Translating & Interpreting eBooks

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

Journeys Through Ancient Literature

by Emily Wilson ...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An enthralling and profoundly relevant book." —Salman Rushdie"I adored reading these joyful, illuminating, and engrossing journeys through ancient literature." —Madeline MillerMost Anticipated Books of Fall: Goodreads, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus ReviewsFrom the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and ... Read more

$19.16 CAD

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An enthralling and profoundly relevant book." —Salman Rushdie"I adored reading these joyful, illuminating, and engrossing journeys through ancient literature." —Madeline MillerMost Anticipated Books of Fall: Goodreads, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus ReviewsFrom the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and
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Learning Sign Language

Tips for learning American Sign Language and other signed languages

by J. David Peach ...

Learning Sign Language is a great resource of tips and tricks for those taking classes or who are interested in learning American Sign Language (ASL). Instead of an instructional book on using sign language, this is a manual that helps the student know how to learn signs.If the interest of the student is to learn a signed language other than ASL this book is still a tremendous resource. Many ... Read more

$3.36 CAD

Learning Sign Language is a great resource of tips and tricks for those taking classes or who are interested in learning American Sign Language (ASL). Instead of an instructional book on using sign language, this is a manual that helps the student know how to learn signs.If the interest of the student is to learn a signed language other than ASL this book is still a tremendous resource. Many
... Read more
Learn Swedish - Bilingual Book (Swedish - English) The Life of Cleopatra

by Bilinguals ...

Discover the Fun, Addictive Way to Learn Swedish! Introducing Our New Bilingual Text Series Each Unique Story is Inspired by a Historical Figure & Written in Modern Language for Readers of All Ages to Enjoy! Looking for a fun way to learn Swedish? We’ve got the book series for you! Our new bilingual text series features books written Swedish for all skill levels. Translated sentence by sentence, ... Read more

$4.49 CAD

Discover the Fun, Addictive Way to Learn Swedish! Introducing Our New Bilingual Text Series Each Unique Story is Inspired by a Historical Figure & Written in Modern Language for Readers of All Ages to Enjoy! Looking for a fun way to learn Swedish? We’ve got the book series for you! Our new bilingual text series features books written Swedish for all skill levels. Translated sentence by sentence,
... Read more
Interpretation

by James NOLAN ...

This book provides a structured syllabus and an overview of interpretation accompanied by exercises in the main aspects of the art. It is meant as a practical guide for interpreters and as a complement to interpreter training programmes, particularly for students preparing for conference interpreting in international governmental and business settings. ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

This book provides a structured syllabus and an overview of interpretation accompanied by exercises in the main aspects of the art. It is meant as a practical guide for interpreters and as a complement to interpreter training programmes, particularly for students preparing for conference interpreting in international governmental and business settings.
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Translation as Reparation

by Paul Bandia ...

Translation as Reparation showcases postcolonial Africa by offering African European-language literature as a case study for postcolonial translation theory, and proposes a new perspective for postcolonial literary criticism informed by theories of translation. The book focuses on translingualism and interculturality in African Europhone literature, highlighting the role of oral culture and ... Read more

$75.14 CAD

Translation as Reparation showcases postcolonial Africa by offering African European-language literature as a case study for postcolonial translation theory, and proposes a new perspective for postcolonial literary criticism informed by theories of translation. The book focuses on translingualism and interculturality in African Europhone literature, highlighting the role of oral culture and
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Fluent in 3 Months

How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

by Benny Lewis ...

Benny Lewis, a renowned polyglot who speaks over ten languages—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time "language hacker," someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

Benny Lewis, a renowned polyglot who speaks over ten languages—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time "language hacker," someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
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The Bible Doesn't Say That

40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings

by Joel M. Hoffman ...

A "witty and accessible look at Scripture" that explores what the Bible meant before two millennia of mistranslations and misinterpretations ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In this fascinating book, acclaimed translator and biblical scholar Dr. Joel M. Hoffman walks the reader through dozens of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible. In forty short, ... Read more

$17.27 CAD

A "witty and accessible look at Scripture" that explores what the Bible meant before two millennia of mistranslations and misinterpretations ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In this fascinating book, acclaimed translator and biblical scholar Dr. Joel M. Hoffman walks the reader through dozens of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible. In forty short,
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Translation and the Meaning of Everything

by David Bellos ...

People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not
... Read more
Idioms in the Bible Explained and a Key to the Original Gospels

by George M. Lamsa ...

Explanations of nearly 1,000 ancient idioms, metaphors, and figures of speech in the Old and New Testaments, from a renowned Bible translator.George M. Lamsa, who was raised speaking Aramaic in a community that followed customs largely unchanged since the times of Christ, offers accurate translations of important idioms, metaphors, and figures of speech found in the Scripture—and provides clear ... Read more

$2.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Explanations of nearly 1,000 ancient idioms, metaphors, and figures of speech in the Old and New Testaments, from a renowned Bible translator.George M. Lamsa, who was raised speaking Aramaic in a community that followed customs largely unchanged since the times of Christ, offers accurate translations of important idioms, metaphors, and figures of speech found in the Scripture—and provides clear
... Read more
Histoires en Anglais pour Débutants

by Daria Galek ...

Bienvenue dans le livre "Histoires en Anglais pour Débutants". Cette collection unique contient 40 histoires soigneusement sélectionnées pour vous aider à apprendre l'anglais. Chaque histoire est traduite en français, ce qui facilite la compréhension et le suivi de l'intrigue. De plus, après chaque histoire, vous trouverez des exercices avec des réponses pour vous aider à renforcer les ... Read more

$4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Bienvenue dans le livre "Histoires en Anglais pour Débutants". Cette collection unique contient 40 histoires soigneusement sélectionnées pour vous aider à apprendre l'anglais. Chaque histoire est traduite en français, ce qui facilite la compréhension et le suivi de l'intrigue. De plus, après chaque histoire, vous trouverez des exercices avec des réponses pour vous aider à renforcer les
... Read more
Histoires en Espagnol pour Débutants

by Daria Galek ...

Bienvenue dans le livre "Histoires en Espagnol pour Débutants". Cette collection unique contient 40 histoires soigneusement sélectionnées pour vous aider à apprendre l'espagnol. Chaque histoire est traduite en français, ce qui facilite la compréhension et le suivi de l'intrigue. De plus, après chaque histoire, vous trouverez des exercices avec des réponses pour vous aider à renforcer les ... Read more

$4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Bienvenue dans le livre "Histoires en Espagnol pour Débutants". Cette collection unique contient 40 histoires soigneusement sélectionnées pour vous aider à apprendre l'espagnol. Chaque histoire est traduite en français, ce qui facilite la compréhension et le suivi de l'intrigue. De plus, après chaque histoire, vous trouverez des exercices avec des réponses pour vous aider à renforcer les
... Read more
This Little Art

by Kate Briggs ...

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes’s lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this ... Read more

$7.64 CAD

An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes’s lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this
... Read more
Found in Translation

How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

by Nataly Kelly, Jost Zetzsche ...

Translation. It’s everywhere we look, but seldom seen—until now. Found in Translation reveals the surprising and complex ways that translation shapes the world. Covering everything from holy books to hurricane warnings and poetry to peace treaties, Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche offer language lovers and pop culture fans alike an insider’s view of the ways in which translation spreads culture, ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

Translation. It’s everywhere we look, but seldom seen—until now. Found in Translation reveals the surprising and complex ways that translation shapes the world. Covering everything from holy books to hurricane warnings and poetry to peace treaties, Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche offer language lovers and pop culture fans alike an insider’s view of the ways in which translation spreads culture,
... Read more
Short Stories in Japanese

New Penguin Parallel Text

Edited by Michael Emmerich ...

Series series Penguin Parallel Text
A dual-language edition of Japanese stories—many appearing in English for the first timeThis volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary.The stories—many of which appear here in English for the first time—are by well-known writers ... Read more

$14.99 CAD

A dual-language edition of Japanese stories—many appearing in English for the first timeThis volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary.The stories—many of which appear here in English for the first time—are by well-known writers
... Read more
Translating Myself and Others

by Jhumpa Lahiri ...

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of ... Read more

$15.74 CAD

Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages.With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of
... Read more
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

by Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz ...

A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in printThe difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s ... Read more

$12.68 CAD

A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in printThe difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s
... Read more
Wheelock's Latin

The Classic Introductory Latin Course, Based on Ancient Authors

by Frederic M. Wheelock, Richard A. LeFleur ...

The classic introductory Latin textbook, first published in 1956, and still the bestselling and most highly regarded textbook of its kind.Revised and expanded, this sixth edition of classics professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin has all the features that have made it the bestselling single-volume beginning Latin textbook and more:* Forty chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based ... Read more

$15.83 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The classic introductory Latin textbook, first published in 1956, and still the bestselling and most highly regarded textbook of its kind.Revised and expanded, this sixth edition of classics professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin has all the features that have made it the bestselling single-volume beginning Latin textbook and more:* Forty chapters with grammatical explanations and readings based
... Read more
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

$11.99 CAD

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
Collins Greek Phrasebook and Dictionary Gem Edition

by Collins Dictionaries ...

Series series Collins Gem
You will never be lost for words in your travels around Greece and the Greek islands again! Your ideal travel companion will ensure that you can say what you need in Greek with ease and confidence.Reliable and easy-to-use, this phrasebook is an indispensable travel companion as you deal with the situations that crop up every day on holiday; from finding a chic hotel, or hiring a car to explore the ... Read more

$3.99 CAD

You will never be lost for words in your travels around Greece and the Greek islands again! Your ideal travel companion will ensure that you can say what you need in Greek with ease and confidence.Reliable and easy-to-use, this phrasebook is an indispensable travel companion as you deal with the situations that crop up every day on holiday; from finding a chic hotel, or hiring a car to explore the
... Read more
Italian for Beginners: The COMPLETE Crash Course to Speaking Basic Italian in 5 DAYS OR LESS! (Learn to Speak Italian, How to Speak Italian, How to Learn Italian, Learning Italian, Speaking Italian)

by Bruno Thomas ...

Speaking Basic Italian in 5 Days Is Possible!If you're thinking of travelling to Italy, want to gain a basic understanding of the language or simply have an interest in Europe's finest culture, then you're in the right place. This book will show you how to speak basic Italian, right here and right now!Learning a new language, as we all know, can be an extremely daunting task and seem impossible to ... Read more

$3.68 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Speaking Basic Italian in 5 Days Is Possible!If you're thinking of travelling to Italy, want to gain a basic understanding of the language or simply have an interest in Europe's finest culture, then you're in the right place. This book will show you how to speak basic Italian, right here and right now!Learning a new language, as we all know, can be an extremely daunting task and seem impossible to
... Read more
Anglais ( L’Anglais facile a lire ) - Apprendre L’Anglais Avec Des Images (Super Pack 10 livres en 1)

1.000 mots, 1.000 images, 1.000 textes bilingues (10 livres en 1 pour économiser et apprendre l'anglais plus rapidement)

by Mobile Library ...

Series series Foreign Language Learning Guides
Ce pack regroupe 10 volumes de la collection Learn Words With Images (Apprendre les mots avec des images) et vous aidera à apprendre l'anglais facilement grâce aux mots, aux images et au texte bilingue.Utilisez-le pour enregistrer et apprendre des mots en anglais plus rapidement!Ce superbe pack comprend:1.000 mots en anglais1.000 images1.000 textes bilinguesVoici les 10 volumes inclus dans ce sup. ... Read more

$13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Ce pack regroupe 10 volumes de la collection Learn Words With Images (Apprendre les mots avec des images) et vous aidera à apprendre l'anglais facilement grâce aux mots, aux images et au texte bilingue.Utilisez-le pour enregistrer et apprendre des mots en anglais plus rapidement!Ce superbe pack comprend:1.000 mots en anglais1.000 images1.000 textes bilinguesVoici les 10 volumes inclus dans ce sup.
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Just Friends?

Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Breakthrough Level

by Jared Turner, John Pasden ...

Series series Mandarin Companion
When the beautiful Zixin arrives on campus, best friends Dapeng and Wendong soon discover they both share an interest in her. To preserve their friendship, they make a promise not to pursue her. However, when Wendong sees Zixin going for a ride in Dapeng’s car, the truce dissolves into a battle between the two friends trying to gain the affection of Zixin. Whom does she really like, or are they ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

When the beautiful Zixin arrives on campus, best friends Dapeng and Wendong soon discover they both share an interest in her. To preserve their friendship, they make a promise not to pursue her. However, when Wendong sees Zixin going for a ride in Dapeng’s car, the truce dissolves into a battle between the two friends trying to gain the affection of Zixin. Whom does she really like, or are they
... Read more
Mouse or Rat?

Translation as Negotiation

by Prof Umberto Eco ...

From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation.'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, broadly speaking, cultural.'Umberto Eco is of the world's most brilliant and entertaining writers on ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation.'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, broadly speaking, cultural.'Umberto Eco is of the world's most brilliant and entertaining writers on
... Read more
Learn Greek - Bilingual Book (Greek - English) The Life of Cleopatra

by Bilinguals ...

Discover the Fun, Addictive Way to Learn Greek! Introducing Our New Bilingual Text Series Each Unique Story is Inspired by a Historical Figure & Written in Modern Language for Readers of All Ages to Enjoy! Looking for a fun way to learn Greek? We’ve got the book series for you! Our new bilingual text series features books written Greek for all skill levels. Translated sentence by sentence, the ... Read more

$4.49 CAD

Discover the Fun, Addictive Way to Learn Greek! Introducing Our New Bilingual Text Series Each Unique Story is Inspired by a Historical Figure & Written in Modern Language for Readers of All Ages to Enjoy! Looking for a fun way to learn Greek? We’ve got the book series for you! Our new bilingual text series features books written Greek for all skill levels. Translated sentence by sentence, the
... Read more

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