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  • Translating Audiovisuals in a Kaleidoscope of Languages

    Series Book 65 - Lodz Studies in Language
    Translating Audiovisuals in a Kaleidoscope of Languages addresses the challenges involved in translating multilingualism in film and TV fiction. It shows the complexity of fictional characters "speaking in tongues" in different genres and for different audiences. It includes individual contributions and team project work on a range of audiovisual translation modes, such as dubbing, subtitling and ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Close to the Sea

    Series series Audiobook

    Unabridged

    58 min

    In a southern European country, the young woman Irene speaks up. She addresses different people. The course of her life depends on them. With each brief exchange, she offers us a small glimpse of her pain. We sense the looming tragedy through her words and witness its surprising aftermath. 'Close to the Sea' is a dramatic fiction by Ruth Vilar, inspired by a true story and translated by Clare ... Read more

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  • Fire over Calpe

    The Last of the Goths and the Muslim Invasion of Spain

    The Christianized Germanic Visigoths reigned on the Iberian Peninsula in the late sixth and seventh centuries until the year 711, when they were overthrown by Arabic and Moorish forces from Africa. The clash of wills between the Catholic Church and the King of the Goths for power and wealth, paved the way for an Islamic invasion, but specific details of this event have been little recorded. In ... Read more

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  • Forging Glory

    A Brief History of Real Madrid told by a soccer-loving philosopher

    Series series NO FICCIÓN
    A Brief History of Real Madrid told by a soccer-loving philosopherWhat kind of determination drives Real Madrid to be the best of the best year after year, and to achieve it with unusual frequency? How do you explain that it has been the most successful club on the world for a century and more? Maybe taking prestige so seriously increments the amount of expertise, since one of the substantial ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Story Frames for Teaching Literacy

    Enhancing Student Learning Through the Power of Storytelling

    Mastering the art of storytelling isn’t just a goal for professional writers. Analyzing and creating stories can boost critical literacy skills for all learners—and this comprehensive resource will show teachers and SLPs how.Aligned with the science of reading, this innovative guidebook reveals how to unlock literacy and learning skills by captivating K–12 students with the power of stories: how ... Read more

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  • The Cinema of Me

    The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary

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    When a filmmaker makes a film with herself as a subject, she is already divided as both the subject matter of the film and the subject making the film. The two senses of the word are immediately in play – the matter and the maker—thus the two ways of being subjectified as both subject and object. Subjectivity finds its filmic expression, not surprisingly, in very personal ways, yet it is ... Read more

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  • Brazil's Dance with the Devil

    The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

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    Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions:What are the principle signifiers of theatrical ... Read more

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  • Why Soccer Matters

    A Look at More Than Sixty Years of International Soccer

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  • New Trends in Audiovisual Translation

    New Trends in Audiovisual Translation is an innovative and interdisciplinary collection of articles written by leading experts in the emerging field of audiovisual translation (AVT). In a highly accessible and engaging way, it introduces readers to some of the main linguistic and cultural challenges that translators encounter when translating films and other audiovisual productions. The chapters ... Read more

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  • Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

    'Place in garden, lawn, to beautify landscape.'When Don Featherstone's plastic pink flamingos were first advertised in the 1957 Sears catalogue, these were the instructions. The flamingos are placed on the cover of this book for another reason: to start us asking questions. That's where philosophy always begins.Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art is written to introduce students to a ... Read more

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