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“michael bowker”

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    Fatal Deception

    The Untold Story of Asbestos: Why it is still legal and killing us

    by Michael Bowker ...
    Narrated by John Slattery ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 32 min

    At first glance, the events in this audiobook may seem equal parts science fiction and legal thriller. Unfortunately, this is a true story of blinding greed, cruel deceit, unfortunate circumstance, and powerful human tragedy. It has villains and heroes, but it does not yet have a good ending.Something's wrong in Libby, Montana. Residents are dying at a rate sixty times higher than the national ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Unity in Diversity

    Recent Trends in Translation Studies

    Edited by Lynne Bowker, Michael Cronin, Dorothy Kenny, Jennifer Pearson ...
    Translation studies as a discipline has grown enormously in recent decades. Contributions to the discipline have come from a variety of fields, including machine translation, history, literature, philosophy, linguistics, terminology, signed language interpreting, screen translation, translation pedagogy, software localization and lexicography. There is evidently great diversity in translation ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

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  • Legal Translation Explained

    by Enrique Alcaraz, Brian Hughes ...
    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

    $81.99 CAD

  • A Critique of Politeness Theory

    Volume 1

    by Gino Eelen ...
    As a sociolinguistic phenomenon that connects language and its users to the social world that surrounds them, politeness can provide insights into the very structure of social reality and the process by which it is established and maintained. And through its focus on ethical aspects of social interaction, it can expose the fundamental nature and the inner workings of morality in our everyday lives ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Asian Translation Traditions

    by Eva Tsoi Hung Hung, Judy Wakabayashi ...
    Translation Studies, one of the fastest developing fields in the humanities since the early 1980s, has so far been Euro-centric both in its theoretical explorations and in its historical grounding. One of the major reasons for this is the unavailability of reliable data and systematic analysis of translation activities in non-Eurpean cultures. While a number of scholars in the Western tradition of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by J. House ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The cross-linguistic and cross-cultural practice of translation is a field of rapidly growing international importance. World-renowned experts offer new and multidisciplinary insights on this subject, viewing translation as social action and intercultural communication, and as a phenomenon of languages in contact and a socio-cognitive process. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Translation

    by Susan Bassnett ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    In a time when millions travel around the planet; some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile, translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation holds within literature and society.Leading translation theorist, Susan Bassnett traces the history of ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Modern Dictionary of Electronics

    by Rudolf F. Graf ...
    Included in this fully revised classic are well over 28,000 terms, phrases, acronyms, and abbreviations from the ever-expanding worlds of consumer electronics, optics, microelectronics, computers, communications, and medical electronics. From the basic elements of theory to the most cutting-edge circuit technology, this book explains it all in both words and pictures.For easy reference, the author ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting

    Edited by Holly Mikkelson, Renée Jourdenais ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Interpreting provides a comprehensive survey of the field of interpreting for a global readership. The handbook includes an introduction and four sections with thirty one chapters by leading international contributors.The four sections cover:The history and evolution of the fieldThe core areas of interpreting studies from conference interpreting to interpreting in ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Community Translation

    by Mustapha Taibi, Uldis Ozolins ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
    Investigating an important field within translation studies, Community Translation addresses the specific context, characteristics and needs of translation in and for communities. Traditional classifications in the fields of discourse and genre are of limited use to the field of translation studies, as they overlook the social functions of translation. Instead, this book argues for a ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Bourdieu in Translation Studies

    The Socio-cultural Dynamics of Shakespeare Translation in Egypt

    by Sameh Hanna ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This book explores the implications of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural production for the study of translation as a socio-cultural activity. Bourdieu’s work has continued to inspire research on translation in the last few years, though without a detailed, large-scale investigation that tests the viability of his conceptual tools and methodological assumptions. With focus on the Arabic ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Shot

    The Shot: Bilingual Edition (English - Russian)

    by Aleksandr Pushkin ...
    Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Russian paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot. ... Read more

    $4.12 CAD