Language Arts & Disciplines - Translating & Interpreting

Learn essential phrases and vocabulary - from directions to eating out and travelling safely - and get to the heart of the local culture with this on-the-go language guide. Never get stuck for words again with Lonely Planet's Japanese Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary and...

Lonely Planet's Korean Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Korean phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order kimchi with ease, navigate road signs and chat with locals; all with your trusted...

Lonely Planet's Latin American SpanishPhrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Latin American Spanish phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs.Mingle with locals at a colourful Latin American mercado, spend a night out...

Lonely Planet's Mandarin Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Indian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order authentic street food, chat over a game of mah jong and bargain at the...

Learn essential phrases and vocabulary - from directions to eating out and travelling safely - and get to the heart of the local culture with this on-the-go language guide. Never get stuck for words again with Lonely Planet's Mandarin Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary and...

Lonely Planet's Mexican Spanish Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Latin American Spanish phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order Mexican delicacies at restaurants, bargain for the best price at markets,...

Learn essential phrases and vocabulary - from directions to eating out and travelling safely - and get to the heart of the local culture with this on-the-go language guide. Never get stuck for words again with Lonely Planet's Mexican Spanish Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary...

Lonely Planet's Middle East Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask directions to the Pyramids, chat history at Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock; all with...

Lonely Planet's Portuguese Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Portuguese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order a pastel de nata with confidence, ask directions to the closest beach and appreciate...

Lonely Planet's Spanish Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Spanish phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order tapas with confidence, ask directions to the local flamenco and mingle with locals over...

Learn essential phrases and vocabulary - from directions to eating out and travelling safely - and get to the heart of the local culture with this on-the-go language guide. Never get stuck for words again with Lonely Planet's Spanish Travel Phrasebook & Dictionary and...

Lonely Planet's Swahili Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Indian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Learn the names of wildlife, chat with the locals and adventure on safari; all with...

Lonely Planet's Vietnamese Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Vietnamese phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order your iced coffee with ease, bargain like a pro at markets, and order smoothly...

Perfect for students studying German, this newly updated bilingual dictionary features comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of essential current vocabulary. Communicate effectively in German and American English Bilingual, bidirectional dictionary 39,000 entry words and phrases and 44,000 translations Clear, precise definitions deliver the words you need...

This dictionary is especially designed to be used as an accommodation during state standardized tests by Spanish-speaking students. It features word-to-word equivalents for 53,000 entries covering core vocabulary in Spanish and English, and a user-friendly format for easy word search. Includes more than 2,000...

The 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...

Racine's play Phèdre--which draws on Euripides' tragedy Hippolytus--is the supreme achievement of French neoclassic theater. In her amusing foreword, Margaret Rawlings explains how this particular translation--made specifically from the actor's point-of-view--evolved from the 1957 Campbell Allen production. Containing both the French and English texts...

For students of classical, medieval, and early modern literature and of the history of education, Kennedy (classics emeritus, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) presents and comments on four Greek treatises for teaching prose composition and elementary rhetoric. They were written during the time of...

A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners "Searls's philosophy is ultimately one of freedom--to move beyond mere equivalence, to translate how a text communicates rather than simply what it says."--Max Norman, New Yorker Avoiding theoretical debates...

A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners "Searls's philosophy is ultimately one of freedom--to move beyond mere equivalence, to translate how a text communicates rather than simply what it says."--Max Norman, New Yorker Avoiding theoretical debates...