This engaging step-by-step guide prescribes effective strategies and tactics for translating a wide range of songs and other vocal music, from classical to contemporary. Focusing on best practice and with a variety of language examples, the book centres on four key themes:translating songs for a range of recipients and within different contexts (skopos theory)translating songs for reading on paper or on screens (surtitles and subtitles)

“Juan David was throwing dogs at an old woman”. “Diana met a monkey on a goat”.Try and translate Colombian slang literally and you’ll rapidly come to wonder what the hell everybody is talking about.Help is at hand in the form of this innovative and comprehensive eBook guide to the Spanish spoken in Colombia.Written by Peter Low -- a long-term Colombia expat and editor of the Colombian Spanish blog -- the publication is positively packed full of tips to help...

This atlas presents the basic concepts and principles of functional animal anatomy and histology thereby furthering our understanding of evolutionary concepts and adaptation to the environment. It provides a step-by-step dissection guide with numerous colour photographs of the animals featured. It also presents images of the major organs along with histological sections of those organs. A wide range of interactive tutorials gives readers the opportunity to evaluate their understanding of t...

Whether we’re aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture. As a traveller, a mistranslation might land you a bowl of who-knows-what when you think you asked for noodles, and mistranslations in international politics can be a few steps from serious...

One moment you're sitting atop a snow-capped mountain, the next you're photographing breaching humpback whales or swimming with penguins... What one of South America's smallest countries lacks in size it certainly makes up for in variety. Travellers to Quito and the Galápagos Islands can admire colonial-era buildings in Quito, hike along volcanoes in Cotopaxi Park or visit the otherworldly Galápagos islands. Footprintfocus Quito & Galápagos Islands offers vital advice on how to navigate yo...

A young salamander named Alexander living in the Amazon River Basin joins his friends Airey the Butterfly and Terry the Tarantula for an unforgettable jungle adventure. Come along with Alexander and friends as they meet birds, monkeys, and other creatures, enjoy the beauty of the rainforest, and face danger along the way. The first book in the World Adventurers for Kids Series, “Alexander the Salamander” is an illustrated story inspired by the authors’ visit to the Amazon in 2008...

Children of all ages love picture books. With bright colors and appealing pictures children are usually drawn to them and they're often the first type of book they can relate to before reading words. Seeing pictures of animals are fun for children as they are some of the first things they learn to recognize. Children learn to relate an animal with the sounds they make. A big book of animal pictures engages children with familiar images and helps them begin to recognize the concept of readi...

The most commonly kept domestic animal in the developed world, the cat has been a part of human life for thousands of years. Cats have been both worshipped and persecuted over this long period - either loved or hated for their enigmatic self-reliance and the subject of numerous myths and fables. Highlighting startling discoveries made over the last ten years, this new edition features contributions from experts in a wide range of fields, providing authoritative accounts of the behaviour of...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Iguacu Falls.One of the great natural wonders of the world, the Iguaçu Falls are situated near the border of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. The area is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.Access to the waterfalls is usually achieved through one of the three cities in the so-called tri-border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.The city on the Brazilian side is Foz do Iguaçu - big and reasonably safe by Brazilian stand...

A child would enjoy an In The Deep Blue Sea Picture Book. Children are natural explorers and an In The Deep Blue Sea Picture Book will open them up to becoming familiar with the underwater world. The pictures would allow the child to submerge themselves into the idea of the deep blue sea without confusing the child with too many words. Learning about ocean animals and the oceanic atmosphere is interesting and fun for children of all ages. An In The Deep Blue Sea Picture Book would grasp th...

Discover the Fun, Addictive Way to Learn Italian! Introducing Our New Bilingual Text Series Each Unique Story is Inspired by a Historical Figure & Written in Modern Language for Readers of All Ages to Enjoy!   Looking for a fun way to learn Italian? We’ve got the book series for you! Our new bilingual text series features books written Italian for all skill levels. Translated sentence by sentence, the corres...

Begin your tango journey to Buenos Aires! Experience the tango dance halls (milongas), the dinner shows, tango bars, and restaurants that feature tango. Learn where the icons of tango are immortalized. Know where to dance and what is expected of the visitor who traverses the culture of tango. The author, a single woman traveling alone, visited Buenos Aries many times over many years. Recently, she lived there for a year, keeping a journal of her odyssey. She interviewed and taped milonguer...