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  • A Zombie Theory of Translation
    Douglas Robinson
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    27,41 €

  • Priming Translation
    Douglas Robinson
    This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research. Priming Translation will be of interest to scholars in translation and interpreting studies, especially those working in cognitive translation and interpreting studies. ...
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    77,81 €

  • The Behavioral Economics of Translation
    Douglas Robinson
    This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting. ...
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    77,19 €

  • Crime Prevention in Today’s America
    Deborah Robinson / Douglas Robinson
    Crime Prevention in Today’s America explores various crime prevention strategies and initiatives, offering a comprehensive platform for understanding this crucial area in the context of contemporary criminal justice. The text examines historical crime prevention methods and the theoretical foundations of crime prevention, as well as physical, developmental, and situational appr...
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    118,71 €

  • Murder in Beach Haven
    Douglas Robinson
    The Jersey Shore is only fun until someone puts a bullet in you.... It was the middle of the day, in the middle of August when John Ballantine, celebrated author and pride of Beach Haven, was shot dead in his beachfront condo. The New Jersey State Police got the case by default and newly minted detective Fran Tortelli got the nod. This would be her first murder investigation. T...
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    23,45 €

  • Insecticide
    Douglas Robinson
    'An engaging and scabrous alternative-universe farce about the American government.' - Kirkus Reviews'Insecticide is an ambitious and thought-provoking read that successfully merges historical context with fantasy and political satire elements. Robinson’s narrative challenges and entertains, making readers question the nature of history and power.' - 5 star review, Literary Tit...
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    15,33 €

  • The Experimental Translator
    Douglas Robinson
    This book celebrates experimental translation, taking a series of exploratory looks at the hypercyborg translator, the collage translator, the smuggler translator, and the heteronymous translator. The idea isn’t to legislate traditional translations out of existence, or to 'win' some kind of literary competition with the source text, but an exuberant participation in literary c...
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    146,62 €

  • The Strange Loops of Translation
    Douglas Robinson
    One of the most exciting theories to emerge from cognitive science research over the past few decades has been Douglas Hofstadter’s notion of 'strange loops,' from Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979). Hofstadter is also an active literary translator who has written about translation, perhaps most notably in his 1997 book Le Ton Beau de Marot, where he draws on his cognitive science rese...
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    51,13 €

  • The Experimental Translator
    Douglas Robinson
    This book celebrates experimental translation, taking a series of exploratory looks at the hypercyborg translator, the collage translator, the smuggler translator, and the heteronymous translator. The idea isn’t to legislate traditional translations out of existence, or to 'win' some kind of literary competition with the source text, but an exuberant participation in literary c...
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    48,38 €

  • The Last Days of Maiju Lassila
    Douglas Robinson
    Who wrote this novel?      J I Vatanen was not a real person; he was a heteronym-a characterized pseudonym-of a strange Finnish author named Algot Untola, who was arrested as a Red agitator at the end of the Finnish Civil War in May, 1918, and summarily sentenced and shot.      This novel is 'J I Vatanen’s' 'memoir' of the events leading up to that violent death and its tragico...
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    14,31 €

  • Translation as a Form
    Douglas Robinson
    This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin’s 1923 essay 'Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers,' best known in English under the title 'The Task of the Translator.' Divided into 78 passages, it is key reading for scholars and postgraduate students of translation, comparative literature, and critical theory. ...
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    74,77 €

  • Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address
    Douglas Robinson
    The emergence of transgender communities into the public eye over the past few decades has brought some new understanding, but also renewed outbreaks of violent backlash. In Transgender, Translation, Translingual AddressDouglas Robinson seeks to understand the 'translational' or 'translingual' dialogues between cisgendered and transgendered people. Drawing on a wide range of LG...
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    54,83 €

  • Becoming a Translator
    Douglas Robinson
    Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. This fourth edition remains invaluable for students and teachers of Translation Studies, as well as those working in the field of translation. ...
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    74,27 €

  • Critical Translation Studies
    Douglas Robinson
    This book introduces Critical Translation Studies (CTS), a cultural-studies approach to the study of translation to Translation Studies (TS) scholars. The central claim in CTS is that translators help condition the primal scene of translation: two languages, two language communities, with the translator as mediator. ...
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    85,51 €

  • Translationality
    Douglas Robinson
    This book weaves a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through Medical Humanities, and consists of three essays focusing on the traditional medicine-in-literature aspect, history-of-medicine aspect before moving into literary history, translation history and theory, and finally on the neuroscience of translational hermeneutics. ...
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    89,41 €

  • The Dao of Translation
    Douglas Robinson
    In The Dao of Translation, the author puts Daoism (and ancient Confucianism) into dialogue with nineteenth-century Western theorists of the sign, Charles Sanders Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure (and their followers), in order to develop an 'icotic' understanding of the tensions between habit and surprise in the activity of translating. For the first time, the author discusses ...
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    85,38 €

  • Constitution for a Free People for City, County, Provincial State and National Governments - Revised
    Douglas Robinson Buck
    Constitution for a Free People presents all the tools needed to create a charter for freedom for any government: city, county, state, nation, or colony on the Moon or Mars.It is based on the original Constitution for the United States, with worthy safeguards to secure liberty and curb an overreaching government. It assumes that men and women are born free and that most, when th...
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    26,08 €

  • Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture
    Douglas Robinson
    Displacement and the Somatics of Postcolonial Culture is Douglas Robinson’s study of postcolonial affect-specifically, of the breakdown of the normative (regulatory) circulation of affect in the refugee experience and the colonial encounter, the restructuring of that regulatory circulation in colonization, and the persistence of that restructuring in decolonization and intergen...
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    45,85 €

  • Exorcising Translation
    Douglas Robinson
    Exorcising Translation, a new volume in Bloomsbury’s Literatures, Cultures, Translation series, makes critical contributions to translation as well as to comparative and postcolonial literary studies. The hot-button issue of Eurocentrism in translation studies has roiled the discipline in the past few years, with critiques followed by defenses and defenses followed by enhanced...
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    51,28 €

  • Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities
    Dennis Strachota / Douglas Morgan / Kent S. Robinson
    Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA program.Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal and state budgeting, a lack of a theoretical governance framework, an omission of important ...
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    107,00 €

  • Boom or Bust
    Charles L. Sizemore / Charles LSizemore / Douglas C. Robinson / Douglas CRobinson
    No one will ever be able to predict every twist and turn in the economy or in the financial markets. But over the medium and long terms, the economy is surprisingly predictable.By studying demographics and other key factors, accurate forecasts can be made for individual industries, real estate markets, and entire economies. These predictions can be used for the greater good so ...
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    15,18 €

  • Introducing Performative Pragmatics
    Douglas Robinson
    This user-friendly introduction to a new ’performative’ methodology in linguistic pragmatics breaks away from the traditional approach which understands language as a machine. Drawing on a wide spectrum of research and theory from the past thirty years in particular, Douglas Robinson presents a combination of ’action-oriented approaches’ from sources such as J.L. Austin, H. Pau...
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    77,15 €

  • Mosaic Souls
    Douglas Robinson
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    12,67 €

  • Scooter and the Galactic Starship
    Douglas R. Robinson / Douglas RRobinson
    When the latest video game based on the hottest television show, Galactic Starship, is about to hit stores in a special limited edition, Fresco 'Scooter' Browne thinks it will be as easy as ever to get his parents to buy it for him. They always have in the past. But not this time. His parents have bought the last thing they’re going to buy. Scooter has to earn the money now for...
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    9,56 €

  • Performative Linguistics
    Douglas Robinson
    This title consolidates the many disparate action-approaches to language into a single coherent new paradigm for the study of language as speech act, as performance - as doing things with words. ...
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    97,48 €

  • Sources of the African Past
    David Robinson / Douglas K. Smith / Douglas KSmith
    Sources of the African Past uses original sources to build case studies of five nineteenth-century African societies. The authors have selected accounts from participants and observers and from oral tradition. ...
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    18,51 €

  • Translation and Empire
    Douglas Robinson
    Arising from cultural anthropology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, postcolonial translation theory is based on the observation that translation has often served as an important channel of empire. Douglas Robinson begins with a general presentation of postcolonial theory, examines current theories of the power differentials that control what gets translated and how, and trace...
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    77,84 €