Added by: alexa19 | Karma: 4030.48 | Non-Fiction, Science literature | 18 August 2010
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Crocodiles
"Crocodiles" is an examination of the crocodile and its history which stretches back over 200 million years, linking the present day with the vanished age of dinosaurs. A succession of fossil forms traces the descent of modern crocodiles back almost to the beginning of the dinosaur age and demonstrates extinct groups that became, at one extreme, fully aquatic, converting their limbs into paddles (the metriorhynchids), or, at the other extreme, almost totally terrestrial, apparently seeking their prey entirely on land (the sebecids).
The authors show that the best way to develop proficiency in translating is by making students aware of the nature of translation as a problem-solving tool. Through discussion backed by concrete examples and practical applications, predominantly in translating French to English, students will acquire the skills necessary to deal intelligently with a wide range of translation problems. Areas covered include economic journalism, poetry, theater, and film subtitling, as well as consumer manuals and scientific and technical texts.
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From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century
In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest linking contemporary poets with their modernist forebears, including Stein, Williams and Pound. She develops important ways to read modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences.
Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends
This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph Talking Voices, as well as her well-known popular books You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!, and Talking from 9 to 5, among others.
