Better words

Better Words provides an introduction to EFL lexicography and an insight into its fundamental issues. It describes in detail the major changes that have occurred in the production of EFL dictionaries over recent decades and will help teachers and their students to decide which EFL dictionary is t...

Communication across cultures

A unique synthesis of contrastive linguistics and discourse analysis, providing a core text for undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in language, applied linguistics, translation and cultural studies. Also of interest to language teachers, applied linguists, translators and interpreters.

Translating apollinaire

Besides providing a new appraisal of Guillaume Apollinaire, the foremost French poet of early Modernism and WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the centre of the translational project.

Translating baudelaire

This book is the record of an apprenticeship in translating Baudelaire, and in translating poetry more generally. Re-assessing the translator's task and art, Clive Scott explores various theoretical approaches as he goes in search of his own style of translation.

Language and identity in the university

This book is an exploration of the relationship between language(s) and identities in the University, and what this relationship reveals about marginality and liminality in Higher Education.

The data management workbook

The Data Management Workbook helps researchers design useful data-management plans through a step-by-step series of structured exercises, worksheets and checklists.

Media and the myth of the pristine night

This book provides a critical and comprehensive account of the mediation of rural darkness. Analyzing a wide range of contemporary media, from astrophotography, tourist advertisements and social media to editing software, online databases and nature documentaries, the book focuses on two competin...

Into being

Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father, presents an essential guide to memoir writing. Demystifying the memoirist's art, she explores why our memories privilege some events over others and offers advice for navigating the challenge of writing truthfully without intruding on the lives of our loved...

Hattannas

The essays offered here reflect the research interests of Theo van den Hout, Professor Emeritus of Hittite and Anatolian Languages at the University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures. They include text editions, studies on religion and writing, and investigations into dive...

Radical school librarianship

When facing a rapidly changing, frequently reactionary, and unknown future, school librarian leaders from around the globe are taking radical approaches to protecting and teaching the foundational core values of librarianship: equity, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom.

Library catalogues as data

This book brings together leading practitioners and academic voices to discuss a range of topics surrounding library information and data.

Public libraries and homelessness

As homelessness increases yearly, libraries have become a safe space for individuals as one of the only places in society where one can exist without the expectation of paying for the privilege. This has, however, led to growing tensions between library users and staff. This book explores how pub...

Ai and information access

With the emergence of Generative AI, the information sector wonders what its impact will be on the information users and professionals. The book explores this vital question through the critical analysis of case studies and aims to portray the overall picture of applications of Generative AI in t...

A social history of literacy in japan

Despite the great interest in and the availability of enormous literature about education in Japan, this book is a translation of the first work written in Japanese on the history of literacy in Japan. The authors are each accomplished scholars of Japanese educational history, and each provides s...

The truth about confident presenting

‘The Truth about Confident Presenting’ is a collection of more than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

Crafting revision in fiction

Academic writing is built on choices, and even a single word can change the strength and direction of an argument. This book helps students move beyond formulas, showing how to draft with purpose, revise for clarity, and build credible, well-supported claims. Through real examples, practical exer...

The rebirth of american literary theory and criticism

A group of homogeneous interviews with contemporary literary and cultural theorists All the interviews are completed. The same ten questions were addressed to all the interviewees. The result is a homogeneous volume unlike most other interview projects. 

Classroom 15

A result of an investigative report by tenacious University of Oregon journalism students, Classroom 15 tells the story of how the dreams of fourth-grade students at the Riverside School, Roseburg, in rural Oregon timber country, were crushed by the prevailing Red Scare, McCarthyism, state and so...

From mimetic translation to artistic transduction

Literary translation can be retranslated into new ways of thinking about music and the other arts. In artistic transduction, Woolf called the word the poetical cry, Berlioz the singing lyric, and Brecht the rhyming slang.

The craft of professional writing, second edition

The Craft of Professional Writing, 2nd edition, is the most complete manual ever written for every form of professional (and professional quality) writing.

An interdisciplinary approach to the theory and practice of wildlife corridors

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Wildlife Corridors charts some best practices and makes new theoretical contributions about the design and creation of wildlife corridors. The book provides the necessary background for understanding habitat connectivity projects, and ma...

Crafting revision in creative nonfiction

Creative nonfiction combines the accuracy of fact with the artistry of storytelling. This book shows how small writing choices, including the selection of a single word, can shape the truth on the page. Writers will learn techniques for crafting vivid scenes, structuring narratives, and revising ...

The u.s. military in the print news media

This book analyses the history of the popular discourse in the United States concerned with the U.S. military and its engagement in foreign wars from the Spanish-American War through to the U.S. invasions of Iraqand the War on Terror.

Neurocomputational poetics

This book introduces a new thrilling field– neuro computational poetics, the scientific ‘marriage’ between cognitive poetics, data science and neuroscience – that aims at uncovering the secrets of verbal art reception.

Invention and craft, second edition

Invention and Craft: Exercising Creativity in College Writing and Research is a first-year college composition textbook that leverages creativity theory to demystify practices associated with writing in various academic and public genres. Working from the premise that all writing is creative, Inv...

Crafting revision in poetry writing

Academic writing is built on choices, and even a single word can change the strength and direction of an argument. This book helps students move beyond formulas, showing how to draft with purpose, revise for clarity, and build credible, well-supported claims. Through real examples, practical exer...

Magazines and modernity in brazil

The essays gathered in this book discuss transnational networks as well as cross-cultural exchanges in the context of the modern magazine print culture in Brazil (1820s to 1950s).

The craft of professional writing

‘The Craft of Professional Writing’ is the most complete book ever written about the real-life work of being a writer.

The truth about confident presenting, 3rd edition

More than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking are explained in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

Voices of women writers

This book investigates the link between migrating, self-translating and identity in migrant narratives, by analysing a corpus of texts written by authors who were born in Italy and them moved to English-speaking countries.

The melody and rhythm of speech

An indispensable book presenting for the first time in English an unparalleled overview of the phonetics and phonology of speech melody and rhythm by one of the foremost prosody experts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Decolonising the public library

This book aims to describe the main practical, methodological and theoretical approaches to decolonizing the public library. This practical guide is perfect for librarians looking to learn more about how to decolonise their collection and library as a space.

The information literacy handbook

The Information Literacy Handbook will showcase works that collectively support the case that information literacy is a maturing soft applied discipline. The recognition of information literacy as a discipline will provide substantial outcomes, including nurturing new research and education.

Understanding public libraries

This book will enable practitioners, students and researchers to apply an analytical framework, based on the theories of dialectical materialism and cultural hegemony, to the public library.

Understanding english homonyms

Understanding English Homonyms: Their Origins and Usage explores the phenomenon of homonyms in English by analysing a selection of those with the most interesting histories. This book not only illustrates how homonyms are used in various contexts but also provides etymological explanations of how...

Journalism ethics

This concise and authoritative work offers the latest guidance on journalism ethics for students and media professionals and will help empower news consumers to make informed decisions about the trustworthiness of their sources of information. It offers advice on all aspects of journalism ethics ...

Studies in colloquial chinese and its history

Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History: Dialect and Text presents cutting-edge research into issues regarding prestige colloquial languages in China in their spoken forms and as well as their relationship to written forms and the colloquial literary language. These include the standard reg...

Maintaining control

Whereas in previous decades autonomous, self-directed or ‘independent’ learning may have been assumed to be an alternative to classroom learning, the emphasis has now shifted to the point where learner autonomy, viewed as capacity to take charge of one’s own learning, is increasingly being promot...

Chinese-english contrastive grammar

The main objective of Chinese-English Contrastive Grammar: An Introduction is to familiarize the reader with a subset of the learning difficulties and common errors in ESL/EFL pronunciation and lexico-grammatical structures encountered by Chinese learners and users of English, in Hong Kong and be...

50 library lessons and ideas

50 Library Lessons and Ideas is packed full of fun, creative and engaging activities and ideas for school librarians and teachers to use with their students to help encourage reading for pleasure.Organised into two sections, the first provides practical advice on library events and concepts such ...

The strategic positioning of academic libraries

The Strategic Positioning of Academic Libraries explores the influence of trends in higher education and the wider world on the position of academic libraries. It complements an analysis of library strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with ten positioning strategies to provide an esse...

Poetry

Academic writing is built on choices, and even a single word can change the strength and direction of an argument. This book helps students move beyond formulas, showing how to draft with purpose, revise for clarity, and build credible, well-supported claims. Through real examples, practical exer...

Challenges in teaching arabic as a foreign language

An essential collection of empirical studies on the TAFL (teaching Arabic as a foreign language) classroom experience, by leading professionals in the fieldAlthough teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) has grown inexorably in recent decades, there is a dearth of empirical research on the...

A guide to latin meter and verse composition

The first comprehensive guide to Latin verse composition to be published in over one hundred years.

Advanced arabic through discussion

Advanced Arabic through Discussion is a classroom-tested Advanced Arabic course that uses an inquiry-based approach to challenge advanced learners of Arabic by engaging them in thought-provoking discussions about social, ethical, and legal issues related to advertising, censorship, dress-codes, e...

From reading to writing, volume 1

A new comprehensive approach to teaching Arabic reading and writing skills to heritage students at the intermediate and advanced levelsFrom Reading to Writing, Volume 1 is a content- and task-based textbook for students of Arabic as a heritage language at the intermediate and advanced levels, aim...

Latin: a fresh approach book 2

The second book in a clear and concise introduction to Latin designed to steadily lead students through a series of illustrative examples, readings, vocabulary lists and translation exercises.

Latin

A clear and concise guide to Latin designed to lead students between the ages of 14 to 18 through a series of illustrative examples, readings, vocabulary lists, and translation exercises, and onto mastery of the language.

Latin: a fresh approach book 1

A clear and concise introduction to Latin designed to steadily lead students through a series of illustrative examples, readings, vocabulary lists and translation exercises.

Latin: a fresh approach book 3

The third and final book in a clear and concise introduction to Latin designed to steadily lead students through a series of illustrative examples, readings, vocabulary lists and translation exercises.

Modern persian, elementary level

Modern Persian, Elementary Level is a cutting-edge elementary Persian language textbook intended for two consecutive semesters. With contemporary real-world topics, high-frequency structures and vocabulary, a multitude of engaging speaking activities in each chapter, and a companion website, this...

Mastering modern standard arabic idioms

An invaluable guide to more than one hundred of the most commonly used Modern Standard Arabic idiomsIdioms are deeply rooted in their cultural context and as such are both are uniquely tricky and key to competency in a language. With more than 140 of frequently used Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) i...

From reading to writing, volume 2

The second volume in our flagship series designed for heritage students and advanced learners of Arabic offers a comprehensive approach to teaching reading and writing skillsFrom Reading to Writing is a content- and task-based textbook for students of Arabic as a heritage language at advanced ...

The afterlife of virgil

In recognition of the richness of Virgil's reception the fourth conferences in the joint Warburg Institute and Institute of Classical Studies series on the afterlife of the Classics was devoted to the afterlife of Virgil.

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The afterlife of cicero

Cicero was one of the most prolific and productive figures from ancient Rome, active as both a politician and a writer. As yet however modern scholarship does not do justice to the sheer range of his later influence. This volume publishes papers from a conference which aimed to enlarge the basis ...

The fantasy fiction formula

A guide to the nuts and bolts of fantasy writing that illustrates techniques with examples drawn from published fantasy fiction and offers plentiful drills and exercises to help students hone their writing skills.

An affect of an experience

This book examines the philosophy of experience by investigating writing about experience as a practice in fine art, like painting. It also explores ‘affect’ as a research methodology and uncovers the reasons why experience is more aligned with the notion of actuality than other modes of consciou...

Creativity and "the paris review" interviews

In Creativity and The Paris Review Interviews: A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices, author Ronda Leathers Dively explores contexts, behaviors, and composing practices that generated some of the world’s most significant literary works. Her analysis ultimately leads to concr...

Storying the self

Autoethnographic and autobiographical explorations of social identities and relationships, (un)belonging, and how practitioners and academics do their work. They show the ongoing need to rethink and re-examine how to do critical and engaging scholarly work. Life stories are necessarily, messy, co...

The status of the translation profession in the european union

This book examines in detail traditional status signals in the translation profession. It provides case studies of eight European and non-European countries, identifying  a number of policy options and making recommendations on rectifying problem areas. 

Conceptualising china through translation

This book provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically, tracing the development of four key concepts (filial piety, face, fengshui, and guanxi) in English and Chinese. It explores how specific ideas about the uniqueness of Chinese culture inf...

Translation and the transmission of culture between 1300 and 1600

"Translation and the Transmission of Culture between 1300 and 1600" is a companion volume to "Medieval Translators and Their Craft" (Medieval Institute Publications, 1989) and, like "Medieval Translators," its aim is to provide the modern reader with a deeper understanding of the early centuries ...

Translation theory and practice in the middle ages

Collection of essays derived from a symposium conducted as part of the Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 6-9,1993

Anthem guide to essay writing

The ‘Anthem Guide to Essay Writing’ is a comprehensive guide to writing successful essays in any course, with step-by-step advice and plenty of examples. Also included are style tips and citation rules.

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