As an interdisciplinary area of research, translation studies attracts students and scholars with a wide range of backgrounds, who then need to face the challenge of accounting for a complex object of enquiry that does not adapt itself well to traditional methods in other fields of investigation. This book addresses the needs of such scholars – whether they are students doing research at postgraduate level or more experienced researchers who want to familiarize themselves with methods ...

In Hello Everybody! a bestseller in his native Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five yearsas a reporter in the Middle East. Young and inexperienced but fluent in Arabic, he speaks to stone throwers and soldiers, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors chronicling first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation and war. But the more he witnesses, the less he understands and he becomes increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he sees on the ground and wha...

Banned in Russia under Communism, A Calendar of Wisdom was Tolstoy's last major work, and one of his most popular both during and after his lifetime. This new translation by Roger Cockrell will offer today's generation of readers the chance to discover, day by day, these edifying and carefully selected pearls of wisdom.

It's time to rethink liberal answers to society's biggest challenges - we must abandon fearmongering and embrace visionary action.

An urgent call to action by the Former Chief of NATO's Military CommitteeAdmiral Rob Bauer, Former Chair of the NATO Military Committee, travelled the world to convince civilians, companies and policy makers that we can no longer take peace for granted. The better we prepare ourselves for war, the stronger our deterrence and the smaller the chance that we too will be at war.If You Want Peace, Prepare for War outlines seven key lessons for the preservation of peace. It emphasises the importanc...