Roots of English

Reducere. Rick Hansen is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustrations...

Reducere. David Suzuki is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustration...

Reducere. Laura Secord is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustration...

DescriptionMost of us are aware that the words for some of our most important concepts stem from ancient Greek roots--words such as geometry, democ...

An exuberant picture book celebrating the life and legacy of Selena Quintanilla, beloved Queen of Tejano music. From a very early age, young Selena...

Reducere. Celebrated poet Julie Kane returns to her Boston Irish Catholic roots in this collection about mothers and daughters shaped by the forces of Irish ...

Reducere. Written in Iceland around the year 1500, the little book now known only as AM 434a is a treasure trove of medieval medical knowledge. The book list...

A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family, and a teen boy who crosses her...

For four hundred years, my family has been passing down the story of why our grandparents wrote, how they hid their children in the new world for s...

Reducere. The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda's longer poems and provides the key to his earlier work. It was inspired by hi...

Reducere. A powerful collection of personal essays on displacement, being different and living between two worlds, told with humor and self-reflection. Based...

DescriptionWho are we? The story of the peoples of Britain and Ireland, drawing on new genetic discoveries, language, buildings and landscape.The d...

Reducere. In Fernando Valverde's América, "sorrow is ancient." Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, a...

Reducere. Autobiographical poetry from one of Kentucky's rising Affrilachian literary stars.Bernard Clay's autobiographical poetry debut, English Lit, juxtap...

Reducere. In The Orange Trees of Baghdad, Leilah Nadir journeys to uncover her lost family roots in war-torn Iraq. Born to an Iraqi father and an English mot...

Reducere. BASED ON A TRUE STORY. Two young ladies, two centuries apart, struggle to save the people they love in this gripping sequel to Once Upon an Irish S...

In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an ...

Your ticket to excelling in mechanics of materialsWith roots in physics and mathematics, engineering mechanics is the basis of all the mechanical s...

Reducere. A practical, hands-on guide to Mexican-American folk magic. American Brujeria is about the fascinating blend of American and Mexican folk magic cur...

Reducere. DescriptionFive Biological Laws of Nature: A New Medicine Companion to the Psychic Roots of Disease. The study of The Five Biological Laws of Natur...

Reducere. DescriptionCompanion to the Psychic Roots of Disease. The study of The Five Biological Laws of Nature, opens the door to an entirely new way of loo...

Reducere. A hopeful, music-infused poetry collection from Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou. These compelling poems by novelist and essayist Alain Mabanckou con...

Reducere. Will returning to their Amish roots renew their faith in each other? Isaac and David never thought they'd go back to the Amish world. But when Isaa...

Reducere. They've escaped to the outside world-but can they really be free?David and Isaac have found happiness in each other's arms. In faraway San Francisc...

Reducere. Bunny Rabbit has lost her toy duck So Bunny and her brothers jump in their boat and head down the river in search of Little Duck. Their journey tak...

Reducere. Pull up a chair to the kitchen table and enjoy a delicious adventure through Bluegrass food history. Kentucky's cuisine can be traced back to Chero...

Learning Hebrew Becomes Easier with This Helpful Guide to Verbs and Their RootsThe most commonly used Hebrew verbs are arranged alphabetically in a...

Reducere. DescriptionTHE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN - A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN.. With original illustrations.The famous 19th century English designer,...

Reducere. It may be America's game, but no one seems to know how or when baseball really started. Theories abound, myths proliferate, but reliable informatio...

Reducere. Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the Unit...

Reducere. Where do words come from?--Learning new words by understanding their storiesThe English language is made up of words from different places, events,...

Reducere. Do consonant clusters have integral meaning in and of themselves? This book offers a fascinating insight into the world of consonants and their hid...

Reducere. First published in 1853, "The Two Babylons" is a religious work by the Scottish theologian Alexander Hislop, a prominent leader of the Presbyterian...

Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future.Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award...

Reducere. Description504 Essentials words for SSAT / ISEE vocabulary (UPPER) Vocabulary is becoming increasingly important for the SSAT/ISEE (Upper), and it ...

Reducere. 510 Essentials words for SSAT / ISEE vocabulary (Lower/Middle) Vocabulary is becoming increasingly important for the SSAT/ISEE, and it helps to dev...

Reducere. One of the Most Instructive Books Ever about Checkmate Tactics In the early 1950s, two former French champions authored a book that clearly - and q...

It is every Muslim's duty to read the Koran and try to understand it, which can be a problematic task for those unacquainted with Arabic. The study...

Reducere. This unique reference equips students with vocabulary skills that will last a lifetime. Students study Latin and Greek roots and learn the huge num...

Ren Gu non (1886-1951) was one of the great luminaries of the twentieth century, whose critique of the modern world has stood fast against the shif...

Reducere. The burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry...

Reducere. "Ryken's Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quot...

Reducere. The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots traces over 13, 000 words, representing nearly 1, 350 basic roots, to their origins in Prot...

Reducere. Based on the eclectic Western-Eastern teachings of Nakamura Tempu Sensei, this step-by-step introduction to Japanese yoga (Shin-shin-toitsu-do) pre...

Reducere. Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious...

Reducere. Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the ...

Reducere. Much of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the ma...

Reducere. Hanuman Chalisa is one of the most popular prayers in India and is sung daily by millions of Hindus worldwide. Composed by Tulsidasji around 400 ye...

Reducere. An epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region's most prominentthinkersInhis first book to appear in English since Mexico: Biogr...

Reducere. Angel in the Whirlwind is the epic tale of the American Revolution, from its roots among tax-weary colonists to the triumphant Declaration of Indep...

DescriptionUS Army CID Agents George Sue o and Ernie Bascom become entangled with a pushy tabloid reporter as they investigate a series of violent ...

Reducere. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave mus...

Reducere. Almost unique among the works of Muslim scholars, this book, which for Malikis is THE Risalah, was written for children when the author was 17 year...

Explore the Captivating History of the Wars of the Roses The Wars of the Roses were a complex set of battles, skirmishes, and kidnappings during th...

Reducere. Understand the beliefs, customs, and rituals of each faith The fun and easy way to know the common elements of these widespread religions Want to k...

Reducere. Chantal is once again tackling the subject of love, this time taking on missing links in Sex Ed and filling in the gaps. Her goal: to create a gene...

Reducere. Message Of The Natsarim is a new English translation of the letters written by the first followers of Yahusha. It gives the reader a sense of being...

Reducere. This small-group guide will help Catholics live out the call of Jesus to meet those on the peripheries with the Good News of the Gospel for their l...

Reducere. The 4000 Words Essential for an Educated Vocabulary. English offers perhaps the richest vocabulary of all languages, in part because its words are ...

Reducere. Nejang (Tibetan གནས་སྦྱངས་) is a gentle healing yoga practice consisting of twenty four simple physical exercises which use breath work and self-ma...

Reducere. Japanese master quilter Yoko Saito returns with an all-new collection of house projects to build and enjoy Twenty bags, totes, purses, pouches, wal...

Reducere. A searing--and sobering--account of the legal and extra-legal means by which systemic white racism has kept Black Americans 'in their place' from s...

Reducere. DescriptionWelcome to The DNA Guide for Adoptees: How to use genealogy and genetics to uncover your roots, connect with your biological family, and...

Javanese movement artist Suprapto Suryodarmo (Prapto) died in 2019. He developed, embodied and taught Amerta Movement. This book, covering the earl...

Reducere. "In his latest tome, 'Christian Foundations of the Common Law', Dr Augusto Zimmermann rediscovers the Christian roots of the English, American and ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Donald M. AyersRevised by: Thomas D. WorthenOther: R. L. CherrySince 1965, Donald Ayers' English Words from Latin and Greek...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Helena DettmerAuthor: Marcia LindgrenFor more than forty years, English Words from Latin and Greek Elements, by Donald M. A...

Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformat...

Reducere. Soldiers of the Sun traces the origins of the Imperial Japanese Army back to its samurai roots in the nineteenth century to tell the story of the r...

Reducere. The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'etre and no obvious poli...