Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation, Paperback - Vicente L. Rafael

In Motherless Tongues, Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in t...

This textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the basic concepts of translation theory and practice, with numerous activities, exercises a...

Reducere. DescriptionBiblical scholar and author J. B. Jackson offers here an A to Z list of names found in the Old and New Testament Bible scriptures, toget...

Classic study on the origin of human language, tracing it back to pre-Columbian America.Publisher: SteinerBooks, IncAuthor(s): Arnold D. WadlerNumb...

Since publication over twenty years ago, The Translator's Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and beco...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Massimiliano (University of Urbino, Italy) MoriniNumber of pages: 240Collection: Bloomsbury Advan...

For the first time, Decipherment of Pictish Ogham translates Pictish Ogham, an alphabetic script derived from Irish Ogham. These texts add life and...

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Reducere. DescriptionC. L. Johnstone offers here a history of Scotland's noble families through the centuries, noting how they shaped the history and politic...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Michael (Dublin City University, Ireland) CroninNumber of pages: 178Collection: New Perspectives in Trans...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat does the gift giver say about the gift He gave? This book will help you overcome the arguments, fears, and anxieties related to thi...

A new translation of the foundation texts of the Zoroastrian religion, the Gathas (songs) composed by Zoraster himself, together with the Liturgy i...

Reducere. The internationally renowned Jungian analyst Lopez-Pedraza diagnoses the psychological illness at the core of modern society--the loss of embodied ...

The international bestselling classic for all daughters who have lost their mothers, filled with wisdom, experience and stories from survivors and ...

Reducere. 'Les Chants de Maldoror' was virtually ignored when first published in 1869, a year before the author's death in Paris in 1870. Decades later the S...

Over the past 25 years, Pixar's team of artists, writers, and directors have shaped the world of contemporary animation with their feature films an...

Reducere. To followers of Islam, the Qur'an is the literal word of God, revealed through Muhammad, the last of the line of prophets, containing all that is n...

Ask any woman whose mother has died, and she will tell you that she is irrevocably altered, as deeply changed by her mother's death as she was by h...

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Reducere. This is a memoir of my early childhood growing up in a remote and poor Nigerian village. My mother died when I was only 13 months old, leaving me e...

Reducere. "Exemplary...Hitchings has created a fascinating, wholly readable, and gratifyingly informative book."---Financial Times (London) The English langu...

Ground-breaking in its study of translation of subtitling and dubbing of silent films, The Translation of Films, 1900-1950 shows how silent films w...

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Reducere. Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human--wha...

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DescriptionThe Medea of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian ...

Reducere. In this classic work of sociology, Doug McAdam presents a political-process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement ...

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Reducere. The Hyakunin Isshu is a poetry anthology beloved by generations of Japanese since it was compiled in the 13th century. Many Japanese know the poems...

Reducere. The Quran, literally meaning "the recitation, " also romanised (Koran) is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revela...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 288Collection: Bloomsbury Advances in TranslationPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 239 x...

Reducere. The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the M...

DescriptionContra Instrumentalism questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused b...

Reducere. A new edition of a seminal textbook to support Cree language study Cree: Language of the Plains is a comprehensive educational resource, offering a...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 2 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Tables, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber...

This is the fascinating and important story of how God's Word came to East Africa. Beginning with the pioneering efforts of Krapf and Rebmann, Aloo...

'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's' DAILY TELEGRAPH A story of pove...

Reducere. At the dawn of the computer age, an elite development team at IBM built the most influential computer programming language in history: FORTRAN. Abs...

The Jacobite Wars is a detailed exploration of the Jacobite military campaigns of 1715 and 1745, set against the background of Scottish political, ...

When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary ...