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Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
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Routledge Practitioner of the Month: ORLAN
ORLAN is a French performance artist specializing in ‘carnal art’. Transforming her face and her body using plastic surgery, she is challenging the commonly held standard of what beauty is. Click here to find out more.
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Understanding Variation
Activities as varied as answering customers’ questions, preparing invoices, manufacturing products, delivering services, powering offices and factories, and even gaining new business can all be understood as “processes”. A fundamental property of all but the most trivial of processes is that their outputs vary, and such variation is usually troublesome. The foundation of Dr W Edwards Deming’s guidance on process improvement was the understanding of that variation, with the aim of reducing it and thus making the process more reliable and predictable.
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Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies Now in Paperback
Delivering a thoroughly revised and updated version of the most authoritative reference work in the field, this new and expanded edition of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies draws on the expertise of over ninety contributors from all over the world, providing an unparalleled global perspective which makes this volume unique. For more information, click here.
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New in 2011: The World’s Major Languages, 2nd Edition
'This excellent, thorough resource has an unsurpassed amount of detail for a single-volume survey.' – S. L. Johnson, Eastern Illinois University, Choice Reviews
The World's Major Languages describes the most interesting features of over fifty of the world's major languages and language groups. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role. For more information, click here.
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The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World’s Languages
Now offering an even broader range of languages including a greater number of the lesser-known ones, such as Cree, Maltese and Haitian Creole, this new edition of The Routledge Concise Compendium of the World's Languages covers a total of 111 languages. This book remains the ideal compact reference for all interested linguistics and professionals alike.
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Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar
A combination of reference grammar and practical usage manual, Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar is an innovative reference guide to Brazilian Portuguese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. Used independently or in conjunction with the Modern Portuguese Grammar Workbook the grammar is an ideal resource for learners of Brazilian Portuguese at all levels, from beginner to advanced.
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New in 2011: The Routledge Introductory Persian Course
'Teachers and students alike will celebrate the publication of this new Persian language course book. In a single volume they will find everything an adult beginner English-speaking student needs to gain a solid grounding in Persian and advance to the intermediate level ... I anticipate that this will quickly become the standard beginner Persian course book in universities throughout the English-speaking world.' – Edmund Martin Herzig, The University of Oxford, UK
For more information, an annotated lesson and audio library click here.
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2011 Communication Catalog now available online
For 2011, Routledge Communication are pleased to offer you a diverse list of books, ranging from undergraduate and graduate textbooks, to edited collections, handbooks and scholarly monographs. Browse our catalog online here.
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New in 2011: Theory after ‘Theory’
This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. For more information, including selected table of contents and author bio, click here.
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New in 2011: The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
This Companion provides an introduction to and critical history of the field and discusses key texts through critical debate on major topics such as the nation, race, gender and migration. For more information, including selected table of contents and author bio, click here.
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