Books

Transblawg | 22. Mai 2012 — ... language and about writing on the book which has now appeared. He says ... was too young to write the book as a ‘memoir’ and so it ... Sunday paper than a full-length book, but they were the most interesting ... a problem for me that the book is written for English speakers ... Derbyshire …

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Transblawg | 30. März 2012 — ... language. I don't know about Susan Sarkevic, I just know that her book (New Approach to Legal Translation) had a lot of stuff on that kind ... is involved. Still, I would be interested to see what they say. The book is very expensive but there is actually a Kindle version and you can get it …

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Transblawg | 14. Februar 2012 —The BDÜ publishes a series of books of varying quality. This looks useful - but I haven't seen it yet: a summary of German criminal procedure written by a public prosecutor, intended for translators and interpreters. "Der Strafprozess - Eine Einführung für Gerichtsdolmetscher und -übersetzer" Ve…

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Transblawg | 22. Januar 2012 — ... .95 Wörterbuch Recht GermanEnglish Bachem, W. & Hamblock, D. Approx. 56,000 terms. Dictionaries: Specialist & Technical: Legal. Published 2008. Price: £42.99 If you click on the first entry, it says the book and CD ROM are temporarily out of print but cost £52. The paperback (I didn't know …

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Transblawg | 17. Januar 2012 — ... had an eclectic selection of law books in English in the basement. ... More interesting was a list of books, for example German law in ... Reform Act The newsletters relate to books on law, economics and tax, ... August 2011), here is a typical book description from page 37 (I have this boo…

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Transblawg | 11. August 2011 —OUP has recently published a third edition of Garner's legal English usage dictionary. A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, 2nd ed. 1995 is followed by Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage, 3rd ed., 2011. I haven't seen it yet, but on amazon you can look at some pages. The pages I saw looked identical …

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Transblawg | 29. Juli 2011 — The book Kettler Stefan Wörterbuch Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht - Dictionary of Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Law Deutsch-Englisch/Englisch-Deutsch (deutsch/englisch) This dictionary appeared earlier this year but I have not found reviews of it. This is not a review eit…

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Transblawg | 15. Juli 2011 — ... of German alsatian owners' societies I should not be surprised. Maureen Dowd in the New York Times: A new book, “Amazing Dogs,” by Dr. Jan Bondeson, a senior lecturer at Cardiff University School of Medicine in Wales, reveals that Hitler ... “the Nazis, who had such conspicuous disregard fo…

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Transblawg | 10. Juli 2011 — In Heidegger's case, the question of how to read him may be of less immediate interest than the question 'Why read Heidegger?' Of those who have heard something about him, many dismiss him as an unrepentant ex-Nazi, pompous and mystical, more sophist than philosopher, anti-modernist and irrat…

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Transblawg | 10. Juli 2011 —This is the last post in this accursed meme. I think the book I've most often given is Dr. Seuss You're only old once, although it may not always have been appreciated much.…

Transblawg | 8. Juni 2011 — ... no good ideas. I assume the meme was written by a person who prefers film to books, or would rather see books in film form. So many questions on film! All that occurs to me is: some years ago I missed ... that Smilla's Sense of Snow was a dreadful film if you had read the book. I've forgotte…

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Transblawg | 20. Mai 2011 —Via Michael Bohlander's page at Durham University, a PDF file of a paper on Basic Concepts of German Criminal Procedure - a modified version of a chapter of his forthcoming book Principles of German Criminal Procedure, Hart Publishing 2011. One of the major distinctions often heard about the Germa…

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Transblawg | 19. Mai 2011 — ... the end of the fun for me, because we had it as a set book at A Level at my girls' grammar school. Now one of the ... It's really a matter of not doing a 10th of the things a book does. A book can switch into historical narration, dense description, authorial comment. It ... . It's a compl…

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Transblawg | 3. Mai 2011 — I was rather disappointed with these (Thalia, Nuremberg) - they look just like historical novels!…

Transblawg | 1. März 2011 —This is difficult. Maybe Black's Law Dictionary, with 1800-odd pages. A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth, has only 1400. Then there is Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage, but that doesn't count, because it's two volumes.…