The Book Company: New Products - Translating & Interpreting

The Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:54:53 +0000

The fifteenth-century scholar and Augustinian friar John Capgrave took as his subject the virgin martyr Katherine of Alexandria, who was an anomalous cultural icon, a scholar, and a sovereign whose story unsettled traditional gender stereotypes yet was widely popular throughout Western Europe. ..

Price: $30.00

The Abyss of the Soul (Two Jewels in the Crown of Polish Verse)

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:47:27 +0000

This book features new translations of two iconic works of the Polish literary canon; namely, the Laments (1583) of Poland’s great Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski, and the lauded Crimean Sonnets of the Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz, which have been retranslated here to celebrate the..

Price: $19.95

A Way with Words (Why Language Makes Humans Irreplaceable)

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:12:30 +0000

A brilliant examination of history and language that explains why AI, for all of its wonders, cannot truly speak.

For all of history, the only creature on earth that could speak was man. Then suddenly, with the dawn of artificial intelligence, a machine could talk back..

Price: $30.00

Laozi: A Dao and De for the Anthropocene

Sat, 30 May 2026 19:18:01 +0000

This translation of the Lǎozǐ is unique in its faithful pursuit of the original meaning and prosody, combined with exhaustive citations of historical commentaries, connecting the insights of this ancient classic to current scientific and psychological findings.

Price: $57.99

A Coursebook on English-Chinese Translation

Thu, 28 May 2026 16:14:49 +0000

A Coursebook on English-Chinese Translation provides practical strategies to ensure natural Chinese translation whilst highlighting how integral language learning strategies are to translation teaching.

Price: $57.99

Angewandte Linguistik für Sprachberufe (German Edition)

Thu, 28 May 2026 04:53:18 +0000

Der Band führt ein in Angewandte Linguistik für Sprachberufe. Er fördert wissenschaftlich fundiertes Denken und Handeln in einem Berufsalltag, der immer stärker mitgestaltet wird von künstlicher Intelligenz. Diese 4. Auflage enthält neue und aktualisierte Übungsmaterialien zur erweiterten Illus..

Price: $31.99

Translation, Pornography, Performativity (Experimenting with That Dangerous Supplement)

Wed, 27 May 2026 19:43:00 +0000

Robinson and Sun’s book explores the neglected metaphorics of translation in pornography using poststructuralist rethinkings and reframings of porn (and masturbation). It will interest translation studies scholars and students and media scholars interested in the philosophical complexities of p..

Price: $31.99

The Translation of Experience (Cultural Artefacts in Experiential Translation)

Wed, 27 May 2026 19:42:53 +0000

The second of two volumes, this book explores how artefacts, as outcomes of experience brought about by the ‘artistranslator’ perform semiotic work.

Price: $61.99

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sociology

Wed, 27 May 2026 19:19:36 +0000

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Sociology is the first encyclopaedic presentation of the research into social aspects of translation and interpreting.

Price: $67.99

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration

Wed, 27 May 2026 19:19:28 +0000

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration explores the practices and attitudes surrounding migration and translation, aiming to redefine these two terms in light of their intersections and connections.

Price: $67.99