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Meaning-Based Translation is designed for training beginning translators and organized chapter by chapter as drill material for the textbook; Meaning-Based Translation.

Offers a comparative analysis between Western and Islamic political theories and images. Davutoglu argues that conflicts between these two ideals originate from their philosophical, methodological, and theoretical background rather than only institutional and historical differences.

Truth in Translation is a critical study of Biblical translation, assessing the accuracy of nine English versions of the New Testament in wide use today. By looking at passages where theological investment is at a premium, the author demonstrates that many versions deviate from accurate translation under the pressure of theological bias.

Analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the female protagonists in Shakespeare's plays with regard to their impact, not only on the plot of the plays, but also on the male protagonists, through providing easy-to-follow play synopses.

A socio-economic study of 20th-century American literature that reveals why mainstream businessmen must either discipline, suppress, or kill boyish tendencies that collide with do-or-die codes of the American corporate psychostructure.

Despite the intensive spotlight on broadcasters, few in Congress have tried to affect any real change in the amount and nature of violence in television programming. This work explores the complexities of Congressional scrutiny and the dynamics of communications policy-making in the United States.

This work examines the speeches of Pope John Paul II to managers and workers. It includes the texts of his words to managers, entrepreneurs and professionals, and general audiences.

This book is the story of a central historical phenomenon of the last half of the second millennium AD; namely, the geographic westward shift of world power and influence. It features tribes and individuals who made breakthroughs that led the world's westward march.

In this book, distinguished philosopher Jorge J.E. Gracia reflects on his family and life in Cuba before the Castro Revolution. Through his stories the author hopes to entice historians, philosophers, writers, teachers, and others to pursue the study of Cuban society during that important period in the history of the island.

The Italian Americans: A Multicultural View demonstrates how popular negative notions of Italian American life are inaccurate. It is an introduction to an understanding of the Italian American sociohistorical experience including the oppression, exploitation and discrimination of this group in the United States, past and present.

Autumn Light: My Fifty Years in Zen is an artfully told memoir of one woman's lived experience of Zen Buddhism as it took root in America. The author weaves Zen teachings and practices into her personal story, recounting how they guided her through life's challenges into a peaceful old age.

In this pivotal, courageous, and timely analysis, which works diligently and minutely to separate truth from falsehood, right from wrong, the moral from the immoral, and the ethical from the unethical, John Andrew Morrow provides an exhaustive study of the second part of the Quranic text, 4:34, the Wife Beating Verse.

In Willy, a father and son grapple with each other, and, in the process, a richly compact narrative emerges: a rebellious son leaves his ancestral home to find adventure among strangers and lose tradition and family along the way. Their respective stories define what is lost and what is gained in the immigrant passage to the new world.

This book combines oral history, storytelling, and ethnographic research in communication and performance studies into a unique archive of the history of contemporary Iranian diaspora experiences. This book provides an artistic vision of the transformations that Iranian exiles experienced in family, gender, and spiritual beliefs.

This book is a new translation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman. The text contains an introduction to Hoffmann's life and an introduction to his novella. The Sandman is the story of Nathanael and his obsession with the titular figure. This narrative is over two hundred years old still and has many interesting and prescient questions at its core.

Originally published in 1935 by Henry Holt and Company, this insightful and groundbreaking volume is a special investigation of John Wesley's pioneer work toward the New Protestantism and his triumphant reaffirmation in the Age of Enlightenment of the historic Christian faith against "the worship of humanity."

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This volume deals essentially with the rise and evolution of the nationalist movements in the British Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons (the Cameroons), the factors that conditioned those movements, and how and why their results came to be as they were.

This book explores the life and writings of Pope Francis, who has given the Church leadership in areas like climate change and interreligious cooperation. The book examines how the pope endorses Christians who live their faith in small Christian communities and reveals how such communities can strengthen parish life throughout the world.

Rich in anecdotes and interviews that bring Nancy Brown Diggs' research to life, In Search of Appalachia refutes stereotypes and introduces an often-misunderstood culture with much to admire.

In this memoir Ricardo Burguete, a Spanish soldier who served in the Philippines from 1896 to1897, describes his journey to the Philippines, his impressions of the country, and his experiences fighting Filipino insurrectionists

This book examines a fundamental social paradox: although less equality certainly entrenches injustice, more equality may nevertheless protect the advantages that one group enjoys over fellow citizens. Their studies confront us with vivid cases where equality for some is preferred to equality for all.

In this volume contributors report on recent studies and practical ideas that examine the relationship between play and curriculum from early education to higher education. The volume includes three sections grouped to represent the various voices on play and curriculum: in culture, in STEM, in higher education.

This book explores the power struggles over natural resources and expounds on how resolutions are negotiated and maintained. Essays included in the volume survey the factors and the influence they have in framing and resolving environmental issues such as fracking, shared waters, and environmental threats.

This book brings together essays by eight professional child and family therapists who discuss their careers and the type of therapy they practice. The contributors focus on play therapy, the different modalities in which it is practiced, on their journeys as passionate practitioners with the goal of improving the lives of children and families.

This ethnography brings a unique contribution to the literature on arts in activism. In Song, Solidarity, and Struggle, Mark Abendroth focuses on the work of the New York City Labor Chorus during its twenty-fifth year and places it in historical context of singing in the nation's labor movement.

This volume examines the intersection of our digital world and the world of religious faith. The exploration highlights both the creative synergies and the troubling divides between the two worlds. Journaling opportunities for the reader within the book personalize the volume.

The North Atlantic was a hostile environment, but somehow the Viking settlers on Iceland survived while the settlers on Greenland failed. Sagas, historical sources, and archaeology are combined to answer the five hundred year old question-why?

This book examines attempts by Polish Christians to save Jews during the brutal German WWII occupation of Poland. Drawing on detailed research and his own experiences as a resistance fighter, the author describes achievements, failures, and traitors.

The fourteen essays in this book, a product of the author's interactions with students and his own personal journey from Christianity to humanism, are arranged into four sections: Chronic Illness and Deicide, Epistemic Limitations and Respect for Persons, A Humanist Approach to Reading the Bible, and Ethical Reasoning without God.