Author : Richard W. Slatta
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393314731
Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.
Author : Edward Douglas Branch
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Cowboys
ISBN :
Author : Makoto Ueda
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780804725262
This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present in a new English translation 255 representative hokku (or haiku) poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the Japanese poet who is generally considered the most influential figure in the history of the genre. The second is to make available in English a wide spectrum of Japanese critical commentary on the poems over the last three hundred years.
Author : Robert Nystrom
Publisher : Genever Benning
Page : 1021 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0990582949
Despite using them every day, most software engineers know little about how programming languages are designed and implemented. For many, their only experience with that corner of computer science was a terrifying "compilers" class that they suffered through in undergrad and tried to blot from their memory as soon as they had scribbled their last NFA to DFA conversion on the final exam. That fearsome reputation belies a field that is rich with useful techniques and not so difficult as some of its practitioners might have you believe. A better understanding of how programming languages are built will make you a stronger software engineer and teach you concepts and data structures you'll use the rest of your coding days. You might even have fun. This book teaches you everything you need to know to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You'll learn both high-level concepts around parsing and semantics and gritty details like bytecode representation and garbage collection. Your brain will light up with new ideas, and your hands will get dirty and calloused. Starting from main(), you will build a language that features rich syntax, dynamic typing, garbage collection, lexical scope, first-class functions, closures, classes, and inheritance. All packed into a few thousand lines of clean, fast code that you thoroughly understand because you wrote each one yourself.
Author : Benjawan Poomsan Becker
Publisher : Paiboon Pub.
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Thai Americans
ISBN : 9781887521994
Benjawan finally reveals the story of her experience as a professional Thai and Lao interpreter, graphically showing how she works in legal settings including courtrooms and jails. She demystifies the conflicts that many Thai-Western couples face after moving to the US. Find out what happens when individuals who don t speak the language end up in criminal, civil and family courts. But this story is also a personal one, relating the author s journey from humble beginnings in rural Thailand to become a professional interpreter in the San Francisco Bay area. More and more in this interconnected world, the need to communicate across language barriers is becoming essential. Miscommunication can lead to serious conflict between groups or countries; taking the wrong medicine can cause serious medical complications; the wrong word spoken by a traveler can lead to a foreign jail. Entertaining, engaging, written in a down-to-earth style, this book is filled with anecdotes and true stories. It
Author : W. Dale Nelson
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574411659
A frank portrayal of Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader, who, with his Shoshone Indian wife Sacagawea, joined the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803. While Sacagawea assumed legendary status as a "token of peace", Toussaint has been maligned in fiction and nonfiction alike.
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593467213
From the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature—his debut novel about a group of young Nigerian intellectuals trying to come to grips with themselves and their changing country. First published in 1965. Friends since high school, the five young men at the heart of The Interpreters have returned to Lagos after studying abroad to embark on careers as a physician, a journalist, an engineer, a teacher, and an artist. As they navigate wild parties, affairs of the heart, philosophical debates, and professional dilemmas, they struggle to reconcile the cultural traditions and Western influences that have shaped them—and that still divide their country. Soyinka deftly weaves memories of the past through scenes of the present as the five friends move toward an uncertain future. The result is a vividly realized fictional world rendered in prose that pivots easily from satire to tragedy and manages to be both wildly funny and soaringly poetic.
Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 37,68 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593467205
From the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our fiercest political activists—this political novel about the dangers of corruption, greed, and the desire for power is the follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel The Interpreters. An African nation's struggle for independence is interwoven with a tragic love story in this compelling novel. When Ofeyi, who writes advertising jingles for the Cocoa Corporation, is sent on a promotional tour of his unnamed country, he arrives at a coastal village whose remote location has long kept it insulated from the corrupt national government. Here Ofeyi discovers a traditional way of life that is still flourishing and he is inspired to spread its life-affirming values to his suffering country. But challenging the forces of greed and exploitation provokes a horrific response, and when Ofeyi’s beloved wife goes missing, he must travel across a war-scarred landscape in search of her. Infusing the myth of Orpheus with his signature lyricism and moral profundity, Soyinka creates a dazzling story about the clash between idealism and reality.
Author : Guy Richard Welbon
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Ruth Roland
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 1999-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0776616145
This book looks at the role played throughout history by translators and interpreters in international relations. It considers how political linguistics function and have functioned throughout history. It fills a gap left by political historians, who seldom ask themselves in what language the political negotiations they describe were conducted.
