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.

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.

Living Words

In this unique and entertaining collection of articles, a noted scholar and compiler of key works of reference reflects on the nature of language, the art of lexicography and the breath-taking developments in communication, the media and information technology in the late twentieth century.

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.

Style and the Development of Malory’s Morte Darthur

This book provides a stylistic analysis of Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur using innovative tools and a unique combination of current linguistic methods to understand how texts were constructed, transmitted, classified, and read at a watershed moment when the linguistic and literary context of Engl...

Chosen Words

This collection of essays shows how dictionaries today have grown from the small beginnings of English lexicography in Shakespeare's time. Discussion is anchored in the practice of the past, but the author has been concerned throughout to show how the difficulties which beset the first compilers ...

Introducing Roman Declamation

A new overview of Roman declamation, one of the least studied but most important genres of ancient literature. Letano presents an original way of looking at aspects of major relevance to Roman culture of the imperial period.

Solving Language Problems

The book provides an overview of key areas and will serve as a useful introductory text for those following university courses in this field.

Mental Health Ontologies

This book tackles fragmentation in mental health discourse and in particular the relationship between academic discourse in different disciplinary silos and public discourse in the media. It argues that fragmentation in public discourse does harm, and that an approach is needed that is able to in...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

A Guide to Latin Meter and Verse Composition

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

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.

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 ...

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.

The Sidat Sangara

Visamapadavyakhya

Over two millennia scholars produced a huge literature of commentaries to explain how the rules of Sanskrit grammar work. Alternative schools developed, to provide easier access to the classical language and to create authoritative texts for groups with distinct religious or social identities.

Asher and -She in the Book of Ecclesiastes

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...

QAZZU warrai

Dedicated to Kazuhiko Yoshida, the distinguished scholar of Anatolian and Indo-European linguistics, this volume contains contributions to the linguistic study of Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, Avestan, Tocharian, Old Persian, Armenian, Latin, Icelandic, with papers on the Anatolian languages themselves....

Signless Signification in Ancient India and Beyond

The collection of interdisciplinary essays in this book examines the speculative, linguistic, literary and artistic theories on signless ways of expressing meanings in the context of traditional Indian language and culture. 

The Damascus Psalm Fragment

The Damascus Palm Fragment investigates Arabic's transformative historical phase, the passage from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period, through a new approach. It presents a scenario for the emergence of standard Classical Arabic as the literary language of the late eighth century and beyond. 

Ex Anatolia Lux

Nearly forty internationally recognized researchers celebrate the work of the famous Anatolianist and Indo-Europeanist H. Craig Melchert. The topics range widely, covering not only the grammar and lexicon of Anatolian languages but also Tocharian, Latin, Phrygian, and many others. Contributions i...

Grammatica et Verba--Glamor and Verve

The contributions in this collection of essays in honour of the distinguished linguist Hans Henrich Hock include studies on the structure of Andamanese, agreement in Tibeto-Burman, the pre-Indo-European linguistic landscape of Europe, nasals in Sanskrit, Albanian dialectology, and the syntax of E...

Iberia Protohistory of the Far West of Europe

An innovative view of the last six millennia BCE in the Iberian Peninsula, the last land in Eurasia and the Far West of the Old World. Divided into three parts: the Neolithic and Chalcolithic; the Bronze Age on Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts; the Iron Age as an affirmation of the urban life th...

Multi Nominis Grammaticus

Thirty internationally recognized scholars celebrate the work of the famous Indo-Europeanist Alan J. Nussbaum. The topics range from Indo-European nominal morphology, especially in the Classical languages, to the historical grammars of Tocharian, the stylistics of the Rigveda and Aristophanean ph...

The Networked Librarian

Effective communication is key for school librarians to build strong and successful teams. This book considers how school librarians can build great teams whether you are a solo librarian or a line manager. Including multiple examples of best practice, all underpinned by robust theory and research.

Playing Games in the School Library

'Required reading for anyone with an interest in school libraries or any facet of education. Everyone should have a copy of this wonderful book.'- Christopher Evans

School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing

Drawing on recent research, this book explores the connection between libraries, literacy, reading engagement and wellbeing, providing powerful advocacy support for school library professionals seeking to illustrate the role they play in supporting students’ literacy learning and wellbeing.

Home-School Learning Resources

Home-School Learning Resources is a practical guide that will help teachers, parents, home educators and librarians to locate useful, quality-tested websites that offer resources for enhanced curriculum learning and related fun activities for children and young people aged 4-16.

Creating a School Library with Impact

Creating a School Library with Impact: A Beginners Guide is an introductory manual for anyone entering or looking to enter the exciting world of school librarianship in primary or secondary school settings.

The Social Future of Academic Libraries

The Social Future of Academic Libraries addresses the urgent need for libraries to shift their focus from managing collections and delivering services to building networks, cultivating relationships and developing communities. Case studies from forward-looking libraries illustrate how social capi...

Narrative Expansions

Libraries across all sectors are responding to the call to decolonise, critically examining their own historic legacies and practices and supporting institutional change. This book brings together current thinking and emerging practices around decolonising the library, providing conceptual framew...

Digital Literacy, Inclusivity and Sustainable Development in Africa

This important book features contributions from libraries across Africa outlining how they are addressing the need for better and more widespread digital literacy in their regions.

Libraries and Sanctuary

Libraries and Sanctuary is a practical guide to how libraries and their staff can support ‘new arrivals’ – people who have crossed borders to reach a country, ensuring a supportive, inclusive and welcoming library community.

Assessing Service Quality

This extensively revised and updated edition of Assessing Service Quality explores even further the ways technology influences both the experiences of library customers and the ways libraries themselves can assess those experiences.

A Practical Guide to Privacy in Libraries

This groundbreaking book considers how privacy issues can arise in a library context and what library and information professionals can do to protect the privacy of their users.

Library Camps and Unconferences

More and more libraries are working to organize their own library camps or unconferences - open, friendly and refreshingly informal gatherings for librarians to unite, exchange ideas, and share knowledge. This book provides you with the practical, step-by-step guidance you need to bring your visi...

Better by Design

This updated, practical and accessible book is an invaluable guide for practitioners who are approaching the daunting task of creating a new library or major refurbishment of existing facilities.

Hopeful Visions, Practical Actions

LIS educators and students, library directors, managers, frontline employees, and those who work behind the scenes all share how they are taking action and creating change. Thoughtfully addressing DEI issues related to policies, services, and programs, this collection’s diverse chorus of voices w...

Libraries Without Borders

This remarkable collection of essays demonstrates how librarianship has been and continues to be a practice of pushing beyond definitions and preconceptions. The inspiring and informative histories in this volume chronicle library workers and users who strived towards making libraries more divers...

CILIP Guidelines for Colleges

These new Guidelines are the recommendations of CILIP for the effective management of learning resource services in colleges.

The Scholarly Communication Handbook

Guided by the question, ‘Where to publish?’ The Scholarly Communication Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the process of research dissemination and societal impact.