Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Collaborative Translation and Multi-Version Texts in Early Modern Europe (Transculturalisms, 1400-1700)




Collaborative Translation and Multi-Version Texts in Early Modern Europe (Transculturalisms, 1400-1700) by Belen Bistue


English | 2013 | ISBN: 1472411587 | 183 pages | PDF | 3 MB




Focusing on team translation and the production of multilingual editions, and on the difficulties these techniques created for Renaissance translation theory, this book offers a study of textual practices that were widespread in medieval and Renaissance Europe but have been excluded from translation and literary history.The author shows how collaborative and multilingual practices challenge not only early modern theorists" efforts to stabilize and codify translation, but also modern critical efforts to read translations in certain ways (as bearers of unified meaning, as products of singular agency, as "invisible"). Bistue presents as chief evidence multilingual, multi-version books, in both manuscript and print, from a wide-ranging variety of genres: the Scriptures, astrological and astronomical treatises, herbals, goliardic poems, pamphlets, the Greek and Roman classics, humanist grammars, geography treatises, pedagogical dialogs, proverb collections, and romances. Her analyses pay careful attention to both European vernaculars and classical languages, including Arabic, which played a central role in the intense translation activity carried out in medieval Spain.Comparing actual translation texts and strategies with the forceful theoretical demands for unity that characterize the reflections of early modern translators, the author challenges some of the assumptions frequently made in translation and literary analysis. The book contributes to the understanding of early modern discourses and writing practices, including the emerging theoretical discourse on translation and the writing of narrative fiction–both of which, as Bistue shows, define themselves against the models of collaborative translation and multi-version texts.












Saturday, September 26, 2015

1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-1977 (repost)




1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-1977 by Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth


English | 2008 | ISBN: 0230606199 | 352 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB




A concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this book covers the history of the various national protest movements, the transnational aspects of these movements, and the common narratives and cultures of memory surrounding them.












Friday, September 25, 2015

International Law, Rights and Politics: Developments in Eastern Europe and the CIS (New International Relations) [Repost]




International Law, Rights and Politics: Developments in Eastern Europe and the CIS (New International Relations) by Rein Mullerson


English | June 22, 1994 | ISBN: 0415106877 | 248 Pages | PDF | 1.42 MB




Rein Mullerson was Deputy Foreign Minister of Estonia during the country"s independence struggles and is a distinguished professor of international relations. His book is concerned with the interplay of international law and politics in the changing international system. He analyses events in Eastern Europe and the former USSR to throw light on broad and controversial issues including non-use of force, non-interference in internal affairs, self-determination of peoples, minorities and nationalism in inter-ethnic conflicts and human rights in post-totalitarian societies. Controversial questions of continuity and succession of states and their recognition are also set in this context. One purpose of the book is to show how recent developments influence the international system as a whole and how international law has to change in order to respond to new challenges.










Monday, September 21, 2015

Art in Europe: Museums and Masterworks




Art in Europe: Museums and Masterworks by Victoria Charles


English | 2012 | ISBN: 1780420099 | 256 pages | PDF | 54 MB




Covering 27 museums throughout 27 European capitals, here you can discover some of the most beautiful museum collections in Europe, their creation, and the story of their acquisitions led by the most well-known curators and art enthusiasts. Additionally, it highlights the various cultural policies and points of view concerning the promotion of artistic heritage in Europe. The most emblematic European museums are presented along with some well-kept and fascinating secrets, such as in Nicosia of Cyprus and Sofia in Bulgaria.










Sunday, September 20, 2015

Inequalities During and After Transition in Central and Eastern Europe




Cristiano Perugini and Fabrizio Pompei, "Inequalities During and After Transition in Central and Eastern Europe"


2015 | ISBN-10: 1137460970 | 332 pages | PDF | 3 MB




The book deals with the key aspects of social and economic inequalities developed during the transition of the formerly planned European economies. Particular emphasis is given to the latest years available in order to consider the effects of the global crisis started in 2008-2009.









Sunday, September 13, 2015

Getting Better: Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia




Getting Better: Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia (Europe and Central Asia Reports) by Owen Smith and Son Nam Nguyen


English | 2013 | ISBN: 0821398830 | 210 pages | PDF | 4,3 MB




Improving health system outcomes is a major development challenge for Europe and Central Asia (ECA). Fifty years ago, average lifespans in the region were slightly behind those in Western Europe, but far better than in East Asia, Latin America, or the Middle East. Since then, the gap between ECA and its western neighbors has widened, while the other middle-income regions have now all moved ahead. Some countries in ECA have performed very well, and the overall regional trend has recently improved, but long-term progress has certainly lagged behind the rest of the world.




In the future, health sector issues are likely to loom ever larger in policy agendas across the region. Living a long, healthy life will increasingly matter to people as much as achieving ever-higher incomes. Opinion polls indicate that health is the top priority for government spending among populations across ECA, and expectations for a strong government role in the sector are high. Yet these aspirations must be reconciled with the reality of aging populations and significant fiscal constraints.




Getting Better: Improving Health System Outcomes in Europe and Central Asia draws on a wealth of new evidence to explore the challenges facing health sectors in ECA. It highlights three key agendas to help countries seeking to catch up with the world"s best-performing health systems. The first is the health agenda, where the main priority is to strengthen public health and primary care to help achieve the "cardiovascular revolution" that has taken place elsewhere in recent decades. The second is the financing agenda, in which the growing demand for medical care must be satisfied without imposing an undue burden on households or government budgets. The third agenda relates to broader institutional arrangements, where the task is to adopt some of the key ingredients common to most advanced health systems that are still missing in many ECA countries. A common theme for all three agendas is the emphasis on improving outcomes, or "Getting Better".







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Saturday, September 12, 2015

Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 1760-1820




Hannah Barker, Simon Burrows, "Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 1760-1820"


English | 2002 | ISBN: 0521662079, 052103714X | 274 pages | PDF | 1.1 MB






This collection of essays covers a particularly turbulent and important period in European and American history. As a vital component of print and political culture, newspapers feature prominently in many accounts of social and political change between 1750 and 1850. Yet despite the influence attributed to the newspaper press (by historians and contemporaries), not enough is known about the press itself, particularly in terms of national comparison. This collection aims to fill this gap in our knowledge by examining the press of several European countries and of North America.












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Friday, September 11, 2015

When the War Was Over: Women, War and Peace in Europe, 1940-1956




Claire Duchen, Irene Bandhauer-Schoffmann, "When the War Was Over: Women, War and Peace in Europe, 1940-1956"


English | ISBN: 0718501799, 0718501802 | 2000 | 288 pages | PDF | 17 MB




This work focuses on the experiences of women in Europe during the transition from war to peace. Popular images of women represent them as welcoming home the soldiers but this text asks "what happened next?"; "what did the end of the war mean for women?"; "how was the relationship between public and private altered by the war?" In -war decade, daily life and public life changed for women in different national contexts, most notably with the ending of fascist regimes in Germany and Italy, the re-establishment of independence in Austria and Finland, the end of the Occupation in France, Holland, Belgium and elsewhere, the descent into civil war in Greece, the realignment of European states leading to the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact and the founding of the state of Israel. This text asks about women"s part in these changes and how women and men narrate, and looks at the symbolic use made of female imagery and highlights the plasticity of the female form. The contributors use a range of methodological approaches and they encourage the reader to question traditional historiography, the nature of historical evidence, the process of memory, the disparities between official discourse and personal narrative, and between written, visual and oral accounts.




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