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French for Le Snob : Adding Panache to Your Everyday Conversations
Yvette Reche
Paperback - $26.95
Designed to enable quick-witted English speakers to use the many French loanwords of the English vocabulary with an impeccable French pronunciation, this book details and defines approximately 2,500 French terms that have become a part of the English ...
Becoming a Translator : An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
D. Robinson
Hardcover - $275.95
Douglas Robinson presents an innovative approach to translation by integrating translation theory and the practical skills required by the working translator. The book provides the type of information and advice that novice translators really need: b ...
Becoming a Translator : An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
Douglas Robinson
Paperback - $82.95
Douglas Robinson presents an innovative approach to translation by integrating translation theory and the practical skills required by the working translator. The book provides the type of information and advice that novice translators really need ...
What is Translation? : Centrifugal Theories, Critical Interventions
Douglas Robinson
Hardcover - $50.95
In What Is Translation? Douglas Robinson investigates the present state of translation studies and looks ahead to the exciting new directions in which he sees the field moving. Reviewing the work of such theorists as Frederick Rener, Rita Copeland, E ...
The Powers of Genre : Interpreting Haya Oral Literature
Peter Seitel
Hardcover - $226.95
The Powers of Genre describes a method for interpreting oral literature that depends upon and facilitates dialogue between insiders and outsiders to a tradition. Seitel illustrates this method with lively examples from Haya proverbs, folktales, and h ...
The Translator's Handbook
Morry Sofer
Paperback - $40.95
Since 1997, this translator's guide has been the worldwide leader in its field and has elicited high praise from some of the world's best translators. It has been fully updated in the 2006 edition.
The Language of Objects in the Art of the Americas
Edward J. Sullivan
Hardcover - $109.95
In this wide-ranging book, a distinguished scholar of Latin American art explores the meanings of created and depicted objects from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions of the New World. Edward J. Sullivan begins with objects exchanged during ...
3 Contemporary Brazilian Plays
Elzbieta Szoka
Paperback - $39.95
This revised edition of Three Contemporary Brazilian Plays shows the power and truth of Consuelo de Castro, Leilah Assumpgco and Plmnio Marcos resonates as strongly today as it did twenty years ago. With updated biographies and a new introduction, as ...
The Art of Translating
Herbert Cushing Tolman
Paperback - $47.95
This is a definitive work on a most important subject and career a well regarded and honored work by the premier translation expert of the times, still widely appreciated.At the time of original publication in 1901, Herbert Cushing Tolman, Ph.D., was ...
Scholastic Sanskrit : A Handbook for Students
Gary A. Tubb
Hardcover - $74.95
This volume gives a complete introduction to the techniques and procedures of Sanskrit commentaries, including detailed information on the overall structure of running commentaries, the standard formulas of analysis of complex grammatical forms, and ...