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New edition with a modified syllabus and extensive new material with fresh l and up-to-date topics with a more global outlook than before. Now: a higher proportion of speaking activities, maintaining the balance between communicative and more traditional approaches, units are shorter, simpler, and clearer . A new 'Starter' section at the beginning, a mixture of explanation and self-check tasks, 'Everyday English' sections at the end of each unit continue to provide key functional, situational, and survival work.
The author:
The book has six chapters and investigates a variety of forms of translation. My intent with this variety was to underline that the translation process is not simply a relationship between a source text and a target text, or a translator and an author, but is a central meeting point for a mixture of relationships that are textually, culturally or personally bound.
Over the Edge, the third book of the series, is a psychological thriller that revolves around psychologist Alex Delaware and a former client of his. This teen calls Alex in the middle of the night and, with a mixture of insane garbled prose, begs for help...
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