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In today's ever-changing climate of disintegration and recombination, translation has become one of the essential metaphors, if not the metaphor, of our globalized world. 'Translation and Metaphor' is an attempt to draw a comprehensive map of these new overlapping theoretical te…
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This book is a metaphorical journey through the English lexicon, viewed as a vehicle and a mirror of cultural identity. From the translatability of phrases and metaphors to genre-specific terms, from English as a Lingua Franca to English language teaching, the studies collected …
This comprehensive reference offers a unique experience of the English language in all its richness and diversity. Updated for this edition, 'The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language' sold nearly 150,000 copies on first publication.
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Hands-On Parallel Programming with C# 8 and .NET Core 3 presents a smart way of learning and implementing parallel programming concepts. The book details threading and concurrency fundamentals that will help any C# developer build optimized applications.
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This reference resource covers of all aspects of English literature from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions. The 7th ed. has been thoroughly revised and updated with over 1,000 new entries.
