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Devil (DVD)
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Supernatural sci-fi suspense thriller produced and based on a
concept by M. Night Shyamalan, but directed by Drew and John Erick
Dowdle. Set inside a skyscraper office block, the film revolves
around a group of five people trapped inside an elevator - one of
whom, unbeknownst to the others, is the Devil in disguise.
This volume explores the relationship between literature and
translation from three perspectives: the creative dimensions of the
translation process; the way texts circulate between languages; and
the way texts are received in translation by new audiences. The
distinctiveness of the volume lies in the fact that it considers
these fundamental aspects of literary translation together and in
terms of their interconnections. Contributors examine a wide
variety of texts, including world classics, poetry, genre fiction,
transnational literature, and life writing from around the world.
Both theoretical and empirical issues are covered, with some
contributors approaching the topic as practitioners of literary
translation, and others writing from within the academy.
This volume explores the relationship between literature and
translation from three perspectives: the creative dimensions of the
translation process; the way texts circulate between languages; and
the way texts are received in translation by new audiences. The
distinctiveness of the volume lies in the fact that it considers
these fundamental aspects of literary translation together and in
terms of their interconnections. Contributors examine a wide
variety of texts, including world classics, poetry, genre fiction,
transnational literature, and life writing from around the world.
Both theoretical and empirical issues are covered, with some
contributors approaching the topic as practitioners of literary
translation, and others writing from within the academy.
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A Love Story (Paperback)
Emile Zola; Translated by Helen Constantine; Edited by Brian Nelson
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'Everything revolved around their love. They were constantly bathed
in a passion that they carried with them, around them, as though it
were the only air they could breathe.' Helene Grandjean, an
attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her
only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate and nervous girl who
jealously guards her mother's affections. When Jeanne falls ill,
she is attended by Dr Deberle, whose growing admiration for Helene
gradually turns into mutual passion. Deberle's wife Juliette,
meanwhile, flirts with a shallow admirer, and Helene, intent on
preventing her adultery, precipitates a crisis whose consequences
are far-reaching. Jeanne realizes she has a rival for Helene's
devotion in the doctor, and begins to exercise a tyrannous hold
over her mother. The eighth novel in Zola's celebrated
Rougon-Macquart series, A Love Story is an intense psychological
and nuanced portrayal of love's different guises. Zola's study
extends most notably to the city of Paris itself, whose shifting
moods reflect Helene's emotional turmoil in passages of
extraordinary lyrical description.
'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of
her could bring the world to ruin.' Nana, daughter of a drunk and a
laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic
high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly
conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her
spell-especially Count Muffat, Chamberlain to the Empress. Nana
herself meets a terrible fate, consumed by her own dissipation and
extravagance, just as the disastrous war with Prussia is declared.
Nana is the ninth instalment in the twenty volume Rougon-Macquart
series. The novel opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when
Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was la Ville Lumiere, the
glittering setting-and object-of Zola's scathing denunciation of
society's hypocrisy and moral corruption. Nana comes to symbolize
the Second Empire regime itself in all its excesses; but in the
final chapters, the narrator seems to suggest that the coming
disaster is not so much a result of the corruption of the Empire,
as of rampant female sexuality.
This book provides comprehensive and, above all, business focused
guidance on the fundamentals of business law and how they should be
integrated into ethical and effective business decisions. It
concentrates on legal principles and thereby is able to articulate
the impact of global business law and its international
applications providing a comprehensive overview of the legal and
ethical principles which both facilitate and regulate corporate
business. This is an ambitious undertaking, yet arguably no more
ambitious than the projects undertaken by global business leaders
making business decisions around the world. The author combines the
expertise of a long-term blue chip law background with the insights
of an experienced business educator. Law and Ethics in Global
Business is both a comprehensive course book for MBA study and an
invaluable business reference source for any executive involved in
global business.
This book provides comprehensive and, above all, business
focused guidance on the fundamentals of business law and how they
should be integrated into ethical and effective business decisions.
It concentrates on legal principles and thereby is able to
articulate the impact of global business law and its international
applications providing a comprehensive overview of the legal and
ethical principles which both facilitate and regulate corporate
business. This is an ambitious undertaking, yet arguably no more
ambitious than the projects undertaken by global business leaders
making business decisions around the world.
The author combines the expertise of a long-term blue chip law
background with the insights of an experienced business educator.
Law and Ethics in Global Business is both a comprehensive course
book for MBA study and an invaluable business reference source for
any executive involved in global business.
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Doctor Pascal (Paperback)
Emile Zola; Translated by Julie Rose; Edited by Brian Nelson
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'There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the
vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river
of life itself' Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rural
French town of Plassans for thirty years. He lives a quiet life
with his faithful servant Martine and young niece Clotilde. Pascal
is a man of science, striving to find the ultimate cure for all
diseases. This puts him at odds with his niece, who is horrified by
his denial of religious faith. Clotilde also distrusts Pascal's
lifelong ambition to create a family tree on scientific principles,
based upon his theories of heredity. Tensions in the household are
fuelled by Pascal's scheming mother, Felicite, as the final episode
in the great Rougon-Macquart saga plays out. Dr Pascal is the
passionate conclusion to Zola's twenty-novel sequence, and the most
eloquent expression of the ideas on heredity and human progress
that have underpinned it. Human relations are at its heart, as
Pascal and Clotilde are bound ever closer by ties of family and
love.
Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's
coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to
Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche
des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand
program of urban reconstruction, replaced by Les Halles, the
spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society
whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the
Government, Florent attempts an insurrection. Les Halles,
apocalyptic and destructive, play an active role in Zola's picture
of a world in which food and the injustice of society are
inextricably linked.
This is the first English translation in fifty years of Le Ventre
de Paris (The Belly of Paris). The third in Zola's great cycle, Les
Rougon-Macquart, it is as enthralling as Germinal, Therese Raquin,
and the other novels in the series. Its focus on the great Paris
food hall, Les Halles--combined with Zola's famous impressionist
descriptions of food--make this a particularly memorable novel.
Brian Nelson's lively translation captures the spirit of Zola's
world and his Introduction illuminates the use of food in the novel
to represent social class, social attitudes, political conflicts,
and other aspect of the culture of the time. The bibliography and
notes ensure that this is the most critically up-to-date edition of
the novel in print.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more."
Emile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as
'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his
monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social
and cultural landscape of the late nineteenth century in ways that
scandalized bourgeois society. Zola opened the novel up to a new
realm of subjects, including the realities of working-class life,
class relations, and questions of gender and sexuality, and his
writing embodied a new freedom of expression, with his bold,
outspoken voice often inviting controversy. In this Very Short
Introduction, Brian Nelson examines Zola's major themes and
narrative art. He illuminates the social and political contexts of
Zola's work, and provides readings of five individual novels (The
Belly of Paris, L'Assommoir, The Ladies' Paradise, Germinal, and
Earth). Zola's naturalist theories, which attempted to align
literature with science, helped to generate the stereotypical
notion that his fiction was somehow nonfictional. Nelson, however,
reveals how the most distinctive elements of Zola's writing go far
beyond his theoretical naturalism, giving his novels their unique
force. Throughout, he sets Zola's work in context, considering his
relations with contemporary painters, his role in the Dreyfus
Affair, and his eventual murder. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds
of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books
are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our
expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
RIGOROUS DAP in the Early Years: From Theory to Practice provides
teachers with a roadmap for teaching that helps children meet
academic expectations and maintains focus on the appropriate
development of the whole child. A construct of eleven practices,
RIGOROUS DAP supplies teachers with strategies for 1) making
instructional decisions that meet the needs of the individual
child; 2) sustaining culturally relevant practices; 3) engaging
stakeholders in conversations about educating young children for
school success through practices that attend to their individual,
sociocultural, and developmental needs; and 4) ensuring all
children experience high-level learning and succeed in school. The
eleven practices comprising the construct are: 1. Reaching all
children 2. Integrating content areas 3. Growing as a community 4.
Offering choices 5. Revisiting new content 6. Offering challenges
7. Understanding each learner 8. Seeing the whole child 9.
Differentiating instruction 10. Assessing constantly 11. Pushing
every child forward An academically rigorous learning environment
allows all children to learn at high levels through hands-on
learning experiences that address the whole child and connect to
the child's world in and out of school. A developmentally
appropriate learning environment considers the children's
developmental, cognitive, social, emotional, linguistic, and
physical development, as well as the sociocultural worlds in which
they live.
The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous
Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two
branches of the family came about, and the origins of the
hereditary weaknesses passed down the generations. Murder,
treachery, and greed are the keynotes, and just as the Empire was
established through violence, the "fortune" of the Rougons is paid
for in blood.
Set in the fictitious Provencal town of Plassans, The Fortune of
the Rougons tells the story of Silvere and Miette, two idealistic
young supporters of the republican resistance to Louis-Napoleon
Bonaparte's coup d'etat of December 1851. They join the woodcutters
and peasants of the Var to seize control of Plassans, and are
opposed by the Bonapartist loyalists led by Silvere's uncle, Pierre
Rougon. Meanwhile, the foundations of the Rougon family and its
illegitimate Macquart branch are being laid in the brutal
beginnings of the Imperial regime.
Brian Nelson provides an engaging translation as well as a
wide-ranging introduction that explains the background to the
Rougon-Macquart series as well as the historical setting of the
novel and its special qualities. This edition also features a
chronology, bibliography, and extensive explanatory notes.
About the Series For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more."
Pot Luck, Zola's most acerbic satire, describes daily life in a
newly constructed block of flats in late nineteenth-century Paris.
In examining the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola
reveals a multitude of betrayals and depicts a veritable 'melting
pot' of moral and sexual degeneracy. This new translation captures
the robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of
earlier abridged versions.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the
spectacular development of the modern department store in late
nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of
the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of
consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class
relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret,
the store's owner-manager, masterfully exploits the desires of his
female customers. In his private life as much as in business he is
the great seducer. But when he falls in love with the innocent
Denise Baudu, he discovers she is the only one of the salesgirls
who refuses to be commodified. This new translation of the eleventh
book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of
Zola's greatest novels of the modern city. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
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Swann in Love (Paperback)
Marcel Proust; Translated by Brian Nelson; Edited by Adam Watt
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'Swann's love . . . could not have been torn out of him without
destroying him almost entirely' Swann in Love is a brilliant,
devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy.
Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth
century, the story of Charles Swann illuminates the fragilities and
foibles of human beings when in the grip of desire. Swann is a
highly cultured man-about-town who is plunged into turmoil when he
falls for a young woman called Odette de Crecy. The novel traces
the progress of Swann's emotions with penetrating exactitude as he
encounters Odette at the regular gatherings in the salon of the
Verdurins. His wilful self-delusion is both poignant and ridiculous
, and his tormented feelings play out in scenes of high comedy
amongst Odette's socially pretentious circle. Swann in Love is part
of Proust's monumental masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, and it
is also a captivating self-contained story. This new translation
encapsulates the qualities that have secured Proust's reputation,
and serves as a perfect introduction to his writing.
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The Kill (Paperback)
Emile Zola; Translated by Brian Nelson
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'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the
forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the
flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last,
shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and
fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold
and women.' The Kill (La Curee) is the second volume in Zola's
great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to
establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of
Zola's narrative world. Conceived as a representation of the
uncontrollable 'appetites' unleashed by the Second Empire (1852-70)
and the transformation of the city by Baron Haussmann, the novel
combines into a single, powerful vision the twin themes of lust for
money and lust for pleasure. The all-pervading promiscuity of the
new Paris is reflected in the dissolute and frenetic lives of an
unscrupulous property speculator, Saccard, his neurotic wife Renee,
and her dandified lover, Saccard's son Maxime. ABOUT THE SERIES:
For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
One minister's organized system of belief in God that integrates
the disciplines of history, theology, and science.
An experienced pastor shares an introduction to the Bible - both
Old and New Testaments which offers a survey of background
information and summaries of each book. It is based on solid
Biblical scholarship and related to the lives of ordinary
believers.
Dr. Nelson offers one guide to renewing the life of congregations
who have experienced conflict. Drawing on more than 40 years
pastoral experience, he offers a way to move beyond conflict to
renewed ministry.
In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an
overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions
and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major
writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other
than France, are discussed chronologically in the context of their
times, to provide a sense of the development of the French literary
tradition and the strengths of some of the most influential writers
within it. Nelson offers close readings of exemplary passages from
key works, presented in English translation and with the original
French. The exploration of the work of important writers, including
Villon, Racine, Moliere, Voltaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust,
Sartre and Beckett, highlights the richness and diversity of French
literature.
In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an
overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions
and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Major
writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other
than France, are discussed chronologically in the context of their
times, to provide a sense of the development of the French literary
tradition and the strengths of some of the most influential writers
within it. Nelson offers close readings of exemplary passages from
key works, presented in English translation and with the original
French. The exploration of the work of important writers, including
Villon, Racine, Moliere, Voltaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust,
Sartre and Beckett, highlights the richness and diversity of French
literature.
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