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 Translating Institutions: An Ethnographic Study of EU Translation By Kaisa Koskinen 2008 | 188 Pages | ISBN: 1905763085 | PDF | 2 MB Translating Institutions outlines a framework for research on translation in institutional settings, using the Finnish translation unit at the European Commission as a case study. Because of their foundational multilingualism, the institutions of the European Union could be described as both translating and translated institutions. The European Commission alone employs nearly two thousand translators, and it is translators who draft the vast majority of outgoing EU messages. Translating Institutions sets out to explore the organizational role and professional identity of this group of cultural mediators, a group that has remained relatively invisible despite its size and central institutional role, and to use the analysis of this data to elaborate broader methodological and theoretical issues. Translating Institutions adopts an ethnographic approach to explore the life and work of the translators at the centre of this study. In practice, this entails employing a number of different methods and interrogating various types of data. The three-level research design used covers the study of the institutional framework, the study of translators working in specific institutional settings, and the study of translated documents and their source texts. This is therefore a study of both texts and people in their institutional habitat. Given the methodological focus of the volume, the different methods and data are outlined in independent chapters: the institutional framework of translation (institutional ethnography), the physical location of the unit (observation), translators' own views of their role (focus group discussions), and a sociologically-oriented text analysis of a sample document (shifts analysis). Translating Institutions constitutes a valuable contribution to the sociology of translation. It opens up new avenues for research and offers a detailed framework for the study of institutional translation.  Transfiction: Research into the realities of translation fiction By Klaus Kaindl, Karlheinz Spitzl 2014 | 382 Pages | ISBN: 9027258503 | PDF | 2 MB This volume on Transfiction (understood as an aestheticized imagination of translatorial action) recognizes the power of fiction as a vital and pulsating academic resource, and in doing so helps expand the breadth and depth of TS. The book covers a selection of peer-reviewed papers from the 1st International Conference on Fictional Translators and Interpreters in Literature and Film (held at the University of Vienna, Austria in 2011) and links literary and cinematic works of translation fiction to state-of-the-art translation theory and practice. It presents not just a mixed bag of cutting-edge views and perspectives, but great care has been taken to turn it into a well-rounded transficcionario with a fluid dialogue among its 22 chapters. Its investigation of translatorial action in the mirror of fiction (i.e. beyond the cognitive barrier of 'fact') and its multiple transdisciplinary trajectories make for thought-provoking readings in TS, comparative literature, as well as foreign language and literature courses.  Tragedia all'italiana: Italian Cinema and Italian Terrorisms, 1970-2010 By Alan O'Leary 2011 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 303911574X | PDF | 3 MB Cinema has played a key role in articulating the impact and legacies of the so-called anni di piombo in Italy, the years of intra-national political terrorism that lasted from 1969 until well into the 1980s. Tragedia all'italiana offers an analytical exploration of Italian cinema's representation and refraction of those years, showing how a substantial and still growing corpus of films has shaped the ways in which Italians have assimilated and remembered the events of this period. This is the first monograph in English on terrorism and film in Italy, a topic that is attracting the interest of a wide range of scholars of film, cultural studies and critical terrorism studies. It provides novel analytical categories for an intriguing corpus of films and offers careful accounts of works and genres as diverse as La meglio gioventú, Buongiorno, notte, the poliziottesco (cop film) and the commedia all'italiana. The author argues that fiction film can provide an effective frame for the elaboration of historical experience but that the cinema is symptomatic both of its time and of the codes of the medium itself - in terms of its elisions, omissions and evasions as well as its emphases. The book is a study of a body of films that has elaborated the experience of terrorism as a fascinating and even essential part of the heritage of modern Italy.  Tolerance and Risk: How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims (Muslim International) by Mitra Rastegar 2021 | ISBN: 1517904854, 1517904846 | English | 303 pages | PDF | 3 MB How apparently positive representations of Muslims in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population  To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure By Henry Petroski 2012 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 0674065840 | PDF | 2 MB When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time, from the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse and the toppling of a massive Shanghai apartment building in 2009 to Boston's prolonged Big Dig and the 2010 Gulf oil spill. These avoidable disasters reveal the interdependency of people and machines within systems whose complex behavior was undreamt of by their designers, until it was too late. Petroski shows that even the simplest technology is embedded in cultural and socioeconomic constraints, complications, and contradictions. Failure to imagine the possibility of failure is the most profound mistake engineers can make. Software developers realized this early on and looked outside their young field, to structural engineering, as they sought a historical perspective to help them identify their own potential mistakes. By explaining the interconnectedness of technology and culture and the dangers that can emerge from complexity, Petroski demonstrates that we would all do well to follow their lead.  Theatre and the Mind By Mick Gordon 2011 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 1840028769 | EPUB | 2 MB In this collection of seven provocative essays, acclaimed theater director and playwright Mick Gordon argues that the theater represents a physical corollary of the invisible workings of our minds. Gordon draws upon his five years of experience working with leading neurologists and cognitive psychologists.  The Two-Dimensional World within the Solid Figures by General Onologic Soft Corp. English | March 25, 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B086DRQ2QF | 271 pages | EPUB | 47 Mb The most desirable way to study math is through a series of training processes for discovering the secrets of nature.  Ron Brown, "The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore: An Illustrated History of Railway Stations in Canada" English | ISBN: 1459727819 | 2014 | 202 pages | EPUB | 21 MB Brown celebrates the survival of our railway heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use.  The Total Inventors Manual (Popular Science): Transform Your Idea into a Top-Selling Product by Weldon Owen English | January 10, 2017 | ISBN: 1681881586 | 499 pages | PDF | 13 Mb Contrary to popular wisdom, you don't have to be an ace electrician, a coding prodigy, or a mechanical master to come up with a game-changing invention! You just need curiosity, a strong desire to fix a problem that you see in the world, and the determination to see your ideas become reality-and this book, which will teach you everything you need to go from zero to inventor.  Seif El Rashidi, "The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt's Medieval and Modern Appliqué Craft" English | ISBN: 977416802X | 2018 | 256 pages | EPUB | 23 MB "An expansive and captivating history of an often overlooked traditional art"―Egyptian Streets |
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