The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
A Book of Middle English
Wiley 2011; US$ 51.95This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook. Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and... more...
The French Influence on Middle English Morphology
De Gruyter 1996; US$ 147.00The French influence on Middle English morphology : a corpus-based study of derivation Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] more...
Island of Bones
UNP - Nebraska Paperback 2012; US$ 16.95What is “identity” when you’re a girl adopted as an infant by a Cuban American family of Jehovah’s Witnesses? The answer isn’t easy. You won’t find it in books. And you certainly won’t find it in the neighborhood. This is just the beginning of Joy Castro’s unmoored life of searching and striving that... more...
The Challenge of English in the National Curriculum
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 61.95The Challenge of English in the National Curriculum considers how particular aspects of a national curriculum can be reconciled with the best practice of the English teaching tradition. The authors are all practising teachers who look at the lessons of the past as well as their hopes for the future. Each chapter begins from a question raised by teachers... more...
Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 69.00This study uses evidence from early English verse to reconstruct the course of some central phonological changes in the history of the language. Examination of the behaviour of onset clusters sheds new light on the special treatment of sp-, st-, sk-, and the chronology and motivation of cluster reduction. more...
Verbs of Motion in Medieval English
Boydell & Brewer 2002; US$ 99.00Few studies have been made on Old English verbs of motion after Weman (1933). Verbs of motion are ordinary words, for which cognates can be found among Germanic languages, but the choice of words as renderings of the Latin verbs can be different. This piece of work presents various aspects of the verbs which, basically denoting coming and going, have... more...
A History of the English Language
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 46.00The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major importance to linguists and historians. In this authoritative volume, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the language over fifteen centuries. more...
In Defense of Reading
Wiley 2009; US$ 109.95Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century is a passionate and joyful defense of the pleasures of reading. This stimulating book provides valuable insights for teachers and students on why we read and how we read when we embark on "the odyssey of... more...
Teaching Life
University of Iowa Press 2008; US$ 22.50Part epistolary memoir, part handbook, Teaching Life reflects on more than three decades of teaching literature and touching the lives of students. Both a reflection on a life in literature and a primer on teaching as a vocation, this soul-stirring work also provides behind-the-scenes stories of many of the authors who have influenced Dale Salwak?s... more...









