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  • Academic Translation

    by Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    Scholarly writings in translation have contributed enormously to intellectual life throughout the world, but there has been little written on the practice of academic translation. Leading translation scholar, translator, and translator educator Brian James Baer discusses the specific challenges involved with academic translation and sets out ways of addressing them as a necessary first step in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    House of Fidelity

    The Rise of the Johnson Dynasty and the Company That Changed American Investing

    by Justin Baer ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 4 min

    **The gripping, definitive account of the private family behind one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world.“Pulls the curtain back on one of the country's most powerful and mysterious financial institutions … It’s a must read.” ―William D. Cohan , New York Times bestselling author of Power Failure**When Edward C. Johnson 2d founded Fidelity in 1946, investing was a pursuit ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Queer Theory and Translation Studies

    Language, Politics, Desire

    by Brian James Baer ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This groundbreaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Global Sexuality Studies. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of queer theory, this book places queer theory and Translation Studies in a productive and mutually interrogating relationship.After framing the discussion of actual and potential interfaces ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • How He-Man Mastered the Universe

    Toy to Television to the Big Screen

    by Brian C. Baer ...
    Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today. It's easy to forget that the transmedia trend began in 1982 with a barbarian action figure. He-Man and the other characters in Mattel's popular Masters of the Universe toy line quickly found their way into comic books, video games, multiple television series and a Hollywood film. The original ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature

    by Professor Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Literatures, Cultures, Translation
    Brian James Baer explores the central role played by translation in the construction of modern Russian literature. Peter I's policy of forced Westernization resulted in translation becoming a widely discussed and highly visible practice in Russia, a multi-lingual empire with a polyglot elite. Yet Russia's accumulation of cultural capital through translation occurred at a time when the Romantic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Queer(ing) Russian Art

    Realism, Revolution, Performance

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Yevgeniy Fiks ...
    Series series Myths and Taboos in Slavic Cultures
    While the topic of queer sexuality in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union has been investigated for decades by scholars working in the fields of sociology, history, literary studies, and musicology, it has yet to be studied in any comprehensive or systematic way by those working in the visual arts. Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performanceis meant to address this lacuna by ... Read more

    $125.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translation and Diaspora

    The Role of Translation in Émigré Communities in the USA

    Edited by Nike K. Pokorn, Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    The collective volume, Translation and Diaspora, explores for the first time in a systematic way diasporic communities as a distinct site of translational activity and highlights how fundamental translational activity has been to the development of diasporas in the USA.Contrary to the quite extensive research on translation and migration, Translation and Diaspora with its exploration of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Translating Texts

    An Introductory Coursebook on Translation and Text Formation

    Edited by Brian Baer, Christopher Mellinger ...
    Clear and accessible, this textbook provides a step-by-step guide to textual analysis for beginning translators and translation students. Covering a variety of text types, including business letters, recipes, and museum guides in six languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish), this book presents authentic, research-based materials to support translation among any of these ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Teaching Literature in Translation

    Pedagogical Contexts and Reading Practices

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Michelle Woods ...
    The teaching of texts in translation has become an increasingly common practice, but so too has the teaching of texts from languages and cultures with which the instructor may have little or no familiarity. The authors in this volume present a variety of pedagogical approaches to promote translation literacy and to address the distinct phenomenology of translated texts. The approaches set forward ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Researching Translation and Interpreting

    Edited by Claudia V. Angelelli, Brian James Baer ...
    This volume offers a comprehensive view of current research directions in Translation and Interpreting Studies, outlining the theoretical concepts underpinning that research and presenting detailed discussions of the various methods used.Organized around three factors that are responsible for shaping the study of translation and interpreting today—post-positivist theoretical approaches, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Serena Bassi ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sexuality questions what it would mean to think of sexualities transnationally and explores the way cultural ideas about sex and sexuality are translated across languages. It considers how scholars chart the multilingual rise of the modern sexual sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, how translators, writers, and readers respond to sexual ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Russian Writers on Translation

    An Anthology

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Natalia Olshanskaya ...
    Since the early eighteenth century, following Peter the Great’s policy of forced westernization, translation in Russia has been a very visible and much-discussed practice. Generally perceived as an important service to the state and the nation, translation was also viewed as a high art, leading many Russian poets and writers to engage in literary translation in a serious and sustained manner. As a ... Read more

    $66.99 USD