secured markets in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s.

The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE).

The Reformation of the 16th century was a complex and multifaceted political, social, cultural, and religious process.

The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa The most significant nonfiction writings of Zoë Wicomb, one of South Africa’s leading authors and intellectuals, are collected here for the first time in a single volume.

Acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's works are characterized by such diversity that critics have sometimes had difficulty identifying the pattern in his carpet.

A fully illustrated, practical guide full of essential skills and knowledge that school didn't prepare us for'We all learned how to take tests at school, but then we went out into the world and found ourselves underprepared!

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL**'If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book' SUNDAY TIMES'The best book on the craft of storytelling I've ever read' MATT HAIG'A masterpiece.

Theatre in America has had a rich history-from the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway.

Literary fashions come and go, but some hang around longer than others, like Gothic literature which has existed ever since The Castle of Otranto in 1764.

For Lewis Carroll, a deacon in the Church of England, faith in Christ and belief in a loving God stood at the core of his being, but little has been written about what the church or faith meant to the celebrated author of the Alice books.

The use of creative writing as a route to personal or professional development is a powerful therapeutic tool, yet often the most difficult part is knowing how and where to begin.