Michael Holman's eye-witness reports on the state of sub-Saharan Africa for the Financial Times and other media provide rare insights into the region’s post-independence successes and setbacks. From his accounts of the atrocities committed by Rhodesian forces in the 1960s to his interviews with those who would lead Africa into its own future and assessments of how they actually performed—often in obituaries—Postmark Africa brings together a lifetime of running commentaries on a continent h...

In their introduction to this collection of essays, the editors argue that constraints can be seen as a source of literary creativity, and given that translation is even more constrained than 'original' literary production, it thus has the potential to be even more creative too. The ten essays that follow outline ways in which translators and translations are constrained by poetic form, personal histories, state control, public morality, and the non-availability of comparable target langua...

Charity Mupanga is the widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot), a favourite meeting place for the movers and shakers of Kibera. While she can handle most challenges, from an erratic supply of Worcestershire sauce, the secret ingredient in her cooking, to the political tensions in East Africa's most notorious slum and a cholera outbreak that follows the freak floods in the state of Ubuntu, some threatening letters from London lawyers are beginning to overwhelm her. Well-m...

Charity Mupanga, the resilient and maternal proprietor of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) faces her toughest challenge in Dizzy Worms, the final novel in Michael Holman’s acclaimed trilogy set in the African slum of Kireba. Faced with a Health and Safety closure, Charity has a week to appeal and the chances of success seem negligible: elections are imminent, and Kireba is due to become a showcase of President Josiah Nduka’s ‘slum rehabilitation program’, backed by gullible foreig...

Ferdinand Mlambo, the youngest boy ever to become senior kitchen toto at State House, is in deep trouble. Disloyalty to Kuwisha's Life President Nduka has not only cost him his prestigious job: the sinister chief steward to the president, Lovemore Mboga, has humiliated Mlambo by stripping him of his name. Word goes out: henceforth, he will be known as Fatboy. But with the help of Titus Ntoto, leader of the notorious Mboya Boys gang of street children, Mlambo sets out on a quest to recover ...

Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering the behavior and habits of its people,and its culture's conundrums. As her skill with Mandarin increased, bits of th...

Power Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese in 5 Steps is a self-study guide and an open door for those interested in learning Portuguese. It includes a strategic collection of words, everyday expressions and the fundamentals of grammar, carefully integrated for you to begin to communicate in basic and correct Brazilian Portuguese. Simple formulas and straightforward grammatical explanations mean that you will be able to select and put together combinations of words and phrases for real-life si...

Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, from ancient Akkadian to World English, from St Jerome to Google Translate. He shows how...

Discover the Fun, Addictive Way to Learn Danish! 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 Danish? We’ve got the book series for you! Our new bilingual text series features books written Danish for all skill levels. Translated sentence by sentence, the correspon...

Discover the Fun, Addictive Way to Learn Norwegian! 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 Norwegian? We’ve got the book series for you! Our new bilingual text series features books written Norwegian for all skill levels. Translated sentence by sentence, the ...

Criticism of myth in the Bible is not a modern problem. Its roots go back to the earliest Christian theologians, and before them, to ancient Greek and Jewish thinkers. The dilemma posed by texts that ascribe human characteristics and emotions to the divine is a perennial problem, and we have much to learn from the ancient attempts to address it.Mark Sheridan provides a theological and historical analysis of the patristic interpretation of Scripture's anthropomorphic and anthropopat...

Discover the Fun, Addictive Way to Learn Portuguese! 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 Portuguese? We’ve got the book series for you! Our new bilingual text series features books written Portuguese for all skill levels. Translated sentence by sentence, t...