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A Practical Guide for Translators (Topics in Translation) (Paperback)

A Practical Guide for Translators (Topics in Translation)

This is the fourth revised edtion of “A Practical Guide for Translators”. It looks at the profession of translator on the basis of developments in the late 20th/early 21st centuries and encourages both practitioners and buyers of translation services to view translation as a highly-qualified, skilled profession and not just a cost-led word mill.

About the Author

Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown is a technical translator and business adviser with considerable experience. He has lectured extensively on the practical and technical aspects of translation, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He is known internationally and has given many papers to national and international conferences. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Linguists and the Institute of Translation and Interpreting and a Member of the Swedish Association of Professional Translators. As part of his continuous personal development he completed an MBA in 2001 in Strategic Management, Int (more…)

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How to Say It on Your Resume: A Top Recruiting Director’s Guide to Writing the Perfect Resume for Every Job (Paperback)

How to Say It on Your Resume: A Top Recruiting Director's Guide to Writing the Perfect Resume for Every Job

An insider shows how to tailor a résumé that sets applicants apart from a sea of candidates. Recruiting director Brad Karsh has worked with thousands of misguided job seekers. Now he’s putting his experience into print, with step-by-step guidelines to improve the wording, content, and format of any résumé. Knowing how employers choose candidates, the author shows how to make a résumé stand out. Whether readers are looking to make a career change, re-enter the workforce, find a first job, or acquire an internal position, Karsh demonstrates how to transform any résumé—and get results. Includes advice for: • First jobs • Re-entering the work force • Applicants who have been laid off • Career changes • Older applicants • And more

About the Author

Brad Karsh, president and founder of JobBound, a company that helps professionals in their job search, has been featured on several national news channels and in most major newspapers. He also (more…)

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Science: The Definitive Visual Guide (Hardcover)

Science: The Definitive Visual Guide

This remarkable reference book tells the story of science from earliest times to the present day, taking in everything from ancient Greek geometry to quantum physics, and the wedge to the worldwide web. Exploring science in a thematic, highly approachable manner, each spread takes as its theme a specific event, discovery, invention, experiment, theory, or individual and explains why this subject was so significant in the development of scientific thought and what its impact on history has been. In addition to providing a broad-ranging and comprehensive history of science, the book also explains how science works, employing DK’s trademark clarity and visual ingenuity to render tricky scientific subjects easily comprehensible. Science is structured chronologically with five chapters covering major phases in world history from ancient times to the present day, with an eye to the future. Within these chapters, subjects are arranged in discrete spreads, each of which takes (more…)