Translation Criticism- Potentials and Limitations Categories and Criteria for Translation Quality AssessmentKatharina Reiss's now classic contribution to Translation Studies, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Übersetzungskritik: Kategorien und Kriteren für eine sachgerechte Beurteilung von Übersetzungen, first appeared in 1971. This is the first English translation of this major work, allowing students and practitioners of translation in the English-speaking world to make more extensive use of Reiss's pioneering treatment of a central theme in translation: how to develop reliable criteria for the systematic evaluation of translations.
What I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His BlackBerry and Started to Live His LifeWhat do you learn when your brain goes pop? Chris Licht had always been ambitious. By the time he was thirty-five, he had become a real-life Jerry Maguire: hard-charging, obsessively competitive, and willing to sacrifice anything to get it done. He felt invincible. Then one day Chris heard a pop in his head, followed by a whoosh of blood and crippling pain. Doctors at the ER said he had suffered a near-deadly brain hemorrhage. Chris’s life had almost been cut short, and he had eight long days in a hospital bed to think about it.
Confessions of a GPBenjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled, and quite frequently, very funny. He is also a general practitioner. And these are his confessions.
A witty insight into the life of a family doctor, this funny and moving account will change the way you look at your doctor next time you pop in with the sniffles.
