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Translation technology in accessible health communication
Meng Ji, Pierrette Bouillon, Mark Seligman ; with contributions from Bastien David, Magali Norre?, Irene Strasly, Herve? Spechbach, Johanna Gerlach, Lu?cia Morado Va?squez, Silvia Rodri?guez Va?squez.
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- 9781108837378
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- xiii, 212 pages; illustration
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- Studies in natural language processing
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- 610.1 JI t
The Roots of Latino Urban Agency
The 2010 U.S. Census data showed that over the last decade the Latino population grew from 35.3 million to 50.5 million, accounting for more than half of the nation's population growth. This book collects essays that examine this phenomenal growth. In order to understand the Latino community in all its diversity, the analysis has to begin at the grassroots level. The political future of the Lat…
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- 9781574415421
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- vii, 149 p
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- Al Filo, Mexican American Studies Series
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- 320.50868073 ROS t
Unsettling translation : studies in honour of Theo Hermans
This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans’s scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas, including history of translation, metaphor, norms, ethics, ideology, methodology, and the critical reconceptualization of…
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- 9781003134633
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- xviii + 263 p
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- 418.02 UNS u
Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean : the ca…
This Open Access book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives. In August 2012, a workshop of the Capacity and Networking Project (CANP) of the International Co…
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- 9783319441771
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- xvi, 86p. : ill.
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 MAT m
Social Enterprise in Latin America : Theory, Models and Practice
In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into accoun…
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- 9780429055164
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- 330p : ill
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- 658.408098 SOC s
Latin And Arabic
As linguistic systems comprising a large variety of written and oral registers including derivate “languages” and “dialects,” Latin and Arabic have been of paramount importance for the history of the Euromediterranean since Antiquity. Moreover, due to their long-term function as languages of administration, intellectual activity, and religion, they are often regarded as cultural markers…
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- 9783947732265
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- Interfaith relations
Creative spaces urban culture and marginality in latin america
Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality is an interdisciplinary exploration of the different ways in which marginal urban spaces have become privileged locations for creativity in Latin America. The essays within the collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in the region and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the p…
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- edision 11
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- 9781908857699
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- vii. ;ill. ;280 p.
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- 307.76098. CRE n
Football And Nation Building In Columbia ( 2010-2018 )
This book explores the pivotal role that football played as part of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’ national unity project centred on the peace process with the FARC. Football has huge political and social capital in Latin America, and has often been rhetorically deployed by governments for various ends; rarely, however, has football’s power and potential been used in such a deliber…
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- 9781802070491
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- History of sport
Rituals, runaways, and the Haitian Revolution : collective action in the Afri…
The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to su…
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- Edisi 2
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- 9781009256148
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- xiii, 355p.: ill.
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- 305.89607294 EDD r
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733 : Latin text with introduction, commentary, gl…
This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine. Notwithstanding the warnings of the seer Tiresias and the cautionary tale of a character Acoetes (perhaps Bacchus in disguise), who tells of how the god once transformed a group of blasphemous sailors into dolphins, Pentheus refuses to acknowledge t…
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- 9781783740840
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- xii, 221p. ; ill.
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- 873.01 GIL o
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