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  • Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures

    Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts

    Edited by Simona Bertacco ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial studies. In a world where bi- and multilingualism have become quite normal, this volume identifies a gap in the critical apparatus in postcolonial studies in order to read cultural texts emerging out of multilingual contexts. The role of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Espanol medico y sociedad

    Un libro para estudiantes de espanol en el tercer ano de estudios (Revised Edition)

    by Alicia Giralt ...
    Espanol medico y sociedad/ Medical Spanish and Society is an innovative textbook that fulfills the needs of upper-division Spanish students who are pursuing degrees in the health professions, plan to become medical interpreters or just want to improve their proficiency in the language. It provides multiple opportunities to learn vocabulary related to the medical field, reviews hard-to-understand ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

    A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in printThe difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Wheelock's Latin

    The Classic Introductory Latin Course, Based on Ancient Authors

    The classic introductory Latin textbook, first published in 1956, and still the bestselling and most highly regarded textbook of its kind.Revised and expanded, this sixth edition of classics professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin has all the features that have made it the bestselling single-volume beginning Latin textbook and more:* Forty chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

    by David Bellos ...
    A New York Times Notable Book for 2011One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearPeople speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages—as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Everyday French Travel Pocket Size Phrase Book

    Beginners French Phrase Book for Travelers of France and Other French-Speaking Countries

    Embark on a captivating odyssey through the romantic streets of Paris, the sun-kissed vineyards of Bordeaux, or the picturesque landscapes of Provence, armed with the confidence to engage with locals and immerse yourself in authentic French experiences.With this pocket-sized treasure trove of linguistic prowess in your hands, you'll unlock the power to connect, communicate, and conquer the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Babel

    Around the World in Twenty Languages

    by Gaston Dorren ...
    “Babel is an endlessly interesting book, and you don’t have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it . . . it’s just so much fun to read.” —NPREnglish is the world language, except that 80 percent of the world doesn’t speak it. Linguist Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s people in their mother tongues, you’d need to know no fewer than twenty languages. In ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Just Friends?

    Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Breakthrough Level

    Series series Mandarin Companion
    When the beautiful Zixin arrives on campus, best friends Dapeng and Wendong soon discover they both share an interest in her. To preserve their friendship, they make a promise not to pursue her. However, when Wendong sees Zixin going for a ride in Dapeng’s car, the truce dissolves into a battle between the two friends trying to gain the affection of Zixin. Whom does she really like, or are they ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Dreaming in Chinese

    Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language

    Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering the behavior and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic

    All the Scottish Gaelic You Need to Curse, Swear, Drink, Smoke and Fool Around

    Scottish Highlanders, and their descendants all over the world, are no better and no worse than any other people where “sinful” behaviour is concerned. Standards of morality and social conventions changed dramatically during the 19th century – and most of the people engaged in recording and commenting upon Highland life and tradition were puritanical ministers and priests who left out the racy ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Mouse or Rat?

    Translation as Negotiation

    From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation.'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, broadly speaking, cultural.'Umberto Eco is of the world's most brilliant and entertaining writers on ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives

    For the Extraordinarily Literate

    Series series Highly Selective Reference
    Adjectives have long suffered from bad press. For many years, English teachers have been fond of telling students that "adjectives are the enemy of nouns, and adverbs are the enemy of everything else."While it's still advisable to heed your English teacher's advice on most other matters, The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives for the Extraordinarily Literate proves that breaking ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Cultural Misunderstandings

    The French-American Experience

    Translated by Carol Volk ...
    “Full of colorful anecdotes…tells us a lot about the French but even more about ourselves.”—Los Angeles TimesThis is an intriguing and thoughtful analysis of the many ways French and Americans—and indeed any members of different cultures—can misinterpret each other, even when ostensibly speaking the same language.Cultural misunderstandings, Raymonde Carroll points out, can arise even where we ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cant

    A Gentleman's Guide to the Language of Rogues in Georgian London

    by Stephen Hart ...
    Visiting the Underworld of Georgian London but not sure how to blend in? Can't tell a clapperdogeon from a running smobbler? Wouldn't recognise the upright man if he noped your costard with his filchman? You need this book. This fascinating guide will teach you all you need to know about the vocabulary of the Rogues of Georgian London and how to function in society at the lowest level. Along the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • They Divided the Sky

    A Novel by Christa Wolf

    by Christa Wolf ...
    Translated by Luise von Flotow ...
    Series series Literary Translation
    First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually develop but, very concretely, by the Berlin Wall, which went up on August 13, 1961.The story is set in 1960 and 1961, a moment of high political cold war ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • VIOLENT PHENOMENA

    21 ESSAYS ON TRANSLATION

    Frantz Fanon wrote in 1961 that 'Decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon,' meaning that the violence of colonialism can only be counteracted in kind. As colonial legacies linger today, what are the ways in which we can disentangle literary translation from its roots in imperial violence? Twenty-four writers and translators from across the world share their ideas and practices for disrupting ... Read more

    $13.14 USD

  • Translating Myself and Others

    by Jhumpa Lahiri ...
    Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

    A linguist’s entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function.Think you know language? Think again.There are languages that change when your mother-in-law is present.The language you speak could make you more prone to accidents.Swear words are produced in a special part of your brain.Over the past few decades, we have reached new frontiers of linguistic knowledge. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Bilingual

    Life and Reality

    Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures, or even that you have multiple personalities? Can you become bilingual only as a child? Why do ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Translating Great Russian Literature

    The Penguin Russian Classics

    by Cathy McAteer ...
    Launched in 1950, Penguin’s Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto provider of classic Russian literature in English translation, the legacy of which reputation resonates right up to the present day. Through an analysis of the individuals involved ... Read more

    Free

  • Language between God and the Poets

    Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century

    by Alexander Key ...
    Series Book 2 - Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In the Arabic eleventh-century, scholars were intensely preoccupied with the way that language generated truth and beauty. Their work in poetics, logic, theology, and lexicography defined the intellectual space between God and the ... Read more

    Free

  • Legal Translation Explained

    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    Focusing on the problems of translating English legal language, Alcaraz and Hughes offer a wide-ranging view of one of the most demanding and vital areas of contemporary translation practice. Individual chapters deal with legal English as a linguistic system, special concepts in the translation of legal English, the genres of legal translation, and offer a series of practical problems together ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Drout's Quick and Easy Old English

    Michael DC Drout has now transformed his classic "King Alfred's Grammar" into a comprehensive guide for learning Old English. Appropriate for students and enthusiasts alike, Drout's Quick and Easy Old English presents the basics of the language in an accessible form. Even the most novice student can learn to read the classics of medieval literature in their original language with this system.Drout ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate

    Series series Highly Selective Reference
    Anyone looking to improve his or her vocabulary and anyone who loves words will be enthralled by this unique and impressive thesaurus that provides only the most unusual -- or is it recondite? --words for each entry. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD