Companion to the renowned PBS television series on the topic, The Story of English is one of the most engaging, absorbing treatments of a language and its history imaginable; impossible to put down. Inspired scholarly text by the collaborating trio, and plenty of relevant graphics throughout. This is one of those titles that your loved ones will keep 'liberating' from you if you don't keep your eyes on it. I've bought it four times. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box; not a bag.

This practical, fully illustrated book includes creative suggestions for each day, from the first of December through to Christmas and Epiphany, based on the Christian traditions of this festive period.

The book is inspired by German Christmas traditions, and the crafts, activities and stories all have a wonderful German flavor. Learn how to bake delicious German biscuits and Stollen, make your own advent calendars and Christmas decorations, and find out more about legendary figures such as St Nicholas.

The Advent Craft and Activity Book is a wonderful resource for keeping children engaged and involved with celebrations throughout the Christmas season.

The new edition of 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step by Gail E. Tompkins is a conveniently organized resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, providing research-based and classroom-tested strategies to develop literacy skills. Everything you need to know to implement, adapt, and enrich each strategy is included in a consistent, easy-to-understand format.

This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed interactional sociolinguistics, this detailed and highly reflexive account provides rich descriptions and discussions of the linguistic processes at work in a previously underexplored research environment.

The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities.
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials.
This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.