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  • Sacred Darkness

    by Levan Berdzenishvili ...
    Translated by Brian James Baer, Ellen Vayner ...
    Based on true events, this novel set in a Soviet prison is "both a feat of fractured storytelling and a beautiful excavation of a recent, haunting past" ( Publishers Weekly) .As a political dissident, Berdzenishvili lands in jail, serving a sentence on trumped-up charges of activism and agitation. But rather than being the hell he expected, jail allows him access to a wide array of intellectuals, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How He-Man Mastered the Universe

    Toy to Television to the Big Screen

    by Brian C. Baer ...
    Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today. It's easy to forget that the transmedia trend began in 1982 with a barbarian action figure. He-Man and the other characters in Mattel's popular Masters of the Universe toy line quickly found their way into comic books, video games, multiple television series and a Hollywood film. The original ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Academic Translation

    by Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Translation Practices Explained
    Scholarly writings in translation have contributed enormously to intellectual life throughout the world, but there has been little written on the practice of academic translation. Leading translation scholar, translator, and translator educator Brian James Baer discusses the specific challenges involved with academic translation and sets out ways of addressing them as a necessary first step in ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Juri Lotman - Culture, Memory and History

    Essays in Cultural Semiotics

    Edited by Marek Tamm ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume brings together a selection of Juri Lotman’s late essays, published between 1979 and 1995. While Lotman is widely read in the fields of semiotics and literary studies, his innovative ideas about history and memory remain relatively unknown. The articles in this volume, most of which are appearing in English for the first time, lay out Lotman’s semiotic model of culture, with its ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Queer Theory and Translation Studies

    Language, Politics, Desire

    by Brian James Baer ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This groundbreaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Global Sexuality Studies. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of queer theory, this book places queer theory and Translation Studies in a productive and mutually interrogating relationship.After framing the discussion of actual and potential interfaces ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship

    Edited by Denise Merkle, Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship is the first handbook to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic, offering broad geographic and historical coverage, and extending the political contexts to incorporate colonial and postcolonial viewpoints, as well as pluralistic societies. It examines key cultural texts of all kinds as well as audio-visual translation, comics, drama and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Translation and the Making of Modern Russian Literature

    by Professor Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Literatures, Cultures, Translation
    Brian James Baer explores the central role played by translation in the construction of modern Russian literature. Peter I's policy of forced Westernization resulted in translation becoming a widely discussed and highly visible practice in Russia, a multi-lingual empire with a polyglot elite. Yet Russia's accumulation of cultural capital through translation occurred at a time when the Romantic ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Translation and Diaspora

    The Role of Translation in Émigré Communities in the USA

    Edited by Nike K. Pokorn, Brian James Baer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    The collective volume, Translation and Diaspora, explores for the first time in a systematic way diasporic communities as a distinct site of translational activity and highlights how fundamental translational activity has been to the development of diasporas in the USA.Contrary to the quite extensive research on translation and migration, Translation and Diaspora with its exploration of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Queering Translation, Translating the Queer

    Theory, Practice, Activism

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Klaus Kaindl ...
    Series series
    This groundbreaking work is the first full book-length publication to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives through fifteen contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field to demonstrate the interconnectedness between ... Read more

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    House of Fidelity

    The Rise of the Johnson Dynasty and the Company That Changed American Investing

    by Justin Baer ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 4 min

    **The gripping, definitive account of the private family behind one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world.“Pulls the curtain back on one of the country's most powerful and mysterious financial institutions … It’s a must read.” ―William D. Cohan , New York Times bestselling author of Power Failure**When Edward C. Johnson 2d founded Fidelity in 1946, investing was a pursuit ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Teaching Literature in Translation

    Pedagogical Contexts and Reading Practices

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Michelle Woods ...
    The teaching of texts in translation has become an increasingly common practice, but so too has the teaching of texts from languages and cultures with which the instructor may have little or no familiarity. The authors in this volume present a variety of pedagogical approaches to promote translation literacy and to address the distinct phenomenology of translated texts. The approaches set forward ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Queer(ing) Russian Art

    Realism, Revolution, Performance

    Edited by Brian James Baer, Yevgeniy Fiks ...
    Series series Myths and Taboos in Slavic Cultures
    While the topic of queer sexuality in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union has been investigated for decades by scholars working in the fields of sociology, history, literary studies, and musicology, it has yet to be studied in any comprehensive or systematic way by those working in the visual arts. Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performanceis meant to address this lacuna by ... Read more

    $125.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus