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Translation: An Advanced Resource Book (Routledge Applied Linguistics) (Paperback)

Translation: An Advanced Resource Book (Routledge Applied Linguistics)

Review

‘To complement and enrich this truly innovative advanced resource book, there is a very useful website where students can browse in search of further text samples, translations, and updated information on developments and events pertaining to the discipline of Translation Studies.’ – The Linguist List

Translation: examines the theory and practice of translation from a variety of linguistic and cultural angles, including semantics, functional linguistics, corpus and cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, gender studies and postcolonialism draws on a wide range of languages, including French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and Arabic explores material from a variety of sources, such as the Internet, advertisements, religious texts, literary and technical texts gathers together influential readings from the key names in the discipline, including James S. Holmes, George Steiner, Vinay and Darbelnet, Eugene Nida, Werner Koller and (more…)

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Politics, Third Edition (Palgrave Foundations) (Paperback)

Politics, Third Edition (Palgrave Foundations)

Review

‘Politics is simply the best introductory guide available for the subject. Andrew Heywood defines the theory and practice of politics in a rigorous, lively and highly accessible way. This book is indispensable for any student of politics and a “must” for introductory reading lists for politics tutors.’ – Professor Jon Tonge, University of Liverpool, UK and Chair of the Political Studies Association of the UK ‘In addition to Heywood’s accessible style of writing, the book certainly benefits from many of the pedagogical features incorporated into the text. The sets of questions, outlining of key concepts, mini biographical profiles of specific philosophers and important people, focus boxes, diagrammatic representations and suggestions for further reading are all valuable, informative features and aide-memoires.’ – Dr Jacqui Briggs, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Lincoln, UK ‘I have enjoyed using Politics and find it a font of knowledge at my finger (more…)

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Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition (Paperback)

Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition

Amazon.com Review

As a textbook suitable for the classroom or self-study, Michael Scott’s Programming Language Pragmatics provides a worthy tour of the theory and practice of how programming languages are run on today’s computers. Clearly organized and filled with a wide-ranging perspective on over 40 different languages, this book will be appreciated for its depth and breadth of coverage on an essential topic in computer science. With references to dozens of programming languages, from Ada to Turing and everything in between (including C, C++, Java, and Perl), this book is a truly in-depth guide to how code is compiled (or interpreted) and executed on computer hardware. Early chapters tend to be slightly more theoretical (with coverage of regular expressions and context-free grammars) and will be most valuable to the computer science student, but much of this book is accessible to anyone seeking to widen their knowledge (especially since recent standards surrounding XM (more…)