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This is an edited collection of essays that focuses on exchanging literary and cultural perspectives between humanities traditions in East and West. The book explores ways in which academic fields within East and West may enter into new and productive collaborations.

The book investigates mediating practices used in translating key children's and young adults' texts. It focuses on transfer of contents considered unsuitable for younger audiences. It shows that domesticating and adaptive approaches sometimes infringing upon the integrity of source texts are still part of contemporary translation practices.

Central and Eastern European region defined by the socialist past has transformed in the 21st century. We must abandon the paradigms of the Cold War period within geopolitical thought. The key question of the 21st century is whether a new gateway zone of the present forming World-Island can be developed along a north-south Baltic-Adriatic axis.

Die Beitrage des Bandes diskutieren die Moeglichkeiten und Bedingungen kultureller Diversitat in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Diskutiert werden Rezeptionsbarrieren, Ideologisierung und Purifikation, Graphic Novels und illustrierte Kinderbucher im kulturellen Transfer sowie der Status von Kinderliteratur zwischen National- und Weltliteratur.

This book focuses on the collaboration of Derrida, Lyotard, Hillis Miller, and others at the Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine and on critical theory as a methodology for the analysis of contemporary American visual art of Nauman, Kosuth, Burden, Christo, Johns, Rauschenberg, and others. It also includes a Prologue by Georges van Den Abbeele.

The book discusses how "objectivity" is used in the judicial discourse. Through critical discourse analysis of Polish jurisprudence, the book presents a taxonomy of the objectivity's uses by judges, highlighting that objectivity has a special meaning in the legal discourse based on legal authority.

The Latin-Greek glosses are a product of translation and a source of the Romance languages. This study provides an overview of translation into European languages (French, English, German, Castilian, Portuguese, Catalan and Italian) during Middle Ages, by prestigious academic researchers.

The monograph describes the history of the Polish diaspora in the Habsburg monarchy in the historical, institutional, legal, political, and organizational context. The main object of study is the Poles' active involvement in the Austro-Hungarian parliamentary life and state administration.

The phraseological module proposed integrates the positive aspects of existing knowledge resources to provide a frame-based representation that is in consonance with the premises of frame-based terminology and which is useful for text comprehension as well as production, especially aimed at translators.

Seit einigen Jahren wird die private Kartellrechtsdurchsetzung in der EU intensiviert. Der Autor geht der Frage nach, inwieweit die neu in das GWB eingeführten Offenlegungsvorschriften dazu geeignet sind, die Informationsasymmetrie zu überwinden und die private Kartellrechtsdurchsetzung zu stärken. Dazu untersucht er das Problem der Informationsasymmetrie und stellt die Vorgaben der Kartellschadensersatzrichtlinie dar. Nach einer umfassend Analyse der neuen Offenlegungsansprüche des GWB, unterzieht der Autor diese einer kritischen Bewertung.

Este livro analisa a coesao em textos escritos em Portugues Brasileiro por criancas plurilingues falantes do Portugues como Lingua de Heranca (POLH). Este livro propoe um paralelo entre a Sprachbiographie das criancas e o uso dos elementos de coesao referencial e coesao sequencial (com base na Linguistica Textual) que se destacam em seus textos

This book presents topics regarding economics, public finance and business. It is aimed at educators, researchers, and students interested in public finance, business and economics.

Consumer psychology is an important area that studies how our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and perceptions influence our buying behaviors.