The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir (Koh E. J.)(Paperback)

The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir (Koh E. J.)(Paperback)

The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh's parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds

Windows: Fenetres (Pontalis J. -B)(Paperback)

At once a memoir and a personal version of the author's highly influential Language of Psychoanalysis, this work by one of the world's leading proponents of psychoanalytic theory and practice offers an autobiographical perspective on the private 'vocabularies' that develop between analyst and

The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Nesbit E.)(Paperback)

Praised by J.K. Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson and many others, The Story of the Treasure Seekers is the first book in the Bastable trilogy. Alma Junior edition is beautifully illustrated by Peter Bailey and contains extra material for young readers. Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius

Language Test Construction and Evaluation (Alderson J. Charles)(Paperback)

Language Test Construction and Evaluation describes the process of language test construction clearly and comprehensively. Each chapter deals with one stage of the test construction process; from drafting initial test specifications, to reporting test scores, test validation and washback. In

Helrunar: A Manual of Rune Magick (Fries Jan)(Paperback)

The runes are a pan-European magical language. Its roots lie in the ancient pagan beliefs of our ancestors, who built many thousands of stones circles, long barrows and dolmens throughout ancient Europe. These same symbols and techniques were used by the pagan Celts and Germans. This book is a

Dreaming on Both Sides of the Brain: Discover the Secret Language of the Night (Cohen Phd Doris E.)(Paperback)

The Celtic Languages (Ball Martin J.)(Paperback)

The Celtic Languages describes in depth all the Celtic languages from historical, structural and sociolinguistic perspectives with individual chapters on Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to provide a comprehensive and

The Child in the Church (Standing E. M.)(Paperback)

E.M. Standing edits a compilation of essays by Maria Montessori and others on religious education for children. Dr. Montessori describes the need for a particular kind of religious education for children--one that respects their individual religious experience and helps them experience the Liturgy

Broken Music: A Memoir (Sting)(Paperback)

'Sting's gift for prose and reverence for language, nearly the equal of his musical gifts, shine on every page. Even when Broken Music addresses the quixotic life of an aspiring rock & roller, it reads like literature from a more rarified time when adults didn't condescend to the vulgarities of pop

Daughter of Empire - Life as a Mountbatten (Hicks Lady Pamela)(Paperback / softback)

A magical memoir about childhood in India by the daughter of Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten; a glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the 20th century's leading

Grammar of the Edit (Bowen Christopher J.)(Paperback)

Tell more effective visual stories by learning the 'grammar' of cinematic language with this elegant, accessible reference. The fourth edition of Grammar of the Edit gives you the answers to the all-important questions of when to cut and why, and teaches readers the principles behind transitions,

Priest-King of the Warriors and Witch-Queen of the Others - Michal Cigán - e-kniha

Disgrace (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and

A Little Book of Language (Crystal David)(Paperback)

Now in paperback, in the tradition of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, a lively journey through the story of language With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more

Essex Clay (Motion Sir Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to familial

The Suprising Adventures of The Magical Monarch of Mo - Lyman Frank Baum - e-kniha

eBook:,‘The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo’ is a collection of fourteen short stories for children by renowned ‘Oz’ author L. Frank Baum. The stories focus on the adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and his family, who inhabit a magical and nonsensical world where

Hillbilly Elegy - A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Vance J. D.)(Paperback / softback)

The Happy Prince and Other Stories (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

A haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, in which Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) The Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, The Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and The Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines

Lost In Translation - A Life in a New Language (Hoffman Eva)(Paperback / softback)

A memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. It tells the story of Jewish post-war experience and the tragedies and discoveries born of cultural

Linguistics (Baker Anne E.)(Paperback)

Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguistics. A comprehensive introduction to the study of language, set apart by its inclusion of cross-linguistic data from over 80 different spoken and signed

Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction (Deary Ian J.)(Paperback)

Some people are cleverer than others. This everyday observation is the subject of an academic field that is often portrayed as confused and controversial, when in fact, the field of intelligence holds some of psychology's best-replicated findings. This Very Short Introduction describes what

Tales of Beedle the Bard - Illustrated Edition - A magical companion to the Harry Potter stories (Rowling J.K.)(Pevná vazba)

The Language of Psychoanalysis (LaPlanche Jean)(Paperback)

E. J. Rudsdale's Journals of Wartime Colchester (Pearson Catherine)(Paperback / softback)

E J Rudsdale's journals of wartime