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  • Words for Trees

    by Barbara Folkart ...
    In this Ottawa writer’s first volume of verse, there are trees, of coursecatalpas on stained-glass transoms, an ever-present crabappel, nameless species in whose bare branches the winter solstice lurks. There is music, tooa whorehouse tango, a string quartet enthralling a favourite cat, the silky caress of a clarinet along the remembered flesh of adolescence. And visual art, from the Middle Ages ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hermes Complex

    Philosophical Reflections on Translation

    by Charles Le Blanc ...
    Translated by Barbara Folkart ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words.The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver the ideas and words of others and resorted to all manner of ruses in order to assert his presence in the messages he transmitted. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Second Finding

    A Poetics of Translation

    by Barbara Folkart ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    The translation of poetry has always fascinated the theorists, as the chances of "replicating" in another language the one-off resonance of music, imagery, and truth values of a poem are vanishingly small. Translation is often envisaged as a matter of mapping over into the target language the surface features or semiotic structures of the source poem. Little wonder, then, that the vast majority of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

    Translation and the Meaning of Everything

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  • Zubi!

    The Real Hebrew You Were Never Taught in School

    by Danny Ben Israel ...
    How to talk dirty and influence people—in Hebrew!You can study Hebrew for years, but do you really know how to talk like a native speaker? The next book in Plume's foreign language series, Zubi! will make sure you learn all the colorful vernacular words and phrases for a variety of situations,including insulting your neighbor,flirting with the hot guy or girl at the club, and even chatting online ... Read more

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  • Learn German - Bilingual Book (German - English) The Adventures of Julius Caesar

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  • Research Methodologies in Translation Studies

    by Gabriela Saldanha, Sharon O'Brien ...
    As an interdisciplinary area of research, translation studies attracts students and scholars with a wide range of backgrounds, who then need to face the challenge of accounting for a complex object of enquiry that does not adapt itself well to traditional methods in other fields of investigation. This book addresses the needs of such scholars – whether they are students doing research at ... Read more

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  • EU Translation Guide

    by Nicolae Sfetcu ...
    European Commission staff have to write many different types of documents. Whatever the type - legislation, a technical report, minutes, a press release or speech - a clear document will be more effective, and more easily and quickly understood. This guide will help you to write clearly whether you are using your own language or one of the other official languages, all of which are also working ... Read more

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  • Smoke & Mirrors

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    Michael Faudet's latest book takes the reader on an emotionally charged journey, exploring the joys of falling madly in love and the melancholy world of the brokenhearted. Beautifully captured in poetry, prose, and short stories, Faudet's whimsical and sometimes erotic writing has captured the hearts and minds of thousands of readers from around the world. ... Read more

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  • Learn Greek - Bilingual Book (Greek - English) The Life of Cleopatra

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  • Hera Lindsay Bird

    by Hera Lindsay Bird ...
    This impressive debut has established Hera Lindsay Bird as a good girl with many beneficial thoughts and feelings. With themes as varied as snow and tears, the poems in this collection shine with the fantastic cream of who she is, juxtaposing many classical and modern breezes. Bird turns her prescient eye on love and loss, and what emerges is like a helicopter in fog or a bejewelled Christmas ... Read more

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