While demonstrating how science is affecting the creation and interpretation of contemporary art, this book proposes that artistic insights are as important on their own terms as those in science and that we can and should accommodate both forms of knowledge.

(Scientific American Special Edition Volume 14, Number 4)

In this special edition from Scientific American, we invite you to forget about everyday life to spend some time with the stars. In the pages that follow, you’ll find the latest gossip on the glitterati, written by the astronomer shutterbugs themselves. Although the stars have revealed more than ever, they’ve been careful not to tell all, lest we grow bored with their antics. As authors Chryssa Kouveliotou, Robert C. Duncan and Christopher Thompson so aptly put it in “Magnetars”: “What other phenomena, so rare and fleeting that we have not recognized them, lurk out there?” We can hardly wait to find out.

This is the fourth revised edition 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.

This is a Doctoral Thesis written by Andreea S. Calude from University of Auckland, Australia in 2007.

This book is an edited collection of language and interaction-centred studies that explore what happens when people use the telephone to call for help.More specifically, the focus throughout this collection is on diverse aspects of spoken language and patterns of social interaction in calls made by members of the public to a variety of telephone helplines.