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  • The Bright Side of Life

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture.' Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville on the wild Normandy coast. Her presence enlivens the ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Translation Tools and Technologies

    Series series Routledge Introductions to Translation and Interpreting
    To trainee translators and established professionals alike, the range of tools and technologies now available, and the speed with which they change, can seem bewildering. This state-of-the-art, copiously illustrated textbook offers a straightforward and practical guide to translation tools and technologies.Demystifying the workings of computer-assisted translation (CAT) and machine translation (MT ... Read more

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  • Thérèse Raquin

    Translated by Andrew Rothwell ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Thérèse Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere `human beasts' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. Many readers were scandalized by an approach to character-drawing which seemed ... Read more

    $6.69 CAD

  • Computer-Assisted Literary Translation

    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    This collection surveys the state of the art of computer-assisted literary translation (CALT), making the case for its potential to enhance literary translation research and practice.The volume brings together early career and established scholars from around the world in countering prevailing notions around the challenges of effectively implementing contemporary CALT applications in literary ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Managing Your Placement

    A Skills Based Approach

    Managing Your Placement provides business and management undergraduates with a comprehensive guide to making the most of the opportunities available to them on a work placement. The book will guide students through everything, from the questions to ask to admission tutors on university open days, to selecting the best placement and securing a job upon graduation. Managing Your Placement will ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • From Talent Management to Talent Liberation

    A Practical Guide for Professionals, Managers and Leaders

    As the pace of change increases and new business structures evolve, finding and harnessing people’s talent is becoming ever more important. From Talent Management to Talent Liberation presents a thoughtful and practical approach to talent. It provides compelling evidence for the limitations of talent management practice and offers talent liberation as an alternative approach.Talent Liberation is ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • Violent States and Creative States (2 Volume Set)

    From the Global to the Individual

    This is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial studies and political science. By examining the 'violent states' of mind behind specific forms of violence and the social and societal contexts in which an ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • The Captive

    Translated by Andrew Rothwell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Jealousy ... is a demon that can't be exorcized, always reincarnated in new forms' The fifth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time focuses principally on the protagonist's relationship with Albertine during their cohabitation in Paris. However, The Captive is no conventional love story. Proximity and intimacy breed anxiety and suffering on account of the protagonist's jealousy. His wildly ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • A Companion to Mia Couto

    Already well-established in the Lusophone world, Mia Couto is increasingly acknowledged as a major voice in World literature. Winner of the Camões Prize for Literature in 2013, the most prestigious literary prize honouring Lusophone writers, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2014, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Yet, despite this ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Bright Side of Life

    by Emile Zola ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Jasicki ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 24 min

    Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville on the wild Normandy coast. Her presence enlivens the household and Pauline is the only one who can ease Chanteau's gout-ridden agony. Her love of life contrasts with the insularity and pessimism ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Masterpiece

    by Émile Zola ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

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    15 hours 31 min

    Perhaps the most autobiographical of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Masterpiece is a hard, bleak and raw portrait of unrecognised artistic genius. Claude Lantier, brother to Nana and son of Gervaise, is a struggling painter who dreams of conquering Paris’s art scene with his revolutionary ‘open air’ style of painting. Discouraged and mocked, Claude retreats to the countryside with a ... Read more

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    Money

    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 2 min

    Zola’s Money (L’Argent, 1891) shows the corrupting effect of untrammelled stock-market speculation. While some seek redemption through philanthropic and evangelical ventures, others such as the main protagonist, Saccard embrace their own avarice. Speculators illegally push up share prices so that ordinary citizens are feverishly swept up in an epidemic of small-scale investment. After ... Read more

    $29.55 CAD