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Puppy: Translating Your World takes you through step by step how to help your new puppy grow into a trusted companion. The puppy stage is full of unique challenges and delights, and it can be confusing interpreting all the advice that deluges a new puppy owner. Mel's casual, relatable style breaks down the roadblocks she often sees and advises you how to avoid them with your puppy so you can rest easy knowing you're preparing your puppy to be a wonderful...
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Are you and your spouse struggling to connect and find common ground? Do your obligations as a high-ranking executive make it difficult to achieve work-life balance? If more time is spent on work pursuits than our intimate relationships, this time investment can become fertile ground for affairs, whether physical, emotional, or both. By allocating investments in intimate relationships, similar to how investments are made in business and professionally,...
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A guide for how to not only dream big, but also win-both in business and in life-from one of the most celebrated and successful women in America.
For the first time ever, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Forbes' Richest Self-Made Woman Liz Elting shares her story on how she cofounded and grew TransPerfect, the billion-dollar translation and language solutions company that began as a dream in an NYU dorm room. In Dream Big and Win, Elting divulges...
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How to Engage Culture with the Good News of Christ
We in the church do not speak the same language as the culture. We use many of the same words, but they rarely mean the same thing. And speaking louder isn't the answer. If we are to faithfully and effectively share the Good News, we have to translate Jesus.
Embracing and unpacking the bilingual nature of spreading the gospel, pastor and teacher Shauna Pilgreen shows you how to learn the language...
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Whether you're a translator, interpreter, terminologist, or just someone who is passionate about language, "Terminology extraction for translation and interpretation made easy" is your guide to creating terminology extraction lists quickly and easily—while keeping your client's data safe.
This book provides a step-by-step guide to terminology extraction by showing you how you can automate the creation of terminology extraction lists as much as possible....
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"Historias Cortas en Portugués para Principiantes" es una colección de 20 historias fáciles de leer, creadas especialmente para aquellos que están comenzando a aprender portugués. Las historias están escritas en un lenguaje sencillo y presentan personajes y situaciones con los que los lectores pueden identificarse fácilmente, lo que las hace ideales para aquellos que están dando sus primeros pasos en el aprendizaje de este idioma. Cada cuento...
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Una de las críticas más recurrentes al discurso jurídico español se refiere a su oscuridad e impenetrabilidad. En particular, el uso de la metáfora, entre otras figuras del lenguaje, representa uno de los factores que contribuyen a que el discurso jurídico resulte incomprensible aun para aquellos familiarizados con el mundo del derecho. Esto se debe a que, en muchos casos, se adoptan figuras o ideas propias del derecho estadounidense mediante...
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Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility. This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West.
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How did two very different language communities encounter and make early choices about Christianity? This book is a historical record of the Dagomba and Konkomba people groups of Northern Ghana as they embraced the Bible translated into their mother tongues. Author Dr. Sumani Sule-Saa employs Professor Lamin Sanneh's groundbreaking hermeneutic of 'mission as translation' as a grid to examine the effect of Bible translation on the lives of these two...
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From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their...
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viii, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A deeply reported, revealing biography of tennis phenomenon and activist Naomi Osaka, telling the untold story behind her Grand Slam-winning career, her headline-making advocacy for racial justice and mental health, and the challenges of a life in the international spotlight"--
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Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S. fleet. Douglas Wada's experiences in his native Honolulu...
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"1960, New York City: College student Rita Klein is a pioneering woman in the new field of computer programming -- until she unexpectedly becomes pregnant. At the Hudson Home for Unwed Mothers, social workers pressure her into surrendering her baby for adoption. Rita is struggling to get on with her life when she meets Jacob Nassy, a charming yet troubled man from the Netherlands who is traumatized by his childhood experience of being separated from...
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