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This book offers the detailed historical background required for a holistic appreciation of current problems faced and the possibilities for revitalisation. In two volumes it provides introductory...

This book investigates the state of trade unionism in Africa's most populous regional economic zone. With the exception of the former British colonies of Nigeria and Ghana, surprisingly little has...

El presente volumen aborda la traducci?n e interpretaci?n institucional con un triple enfoque: a) su aplicaci?n social; b) las tendencias profesionales; y, c) la innovaci?n did?ctica en la ense?anza...

Is the utopian project dead? Is it possible to imagine a utopian society or a utopian world in the aftermath of the collapse of ideologies? This book contains fifteen essays which are the result of...

Is the utopian project dead? Is it possible to imagine a utopian society or a utopian world in the aftermath of the collapse of ideologies? This book contains eighteen essays which are the result of...

Was Edgar Allan Poe's work vulgar or a new specimen of beauty? Did he represent a critical puzzle for his influential readers or a basis for redefining American literature? This book offers a new...

Transformation is a desired outcome of Christian spirituality. Christians pray, trust, and hope that their responsive embrace of God will transform them. Interdisciplinary study of this process, as...

This volume brings together diverse perspectives on the role of education in Ireland in the areas of leadership, social justice and service in the community. Challenging the current vision of...

This study provides a comprehensive and balanced view of the New Age through formal studies and original research. Equal attention is accorded to practices and institutions illustrating the New Age...

.This volume honors Lucy Sargisson's contribution to the field of utopian studies.Author: Antonis BalasopoulosPublisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic PublisPublication Date: Mar 31,...

This edited volume provides an opportunity to take a fresh look at the printed material often regarded as disposable by its contemporaries and, until recently, as unworthy of serious academic...

This collection of essays can be situated in a development that has been underway in translation studies since the early 1990s, namely the increasing focus on translators themselves: translators as...

Children's literature delights in made-up words, nonsensical terms, and creative nicknames, but how do you translate these expressions into another language? This book provides a new approach to...

This book discusses the challenges facing translators of fictional works from German into English using as examples English translations of canonical German novellas by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,...

This book explores the various options and techniques available to and used by translators when translating from English to Japanese. The work is rich in both the theory and practice of translation...

This book aims to shed light on how translations of popular music contribute to fostering international relations by focusing on a case study of Turkish-Greek rapprochement in the last two decades...

The articles in this volume are the proceedings of a conference on 'Translation in Second Language Teaching and Learning' that took place at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, in March...

This edited collection presents an overview of the intersection of politics and translation. It explores translation as a process used by gatekeepers - translators, interpreters, trans-editors - to...

This collection comprises selected essays from a conference held at Chawton House Library in March 2006. It focuses on women writers as translators who interpreted and mediated across cultural...

Drawing on a range of approaches in cultural, gender and literary studies, this book presents Chr?tien de Troyes's Erec et Enide as a daring and playful exploration of scandal, terror and anxiety in...

?berLebenswege leistet einen wichtigen wissenschaftlich fundierten, sehr gut lesbaren Beitrag zur Geschichte der Deutschen Heimerziehung. Eindr?cklich und lebensnah wird verdeutlicht, wie normativ...

Theoretically insightful and descriptively rich, UFO Reports is deeply thoughtful and thought provoking. Jenkins demonstrates how UFO advocates and sceptics alike exist within a shared universe of...

The essays in this volume consider a range of negotiations around francophone identity in Canada (Quebec, Acadia, Ontario, Saskatchewan), in the Caribbean, in Belgium and in Switzerland, and also...

Consisting of essays of the 1960s and 1970s, and assembled by Laura (Riding) Jackson herself, this previously unpublished collection is both a substantial addition to the work of her later period,...

The book revisits the final decade in the life of Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), a central poet of Russian Modernism. Premised on the belief that no life can be understood without insight into its...

Schuchalter's comprehensive study of the enigmatic author Charles Sealsfield is a welcome contribution to German-American studies. He convincingly explains the development of Sealsfield's political...

Modern Western biography has become one of the most popular and most controversial forms of literature. Critics have attacked its tendency to rely on a strong narrative drive, its focus on a single...

L'objet de cet ouvrage est de considerer la France, son environnement politique, culturel et social, non pas comme un d?cor mais comme l'explication majeure au militantisme et aux choix politiques de...

In questo che ? il primo studio specificamente dedicato all'allestimento, l'autore ricostruisce il percorso espositivo della mostra per mettere in luce il dialogo che in queste sale intercorre tra il...

The central theme of landscape has long been associated with the construction and expression of Irish national identity, particularly in relation to rural Ireland, which traditionally has been...